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PARIS. Academy of Sciences, July 19.—M. Ed. Perrier in the chair.—J. Boussinesq: The existence in our physico-mathematical sciences of fundamental chapters still in the same rudimentary state as the dynamics of Aristotle.—Georges Lemoine: The catalysis of hydrogen peroxide in homogeneous media with acids and alkalis. Pure water acts as a catalyser on hydrogen peroxide. The addition of acids even in very small proportions, some ten-thousandths, reduces the rate of decomposition. Curves are given showing the relation between rate of decomposition and concentration of acid for sulphuric and hydrochloric acids. Alkalis accelerate the rate of decomposition, and the results of experiments with soda, potash, and lithia are given.—C. E. Guye and Ch. Lavanchy: The experimental verification of the Lorentz-Einstein formula by kathode rays of high velocity. Using the method of identical trajectories described in an earlier paper it was found that the Lorentz-Einstein formula on the variation of the inertia as a function of the velocity was verified with great precision by all the measurements.—E. Fleurent: Remarks on bread for prisoners of war. A method of preparing bread is described giving a product not liable to mould, and preserving its flavour intact even after keeping a month or longer in a moist, dark cupboard.—Louis Houle: Fish from the lower depths of the sea of the family of Brotulidese. in the North Atlantic.—E. Vasticar: The nuclear formation of the external auditive cells and of Deiters cells.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 95, 610 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095610a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/095610a0