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Tenth Yeak. 

 Vol. XX. No. 497. 



AUGUST 12, 1892. 



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Contents. 



The Chief Mountain Lakes. George 



Bird Grinnell 85 



Birds Breeding at Hanover,New Hamp- 

 shire, clarence 3/1. Weed 86 



Hot Weather in Mars. Edwin J. 



Houston 86 



' ' Flathead ' ' Deer. A 87 



Some Analogies Between Molecules 



AND Crystals. John W. Caldwell. 88 

 Notes and News 89 



Current Notes on Anthropologt. — 



XII. Edited by D. G. Brinton 90 



Medical Botant. Charles Frederick 



Millspa ugh 91 



On the Present Tendency Toward 

 Higher Standards of Profes- 

 sional Education. JV. J3 92 



Letters to the Editor 93 



Book Reviews 94 



Among the Publishers 95 



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THE LABRADOR COAST. 



A JOURNAL OF TWO SUIVIMER CRUISES 

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