Popular Science Monthly/Volume 27

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Table of Contents

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May 1885
Our Recent Debts to Vivisection	1
Can Man Be Modified by Selection?	15
Cholera IV	25
Methods of Teaching Political Economy	31
Lost Colonies of Northmen and Portuguese	40
Religion Without Dogma	51
A Scientific View of the Coal Question	63
The Nervous System and Consciousness II	66
Arctic Exploration and its Object	78
The Chemistry of Cookery XXIII	81
Pasteur's Researches in Germ-Life	86
Training in Ethical Science	96
A Very Old Master	103
Sketch of M. Pierre E. Berthelot	113
Correspondence	117
Editor's Table	118
Literary Notices	122
Popular Miscellany	132
Notes	143
June 1885
Are We to Become Africanized?	145
The Nervous System and Consciousness III	150
The State versus the Man	165
A Rejoinder to M de Laveleye	188
Whales, Past and Present	195
The Fuel of the Future	207
Use of Sulphurous Disinfectants	218
The Mediterranean of Canada	222
The Ways of Monkeys	234
Moths and Moth-Catchers I	246
Concerning Kerosene	252
The Chemistry of Cookery XXIV	259
Sketch of Dr. Alfred E. Brehm	263
Editor's Table	268
Literary Notices	272
Popular Miscellany	282
Notes	287
July 1885
A Great Winter Sanitarium for the American Continent	289
Recent Progress in Aerial Navigation	296
Archaeological Frauds	308
Railroads, Telegraphs, and Civilization	311
Diet in Relation to Age and Activity I	322
An Experience with Opium	334
Some Self-Made Astronomers	340
On Leaves I	344
Earthquake Phenomena	356
Curiosities of Star-Fish Life	360
Ethics and the Development Theory	368
Moths and Moth-Catchers II	377
Hygiene of the Aged	389
The Oldest Air-Breathers	395
Sketch of Professor S. P. Langley	401
Editor's Table	410
Literary Notices	415
Popular Miscellany	423
Notes	432
August 1885
Concerning the Suppressed Book	433
Genius and Insanity	447
An Experiment in Primary Education I	468
On Leaves II	479
The Future of National Banking	491
The Mechanics of Hanging	503
Diet in Relation to Age and Activity II	509
Building and Ornamental Stones of the United States	520
The Darwin Memorial	532
Modern Bronzes	536
Measures of Vital Tenacity	541
Curiosities of Time-Reckoning	544
Sketch of M. Chevreul	548
Editor's Table	553
Literary Notices	556
Popular Miscellany	566
Notes	575
September 1885
The Relations of Railway Managers and Employees I	579
The Present Aspect of Medical Education	589
Insect Fertilization of Flowers	595
Origin of Man and Other Vertebrates	605
An Experiment in Primary Education II	614
The Fauna of the Sea-Shore	623
Siberia and the Exiles	625
How Spelling Damages the Mind	638
Sunlight and the Earth's Atmosphere	643
The Science of Morality	661
Recent Progress in Biology	664
The Primitive Ghost and his Relations	668
The Physiology of Colors	683
Sketch of Dr. Gustav Nachtigal	691
Correspondence and Editor's Table	696
Literary Notices	701
Popular Miscellany	712
Notes	719
October 1885
New Chapters in the Warfare of Science: Physical Sciences I	721
The White Ant: A Theory	735
The Early Study of Plants	750
On the Solar Corona	755
The Relations of Railway Managers and Employees II	768
Tommasi-Crudeli on Malarious Countries, and their Reclamation	785
The Energy of Life Evolution, and How it Has Acted	789
The Metaphysical Society	800
A Study of Recent Earthquakes	819
The Trading-Rat	831
Tissue-Selection in the Genesis of Disease	836
Sketch of Professor H. A. Newton	840
Editor's Table	844
Literary Notices	847
Popular Miscellany	856
Notes	863
Index	865