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Naid or Tubificid? - Nature
Nature· 21 hours agoIN NATURE for November 16, 1911 (p. 78), I directed attention to the fact that a tiny annelid known as Rhyacodrilus had been found in England, and that it differed in some ...
Halley and his Comet 1 - Nature
Nature· 16 hours agoWHAT do we know of the nature of a comet's tail? Near the head we notice that there is a dome-shaped envelope which suggests that something has been spouted from the head ...
Earthquakes - Nature
Nature· 18 hours agoIN NATURE of October 14 (p. 570) you published a letter from Prof. O'Reilly regarding the great earthquake of Carolina, and drawing attention to the tendency of earthquake-lines to assume the direction of great circles.
A Uniform System of Russian Transliteration - Nature
Nature· 16 hours agoIN NATURE, vol. xli. pp. 396–97, which has only now reached Tashkend, there is a very interesting note under the above title. It is stated that “the recommended system will ...
The Eruption of Vulcano Island - Nature
Nature· 16 hours agoIN the pages of NATURE two notes have appeared from my pen describing the phenomena of the eruption that commenced on August 3, 1888, which apparently is now coming to an ...
Decomposition Reactions of Organic Compounds in the Gaseous State - Nature
Nature· 18 hours agoIN NATURE and elsewhere, Prof. M. W. Travers and his collaborators have published the results of experiments on gaseous decomposition reactions, and have claimed that in a ...
The Boomerang - Nature
Nature· 17 hours agoI OBSERVE a letter in NATURE (vol. xiii., p. 168) asking for information about the “boomerang.” I have now taken the occasion of a number of the aboriginal natives of this ...
The British Ecological Society - Nature
Nature· 18 hours agoREFERRING to the note in NATURE of May 31 p. 669, on his award of the Linnean Gold Medal Prof. A. G. Tansley writes: In the notice of my work which appeared in NATURE ...
Imperfect Crystallisation of Common Camphor - Nature
Nature· 16 hours agoQUITE recently (NATURE, May 22, p. 721) A. Müller described the imperfect crystallisation of behenolic acid. The crystals of this substance proved to be built up of small ...
Systems of Consanguinity - Nature
Nature· 18 hours agoIN NATURE, vol. xi. p. 401, I find a notice of the third edition of Sir John Lubbock's valuable work on the “Origin of Civilisation,” in which the following paragraph occurs ...
