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West African Cacao Research Institute - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoPOPULAR interest has been aroused in the 'swollen shoot' disease of cacao ; but it is only one of many virus troubles which are being investigated. The annual report for 1947–48 of the West ...
Elon Musk, father of 12, volunteers his own sperm to help seed a colony on Mars
Fortune via Yahoo Finance UK· 2 days agoElon Musk has devoted hundreds of hours and millions of dollars to his obsession with colonizing...
Defects in Ostrich Feathers in South Africa - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoTHE domestication of the ostrich on a practical basis was undertaken in Cape Colony about 1867, and since then ostrich farming has become one of the most important industries in the eastern ...
“Phosphorescence” of Pennatulida - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoNEWSTEAD and I have had two of the few British Pennatulida—Pennatula phosphorea and Funiculina quadrangularis—“phosphorescing” to-day before our eyes, so it may be worth recording the impressions ...
Notes - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoON Monday, October 11, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales returned from his seven months' tour of the West Indies and our Colonies in the Pacific Ocean. When the Prince set out on March 17 it was intended ...
Notes - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoAccording to later information the Anglo-American Telegraph Company have given Mr. Marconi notice to remove his instruments from the Colony, as they possess ...
Notes - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoMr. Francis Watts, Director of Agriculture in the Island of Antigua, and analytical and agricultural chemist for the colony of the Leeward Islands, has ...
Nutrition in the Colonial Empire - Nature
Nature· 23 hours agoTHE Prime Minister has appointed a Committee of the Economic Advisory Council with the following terms of reference: “(1) To survey the present state of knowledge in regard to nutrition in the ...
A Suggested Research Fund for Tropical Diseases - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoTHE Times of November 2 publishes the subjoined appeal which Lord Northcote has addressed to the Lord Mayor in favour of the allocation of a part of the fund raised for a London memorial to ...
Geographical Notes - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoWe understand Prof. Nordenskjöld, before his departure, received from his Excellency, as a present to the Vega expedition, an herbarium of the plants of Hongkong and South China, prepared by ...
