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 Vol. LXY. No. 1 MAY, 1904 



THE 



POPULAR SCIENCE 

 MONTHLY 



EDITED BY J. McKEEJV CAT TELL 



CO NTENTS 



The Development of a New Method of Research. Professor George E. 

 Hale 5 



The College of the West. President David Starr Jordan .... 27 



A Question of Preference in English Spelling. Dr. Edwin W. Bowen . 38 



Alumna's Children : An Alumna 45 



The Study of Physics. Professor Frederick E. Beach 52 



English Herbals. Agnes Robertson 65 



The Geology and Geo-botany of Asia. Prince P. Kropotkin .... 68 



The Royal Prussian Academy of Science and the Fine Arts. Edward 

 F. Williams 74 



The Progress of Science : 



Agricultural Work in the Philippines ; Antarctic Exploration ; The Scientific Work 

 of Professor Arrhenius ; Linnaeus ; President Eliot ; The Will of Herbert Spencer ; 

 Scientific Items 86 



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