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    • Societies and Academies - Nature

      Nature· 17 hours ago

      Roval Society, December 9.—Sir Archibald Geikie, K.C.B., president, in the chair.—W. J. Young: The hexosephosphate formed by yeast-juice from hexose and phos phate.—L. S.

    • Some Experiments on Flame - Nature

      Nature· 22 hours ago

      IN December 1881 my attention was casually called to the popular superstition that sunlight puts the fire out. Returning from a walk I had found the blinds of my sitting-room ...

    • Cycles in Natural Phenomena - Nature

      Nature· 22 hours ago

      IN December 1922, Dr. Merriam, president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, called a conference to discuss the question of ‘cycles’. The report of this, and of a second ...

    • Calendar of Industrial Pioneers - Nature

      Nature· 20 hours ago

      December 24, 1872.—William John Macqueen Rankine died.—The author of a series of valuable engineering text-books, Rankine was a distinguished engineer and physicist, and with ...

    • Our Astronomical Column - Nature

      Nature· 18 hours ago

      THE SOLAR ECLIPSE OF 1806, DECEMBER 10.—When Rümker was on the point of leaving England to undertake the direction of the observatory erected by Sir Thomas Brisbane at Paramatta ...