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Vol. LIV.J Established by Edward L. Youmans. 



. APPLETONS' 

 POPULAR SCIENCE 

 MONTHLY. 



MARCH, 1899. 

 EDITED BY WILLIAM JAY YOUMANS. 



CONTENTS. PA „ 



I. The Evolution of Colonies. VII. Social Evolution. By J. Collier. 577 

 II. Politics as a Form of Civil War. By Franklin Smith 588 



III. My Pet Scorpion. By Norman Robinson. (Illustrated.) 605 



IV. The Peoples of the Balkan Peninsula — The Greek, the Slav, and the 



Turk. By Prof. William Z. Ripley. (Illustrated. ) . . . 614 



V. Marvelous Increase in Production of Gold. By Alexander E. 



OUTERBRIDGE, Jr 635 



VI. The California Penal System. By Charles Howard Shinn. (Illus.) 644 

 VII. The Scientific Expert and the Bering Sea Controversy. By George 



A. Clark 654 



VIII. A School for the Study of Life under the Sea. By Eleanor 



Hodgens Patterson 668 



IX. Science in Education. By Sir Archibald Geikie, F. R. S 672 



X. Shall we Teach our Daughters the Value of Money ? By Mrs. 



George Elmore Ide . . .- 686 



XI. Sketch of Clemence Royer. By M. Jacques Boyer. (With Portrait.) 690 

 XII. Editor's Table : Words of a Master.— Fads and Frauds 699 



XIII. Scientific Literature 704 



XIV. Fragments of Science 712 



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