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Remarkable Sun-spots - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoOn the 8th it was seen no longer, and the nucleus was now in one, seeming to show pretty clearly that its previous apparent division in two was really caused by the intervention of the brown ...
Notes - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoMR. JOHN WHITEHEAD returned to Labuan in safety from his second expedition to Kina Balu, and is daily expected in England. The new species will be described by Mr. Sharpe in the forthcoming ...
Geographical Notes - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoVARIOUS rumours have been afloat during the past week as to difficulties having arisen between the Egyptian Government and Mr. Stanley and as to the escape of Emin Pasha. To these rumours Mr ...
“Sky-coloured Clouds” at Night - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoIN NATURE, June 28 (p. 196), Mr. Backhouse notes the appearance of illuminated clouds to northward at night. Similar clouds are seen from here on almost every clear night near the summer solstice ...
Position Finding Without an Horizon - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoThe latter, which is written by Dr. Alfred Brill, relates to the reduction of observed altitudes for the purpose of finding position by means which can be quickly and readily ...
Societies and Academies - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoThe paper describes a series of experiments made in the engineering laboratory at Oxford, undertaken with the object of checking by direct measurements the accuracy of the accepted CO2 entropy-temperature ...
Observations on Stellar Extinction obtained in the Gemini 9 Space Flight - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoThis layer, presumably dust, was suggested in order to explain the anomaly in the size of the Earth's shadow during eclipses. The height of the layer has been estimated as 100–150 km above the ...
Geographical Notes - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoON August 1 the International Conference of the Alpine Clubs was opened at Geneva, in the building of the Conservatorium. The Alpinists were very numerous, and the meeting was really an international ...
On Compass Adjustment in Iron ships 1 - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoII. AN important objection was made to me some years ago by Capt. Evans against the use of quadrantal correctors in the Navy, that they would prevent the taking of bearings by the prismatic ...
Recent Contributions to Aviation Problems - Nature
Nature· 1 day agoGilbert T. Walker has now sought to bring sound scientific principles to bear on the numerous observations in India published by Dr. Hankin. From observations of the temperature of the air at ...
