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Notes - Nature
Nature· 9 hours agoTHE fourteenth meeting of the French Association will take place Jon August 12 at Grenoble. M. Verneuil, Member of the Academy of Medicine, will be President. The public lectures will be “On ...
Geographical Notes - Nature
Nature· 9 hours agoAT the meeting of the Geographical Society on Monday two papers were read, both dealing with the Caucasus, midway between Kazbek and Elburz, Here the chain towers up in two great parallel crests ...
The Highest Inhabited House - Nature
Nature· 9 hours agoIt would be an easy matter for the inhabitants of the Tibetan Plateau to become acclimatised to that altitude, living, as they do, at a height of between 15,000 and 16,000 ft. I wonder, however ...
Societies and Academies - Nature
Nature· 10 hours agoBy the action of sulphuric acid upon bauxite, aluminium hydrate, or aluminium sulphate, a compound possessing the composition Al2O3.4SO3.4H2O is formed, which dissolves very slowly in cold water ...
Science in the Magazines - Nature
Nature· 10 hours agoDr. Alfred R. Wallace writes on “The Ice Age and its Work,” with the object of explaining “the nature and amount of the converging evidence demonstrating the existence of enormous ice-sheets ...
Notes - Nature
Nature· 10 hours agoWE can only express, for the present, the deep regret with which we learn the death of Prof. F. M. Balfour, a regret which we are sure will be shared by all who know anything of Mr. Balf our's ...
Notes - Nature
Nature· 11 hours agoTHE following are some of the principal works in the various departments of science and in travel which are announced for publication during the present season. Messrs. Longman and Co. have ...
Frequented Ways: A General Survey of the Land Forms, Climates, and Vegetation of Western Europe,...
Nature· 11 hours agoA LARGE part of Europe is again open to the traveller. Dr. Newbigin, president of the Geographical Section of the British Association this year, does well to direct attention to the frequented ...
Use of Oxygen on the Mount Everest Expedition, 1938 - Nature
Nature· 11 hours agoTHERE were two types of oxygen apparatus ooo available to the Mount Everest Expedition of 1938. The other was a closed circuit apparatus in which pure oxygen is breathed. Now the essence of ...
Societies and Academies - Nature
Nature· 11 hours agoGENEVA Society of Physics and Natural History, December 5. LEON W. COLLET: The Jurassic-Cretaceous limit at the summit of Mont Ruan, 3,067 m. (Morcles stratum). The author shows that the limit ...
