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Tenth Yeae. 

 Vol. XIX. No. 468. 



JANUARY 33, 1893. 



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Contents. 



"Divine Healing." C. F. Nichols, 



M.D 43 



Notes and News 44 



Forty Yeaks of Wheat Cdltube in 



Ohio. Chas. E. Thome 48 



The Anthropology of Europe 49 



The Aboriginal North American Tea. 51 

 Letters to the Editor. 



Eain Making by Concussion in the 



Eocky Mountains. G. H. Stone. . . 52 



Rain-Making. Edward Powers 52 



Eye-Habits. E. J. Hill 53 



Book Eeviews. 



Chambers's Encyclopaedia. Vol.viii. 53 



Among the Publishers 53 



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METEORITES! 



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 each individual specimen), under the three classes, SIDERITES, 3IDEE0LITES AND 

 ZEOLITES, followed by a LIST OP MICEO-SECTIONS OP ZEOLITES POE SALE, 

 and a chronological list of the CASTS OP METEOEITES which were made before cutting 

 the specimens into slices, thus being an exact /o,c simile of the size and shape of the meteor. 



These lists are followed by 25 PAGES OF ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTIONS of 

 some of the more recent masses that have passed through our hands. 



The Index to this Catalogue not only gives IN HEAVY TYPE the names adopted for 

 the Meteorites, but various important synonymous names in smaller type. 



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