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MAY 27, 1892. 



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Contents. 



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298 

 300 



A Key to the Mtstert of the Mata 



Codices. Cyrus Thomas 295 



Dr. D. H. Storer's Work on the Fishes. 



S. Oarman 395 



The Eelation of Business to College 

 Education. Franklin A. Becher. 



The System of Algol. Miss A, A 

 Clerke 



The Change at Cornell 



How to Protect Inventions in Foreign 

 Countries Without Effect Upon 

 the Teem of United States Pat- 

 ent. Edioard P. Thompson 301 



Letters to the Editor. 



The General Circulation of the At- 

 mosphere T. A. Bereman 301 



Four-Fold Space. W. P. Preble 304 



H. Carvill Lewis's Work on the 

 Glacial Phenomena Mrs. Julia F. 

 Lewis 305 



Among the Publishers 307 



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