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High-Level Stations - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoAt the Brocken, as well as at the Ben, the great difference from the Alps is not in summer, but in the colder months of the year. The reason seems to lie in the nearly constant winds, which bring air from below, which is cooled by ascension.
The Colours of Arctic and Alpine Animals - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoMR. R. MELDOLA has maintained, in NATURE, vol. xxxi. p. 505, the idea that the white colour of some animals, Arctic mammals and birds, must be ascribed to the absorbent and radiating power of ...
Pendulum Observations in Germany - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoIT is a well-known fact that, at different places on the earth's surface and at the same sea-level, pendulums change their rates of swing. The numerous observations of von Sterneck, made in ...
Les lacs, leur mode de formation, leurs eaux, leur destin: éléments d'hydro-géologie - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoTHE limnologist is fortunate in having at his disposal two such excellent works of recent date as Prof. Halbfass's “Grundzuge einer vergleichenden Seenkunde” and Prof. Collet's “Les lacs.” The ...
Alphonse Favre - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoThe late Prof. Favre, who had reached the age of seventy-seven at the time of his death, was the author of numerous papers, the earliest of which, “On the Anthracites of the Alps,” was published ...
The Water-Powers of the British Empire - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoFOR a number of years NATURE has been, on the subject of water-power in Great Britain, a vox clamantis. It has pointed out that while other countries—notably the United States, France, Italy ...
The Swiss Seismological Commission - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoTHE Seismological Commission of Switzerland, after having published in French and German an excellent text-book on earthquakes, by Prof. A. Heim, and after having widely circulated its queries ...
Societies and Academeis - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoLONDON Geological Society, June 25.—Prof. T. G. Bonney, D.Sc., F. R. S., President, in the chair.—James Campbell Christie was elected a Fellow, and Baron C. von Ettingshauscn, of Graz, a Foreign ...
The Royal Photographic Society's Exhibition - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoThe natural history section of the scientific and technical division has improved considerably in recent years. There are still a good many single photographs of an animal, a flower, or an insect ...
Bishop's Ring.—The Sky-coloured Clouds - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoDURING a recent visit to the Alps I carefully looked for Bishop's ring, and found that it was generally visible at high altitudes in the middle of the day when the sky was clear. On one occasion ...
