Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, December 1898 Volume LIV, No. 2, December 1898

On the whole, then, before the coming on of the Glacial epoch, we may be pretty sure that plants and animals on the one hand had learned organically and automatically to recogni...

Some very striking adaptations of form of organs to the intensity of the light have been analyzed by Goebel. The common harebell (_Campanula rotundifolia_) has an upright stem t...

In the penal codes of the most civilized nations the agency of superstition as a factor in the promotion of crime is almost wholly ignored, and, as this was not the case in form...

Another evil has grown out of the centralization of the schools. The smaller schoolhouses formerly stood within convenient reach, and by abandoning them we have forced many litt...

It has often struck me as curious that people took this complex concept of the year so much for granted--inquired so little into its origin and discovery. Yet it is by no means...

In former days the Indians used large quantities of the wool of the mountain sheep in making the beautiful _chilcat_ blankets that formed an important part of the chief's costum...

=Tree Planting in the Arid Regions.=--In planting the arid and subarid regions of the country, where no trees are growing naturally, Mr. B. E. Fernow says, in a review of the wo...

There can be no doubt that the brain moves in the skull, changing its position, according to the laws of gravitation, in much the same way as the lungs, heart, and liver do in t...

STATURE.--A noted writer, speaking of the sons of Judah, observes: "It is the Ghetto which has produced the Jew and the Jewish race; the Jew is a creation of the European middle...

The subject here discussed has not only a speculative interest for ethnographers and students of folklore, but also, as already indicated, a practical importance for criminal la...

An assured supply of 128,000,000 bushels in addition to the ordinary supply might allay the fear of scarcity and high price of bread. It may here be observed that the low averag...

What we may well consider seriously is whether our modern modes of life enable us to do that justice to children which evolutionary teaching requires. Can true health of body an...

Of Dr. _Frank Overton's_ three books on _Applied Physiology_,[64] the first or primary grade follows a natural order of treatment, presenting in each subject elementary anatomic...

The catalogue of Professor Hitchcock's publications comprises more than one hundred and fifty titles of papers, reports, and books. Perhaps the earliest thorough study represent...

Again, from Arkansas, to which State we have looked more for excellent cotton than for grain, "there are fifteen million acres of good wheat land; wheat is fast becoming a cash...

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The not very graceful word _speleology_ was composed a few years ago by M. Émile Rivière out of Greek elements, as a translation of the German _Höhlenkunde_, to signify the stud...

No traces of articles related to the religion of the Pharaohs are found in the burial places of the aborigines. In place of the statuettes and funerary divinities of later times...

A study of problems in the Psychology of Reading, by J. O. Quantz, bore upon the questions of the factors which make a rapid reader, the relations of rapidity to mental capacity...