SCIENCE 



Sixth Year. 

 Vol. XII. No. 285. 



NEW YORK, July 20, i5 



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Editorial ...... 



Indian History from Indian Pictographs. — The Proposed Pris- 

 on Congress at St. Petersburg. — Provision for the Eleventh 

 Census. — Scientific Congresses in Paris in l88g. — The 

 Jack-Pine Plains of Michigan. —Agricultural Experiments 

 in Connecticut. 



Intelligent Citizenship .... 

 Scientific News in Washington. 



Sending Live Lobsters to California 



Iroquois Mythology ..... 



Models of the Ocean's Bed .... 



Electrical Science. 



Continuous and Alternating Currents 



Electrification of Metal Plates by Irradiation with Electric 

 Light ...... 



Electric-Lisrhtintr in Mines 



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Book-Reviews. 



Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 



Looking Backward 



Memory and its Doctors . 



Memory , What it is, and How to improve it 



"Loisette" exposed, together with Loisette's Complete System 



of Physiological Memory 

 The Animal Life on Our Sea-Sho: 



Notes and News 

 Letters to the Editor. 



Onondaga White-Dog Feast 



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GUARANTY INVESTMENT COMPANY 



CAPITAL $250,000. 



Offices: Atchison, Kan. 191 Broadway, New York. 222 Walnut St., Phila. 



Hon. ALBERT H. HORTON (Chi -s^rfi^o, -^ice, Kansas Supreme Court), Topeka, 



Kan., ilSrSi^^v,,,, 



7°lo Guaranteed Farm Mortgages Y\i 



The Guaranty Investment Company makes loans upon fertile farms in the choicest portions of Kansas and Nebraska 

 and has adopted the policy of .sending a Committee of its Investors each year to e.xaraine its loans and methods of busi- 

 ness. The Committee this year consisted of Prof. A. H. Berlin, Principal of the High School, Montrose, Pa., and Maj. 

 Theodore L. Poole, Ex-U.S. Pension Agent, Syracuse. N. Y. Both of these gentlemen are persons ot the highest charac- 

 ter and have the confidence of the communities in which they reside. The committee has just returned and the follow- 

 ing is the closing portion of the Report made by them. 



CONDITION OF LOANS. 



" While we carefully examined in great detail over forty (40) loans made by the Company, we also looked at many others in different counties 

 that we did not have time to compare with the records. We did not examine a loan to which fault could be found, but all were found satisfactory; 

 each and ever)' loan was upon land in all cases worth the appraised value, and often much more. We look pains everywhere to find out the value 

 of land, to examine crops now on ground, to inspect improvements and surroundings, and made all possible effort; to ascertain the facts regarding 

 these loans. Crops for two years in portions of Kansas and Nebraska have suffered from drought, and the crops in some localities a failure. This 

 year there have been abundant rains, and the crops all look well. In all portions of both States new farms are being opened, old farms greatly 

 improved, better buildings being erected, school and church privileges increasing, and a general air of prosperity prevails. 



" The great staple of Kansas and Nebraska is corn, and this crop is looking very finely in almost even.' field in both Stales. 



" From our investigation and observations made as detailed above, we do not hesitate to recommend the loans made by the Guaranty Invest- 

 ment Company of Atchison, K.insas, as a safe investment, desirable in every way. The Company is well managed upon correct business princi- 

 ples, and is entitled to the confidence of the public." 



The full Report and the Monthly Bulletin of Securities for sale will be mailed to any person on application. 



HENRY A. RILEY, General Eastern Manager, 191 Broadway, N.Y. 



