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The Huron Race and its Head Form* - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoTHE tribe of North American Indians known by the name of Hurons appears, when first brought to the knowledge of the intruding French, to have been settled in palisaded villages around Lake Simcoe ...
Distinguishing Lights for Light-Houses - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoSIR WILLIAM THOMSON writes a long letter on this subject to the Times of Tuesday, the letter being the result of a most interesting experimental cruise of ten days on board Her Majesty's ship ...
The Making of England 1 - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoIN an instructive article in Macmillan's Magazine for this month, Prof. Geikie shows what important influences the geological development of our country has had upon its history. Prof. Geikie ...
Societies and Academies - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoAt a white heat, suiphuretted hydrogen reacts with both the magnetic oxide and peroxide of iron, giving iron sulphide and a mixture of hydrogen and sulphur dioxide. A small quantity of sulphuric ...
Suppression of Tuberculin Reaction in the Scorbutic Guinea Pig - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoIN a recent publication from this laboratory it was noted that vitamin C deficiency in guinea pigs prevented induction of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis as well as development of the ...
The Search for Coal in the South of England1 - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoIt is, however, not unfitting that the bearing of the discovery on the general question of the existence of workable coal-fields in Southern England should be discussed within these walls, not ...
The Bore at Moncton, Bay of Fundy - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoMONCTON is situated on the Petitcodiac River, nineteen miles above the mouth of the Petitcodiac, where it enters the Bay of Fundy. This part of the river is more correctly an estuary which continues ...
A Long-Term Agricultural Policy - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoR. G. STAPLETON, in his presidential address to Section M (Agriculture), stresses the importance of ley-farming in relation to the present-day needs of the nation, and in general he discusses ...
“Tanganyika Shells” - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoMr. W. H. Dall, of the Smithsonian Institution, had previously, in a letter to me, dated October 24, expressed a similar opinion. I...
Societies and Academies - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoLONDON Linnean Society, December 18, 1885.—Sir John Lubbock, Bart., F.R.S., President, in the chair.—The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society:—Liet.-Col. W. R. Lewis, and ...