... IN 1892 Iwanowsky, a Russian botanist, while studying a disease of the tobacco plant, made a startling discovery. How startling this discovery was neither he nor his colleagues realised at the time. The experiment he did was simple enough, but it opened the door to an entirely new world-- the world of the infinitely small. The disease of the tobacco plant which Iwanowsky was studying was ...

... WINTER Sports in Switzerland are being held in normal conditions this season for the first time since 1938, and programmes of sporting events, including international competitions, have been arranged at all the main centres. The Cresta I Run and the Olympic Leap at St. Moritz are once again the great attractions they were before the war, and visitors from England, seeking relaxation from the ...

... WHEN the blaster, sand iron, dynamiter or sand-wedge first made its appear ance here about 1929, the first model I saw was an egg-shaped, wide-soled club with a concave face and thick top edge. Horton Smith brought it over, and in a friendly round with him on the old Birkdale course that same year I spent much time in sand bunkers and various other bad places trying it out. What impressed ...

... fll r lives on the 111! He always took his bread and spread, his bacon and egg, his boiled beef and carrots wholly for granted. Rationing well, that was something to do with war. Afterwards everything would be all right. But now he finds that everything is far from right with the farm of the world. The shortage of food has lifted his eyes from the shop counters where food just happened along, ...

... I! lll.UIJIlJI.il WAR90URS OF TAF WORLD mOilTREAL berth at one time. Lister Black6tone marine engines are depended upon for auxiliary and propulsion duties. ...

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... Proven Sires Hampshire Cattle Breeders' Efforts to Improve Productivity CHECKING TEMPERATURE Mr. Edwin Conn, Chief Veterinary Officer, makes a routine inspection. Variation in temperature is detri mental to the semen, and a constant temperature of 5°C. is essential. All refrigerators must have a thermostat control. STERILISATION is all-important. Equipment is sterilised by boiling, then passed ...

... T n itself the achievement of a height of 111 miles by a V 2 rocket is of the greatest interest, but the record run depicted on this page was of additional importance, as an attempt was made at the same time to hurl objects far enough into space to put them beyond the earth's gravitational pull. When the rocket reached a height of about 40 miles small metal slugs, weighing only a few grammes ...

... The Hastings Christmas Chess Congress, held at the White Rock Pavilion, had a strong entry for the Premier Tournament. Dr. S. Tartakower, of France, who won the tourna ment last year, had to face powerful opposition, and the first round produced a ding-dong battle between him and the young Canadian, D. A. Yanofsky. C. H. O'D. Alexander, the somewhat erratic British hope, played a sound game ...

... ^ince New Year's Day, flags, bearing the letters N.C.B., have been flying at the pit-heads, and boards have been posted at the entrances of Britain's 1 ,500 collieries bearing the legend, This colliery Is now owned and managed by the National Coal Board on behalf of the people. On this day the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act, 1946, came into force, and in London the National Coal Board ...

... The exhibition of Pan- dora, or the Light of Australia, at the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, draws at tention to one of the world's finest gems, al though it has never received anything like the publicity accorded to famous diamonds such as the Koh-i-noor, the Cullinan or the Jonkher. Pandora, discovered eighteen years ago in Australia, was formed through opal in gelatin ous form ...

... VV/hiie the Bertram Mills Circus has been packing Olympia with London's youth, the usual anti-circus organisa tions have been at work, attempting to prove that animal- training can only be achieved by cruelty. One look at Louise's team of terriers might well convince the critics otherwise, for the dogs go about their work with quite remarkable zest, enjoying every minute of it. The six dogs ...