Literary and Scientific Intelligence
[William Laidlaw?] *
Genre: | Reportage |
Subjects: | Gas Chemistry | Physical Geography, Physics, | Gas Chemistry, Chemistry | Mineralogy | Light | Sound, Physics | Zoology, Animal Behaviour, Entomology | Magnetism, Navigation | Exploration, Navigation, Meteorology | Universities | Mineralogy | Exploration | Natural History | Chemistry | Agriculture |
People mentioned: | Humphry Davy, Henry Kater, Pierre S, marquis de Laplace, Andrew Ure, John Murray, Edward D Clarke, Jöns J Berzelius, David Brewster, Marc-Auguste Pictet, Alexander von Humboldt, Georges Cuvier, Henry C Jennings |
Publications cited: | Annals of PhilosophyCuvier1827–35 |
Reports the discovery of an 'animal flower' in St Lucia that lives in rock pools within caves (701). | |
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