Vol. LXIX. No. 1 JULY, 1906 



THE 



POPULAR SCIENCE 

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EDITED BY J. McKEEK CATTELL 

 CONTENTS 



The Relations of Embryology to Medical Progress. Professor Charles 



Sedgwick Minot 5 



The Largest American Collection of Meteorites. L. P. Gratacap ... 21 



The Plane of Ether. President David Starr Jordan 29 



Are the Elements transmit table, the Atoms divisible and Forms of Matter 



but Modes of Motion. Professor S. Lawrence Bigelow .... 38 



Pure Food Legislation. Robert McD. Allen 52 



Wooden Flowers. Dr. Orville Paul Phillips 65 



The Geological Prelude to the San Francisco Earthquake. George H. 



Ashley . 69 



Our Greatest Earthquakes. Myron Leslie Fuller 76 



Shorter Articles : 



The Typhoid Fever Epidemic at Palo Alto. Edith V. Matzke . . 87 



The Progress of Science : 



The American Association for the Advancement of Science ; The Boston Meeting of 

 the American Medical Association ; The New Harvard Medical School ; Mr. Adams 

 on the American College j The Causes of Death ; Scientific Items . . • . . . . 89 



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