The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-02-24
The Famous Grave Creek Mound
The Popular Science Monthly
(ksTLBLnHED NAY, 1s7a)
Conducted by Prof. z. L. YoUXANs.

THs POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY was started
70 promote the diffusion Of valuable scientific
knowledge, In readable and attractive form,
among all classes OF the community, and has
thus iar met want supplied BY no other period
The great fcaturc Of the magazine Is, that its
contents arc not what science tp1S ten or more
years since, but what It u to-day, fresh from the
study, the laboratory, and the experiment;
clothed Ia the language OF the auihors Inventors
leading minds OF England, France, Germany,
and the United States. Amor u popular articles,
covering the whole range OF Natural Science
We have the lAhst thoughts and words OF Pro
lessons Hu1 ley and Z. A. Proctor, Herbert Spen.
Ger, NJ. Darwin, and the fresh experiments OF
EyndSu. Hammond, and Brown.Sequ9rd. Since
the start, It has proved gratifying success 10
every friend OF scientific progress and uni yersal
education; and those who believed that science
could not be mIde aAy thing but dry study, arc
The press all over the land Is warmly com.
mending 1t Wesubjoina few eneomIums from
those recently given:
THAT there Is place FIR THu PoPu1AR SCI
KNo1 MONTHLY, no one can doubt who has
watched the steady increase Of interest In SeIen.
Ihc inYeetgAuon manifested In this country,
not only BY select class but by the entire com.
mnnity"-Ntp York TitatS. B..
"a journal which promises 70 be OF eminent
Vaue to,the cause Of popular education IN this
eounty."-NSte HOrE 1Tt6UNt. 57a
ut ts, beyond comparison, the lest attempt at
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trH."-H0ne Journal,
The initial number Is admirably cousIitu
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I'VE think II Is not too much 70 say that this
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at Is Just what 10 wanted by the curious and
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ut is the hrstsuecesSlul attempt in this coun.
Try TO popnlariEe science in the pages OF month.
ly."-M y. School Journal.
"Not the less entertaining because Il IA in.
1tructive "-Eyt il1dtlphId A0G.
"TlH MONTHLY has more than fulfilled all
promises which the publishers made ia the
prospectus OF publlcanOn."- Niagara Falls
ut places before American readers what the
aoleet men OF science throughout the world
write about their meditAtIons, speculAtions. and
discoveries "-Pr0pidEnes Journal
This is highly suspicious beginning Of 4
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publication, for which the public owe special
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-Bo4ton Gazette.
'Th!s new enterprise appeals TO all who arc
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information which 10 best calculated 10 aYpapi
the mind and improve the conditions, and en-.
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"In our opinion, the right idea has been bapni I.
Courier. 49,
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known TO science and literature, It Is doing a
great and noble work In populGrizlng ssIenee.
promoting the growth Of reason, and leyelinH
the bAttlements Of old supersHuons reared in
the childhood OF our race before II was CAPABLE
q reasoning. "-TM American Medical Journal,
St Louis, No. g r.g....,-
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