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Volume 162 Number 4107 pp81-122


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Abbreviations p81

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Book Reviews

The Alphabet p82

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Very High-Frequency Techniques p83

doi:10.1038/162083a0


Animal Colour Changes and their Neurohumours p84

doi:10.1038/162084a0


The Differential Analyser Computing Mechanisms and Linkages p85

doi:10.1038/162085a0


Wild Animals and the Land p85

doi:10.1038/162085b0


The Venereal Diseases p86

doi:10.1038/162086a0


Introduction to the Theory of Equations p87

doi:10.1038/162087a0


Chemical and Physical Investigations on Dairy Products p87

doi:10.1038/162087b0


The Skyscraper Hive p87

doi:10.1038/162087c0


Principles and Practice of the Rorschach Personality Test p87

doi:10.1038/162087d0



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Article

Specific Crystalline Protein and Nucleoprotein from a Plant Virus having Insect Vectors p88

ROY MARKHAM,  R. E. F. MATTHEWS & KENNETH M. SMITH

doi:10.1038/162088a0



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Chemical Research Laboratory, Teddington p90

doi:10.1038/162090a0


Immunity to Virus Diseases p92

doi:10.1038/162092a0



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Obituaries

Sir D'Arcy Thompson, C.B., F.R.S p93

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[Obituaries] p94

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Prof. B. E. Livingston p94

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Egyptology in the University of Liverpool: Prof. A. M. Blackman p95

doi:10.1038/162095a0


Egyptology in the University of Liverpool: Mr. H. W. Fairman p95

doi:10.1038/162095b0


Chemistry at the University College of North Wales, Bangor: Dr. Stanley Peat, F.R.S p95

doi:10.1038/162095c0


Royal Society of Medicine: Sir Henry Dale, O.M., G.B.E., F.R.S p96

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Air Photography and Archæology p96

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Biological Research Institute, Tihany p96

doi:10.1038/162096c0


Exchange of War-time Periodicals with Germany p96

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Benjamin Franklin as Printer and Publisher p96

doi:10.1038/162096e0


Establishment of Hardwoods in Britain p97

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“Not poppy, nor mandragora …” p97

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Pfund Issue of the Journal of the Optical Society of America p97

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Hot-wire Vacuum Switches p97

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J. J. Thomson on “Cathode Rays” p98

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Italian Polar Research Institute p98

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Pathogenicity of Aspergillus nidulans p98

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Land-mine Detectors p98

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Mathematical Tables for Science and Industry p98

doi:10.1038/162098e0


Congress of the Universities of the Common-wealth p99

doi:10.1038/162099a0


Fifth Commonwealth Entomological Conference p99

doi:10.1038/162099b0


Conference on Biology and Civil Engineering p99

doi:10.1038/162099c0


University of London: Appointments p99

doi:10.1038/162099d0


University of Sheffield p99

doi:10.1038/162099e0


University of Aberdeen p99

doi:10.1038/162099f0


Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851: Awards p100

doi:10.1038/162100a0


Institution of Electrical Engineers: Officers for 1948–49 p100

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Douglas Lea Memorial Lecture p100

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Announcements p100

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Erratum p100

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Letters to Editor

Role of the Hydroxyl Group in the Gelation of Aluminium Soaps in Hydrocarbons p101

T. S. MCROBERTS & J. H. SCHULMAN

doi:10.1038/162101a0


Processing Thick Emulsions for Nuclear Research p102

C. C. DILWORTH,  G. P. S. OCCHIALINI & R. M. PAYNE

doi:10.1038/162102a0


Steric Hindrance in Vinyl-Mesitylene p103

F. R. BUCK,  G. T. KENNEDY,  F. MORTON & E. M. TANNER

doi:10.1038/162103a0


Electric Dipole Moments of Some Styrenes p104

K. B. EVERARD & L. E. SUTTON

doi:10.1038/162104a0


Titration Curves of Hydrogen Micas p104

R. P. MITRA & K. S. RAJAGOPALAN

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A Modified Ionophoresis Apparatus p105

DAVID A. HALL

doi:10.1038/162105a0


Absorption of Ultrasonic Waves in Acetic Acid p106

J. M. M. PINKERTON

doi:10.1038/162106a0


Crystal Structure of B-Starch from X-Ray Fibre Diagrams p107

R. E. RUNDLE

doi:10.1038/162107a0


Shape of Pulses of Radio-frequency Radiation from the Sun p108

S. E. WILLIAMS

doi:10.1038/162108a0


Spectrum of Iodine Oxide (IO) in Flames p108

E. H. COLEMAN,  A. G. GAYDON & W. M. VAIDYA

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Hydride and Deuteride Bands of Aluminium, Copper, Silver and Gold p109

BENGT E. NILSSON

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Relation Between the Brunauer–Emmett–Teller and Harkins–Jura Isotherms p109

T. D. SMITH & R. BELL

doi:10.1038/162109b0


A Suggested Explanation of Sangster's Rotations and Schmidt's “Wandering Vortices” in Geomagnetism p110

A. T. PRICE

doi:10.1038/162110a0


A New Ketone Synthesis p111

R. E. BOWMAN

doi:10.1038/162111a0


Extinction of Petrol Fires by Methyl Iodide p111

A. NICHOLSON

doi:10.1038/162111b0


Influence of Some Anti-Shrink Treatments on the Friction between Wool Fibres p112

JOEL LINDBERG & NILS GRALÉN

doi:10.1038/162112a0


Pharmacology of Some bis-Trimethyl Ammonium Compounds p113

GERTRUDE E. GLOCK,  G. A. MOGEY & J. W. TREVAN

doi:10.1038/162113a0


Incidence of Malaria in Tropical Africa p114

G. A. WALTON

doi:10.1038/162114a0


Inhibition of Aerobic Sporing Bacilli by Hæmatin p114

W. E. VAN HEYNINGEN

doi:10.1038/162114b0


Effects of Aeration on Bracken and Heather Grown in Nutrient Solution p115

L. W. POEL

doi:10.1038/162115a0


Etiology of Grass Disease p116

A. ROBERTSON,  D. E. DONALD,  J. S. S. INGLIS & H. PAVER

doi:10.1038/162116a0


Apus and a Rare Cladoceran in Britain p116

H. MUNRO FOX

doi:10.1038/162116b0


Re-discovery of Apus cancriformis p116

FRANK BALFOUR-BROWNE

doi:10.1038/162116c0



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Engineering Research at Cambridge p117

doi:10.1038/162117a0


Rabelais on Syphilis p118

doi:10.1038/162118a0


Stress Analysis and the Designer p119

doi:10.1038/162119a0


International Institute of Welding p119

doi:10.1038/162119b0


Toxicity of D.D.T p120

doi:10.1038/162120a0


Institute of Physics p120

doi:10.1038/162120b0


Council for the Preservation of Rural England p121

doi:10.1038/162121a0


Crops of the Caribbean p121

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Forthcoming Events p122

doi:10.1038/162122a0


Appointments Vacant p122

doi:10.1038/162122b0