The Rosaura Expedition 1937-38 Chaetognatha

The Expedition towards Venus

A project of an expedition towards planet Venus, which is carried out in two stages, is considered. At the first stage, a space train, consisting of a locomotive and a tank with working substance, delivers onto Venus orbit the landing capsule with the Venus plane and the Venus rover, as well as the tank-container with liquid hydrogen, which is used subsequently for return of the expedition onto...

A Study of Treatment of Tetanus Based on a Review of 38 Cases from the Year 1932—1937

Tetanus as a disease was known to ancient medicine, including Hindu medicine. Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.), the father of modern medicine, described the clinical symptoms accurately. Charaka and Sushrutha (900 B.C.?) had also described this condition in Hindu medicine. The transmissibility of this disease to lower animals was demonstrated by Carle and Rattone in 1884. It was Nicolaier of Gottinge...

The Chaetognatha of the Inshore Waters of North Carolina

Plankton samples wcrc t,akcn along the coast and in the sounds of North Carolina to determine the inshore distribul ion of the Chact~ognatha. Five species were found within ten miles of the coast. The large northern sounds with water of reduced salinity do not appear to support an appreciable chaetognath populalion. SarJitta hispida and 8. tenuis, the two characteristic inshore spccics, wcrc co...

Rescuing biogeographic legacy data: The "Thor" Expedition, a historical oceanographic expedition to the Mediterranean Sea

BACKGROUND This article describes the digitization of a series of historical datasets based οn the reports of the 1908-1910 Danish Oceanographical Expeditions to the Mediterranean and adjacent seas. All station and sampling metadata as well as biodiversity data regarding calcareous rhodophytes, pelagic polychaetes, and fish (families Engraulidae and Clupeidae) obtained during these expeditions ...

Infective endocarditis 1937-1987.