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| | The Council for Nature 867
doi:10.1038/181867a0
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| | Practice Foreshadowing Science 868
G. E. FUSSELL reviews Robert Bakewell
Pioneer Livestock Breeder. By
H. Cecil Pawson
doi:10.1038/181868a0
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| | Principles Of Analysis 869
C. O. HARVEY reviews Quantitative Inorganic Analysis
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G. Charlot & Denise Bézier
doi:10.1038/181869a0
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| | Reason and Controversy 869
C. K. GRANT reviews Methods and Criteria of Reasoning
An Inquiry into the Structure of Controversy. By
Rupert Crawshay-Williams
doi:10.1038/181869b0
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| | A New Approach to Electricity 870
G. R. NOAKES reviews Currents, Fields, and Particles
By
Francis Bitter
doi:10.1038/181870a0
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| | The Solar Corona Without an Eclipse 871
R. O. REDMAN reviews Die Sonnenkorona
M. Waldmeier
doi:10.1038/181871a0
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| | Low-Temperature Physics 871
A. B. PIPPARD reviews Handbuch der Physik
Herausgegeben von S. Flügge
doi:10.1038/181871b0
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| | North American Snakes 872
Handbook of Snakes of the United States and Canada
By
Albert Hazen Wright & Anna Allen Wright
doi:10.1038/181872a0
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| | Damage to Solids by Liquid Impact at Supersonic Speeds 873
F. P. BOWDEN & J. H. BRUNTON
doi:10.1038/181873a0
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| | Simultaneous Evaporation of Platinum and Carbon for Possible Use in High-Resolution Shadow-Casting for the Electron Microscope 875
D. E. BRADLEY
doi:10.1038/181875a0
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| | News |  |
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| | Processing of Foods with Ionizing Radiations 877
B. COLEBY
doi:10.1038/181877a0
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| | Obituaries |  |
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| | Prof. R. M. Davies 879
I. C. JONES
doi:10.1038/181879a0
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| | Prof. R. M. Davies 880
ENRICO VOLTERRA
doi:10.1038/181880a0
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| | Prof. T. Shimizu 880
G. A. D. HASLEWOOD
doi:10.1038/181880b0
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| | New Fellows of the Royal Society 881
doi:10.1038/181881a0
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| | Animal Physiology at Cambridge 882
doi:10.1038/181882a0
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| | Materia Medica at Edinburgh: Dr. W. L. M. Perry 882
doi:10.1038/181882b0
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| | Viking Fund Medals for 1957 882
doi:10.1038/181882c0
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| | Train Control on Railways in Britain 883
doi:10.1038/181883a0
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| | Millenary Celebrations of Al-Mas'udi 883
doi:10.1038/181883b0
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| | Society for Visiting Scientists 883
doi:10.1038/181883c0
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| | The Parapsychological Association 884
doi:10.1038/181884a0
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| | Conference on High Energy Nuclear Physics 884
doi:10.1038/181884b0
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| | Second Geneva Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy 884
doi:10.1038/181884c0
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| | Isotope Courses at Harwell 884
doi:10.1038/181884d0
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| | City and Guilds of London Institute: Fellowships 884
doi:10.1038/181884e0
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| | The Night Sky in April 884
doi:10.1038/181884f0
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| | Announcements 885
doi:10.1038/181885a0
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| | Erratum |  |
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| | Erratum 885
doi:10.1038/181885b0
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| | Recent Advances in Nuclear Physics 886
A. M. LANE
doi:10.1038/181886a0
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| | Biochemistry of Glutathione 887
doi:10.1038/181887a0
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| | National Oceanographic Council: Annual Report 1956–57 888
K. F. BOWDEN
doi:10.1038/181888a0
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| | Opencast Mining 889
doi:10.1038/181889a0
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| | Animal Health in Great Britain 889
G. LAPAGE
doi:10.1038/181889b0
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| | Reduction of Organic Hydroperoxides by Micro-Organisms and Animal Tissues 890
D. M. UPDEGRAFF & F. A. BOVEY
doi:10.1038/181890a0
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| | The Agrotype Concept in Tea Taxonomy 893
W. WIGHT
doi:10.1038/181893a0
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| | Intermediates and Competing Reactions in the Photodestruction of Indoleacetic Acid 895
PETER M. RAY & GEORGE M. CURRY
doi:10.1038/181895a0
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| | Studies of Urocanic Acid: Intermediate Products in the Enzymatic Degradation of Urocanic Acid 897
ROBERT H. FEINBERG & DAVID M. GREENBERG
doi:10.1038/181897a0
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| | Studies of Urocanic Acid: Dye Reduction by a Metabolite of Urocanic Acid 898
doi:10.1038/181898a0
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| | Dealkylation of N-Alkylamines by Model Systems 898
JAMES R. GILLETTE, JAMES V. DINGELL & BERNARD B. BRODIE
doi:10.1038/181898b0
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| | Letters |  |
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| | Determination of Orbital Characteristics of an Earth Satellite from Single-Station Radio-Transit Observations 900
GORDON GRANT, A. L. JONES, R. W. BURHANS, P. S. FAY & DAVID FRAZIER
doi:10.1038/181900a0
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| | Electron Micrographs of Monolayers of Stearic Acid 901
HERMAN E. RIES JUN. & WAYNE A. KIMBALL
doi:10.1038/181901a0
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| | Effect of Hydrogen on the Deformation Characteristics of Alpha-Titanium 902
E. SMITH
doi:10.1038/181902a0
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| | Occurrence of Beryllium Oxide in Polycrystalline Beryllium 902
V. D. SCOTT & H. WILMAN
doi:10.1038/181902b0
First paragraph & References | PDF (261K)
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| | Kinetics of the Trigonal-to-Cubic Transition in Crystals of Cæsium Nitrate on Muscovite 903
E. FERRONI & M. COCCHI
doi:10.1038/181903a0
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| | An Electronic Mechanism of Addition Reactions 903
D. W. DAVIES
doi:10.1038/181903b0
First paragraph & References | PDF (229K)
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| | The Pigment of Micrococcus lysodeikticus
904
GERALD LITWACK & A. F. CARLUCCI
doi:10.1038/181904a0
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| | Bacterial Oxidation of Lactose and Melibiose 904
B. P. EDDY
doi:10.1038/181904b0
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| | Role of Oxygen in the Formation of -Amino-butyric Acid by a Staphylococcus 905
P. B. RILEY & H. K. ROBINSON
doi:10.1038/181905a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (120K)
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| | An Alternative Pathway for the Degradation of Cholic Acid by Micro-organisms 906
SHOHEI HAYAKAWA, YASUO SABURI, KEIZO TAMAKI & HLDEYUKI HOSHIJIMA
doi:10.1038/181906a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (111K)
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| | Uridine Diphosphate Amino-sugar Compounds from Staphylococcus aureus inhibited by Penicillin 906
EIJI ITO, NOBUTOSHI ISHIMOTO & MASAHIRO SAITO
doi:10.1038/181906b0
First paragraph & References | PDF (206K)
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| | An Antibiotic produced by a Bacillus sp., active against Haemophilus pertussis
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A. IAN TIFFIN
doi:10.1038/181907a0
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| | Flavofungin, a New Crystalline Antifungal Antibiotic: Origin and Biological Properties 908
J. URI & I. BÉKÉSI
doi:10.1038/181908a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (148K)
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| | Effect of Heparin on Pathologically Decreased Serum Esterase in Carcinoma 908
J. SKO EPA, . NOVÁK & H. TODOROVI OVÁ
doi:10.1038/181908b0
First paragraph & References | PDF (251K)
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| | Effect of a Lethal Electric Shock during Hypothermia 909
T. SZILÁGYI, K. BENK˝ & H. CSERNYÁNSZKY
doi:10.1038/181909a0
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| | Effect of Muscular Activity prior to Venepuncture on the Respiration of Leucocytes in vitro
909
SHEENAH K. BISSET & W. D. ALEXANDER
doi:10.1038/181909b0
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| | Effect of Acetylcholine on the Membrane Resistance and Threshold of Atrial Muscle Fibres 910
EDWARD A. JOHNSON & P. A. ROBERTSON
doi:10.1038/181910a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (206K)
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| | Sites of the Physiological Breakdown of the Red Blood Corpuscles 911
G. v. EHRENSTEIN & D. LOCKNER
doi:10.1038/181911a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (109K)
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| | Anticholesterol Activity of -Lipoic Acid 911
L. ANGELUCCI & E. MASCITELLI-CORIANDOLI
doi:10.1038/181911b0
First paragraph & References | PDF (207K)
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| | Effect of Testosterone Propionate upon the Incorporation of Labelled Glycine into Homogenates of Mouse Kidney 912
EDWARD H. FRIEDEN & EDWARD H. COHEN
doi:10.1038/181912a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (206K)
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| | Ribonuclease Activity and Ribonucleic Acid Content of Homologous Human Normal and Cancer Cells 913
L. LEDOUX, S. BRÄNDLI & J. C. DE PAEPE
doi:10.1038/181913a0
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| | Retention of Sodium-22 in Rat Bone 914
G. M. KELLERMAN
doi:10.1038/181914a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (231K)
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| | Lesions in the Hypertensive Rat Kidney produced by Hydralazine 915
D. L. GARDNER
doi:10.1038/181915a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (120K)
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| | Determination of Transaminase Activity of Serum Protein Fractions separated by Paper Electrophoresis 915
MIROSLAV EVELA
doi:10.1038/181915b0
First paragraph & References | PDF (220K)
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| | Relationship between Porphyrin and Isoniazid Resistance of Mycobacterium avium
916
MIKIYASU GOTO & NOBUHIKO KATSUNUMA
doi:10.1038/181916a0
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| | The Latent Period after Infection with Tobacco Mosaic Virus and Virus Nucleic Acid 916
G. SCHRAMM & R. ENGLER
doi:10.1038/181916b0
First paragraph & References | PDF (205K)
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| | Lysis of Fungal Mycelia by Bacterial Enzymes 917
KOKI HORIKOSHI & SIGEJI IIDA
doi:10.1038/181917a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (270K)
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| | Enhancement of Mouse-virulence of Group A Streptococci by Bactericidal Resorcinols 919
JOHN CAMERON
doi:10.1038/181919a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (116K)
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| | A Possible Source of Error in the Chemical Detection of Indolyl Acetic Acid in Plants 919
R. NICHOLS
doi:10.1038/181919b0
First paragraph & References | PDF (222K)
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| | Root Diffusates of Solanum tuberosum and Digitalis purpurea
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C. ELLENBY
doi:10.1038/181920a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (218K)
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| | Immune Reactions to Trichostrongylus colubriformis Infestation in Sheep 921
D. F. STEWART & H. MCL. GORDON
doi:10.1038/181921a0
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| | Dependence on Light of the Reversible Uptake of Inorganic Phosphate by Hydrodictyon
921
A. PIRSON & A. KUHL
doi:10.1038/181921b0
First paragraph & References | PDF (210K)
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| | Effect of Stereoisomeric Tartrates on Root Elongation in Lepidium
922
TORBJÖRN AASHEIM
doi:10.1038/181922a0
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| | 'Recurrence' of Macroderma gigas Dobson 923
H. H. FINLAYSON
doi:10.1038/181923a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (125K)
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| | A Chimæra of Alaria and Laminaria found in Nature 923
JUN TOKIDA, HIKOEI OHMI & MINORU IMASHIMA
doi:10.1038/181923b0
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| | Zoospore Morphology of the California Strain of Plasmopara viticola
924
VINCENT SANTILLI
doi:10.1038/181924a0
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| | Behavioural Changes in Animals after Intracisternal Injection with Adrenocorticotrophic Hormone and Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormone 925
W. FERRARI
doi:10.1038/181925a0
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| | Induction of Melanin Patterns and of Hardening as Separate Processes in the Cuticle of Albino Locusts with Internally Absorbed Phenol Substrates 926
B. M. JONES & W. SINCLAIR
doi:10.1038/181926a0
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| | Distant Hybrids from Parents with Reduced Immunological Reactivity 927
MARTA VoJTÍ KOVÁ
doi:10.1038/181927a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (198K)
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| | Environmental Conditioning of Flax 928
A. DURRANT
doi:10.1038/181928a0
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| | 'Purple Pericarp': a Monofactorial Dominant in Tetraploid Wheats 929
B. C. SHARMAN
doi:10.1038/181929a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (204K)
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| | Atypical Forms of Tubercle Bacilli (Strain B.C.G.) 929
STEPHEN E. JUHASZ & EDITH M. MANKIEWICZ
doi:10.1038/181929b0
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| | Strain Sensitivity of Albino Rats to Reserpine 930
R. E. COUPLAND
doi:10.1038/181930a0
First paragraph & References | PDF (282K)
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| | Chemotherapeutic Action of a Cyclic Nitrogen Mustard Phosphamide Ester (B 518-ASTA) in Experimental Tumours of the Rat 931
HERBERT ARNOLD, FRIEDRICH BOURSEAUX & NORBERT BROCK
doi:10.1038/181931a0
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| | 'Compensatory Hyper-regeneration' in the Antennæ of Hemiptera 931
DENNIS LESTON
doi:10.1038/181931b0
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| | Inaccuracies of Anaphase Estimation of Radiation-induced Chromosome Exchange 932
J. M. THODAY
doi:10.1038/181932a0
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| | Sex-linked and Sex-limited Mutation of the Fly Muscina stabulans (Fall.) (Muscidae) 932
H. E. PATERSON
doi:10.1038/181932b0
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| | Niobium in Ascidians 933
D. B. CARLISLE
doi:10.1038/181933a0
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| | Rearing Newts in the Laboratory for Experimental Purposes 933
DAVID D. WILLIAMS
doi:10.1038/181933b0
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| | Release of Phosphate from Soil Minerals by Hydrogen Sulphide 934
JOAN I. SPERBER
doi:10.1038/181934a0
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| | Forthcoming Events 935
doi:10.1038/181935a0
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| | Appointments Vacant 935
doi:10.1038/181935b0
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| | Reports and other Publications 936
doi:10.1038/181936a0
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