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The Prospects of a Zoological Garden in Boston. — The Man- 





Harvard Reminiscences 





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ual Training Discussion at Washington. 







The National Sin of Literary Piracy 





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The Mississippi Problem . Smith S. 



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Chemistry, Inorganic and Organic . 

 Benjamin Franklin as a Man of Letters 



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Mental Science. 







A Text-Book of Inorganic Chemistry 





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A Second Laura Bridgman 





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Woman and the Commonwealth 





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Exploration and Travel. 







Notes and News 





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Tibet and Nepaul ..... 





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Letters to the Editor. 







Electrical Science. 







Errors in ' The Ancient Monuments of th 



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Alternating Current Electro-Motors 



Gas-Engines and Wind-Mills for Electric Lighting . 





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Cat Phenomena 



The Nutriment in Edible Fungi . 



Cyrus Thomas 



. H. W. Parker 



Frederic G. Mather 



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Ethnology. 







A Worm in a Hen's Egg 



G. C. Ashmun 



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Christmas Customs in Newfoundland 





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Self-Recording Rain-Gauge 



C. F. Marvin 



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