Its History, Aims and Objects. 7 
Wheat Ever Change into Chess? Chemistry; Utilitarianism; 
Coal Formations — 7. 
Sixth Year—Origin of Life; Botany; Origin of Individuals; 
Alternate Generation; Natural Science and Mechanical Inven- 
tion the Basis of Civilization; The Sun and What We Know 
About It; Artesian Wells; Influence of Science on Moral Pro- 
gress and Material Improvement — 8. 
Seventh Year—The Weather; Ethnography of European 
Turkey; Farinaceous Seeds; How We Heat Our Houses; The 
Relations of the Lower Animals to Man in the Matter of Intel- 
lect, Instinct, Moral Faculties, ete.; Review of the Evolution 
Theories; Moral Sense; Water Supply; Heat, Its Manner and 
Mode of Motion; Darwinism; The Prairies and their Treeless- 
ness; Geology; Composition and Theory of the Origin of 
Coal — 13. 
Highth. Year— Forestry, and the Doings of the American 
Forestry Congress; Water; Use of the Microscope in the Detec- 
tion of Adulterated Powder Drugs; Wonder Working Scien- 
tifically Considered; Economical Generation of Steam; Oregon, 
Its Climate, People and Inducements; Some Remaining Prob- 
lems in Science; The Place which Hypothesis Holds in Science; 
Theory of Heating Rooms; Growth of Plants; Electricity, 
Scientific Methods in Education; Electricity and its Relation to 
Other Forces in Nature; Witchcraft and Demonology; Growth 
of Plants; Shade Trees, Indigenous Shrubs and Vines; Purifi- 
eation of Water; Ghosts and What are They? A Physical 
Reason why Man is Right-handed; Powers of the Microscope; 
Edible Fruits and Their Acids; Essentials of Vision; Chemis- 
try of Fruit-ripening; Antiquity of Prehistoric Man; Is the 
Public School System a Failure? Engineering; Scientitic Theo- 
ries Based upon Mere Apparent Truths; Testimony of the 
Rocks; Is Darwinism True? The Origin of Man; Recent 
Floods in Different Countries; Parasites of Man; What is an 
Architect ?— 33. 
Ninth Year— Hypnotism and Allied Phenomena; Volcanic 
Action; Missing Link; Growth of Forests and Causes of Prai- 
ries; Cosmical Dynamics; Government; Human Parasites; 
Anatomy of Snakes; Steam Using; Amoebea and its Life; 
