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CONTENTS OP AUGUST NUMBER 



The Future of Astronomy. Professor Edward C. 



Pickering. 

 The Future of Mathematics. Professor G. A. Miller. 

 The "Druid Stones" of Brittany. Professor J. 8. 



KlNGSLEY. 



The Origin of the Nervous System and its Appropria- 

 tion of Effectors. Professor G. H. Parker. 



The Variational Factor in Handwriting. Dr, June E. 

 Downey. 



Jane Lathrop Stanford. President David Stars 

 Jordan. 



Life from the Biologist's Standpoint. Professor William 

 E. Bitter. 



JosiahWillard Gibbs and his Relation to Modern Science. 

 Dr. Fielding H. Garrison. 



The Progress of Science: 



The Death of Simon Newcomb ; The Darwin Com- 

 memoration ; The Winnipeg Meeting of the British 

 Association ; Scientific Items. 



CONTENTS OF SEPTEMBER NUMBER 



Capacity of the United States for Population. Pro- 

 fessor Albert Perry Brigham. 



Pe&le's Museum. Dr. Harold Sellers Colton. 



The Theory of Individual Development. Professor 

 Frank K. Lillie. 



The Origin of the Nervous System and its Appropri- 

 ation of Effectors. Professor G. H. Parker. 

 Another Mode of Species Forming. Luther Burbank- 



Henri Poincare and the French Academy. M. Fred- 

 eric Masson. 



Collecting and Camping Afoot. 



A. s. Hitchcock. 



Dr. 



The Necessity for an International Language. 

 Ivy Kellerman. 



What is a Living Animal ? How much of it is alive ? 

 Dr. A. F. A. King. 



Abandoned Canals of the State of New York. Ely 

 Van de Warker. 



The Progress of Science : 



Tennyson and the Science of the Nineteenth Cen" 

 tury ; The Reminiscences of Sir Francis Galton ; 

 The Eugenies Laboratory of the University of 

 London; The Inheritance of Vision; Scientific 

 Items. 



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