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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF ALL THE A>/,^^ \ND SCIENCES. 



PUBLISHED BY N. D. C. HODGES, 8T4 BROADWAY, NEW YOR. 



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Tenth Year. 

 Vol. XX. No. 503. 



SEPTEMBER IG, 1892. 



Si.'?"^E Copies, Ten Cents. 

 3.50 Per Year, in Advance. 



Contents. 



Danger prom the Popular Misuse of Quinine. 

 W. Thornton. Parker 1 



Popular Errors About Wild Animals. Theo- 

 dore B. C<>)nstock 1 



Concerning the Aeration op Milk. C. S. 

 Plumb ] 



Report of the Summer School op the Brook- 

 lyn Institute. Herbert W. Conn 1 



On Some Habits of Amphiuma Means. Charles 

 W. Hargitt 1 



Notes AND News 1 



A Laboratory for Photographic Research. 

 Bomyn Hitchcock - 1 



The Reticulated Protoplasm of Pelomyxa. 

 A If red C. Stokes 1 



Glaciation in Western Montana. Herbert 

 W. Wood 1 



The Shrinkage of Leaves. E. E. Bogue 1' 



Letters to the Editor. 



Pre- Aino Race iu Japan. Romyn Hitchcock. V 

 On Biological Nomenclature. C H. Tyler 



Townsend V 



Grand-Gulf Formation. Wm. H. Ball l' 



European Origin of the Aryans. D. G. Brin- 



ton 11 



The English Sparrow and Other Birds. W. 

 H Ruffner H 



Book Reviews. 



Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion II 



Trees of the Northern United States H 



Entered at the Post-Offlce of New York, N.Y., as 

 Second-Class Mail Matter. 



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THE LABRADOR COAST. 



A JOURNAL OF TWO SUMMER CRUISES 

 TO THAT REGION. 

 WITH NOTES ON ITS EARLY DISCOY- 

 EEY, ON THE ESKIMO, ON ITS PHY- 

 SICAL GEOGRAPHY, GEOLOGY AND 

 NATURAL HISTORY, TOGETHER WITH 

 A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS, ARTI- 

 CLES, AND CHARTS REL-4.TING TO 

 THE CIVIL AND NATURAL HISTORY 

 OF THE LABRADOR PENINSULA. 



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



Sportsmen and ornithologists will be interested in 

 the list of Labrador birds by Mr. L. W. Turner, 

 which has been kindly revised and brought down to 

 date by Dr. J. A. Allen. Dr. S H. Scudder has con- 

 tributed the list of butterflies, and Prof. John 

 Macoun, of Ottawa, Canada, has prepared the list of 

 Jjabrador plants. 



Much pains has been taken to render the bibliog- 

 raphy complete, and the author is indebted to Dr. 

 Franz Boas and others for several titles and impor- 

 tant suggestions ; and it is hoped that this feature of 

 the book will recommend it to collectors of Ameri- 

 cana. 



It is hoped that the volume will serve as a guide 

 to the Labrador coast for the use of travellers, 

 yachtsmen, sportsmen, artists, and naturalists, as 

 well as those interested in geographical and histori- 

 cal studies. 



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