VOL. XLIIL] ESTABLISHED BY EDWARD L. YOUMANS. [No. 6. 



POPULAR '* SCIENCE 

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OCTOBER, 1893. 



EDITED BY WILLIAM JAY YOUMANS. 



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I. Electricity at the World's Fair. I. By C. M. LUNGREN. (Illus.). 721 

 II. The Duty of the State to the Insane. By Dr. A. MACFA.RLANE. . 741 



III. The Lip and Ear Ornaments of the Botocudus. By JOHN C. 



BRANNER, Ph. D 753 



IV. Criminal Festivals. By M. GUILLAUME FERRERO. 758 



V. The Ural Cossacks and their Fisheries. By Dr. N. BORODINE. 



(Illustrated.) 767 



VI. The Progress of Psychology. By Prof. JAMES McK. CATTELL. . . 779 

 VII. A Characteristic Southwestern Plant Group. By HENRY L. 



CLARKE. (Illustrated.) 786 



VIII. Household Arts at the World's Fair. By F. A. FERNALD 803 



IX. The Problem of Colored Audition. By M. ALFRED BINET 812 



X. Some Characteristics of Northwestern Indians 823 



XL Sketch of Werner von Siemens. (With Portrait.) 831 



XII. Editor's Table: Aids to Misery. The American Association Meeting at Madi- 

 son. Our New Index > 839 



XIII. Literary Notices 845 



XIV. Popular Miscellany 856 



XV. Notes 863 



XVI. Index to Vol. XLIII.. . 865 



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