Popular Science Monthly/Volume 80

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Table of Contents

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January 1912
The Mechanistic Conception of Life	5
Science Among the Chinese II	22
Notes on Norwegian Industry	36
The Duties to the Public of Research Institutions in Pure Science	51
Small Colleges	58
The Problem of City Milk Supplies	66
A Flash of Lightning	76
Collecting on a Coral Reef	80
The Origin and Control of Mental Defectiveness	87
The Academy of Sciences, Paris, from 1666 to 1699 I	91
The Progress of Science	99
February 1912
The International Hygiene Exhibition at Dresden	105
The Value of Non-Instrumental Weather Observations	129
Narrow Jaws and Small Feet	138
The Conflict of Administrations	142
Relations of Japan and the United States	151
Some Interesting Characteristics of the Modern English Language	158
The Old Academy of Science, Paris, 1699-1793 II	164
History of Gold Mining in the United States	174
Modern Tenement Houses	191
The History of Gymnosperms	197
The Progress of Science	205
March 1912
Glimpses of the Great American Desert	209
A New Development in the Mississippi Delta	237
The Imperial Universities of Japan	246
Efficiency Wage Standards	257
The Instinctive Element in Human Society	263
Types of Men	273
Time and Space	280
Professional Training for Child Hygiene	289
The Four Periods in the Development of the Modern Zoological System	298
Florentino Ameghino	303
The Progress of Science	308
April 1912
On the Need of Administrative Changes in the American University	313
Science in the Service of Highway Construction	326
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden	339
Alexander von Humboldt	346
A Review of Three Famous Attacks Upon the Study of Mathematics as a Training of the Mind	360
The Red Sunflower	373
The Medical Side of Immigration	383
Ancient Portals of the Earth	393
Ptomaines and Ptomaine Poisoning	400
Science and International Good Will	405
The Progress of Science	413
May 1912
New Proofs of the Kinetic Theory of Matter and the Atomic Theory of Electricity	417
University Education in China	441
Precession: And the Pyramids	449
New York's Ten Thousand	461
Assortative Mating in Man	476
The Price Fallacy of High Costs	493
A Bugbear of Reformers	499
Research in Medicine I	503
The Progress of Science	517
June 1912
Tropical Sunlight	521
The National Parks from the Scientific and Educational Side	531
Research in Medicine II	548
Age, Death and Conjugation in the Light of Work on Lower Organisms	563
Conservation Ideals in the Improvement of Plants	578
A Philosophy of Geography	587
Chinese Mathematics	597
The Practical Basis Foe Republican Institutions for China	602
A Program of Radical Democracy	606
The Progress of Science	616
Index	621