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Established by Edward L. Youmans. 



[No. 1. 



THE 



POPULAR SCIENCE 

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MAY, 1893. 

 EDITED BY WILLIAM JAY YOUMANS. 



CONTENTS. rAGE 



I. Japanese Home Life. By Dr. AY. Delaxo Eastlake. (Illus.). . 1 



IT. The Inadequacy of "Natural Selection." II. By Herbert Spexcer 21 



III. Evidences of Glacial Man in Ohio. By Prof. G. Frederick 



Wright. (Illustrated.) 29 



IV. Growth of our Knowledge of the Deep Sea. By G. W. Littlehales 39 

 V. The Cultivation of Humane Ideas. By Prof. Wesley Mills, M. D. 46 



VI. The Oswego State Normal School. By Prof. W. M. Aber. (Illus.). 51 



VII. Decay in the Apple Barrel. By B. D. Halsted, Sc. D. (Illus.) . 76 



VIII. Discovery of Alcohol and Distillation. By M. Berthelot 85 



IX. Tribute of the French Academy to American Geology 95 



X. How Science is helping the Farmer. By Charles S. Plumb, B. S. 100 



XL Dietary for the Sick. By Sir Dyce Duckworth, M. D., LL. D.. Ill 



XII. Sketch of Samuel William Johnson. (With Portrait.) 117 



XIII. Editor's Table : Sound Words on Education.— The Scientific Alliance of Xew 



York. — Moral Education 121 



XIV. Literary Notices 125 



XV. Popular Miscellany 135 



XVI. Notes 143 



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