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PAGE November 1888 The Effects of Protection 1 Paleolithic Man in America: His Antiquity and Environment 20 Habits of the Great Southern Tortoise 37 Every-Day Life of Indian Women 43 Altruism Economically Considered 53 The Problem of a Flying-Machine 69 Sun-Power and Growth 77 Ainu Family-Life and Religion 81 The Prolongation of Human Life 92 Problematical Organs of Sense 101 Four-Handed Sinners: A Zoological Study 108 Sketch of Edward Atkinson 113 Correspondence 122 Editor's Table 124 Literary Notices 127 Popular Miscellany 133 Notes 142 December 1888 The Psychology of Deception 145 New Light on a Lunar Mystery 158 The Pine-Tree Lizard 162 The Last Stages in the Genealogy of Man II 171 Atomic Worlds and their Motions 183 Evolving the Camel 192 Beliefs About the Soul 202 The History of a Doctrine I 212 Infant Mortality and the Environment 221 The Origin of Forest-Groupings 229 Chinese Marriage Customs 241 Native Life in British Borneo 246 Animal Arithmetic 252 Sketch of F. A. Vulpian 262 Editor's Table 267 Literary Notices 270 Popular Miscellany 278 Notes 286 January 1889 The Guiding-Needle on an Iron Ship 289 House-Drainage from Various Points of View 310 Town-Life as a Cause of Degeneracy 324 Sea-Lions and Fur-Seals 330 Genius and Talent 341 Inventional Geometry 357 Science and its Accusers 367 The Suanetians and their Home 380 The History of a Doctrine II 385 Gauss and the Electric Telegraph 396 The Sacrifice of Education 399 Sketch of Moses Ashley Curtis 405 Correspondence 411 Editor's Table 416 Literary Notices 419 Popular Miscellany 426 Notes 431 February 1889 New Chapters in the Warfare of Science: Medicine I 433 Physical Training of Young Children 449 The Political Control of Railways: Is it Confiscation? 455 Giant Reptiles of a Past Age 466 The Yezidees, or Devil-Worshipers 474 The Dance of the Lady Crab 482 On the Causes of Variation I 486 The Story of a School 496 Underground Waters in Rock Transformations 508 The Origin of Holidays 516 New Facts in Alcoholic Heredity 526 Comments on the Sacrifice of Education 535 Sketch of John B. Stallo 548 Correspondence 556 Editor's Table 559 Literary Notices 561 Popular Miscellany 569 Notes 575 March 1889 New Chapters in the Warfare of Science: Medicine II 577 The Chemistry of To-Day 591 Glass-Making I 598 South Slavic Moon-Myths 615 Competition and the Trusts 619 Law as a Disturber of Social Order 631 Among the Fiji Islands 644 The Foundation-Stones of the Earth 652 Natural Science in Elementary Schools 662 The Aryans in Science and History 672 The Americanists in Congress 686 Sketch of Pierre Belon 692 Correspondence 698 Editor's Table 698 Literary Notices 701 Popular Miscellany 709 Notes 718 April 1889 The Psychology of Spiritualism 721 The Chemical Elements 733 Agnosticism 750 Domestication of the Buffalo 777 Zoological Gardens: Their Uses and Management 782 The Derivative Origin of the Human Mind 792 Science and Christian Science 798 On the Causes of Variation II 809 Curiosities of Natural Gas 821 Plants in Witchcraft 826 Sketch of James Pollard Espy 834 Correspondence 841 Editor's Table 843 Literary Notices 547 Popular Miscellany 859 Notes 863 Index 865