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Earthquakes
IN connection with Prof. O'Reilly's letters in NATURE of October 14 and 28 (pp. 570, 618), and your notice of October 21 (p. 599), I supply a few data, which at first I thought of too little interest for your ...
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Photograph of the Eye by Flash of Magnesium
THE effect of complete obscurity on the normal pupil has hitherto been seen only by the light of electric discharges, which allowed of no measurements.
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Prof. Pictet's Laboratory at Berlin
IT has often been remarked that purely scientific research frequently bears fruit of practical value. A fresh illustration of this fact is afforded by the work of Prof. Pictet, the eminent man of science of Ge...
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August Kundt
PHYSICAL science, which within the lapse of six years has witnessed the death of Kirchhoff, Clausius, and Hertz, has suffered another severe loss; on May 21, August Kundt, who was but fifty-four years of age, ...
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The Maerjelen Lake
A CORRESPONDENCE which I was recently the innocent cause of initiating in the Standard, revealed a very remarkable conflict of evidence touching the question of how often and to what extent the Maerjelen Lake1 ha...
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The Fall of the Altels Glacier, September 11, 1895
JE vous adresse aujourd'hui un travail sur l'Avalanche du Glacier de l'Altels, que vient de publier la Commission des Glaciers de la Société helvétique des Sciences naturelles et qui complète l'intéressant art...
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Prof. Alexander Rollett
PROF. ALEXANDER ROLLETT, of the University of Graz, the eminent physiologist, died on October 1 at the age of sixty-nine. His name, though not associated with any particularly brilliant discovery, is well know...
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The Hydrography and Geology of Umbria1
IN the volume before us, the Royal Italian Geological Survey has published, as the latest of its classic “Memorie descrittive,” Dr. Bernardino Lotti's comprehensive work on that region which comprises the pres...
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Advantages of the Ring Method for the Study of the Surface Equilibria of Colloidal Solutions
THE letter of Prof. Harkins, concerning some of the methods used for measuring surface tension,1 contains a statement about the ring method which may mislead the reader; and the addition of a few words to it may ...
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Prof. Antonio Abetti
ON Feb. 20 there passed away at Arcetri, Florence, aged eighty-two years, after a short illness, Prof. Antonio Abetti, the doyen of Italian astronomers. Born at Gorizia, in Frioul, in 1846, he took his degree ...
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Veterinary Science and Agriculture*
THE prominent position which veterinary research occupies in the scientific life of South Africa to-day and the valuable practical results which have been obtained in this field of work have encouraged me to c...
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Replacing the Telephone by a Loud Speaker in Conductivity Measurements
IT seems improbable that nobody should have ever tried replacing the telephone by a loud speaker in conductivity measurements, but I have never heard of it, nor read anything about its possibility and advantag...
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Effect of Light on the Surface Tension of Boys's Soap Solution
THE letter of Prof. L. D. Mahajan in NATURE of Sept. 19, p. 496, which brings forth an interesting point, may be slightly misleading, inasmuch as it tends to indicate that time, or rather adsorption as a funct...
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Surface Tension of Colloidal Solutions, and the Action of Light on Soap Solutions
SOME time ago1 a discussion arose between Prof. Mahajan and myself about the interpretation of a phenomenon which I described for the first time in 1922, namely, the slow decrease in the surface tension of colloi...
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Ring Method for Measuring Surface Tension
A GREAT deal has been written about the ring method since it was rescued from oblivion in 1919. It is to-day more widely used than any other throughout the world. Let us try and analyse the reasons for its suc...
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Origin of the Word Monolayer
PROF. DONNAN asks in NATURE of May 30, p. 910, who originated the word monolayer. I may say that I think I coined it, for my own use, in July 1924 (Journal of Experimental Medicine, 40, 133 ; 1924).
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Scientific Workers and War
THE article on ” War, Science and Citizenship” in NATURE of May 9, and the letter on ” Scientific Workers and War” published in the following week have expressed views no doubt widely held among readers of NAT...
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Dr. Arthur W. Rogers, F.R.S
ON June 23 there passed away at Cape Town, at the age of seventy-four, one to whom South Africa owes much in Hogard to geological discovery, description and application. A. W. Rogers was born at Bishops Hall, ...
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Use of Bremsstrahlung in Making Rapid Assays of Millicurie Amounts of Phosphorus-32
CONVENTIONAL methods of beta-ray measurement for checking the activity of a pure beta-emitter such as phosphorus-32, in therapeutic amounts, have the following disadvantages: (1) The container must be opened, ...
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Removal of Internally Deposited Radiocerium by the Use of Chelating Agents
IN recent years, polyamino-acids, and ethylene-diaminetetra-acetic acid in particular, have proved of substantial value as therapeutic agents in cases of poisoning by radioactive or stable metals. However, the...
