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Societies and Academies - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoLONDON Geological Society, June 21.-Prof. P. Martin Duncan, F.R.S., president, in the chair.—Mr. Hector Maclean and Mr. Samuel Trickett were elected Fellows, and Dr. L. Riitimeyer, of Basle, ...
The Striped Marlin (Makaira audax Phillipi) in South Africa - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoMARLIN fishes of the genus Makaria Lacépède, 1803, occur throughout almost all tropical and temperate seas, and are of interest not only to the scientist but are also the prime quarry ...
Societies and Academies - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoSea-weeds are extensively used in Japan as food, glue, and manure. The most important point in cultivation is to give the plant a suitable ground for attachment. The author explains these factors ...
Irish Cave Exploration - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoBones of mammoth, reindeer, bear, wolf, horse, and hare, were found in the débris of a quarry here in 1859, and are now in the Royal Museum, Dublin. The bones of bear show ...
Scientific Serial - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoThe native arsenic was found in a vein of nepheline syenite at the Corporation Quarry, neair Montreal. On analysis it proved to contain 9874 per cent, of arsenic, G65 per ...
Charles William Peach - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoAT the ripe age of eighty-six this genial and enthusiastic naturalist has at last passed away. Born in Northamptonshire, he eventually joined the Coast-Guard service, and was stationed at various ...
Waters and Glaciers - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoUNDERGROUND waters play a considerable part in recent researches on French caves (Spelunca, tome vii., 1907–8, Nos. A number of caves in various levels of Jurassic limestone are drawn in plan ...
Acquisitions at the British Museum (Natural History) - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoAmong the specimens presented to the Department of Mineralogy is a fine set of minerals from Western Australia sent by Dr. E. S. Simpson. This includes remarkably large masses of petalite and ...
Palæolithic Implements from Bombay - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoPALAEOLITHIC implements from the island of Salsette, north of Bombay, of considerable importance as demonstrating for the first time the presence of a palaeolithic culture in this region of ...
The Zoological Society of Scotland - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoThe new open-air enclosure for tigers, which occupies the site of an old sandstone quarry, is a most striking example of the use of natural rock, and a new restaurant, made ...
