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    • Scientific Intelligence from America* - Nature

      Nature· 4 days ago

      AT a recent meeting of the New York Lyceum of Natural History, Professor D. S. Martin described the remarkable deposit of magnetic iron at Cornwall, Pennsylvania, and exhibited the group of ...

    • Scientific Serials - Nature

      Nature· 4 days ago

      This valuable magazine continues to furnish us every month with important and interesting articles upon subjects belonging to the various departments of geology. In the first number now before ...

    • Biologia Centrali-Americana Aves - Nature

      Nature· 4 days ago

      CONGRATULATIONS to the surviving author of these volumes must be mingled with deep condolence that his long-tried coadjutor and comrade should not have been spared to complete this portion of ...

    • Geological Survey of the United Kingdom? II - Nature

      Nature· 4 days ago

      Lewisian Gneiss.—The most ancient rocks in the British Islands, forming what is known as the Lewisian Gneiss, have now been mapped continuously throughout the whole of their extent on the mainland ...

    • Our Astronomical Column - Nature

      Nature· 4 days ago

      It is now generally agreed, from the age of the trees on its rim, that this was formed by the fall of a gigantic meteor, not less than seven centuries ago. A sketch of an ...

    • The Ultima Thule of Polynesia 1 - Nature

      Nature· 4 days ago

      EASTER ISLAND, so called because of its discovery by the Dutchman Roggeween on Easter Day, 1722, presents several as yet unanswered problems in ethnology and linguistics. One of these is the ...

    • The Origin of the Great Lakes of North America - Nature

      Nature· 4 days ago

      AT one time glaciers—perhaps in the co-operative society of an ice-sheet—were gravely suspected of having excavated even the great lakes of North America. The a priori difficulties in the hypothesis ...

    • The Present Southern Comet - Nature

      Nature· 4 days ago

      Its orbit, as far as an orbit can be determined from the approximate positions of a very indefinite nucleus, is similar to those of the 1843 and 1880 comets. In Grant's “History of Astronomy ...