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A steamboat company is placing its little vessels on the canals of Venice, and the gondolas, which were one of the charms of the city to travelers, are destined to disappear—unless a few may be reserved to gratify the curiosity of tourists.
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The Commissioner of Education of Rhode Island has issued a circular to teachers, calling attention to the work of the Audubon Society for the Preservation of Birds, and to the incalculable value, from various points of view, of bird life, and advises them to foster Nature study as furnishing a natural channel by means of which instruction and information on the subject may readily be brought before the children, and through them to the people generally.
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In a paper on The Ultimate Basis of Time Divisions in Geology, T. C. Chamberlin accepts it as proved that there were no universal breaks in sedimentation or in the fundamental continuity of life, no physical cataclysms attended by universal destruction of life, and that sedimentation has been in constant progress somewhere and lifecontinuous and self-derivative since the beginning. He then raises the question whether this continuity of physical and vital action proceeded by heterogeneous impulses or by correlated pulsations. The author’s conclusion is in favor of the hypothesis of correlated pulsations involving a rhythmical periodicity.
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Nettle fiber is said to be coming into great favor for the manufacture of fine yarns and tissues. Several factories in Germany are using it, and the introduction of the extensive cultivation of nettles into the African colony of the Cameroons is contemplated.
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There are now, according to the last annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, thirty-six forest reservations (exclusive of the Afognak Forest and Fish-Culture Reserve in Alaska) in the United States, embracing an estimated area of 46,021,899 acres. This estimate is for the aggregate areas within the boundaries of the reservations, but the lands reserved are only the vacant public lands therein. The actual reserved area is therefore somewhat less than the estimate.
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Experiments made by Professor Dewar and Sir W. Thisleton Dyer, and reported to the British Association, upon the effect of the temperature of liquid hydrogen upon the germinative power of seeds, go to show that life goes on at a temperature so low that ordinary chemical action is practically stopped. Seeds of barley, vegetable marrow, mustard, and the pea were immersed in liquid hydrogen for six hours, cooled to a temperature of 453° F. below the temperature of melting ice, and came out unchanged to the eye, and, when planted, all germinated.
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Sir John Lubbock, having been raised to the peerage, has adopted Lord Avebury as his title, and will be henceforth so known.
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In our obituary list of men known to science are the names of N. E. Green, F. R. A. S., who was distinguished for the excellence of his planetary observations, particularly of Mars, made at Madeira in 1877, and was the second President of the British Astronomical Association, died November 10th, in his seventy-sixth year; Prof. E. E. Hughes, inventor of the Hughes printing telegraph machine, the microphone, and the induction balance, Fellow of the Royal Society, gold medalist, and Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, who was born in London in 1831 and was brought to the United States at an early age; Mr. J. R. Gregory, mineralogist; M. Marion, professor in the Scientific Faculty in the University of Marseilles and Keeper of the Natural History Museum there, who took part in the dredging trips of the Travailleur and the Talisman, and contributed to theAnnalesof the museum at Marseilles; Dr. Hans Bruno Geinitz, geologist and paleontologist, at Dresden, Saxony, in his eighty-sixth year; Walter Götze, botanist, while on an expedition to German East Africa, December 9th; and Mr. W. T. Suffolk, treasurer of the Royal Microscopical Society of Great Britain.
Agricultural Experiment Stations. Bulletins and Reports. Connecticut: Twenty-third Annual Report. Part I. Fertilizers. Pp. 92; Bulletin No. 130. Commercial Feeding Stuffs in the Connecticut Market.—North Dakota Weather and Crop Service, November, 1899, and January, 1900. Pp. 8 each.—United States Department of Agriculture: Agrostology Circular No. 54. Smooth Brome-Grass. Pp. 10; No. 57. Experiments with Forage Plants in Ontario. Pp. 3; Meteorological Chart of the Great Lakes. Summary for the Season of 1899. Vol. II, No. 9. By Alfred J. H. Henry and Norman B. Conger. Pp. 28, with maps.—West Virginia: Bulletin No. 61. Sheep-Feeding Experiments. By J. H. Stewart and Horace Atwood. Pp. 10; No. 62. A Study of the Effect of Incandescent Gaslight on Plant Growth. By L. C. Corbett. Pp. 38, with plates.
American Grocer Publishing Company. Scientific Testimony against the use of Alum in Food. (Evidence before the United States Senate Investigating Committee.) Pp. 12.
Andrews, William. The Diuturnal Theory of the Earth, or Nature’s System of constructing a Stratified Physical World. New York: Myra Andrewsand Ernest G. Stevens, 18 West Forty-fifth Street.
Benson, Lawrence Sluter. Principles of Finite Values in Mathematics. Pp. 6.
Bland, Rev. J. P., Cambridge, Mass. What we Know about God. Pp. 12.
Bulletins, Reports, Announcements, etc. American Association for the Advancement of Science: Forty-eighth Annual Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, 1899. Proceedings. Pp. 527, with plates of portraits.—Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College. Vol. XXXII, Part II. Visual Observations of the Moon and Planets. By. W. H. Pickering, Director. Pp. 212, with plates; Vol. XXXIII. Miscellaneous Researches, 1897–1899. Pp. 287, with plates; Vol. XLII, Part II. Observations made at the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, Massachusetts, 1897 and 1898, under the Direction of A. Lawrence Rotch. Pp. 150.—Columbia University, New York: Summer Session, 1900. Announcement. Pp. 24.—Cuba, Department of Posts: Annual Report for the Fiscal Year ending June 30, 1899. Pp. 215.—Interstate Commerce Commission: Preliminary Report on the Income Account of Railways in the United States, to June 30, 1899. Pp. 70.—Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston: Annual Catalogue, 1899–1900. Pp. 357.—Michigan: Thirty-eighth Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Board of Agriculture, and Twelfth Annual Report of the Experiment Station. Pp. 465.—Missouri Botanical Garden: Twelfth Annual Report. By William Trelease. Pp. 151, with plates.—New York State: Report of the Committee on Canals, 1899. Pp. 231, with charts; Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1898. Pp. 1179—Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind: Sixty-eighth Annual Report. Pp. 325.—United States Department of Labor: Bulletin No. 26. January, 1900. Pp. 236.—United States Geological Survey: Nineteenth Annual Report. Part V. Forest Reserves. Pp. 400, with portfolio of maps.
Burns, J. J. The Story of English Kings according to Shakespeare. New York: D. Appleton and Company. (Home-Reading Books.) Pp. 272.
Chambers, G. F. The Story of Eclipses. (Library of Useful Stories.) New York: D. Appleton and Company. Pp. 222, with plates. 40 cents.
Citator, The. Ohio Edition. (Register of Citations in Legal Practice.) Quarterly. Lapeer, Mich. Pp. 102.
Clinical Excerpts. Elberfeld Company, New York. Pp. 20.
Coulter, John M. Plant Structures. A Second Book of Botany. New York: D. Appleton and Company. (Twentieth Century Text-Books.) Pp. 348. $1.20.
Deniker, J. The Races of Men. An Outline of Anthropology and Ethnography. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. (Contemporary Science Series.) Pp. 611. $1.50.
Echeveria i Reyes, Anibal. Voces Usadas en Chile. (Errors of Speech.) Santiago. Pp. 246.
Hannay, P. M. How to gain Health and Long Life. Chicago: The Hazel Pure-Food Company. Pp. 114.
I am that I am. A Dialogue of the Gods. By Sum quod Sum. New York: Library of Liberal Classics. Pp. 21. 10 cents.
Kent, Rev. Alexander. The Plan of Salvation. Pp. 16.
La Pouge, G. Vachet de. L’Aryen Son Role Social. (The Aryan, his Social Office.) Paris: Albert Fontemoing. Pp. 569. 10 francs.
Macmillan, The, Company. Announcements of New Books, Spring, 1900. Pp. 44.
McIlwraith, J. N. Canada. (History for Young Readers.) New York: D. Appleton and Company. Pp. 252.
Manning, Warren H. A Handbook for Planning and Planting Small Home Grounds. Stout Manual-Training School, Menomonee, Wis. Pp. 76.
Richter, Victor von. Organic Chemistry, or Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds. Edited by Prof. R. Anschütz and Dr. G. Schroeter. Authorized translation by Edgar F. Smith. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston’s Son & Co. Pp. 671. $3.
Richardson, Harriet. A New Species of Idotea, from Hakodate Bay, Japan. Pp. 4.
Ward, Lester F. Description of a New Genus and Twenty New Species of Fossil Cycadean Trunks from the Jurassic of Wyoming. Pp. 32, with 7 plates.
Wooster, L. C. Educational Value of the Natural Sciences. Pp. 18.
INDEX.ARTICLES MARKED WITH AN ASTERISK ARE ILLUSTRATED.Aggression, External and Internal. (Table),386Agnosticism and Naturalism, Professor Ward on. H. Spencer,349Agricultural Education in Foreign Countries. W. E. De Riemer,218Agriculture: Alkali Soils in Montana. (Frag.),734”Manuring with Brains. (Frag.),731”Sea Water, Effect of, on Soil. (Frag.),508Air Flight, Early Experiments in. M. B. Rivet,603Alkali Soils in Montana. (Frag.),734Allen, Grant, Death of. (Frag.),389Amazonian Pygmies, Stories of. (Frag.),733A More Excellent Way. (Table),729Anarchist, A Paradoxical. C. Lombroso*,312Anglo-Saxon Superiority. (Frag.),620Animals of the Ocean Depths. (Frag.),736”Reason? Do. Rev. E. R. Young*,105”””(Corr.),122Annual Flowers. (Frag.),394Anthropological Traits, Zola’s. (Frag.),388Anthropology: Amazonian Pygmies, Stories of. (Frag.),733”Anglo-Saxon Superiority. (Frag.),620”A Survival of Mediæval Credulity. E. P. Evans,577”Malay Folklore. R. C. Ford,239”Origins of the American Races, Professor Putnam on. (Frag.),507Appleton, William H., The Late. (Table),265Archæology: Athabascan Indian Lodge, An. (Frag.),292”Egyptian Exploration, Recent Years of. W. M. Flinders Petrie,625”Ophir, The Site of. (Frag.),736”Vinland and its Ruins. C. Horsford*,160Art Form, The Study of. D. Cady Eaton*,685”Value of the Study of. G. Perrot,204Artificial India Rubber. (Frag.),136Astronomy, Advance of, in the Nineteenth Century. Sir R. S. Ball,289”Forenoon and Afternoon. C. F. Dowd,492”Gegenschein, The. (Frag.),618”Scenes on the Planets. G. P. Serviss*,337Athabascan Indian Lodge, An. (Frag.),392Bacteria of the Dairy. (Frag.),284Ball, Sir R. S. Advance of Astronomy in the Nineteenth Century,289Baxter, William, Jr. What makes the Trolley Car go*,316,408,564Becker, W. F., M. D. The Morbid Sense of Injury,596Birds, Busy. (Frag.),138Blind Fishes of North America. C. H. Eigenmann*,473Books Noticed,126,268Anthropological Institute of Great Britain, Quarterly Journal of,277.Astronomy, Elements of Practical. W. W. Campbell,129.— Stars and Telescopes. D. B. Todd,132.Barrett, John. The Philippine Islands and American Interests in the Far East,133.Beeman, W. W., and Smith, D. E. New Plane and Solid Geometry,273.Binet, Alfred. The Psychology of Reasoning,274.Biology. Living Organism, The. A. Earl,131.Botany. California Plants in their Homes. A. M. Davidson,130.— Plant Relations. J. M. Coulter,131.British Race, The Story of the. J. Munro,272.Buckley, J. M. Extemporaneous Oratory,270.Bullen, F. T. Idylls of the Sea,271.Campbell, W. W. Elements of Practical Astronomy,129.Chemical Jurisprudence, Notes on. H. Huntington,133.Cities, Growth of, in the Nineteenth Century. A. F. Weber,126.Civil Engineers, Proceedings of the American Association of. April, 1899,278.Cope, E. D. Vertebrate Remains from the Port Kennedy Deposit,133.Coulter, John M. Plant Relations,131.Cragin, Belle S. Our Insect Friends and Foes,273.Croke, W. J. D. Architecture, Painting, and Printing at Subiaco,134.Crook, James K. Mineral Waters of the United States and their Therapeutic Uses,127.Dalton, D. How to Swim,277.Davidson, Alice M. California Plants in their Homes,130.Diet in Illness and Convalescence. A. W. Winthrop,271.Earl, A. The Living Organism,131.Economics. Liquor Laws, Centralized Administration of. C. M. L. Sites,275.Electricity. Accumulators, Small. P. Marshall,276.Entomology. Butterflies, Everyday. S. H. Scudder,128.— Insect Friends and Foes. B. S. Cragin,273.Erlingsson, T. Ruins of the Saga Times,277.Fish and Fisheries, Report of United States Commission of, for Year ending June 30, 1898,276.Fiske, John. Through Nature to God,268.Gardiner, C. A. Our Right to Acquire and Hold Foreign Territory,134.Gellé, M. E. L’Audition et ses Organes,128.Gelman, F. H. Elements of Blowpipe Analysis,279.Geological Survey, United States, Eighteenth Annual Report,272.Geometry, New Plane and Solid. Beeman and Smith,273.Heilprin, A. Alaska and the Klondike,270.History of the American Nation. A. C. McLaughlin,129.Huntington, H. Notes on Chemical Jurisprudence,133.Idylls of the Sea. F. T. Bullen,271.Insect Friends and Foes. B. S. Cragin,273.Interstate Commerce Commission, Tenth Annual Report of,276.Jacoby, J. The Object of the Labor Movement,279.Knowledge, Methods of. W. Smith,273.Kruger, F. T. A Step Forward,275.Labor Movement, The Object of the,279.Leonard, J. W. Who’s Who In America,274.Lucas, F. A. The Hermit Naturalist,133.Luquer, L. McI. Minerals in Rock Sections,130.McLaughlin, A. C. History of the American Nation,129.Marshall, P. Small Accumulators,276.Mathematics. Trigonometry, Elements of. H. C. Whitaker,130.Medicine. Transactions Wyoming State Medical Society. First and Second Regular Meetings,279.Memory, The Philosophy of, and Other Essays,274.Mineralogy. Blowpipe Analysis, Elements of. F. H. Gelman,279.— Colombia, The Ores of. H. W. Nichols,132.— Crystals, The Characters of. A. J. Moses,129.— Microscopic Identification of Minerals in Rock Sections. L. McI. Luquer,130.Mineral Waters of the United States. James K. Crook,127.Montaigne on the Education of Children. L. E. Rector,278.Moore, J. H. Better World Philosophy,276.Morehouse, G. W. The Wilderness of Worlds,131.Moses, A. J. The Characters of Crystals,129.Munro, John. The Story of the British Race,272.Naturalist, The Hermit. F. A. Lucas,133.Nichols, H. W. The Ores of Colombia,132.Oratory, Extemporaneous. J. M. Buckley,270.Philosophy, Better World. J. H. Moore,276.— Through Nature to God. John Fiske,268.Physiology. Hearing and its Organs. M. E. Gellé,128.Port Kennedy Deposit, Vertebrate Remains from. E. D. Cope,133.Psychologique, L’Année. A. Binet,278.Psychology of Reasoning, The. A. Binet,274.Railway Statistics in United States, Tenth Annual Report of Interstate Commerce Commission,276.Reasoning, The Psychology of. A. Binet,274.Reason, The Dawn of. J. Weir, Jr.,275.Rector, L. E. Montaigne on the Education of Children,278.Saga Times, Ruins of the. T. Erlingsson,277.Scudder, S. H. Everyday Butterflies,128.Sites, Clement M. L. Centralized Administration of the Liquor Laws,275.Smith, D. T. The Philosophy of Memory and Other Essays,274.Smith, W. Methods of Knowledge,273.Southern Magazine, The,278.Subiaco, Architecture, Painting, and Printing at. W. J. D. Croke,134.Swift, M. L. Anti-Imperialism,134.Swim, How to. D. Dalton,277.Todd, D. B. Stars and Telescopes,132.Weber, Adna Ferrin. Growth of Cities in the Nineteenth Century,126.Weir, J., Jr. The Dawn of Reason,275.Whitaker, H. C. Elements of Trigonometry,130.Who’s Who in America. J. W. Leonard,274.Wilderness of Worlds, The. G. W. Morehouse,131.Winthrop, Alice W. Diet in Illness and Convalescence,271.Witt, H. Fundamental Principles of Nature, Some Observations on the,132.Wyoming State Medical Society, Transactions of First and Second Regular Meetings,279.Botanical Garden’s Museum, New York. (Frag.),733Botany: Annual Flowers. (Frag.),394”Genuine Starch Factories. B. D. Halsted*,716”Plant Names, English. (Frag.),140”The New Field of. B. D. Halsted,98Briggs, C. A. Is the Christian Religion Declining?,423Brooks, W. K. The Wonderful Century,25Broom as a Spreader of Disease, The. (Frag.),734Bunsen, Death of. (Frag.),281Calcium, Metallic. (Frag.),283California, Forestry in. (Frag.),509Cambridge University. (An English University.) H. Stotesbury*,14Canals, Future of the New York. (Frag.),735Carbonic Acid and Climate. (Frag.),621Carrington, James B. Winter Birds in a City Park*,366Cements, Action of, on Sea Water. (Frag.),733Chemistry: A Hundred Years of. F. W. Clarke,673”Calcium, Metallic. (Frag.),283”Hydrogen, The Solidification of. (Frag.),618”New Element, Another. (Frag.),509Children, Literature for. (Frag.),618China, Trade Corporations in. M. Courant,722Christian Religion Declining? Is the. C. A. Briggs,423City Roadways, Modern. N. P. Lewis*,524Civilized and Savage. (Frag.),141Clarke, F. W. A Hundred Years of Chemistry,673”” ”The Man of Science in Practical Affairs,487Climate and Carbonic Acid. (Frag.),621Colored Labor, Educated. (Frag.),141Columbus, Ohio, Geology of. (Frag.),141Commission in Difficulties, A. (Table),614Cook, O. “Ribbon Lightning”*,587Courant, M. Trade Corporations in China,722Criminal Jurisprudence, Decline of, in America. G. C. Speranza,466Criminology: Anarchist, A Paradoxical. C. Lombroso*,312”Typical Criminals. Rev. S. A. Smith*,539Dairy, Bacteria of the. (Frag.),284“Dark Lightning.” (Frag.),505Dastre, M. A. The Scavengers of the Body,379Dawson, Sir William, Death of. (Frag.),390Democracy, Real Problems of. F. Smith,1Destruction of the Birds. (Frag.),393Development of the American Newspaper. W. L. Hawley*,186Diamonds, Emigrant, in America. William H. Hobbs*,73Dover Meeting of the British Association. (Frag.),135Dowd, C. F. Forenoon and Afternoon,492Eaton, D. Cady. The Science of Art Form*,685Economics: A More Excellent Way. (Table),729”Commission in Difficulties, A. (Table),614”Monopolies, The War against. (Frag.),508”Pawnshops in Germany. (Frag.),736”Pension Funds for Railroad Men. (Frag.),734”Taxation, A State Official on Excessive. F. Smith,645Economy, A Question of. (Frag.),283Education: An English University. H. Stotesbury*,14”Cross-. E. W. Scripture*,589”Language and Life. (Table),503”Liberal, and Democracy. (Table),385”Literature for Children. (Frag.),619”Plantations for Rural School Grounds. (Frag.),393”Specialization. (Table),125”The Environment in. (Frag.),391Egyptian Exploration, Recent Years of. W. M. Flinders Petrie,625Eigenmann, C. H. Blind Fishes of North America*,473Electricity: Dark Lightning. (Frag.),505”From Thales to Faraday. E. T. Lesueur,242Electricity: “Ribbon Lightning.” O. Cook*,587Electrolysis. H. S. Wynkoop*,357Element, Another New. (Frag.),509Emigrant Diamonds in America. William H. Hobbs*,73Entomology: Spider Bites and “Kissing Bugs.” L. O. Howard*,31Evans, E. P. A Survival of Mediæval Credulity,577,706Evolutionary Variation in the Past, Rate of. (Frag.),285Exploration and Geography in 1899. (Frag.),619Explosives, The Applications of. C. E. Munroe*,300,444Faith and Knowledge. (Corr.),497Fiske’s Views Compared. (Corr.),498Flinders, Petrie, W. M. Recent Years of Egyptian Exploration,625Floating Stones. (Frag.),735Food Poisoning. V. C. Vaughan,47” Preservatives, Expert Opinions respecting. (Frag.),736Ford, R. C. Malay Folklore,239Forenoon and Afternoon. C. F. Dowd,492Forestry, American Advances in. (Frag.),506”in California. (Frag.),509Fossiliferous Formation below the Cambrian, A. (Frag.),139Funafuti Atoll, Constitution of the. (Frag.),283Future of the New York Canals. (Frag.),735Gegenschein, The. (Frag.),618Geography and Exploration in 1899. (Frag.),619Geology, A Century of. J. Le Conte,431,546”Fossiliferous Formation below the Cambrian. (Frag.),139”Funafuti Atoll, Constitution of the. (Frag.),283”of Columbus, Ohio. (Frag.),141Gerhard, William P. Needed Improvements in Theater Sanitation,84Giddings, F. H. Exact Methods in Sociology,145Glacial Lakes in New York. (Frag.),391Glangeaud, P. Wingless Birds,254Halsted, B. D. Genuine Starch Factories*,716”” ”The New Field of Botany,98Hawley, W. L. Development of the American Newspaper*,186Heat Insulators. (Frag.),507Heilprin, A. A Year’s Progress in the Klondike*,455””The Gold Sands of Cape Nome*,633High Altitudes, Dangers of, for Elderly People. (Frag.),136Hobbs, W. H. Emigrant Diamonds in America*,73Home Burdens. (Table),125Horsford, Cornelia. Vinland and its Ruins*,160Howard, L. O. Spider Bites and “Kissing Bugs”*,31Hydrogen, Solidification of. (Frag.),618Hygiene: Bacteria of the Dairy. (Frag.),284India Rubber, Artificial. (Frag.),136””Cultivation of. (Frag.),732Japanese Paper. (Frag.),389Jew, The Dread of the. (Frag.),280Jordan, D. S. Old Rattler and the King Snake,371”” ”The Education of the Neminist,176Jordan’s (President) Neminism. A. Pangloss,494“Kissing Bugs” and Spider Bites. L. O. Howard*,31Klondike, A Year’s Progress in the. A. Heilprin*,455Language and Life. (Table),503Law: Criminal Jurisprudence, Decline of, in America. G. C. Speranza,466Le Conte, Joseph. A Century of Geology,431,546Lesquereux and Sullivant, Honors to. (Frag.),285Lesueur, E. A. Electricity from Thales to Faraday,242Lewis, N. P. Modern City Roadways*,524Literature for Children. (Frag.),619Lombroso, C. A Paradoxical Anarchist*,312Malaria, The Mosquito Theory. Major R. Ross,42Malay Folklore. R. C. Ford,239Man of Science in Practical Affairs. F. W. Clarke,487“Manuring with Brains.” (Frag.),731Medalists, Royal Society. (Frag.),620Medicine: Plague Antitoxin. (Frag.),732”Rats and the Plague. (Frag.),509Meteorology: Climate and Carbonic Acid. (Frag.),621Mexico, Prosperity and Enterprise in. (Frag.),283Mineralogy: Emigrant Diamonds in America. William H. Hobbs*,73Miracle, A Thirteenth-Century. (Frag.),394Monopolies, The War against. (Frag.),508Montana, Alkali Soils in. (Frag.),734Mosquito Theory of Malaria, The. Major R. Ross,42Munroe, E. C. The Applications of Explosives*,300,444Natural History: “Salamanders” and “Salamander” Cats. N. Robinson*,556”” Whales, Longevity of. (Frag.),618Negro Question: Educated Colored Labor. (Frag.),141”” Transplantation of a Race. N. S. Shaler,513Neminism, President Jordan’s. A. Pangloss,494Neminist, The Education of the. D. S. Jordan,176New York Botanical Garden’s Museum. (Frag.),733””Glacial Lakes in. (Frag.),391Nome, The Gold Sands of Cape. Angelo Heilprin*,633Ocean Depths, Animals of the. (Frag.),736”The Deeps of the. (Frag.),390Old Rattler and the King Snake. D. S. Jordan,371Ophir, The Site of. (Frag.),736Oregon, Eastern Oyster Culture in. F. L. Washburn*,233Ornithology: Birds, Destruction of the. (Frag.),393”Sand Grouse, The. (Frag.),392”Wingless Birds. P. Glangeaud,254”Winter Birds in a City Park. J. B. Carrington*,366Orton, Edward, Sketch of. (Portrait),607Outdoor Improvement, For. (Frag.),284Oyster Culture, Eastern, in Oregon. F. L. Washburn*,233Packard, R. L. Remarkable Volcanic Eruptions in the Philippines,374Pangloss, A. President Jordan’s “Neminism”,494Paper, Japanese. (Frag.),389Paris Exposition in 1900, The, and Congresses. (Frag.),140Park-making among the Sand Dunes. (Frag.),139Parliamentary Amenities Committee, The. (Frag.),137Parsons, C. A. Steam Turbines and High-Speed Vessels*,696Patrick, Mary M. Woman’s Struggle for Liberty in Germany,328Pawnshops in Germany. (Frag.),736Pearl Mussels. (Frag.),621Pension Funds for Railroad Men. (Frag.),734Periodicity of War. (Frag.),735Perrot, G. Value of the Study of Art,204Petrie, W. M. Flinders. Recent Years of Egyptian Exploration,625Physical Investigation, Where it fails. (Frag.),284”Measurements of Asylum Children. (Frag.),138Physiology: Scavengers of the Body. M. A. Dastre,379Plague Antitoxin. (Frag.),732”Rats and the. (Frag.),509Plantations for Rural School Grounds. (Frag.),393Plant Names, English. (Frag.),140Pseudo-Science: Neminist, The Education of the. D. S. Jordan,176Psychology: Animals Reason? Do. Rev. E. R. Young*,105”A Survival of Mediæval Credulity. E. P. Evans,577”Morbid Sense of Injury, The. W. F. Becker, M. D.,596”“Warming Up.” (Frag.),506Public Library, The Function of the. (Table),616Putnam, Professor, on the Origins of the American Races. (Frag.),507Pygmies, Amazonian, Stories of. (Frag.),733Rats and the Plague. (Frag.),509Religion, Is the Christian, Declining? C. A. Briggs,423Religious Suicides. (Frag.),731“Ribbon Lightning.” O. Cook*,587Riemer, W. E. De. Agricultural Education in Foreign Countries,218Rivet, M. B. Early Experiments in Air Flight,603Roberts, Comptroller, on Excessive Taxation. F. Smith,645Robinson, N. “Salamanders” and “Salamander” Cats*,556Ross, Major R. The Mosquito Theory of Malaria,42Royal Society Medalists. (Frag.),620“Salamanders” and “Salamander” Cats. N. Robinson*,556Sand Dunes, Park-making among. (Frag.),139Sand Grouse, The. (Frag.),292Sanitation: Broom, The, as a Spreader of Disease. (Frag.),734Scavengers of the Body. M. A. Dastre,379Science and Dogma. (Table),728”of Art Form, The. D. Cady Eaton*,685”South-Sea Bubbles in. J. Trowbridge,401”The Man of, in Practical Affairs. F. W. Clarke,487Scripture, E. W. Cross-Education*,589Sea Water, Effect of, on Soil. (Frag.),508””on Cements, Action of. (Frag.),733Serviss, G. P. Scenes on the Planets*,337Shaler, N. S. The Transplantation of a Race,513Simplon Tunnel, The. (Frag.),388Smith, Rev. S. G. Typical Criminals*,539”Franklin. A State Official on Excessive Taxation,645Sociology: Democracy, Real Problems of. F. Smith,1”Exact Methods in. F. H. Giddings,145South-Sea Bubbles in Science. J. Trowbridge,401Specialization. (Table),125Spencer, H. Professor Ward on Naturalism and Agnosticism,349Speranza, G. C. Decline of Criminal Jurisprudence in America,466Standard Time, How Obtained. T. B. Willson,213Starch Factories, Genuine. B. D. Halsted*,716Steamships, Sixty Years’ Improvements in. (Frag.),506Steam Turbines and High-Speed Vessels. C. A. Parsons*,696Sternberg, George M., Sketch of. (Portrait),116Stones, Floating. (Frag.),735Stotesbury, H. An English University*,14St. Prokopy, A Thirteenth-Century. (Frag.),394Suicides, Religious. (Frag.),731Survival of Mediæval Credulity. E. P. Evans,577,706Taxation, A State Official on Excessive. F. Smith,645Theater Sanitation, Needed Improvements in. William P. Gerhard,84Trolley Car, What makes the, go? William Baxter, Jr.*, 316,408,564Trowbridge, John. 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