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    • Entomology at the Cape 1 - Nature

      Nature· 12 hours ago

      THE Cape has been described as the most magnificent natural museum of insect pests and parasitic diseases which the world possesses, and the report of Mr. Lounsbery for 1901 shows that, despite ...

    • The Discovery of the Weight of the Air - Nature

      Nature· 12 hours ago

      Without claiming to be an authority upon Rey or upon Galileo, I would direct attention to the statement, made in “Galileo—his Life and Work”, by J. J. Fahie, that Galileo's way of determining ...

    • The Distribution of the Chemical Elements.1 - Nature

      Nature· 12 hours ago

      PETROLOGISTS generally agree that the earth contains a core of an iron alloy, most probably nickel iron with about 8 per cent of nickel, in analogy to the most common types of iron meteorites ...

    • Absolute Magnitude Effects in Stellar Spectra - Nature

      Nature· 12 hours ago

      Saha's researches on high-temperature ionisation, whilst not removing the empirical basis, afforded a general qualitative explanation of many of the results observed. They showed that the lowered ...

    • Peat and its Uses - Nature

      Nature· 13 hours ago

      The author of the article, M. Renié, discusses concisely the distribution of peat-beds in the various countries, the treatment (drying and pressing) of peat and its uses. The drying and mechanical ...

    • The Gyrostatic Compass 1 - Nature

      Nature· 13 hours ago

      ELLIOT BROTHERS, the English cannot rest in the axis is pointing north and south very nearly, and the direction of rotation is in the same direction as that of the earth. For if the axis should ...