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Plant Contraction, Mechanism of 284 



Plants, Cultivated, The Origin of. 784 



Plants, Diseases of 385 



Plants in America, Chinese 862 



Poey, Professor Felipe, Sketch of 547 



Poisons developed in the Body 283 



Pole and Wire Evil, The 181 



Popular Miscellany 138, 277, 425, 565, 71:^ 855 



Population, The Problem of 671 



Prehistoric Mounds, On the Supposed Discovery of Iron in 138 



Primitive Peoples, The Astronomy of 620 



Progress and Social Improvement 123 



Prohibition, An Experiment in 47, 696 



Railroads, How State Monopoly of, works 858 



Rambles, Some, of a Naturalist 474 



Rayleigh, Professor Lord 739 



Rayleigh, Professor Lord, Sketch of 840 



Religion, Retrogressive 451 



Religion. The Ghost of 440 



Remember, Where and how we 609 



Reparation to Innocent Convicts 508 



Reproduction, Modes of, in Plants 159 



Retrogressive Religion 451 



Reyer, Dr. E 86 



Rheumatism, Seasonal Variations of 429 



Richet, Charles 759 



River-Beds, Winding, Origin of 284 



River- Water, Effect of Sewage on 575 



Rombouts, Dr. J. E 68 



Russian Scientific Societies 285 



Salt-Deposits, The, of Western New York 530 



School Examinations, Dr. Michael Foster on 281 



School-Work, Effect of, on the Brain 282 



Science and Art, Are, Antagonistic ? 357 



Science and the Temperance Reform 553 



Science, Physical, The Recent Progress of 739 



Scientific Culture 577 



Scientific Philanthropy. . 481 



Scientific Societies, Russian 285 



Scientists, The, at Montreal 843 



Scott, Professor W. B 201 



Scribner, G. Hilton 73 



Seasons, The, Correlations of 714 



Seely, G. B 796 



Sewage, Effect of, on River-Water 575 



Sliepherd, Francis J , M. D 721 



Siberian Superstitions ■ 572 



Sins, The, of Legislators 1, 145 



