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CONTENTS OF JANUARY NUMBER 



The Career of Herbert Spencer. Professor Lestbk F. 

 Wakd. 



Lineaments of the Desert. Dr. Charles E. Ketes. 



On the Therapeutic Action of Fermented Milk. Dr. C 

 A. Heeter. 



Poetry and Science in the Case of Charles Darwin. 

 Edward Bradford Titchener. 



A Biographical History of Botany at St. Louis. Dr 

 Perley Spaulding. 



The Art of Bleaching and Dyeing as applied to Food* 

 Professor E. H. S. Bailey. 



Mr. Roosevelt's Opportunity as President of a Uni- 

 versity. Professor Dicbinson S. Miller. 



Commercialism. Professor John J. Stevenson. 



Foreign Associates of National Societies. Professor 

 Edward C. Pickering. 



The School and the '.Family. J. McKeen Cattell. 



The Progress of Science : 



Wolcott Gibbs; Otis Tufton Mason; The H. K. 

 Gushing Laboratory of Experimental Medicine of 

 Western Reserve University ; The Convocation Week 

 Meeting at the Johns Hopkins University ; Scientific 



Items. 



CONTENTS OF FEBRUARY NUMBER 



The National Exposition at Rio de Janeiro. Professor 



Robert DeC. Ward. 

 A Biographical History of Botany at St. Louis, Missouri, 



Dr. Perley Spaulding. 

 The Latest Calabrian Disaster. Professor Wm. H. Hobbs. 

 Jefferson Davis's Camel Experiment. Professor Walter 



L. Fleming. 

 Railroads and the Smoke Nuisance. . Clinton Rogers 



Woodruff. 

 Account of a Trip in Southernmost Japan, with Early 



Records of Its Discovery. Robert Van Vleck 



Anderson. 

 An American Contribution to the History of the Phys- 

 iology of Digestion. Professor Lafayette B. 



Mendel. 

 The Instruments and Methods of Research. Dr. L. A. 



Bauer. 

 The Progress of Science : 



The Scientific Meetings at Baltimore; The Report 



of the Secretary of Agriculture ; Scientific Items. 



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