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Vol. LVIII. No. l. NOVEMBER, 1300. 



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POPULAR SCIENCE 

 MONTHLY. 



EDITED BY J. McKEEN CAT TELL. 



CONTENTS : 



James Edward Keeler FrovtUpiecu , 



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Eapid Battleship Building. >V'aldon I'awcett T^^TT'^^TTT'^Sb 



The Address of the President before the British Association for the 



Advancement of Science. Sir William Turner 34 



The Population of the United States during the Next Ten Centuries. 



President H. S. Pritchett 49 



The Distribution of Taxes. Edward Atkinson 54 



Municipal Government Now and a Hundred Years Ago. Clinton 

 Rogers Woodruff 00 



China. William Barclay Parsons 69 



Rescue Work in History. President David Starr Jordan 81 



James Edward Keeler. Professor W. W. Campbell 85 



Discussion and Correspondence : 



Scientific and Literary Historians : Georue P. Garrison. The Retardation of 

 Science : An Editor 93 



Scientific Literature : 



Christmas Island ; Paleontology ; Zoology ; Agriculture ; Philosophy 98 



The Progress of Science : 



The Nebular Hypothesis ; The Electrical Charges of Gases, Sub-atoms tind Gravi- 

 tation ; Scientific Knowledge regarding China ; The Nobel Prizes ; An American 

 Hall of Fame ; The International Psychological Congress ; The Proposed ' Psychical 

 Institute '; Mosquitoes and Malaria; A Standard for Atomic Weights ; The Astron- 

 omer Schiaparelli ; The Rate of Express Trains; Scientific Items lOfi 



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