Nature (journal)/Volume 1/Number 3
A WEEKLY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF SCIENCE
“To the solid ground
Of Nature trusts the mind which builds for aye.”—Wordsworth
No. 3]
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1869
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[All Rights are Reserved
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| Lectures to Working Men. By James Stuart | 71 | |
| Dr. Livingstone's Explorations. By F.R.G.S. (With Map.) | 72 | |
| Cuckow's Eggs. By Prof. Alfred Newton, F.L.S. | 74 | |
| Origin of Blood-Letting. By E. Ray Lankester | 76 | |
| Prehistoric Archaeology. By John Evans, F.R.S. | 77 | |
| The World of the Sea. By the Rev. Canon Kingsley (With Illustrations.) | 78 | |
| Barff's Handbook of Chemistry. By E. J. Mills, D.Sc. | 80 | |
| Our Book Shelf. | 80 | |
| The Suez Canal. (With Map.) | 81 | |
| Meeting of the American Association. | 83 | |
| New Star-Atlas. (With Illustration.) | 84 | |
| Letters to the Editor:— | ||
| Personal Equation of Astronomical Observers.—J. | 85 | |
| The Fertilisation of Winter-flowering Plants.—C. Darwin, F.R.S. | 85 | |
| Elimination of Alcohol.— | 85 | |
| Notes. | 86 | |
| Astronomy:— | ||
| Correction of Atmospheric Chromatic Dispersion | 87 | |
| Cause of the Incandescence of Meteors, &c. | 88 | |
| Botany:— | ||
| Spontaneous Motion of Protoplasm, &c. | 88 | |
| Chemistry:— | ||
| Italian Mineral Waters | 88 | |
| Sal-ammoniacum Martiale, &c. | 88 | |
| Geology:— | ||
| Steneosaurus | 89 | |
| Sphaerodus Gigas | 89 | |
| Geology of Thrace | 89 | |
| Physics:— | ||
| Dynamics of Prince Rupert's Drops | 89 | |
| Physiology:— | ||
| The Kinship of Ascidians and Vertebrates | 90 | |
| Societies and Academies. | 90 | |
| Diary. | 94 | |
| Books Received. | 94 | |