Vol. LXXIV. No. 1. «-: JANUARY, 1909 



THE 



POPULAR SCIENCE 

 MONTHLY. 



EDITED BY J. McKEEJ^ CATTELL 



CONTKNTS 



The Career of Herbert Spencer. Professor Lester F. Wabd .... 5 



Lineaments of the Desert. De. Charles R. Keyes 19 



On the Therapeutic Action of Fermented Milk. Dr. C. A. Herter . . 31 



Poetry and Science in the Case of Charles Darwin. Edward Bradford 



TiTCHENER 43 



A Biographical History of Botany at St. Lonis. Dr. Perley Spaulding 48 



The Art of Bleaching and Dyeing as applied to Food. Professor E. H. S. 



Bailey 58 



Mr. Roosevelt's Opportunity as President of a University. Professor 



Dickinson S. Miller 62 



Commercialism. Professor John J. Stevenson 70 



Foreign Associates of National Societies. Professor Edward C. Pickering 80 



The School and the Family. J. McKeen Cattell 84 



The Progress of Science : 



Wolcott Gibbs ; Otis Tufton Mason ; The H. K. Cushing Laboratory of 

 Experimental Medicine of Western Reserve University ; The Convo- 

 cation "Week Meeting at the Johns Hopkins University ; Scientific 

 Items 96 



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