SOCIOLOGY. 



Questions pertaining to social welfare, especially in those cases where the 

 direct action of the state is concerned, will likewise receive a fair share of atten- 

 tion. These will embrace, among others, articles on the results of temperance 

 legislation; the restriction of vivisection; state versus private philanthropy; 

 and politics as an agency in social affairs. 



THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES. 



Care will be taken to keep up with the more important and later devel- 

 opments in the physical sciences, when they are susceptible ot popular state- 

 ment ; wireless telegraphy, the applications of low temperatures in research, im- 

 provements in the industrial arts, and the history and later practical applications 

 of electricity being among the special subjects that will receive attention. 



SERIALS. 



Several papers yet remain of the series by the late Hon. David A. Wells 

 on The Principles of Taxation, that will appear early in the year. Professor 

 Ripley's contributions on The Racial Geography of Europe will run into the 

 year, and there are two more articles on The Evolution of Colonies, by Mr. 

 James Collier. 



With other illustrations, each number of the Monthly contains a finely 

 engraved portrait of some eminent man of science, with a biographical sketch. 



AMONG ITS RECENT CONTRIBUTORS ARE: 



HERBERT SPENCER, ANDREW D. WHITE, ISRAEL C. RUSSELL, 



EDWARD ATKINSON, WILLIAM Z. RIPLEY, C. HANFORD HENDERSON, 



E. P. EVANS, FREDERICK STARR, CESARE LOMBROSO, 



JAMES SULLY, S. N. D. NORTH, ANGELO HEILPRIN, 



W. K. BROOKS, GEORGE M. STERNBERG, G. F. WRIGHT, 



DAVID STARR JORDAN, WORTHINGTON C. FORD, WILLIAM H. HUDSON, 



FELIX L. OSWALD, EDWARD S. MORSE, CHARLES D. WALCOTT, 



JOSEPH LE CONTE, H. CARRINGTON BOLTON, T. C. MENDENHALL. 



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