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CONTENTS. 



Dr. G "orge F. Beird on Mesmeric Trance (Edit.); New York Academy of Sci :nces ; Hunger the Primitive Des ; re, by S. V. Clevenger , 

 Notes on tin Anatomy of the Encephal in, Notably of the Great Ganglia, by Edward C. Spitzka; Effect of Pressure on the Fusion 

 Point; Tne Ph ; lo; >pnic U Soc'cty of Washingt on ; Hypnotism; ftie Hmmond Prize; Chesapeake Zoological Laboratory ; The 

 Mated ilis'ic Origin of the Sexes, by Andrew Dewar ; The Mechanic; of Bird-Flight; Color Relations of Metals; Detection of 

 StarcVSugar Mechanically Mi\ed with Commercial Cane-Sugar, by P. Casamajor; The Late Partial Eclipse of the Sun, and 

 Pinnule's Co-net, by C. A. Young ; Larg; Meteors, by W. F. Denning ; The Report of the "K»w Committee," 1880, by W. C. W .; 

 The Observatories of the Uni ed States, I. (C irleton Collegi Observatory); On the Limit of Plaietary Stability, by Daniel Kirk- 

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