Natural science Volume 10 - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...of the Jaunde Station in the Cameroons, has set up in Bipinde a research station for the study of the fauna and flora of this district. The Government of Dutch India has appropriated $6,000 for the erection of a research laboratory at the Buitenzorg Garden. A Scientific expedition to the Far East has been organised by the German Government, and will probably start on January 27 from Bremen on board the North German Lloyd s.s. " Sachsen." A meteorological station, in connection with the German Antarctic expedition, is shortly to be established under the direction of Dr. Rudolph Mewes, in Victoria Land. Dr. O. Nokdenskiold has sailed in the Chilian vessel "Magellanes " for the South Shetland Islands, where both coal and gold are said to occur. Nature announces that J. Graham Kerr and J. S. Budgett, both of Cambridge, who started last August for Paraguay, have been successful in their quest for specimens of Lepidosiren paradoxa, and will shortly return with abundant material to work out. Mr. C. G. Pringle has returned from his annual trip into the more unknown regions of Mexico with about 20,000 zoological and botanical specimens. The Vienna Academy has sent Drs. H. Miiller, Ghon, Albrecht, and Poch to investigate the bubonic plague in India. Their expenses will be paid out of the Treitl Fund. Reuter states that Dr. Koch has discovered that cattle can within a fortnight be rendered immune to rinderpest by a mixture of serum and virulent rinderpest blood. CORRESPONDENCE. Mr. Jackson's Map Of Franz Josef Land. A Friend has just drawn my attention to an article which appeared in the January issue of Natural Science, and as this article forms an attack--an anonymous attack--on Mr. Jackson's work in Franz Josef Land, and criticises my report of ...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1236256220
- ISBN 13 9781236256225
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages218
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