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Volume 136 Number 3449 pp885-926


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News

Humanistic Science p885

doi:10.1038/136885a0



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Book Reviews

Prehistoric Man in Ireland p886

doi:10.1038/136886a0


The Optical Basis of the Theory of Valency p887

doi:10.1038/136887a0


Science and the Supernatural p888

doi:10.1038/136888a0


Encyclopædia of Philosophical and Natural Sciences as taught in Baghdad about AD 817, or Book of Treasures p889

doi:10.1038/136889a0


Botany as an Experimental Science in Laboratory and Garden p890

doi:10.1038/136890a0


A Text-Book of Organic Chemistry: Historical, Structural and Economic p891

doi:10.1038/136891a0


Paläohistologie der Pflanze p891

doi:10.1038/136891b0


Erdöl-Muttersubstanz p891

doi:10.1038/136891c0


Electricity in Poultry Farming p892

doi:10.1038/136892a0


Introduction to Electric Transients p892

doi:10.1038/136892b0


Elementary Textbook of Chemistry: with Laboratory Experiments p892

doi:10.1038/136892c0


The Calculus p892

doi:10.1038/136892d0



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News

Science in Modern Life p893

doi:10.1038/136893a0


The Advance of Herring Research p896

doi:10.1038/136896a0


Erosion Surfaces p897

doi:10.1038/136897a0


The Interaction of Gases with Solids p899

doi:10.1038/136899a0



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Obituaries

Mr. F. Escombe p900

doi:10.1038/136900a0


Senator Paolo Orsi p901

doi:10.1038/136901a0


[Obituary] p901

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News

The Royal Society: Officers and Council p902

doi:10.1038/136902a0


Industry and Technical Education p902

doi:10.1038/136902b0


The Engineer and the Community p902

doi:10.1038/136902c0


Science and the Architect p903

doi:10.1038/136903a0


Minoan Survivals in Later Crete p903

doi:10.1038/136903b0


Explorations in New Guinea p903

doi:10.1038/136903c0


Stone Age Culture in Colorado, U.S.A p903

doi:10.1038/136903d0


A Thames Barrage p904

doi:10.1038/136904a0


Ice Accretion on Aircraft p904

doi:10.1038/136904b0


Forestry Research p905

doi:10.1038/136905a0


New Box Testing Laboratory p905

doi:10.1038/136905b0


Air-Conditioning in the Tropics p905

doi:10.1038/136905c0


Radio Research Laboratories Abroad p905

doi:10.1038/136905d0


Solar Physics Observatory, Cambridge p906

doi:10.1038/136906a0


Archæology in South-East Essex p906

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Shipbuilding by Welding p906

doi:10.1038/136906c0


Catalogue of Earthquakes, 1925–30 p907

doi:10.1038/136907a0


Investigation of British and Irish Earthquakes p907

doi:10.1038/136907b0


An Earthquake Research Commission for India p907

doi:10.1038/136907c0


Centenary of Ampère p907

doi:10.1038/136907d0


Exhibition of Microscopes p907

doi:10.1038/136907e0


Another Large Sunspot p907

doi:10.1038/136907f0


Announcements p908

doi:10.1038/136908a0



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Letters to Editor

Isotopic Structure of Iridium p909

A. J. DEMPSTER

doi:10.1038/136909a0


Thermal Decomposition of Certain Gaseous Organic Compounds p909

MORRIS W. TRAVERS

doi:10.1038/136909b0


Initial Formation of Methyl Alcohol in the Oxidation of Methane p910

WILLIAM A. BONE

doi:10.1038/136910a0


Radioactivity of Oil-Waters in Czechoslovakia p910

F. BĚHOUNEK,  V. SANTHOLZER & F. ULRICH

doi:10.1038/136910b0


Recoil by β-Decay p911

F. BLOCH & C. MØLLER

doi:10.1038/136911a0


Electrolytic Separation of the Oxygen Isotopes p912

GEOFFREY OGDEN

doi:10.1038/136912a0


Chemistry of Œstrogenic Substances p912

J. W. COOK,  E. C. DODDS & F. L. WARREN

doi:10.1038/136912b0


The Visual Purple System in Marine Fishes p913

GEORGE WALD

doi:10.1038/136913a0


Oxidative Inactivation of Co-zymase with Schardinger Enzyme Preparations p913

FRITZ LIPMANN

doi:10.1038/136913b0


Adsorption of Grass and Butter Carotenes on Alumina p914

A. E. GILLAM & M. S. EL RIDI

doi:10.1038/136914a0


Plasticity of Bismuth p915

W. F. BERG & L. SANDLER

doi:10.1038/136915a0


Plasticity of Bismuth p915

E. N. DA C. ANDRADE

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Coalescence in Stages between Two Drops of a Liquid p915

M. KATALINIĆ

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Cytoplasmic Bodies in the Oogenesis of Lumbricus p916

GERTRUDE NORMINTON & J. BRONTË GATENBY

doi:10.1038/136916a0


Age of the Universe p916

J. A. CHALMERS & BRUCE CHALMERS

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The Spectrum of γ Cassiopeiæ p916

WILLIAM J. S. LOCKYER

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Fossil Human Occipital Bone from Thames Gravels p916

K. P. OAKLEY & L. S. B. LEAKEY

doi:10.1038/136916d0


Recrystallisation accompanying an Allotropic Change p917

C. F. ELAM

doi:10.1038/136917a0



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News

Points from Foregoing Letters p917

doi:10.1038/136917b0


Research Items p918

doi:10.1038/136918a0


Anniversary Meeting of the Royal Society p921

doi:10.1038/136921a0


Thixotropic Colloids p922

doi:10.1038/136922a0


Educational Topics and Events p923

doi:10.1038/136923a0


Science News a Century Ago p923

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Societies and Academies p924

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Miscellany

Forthcoming Events p925

doi:10.1038/136925a0


Official Publications Received p926

doi:10.1038/136926a0