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CONTENTS OF FEBRUARY NUMBER 



Professor E. L. Nichols. Frontispiece. 



Glacial Erosion in Alaska. Professor Ralph S. Tarr. 



The Relation of School Organization to Instruction. 

 Professor Wilbur 9. Jackman. 



The Search of Truth. 

 Jordan. 



Is Man an Automaton? 



FULLERTON. 



President David Starr 



Professor George Stuart 



A Vocabulary Test. Professor E. A. Kirkpatrick. 



Magical Medical Practice in South Carolina. John 

 Hawkins. 



The Value of Science. Professor H. Poincare. 



The Progress of Science : 



The Convocation Week Meetings; The Carnegie 

 Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; 

 The Sand-dunes of the Desert of Islay; Scientific 

 Items. 



CONTENT8 OF MARCH NUMBER 

 A Defence of Pragmatism. Professor William James. 



The Century Plant and Some Other Plants of the Dry 

 Country : Professor William Trelease. 



Notes on the Development of Telephone Service. 

 Fred DeLand. 



Denatured Alcohol. 

 low. 



Professor S. Lawrence Bige- 



gpelling Reform and .the Conservation of Energy. 

 Professor W. Le Conte Stevens. 



Fritz Schaudinn. Professor Thos. H. Montgomery. 



The Value of Science. M. H. Poincare. 



The Progress of Science : 



The Smithsonian Institution and its Secretary ; 

 The Report of the President of the Carnegie Insti- 

 tution ; Mr. Rockefeller's Gift to the Board of Ed- 

 ucation ; Scientific Items. 



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