# Popular Science Monthly/Volume 51/Index

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| Acetylene, A Bunsen Burner for. (Frag.) | 855 |
| Age and Suicide. (Corr.) | 553 |
| Age of the Earth, The. (Frag.) | 856 |
| Alchemy Redivivus. A. E. Outerbridge, Jr. | 671 |
| Alcohol, Early Production of. (Corr.) | 553 |
| "The History of. C. E. Pellew | 231 |
| "The History of. C. E. Pellew | 377 |
| American Association, Detroit Meeting. (Table) | 842 |
| ""Officers of | 855 |
| Ancient Symbol, Diffusion of an. (Frag.) | 428 |
| Animals on the March. (Frag.) | 282 |
| "The Economic Value of. C. F. Holder | 827 |
| "Young, at School. (Frag.) | 137 |
| Animal Traits. (Frag.) | 285 |
| Anthropology a University Study. J. S. Flagg | 510 |
| Antipathies of Animals. (Frag.) | 140 |
| Antitoxine-Making, Improvement in. (Frag.) | 430 |
| Bachelor Seals. (Frag.) | 139 |
| Bacteria in Rivers, and Sunlight. (Frag.) | 716 |
| Bailey, Pearce, M. D. The Thyroid Gland in Medicine* | 481 |
| Ballou, William H. A Tortoise-shell Wild Cat* | 507 |
| ""World's Geologists at St. Petersburg | 212 |
| Baxter, William, Jr. Forecasting the Progress of Invention* | 307 |
| Beeler, S. L. The Department Store. (Corr.) | 700 |
| Berthelot, M. P. E. Science as an Instrument of Education | 253 |
| Binet, M. Alfred. The Paradox of Diderot | 539 |
| Birds and their Songs. (Frag.) | 716 |
| Blight, Robert. A Lilliputian Monster* | 518 |
| Blue Color in Lakes, The. (Frag.) | 857 |
| Bolton, H. C. Early American Chemical Societies | 819 |
| Books Noticed | 128 |
| Books Noticed | 270 |
| Books Noticed | 417 |
| Books Noticed | 559 |
| Books Noticed | 706 |
| Books Noticed | 846 |
| Alling-Aber, Mary R. An Experiment in Education | 849 |
| America and the Americans, from a French Point of View | 566 |
| Anderson, R. E. The Story of Extinct Civilizatlons of the East | 130 |
| Angot, Alfred. The Aurora Borealis | 560 |
| Baldwin, Joseph. School Management and School Methods | 421 |
| Barnes, C. R. Analytic Keys to the Genera and Species of North American Mosses | 134 |
| Baskett, James Newton. The Story of the Birds | 423 ​ |
| Beal, W. J. Grasses of North America | 275 |
| Bellamy, Edward. Equality | 847 |
| Bell, Louis. Electric Power Transmission | 851 |
| Brandt, H. C. G., and W. C. Day. German Scientific Reading | 278 |
| Britton, N. L., and Brown, Addison. An Illustrated Flora of the United States, Canada, and the British Possessions, etc. | 851 |
| Brown, Frederick J. The Northern Movement of the Colored Population | 567 |
| Burgess, John W. The Middle Period | 563 |
| Campbell, Helen. Household Economics | 276 |
| Chapman. Frank M. Bird-Life | 706 |
| Charities, Report of New York State Board of, for 1895 | 135 |
| Clarke, F. W. Recalculation of the Atomic Weights | 854 |
| Clayton, H. Helen. Cloud Observations (Harvard Observatory Annals) | 278 |
| Clodd, Edward. Pioneers of Evolution, from Thales to Huxley | 708 |
| Clouds, Classification of. Bureau of Navigation | 712 |
| Connecticut Labor Bureau. Twelfth Annual Report, Bureau of Statistics | 277 |
| Crockett, C. W. Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, with Tables | 132 |
| Crosby, W. E. Our Little Book for Little Folks | 566 |
| Cuadrado. Dr. Gaston Alonso. The Study of Spectroscopy | 423 |
| Davenport, C. B. Experimental Morphology | 852 |
| Davenport, Herbert Joseph. Outlines of Economic Theory | 418 |
| Duclaux, E. Atmospheric Actinometry | 423 |
| Education. Report of United States Commissioner, 1894-'95 | 133 |
| Farman, D. Autocars | 131 |
| Fish Commission, United States. Report for 1892-'93 | 277 |
| Fish Commission, United States. Report for 1895 | 853 |
| Geikie, Sir Archibald. The Ancient Volcanoes of Great Britain | 559 |
| Gould, George M., M. D. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine | 274 |
| Grosse, Ernst. The Beginnings of Art | 562 |
| Hawley, Thomas D. Infallible Logic | 275 |
| Hogg, Alexander. The Railroad as an Element in Education | 275 |
| Hughes, James L. Froebel's Education Laws for all Teachers | 419 |
| Huntington, A. K., and McMillan, W. G. Metals | 854 |
| Hutchinson, Rev. H. N. Prehistoric Man and Beast | 270 |
| Jackson, D. C. and J. P. Alternating Currents and Alternating Machinery | 133 |
| Johnson, J. B. The Materials of Construction | 564 |
| Jordan, D. S. Observations on the Fur Seals of the Pribiloff Islands | 134 |
| Keasbey, L. M. The Nicaragua Canal and the Monroe Doctrine | 132 |
| Kellar, I. First Year in German | 277 |
| Lefevre, A. Number and its Algebra | 133 |
| Lewis, Edwin. The Philosophy of Sex, | 133 |
| Literature. A Library of the World's Best, Ancient and Modern | 421 |
| Loeffelholz, von Colberg, Carl Freiherr. Revolution of the Earth's Crust in Geological Ages | 709 |
| Loew, Oscar. The Energy of Living Protoplasm | 711 |
| Logan, John A., Jr. In Joyful Russia | 848 |
| Loomis, E. J. An Eclipse Party in Africa | 129 |
| Mach, Dr. Ernst. Contributions to the Analysis of the Sensations | 424 |
| Macleod, Henry Dunning. The History of Economics | 271 |
| Mason, R. Osgood. Telepathy and the Subliminal Self | 420 |
| Mathews, C. T. The Story of Architecture | 417 |
| Matthews, C. P., and John Shearer. Problems and Questions in Physics | 563 |
| Matthews, Washington. Navaho Legends | 846 |
| Maxwell, Sir Herbert. Robert Bruce and the Struggle for Scottish Independence | 422 |
| Mercer, Henry C. Researches upon the Antiquity of Man | 565 |
| Merriam, F. A. A-Birding on a Broncho | 131 |
| Merrill, George P. A Treatise on Rocks, Rock-Weathering, and Soils | 709 |
| Moore, D. R. A Treatise on the Philosophy of Art | 850 |
| Moore, K. C. The Mental Development of a Child | 565 |
| Morgan, C. Lloyd. Romanes Essays | 566 |
| Morrison W. Douglas. Juvenile Offenders | 129 |
| Murray, Gilbert. A History of Ancient Greek Literature | 711 |
| Nichols, E. L. The Outlines of Physics | 853 |
| Osborne, H. Insects affecting Domestic Animals | 134 |
| Pellegrini, Pietro. I Diseredati | 710 |
| Perkins, Prof. Charles A. Electricity and Magnetism | 565 |
| Phillips, P. Lee. Virginia Cartography | 277 |
| Photography, American Annual of, for 1897 | 277 |
| Poulton, Edward B. Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural Selection | 710 |
| Powell, J. W. Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology | 852 ​ |
| Price, Sadie F. Fern Collector's Handbook and Herbarium | 279 |
| Putnam, George Haven. Books and their Makers during the Middle Ages | 278 |
| Railways, Statistics of, in United States. Report of Interstate Commerce Commission on | 853 |
| Ramsay, William. The Gases of the Atmosphere | 131 |
| Rogers, Mrs. W. B. Life and Letters of William Barton Rogers | 272 |
| Russell, Israel C. Glaciers of North America | 563 |
| Sandemann, George. Problems of Biology | 708 |
| Sarg, James Fred. A New Dairy Industry | 423 |
| Scott, William B. An Introduction to Geology | 850 |
| Seal Life on the Rookeries of the Pribilof Islands | 566 |
| Setchell, William A. Laboratory Practice for Beginners | 422 |
| Shinn, C. H. The Story of the Mine | 128 |
| Silberstein, Solomon J. The Disclosures of the Universal Mysteries | 273 |
| State Legislation, Comparative Summary and Index of | 711 |
| Stisted, Georgiana M. The True Life of Captain Sir Richard F. Burton | 276 |
| Storer, F. H. Agriculture in Some of its Relations with Chemistry | 851 |
| Tarr, Ralph S. Elementary Geology | 562 |
| Thayer, A. W. The Hebrews in Egypt and their Exodus | 851 |
| Thompson, Edward P., and W. A. Anthony. Röntgen Rays and Phenomena of the Anode and Cathode | 274 |
| Townsend, C. H. Illustrations showing Conditions of Fur Seal Rookeries in 1895, and Method of Killing | 852 |
| Vincent, Frank. The Plant World | 853 |
| Waldo, Frank. Elementary Meteorology | 564 |
| Walsingham, Lord, and John Hartley Durrant. Rules for Regulating Nomenclature in Entomological Work | 423 |
| Washington Philosophical Society, publications from 1882 to 1894 | 565 |
| Weisbach. The Mechanics of Pumping | 276 |
| Wiedemann, Alfred. Religion of the Ancient Egyptians | 710 |
| Wiley, Harvey W. Principles and Practice of Agricultural Analysis | 422 |
| Williams, George A. Topics and References in American History | 711 |
| Wright, G. F. The Ice Age in North America | 134 |
| Yellowstone National Park Folio | 852 |
| Books, The Appraisal of. (Frag.) | 717 |
| Bordeaux Vineyards, The. (Frag.) | 572 |
| Botany, The Scope of. G. J. Peirce | 662 |
| British Association, Toronto Meeting. (Table) | 843 |
| Bubonic Plague, The. V. C. Vaughan | 62 |
| Cactus, The Giant. J. W. Tourney* | 641 |
| California Alps, The Wild Flowers of. B. F. Herrick* | 348 |
| Candolle, M. C. de. The Latent Vitality of Seeds | 106 |
| Cannizzaro's Jubilee, Prof. (Frag.) | 140 |
| Cartaz, Dr. A. Stones in the Head* | 514 |
| Caucasus, The, as a Pleasure Resort. (Frag.) | 283 |
| Chemical Societies, Early American. H. C. Bolton | 819 |
| Chess Players' Vision. (Frag.) | 574 |
| "Christian Science" and Science. (Table) | 554 |
| Civilization, The Wastes of. (Frag.) | 858 |
| Correction, A. (Corr.) | 553 |
| Cram, William E. The Hawks of New England* | 594 |
| Crawley, Prof. Edwin S. Number Systems | 524 |
| Croll, James. Sketch. (With Portrait) | 544 |
| Crothers, Dr. T. D. New Questions in Medical Jurisprudence | 454 |
| Dalai Lama, The. (Frag.) | 286 |
| Dana, J. C. The Public and its Public Library | 242 |
| Davenport Academy of Science. F. Starr | 83 |
| Department Store, The. (Table) | 705 ​ |
| Despotism of Democracy, The. Franklin Smith | 489 |
| Drills, Primitive. (Frag.) | 716 |
| Dust. (Frag.) | 569 |
| Dust Storm, Some Notes on a. (Frag.) | 426 |
| Earthquakes, Minute. (Frag.) | 430 |
| Education, Free-hand Drawing in. H. G. Fitz* | 755 |
| Egret, Domestication of The. (Frag.) | 137 |
| Elephants in a Lumber Yard. (Frag.) | 284 |
| Elliott, Ellen Coit. Let us therewith be Content | 341 |
| Emmons, Dr. Ebenezer, and the Olenellus. (Frag.) | 425 |
| Eskimo Bows and Arrows. J. Murdoch | 645 |
| Evolution and the Fall, Canon Gore on. (Frag.) | 285 |
| "The Duke of Argyll on. (Table) | 411 |
| "The Principle of Economy in. Edmund Noble | 324 |
| Ferrero, G. The Idea of Murder among Men and Animals | 805 |
| Figuier, Louis. Sketch (with Portrait). Ida M. Tarbell | 834 |
| Fireflies, The Light of. (Frag.) | 569 |
| Fitz, H. G. Free-hand Drawing in Education* | 755 |
| Flagg, Prof. John S. Anthropology a University Study | 510 |
| Flournoy, M. Th. Strange Personifications | 112 |
| Forestry, National, Objects of. (Frag.) | 713 |
| Ginseng. (Frag.) | 570 |
| Geologists at St. Petersburg. W. H. Ballon | 212 |
| Gerland, George. Objects and Results of Polar Research | 635 |
| Glass, Substitutes for, in Germany. (Frag.) | 284 |
| Globe Lightning. M. Hagenau | 209 |
| Gophers, Pocket. (Frag.) | 569 |
| Gypsum in Kansas. (Frag.) | 860 |
| Hagenau, M. Globe Lightning | 209 |
| Hakluyt, Richard. (Frag.) | 428 |
| Hale, Horatio. Sketch. (With Portrait) | 401 |
| Hawks, The, of New England. W. E. Cram* | 594 |
| Henderson, C. H. Some Unrecognized Laws of Nature | 776 |
| Herrick, Bertha F. Wild Flowers of the California Alps* | 348 |
| Highway Construction in Massachusetts. C L. Whittle | 73 |
| Holder, Charles F. The Economic Value of Animals | 827 |
| Horticultural Extension Schools. (Frag.) | 136 |
| Howes, Cliflon A. The Planet Saturn | 357 |
| Hydraulic Blasting. (Frag.) | 714 |
| Indian Corn, Wild. (Frag.) | 281 |
| Insect Inhabitants of Plants. (Frag.) | 718 |
| Insects and Fungi, Legislation against. (Frag.) | 859 |
| Invention, Forecasting the Progress of. William Baxter, Jr.* | 307 |
| Ivory. N. B. Nelson | 534 |
| Japanese Alps, Pilgrims of the. (Frag.) | 570 |
| Johnson, Helen K. Woman Suffrage and Education | 222 |
| Jordan, D. S. Sketch of Richard Owen | 259 |
| ""The Silent City of the Muir Glacier | 161 |
| Kite Experiments, Franklin's, with Modern Apparatus. Alexander McAdie* | 739 |
| Koch's Latest Tuberculin. (Frag.) | 425 |
| Korean Interviews. E. S. Morse | 1 |
| Lancaster, M. A. The Discovery of the Sun Spots | 681 |
| Language, Man's, to Animals. (Frag.) | 717 |
| Lea, Henry C. Spanish Experiments in Coinage | 577 |
| Lock wood, Samuel. Sketch. W.S.Snyder. (With Portrait) | 692 |
| Longevity of Astronomers, The. (Frag.) | 571 |
| Mammoth Cave, Vegetation of the. (Frag.) | 859 |
| Man, A Versatile. (Frag.) | 861 |
| Maori Tattooing. (Frag.) | 283 |
| Marriage of the Dead. (Frag.) | 282 |
| Marsupials and their Skins. (Frag.) | 285 |
| Masters of Science, Three. (Frag.) | 715 |
| Match, Inventing a. (Frag.) | 137 |
| Maxims for the Holiday. (Frag.) | 430 |
| McAdie, Alexander. Franklin's Kite Experiments with Modern Apparatus* | 739 |
| Medical Jurisprudence, New Questions in. T. D. Crothers | 454 |
| Mississippi Floods, The Law of. (Frag.) | 426 |
| Mob Mind, The. E. A. Ross | 390 |
| Moki Indians and their Birds. (Frag.) | 280 |
| Monkeys, Our Friends the. (Frag.) | 429 |
| Morse, E. S. Korean Interviews | 1 |
| Muir Glacier, The Silent City of the. D. S. Jordan | 161 |
| Murder, The Idea of, among Men and Animals. G. Ferrero | 805 |
| Murdoch, John. Eskimo Bows and Arrows | 645 |
| Mythological Correspondences. (Frag.) | 861 |
| Myth, Quick Growth of a. (Frag.) | 286 |
| Nasmyth, James. Sketch. (Portrait) | 117 |
| Nationality and Scenery. (Frag.) | 139 |
| Nelson, N. B. Ivory | 534 |
| Newcomb, H. T. A Decade in Federal Railway Regulation | 811 |
| Nicaise, M. E. Fourteenth-Century Doctors | 686 |
| Niger, At the Head Waters of the. (Frag.) | 858 |
| Noble, Edmund. The Principle of Economy in Evolution | 324 |
| Number Systems. E. S. Crawley | 524 |
| Orchards, Roadside. (Frag.) | 286 |
| Ordnance. Evolution of the Modern Heavy Gun.* By W. Le Conte Stevens | 145 ​ |
| O'Shea, Prof. M. V. When Character is Formed* | 648 |
| Ostriches, Dancing. (Frag.) | 860 |
| Outerbridge, Alexander E., Jr. Alchemy Redivivus | 671 |
| Owen, Richard, Sketch of. D. S. Jordan | 259 |
| Owl Trees. (Frag.) | 573 |
| Paradox of Diderot, The. M. Alfred Binet | 539 |
| Parker, W. B. The Psychology of Belief | 747 |
| Pasteur, The Last Resting Place of. (Frag.) | 138 |
| Peirce, George J. The Scope of Botany | 662 |
| Pellew, C. E. The History of Alcohol | 231 |
| Pellew, C. E. The History of Alcohol | 377 |
| Personifications, Strange. M. Th. Flournoy | 112 |
| Philosopher, The Dictum of a. (Table) | 704 |
| Plague Virus and Dr. Yersin. (Frag.) | 281 |
| Plant Distribution, Some Conditions of. (Frag.) | 857 |
| Polar Research, Objects and Results of. G. Gerland | 635 |
| Primitive Traveling. (Frag.) | 428 |
| Psychology of Belief, The. W.B.Parker | 747 |
| "Sources of the New. E. W. Scripture | 98 |
| Public Library, The Public and its. J. C. Dana | 242 |
| R's, The Three, of Prehistoric Man. (Frag.) | 282 |
| Racial Geography of Europe. W. Z. Ripley | 17 |
| Racial Geography of Europe. W. Z. Ripley | 192 |
| Racial Geography of Europe. W. Z. Ripley | 289 |
| Racial Geography of Europe. W. Z. Ripley | 433 |
| Racial Geography of Europe. W. Z. Ripley | 613 |
| Racial Geography of Europe. W. Z. Ripley | 721 |
| Railway Regulation, A Decade in Federal. H. T. Newcomb | 811 |
| Reeves, R. N. Suicide and the Environment | 186 |
| Reversions in Modern Industrial Life. II. F. Smith | 34 |
| Ripley, Prof. William Z. The Racial Geography of Europe | 17 |
| Ripley, Prof. William Z. The Racial Geography of Europe | 192 |
| Ripley, Prof. William Z. The Racial Geography of Europe | 289 |
| Ripley, Prof. William Z. The Racial Geography of Europe | 433 |
| Ripley, Prof. William Z. The Racial Geography of Europe | 613 |
| Ripley, Prof. William Z. The Racial Geography of Europe | 721 |
| Ross, Prof. Edward A. The Mob Mind | 390 |
| Saturn, The Planet. C. A. Howes | 357 |
| Science as an Instrument of Education. M. P. E. Berthelot | 253 |
| Scorpions. Are they Matricides and Suicides? J. Vilaro* | 398 |
| Scripture, E. W. Sources of the New Psychology | 98 |
| Seals and their Pups. (Frag.) | 138 |
| Seeds, The Latent Vitality of. M. C. de Candolle | 106 |
| Sewage Purification by Filtering. (Frag.) | 713 |
| Shufeldt, Dr. R. W. Some Facts about Wasps and Bees* | 315 |
| Smith, Franklin. Reversions in Modern Industrial Life. II | 34 |
| ""The Despotism of Democracy | 489 |
| Snyder, W. S. Sketch, with Portrait, of Samuel Lockwood | 692 |
| Social Needs. (Table) | 124 |
| "Problem, A New. (Table) | 415 |
| "The Musée. (Frag.) | 856 |
| Spanish Experiments in Coinage. H. C. Lea | 577 |
| Spencer and Darwin. (Table) | 127 |
| Spitzbergen, Scenery of. (Frag.) | 860 |
| Starr, Frederick. Science at the University of Chicago* | 784 |
| ""The Davenport Academy of Science | 83 |
| Stevens, Prof. W. Le Conte. Evolution of the Modern Heavy Gun | 145 ​ |
| Suicide and the Environment. R. N. Reeves | 186 |
| Sun Spots, The Discovery of. M. A. Lancaster | 681 |
| Swift's Night Flight, The. (Frag.) | 568 |
| Tarbell, Ida M. Sketch of Louis Figuier. (With Portrait) | 834 |
| Taxation, Principles of. D. A. Wells | 44 |
| Taxation, Principles of. D. A. Wells | 165 |
| Taxation, Principles of. D. A. Wells | 466 |
| Taxation, Principles of. D. A. Wells | 605 |
| Taxation, Principles of. D. A. Wells | 765 |
| Thyroid Gland, The, in Medicine. Pearce Bailey, M. D.* | 481 |
| Timbuctoo and Jene. (Frag.) | 715 |
| Tortoise-shell Wild Cat. A. W. H. Ballou* | 507 |
| Torture, A Survival of. (Frag.) | 140 |
| Toumey, James W. The Giant Cactus* | 641 |
| Trees, Large, from the Coal Period. (Frag ) | 280 |
| Trotter, Prof. Spencer. North and South | 367 |
| Turbinia, The. (Frag.) | 427 |
| Tussock Moth, Ups and Downs of the. (Frag.) | 713 |
| Unemployed, Types of the. (Frag.) | 571 |
| "Workmen, German Colonies for, (Frag.) | 427 |
| University of Chicago, Science at the. Frederick Starr* | 784 |
| Van der Mensbrugghe, M. G. The Forces in an Air Bubble | 674 |
| Vaughan, Victor C. The Bubonic Plague | 62 |
| Veils, Effects of, on Eyesight. (Frag.) | 136 |
| Vilaro, Dr. Juan. Are Scorpions Matricides and Suicides?* | 398 |
| Wampum Belts, Historical. (Frag.) | 283 |
| War, Cycles and Dogs in. (Frag.) | 714 |
| Wasps and Bees, Some Facts about. R. W. Shufeldt* | 315 |
| Wells, Hon. David A. Principles of Taxation | 44 |
| Wells, Hon. David A. Principles of Taxation | 165 |
| Wells, Hon. David A. Principles of Taxation | 466 |
| Wells, Hon. David A. Principles of Taxation | 605 |
| Wells, Hon. David A. Principles of Taxation | 765 |
| Whittle, C. L. Highway Construction in Massachusetts | 73 |
| Wind Power, Utilization of. (Frag.) | 429 |
| Woman Suffrage and Education. H. K. Johnson | 222 |
| A Woman on. (Table) | 700 |
| World, The, as it is. (Table) | 556 |
| Wreaths. (Frag.) | 859 |
| Writing Materials, Early. (Frag.) | 572 |
| Yucatan, Arid. (Frag.) | 573 |
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