Wollaston Prize.--Ti~e London Geological Society has awarded its great Wollaston Inedal to M. Daubr6e, director of the school of mines, fbr his researches upon the artificial constitution of the materials found in aerolites and in the lavas ejected from volcanoes.--Cbrou. Indus,. C. Magnetic Rotat
Vision by the light of the electric spark
โ Scribed by W. Le Conte Stevens
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1882
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 258 KB
- Volume
- 114
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-0032
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