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[Naked]:


Naked body of woman / Isle of Iona case / Jan., 1930. [SF-VII; 1396. See: (1930 Jan).]


Naked wild man / Jan 11, 1894. [SF-VII; 1397. See: (1894 Jan 11).]


Naked / Aug 7, 1894. [SF-VII; 1398. See: (1894 Aug 7).]


Nude / Woman / clothes beside her / Sept 2, 1922. [SF-VII; 1399. See: (1922 Sept 2).]


Naked bodies / 3 cast up by sea / Oct 17, etc. / 1920. [SF-VII; 1400. See: (1920 Oct 17, etc.).]


Naked men / Col. / Feb 20, 1920. [SF-VII; 1401. See: (1920 Feb 20).]


Naked men / Jan, 1920. [F-VII; 1402. See: (1920 Jan).]


Naked men / Runing wild / near Hythe / D. News, Oct 14, 1920 / N.M. [SF-VII; 1403. (London Daily News, October 14, 1920.)]


[Names]:


N / Pilgrims of the Rhine / Jour Soc Psychic Research 1/228. [AF-III; 59. "Coincidental Dreaming." Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, 1 (1888): 226-238, at 228.]


N / Reynolds Mary / Multiple or Alternating Personalities / 1811. [SF-VII; 1327. See: (1811).]


Malden, Mass phe / Nov. 17, 1929. [SF-VII; 1328. See: (1929 Nov 17).]


N / Podmore / Aug 14, 1910. [SF-VII; 1329. See: (1910 Aug 14).]


N / Longworth fatalities / etc. / Ap. 9, 1931. [SF-VII; 1330. See: (1931 Ap 9).]


N / Remiremont / May 26, 1907. [SF-VII; 1331. See: (1907 May 26).]


N / Hall murder / Pig woman dies / Feb 8, 1930. [SF-VII; 1332. See: (1920 Feb 8).]


N / Pomeroy Jesse / Ap. 22, 1874. [SF-VII; 1333. See: (1874 Ap 22).]


N / Genest case / May, 1907. [SF-VII; 1334. See: (1907 May).]


N / Cox Esther / N.Y. Trib / 1879 / May 28-5-1 / Epidemics? or crazes / marcks and faces / period of / 1871-72. [SF-VII; 1335. (New York Tribune, May 28, 1879, p. 5 c. 1.) See: (1871-1872).]


N / Little Georgia Magnet / Mrs Annie Abbott / 1891. [SF-VII; 1336. See: (1891).]


[N /] Hanna amnesia case / Ap. 15, 1897. [SF-VII; 1337. See: (1897 Ap 15).]


N / Lurancy Vennum / July 11, 1877 / Watseka Wonder. [SF-VII; 1338. See: (1877 July 11).]


N / Wheeler (H. Frank) / amnesia / See Aug., 1892. [SF-VII; 1339. See: (1892 Aug).]


N / Notorious Ann Odelia Diss Debar / Spiritualist and swindler in period of 1892 / sent to Jail ab March 1893. [SF-VII; 1140. See: (1893 ab March).]


Biog. / to ab 1905 / Clippings from the Press / *C2 / See "Scrapbook" in Lib. Cat. / "Author" Wilson / 7 vols. / each an index / big books / mostly ab 1880. [SF-VII; 1341. (NYPL Scrapbooks.)]


Chans / Divine Healer Schrader / See indexes / Nov., 1896. [SF-VII; 1342. See: (1896 Nov).]


[Names] / [newspaper clipping] / [Mystery Cloaks Parisian Arms Millionaire Who Is Averse to All Personal Publicity] / [source and date unideitified. [SF-VII; 1343. (New York newspaper, 1927.)]


Cagliostro / NY Times / 1875 / July 4 and 11. [SF-VII; 1344. See: (1875 July 4 and 11).]


Bishop W. Irving / Exposure of Spiritualism / N.Y. Times / 1876 / June 9-3-6. [SF-VII; 1345. (New York Times, June 9, 1876, p. 3 c. 6.)]


Houdini / Bishop was one / May 13, 1889. [SF-VII; 1346. See: (1889 May 13).]


Washington Irving Bishop / death / May 13, 1889. [SF-VII; 1347. See: (1889 May 13).]


Bishop Irving / Spiritualists his enemyIn Religio-Phil Jour, Sept 15, 1888, p. 5, called "the irresponsible blower, ravenous devourer of chloral, defendant in a divorce suit, etc etc." [SF-VII; 1348. (Religio-Philosophical Journal, September 15, 1888, p. 5.)]


Georgia Magnet / See Aug 1883. [SF-VII; 1349. See: (1883 Aug).]


Lulu Hurst / Georgia Wonder / Relgio-Ph. Jour., 1884 / Feb 9-6-2. [SF-VII; 1350. (Religio-Philosophical Journal, February 9, 1884, p. 6 c. 2.)]


Lugo case / March, 1880. [SF-VII; 1351. See: (1880 March).]


Millerites / See Top Cat / Adventists. [SF-VII; 1352. See: (Adventists).]


Lurancy Vennum / he Watseka Wonder / Full story in the Religio-Phil Jour. / July 27, Aug 3, 1878 / YRA++ / See July 11, 1877. [SF-VII; 1353. (Religio-Philosophical Journal, July 27 & Aug 3, 1878.) See: (1877 July 11).]


Esther Cox / Religio-Philosophical Journal, Nov 16, 1878 / YRA++. [SF-VII; 1354. )Religio-Philosophical Journal, November 16, 1878.)]


Reynolds Mary / 1811 / Spring. [SF-VII; 1355. See: (1811 Spring).]


Names / Holden / Disap. / under Aviators. [SF-VII; 1356. See: (Aviators).]


Name / Pauline Picard / Ap. 6, 1922. [SF-VII; 1357. See: (1922 Ap 6).]


N / Angelique Cottin / 1846. [SF-VII; 1358. See: 1846, (A; 204).]


N / Rhineck Corpse / L.T. / 1861 / May 10-6-b. [SF-VII; 1359. (London Times. May 10, 1861, p. 6 c. 2.)]


N / Wesley Polt / Story in Phil Jour / Feb 28, 1903 / YRA++ / This Religio-Phil. J.? [SF-VII; 1360. (Religio-Philosophical Journal, February 28, 1903.)]


N / Edalji / Feb. 2, 1923. [SF-VII; 1361. See: (1923 Feb 2).]


Case / Pauline Picard / May 26, 1922. [SF-VII; 1362. See: (1922 May 26).]


Case / Crawford / July 30, 1920. [SF-VII; 1363. See: (1920 July 30).]


Case / Lee case / Frustrated execution / Feb., 1885. [SF-VII; 1364. See: 1885 Feb. 23, (B: 638 & 644), and, 1885 Feb, (B: 641. 642, & 643).]


Case / Duncan Barbour / Nov., 1926. [SF-VII; 1365. See: (1926 Nov).]


Case / Stephen Phillips / 1900. [SF-VII; 1366. See: (1900).]


N / Francis Bertrand / March, 1849. [F-VII; 1367. See: (1849 March).]


N / Abbott Annie / Little Georgia Wonder / 1891. [SF-VII; 1368. See: (1891).]


N / Bridgeport Stabber / Aug 27, 1927. [SF-VII; 1369. See: (1927 Aug 27).]


N / Bishop (W. Irving) / May 13, 1889. [SF-VII; 1370. See: (1889 May 13).]


N / Georgia Wonder / Lulu Hurst / Aug., 1883. [SF-VII; 1371. See: (1883 Aug).]


Names / Reynolds Mary / Spring of 1811. [SF-VII; 1372. See: (1811 Spring).]


N / Roff Mary / July 11, 1877. [SF-VII; 1373. See: (1877 July 11).]


Names / Lurancy Vennum / July 11, 1887 / Watseka Wonder. [SF-VII; 1374. See: (1887 July 11).]


N / Genest case / May, 1907. [SF-VII; 1375. See: (1907 May).]


N / Remiremont / May 26, 1907. [SF-VII; 1376. See: (1907 May 26).]


N / Phillips Stephen / polt / 1900. [SF-VII; 1377. See: (1900).]


N / Hanna / case Amnesia / Ap. 15, 1897. [SF-VII; 1378. See: (1897 Ap 15).]


N / Mott (Mary) / Coffin / Jan. 11, 1900. [SF-VII; 1379. See: (1900 Jan 11).]


N / Edalji case / Feb., 1903. [SF-VII; 1380. See: (1903 Feb).]


N / Green (Harford) / 1909 / March. [SF-VII; 1381. See: (1909 March).]


N / Podmore / Aug. 14, 1910. [S-VII; 1382. See: (1910 Aug 14).]


N / Crawford / death / July 30, 1920. [SF-VII; 1383. See: (1920 July 30).]


N / Barbour Duncan / March 1, 1924. [SF-VII; 1384. See: (1924 March 1).]


N / Tut Ank Hamen / May 1923. [SF-VII; 1385. See: (1923 May).]


N / Tarkington and polt / Sept., 1921. [SF-VII; 1386. See: (1921 Sept).]


N / Picard / Pauline / Ap. 6, 1922. [SF-VII; 1387. See: (1922 Ap 6).]


N / Ohio Strangler / Hanged in Winnipeg / Jan 13, 1928 / See Nov 20, 1928. [SF-VII; 1388. See: (1928 Jan 13). and. (1928 Nov 20).]


Names / 2 little girls named Picard disap. / June, 1922. [SF-VII; 1389. See: (1922 June).]


Names / Crawford / July 30, 1920. [SF-VII; 1390. See: (1920 July 30).]


Names / 2 Arnolds / Dec 12, 1910. [SF-VII; 1391. See: (1910 Dec 12).]


Noted / PheWoodbridge, N.J. / and Woodbridge, England / 1834. [SF-VII; 1392. See: (1834).]


Names. / Varango, Pa / Varango. Nebraska. / Oct 221888 /Nov 10. [SF-VII; 1393. See: (1888 Oct 22, Nov 10).]


Names / Stow Market / Nov., 1887. [SF-VII; 1394. See: (1887 Nov).]


Names/ Cox (Esther) / Nov 16, 1878 / May 28, 1879. [SF-VII; 1395. See: (1878 Nov 16), and, (1879 May 28).]


[Nansen]:


Nansen / + / Naut Mag, vol. 67-68 / E. Plumstead. [AF-I; 384. (Plumstead, E. "Dr. Nansen and His Lunar Tables." Nautical Magazine, 67 (1898): 517-531. Plumstead, E. "Nansen's Longitude Observations and Their Scientific Results." Nautical Magazine, 68 (1899): 247-263.)]


[Nansen] / More of Nansen and [note cut off] / Naut. Mag. 71/301 / 68/5[note cut off]. [AF-I; 385. (Nautical Magazine, 71-301.) (Nautical, v. 68.)]


Nansen / Then: "Strange to say, Nansen and I had grown much shorter since we left the Fram. / Attrib to inactive life in a hut and diet of blubber. [AF-I; 386. (Ref.???)]


[N.B., Nota Bene, & Noted]:


(N.B.) / Milky Way / A band from pole to pole, curiously evading N. polein the same way, turning aside for the S pole. Simply is one band in one spherical formation. / See La Nature 1921/1/231. [AF-I; 387. (La Nature, 1921 pt. 1 p. 231.)]


N.B. / Stars are nearmeanest little spy glass greatly increase[s] them. [AF-I; 388.]


NB / What to take up that is going to develop anyway. Look over old periodicals and see that Lyellism and Darwinism were going to develop or in general that Materialism was going to develop and Mechanism. / Probable that Lyell and Darwin had no such wisdom and needed none. [AF-II; 886.]


N.B. / Phe = another world in sense that chemical, radio, and electric phe understood = new world. / NB = Opening Chapter, What world faced and mysteries and problems when geol. phe and chem and elec, etc., puzzled and discorded with established beliefs. Great diversity and how to explain and useman struck by lightning and strange lightning and strange lightning phe/. / Frogs' legs twitch. / Bits of paper fly on table. [AF-II: 887.1, 887.2.]


Noted / In period of Jamaica q "unruly tribes" revolting against Belgians, Dutch in Java, and Turks. [AF-III; 68.]


Noted / 2 vast oil fires ab time glare in the sky / July 4, 5, 1908. [AF-III; 69. See: (1908 July 4, 5.).]


Non-pointers / noted and points / (July 8, etc, 1930 (+)) / June 7, 1929 / Aug 23 / Aug 25 / Aug 27, etc. / Oct 26 / Nov 4 / Dec. 8. [SF-VI; 1456. (Refs.???)]


Note / When moved (March, 1930) Srl (251) went up 50 points. [SF-VI; 1457.]


Noted / Not only thinking of chrs and they rosebut thinking of those that been doing poorly, and they rise. [SF-VI; 1458.]


Noted / Seems that attempts to raise fail. [SF-VI; 1459.]


Noted / July, Aug, 1929 / Mind on the pictorial. Few notes upon phenomena. [SF-VI; 1460.]


Noted / 1930 / Moved. 251 (Srl) went up. Lo started. But before Lo accept, 251 went away down. [SF-VI; 1461.]


Noted / (Aug 9, 1931) / Life of own / See March 19, 20, 30, 21, 1930. / July 8. [SF-VI; 1462.]


New / C.R. 107-198 / M. Ch. V. Zenger addressed a note upon the cosmic origin of tempests. / (N.M.) [AF-III; 60. (Comptes Rendus, 107-198.)]


(New) / Stray bullet knocks off tip of woman's nose, in Newark, Ap. 6, 1903. / NY Sun, Ap 8/1/6. [AF-III; 61. (New York Sun, April 8, 1903, p. 1 c. 6.)]


New / Youth who gashed a stranded whale and jumped up and down on the body to make the blood spurt out. [AF-III; 62. (Ref.???)]


N. Book / Light ups / Go through notesmyst of ghostly phe but a man and physical weapons to main ghost and go back or on. [AF-III; 63. (Ref.???)]


New Book / Not ghosts or transitionals or men-psychos. [AF-III; 64.]


New Book / That there are in Existence the same phe as in human mindslike corner-stone preservations, things been buried, etc. / So may be living Egyptians, etc. [SF-VI; 1455.]


[N.L. (New Lands)]:


NL / Comp Algol Argument / Pop. Astro 12-359. [AF-I; 389. (Popular Astronomy, 12-359.)]


N.L. / Nova Persei / Nova Persei / Negative taken Dec 16, 1917, shows a well-defined ring of nebulosity around the nova. / new nebulosity / Nature 101/12. [AF-I; 390. “Nebulosity About Nova Persei (1901).” Nature, 101 (March 7, 1918): 12. (Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 12-25.)]


N.L. / Prob 3 Bodieslatest / Solution of practical utility can not be obtained. / Nature, Aug. 26, 1922. [AF-I; 391. “The Problem of Three Bodies.” Nature, 110 (August 26, 1922): 290.]


N.L. / The comet of 1556 / See N.Q. index, "Comet," Series 2. [AF-I; 392. (Notes and Queries, s. 2.)]


N.L. / 1887 / Ap. 23 / Rel. Phil J., 6-4 / More details of the Warasdin phantom soldiers. [SF-V; 332. "Soldiers in the Air." Religio-Philosophical Journal, 42 ( no. 9; April 23, 1887): 6, (c. 4). See: 1887 Ap. 7, (VI; 1029).]


NL / Arizona / Sept 7, 1891. [SF-V; 333. See: 1891 Sept 7-8, (VII; 174).]


[The following thirty-five notes were clipped together by Fort. SF-V: 334 to 368.]


N.L. / Astro / Parallax / Meeting of R. Astro Soc, Jan 9, 1863, reported in Astro Reg, 1863-21 / See. [SF-V; 334. "Royal Astronomical Society." Astronomical Register, 1 (February 1863): 19-22, at 20-21. Bessel had found the parallax of Cygni 61 to be 0"·366, (with a probable error of 0"·012), and Struve found the parallax of Cygni 61 to be 0"·5107, (with a probable error of 0"·0282); thus, while both claimed a degree of probable error, their measures were far from any agreement. Airy agreed with Pritchard, (who later attempted to measure the parallax by a photographic method), that these measures of parallax were "not worth a pin." Pritchard, Charles. "Note on the Application of Photography to the Determination of Stellar Parallax." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 47 (January 14, 1887): 87-89. Hopkins, Mary Murray. "The Parallax of 61 Cygni." Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, 10 (November 1916): 498-504. Early measures and calculations by Arago, Peters, and Bessel provided measures with inaccuracies that exceeded their measures, (with instruments incapable of providing a proper measurement); and, Pritchard determined the parallax, (individually), of these binary stars, as 0"·438 for 61 Cygni A and 0"·441 for 61 Cygni B, (from some 200 photographic plates exposed over 55 nights, in 1886). The modern value of this stellar parallax is 0"·287 (or, 287 milliarcseconds, indicating a distance of 11.4 light-years).]


[N.L.] / Astro / Moon and occult planet / Nature 7-72. [SF-V; 335. "Notes." Nature, 7 (November 28, 1872): 70-72, at 72. See: 1872 Nov. 3, (IV; 1011).]


[N.L.] / Astro / Occultest stars by moon, some not instantaneous / Nature 85-180. [SF-V; 336. "The Total Eclipse of the Moon on November 16." Nature, 85 (December 8, 1910): 180. "Some interesting notes dealing with observations made during the recent eclipse of the moon appear in No. 21 of the Comptes Rendus (November 21). MM. Luizet, Guillaume and Merlin, at the Lyons Observatory, observed the occultations of several stars, and found that in some cases the disappearances were not instantaneous. In two cases the star appeared to be projected on the disc before disappearing, and in one case contact with the limb preceded disappearance by three seconds. On the other hand several well-observed occultations and reappearances were quite sudden." Luizet, M, et al. "Occultations observées pendant l'éclipse totale de Lune du 16 novembre 1910, à l'Observatoire de Lyon." Comptes Rendus, 151 (1910): 913-914.]


[N.L.] / Astro / Leverrier's letter to Galle, in article by Prof. See, in Pop. Astro, before Nov. 17, 1910. [SF-V; 337. See, Thomas Jefferson Jackson. "Leverrier's Letter to Galle and the Discovery of Neptune." Popular Astronomy, 18 (no. 8; October 1910) 475-476.]


[N.L.] / Astro / Gegenschein / Pop. Astro, Feb., 1919. [SF-V; 338. Barnard, Edward Emerson. "The Gegenschein and Its Possible Origin." Popular Astronomy, 27 (no. 2 ;  February 1919): 109-112.]


[N.L.] / Astro / Neptune / Timb's 1849/272. [SF-V; 339. "The Missing Planet." Timbs' Year-Book of Facts in Science and Art, 1849, 271-272. Babinet, Jacques. "Sur la position actuelle de la Planète située au dela Neptune, et provisoirement nommée Hypérion." Comptes Rendus, 27 (1848): 202-210. Le Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph. "Sur la planète Neptune." Comptes Rendus, 27 (1848) 272-279.]


[N.L.] / Mt Heights / whether by triangulation or not / Alpine Jour 14/63, 65, 252, 326, 408 / in metres. [SF-V; 340. (Alpine Journal, 14:  63, 65, 252, 326, 408.)]


[N.L.] / Astro / Mt St Elias / Science 16-276, 289. [SF-V; 341. Heilprin, Angelo. "The Culminating Point of the North American Continent." Science, s. 1 v. 16 (November 7, 1890): 260-261. Dall, William H. "Mount St. Elias." Science, s. 1 v. 16 (November 14, 1890): 275-276. Heilprin, Angelo. "Mount St. Elias and the Culminating Point of the North American Continent." Science, s. 1 v. 16 (November 21, 1890): 289-290.]


N.L. / Astro / For some determinations from 13,000 to 19,956 feet, see Science 16-290, and other mountains. [SF-V; 342. Heilprin, Angelo. "Mount St. Elias and the Culminating Point of the North American Continent." Science, s. 1 v. 16 (November 21, 1890): 289-290.]


[N.L.] / Procyon's Comp. / by Schaeberle / 1895. [SF-V; 343. Schaeberle, John Martin. "Discovery of the Companion to Procyon." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 8 (no. 53; December 1896): 314.]


[N.L.] / (Sun's distance) / In 17th century, Huygens, without knowing the size of either Venus or Mars, argued that the earth is intermediate to them in size (which is not said today), and calculated distance of 100,000,000, which about what required. / E Mec 38/79 / May be greater max extent f[note cut off] see by location. [SF-V: 344.1, 344.2. "Recent Researches on the Distance of the Sun." English Mechanic, 38 (no. 966; September 28, 1883): 79-80. ""Recent Researches on the Distance of the Sun." English Mechanic, 38 (no. 966; September 28, 1883): 79-80. "The illustrious Huyghens, in the 17th century, hazarded, a speculation, which seemed plausible at the time, and which we now know to have been reasonably correct. Huyghens compared the diameter of the planet Mars with the sun. He compared the diameter of Venus with the sun. The primitive instruments used were capable of making these measures with some accuracy. Huyghens knew that the earth was also a planet revolving outside the path of Venus and inside that of Mars. Was it not reasonable to assume that the bulk of the earth might be comparable with that of its fellow planets, and intermediate between the bulk of Venus and that of Mars? This assumption—and, of course, it was no more than an assumption—gave the means of guessing the distance of the sun, which was concluded to be about 100 million miles. When guesswork came to be replaced by measurement this estimate of the sun's distance was corrected. It was found to be too large. It was amended first to 95,000,000 miles then to 91,000,000 miles. This was subsequently found rather too small, and it is now generally thought that the sun's distance must be more than 92,000,000 miles but hardly so much as 93,000,000 miles." The modern (2014) measure of an astronomical unit, (the distance from the earth to the sun), is 149,597,870,700 metres, (or, 92,955,807 miles).]


[N.L.] / Astro / Some of my material for sun's distance / Clerke, History of Astro, p. 232. [SF-V; 345. Clerke, Agnes Mary. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century. 4th ed. London: Adam & Charles Black, 1902, 232.]


[N.L.] / Astro Reserve / hardly about Sirius Comp. been published an Amer, when Clark announced. / An Sci Disc '63/316. [SF-V; 346. "Companion To Sirius." Annual of Scientific Discovery, 1863, 316-317. "In 1861, Mr. Safford, of the Cambridge Observatory, announced (see Annual of Scientific Discovery, 1862, p. 388) that the irregularities observed in the motion of the bright star Sirius could be legitimately accounted for on the hypothesis of its revolution around an invisible companion of no inconsiderable magnitude. This announcement had hardly found its way into print, when Mr. Alvan Clark, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, through the agency of a new achromatic telescope (recently constructed by him), having an object-glass of eighteen and a half inches in diameter, and an illuminating power exceeding by more than one-half any other achromatic in existence, discovered an object near Sirius, hitherto unknown to astronomers; a discovery since verified by many astronomers in this country and in Europe. It is somewhat difficult to assign a reason why the existence of this body has not been made known before, as it is readily visible through powerful telescopes, even a few minutes after sunset."]


[N.L.] /Astro Col / Comp Sirius / An. Sci D. 1864. [SF-V; 347. "More Companions of Sirius: Planetary Systems Among the Stars." Annual of Scientific Discovery, 1864, 316-318.]

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[N.L.] / 2 / Stars projection on moon's disk / M. Notices 1-106 / 6-246 / 17-7 / 2-25 / 19-208, 340 / 33-345, 349, 417, 417 / 50-385. [SF-V; 348. (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: 1-106 / 6-246 / 17-7 / 2-25 / 19-208, 340 / 33-345, 349, 417, 417 / 50-385.)]


[N.L.] / Astro / Algol / E. Mec 106/273. [SF-V; 349. (English Mechanic, 106 (January 11, 1918): 273.)]


N.L. / Astro / Not said that syst of Jupiter same as planets to sun, because Jupiter not a sphere. But neither is sun a sphere. See p. 96, And not of uniform density as required. [SF-V; 350. (Ref???)]


NL / + / Phantom City, Alaska / Garrett P. Serviss on, in N.Y. Journal, before Ap. 15, 1901. [SF-V; 351. (New York Evening Journal, ca. 1901; not online.)]


N.L. / Astro / Mt. Measuring / Trib, 1909, Jan 31-V-2-6. [SF-V; 352. "Height of Pike's Peak Determined." New York Tribune, January 31, 1909, s. V p. 2 c. 6.]


N.L. / Foucault / not as should be / Pop Astro 12-73. [SF-V; 353. "Visible Proof of the Earth's Rotation." Popular Astronomy, 12 (no. 1; January 1904): 71-73. "The results of this experiment were not entirely satisfactory, because the apparent change in the plane of vibration per hour was too great. In every trial made the same error appeared in the same way with a single exception. The cause of the error was the fact that the ball did not keep its swing constantly in a vertical plane. During the last half hour, it was evident that it was swinging in a long and very narrow ellipse, clockwise, as it should go to increase the angular shift of the vertical plane of motion. It was probably disturbed either by not having come to absolute rest before it was freed, or later by air currents due to the movement of visitors too near to it. The experiment will be tried again with improved suspension apparatus and a magnetic attachment to keep the amplitude of the vibration as nearly a constant quantity as possible, during any length of time desired for the trial. When this very delicate experiment is successfully performed it ought also to show the latitude of the place very closely."]


[N.L.] / Astro / Extra-Neptunian planet / Nature 81-41. [SF-V; 354. "Possibility of an Extra-Neptunian Planet." Nature, 81 (July 8, 1909): 41-42.]


[N.L.] / Astro / Hind and the Great Comet, in N Lands / L.T., 1850, Ap 4-5-a. [SF-V; 355. (London Times, April 4, 1850, p. 5 c. 1.).]


[N.L.] / Astro / Moon / occult / stars / Nature, Feb. 22, 1912, p. 565. [SF-V; 356. "Occultations of Mars and the Question of the Existence of a Lunar Atmosphere." Nature, 88 (February 22, 1912): 565. Luther, Wilhelm. “Beobachtung der Marsbdeckung und ihre Beziehung zu der Frage nach der Existenz einer Mondatmosphäre.” Astronomische Nachrichten, 190 (1912): 357-360.]


[N.L.] / Astro / Jup sats / Observatory full of / See 6-340. [SF-V; 357. Duke, P.F. "Satellites of Jupiter." Observatory, 6 (1883): 340.]


[N]L / Swift / Watson / (9) / Nature 21/300. [SF-V; 358. Swift, Lewis. "The Intra-Mercurial Planet Question." Nature, 21 (January 29, 1880): 299-301.]


[N.L.] / Astro / B.B. Shaw and moon's distance / Observatory 24/255 / June, 1901. [SF-V; 359. "The mention of cloudy eclipses reminds me of a clipping...." Observatory, 24 (June 1901): 254-255. George Bernard Shaw, George Bernard. "The Conflict Between Science and Common Sense." Humane Review, 1 (April 1900): 3-15, at 12-13.]


[N.L.] / Intro / Sun shooting through space 11.1 miles a second. In the past, it often shot by other suns, sometimes within a million miles, sometimes within two miles. In the future, will be within a mile or two, or several million miles, of nearest sun or stars. But just now trillions of miles from nearest. / Incredibles. Arcturus an aperture in a revolving shell with light behind or that earth moving in an orbit / 11. x 60 x 60 x 24 x 360 x 200 / Arcturus 300 x this but that position of Arcturus the same. / At all times in the past some stars (we are not considering the units of binary systems or other systems if there be such systems, but units in well known configurations). [SF-V: 360.1, 360.2, 360.3.]


[N.L.] Astro / Gegenschein / no parallax in latitude / E. Mec 106/273. [SF-V; 361. Burns, Gavin James. Burns. "The Gegenschein: Its Position with Reference to the Earth." English Mechanic, 106 (January 11, 1918): 273.]


[N.L.] / Astro / Huygens / guess / Knowledge 4/198. [SF-V; 362. Ball, Robert Stawell. "The Sun's Distance." Knowledge, o.s., 4 (September 28, 1883; October 12, 1883; October 26, 1883; and, November 9, 1883): 197-199, 226-228, 257, 284-285; at 198.]


N.L. / Arizona / Feb 3, 1892. [SF-V; 363. See: 1892 Feb 1, (VII; 350)???]


N/L/ /Rings of Saturnline of light upon one side of the planet becomes sometimes so fine as to be invisible in telescopes of moderate power some days before this is the case upon the opposite side. This is against supposition of rotation of the rings around Saturn, for if they so revolved, we should expect that the more noticeable, or thicker, portion would go regularly round the one side to the other of the disc. / E. Ledger, The Sunp. 372. [SF-V; 364.1, 364.2. Ledger, Edmund. The Sun: Its Planets and Their Satellites. London: Edward Stanford, 1882, 372.]


N.L. / Rings Sat / Paper by M Birkeland, to Fr. Acad, Aug 7, 1911 / "Are the rings of Saturn due to an electric radiation from the planet? / Nature 87-271. [SF-V; 365. "Societies and Academies." Nature, 87 (August 24, 1911): 271-272, at 271. Birkeland, Kristian Olaf Bernhard. "Les anneaux de Saturne sont-ils dus à ubne radiation électrique de la planète?" Comptes Rendus, 153 (1911): 375-377.]


N.L. / In the Chicago Inter-Ocean, March 5, 1905 / C.F. Hathaway writes that the Sun is exactly 32 miles in diameter and is 3000 miles from this earth. / Pop Astro 12-228. [SF-V; 366. "The Earth Flat and Floating in Water." Popular Astronomy, 13 (no. 4; April 1905): 228. (Chicago Inter Ocean,March 5, 1905, p. 7; at Newspapers.com.)]

[N.L.] / Astro / Satellites / Jupiter / L.T., 1861, March 7/10/f. [SF-V; 367. (London Times, March 7, 1861, p. 10 c. 6.)]


[N.L.] / Gegenschein / Nature 62-305 / and Oct 5, Nov 9, 1899. [SF-V; 368. "Meteoritic Theory of the Gegenschein." Nature, 62 (July 26, 1900): 305. Moulton, Forest Ray. "A Meteoric Theory of the Gegenschein." Astronomical Journal, 21 (1900): 17-22. See: (1899 Oct 5, (VIII; 520)???), and, 1899 Nov 9; not found).


N.L. / Coon Butte / a hole like, but smaller / E. Mec 114-223. [SF-V; 369. (English Mechanic, 114-223.)]


NL / Coon Butte / 1926 / Lit Dig. 90-21. [SF-V; 370. (Literary Digest, 90 (1926): 21.)]


N.L. / Excavation in ground and stones thrown up. / Dec 10, 1878. [SF-V; 371. See: 1878 Dec 10, (IV; 2493).]


NL / Lightning / Clear sky / Kills girl / Oct., 1925. [SF-V; 372. See: 1925 Oct, (XI; 507).]


N.L. / + / Mastodon / Summer of 1880, found buried in Iroquois Co., Il. The fibrous bark-like material filling the place of the animal's stomach found to be composed of crushed herbs and grasses similar to those still growing in the vicinity. / Pop. Sci Mo 21-138. [SF-V; 373. (Popular Science Monthly, 21-138.)]


N.L. / "Mirage" / Pearson's Weekly, May 30, 1925 / [untitled article about a mirage on Mount Ararat] / F. Scuda war correspondent. [SF-V; 374. Newspaper clipping. (Pearson's Weekly, May 30, 1925; not at BNA for 1925.)]


N.L. / Phantom City / Daily Mail (London)Ap. 16, 1901 / Says that among those who affirm that like a great photograph a city is reflected in the sky over Muir Glacier is Capt. J. Walbran, of the Government steamer Quadra, upon which sailed Lord Minto, the Canadian Governor-General, upon his tour of Alaska. [SF-V: 375.1, 375.2. (London Daily Mail, April 16, 1901.)]


(N.L..) / Phantom Soldier in European War / 2 cases / Light, Feb. 8, 1930. [SF-V; 376.(Light, February 8, 1930; not online.)]


N.L. / The dinosaur mummy / Amer. Museum Journal, Jan, 1911 / or The Field, Feb 11, 1911. [SF-V; 377. Osborn, Henry Fairfield. "A Dinosaur Mummy." American Museum Journal, 11 (no. 1;  January 1911): 7-11. "A Dinosaur Mummy." Field, February 11, 1911, p. 281.]


N.L. / The E. Kent stonesee Dec 10., 1878. [SF-V; 378. See: 1878 Dec 10, (IV; 2493).]


N.L. / + / Whirl but no wind? / Aug 15, 1913. [SF-V; 379. See: 1913 Aug 13, (X: 150).]


N.L. / Windless whirl / Sept 29, 1883. [SF-V; 380. See: 1883 Sept 29, (V; 1633).]


[New]:


New member of a family objected to by a humanand phe / Jan. 31, 1910. [SF-VII; 82. See: (1910 Jan 31).]


Newly moved in the house / Ap. 21, 1931. [SF-VII; 34. See: (1931 Ap 21).]


New / House or tenant new / See human reason for poltor phe to new tenant after an eviction / Jan. 26. 1892. [SF-VII; 115. See: (1892 Jan 26).]


New Phil / Mstrbloo- hrn / What elseo- hrn? [SF-VII; 116. (Indecipherable note???)]


New / Visitor / Feb. 18, 1909. [SF-VII; 117. See: (1909 Feb 18).]


[The following three notes were clipped together by Fort. AF-III: 65 to 67.]


Nodule / Off but with otters in / Sc Am Sup 21/8547. [AF-III; 65. (Scientific American Supplement, 21-8547.)]


Nodule / With elephant in (?) / Nature 92/6. [AF-III; 66. Fisher, O. “The Elephant Trench at Dewlish—Was it Dug?” Nature, 92 (September 3, 1913): 6.]


Nodules / Reptile fossils in / Nat Geo Mag / KAA / 17/173. [AF-III; 67. (National Geographic Magazine, 17-173.)]


[Noted. See: N.B., Nota Bene, & Noted.]

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