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PROSPECTUS FOR 1875.
The Popular Science Monthly,
Established May, 1871
Conducted by Prof. q. L. YOUMANS.

| THE poPULAn SCIENCE MoyTHLY was started to
promote the diffusion Of valuable scientific KNOWLEDGE
IN readable aud attractive form, among all classes Of
TIE community and has thus far met want supplied
| by no ether periodical in the United States.
Inc great feature Of tho magazine is, that Its con-
tents are not what science ras ten years
since, but what II i' to-day fresh from the study the
laboratory, and the experiment. clothed in the Ian
guagc Of the authors, inventors and scieptsts them
| selves, which o Inpr,se the leading minds Of
England France, Germany and the United States
Among popular articles, covering the whole range Of
! NATURAL SclEScE, We have the latest thoughts and
words on Herbert Spencer, and Professors Huxley
Tyndsn' and h. A. Proctor. since the start, it has
proved gratifying success to cyeiy friend Of scien-
tine progress snd universal education; those who
believed that science could not be made AIRY thing but
| dry study are disappointed.
The press all over the land il warmly commanding
| given:
"Tha, there IS place for TIE PoprtAn sc1r,cy
| MuHTHLY, no one eau doubt who has watched the
steady increase OF interest In scientific investigation
manifested in this country, not only by select class
Dnt by the entire community" -NeIr York Tiiats
"A Journal which promises 10 be Of eminent value
20 inc cause Of popular education in this country"
| NsU York Tribune
at is, beyond :comlarison, the best ATTEMPT At
Journalism OF the kind eVe- made in this country.
1.-THE initial number il admirably constituted ~
| EueHiHg Mali
ave think it Is not too much t. say that this is the
best first number of auy MAGAZINE ever tublishrd in
| America. "-Ntr lork WOrid.
SIT is just what il wanted by the curious and pro-
gressNe mind OF this country. and ought to be widely
circulated. .-Nfm lOTE HtfHIHg Posi-.
at is the FIRST successful attempt in this country to
| School journal.
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| -PhHadeiphia aye.
THE MoSTnLY has more than fulfilled all the
promises which the publishers made in the prospectu
| Of publication "-Niagqra FaIl, G1z,:f,
at places before American readers what the Abest
men OF science throu huut the world write about their
medtltlona, specula;!ons, aud discoveries. "Proui-
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This is highly auspiclo US beginning Of useful
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for which the public special debt Of Obligation
| to Messrs. d. Appleton & Co.'-Bostom Gazette
new eIterprlse appeals to all who are interest
ell in the hudablc effort of dusins that Information
which is best calculated to expand the mind and i'm
prove the conditions and enhance the worth Of life
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In our orin.. y the right idea has been happily bit
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nrblished tle worli.r-T6e ImryicaH Medical
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service IN ucat the people "Thr IBiSrira, Jour
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