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Aard-Vaek, or Earth-Hog. (Illustrated.) 572 



Advantages of Oral Teaching 690 



Afghanistan 252 



African Elephant, its Proposed Domestication 551 



Agassiz's Zoological Laboratory 834 



Agricultural School, A French 253 



Alcohol, Effects of, on Character 379 



Allen, G., "Why do we eat our Dinner ? 799 



America, The Peopling of ^^ 



American Hairy Tortoise 530 



Ancient Hygiene 549 



Animal Intelligence 214 



Animals and Plants, Differences between 30 



Antiquity of the Practice of Inoculation 695 



Ant Community, History of an 248 



Ants, Battle-Eoyal among 121 



Ants' Nest. . . /. 693 



Are the Elements elementary ? 407 



Artificial Diamonds 687 



Astronomical Magnitudes and Distances 291 



Atheism and the. Church 621 



Atmospheric Electricity and Plant-Growth 247 



Backgammon among the Aztecs ' 491 



Bain, A., Education as a Science 55, 152 



Bain, A., John S. Mill 697 



Balloons, Use of, in Arctic Exploration 837 



Battle-Royal among Ants • • 121 



Beard, G. M., Experiments with Living Human Beings Gil, 751 



Beaver, Sagacity of the 123 



Beginning of Nerves in the Animal Kingdom. (Illustrated.) 303 



Belt, Thomas, Death of 255 



Bidder, George, the Calculating Boy 835 



Biology and " Woman's Eights " 201 



Black Diamonds 337 



Blindness and its Causes 838 



Blood-sucking Squirrel 838 



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