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VOL. XLVIIL] EsTABlgsagp BY EDWARD L, YOUMANS. [No. 4. 



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APPLETONS' 



POPULAR SCIENCE 



MONTHLY. 



FEBRUARY, 1896. 

 EDITED BY WILLIAM JAY YOUMANS. 



CONTENTS. PAOT 



I. Principles of Taxation. II. By DAVID A. WELLS, LL.D., D.C.L. 433 

 H. The Smithsonian Institution. II. Activities of the Institution. 



By Prof. H. CARRINGTON BOLTON, Ph. D. (Illustrated.) 449 



III. The Effect of Prolonged Drought upon Animal Life. By Dr. 



CHARLES C. ABBOTT 465 



IV. Gathering Naval Stores. By LEE J. VANCE. (Illustrated.) 469 



V. The Study of Inheritance. I. By Prof. W. K. BROOKS, LL. D. . . 480 



VI. Imitation among Atoms and Organisms. By EDMUND NOBLE 492 



VII. Natural Features of Venezuela. By FREDERIK A. FERNALD. (Illus.). 510 

 VIII. Suggestibility, Automatism, and Kindred Phenomena. III. By 



Prof. W. ROMAINE NEWBOLD 520 



IX. The Stamping Out of Crime. By Dr. NATHAN OPPENHEIM 527 



X. The Young Draughtsman. By JAMES SULLY, M. A., LL. D. (Illus.). 533 



XL Sketch of Andrew Dickson White. (With Portrait.) 546 



XII. Professional Institutions. X. Sculptor. By HERBERT SPENCER .. 557* 



XIII. Lord Salisbury on Evolution. By HERBERT SPENCER 564* 



XIV. Expired Air and Problems of Ventilation 583* 



XV. Editor's Table : The Ecclesiastical View of Education. The Hundredth 



Anniversary of the French Institute 557 



XVI. Scientific Literature 562 



XVII. Fragments of Science 570 



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