Word: processer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transferred from the University of London; before that he was an undergraduate and lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge. He has been teaching Philosophy 3, on the function of reason, and Philosophy 3b, on cosmologies ancient and modern. Among his works are "Principia Mathematica", "Science and the Modern World", and "Process and Reality...
Previously, the cross-sections taken were much thicker and darker and could not be magnified beyond 60 diameters. The new process, perfected by William Darrah, instructor in Botany, reveals the cellular construction of fossils with heretofore unequalled clearness...
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...process is a simple one. First the fossil area in the rock is polished with an abrasive wheel. The area is then treated with acid, and coated with a special nitro-cellulose solution. When this has dried, forming a tough film, it is 'peeled' off and retains a carbonized impression of every detail. It is estimated that 500 specimens can be made from a fossil an inch thick. The specimens can be made very cheaply and are indestructible under ordinary handling...
...works have been influential in the development of this idea. Mosca's s less well known in this country than Pareto, but it was from Mosca's works, published twenty years before Pareto began writing, that the latter drew many of his beliefs. His works are now in the process of translation by Professor Arthur Livingston of Columbia...