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Volume 136 Number 3436 pp351-408


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News

The Changeful Earth p351

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Book Reviews

The Desert Fayum p353

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(1) Science and the Human Temperament (2) Science and the Human Temperament p354

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The Diseases of the Endocrine Glands p355

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Prehistoric Archæology and Sir Ray Lankester p356

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Tables of the Complete and Incomplete Elliptic Integrals p356

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Gasentladungstabellen p356

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A Bibliography of Sir Oliver Lodge, FRS p357

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The Origins of Religion p357

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Terrains, roches et fossiles de la Belgique p357

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Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi p357

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Robert Hooke and his Contemporaries p358

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Characteristics of Violin Tone p362

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Obituaries

Prof. F. A. F. C. Went, For.Mem.R.S p363

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Miss Nina F. Layard p364

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Dr. C. F. Marbut p364

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Norfolk Woodhenge p365

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Cotswold Long Barrow p365

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Celsius, Linnæus and the Centigrade Thermometer p365

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Public Relations Work p366

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Re-awakening of Geysir at Hawkdale, Iceland p366

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Speed and Engineering p366

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Railway Electrification p366

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Centenary of the Great Western Railway p367

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International Commission of Agriculture p367

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Religious Motives in Medical Biology p367

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Polish Science in the Middle Ages p368

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International Federation of Eugenic Organizations p368

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American Collecting Expeditions p368

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The Strangeways Laboratory p368

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Research Articles

Form, Drift, and Rhythm of the Continents p369

W. W. Watts

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Summaries of Addresses of Presidents of Sections p380

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Molecular Structure of Carbohydrates p380

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Geological Research on Coal p381

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The Species Problem p382

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Polar Research p382

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Economic Nationalism and International Trade p383

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Stability in Engineering p383

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The Birthplace of Man p384

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The Pituitary Gland p385

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Personality and Age p385

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Plant Pathology p386

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The Schools and Citizenship p387

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State Control in Agriculture p387

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Preservation of Sites of Scientific Interest p388

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News

Imperial Agricultural Bureaux p389

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Madras Fisheries p389

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Literature of Food Investigation p389

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New ‘House Number’ Lamps p389

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Physics Research at Harvard p390

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The Fish and the Ring p390

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Land Speed Record p390

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Announcements p390

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Letters to Editor

Charles Darwin and the Galapagos Islands p391

NORA BARLOW

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X-Ray Examination of the Effect of Removing Non-Cellulosic Constituents from Vegetable Fibres p391

W. T. ASTBURY,  R. D. PRESTON & A. G. NORMAN

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Sub-Boundaries in a Crystal Grown by the Bridgman Method p392

W. H. GEORGE

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Change of Magnetic Susceptibility of Metals during Melting and Allotropic Transformation p393

KOTARÔ HONDA & YOSOMATSU SHIMIZU

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Production of Electron Pairs p393

GIULIO RACAH

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Registration of the Ionisation Curve of a Single α-Particle p394

GEORG STETTER

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Registration of the Ionisation Curve of a Single α-Particle p394

HANNES ALFVÉN

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The Fundamental Paradox of the Quantum Theory p395

R. PEIERLS

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Uncertainty Principle and the Zero-Point Energy of the Harmonic Oscillator p395

R. A. NEWING

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The Problem of a Plant Virus Infection p395

KENNETH M. SMITH

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Non-identity of Vitamin D2 (Irradiated Ergosterol, Calciferol) and the Natural Vitamin D from Cod Liver Oil p396

OTTAR RYGH

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Abnormal Magnetic Behaviour of Treated Cobalt Wire p397

T. F. WALL

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Unit of Force in the M.K.S. System p397

L. HARTSHORN & P. VIGOUREUX

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Upper Carboniferous Fossils in America and Europe p398

T. D. A. COCKERELL

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Methylene Blue as a Stain for Mucus p398

A. G. LOWNDES

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News

Points from Foregoing Letters p398

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Research Items p399

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Imperial Botanical Conference p402

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Conference of Empire Meteorologists p404

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Educational Topics and Events p405

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Science News a Century Ago p405

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Societies and Academies p406

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Miscellany

Forthcoming Events p408

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Official Publications Received p408

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