Popular Science Monthly/Volume 51

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Popular Science Monthly  (1897)  Volume 51

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Table of Contents

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May 1897
Korean Interviews	1
The Racial Geography of Europe: Stature IV	17
Reversions in Modern Industrial Life II	34
Principles of Taxation: Rules Under a Constitutional Government XVI	44
The Bubonic Plague	62
Highway Construction in Massachusetts	73
The Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences	83
Sources of the New Psychology	98
The Latent Vitality of Seeds	106
Strange Personifications	112
Sketch of James Nasmyth	117
Editor's Table	124
Scientific Literature	128
General Notices	131
Publications Received	135
Fragments of Science	136
Minor Paragraphs	141
Notes	143
June 1897
Evolution of the Modern Heavy Gun	145
The Silent City of the Muir Glacier	161
Principles of Taxation: Nomenclature and Forms of Taxation XVII	165
Suicide and the Environment	186
The Racial Geography of Europe: The Three European Races V	192
Globe Lightning	209
World's Geologists at St. Petersburg	212
Woman Suffrage and Education	222
The History of Alcohol I	231
The Public and its Public Library	242
Science as an Instrument of Education	253
Richard Owen	259
Editor's Table	266
Scientific Literature	270
General Notices	273
Publications Received	279
Fragments of Science	280
Minor Paragraphs	287
Notes	288
July 1897
The Racial Geography of Europe: France - The Teuton and the Celt VI	289
Forecasting the Progress of Invention	307
Some Facts About Wasps and Bees	315
The Principle of Economy in Evolution	324
Let Us Therewith Be Content	341
Wild Flowers of the California Alps	348
The Planet Saturn	357
North and South	367
The History of Alcohol II	377
The Mob Mind	390
Are Scorpions Matricides and Suicides?	398
Sketch of Horatio Hale	401
Editor's Table	411
Scientific Literature	417
General Notices	420
Publications Received	424
Fragments of Science	425
Minor Paragraphs	431
Notes	432
August 1897
The Racial Geography of Europe: France VII	433
New Questions in Medical Jurisprudence	454
Principles of Taxation: Nomenclature and Forms of Taxation XVIII	466
The Thyroid Gland in Medicine	481
The Despotism of Democracy	489
A Tortoise-Shell Wild Cat	507
Anthropology a University Study	510
Stones in the Head	514
A Lilliputian Monster	518
The Origin and Development of Number Systems	524
Ivory: Its Sources and Uses	534
The Paradox of Diderot	539
Sketch of James Croll	544
Correspondence	553
Editor's Table	554
Scientific Literature	559
General Notices	562
Publications Received	567
Fragments of Science	568
Minor Paragraphs	574
Notes	575
September 1897
Spanish Experiments in Coinage	577
The Hawks of New England	594
Principles of Taxation: Nomenclature and Forms of Taxation XIX	605
The Racial Geography of Europe: The Basques VIII	613
Objects and Results of Polar Research	635
The Giant Cactus	641
Eskimo Bows and Arrows	645
When Character Is Formed	648
The Scope of Botany	662
Alchemy Redivivus	671
The Forces in an Air Bubble	674
The Discovery of the Sun Spots	681
Fourteenth-Century Doctors	686
Sketch of Samuel Lockwood	692
Correspondence and Editor's Table	700
Scientific Literature	716
General Notices	708
Publications Received	712
Fragments of Science	713
Minor Paragraphs	718
Notes	720
October 1897
The Racial Geography of Europe: Italy IX	721
Franklin's Kite Experiment with Modern Apparatus	739
The Psychology of Belief	747
Free-Hand Drawing in Education	755
Principles of Taxation: The Existing Methods of Taxation XX	765
Some Unrecognized Laws of Nature	776
Science at the University of Chicago	784
The Idea of Murder Among Men and Animals	805
A Decade in Federal Railway Regulation	811
Early American Chemical Societies	819
The Economic Value of Animals	827
Sketch of Louis Figuier	834
Editor's Table	842
Scientific Literature	846
General Notices	849
Publications Received	854
Fragments of Science	855
Minor Paragraphs	862
Notes	863
Index	867