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The New Method of Protecting Build- 

 ings FROM Lightning. iV. D. C. 

 Hodges 197 



Tox-Albumin Diphtheria 198 



Description of a Supposed New Spe- 

 cies OF Storeria from Florida, 

 Storeria ViCTA. O. P. Hay 199 



The Higher Education of the Deaf. 



A. L. E. Crouter 199 



Notes and News 200 



Current Notes on Anthropology.— IIL 



Edited by D. G.Brinton 202 



Osteological Notes. D. D. Slade 203 



Attempted Extermination of the Pocket 

 Gopher, Geomts Bursarius. Er- 

 u'in H. Barbour 304 



Wind Storms and Trees. L. H. Pom- 

 mel 205 



EussiAN Sunflower Indl'strt 205 



Flexible Tubing 206 



Letters to the Editor. 



Zoology in the Public Schools of 

 Washington, D. C. K. W. Schu- 



feldt ...\ 207 



The Question of the Celts. Henry 

 W. Haynes 207 



Among the Publishers 207 



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