Popular Science Monthly/Volume 28

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Table of Contents

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November 1885
Flying-Machines	1
Modern Science and Modern Thought	18
Twenty Years of Negro Education	24
Relations of Science to the Public Weal I	37
Two Wonderful Instruments	51
A Free Colony of Lunatics	56
The Art of Investing	69
Concerning Clover	73
The Problem of Higher Education	84
Origin of Color in Animals	94
The Motor Centers and the Will	100
Home-Life of the Thibetans	112
Sketch of Sir Lyon Playfair	117
Editor's Table	122
Literary Notices	125
Popular Miscellany	135
Notes	143
December 1885
The Scientific Study of Religions	145
Postal Savings-Banks	160
The Refracting Telescope	169
Thomasville as a Winter Resort	188
The Spirit and Method of Scientific Study	192
The Social Life of Arctic Birds	209
Neuter Insects	217
Masson's Interpretation of Carlyle	224
Relations of Science to the Public Weal II	236
The Uniformity of Nature	248
Sketch of Professor Alpheus Hyatt	261
Correspondence	268
Editor's Table	269
Literary Notices	272
Popular Miscellany	281
Notes	287
January 1886
Inoculation Against Hydrophobia	289
The Origin of Primitive Money	296
Progress in Tornado-Prediction	307
The Varieties of the Human Species	315
Communal Societies	325
Fish Out of Water	334
The Flower or the Leaf	342
The Study of the Relations of Things	353
Agatized and Jasperized Wood of Arizona	362
Nonconformity	367
A New Field of American History	371
Natural Heirship: Or, All the World Akin	377
Science in its Useful Applications	388
The Physiology of the Feet	395
Sketch of Frank Buckland	401
Correspondence	407
Editor's Table	410
Literary Notices	412
Popular Miscellany	420
Notes	429
February 1886
The Improvement of East River and Hell Gate	433
The Interpreters of Genesis and the Interpreters of Nature	449
Recent Experiments in State Taxation	460
Bishop’s Ring Around the Sun	466
The Influence of Inventions Upon Civilization I	474
The Musket as a Social Force	485
Discrimination in Railway Rates I	494
Acclimatization	507
Instinct as a Guide to Health	517
The Increasing Curse of European Militancy	521
Medical Practice in Damaraland	526
The Problem of Photography in Color	531
Women in Astronomy	534
Sketch of Dr. W. B. Carpenter	538
Sketch of James B. Eads	544
Editor's Table	554
Literary Notices	556
Popular Miscellany	565
Notes	574
March 1886
Biological Teaching in Colleges	578
Discrimination in Railway Rates II	586
A Thinking Machine	596
Health and Sex in Higher Education	606
Proem to Genesis	614
Animal Weather-Lore	635
Japanese House-Building	643
The Influence of Inventions Upon Civilization II	656
Colorado as a Winter Sanitarium	668
Durability of Resinous Woods	679
Infancy in the City	683
Arbor-Day	689
Sketch of Sir John Bennet Lawes	694
Editor's Table	699
Literary Notices	703
Popular Miscellany	713
Notes	719
April 1886
An Economic Study of Mexico I	721
External Form of the Man-Like Apes	736
The Factors of Organic Evolution I	754
Botany as a Recreation for Invalids	779
The French Problem in Canada	781
Mr Gladstone and Genesis	788
Comments by Professor Henry Drummond	803
The Hand-Work of School-Children	812
The Teeth of the Coming Man	817
Earthquakes in Central America	819
The Gems of the National Museum	823
The Whipping-Post	830
Sketch of Huygens	835
Editor's Table	840
Literary Notices	843
Popular Miscellany	856
Notes	863
Dawn of Creation and of Worship	865
Index	881