Popular Science Monthly/Volume 81

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Table of Contents

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July 1912
Research in Medicine III	6
Trinidad and Bermudez Asphalts and their Use in Highway Construction I	19
The Role of the House Fly and Certain Other Insects in the Spread of Human Diseases	36
Holes in the Air	50
The Physiological Basis of Esthetics	61
Are the Jews a Pure Race?	70
Is a Scientific Explanation of Life Possible?	78
Some Features of the Root-Systems of the Desert Plants	90
The Progress of Science	100
August 1912
Notes on Gauss and his American Descendants	105
Research in Medicine IV	115
Modern Thought	133
Cold Storage Problems	153
The World's Most Important Conservation Problem	163
Trinidad and Bermudez Asphalts and their Use in Highway Construction II	170
An Economic Interpretation of Present Politics	183
Helps to Studying	193
Bees Which Visit Only One Species of Flower	197
The Progress of Science	204
September 1912
Research in Medicine V	209
Wind-Graved Mesas and their Message	227
Old Lamps for New	238
The Revival of Economic Orthodoxy	246
George Marcgrave, The First Student of American Natural History	250
The Real Problem of Commission Government	275
Genius and Hair-Color	284
A Consideration of the Nature of Hunger	291
The Progress of Science	308
October 1912
The Guayule: A Desert Rubber Plant	313
Rousseau's Contributions to Psychology, Philosophy and Education	331
Smoking and Football Men	336
The Minister's Son	345
History-Making Forces	349
Industrialism	355
The Inheritance of Fecundity	364
Stuffy Rooms	374
Permanent Fireproofing of Cotton Goods	397
The Progress of Science	409
November 1912
A Round-The-World Botanical Excursion	417
Some Aspects of Anaphylaxis	434
The Permanence of Interests and their Relation to Abilities	449
China's Great Problem	457
Modern Warfare Against Grasshoppers	465
The Relation of Eugenics to Euthenics	475
Negroes Who Owned Slaves	483
The Administrative Peril in Education	495
The Progress of Science	517
December 1912
The Evolution of the Dollar Mark	521
Practical Forestry Explained	531
Insects as Agents in the Spread of Disease	537
The Genesis of Individual and Social Surplus	551
Rising Prices and the Public	564
The Function of the American College	574
Reforming the Calendar	582
Basil Valentine: A Seventeenth-Century Hoax	591
The Hindu-Arabic Numerals	601
The Progress of Science	615
Index	621