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Phenomena of Clouds - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoThe latter resembles an immense mound heaped up against the eastern side of the former. Then a south-easterly wind, coming up and across the firth, caused a cloud to be formed at a considerable ...
Slow Lightning - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoOn May 19 there had been a brisk, hot south-west wind blowing at Gizeh, off the Libyan Desert, at about or over 100° F.; at near sunset a north wind began to come up against it, and there was ...
Cumulus Clouds, Convection Currents and Gliding - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoKopp. Perhaps I may be allowed to point out that I noted this fact in 19172, and soon afterwards wrote in the columns of NATURE3, “ the lapse-rate near the ground is adiabatic, but this is not ...
Origin and Formation of Comets - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoNot. Roy. Astro. Soc., 108, 6 ; 1948), R. A. Lyttleton discusses a new theory of the origin of comets as the result of the passage of the sun through a cloud of interstellar dust. When such ...
Societies and Academies - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoNaturalists' Field Club and Scientific Association, September 15.—Mr. Henry Pocklington, F.R.M.S., in the chair.—Mr. James Abbott exhibited a number of interesting plants collected in the West ...
Faye on the Laws of Storms * - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoExamination of the Theory of Aspiration.—After a somewhat detailed account of opinions held regarding waterspouts in the prehistoric and Roman epochs, and from the sixteenth century downwards ...
14,000 Miles through the Air - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoTHIS small volume by the late Sir Ross Smith marks an epoch in the history of flying, for it is a record of the first flight from London to Australia. Sir Ross Smith and his brother, Sir Keith ...
A Broadcast “Rainbow” - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoON Friday, September 16, I witnessed an atmospheric phenomenon sufficiently unusual, I believe, to merit a record. Standing on Ogmore Down near Bridgend in this county (Glamorgan) at 2.30 P.M ...
The Meteoroid of November 17, 1882 - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoTHERE has already been much discussion on this subject, but I do not think that such exceptional phenomena lose any of their interest by having happened a few mouths ago; and so I write partly ...
Incomplete Breakdown: a Cathode De-ionization Effect - Nature
Nature· 2 days agoStudies have also been made by Raether3 of the growth of the space charges in the gap, using the cloud-chamber method. In many practical applications of ...
