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SCIENCE WONDER.
Animal Electric Radiation
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1925.
FUNCTIONS OF GLANDS.
DIESEL SHIP.
Puzzle Scientists.
Triumph of British Construction.
Electric radiations from, living"
One of the most important dis- creatures are belloved by Lakhow-coveries which the pioneers on
A rocont British-built vessol sky, French wireless expert to the last frontier-the frontior of
which is earning an enviable re- account for many mysterious per-science-have made, is the way formances of animals, including in which the ductless glands inputation in sorvico is the motor- the direction-finding of carrier-the body function and the effectship Silurian, on which there is piguors, and the sudden migra- which they have upon general toum or boiler employed in any capacity Engined by the tions. of Norway to the sea.
Beardimore Marine Engineering Department at Dalmuir, with two Bearmore-Tosi Diosol engines of 1,250 shaft horso power, the Silurian has a displacement of
consisting
health.
In Excelsior (Paris) he notes
But only a beginning has been that glowworms and fireflies emit made and much important work luminous rays, that such fishes romains to be done. as torpedoes generate electricity,
Some of the glands still romain and he points out that it is going a complete mystory. only a step further to find that Among these is the thymus me 14,650 tons and a cargo living animals give out radiations, gland, a small gland located in capacity of 10,500 tons.. The fuel like Hertzain waves that other the neck. So far, research tanks hold 560 tons of fuel animals may detect. The use of workers have been unable to giving the vessel a cruising capa- the antennae of numerous insects discovor any function which this city of over fifty days, using 10) is not yet known. The inner ear gland performs in the human tons of oil a day at 10 knots. It is estimated that a vessel of simi-' of most creature includes an being.. anexplained organ,
Dr. Oscar Riddio of the Car-lar capacity burning coal would usually of three semi-circular nogic Institute, Washington, has consume less than 45 tons of canals arranged perpendicularly, just succeeded, however, in dis coul per day, while in the caso of and that these canals have much covering the function of the gland the Silurian considerable saving in engine room expensos has been to do with direction, animals in birds, deprived of them seeming dazed
effected.. and unable to decide which way
the main engines, while the One man only controls each of to go. The liquid of those canals is sensitive to a magnetic field.
auxiliary engines driving the radio-electric transmitter creates
pumps and generators have their own attendants. From the cargo around it a magnetic field, and it maybe imagined that the semi-i
Dr. Riddle believes, therefore, capacity point of view, the out- circular canals act as a receiver that the thymus gland secretes standing features of this motor- registering the variations.
a substance in the blood of the ship are space and facility for The carrier pigeon becomes pigeon which controls the forma- loading and unloading. Five huge holds are provided; with un electified by air friction in itstion of the egg shells. flight.
"He believes further that in obstructed hatches one of which The but, with little aid from mammals,
measures no less than fifty-six including human sight, "may" Bb guided in its beings, the thymus glands has no feet by twenty-four feet, and will insect prey, and the lenings function but is an evolutionary readily take such difficult pieces may be directed by radiations survival like the vermiforn apmachinery."
from shouls of fishes towards which they travel so unerringly. Fubre has shown chat insects attracted others of their kind soveral miles away until the cage was insulated by glass. when attraction ceased.
Denmark is making plants to send an expedition to explore the! interior of Greenland in the spring of 1926. Plan for the expedition are being made by Dr. " Lange Koch of Copenhagen with the aid of Professor William H Hobbe of the University of Michigan, who is now in Europe. Little is known about the con- ditions in the ico-covered interior. of Greenland. It was hoped that Commander Donald B. MacMillan would do some exploring in this territory by airpläne before he returned from the north,
He finds that pigeons which live had the thymus gland re moved, lay eggs without shells. When these sme birds are fed thymus gland extract they lay eggs with shells.
pendix.
She: "Do you know wirere all the empty bottles in the callar come from?".
He: "No. I have never in my life bought an empty bottle!"
Kasper, Stockholm.
of cargo as locomotives and bulky
It is not surprising to learn. that the example of modern British shipbuilding skill created something of a sensation on her- first arrival in an American port.
A few weeks ago three fabourers working near the Delhi Cloth Mills came upon a jar buried in an old tank. The jar was found to contain 46 gold and 30 silver coins. The average weight of each gold coin is about half a tola. They are circular in shape and hear stamps on both sides They vary in their dates of issue from 1039 to 1100 Hozra and bear the names of the Em- peror Aurangzeb Alimgir and Shah Iam. The silver coins are rupees of the Mughal times, and mostly bear the names of Mu- hammed Shah and Bahad.hur Sah
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