Table of Contents
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| Gar-Pikes, Old and Young I |
1 |
| Mesmerism, Odylism, Table-Turning, and Spiritualism I |
12 |
| Aqueducts |
26 |
| Gravitation, and How it Works |
37 |
| On the Habits of Ants |
39 |
| The New Star in the Constellation of the Swan |
59 |
| Antique Marbles |
67 |
| On the Wonderful Divisibility of Gold and Other Metals |
74 |
| Movements of Jupiter's Cloud-Masses |
81 |
| Toadstool-Eating |
93 |
| Sketch of President Barnard |
100 |
| Correspondence |
104 |
| Editor's Table |
105 |
| Literary Notices |
110 |
| Popular Miscellany |
121 |
| Notes |
127 |
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| On the Evolution of the Family I |
129 |
| Our American Owls |
142 |
| Initiatory Forces |
156 |
| Mesmerism, Odylism, Table-Turning, and Spiritualism II |
161 |
| On the Distribution of Standard Time in the United States |
174 |
| Matter and Mind |
183 |
| Gar-Pikes, Old and Young II |
186 |
| Relation of the Air to the House We Live in |
196 |
| Spinoza: 1677 and 1877 |
216 |
| Transmission of Excitations in Sensory Nerves |
230 |
| On the Physical Condition of Jupiter and Saturn |
233 |
| Sketch of Alfred Russel Wallace |
235 |
| Correspondence |
236 |
| Editor's Table |
238 |
| Literary Notices |
242 |
| Popular Miscellany |
249 |
| Notes |
255 |
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| On the Evolution of the Family II |
257 |
| The Tides I |
271 |
| On Ground-Air in its Hygienic Relations |
280 |
| A Brief Historical Sketch of Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood |
294 |
| Over-Consumption or Over-Production? |
306 |
| Atmospheric Pressure and Life |
316 |
| Heat and Motion, and Political Economy |
329 |
| On Heredity in Nervous Diseases |
332 |
| The Material Resources of Life |
339 |
| The Zodiacal Light |
349 |
| Dr. Balfour Stewart |
359 |
| Correspondence |
362 |
| Editor's Table |
367 |
| Literary Notices |
371 |
| Popular Miscellany |
378 |
| Notes |
383 |
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| The Climatic Influence of Vegetation-A Plea for our Forests |
385 |
| Education as a Science III |
391 |
| The Norwegian Lemming and its Migrations |
404 |
| Matches |
413 |
| The Import of Protoplasm |
422 |
| The Electric Candle |
429 |
| The Status of Women and Children |
433 |
| Imagination |
455 |
| A Philosophical Emperor |
461 |
| Bad Odors in Reservoired Drinking-Water |
469 |
| A Run Through the Museums of Europe |
472 |
| The Sewing-Machine in Political Economy |
481 |
| Correspondence |
487 |
| Editor's Table |
491 |
| Literary Notices |
497 |
| Popular Miscellany |
505 |
| Notes |
511 |
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| Domestic Retrospect and Prospect |
513 |
| Odd Forms Among Fishes |
525 |
| The Observatories of Italy |
538 |
| On Drops |
544 |
| Civilization and Morals |
549 |
| Does it Take Time to Think? |
564 |
| Aboriginal Pottery of the Salt-Springs, Illinois |
573 |
| Instinct and Intelligence |
585 |
| Science and War |
599 |
| The Labor-Question |
605 |
| Sketch of Professor Simon Newcomb |
612 |
| Correspondence |
615 |
| Editor's Table |
618 |
| Literary Notices |
624 |
| Popular Miscellany |
631 |
| Notes |
639 |
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| Bathybius and the Moners |
641 |
| Molecular Magnitudes |
653 |
| Simple Experiments in Optics |
658 |
| On Elementary Instruction in Physiology |
668 |
| Cosmic and Organic Evolution |
672 |
| Pessimism and its Antidote |
682 |
| The Modern Piano-Forte |
691 |
| Snoring, and How to Stop it |
704 |
| Mars and its Satellites |
706 |
| Huxley's American Lectures |
709 |
| Specimens of Educational Literature |
713 |
| The Psycho-Physiological Sciences |
721 |
| The Decline of Party Government |
734 |
| Sketch of Professor Jevons |
745 |
| Correspondence |
748 |
| Editor's Table |
750 |
| Literary Notices |
757 |
| Popular Miscellany |
762 |
| Notes |
768 |
| Index |
769 |
