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  2. Scientific and Useful, THE MOON.

    Professor Ledger, in his recent Graham lectures, claimed for the moon that it was not merely a satellite of the earth, but a real planetary member of the solar system. It is ...

    Article : 67 words
  3. Sydney City Mission Work.

    Eleven missionaries are employed, and during the year ending March 31 last, according to the report recently published, 16,920 hours were spent by them among the poorest, neediest, and ...

    Article : 262 words
  4. AN ABSOLUTE ZERO.

    One of the interesting things connected with these recent experiments in the liquefaction of gases is the fact that it enables us to produce a lower temperature than ever before. We are ...

    Article : 122 words
  5. The Sydney Stage.

    The Lyceum Theatre was crowded to the doors on Saturday evening, the occasion being the first production in Sydney of the latest Drury Lane Buccess—a new spectacular drama of modern, ...

    Article : 490 words
  6. SCIENCE PROBLEMS OP THE FUTURE.

    Lieutenant- Colonel Elsdale, in an article in the CONTEMPORARY REVIEW, singles out four scientific problems as calling most urgently for solution, and perhaps likely to be solved in ...

    Article : 135 words
  7. Welcome to Rev. L. M. Isitt.

    A public welcome was accorded the Rev. L.M. Isitt, president of the New Zealand Alliance, and prohibitionist advocate, by the various temperance organisations of Sydney in the Centenary ...

    Article : 296 words
  8. TEMPERATURE OF HIGHER ATMOSPHERE

    Mention has heretofore been made of recent thermometer soundings in the high atmosphere by releasing small balloons bearing registering apparatus. Records have been thus brought ...

    Article : 123 words
  9. WHAT THE DIAMOND IS.

    The hardness and impenetrability so characteristic of the diamond, says Sir Robert Ball, would at first sight seem to refute the supposition that it is no more than a cluster of rapidly ...

    Article : 162 words
  10. News of the Churches.

    The late Rev. John M'Lachlan has bequeathed £1000 to the congregation, Sale, Victoria. According to the PRESBYTERIAN there are 43 Presbyterian candidates for Parliament at the ...

    Article : 1,561 words
  11. FIGHT BETWEEN RAT AND SNAKE.

    One afternoon (says a correspondent of NATURE NOTES) in the summer, when I was staying with my sister at her country house in Somerset, I was strolling round by the pigstyes, and ...

    Article : 192 words
  12. Nose Improving.

    If Cleopatra "were alive to-day (according to a lively correspondent) the length of her nose would have little to do in determining her career, Noses, as other trait's in the present advanced ...

    Article : 192 words
  13. FISH IN HIGH TEMPERATURES.

    Spallanzani, it appears, observed river carp living at a temperature of 105deg Fan., and exhibiting no signs of uneasiness, though at 109deg they began to struggle, and died at 116deg ...

    Article : 203 words
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