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The Early Practice of Medicine 
by Women. By Professor H. 
Carrington Bolton, Ph.D., 
of Trinity College, Hartford, 
Connecticut 57 
2. Life and its Basis. By J. H. 
Barker, M.A 71 
3. The Formative Power in Na- 
ture. By Sidney Billing. . 82 
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M. Beard, M.D 87 
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H. Bellyse Baildon. . .. 94 
6. A Safety Paper for Cheques . . 103 
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Philosophische Consequenzen der 
Lamarck - Darwin’schen Ent- 
wickelungs theorie 
Conscious Matter, or the Physical 
and the Psychical universally 
in Causal Connection .. .. 
The Natural Conditions of Exist- 
ence as they affeCt Animal 
Life 
Report of the United States 
Geological Survey of the Ter 
ritories 
Ideal Chemistry 
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