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Notes - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoMR. JOHN WHITEHEAD returned to Labuan in safety from his second expedition to Kina Balu, and is daily expected in England. The new species will be described by Mr. Sharpe in the forthcoming ...
“Culminating Sauropsida” - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoW. K. Parker finds it more and more impossible “to conceive of birds as arising direct from the Dinosaurians, or indeed from any other order or group of reptiles.” The sentence ...
The Encyclopædia Britannica - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoMr. C. T. Newton's article on Pterodactyles gives us the newest information on this strange group of fossil reptiles. In the article on Reproduction only the broadest aspects ...
Locusts in Sunlight - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoWHEN tropical lizards, which by night are cool and torpid, absorb the rays of the sun, they become as warm and active as a warm-blooded animal. The cages at the Gardens of the Zoological Society ...
Papers on Reptiles and Fishes - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoA NEW species of leathery, or leather-back, turtle from the Miocene of Maryland is described by Mr. W. Palmer in No. 1669 of the Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum under the name of Psephophorus ...
Cutaneous Melanocyte System of the Indigo Snake Drymarchon corais - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoFOR many years it has been believed that the cutaneous pigment cell system of the so-called lower vertebrates—fishes and amphibians—is mainly a dermal one. As an effector system its function ...
Touching base - Nature Genetics
Nature· 2 days agoIn a recent issue of Cell (vol. 108, 421–430; 2002), Sven-Eric Jordt and David Julius (Univ. of California, San Francisco) provide an explanation for the difference in pain perception between ...
“Abdominal Ribs” in Lacertilia - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoIT is usually stated in text-books that among living reptiles only the Crocodilia and Hatteria are furnished with abdominal ribs or parasternum: that is, of course, in the ...
[Book Reviews] - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoIN 1914, Mr. Gardiner produced his “Introduction to Geology” (see NATURE, vol. 94, p. 362), in which he found more scope for originality than is given by this smaller volume. The conception ...
Acquisitions at the British Museum (Natural History) - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoB. Philby set out on a journey through the districts of Asir and Najram in Arabia, returning to Jidda in the early part of this year. During this trip, Mr. Philby made large natural history ...
