Observations of the Leonids, 1898 November

Walter Pagel (12 November 1898 to 25 March 1983).

Walter Pagel was born in Berlin, the son of Julius Leopold Pagel, the well-known medical historian, who contributed numerous articles to August Hirsch's Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden A erzte and who put the study of medieval anatomy and surgery on the map. After a classical philological education, Walter Pagel graduated in medicine in Berlin in 1922. After posts in the Pathology Dep...

A Case of Acute Ulcerative Endocarditis 1Read before the Bristol Medico-Chirurgical Society, November 9th, 1898.

Radar-optical leonids

We present joint optical-radar observations of meteors collected near the peak of the leonid activity in 2002. We show four examples of joint detections with a large, phased array L-band radar and with intensified video cameras. The general characteristic of the radar-detected optical meteors is that they show the radar detection below the 5 termination of the optical meteor. Therefore, at leas...

Radar and optical leonids

We present joint optical-radar observations of meteors collected near the peak of the Leonid activity in 2002. We show four examples of joint detections with a large, phased array L-band radar and with intensified video cameras. The general characteristic of the radar-detected optical meteors is that they show the radar detection below the termination of the optical meteor. Therefore, at least ...

Achondroplasia 1A Paper read before the Bath and Bristol Branch of the British Medical Association, November 30th, 1898.

Achondroplasia, more pleasantly but less properly called foetal rickets, though not common, is of sufficient importance in its after-effects to be of more interest than a mere Pathological curiosity. It is a disease of intra-uterine life, characterised by great shortness of the limbs, which are bent and markedly out of proportion to a fully developed trunk, and an enlarged abdomen. The head is ...