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Vol. XLIIL] 



Established by Edward L. Youmans. 



THE 



[No. 5. 



POPULAR SCIENCE 

 MONTHLY. 



SEPTEMBER, 1893. 



EDITED BY WILLIAM JAY YOUMANS. 



CONTENTS. rAGE 



I. Why Silver ceases to be Money. By Prof. F. W. Taussig 577 



II. Folk-lore Study in America. By Lee J. Vance. (IUus.) 586 



III. Reformatory Prisons and Lombroso's Theories. By Miss Helen 



Zimmern 598 



IV. Anthropology at the World's Fair. By Prof. F. Starr. (Illus.). 610 

 V. Recent Science. II. By Prince Kropotkin 622 



VI. The Pilgrim Path of Cholera. By Ernest Hart, F.R.C.S. (Illus.) 634 



VII. Grandfather Thunder. By Abby L. Alger 651 



VIII. Scientific Cooking. A Plea for Education in Household Affairs. 



By Miss M. A. Boland 653 



IX. Prehistoric Jasper Mines in the Lehigh Hills. By H. C. Mer- 

 cer. (Illustrated.) 662 



X. Origin of Literary Forms. By Charles Letourneau 673 



XL The Psychology of Lizards. By M. J. Delbozuf 682 



XII. Sketch of Henry Carrington Bolton. (With Portrait.) 688 



XIII. Correspondence : Major Powell on "Are there Evidences of Man in the 



Glacial Gravels?" 696 



XIV. Editor's Table : Civic Duty 699 



XV. Literary Notices 702 



XVI. Popular Miscellany 712 



XVII. Notes 718 



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