Popular Science Monthly/Volume 34

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Table of Contents
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November 1888
The Effects of Protection 1
Paleolithic Man in America: His Antiquity and Environment 20
Habits of the Great Southern Tortoise 37
Every-Day Life of Indian Women 43
Altruism Economically Considered 53
The Problem of a Flying-Machine 69
Sun-Power and Growth 77
Ainu Family-Life and Religion 81
The Prolongation of Human Life 92
Problematical Organs of Sense 101
Four-Handed Sinners: A Zoological Study 108
Sketch of Edward Atkinson 113
Correspondence 122
Editor's Table 124
Literary Notices 127
Popular Miscellany 133
Notes 142
December 1888
The Psychology of Deception 145
New Light on a Lunar Mystery 158
The Pine-Tree Lizard 162
The Last Stages in the Genealogy of Man II 171
Atomic Worlds and their Motions 183
Evolving the Camel 192
Beliefs About the Soul 202
The History of a Doctrine I 212
Infant Mortality and the Environment 221
The Origin of Forest-Groupings 229
Chinese Marriage Customs 241
Native Life in British Borneo 246
Animal Arithmetic 252
Sketch of F. A. Vulpian 262
Editor's Table 267
Literary Notices 270
Popular Miscellany 278
Notes 286
January 1889
The Guiding-Needle on an Iron Ship 289
House-Drainage from Various Points of View 310
Town-Life as a Cause of Degeneracy 324
Sea-Lions and Fur-Seals 330
Genius and Talent 341
Inventional Geometry 357
Science and its Accusers 367
The Suanetians and their Home 380
The History of a Doctrine II 385
Gauss and the Electric Telegraph 396
The Sacrifice of Education 399
Sketch of Moses Ashley Curtis 405
Correspondence 411
Editor's Table 416
Literary Notices 419
Popular Miscellany 426
Notes 431
February 1889
New Chapters in the Warfare of Science: Medicine I 433
Physical Training of Young Children 449
The Political Control of Railways: Is it Confiscation? 455
Giant Reptiles of a Past Age 466
The Yezidees, or Devil-Worshipers 474
The Dance of the Lady Crab 482
On the Causes of Variation I 486
The Story of a School 496
Underground Waters in Rock Transformations 508
The Origin of Holidays 516
New Facts in Alcoholic Heredity 526
Comments on the Sacrifice of Education 535
Sketch of John B. Stallo 548
Correspondence 556
Editor's Table 559
Literary Notices 561
Popular Miscellany 569
Notes 575
March 1889
New Chapters in the Warfare of Science: Medicine II 577
The Chemistry of To-Day 591
Glass-Making I 598
South Slavic Moon-Myths 615
Competition and the Trusts 619
Law as a Disturber of Social Order 631
Among the Fiji Islands 644
The Foundation-Stones of the Earth 652
Natural Science in Elementary Schools 662
The Aryans in Science and History 672
The Americanists in Congress 686
Sketch of Pierre Belon 692
Correspondence 698
Editor's Table 698
Literary Notices 701
Popular Miscellany 709
Notes 718
April 1889
The Psychology of Spiritualism 721
The Chemical Elements 733
Agnosticism 750
Domestication of the Buffalo 777
Zoological Gardens: Their Uses and Management 782
The Derivative Origin of the Human Mind 792
Science and Christian Science 798
On the Causes of Variation II 809
Curiosities of Natural Gas 821
Plants in Witchcraft 826
Sketch of James Pollard Espy 834
Correspondence 841
Editor's Table 843
Literary Notices 547
Popular Miscellany 859
Notes 863
Index 865