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Table of Contents

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November 1884
The Relations Between the Mind and the Nervous System	1
German Testimony on the Classics Question	20
Origin of the Synthetic Philosophy	30
The Future of the Negro in the South	39
Pending Problems of Astronomy	46
Drowning the Torrent in Vegetation	67
What Is Electricity?	76
Chilian Volcanoes, Active and Extinct	88
The Chemistry of Cookery XVII	91
Domestic Arts in Damaraland	99
Old Customs of Lawlessness	105
The Oil-Supply of the World I	108
Sketch of Professor James Hall	120
Editor's Table	124
Literary Notices	128
Popular Miscellany	138
Notes	143
December 1884
The Reformation in Time-Keeping	145
American Aspects of Anthropology	152
School-Culture of the Observing Faculties	169
Queer Flowers	177
Alcoholic Trance	187
The Problem of Universal Suffrage	194
Cannibalism as a Custom	205
Starvation: Its Moral and Physical Effects	213
The Chemistry of Cookery XVIII	217
The Perils of Rapid Civilization	224
Religion and the Doctrine of Evolution	239
Liquefaction of the Elementary Gases	249
The Oil-Supply of the World II	252
Oddities of Animal Character	261
Biographical Sketch of E. B. Tylor	264
Correspondence	267
Editor's Table	269
Literary Notices	277
Popular Miscellany	282
Notes	287
January 1885
A Glance at the Jury System	289
Agnostic Metaphysics	299
Last Words About Agnosticism	310
Influences Determining Sex	323
My Schools and Schoolmasters	330
Gladiators of the Sea	336
Studying in Germany	347
State Usurpation of Parental Functions	352
Bloody Sweat	357
Protective Mimicry in Marine Life	365
The Chemistry of Cookery XIX	368
The Advantages of Limited Museums	376
The Architecture of Town-Houses	379
Mountain Observatories	388
Sketch of Sir Henry Roscoe	402
Editor's Table	407
Literary Notices	413
Popular Miscellany	421
Notes	431
February 1885
The Sight and Hearing of Railway Employees	433
Calculating-Machines	441
The Larger Import of Scientific Education	452
Evolution and the Destiny of Man	456
Food and Feeding	468
Sulphur and its Extraction	482
Physical Training of Girls	495
Field Experiments in Agriculture	498
Cholera I	503
The Chemistry of Cookery XX	517
Sick-Rates and Death-Rates	524
Properties and Constitution of Sea-Water	529
Why Birds Sing	541
Sketch of Sir David Brewster	546
Correspondence	553
Editor's Table	554
Literary Notices	559
Popular Miscellany	568
Notes	575
March 1885
Science in Politics	577
The Darwinian Theory of Instinct	586
Medical Expert Testimony	603
How Fungi Live in Winter	611
Cholera II	621
A Project in Industrial Education	632
The Painless Extinction of Life	641
Fish and Fishing in Chinese Waters	652
The Accurate Measurement of Time	659
The Chemistry of Cookery XXI	671
A Naturalist's Excursion in Dominica	679
English Experience with Cancer	688
Superstitions About the Dolphin	691
The Parental Foresight of Insects	694
Sketch of M. de Quatrefages	697
Editor's Table	701
Literary Notices	706
Popular Miscellany	714
Notes	719
April 1885
The Character and Discipline of Political Economy	721
The Nervous System and Consciousness I	731
Cholera III	750
A Chapter in Fire Insurance	759
Cumberland Sound and its Eskimos	768
The Religious Value of the Unknowable	779
Liquor Legislation	787
Aristotle as a Zoologist	796
Apiculture	803
Structure and Division of the Organic Cell	810
The Chemistry of Cookery XXII	819
Internal Arrangement of Town-Houses	826
Sketch of Professor John Trowbridge	836
Correspondence	840
Editor's Table	841
Literary Notices	845
Popular Miscellany	853
Notes	863
Index	865
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