The Scientific Monthly/Volume 1

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The Scientific Monthly (1915)
Volume 1
4499494The Scientific Monthly — Volume 11915

Table of Contents
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October 1915
The Evolution of the Stars and the Formation of the Earth II 1
A History of Fiji IV 18
War Selection in the Ancient World 36
Anti-Suffragists and War 44
An Interpretation of Slavophilism 47
Physical Training as Mental Training 56
Edward Jenner and Vaccination 66
The Value of Industrial Research 86
A Few Classic Unknowns in Mathematics 93
The Aboriginal Rock-Stencillings of New South Wales 98
The Progress of Science 101
November 1915
Papua, where the Stone-Age Lingers 105
Contact Electrification and the Electric Current 124
On Certain Resemblances Between the Earth and a Butternut 132
The Cash Value of Scientific Research 140
The Physical Michelangelo 148
War, Business and Insurance 165
The Evolution of the Stars and the Formation of the Earth III 177
Progress and Peace 195
The Progress of Science 202
December 1915
The Inside History of a Great Medical Discovery 209
The Evolution of the Stars and the Formation of the Earth IV 238
A Metrical Tragedy 256
Adaptation as a Process 264
Why Certain Plants are Acrid 272
How our Ancestors were Cured 278
Eminent American Names 283
A Visit to Œningen 287
The Theory and Practise of Frost Fighting 292
The Progress of Science 303
Index 311