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India-Rubber Plants - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoIn the East Indies the “gutta singgarip” of the Malay Peninsula, the “gutta soosoo” of Borneo, was the produce of a new species Willughbeia, W. Burbidgei.
Medico-Dental History of Cloves - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoEugene J. Molnar, research associate of the Northwestern University Dental School, Toledo, Ohio. Originally, cloves were first used in the East Indies, India</ ...
Star Names Amongst the Ancient Chinese - Nature
Nature· 3 days ago5-6) the well known scholar, Dr. Joseph Edkins, writes on the subject of star naming amongst the ancient Chinese. The real beginning of Chinese astronomy is, in Dr. Edkins's opinion, to be found ...
The Late Captain Basevi, R.E. - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoFirst at Rugby, then at Cheltenham College, and afterwards at Addiscombe, he won for himself a high position among his fellow students, and in December, 1851, he left Addiscombe as the first ...
Societies and Academies - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoThe species represented were Megaptera longimana, Balaenoptera sibbaldii, B. musculus, and B. borealis.—The tail-vertebrae of a dormouse of the genus Eliomys, which showed the phenomenon, hitherto ...
Our Book Shelf - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoThe book, however, has the merit of being written in a lively style, and the author's judgments, whether sound or unsound, invariably result from his own observation and reflection.
Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoTHE palms of Asia have received considerable attention in the Royal Botanic Garden at Calcutta, where there is an extensive Palmetum, with a noble collection of living species. Roxburgh, superintendent ...
Technique of the Painting Process in the Temple of Vijayalaya Cholisvaram in Pudukottah State -...
Nature· 3 days agoTHE ruined temple of Vijayalaya Cholisvaram is situated in the village of Narthamalai (10° 30' N., 78° 45' E.) in Pudukottah State in South India, being about five miles to ...
Societies and Academies - Nature
Nature· 3 days agoThe strati-graphical succession comprises rocks of Archaean, Devono-Carboniferous, and Permo-Carboniferous age. There is only one exposure of Archaean rocks, namely, in the cliffs of Cape Meredith ...
Memoirs on the History, Folk-lore, and Distribution of the Races of the N. W. Provinces of India -...
Nature· 3 days agoTHE above work dates from the time of the old East India Company, bearing ample witness anew to that glorious fertility of genius produced in the full flow ...
