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Title: Scientific American Volume 75 Number 17 (October 1896)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
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s ofcoincidence in their findingsare more and more apt tooccur. Are these coincidencesto provoke collisions betweenrival claimants to priority ?The Cremieux-Jamin v. Lom-broso case would seem to favorthe possibility. Meanwhilethe corollary to be deducedfrom it is a reinforcement.ofProf. Michael Fosters demandfor an international organiza-tion of science to register atfrequent intervals the resultsof contemporary investigation, and so by placing theworker and his output en evidence to minimize the riskof retracing ground already trodden, and to make clearwhat has already become common property and whatstill remains the possession of the original author.Roman Correspondent London Lancet. Nature says that Mr.George J. Gould has de-cided on an elaborateand systematic schemeof Arctic exploration,which includes thebuilding of a perma-nent depot at a pointalways accessible dur-ing the season whennavigation is open. Acordon of depots will beestablished at pointsfurther north from yearto year.
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A TWENTY-FIVE TON GEARED LOGGING LOCOMOTIVE. The horror of being buried alive is with many peo-ple so great that theyleave instructions forsome small mutilationto be inflicted uponthem when the breathhas apparently leftthem, so that assurancemay be made whetherthey are really dead ornot. But, thanks to theX rays, a Chicagophysician claims tochange this. He an-nounces, says the Photographie News, thatthose rays will deter-mine positively whetherreal death has occurred.Dead flesh, he says,offers more resistance tothe penetration of therays than living, anda glance at the radio-graph of the personwould determine whe-ther it was that of acorpse or not. © 1896 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC. October 24, 1896.) ^tunixiit %mmtm. 317 THE SESftUICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF PRINCETONUNIVERSITY. The picturesque and historic village of Princeton,New Jersey, is now filled to overflowing by the alumniand friends of the famous institution which henceforthis to bear by right, as it has hitherto done by cour

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