Popular Science Monthly Volume 31.djvu

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Popular Science Monthly/Volume 31

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Table of Contents

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May 1887

The Natural versus the Supernatural

1

Present Status of the Greek Question

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The Sun's Heat

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Creation or Evolution?

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Megalithic Monuments in Spain and Portugal

39

Social Sustenance I

45

Origin of Comets and Meteors

50

Influence of Snow-Masses on Climate

60

Hygiene as a Basis of Morals

67

Mexican Antiquities

79

Prairie-Flowers of Early Spring

84

Hats as a Cause of Baldness

97

Among the Transylvanian Saxons I

100

William Babcock Hazen

112

Sketch of James Fergusson

118

Correspondence

123

Editor's Table

124

Literary Notices

128

Popular Miscellany

136

Notes

143

June 1887

Are Railroads Public Enemies? II

145

Some Human Instincts I

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Theology Under its Changed Conditions

171

Astronomy with an Opera-Glass II

187

Science and Pseudo-Science

207

Gofio: Food and Physique

224

Social Sustenance II

228

Industrial Education and Railway Service

233

Grains of Sand

247

Appearance and Reality in Pictures

249

Among the Transylvanian Saxons II

254

Sketch of Jules Jamin

262

Correspondence

265

Editor's Table

269

Literary Notices

273

Popular Miscellany

281

Notes

287

July 1887

The Economic Disturbances Since 1873 I

289

The Task of American Botanists

305

Variations in Human Stature

314

The Panama Canal

323

The North American Lakes

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Lawsuit or Legacy

339

Among the Thousand Islands

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Human Brain-Weights

355

Earthquakes

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New Chapters in the Warfare of Science: Physical Sciences II

373

Mental Differences of Men and Women

383

Modern Over-Education

401

Sketch of Isaac Lea

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Editor's Table

412

Literary Notices

415

Popular Miscellany

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Notes

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August 1887

The Economic Disturbances Since 1873 II

433

New Chapters in the Warfare of Science: Physical Sciences III

452

The Falls of the Mississippi

474

Astronomy with an Opera-Glass III

478

Manual Training in School Education

493

The Progress of Science from 1836 to 1886

503

The Metal Art of Ancient Mexico

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Changes in the Aspect of Mars

532

Educational Endowments

535

Sketch of Paul Gervais

550

Correspondence

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Editor's Table

559

Literary Notices

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Popular Miscellany

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Notes

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September 1887

The Economic Disturbances Since 1873 III

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Sleep and its Counterfeits

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Industrial Training Two Centuries Ago

608

Social Sustenance III

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Ethnological Sketches in Annam and Tonquin

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Cork, its Manufacture and Properties

635

A Botanical Bonanza

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Speeches at the Recent Tyndall Banquet

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Some Human Instincts II

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Physiology of Freezing

681

Sketch of J. J. Audubon

687

Correspondence

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Editor's Table

701

Literary Notices

705

Popular Miscellany

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Notes

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October 1887

What Is Evolution?

721

Social Sustenance IV

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The Oldest Noble of Them All

743

Strange Medicines

750

The Economic Disturbances Since 1873 IV

768

Color-Blindness Among Railroad Employees

794

The Savagery of Boyhood

796

Fetich-Faith in Western Africa

801

What American Zoologists Have Done for Evolution: 1887 Speech I

804

The Language of the Emotions

814

The Theory of Tittlebats

825

Sketch of Karl Wilhelm Scheele

839

Correspondence

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Editor's Table

847

Literary Notices

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Popular Miscellany

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Notes

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Index

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