NINETEENTH YEAR OK PUBLICATION 
AND ANNALS OF 
ASTRONOMY, BIOLOGY, GEOLOGY, INDUSTRIAL ARTS, 
MANUFACTURES, AND TECHNOLOGY. 
(MONTHLY, FORMERLY “THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF SCIENCE.’) 
Vol. IV. (LT°) 
No. CVIII. 
IDZECJElvlIBIEIE^ 
1882 . 
CONTENTS 
Articles. page 
1. Literature versus Science .. 697 
2. A Theory as to the Origin of 
the Solar System. By R. 
La mont 704 
3. Domesticity in Animals .. 706 
4. The Cremation Question. By 
Frank Fernseed 712 
5. The Germ Theory and its 
Latest Conquest 718 
6. The Heads of Great Men, and 
their Occurrence. By D. 
Yewdall Cliff 723 
7. Detedion by Eledricity of the 
Annual Culminations of the 
Solar Influence on Organ- 
isms. By Nils Kolkin .. 729 
[ Articles — continued 
8. Note on Pink or Albino Carp. 
By A. A. Nesbit, F.C.S. .. 732 
9. The Adion of Poisons on the 
Petals of Fiowers. By A. A. 
Nesbit, F.C.S 733 
j Analyses of Books. 
j Chapters on Evolution .. .. 734 
Metals ; their Properties and 
Treatment 738 
The Doomed Comet and the 
World’s End 740 
The Mind in the Face ; an Intro- 
dudion to the Study of Phy- 
siognomy 742 
&c., &c. 
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