The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-03-26
The POPULAR
SCIENCE MONTHLY,
Established May, 1879
Conducted BY
Prof. e. Z. YOuMANS.

The Popular Science Monthly WAS start
cd 10 promote the diffusion Of valuable
scientific knowledge, in readable aud At
trac;ive from, among Nil classes OF the
eaYpfisa 'Sy 40 81 other her periodical in the Unit
cd States.
The great feature Of the magazine ie, that
its contents are not what science was ten or
more years since, but what it is to-day,
fresh from the study. the laboratory, and
the experiment; clothed in the language Of
TIE authors, inventors, and scientists
themselves, which comprise the leading
minds Of England, France, Germany, aud
the United States Among popular art-
clee, covering the whole range Of Natural
Science, We have the latest thoughts aud
words Of Professors Huxley and R. A.
Proctor, Herbert Spencer, MIR. Drawn, and
the fresh experiments of Tyndall, Ham.
Mond, and Drown.Sequard. Since the start,
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