TRIBUNE POPULAR SCIENCE. 



PART II. generation, that it has unearthed not on\y the 



probable ruins of Troy, but those -of a far more 



TABLE OF CONTENTS, ancient city beneath them, that had grown and 



DISCOVERIES ON THE SITE OF ANCIENT flourished and decayed ages before the armies 



TROY: o f Greece advanced to the seige of Ilium. 



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A LETTER BY BAYARD TAYLOR 2 The lectures of Dr. Brown-Sequard on the 



BROWN-SEQUARD^LECTURES ON THE Nerveg? coyer ft field of knowledge hither to not 



THE NERVOUS FOHOK.. . J2 much trodden. There is force in his urgent 



NERVOUS INFLUENCE 16 appeal to the younger members of the profes- 



INDIRECT SERVE FORCE ...20 gion to exten(i t l iese inquiries, and in the 



NERVE DERANGEMEN r 24 , , . , , 



SUMNER'S SUFFERINGS 28 strange and novel features which he presents 



WHAT NERVES MAY Do 30 in these lectures there is ample evidence that 



PROCTOR'S FAREWELL LECTURES ON AS- the study will prove as interesting as it is im- 

 TR<)NOMY 



EARTH'S PAST AND FUTURE. '. 36 portant. The causes, character, and means of 



LIFE IN OTHER WORLDS 42 remedying many of the most obscure and painful 



OTHER SUNS THAN OURS 48 diseases to which the human frame is subjected, 



THE INFINITIES AROUND Us 53 -, . -,. -, -, , , , r 



THE GERM THEORY OF DISEASE: are here indicated, and the argument is enliven- 



A LECTURE HY PROF. C. F. CHANDLER 59 ed by much that is curious and entertaining. 



Although in a certain sense the outgrowth 



FEATURE* OF RECENT DISCOVERY. of his former lectures, the present series of dis- 

 The admirable letter of Mr. Bayard Taj'lor courses on astronomy by Mr. Proctor is entirely 

 on the discoveries of Dr. Schliemann in the new. They may be described as carrying out 

 Troad presents a more complete and intelligible to their limit the thoughts that naturally arise 

 account than could be gleaned by a laborious in astronomical investigations, and they at- 

 perusal of the fragmentary narratives which tempt, in the light of the most recent discover- 

 that explorer has published. In this brief page ies, the solution of the most far-reaching 

 all the essential features are condensed which problems which can be presented to the human 

 lie scattered through volumes. The treasures mind. Nor does he limit himself to the scupc 

 of antiquity brought back by Dr. Schliemann of the mere materialist in these discussions; 

 are of the highest archaeological value, aside he treads with reverent step the infinite abysses 

 from their classical interest. It will be here- of the heavens, and leads us from nature up to 

 after regarded as the great good-fortune of this nature's God. 



