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PARIS. Academy of Sciences, October 2.—M. Lœwy in the chair.—On the Serpent d'eau of the Rhône at Geneva, by M. H. Faye. This paper contains a description of a peculiar phenomenon seen at a weir near Geneva. It is a species of whirl in a vertical plane produced by a recoil of the water from the top of the barrier to a distance of 1˙5 m.
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Societies and Academies. Nature 48, 584 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048584a0
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