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Luminous life and Arctic notes in scientific miscellany
A Ledger prepared summary notes diverse topics from antiquity mining in England to Arctic expeditions. It covers bioluminescence across animal classes, experiments with vibrating forks and smoke rings, a water pyrometer for furnace temps, turkey vultures using smell to locate prey, brain effects after limb amputation, sea color causes, and a Cotopaxi eruption observed by Whymper with sunset optical effects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rodads
Rhoads
Gosse
Jamaca
Paris Academy of Medicine
Mons. Bourdon
J. J. Wild
F. BR. G.S
Edward Whymper
J. Norman Jockyer
Cotopaxt
Whymper
Chimborazo
Cotopusi