Popular Science Monthly/Volume 14

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November 1878
The Contrast of Colors	1
Evolution of Ceremonial Government VII	17
The Differences Between Animals and Plants	30
Professor Tyndall Before the English Copyright Commission	39
Drinking-Water from Agricultural Lands	44
Education as a Science VI	55
Experiments in Sound	65
The Radiometer	76
Plants and the Peopling of America	78
The Place of English in the Higher Education	81
The Ice Age II	90
Singing Mice	102
Sketch of William Spottiswoode	105
Correspondence	107
Editor's Table	108
Literary Notices	113
Popular Miscellany	118
Notes	127
December 1878
Edison's Telephonic and Acoustic Inventions	129
Fever-Factories	143
Education as a Science VII	152
Explosions from Combustible Dust	159
Professor Huxley Before the English Copyright Commission	166
Strange Animal-Friendships	182
The Science of Easy-Chairs	186
Language and the Emotions	190
Biology and Woman's Rights	201
Animal Intelligence	214
Sketch of Dr. Petermann	231
Correspondence	233
Editor's Table	234
Literary Notices	239
Popular Miscellany	245
Notes	255
January 1879
Traces of an Early Race in Japan	257
Virchow and Evolution	266
Astronomical Magnitudes and Distances	291
Herbert Spencer Before the English Copyright Commission I	296
The Beginning of Nerves in the Animal Kingdom	303
Pope and Anti-Pope	320
Scientific Relation of Sociology to Biology I	325
Black Diamonds	337
The Devil-Fish and its Relatives	345
Heredity	356
The Physical Functions of Leaves	365
Curari or Woorara Poison	369
Molecular Dynamics	373
Effects of Alcoholic Excess on Character	379
Sketch of Gustav Wallis	386
Correspondence	388
Editor's Table	389
Literary Notices	396
Popular Miscellany	403
Notes	407
February 1879
Darwin vs Galiani	409
Scientific Relation of Sociology to Biology II	425
The Crystallization of Gold, Silver, and Other Metals	434
Herbert Spencer Before the English Copyright Commission II	440
The Formation of Mountains	460
Planetary Kings and New Stars	466
The Old Phrenology and the New	475
Backgammon Among the Aztecs	491
Mites, Ticks, and Other Acari	502
Typhoid-Fever Poison	514
Sketch of Elisha Gray	523
Correspondence	529
Editor's Table	530
Literary Notices	535
Popular Miscellany	543
Notes	552
March 1879
The Electric Light	553
The Aard-Vark or Earth-Hog	572
Science and Socialism	577
The First Three Years of Childhood	591
The Chemical Elements	600
Experiments with Living Human Beings I	611
Atheism and the Church	621
The Sting of the Honey-Bee	635
Reflex Action and Disease	639
Is Conscience Primitive?	647
Fires and their Causes	653
The Sun's Long Streamers	659
Sketch of Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg	668
Correspondence	673
Editor's Table	674
Literary Notices	678
Popular Miscellany	685
Notes	695
April 1879
John Stuart Mill I	697
The Intra-Mercurial Planets	714
Dietetic Curiosities I	721
The Monstrous in Art	721
New Guinea and its Inhabitants I	742
Experiments with Living Human Beings II	751
Shall We Adopt the Metric System?	757
Psychometric Facts	771
Health and Recreation	780
Early Traces of Man	794
Why Do We Eat our Dinner?	799
The Origin of Upland Lakes	810
Sketch of Sir Humphry Davy	813
Editor's Table	817
Literary Notices	821
Popular Miscellany	830
Notes	840
Index	841