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Table of Contents

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May 1880
Climate and Complexion	1
The Carbon Button	10
God and Nature	27
The Buffalo and his Fate	40
Sham Admiration in Literature	48
The Impediment of Adipose: A Celebrated Case	60
The Martyrdom of Science	71
The Pleasure of Visual Form II	77
Hysteria and Demonism I	86
Bacteria as Destroyers of Insects	93
Some Facts and Fictions of Zoology	96
The Electrical Polyscope	110
Capture Among the Mollusks	111
How Insects Direct their Flight	114
Sketch of James Clerk Maxwell	116
Correspondence	120
Editor's Table	121
Literary Notices	126
Popular Miscellany	135
Notes	143
June 1880
The Classics That Educate Us	145
Hysteria and Demonism II	155
The Crossing of the Human Races	166
Recent Geographical Exploration	171
Dress in Relation to Health	182
Studies in Experimental Geology	200
Views of Primitive Marriage	203
Goethe's Farbenlehre: Theory of Colors I	215
How Animals Eat	224
About Carpenters	233
The Availability of Energy	244
The Infectious and Contagious Diseases of Children	249
The Rate of Animal Development	254
Artificial Diamonds	259
Sketch of Professor Otto Wilhelm Struve	263
Editor's Table	265
Literary Notices	272
Popular Miscellany	279
Notes	288
July 1880
The Interior of the Earth I	289
Changes of the Circulation During Cerebral Activity	303
Goethe's Farbenlehre: Theory of Colors II	312
My Fire	321
A Vindication of Scientific Ethics	324
Coming of Age of the Origin of Species	337
Atmospheric Dust	344
The Fossil Man	350
A Zoological Enigma	359
On the Modes of Distribution of Plants	365
Hysteria and Demonism III	376
Notes on a Few of our Birds	386
The New Chemistry, a Development of the Old	393
Sketch of Friedrich Mohr	402
Correspondence	405
Editor's Table	406
Literary Notices	410
Popular Miscellany	419
Notes	431
August 1880
The Kearney Agitation in California	433
The Interior of the Earth II	453
On the Method of Zadig	467
The Medicinal Leech	478
Recent Original Work at Harvard	482
Geology and History	495
The Cinchona-Forests of South America	507
Types of the Nubian Race	512
Algebras, Spaces, Logics	516
Chemical Exercises for Ordinary Schools	522
The Extreme Rarity of Premature Burials	526
The St Gothard Tunnel	530
Fouque's Santorin and its Eruptions	534
Biographical Sketch of Frederick Wöhler	539
Correspondence	552
Editor's Table	554
Literary Notices	560
Popular Miscellany	568
Notes	576
September 1880
The Science of Comparative Jurisprudence	577
State Education: A Help or Hindrance?	585
How Animals Digest	600
The Solar System and its Neighbors	612
Legal Prosecutions of Animals	619
Psychogenesis in the Human Infant	625
Climbing Plants	635
Aesthetic Feeling in Birds	650
Electricity and Agriculture	664
Zoological Education	666
The English Precursors of Newton I	669
Night-Schools in New York and Paris	681
Sketch of Joseph Leidy	684
Correspondence	692
Editor's Table	693
Literary Notices	697
Popular Miscellany	705
Notes	719
October 1880
Fashion in Deformity	721
Cooperation in England	742
Modern Aspects of the Life-Question	750
The Australian Ornithorhynchus	769
The Mysterious Sounds of Nature	772
The English Precursors of Newton II	777
Criticisms Corrected I	795
The India-Rubber Industries	802
On the Production of Sound by Light	813
Education as an Aid to the Health of Women	823
On the Destruction of Infectious Germs	828
Possible Efficiency of Heat-Engines	831
Sketch of George Boole	840
Editor's Table	843
Literary Notices	846
Popular Miscellany	853
Notes	863
Index	865