Weather Long Ago

Not So Long Ago

PERSPECTIVES IN BIOCHEMISTRY: Thirty-one essays presented to Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins by past and present members of his laboratory. Edited by Joseph Needham and David E. Green. Cambridge University Press, 1937. viii + 361 pp. $4.75. One of the chief difficulties that confronts the individual desirous of acquainting himself with the recent advances in biochemistry is the complexity of the ...

Long-range Weather Forecasting

40 Years Ago

always voice his unhappy or distressing thoughts, and it is often most difficult to recognise the way he is tending, or having recognised it to induce him to seek the help and advice that would save him. And even when his condition has been realised and the man himself persuaded to have treatment, the difficulties in the ^ay of obtaining it for him are often insuperable. Outside of London and a...

Twenty Five Years Ago

so rarely met witH that a description of the following case is not without interest. AEuropean, aged 38, was admitted on the 4th February, 1929, with paresis of the left arm and leg. His previous history showed that he contracted syphilis in 1915, for which he was treated with a full course of murcury and galvarsan. In 1919 his Wasserman reaction was still positive and he had a further course j...

Seventy Five Years Ago