CONTENTS V 



The United States Patent Laws; Historically and Practically 

 Considered. 



BY Cyrus N. Anderson 376 , 



The Work of the Weather Bureau. 



BY Theodore Waters 390 



Medicine in America. 



BY TwiNG B. Wiggins 402 



^Achievements of Surgery in America. 



BY Bayard Holmes 423 



Progress of Dentistry in America. 



BY Truman W. Brophy 437 ^ 



