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WE are glad to afford space for a short notice of this cheap scientific journal, which, although specially intended for the benefit of the mining population of Cornwall and West Devon, deserves a wide circulation in all our mining districts. Each monthly number contains one or two original articles, either on general subjects, as “The Practical Value of Scientific Knowledge,” or giving descriptions of various forms of machinery, followed by notices of books, and a monthly chronicle of science. From one of the editorial articles on “The Practical Value of Scientific Knowledge,” we learn that a good stoker may effect an annual saving of nearly 35l. per annum over a bad one, and that it is a common Cornish habit to hang heavy jackets, great coats, &c, on the lever of the safety valve of engines devoid of a pressure guage; while the farmers, with the view of giving their ground two good things at once, mix lime with their guano some days before spreading the manure. A very remarkable natural-history statement is made by Mr. Williams, of Hayle, in his paper on “Scientific Nursing.” “I have (he says) in my possession a double chick, the produce of an egg laid by a barn-door fowl, one half being the natural species, the other half composed of the sparrow-hawk!” Until this remarkable chick appears in propriâ personâ at the office of NATURE, or, at all events sends us its photograph, we must, with much regret, decline to accept the fact.
The Western Chronicle of Science.
Edited by J. H. Collins, Secretary to the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. January to June, 1871. (Falmouth Pp. 96.)
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The Western Chronicle of Science . Nature 4, 220 (1871). https://doi.org/10.1038/004220a0
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