SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3615, 22 February 1906, Page 4

SCIENTIFIC NOTES.

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durilei desert* of Utah is a kh. watermelon which ie picked in o. tpber. The melon ripens aftor It it picked. Am air-cooling system, on a rest scale is to be tried at the St. Louip exposition. Oreat fens will hr down a current of oold air fror. height of 800 feet above the etu i. and pour It over the grounds on bc- > days. Prof. Wilbur C. Knight, of the »tn? university of Wyoming, is engageu in putting together pieces of a sea serpent whieh he discovered in The atom* Was M 1«« long and ipm 9t the moot Valuable specimen ewer oaptaved. . To at* objects aft a distaaeo of lot atiaa (he observer must be stand;:.-., ftt a height ed «,MT feet above t»-». level of the sea. The rule is that distance to miles at whieh so rVj. cm the ftarlhV euHaoe may be is equal to the square root of one and a half times the height of ih*> observer in feet obove sea lev..:. lowaocc being made for t!-- ' of atmospheric refraction. Prof. MeXendriek. la his preside utial address to the physiology section of the British association, in September, remarked that the smallest particle of matter that can be seen with our present microscope* is between one-fopr-hundred-thousandth and ! one-Ave-hundred-thowsandth of an Ineh ie diameter. The diffraction of light In the microscope forbid# the possibility of seeing still smaller oV Jeets. Yet the living spores studied !by physiologists are sometimes, 1 probably, even smaller in size than i the most minute particle that the most perfect microscope can show. The stars which are called "Axed stars" are properly so described. They do not change their relative places appreciably even in fhe longest periods of time with which history has to deal. Take, for instance, 1 the twin stars which form the belt * of Orion, that constellation which 1 is especially the glory of our winter 1 skiee. There Is no doubt that the ' relative positione of these twin stars, and their positions relative to other stars in the vicinity, were <ust the ■ -Tin a 1,900 years ago as th-'y "vt- to--1 ’.it. so far at least as th>-. genera! appearance of the oonsteilation is concerned.