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JULY 29, 1893. 



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Contents. 



EiCE culture in Japan, Mexico, and the 

 United States From the Hygien- 

 ic Point of view. Albert S. Ash- 

 mead 57 



Current Notes on Anthropology. — 



XI. Edited by D. 6. Brinton 60 



Notes and News 61 



Modern Botany. Charles R. Barnes.... 63 



Notes on a Destructive Forest Tree 



Scolytid, Andrew D. Hopkins. . . 64 

 Letters to the Editor. 



Auroral Display. T. A. Bereman. . 65 

 Magnetic Storm. Aurora and Sun- 



Spots. Edgar L. Larkin 65 



The Crinoid Heterocrinus Suberas- 



sus. D. T. D. Dyche 66 



Professor Parker's Further Studies 



on the Apteryx. R. W. Shufeldt. 66 

 A Satellite of the Moon. C. P. Max- 

 well 66 



Auroral Display. John T. Campbell. 66 

 BookEeviews 67,68,69 



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THE LABRADOR COAST, 



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By ALPHEUS SPRING PACKARD, M.D., Ph.D. 



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