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The Formation of Alloys. — How Actors act. — Geology of 

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Is the Rainfall increasing upon the Plains ? 



Henry Gantiett 

 Washington Scientific News. 



A Novel Way of forming Alloys 

 The Constituents of Sugar . 

 Rainfall in the Arid Regions 

 Irish Myths and Folk-Tales 

 E.xamining Fats 



Health Matters. 



Transmission of Infection by Rags . 



Electrical Bullet-rrobe 



Medical Colleges in the United States 



The Future of Medical Graduates . 



Alcohol and Fevers 



Bovine Tuberculosis 



Electrical Science. 



Secondary Balteries 



Prini.iry and Secondary Currents in Induction-Coils 



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Ethnology. 



Notes on the Kwakiool of Vancouver Island . 



Book-Reviews. 



Great Waterfalls, Cataracts, and Geysers 



Chips from the Earth's Crust 



Mineral Resources of the United States 



The Soul, or Rational Psychology 



Childhood ; its Care and Culture 



Life of Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet 



An Explanatory Digest of Fawce 



Economv * 

 What Shall we Talk about ? 

 A Text-Book of Algebra 



Notes and News 

 Letters to the Editor. 



Ratio between Men and Women 

 Classification of Diphtheria 

 Sex and Consumption 

 A Worm in a Hen's Egg 

 Calls for Domestic Animals 

 Vermin- Eaters . . A 



The Snow-Snake and the r-Sound 

 Queries and Answers 



0. T. Mason 



P, J. Farnsworth 



G. W. Hambleton 



R. Rnmsay Wright 



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F. Chamberlain; F. Boas 



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