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Preventive Eugenics 1 - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoNo one can read the commissioners' report without an increased conviction of the seriousness of the evil that is dealt with, of its grave and far-reaching ...
Air and Rain - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoIt indicates a plan of testing the purity of the atmosphere of localities with regard to certain constituents of organic origin—the débris of living things—by washing the air, and determining ...
University and Educational Intelligence - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoThe waste of a year over classical work having no direct bearing on the final school chosen by the student had become so great a tax on time and patience that, when a blow was at last struck ...
Prof. Huxley on Technical Education - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoAT the lecture by Prof. Silvanus Thompson, on “Apprenticeships,” at the Society of Arts last week, Prof. Huxley was in the Chair, and in inviting discussion on the paper, said he would commence ...
University and Educational Intelligence - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoOXFORD.—The Romanes lecture—subject, “Science and the Great War ”—was delivered by Prof. E. B. Poulton on December 7 before a large audience, which followed with marked interest and frequent ...
Fundamental Aspects of Erosion - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoEROSION is a problem of considerable complexity which cannot readily be expressed in terms of known physical laws. Up to the present, it has lain mainly in the sphere of the engineer, who has ...
Calendar of Nature Topics - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoIn Greek mythology the heliacal rising of Sirius, the Dog star, was associated with the coming of the dry, hot and sultry season, and the evil effects of ...
Invigoration of Potatoes by Cross-Breeding - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoThe invigoration consequent on changing seed corn from one district to another is due to the same causes, as well as the “evil effects of close interbreeding ...
Dust 1 - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoMY business this evening is to talk about dust: meaning by dust all suspended foreign matter of whatever kind, and including smoke and fog under the one heading. Coming from England I should ...
Alkali Soils and Soil Solutions - Nature
Nature· 4 days agoThe trouble is often intensified by irrigation, and it may become so serious as to counteract the advantages of a reclamation scheme that may be satisfactory in other respects. In a recent issue ...
