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Recent Tears of Egyptian Exploration. Prof. W. M. Flinders Petrie. 625 



The Gold Sand» of Cape Nome. (Illustrated.) Prof. Angelo Heilpbin. 633 



A State Official on Excessire Taxation. Franklin Smith. 645 



Latest DcTelopments witli the X Says. (Illustrated.) Prof. John Trowbridge. 659 



A Hundred Tears of Chemistry. Prof. P. W. Clarke. 673 



The Science of Art Form. (Illustrated.) D. Cady Eaton. 685 



Steam Turbines and High-Speed Vessels. (Illus.) Hon. Chas. A. Parsons, F. R. S. 696 



A SurriTal of Mediaeral Credulity. (Concluded.) Prof. E. P. Evans. 706 



Genuine Starch Factories. (Illustrated.) Byron D. Halsted, Sc. D. 716 



Trade Corporations in China. M. Maurice Courant. 732 



Editor's Table : Science- and Dogma. — A More Excellent Way 728 



Fragments of Science 731 



Index to Yol. LTI 741 



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