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ni 



ASTRONOMY BY EDWARD SlNGLETON HoLDEN, Director of the Lick Ob- 

 servatory 571 



IV 



CHEMISTRY, BY MARCUS BENJAMIN, Fellow of the Chemical Society of 



London 611 



V 



GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY, BY WlLLIAM NORTH RlCE, Professor 



of Geology, Wesleyan University 631 



VI 



METEOROLOGY, BY MARCUS BENJAMIN, Fellow of the Chemical Society of 



London 647 



VII 



PALEONTOLOGY, BY EDWARD DRINKER COPE, Professor of Mineralogy 



and Geology, University of Pennsylvania 679 



VIII 



BOTANY, BY WlLLiAM GlLSON FARLOW, Professor of Cryptogamic Botany, 



Harvard University 697 



IX 



ZOOLOGY, BY THEODORE GiLL, Professor of Zoology, Columbian University 711 



X 



ANTHROPOLOGY, BY JESSE WALTER FEWKES, Editor of the Journal of 



American Ethnology and Archaology 745 



XI 



GEOGRAPHY, BY GARDINER GREENE HUBBARD, President of the National 



Geographic Society 773 



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BIBLIOGRAPHY, BY HENRY CARRINGTON BOLTON, Lecturer on the His- 

 tory of Chemistry, and Professor of Bibliography, Columbian University . . 785 



