Popular Science Monthly/Volume 8

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Table of Contents

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November 1875
The Relations of Women to Crime I	1
Hydroids	17
Origin and Development of Engineering	33
Insectivorous Plants	45
Induced Disease from the Influence of the Passions	60
The Properties of Protoplasm	67
A Curious Indian Relic	73
Meteorology of the Sun and Earth	75
Suicide in Large Cities	88
A Home-Made Microscope	95
Is Alcohol a Food?	103
Sketch of Dr. H. C. Bastian	108
Correspondence	111
Editor's Table	112
Literary Notices	115
Miscellany	121
Notes	126
December 1875
Martineau and Materialism	129
Opossums and their Young	149
Idol-Worship and Fetich-Worship	158
On a Piece of Limestone	165
Strange Mental Faculties in Disease	177
Progression and Retrogression	180
Geography and Evolution	192
Diamond-Cutting	206
Reading as an Intellectual Process	212
The Deeper Harmonies of Science and Religion IV	225
Sketch of Dr. John. W. Dawson	231
Editor's Table	235
Literary Notices	240
Miscellany	246
Notes	255
January 1876
The Comparative Psychology of Man	257
The Horseshoe Nebula in Sagittarius	269
Science-Teaching in English Schools	281
Modern Biological Inquiry	285
The Sand-Blast	300
Instinct and Acquisition	310
Prince Rupert's Drops	315
The Ownership of the Dead	322
The Relations of Women to Crime II	334
The History of Twins, as a Criterion of the Relative Powers of Nature and Nurture	345
The Formation of Sand-Dunes	357
Sketch of Sir Charles Wheatstone	363
Correspondence	366
Editor's Table	367
Literary Notices	373
Miscellany	379
Notes	383
February 1876
The Warfare of Science I	385
Natural History of the Kangaroo	409
Life in Greenland	431
Science and Religion	434
Plasticity of Instinct	449
Flying-Machines and Penaud's Artificial Bird	453
A Museum Exchange	460
Are the Elements Elementary?	463
The Nature of Fluorescence	471
The Controversy on Acoustical Research	477
Sketch of Thomas Sterry Hunt, LL.D., F.R.S.	486
Editor's Table	489
Literary Notices	497
Miscellany	501
Notes	510
March 1876
Hydrography	514
Lace and Lace-Making	521
Our Great American University	543
The Warfare of Science II	553
On Fallacies of Testimony Respecting the Supernatural	570
The Functions of Association in its Relation to Labor	586
Modern Philosophical Biology I	595
Lessons in Electricity I	607
Natural Euthanasia	617
Sketch of Herbert Spencer	620
Correspondence	627
Editor's Table	629
Literary Notices	634
Miscellany	638
Notes	640
April 1876
On the Border Territory Between the Animal and the Vegetable Kingdoms	641
An Interesting Bird	657
The Proposed Inland Sea in Algeria	665
Animal Parasites and Messmates	670
Professor Tyndall's Recent Researches	686
Museum Godeffroy	699
The Polar Glaciers I	702
Modern Philosophical Biology II	710
The Character of Modern Knowledge	724
The Relations of Sex to Crime	727
Caroline Lucretia Herschel I	736
Correspondence and Editor's Table	746
Literary Notices	752
Miscellany	759
Notes	768
Index	769