Vol. LXXXII, No. 6. JUNE, 1913 



THE 



POPULAR SCIENCE 



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EDITED BY J. McKEEN CATTELL 



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CONTENTS 

 Some Further Applications of the Method of Positive Rays. Professor 



Sib J. J. Thomson 521 



The Abalones of California. Professor Charles Lincoln Edwards . 532 

 The President of the Ninth International Congress of Applied Chemistry. 



Dr. George Frederick Kttnz 551 



The American College as it looks from the Inside. Professor Charles 



Hart Handschin 556 



Edward Whymper. Alpinist of the Heroic Age. Professor B. E. 



Young 559 



Alcohol from a Scientific Point of View. Dr. J. Frank Daniels . . 567 

 The Biological Status and Social "Worth of the Mulatto. Professor H. E. 



Jordan 573 



The Evidence of Inorganic Evolution. Sidney Liebovitz . . . 583 

 A Statistical Study of Eminent Women. Cora Sutton Castle . . 593 

 The Progress of Science : 



The Anniversary Meeting of the National Academy of Sciences ; The History 



of the National Academy ; Scientific Items ...... 612 



Index to Volume LXXXII 621 



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