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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF ALL THE ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



PUBLISHED BY N. D. C. HODGES, 874 BROADWAY, NEW YORE. 



Tenth Year. 

 Vol. XX. No. 500. 



SEPTEMBER 2, 1892. 



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Contents. 



The Immediate Work in Chemical 



Science. Albert H. Prescott 137 



The American Association of State 



Weather Services 131 



Notes and News 131 



Cremation of Cholera Corpses. Albert. 



S. Ashmead 133 



Acorn-Eating Birds. Morris Gibbs 133 



Letters to the Editor. 



The Intelligence of a Horse. T. B. 



Redding 133 



The English Sparrow and our Native 



Birds. X 134 



Celestial Photoiniorographyj/ -5. V. 



Clevenger .•■.•''. ... .135 



As to the ' ' Extinction ' ' of the 



American Horse. Robt. C. Auld. 135 

 Some Notes on the Rochester Meet- 

 ing. William Kent 135 



Book Eevtews '. 136 



Among the Publishers 139 



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THE LABRADOR COAST. 



A JOURNAL OF TWO SUMMER CRUISES 

 TO THAT REGION. 



WITH NOTES ON ITS EARLY DISCOV- 

 ERY, ON THE ESKIMO, ON ITS PHY- 

 SICAL GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY AND 

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