Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
The Coming Total Eclipse of the Sun 1 The Most Expensive City in the World 16 A Bubble-blowing Insect 23 The Negro Since the Civil War 29 The Birds of the Adirondacks 40 The Structure of Blind Fishes 48 A Hundred Years of Chemistry 59 Mount Tamalpais 69 International Law and t...
In reviewing the condition of the Eu-Africans a third of a century after the war that gave them their new estate, we have, I think, reason to be satisfied with the results of th...
4. Part 4In considering the present conditions of the negro, we may first note the important fact that he is hard at work. The production of the South clearly shows that the sometime sla...
10. Part 10We all regard the association of any object with great events or with those in which we have great interest as making it precious. We endow ships with a kind of personality, reg...
2. Part 2Some amateur observers have telescopes but no mountings suitable for eclipse work, and many astronomical telescopes have good equatorial mountings at home which are yet unavaila...
3. Part 3Honest and intelligent administration in every department of the city government would reduce expenditures, but the extent of the reduction that might be made would depend large...
8. Part 8In manufactures the influence of chemistry is seen at every turn. When the century began, probably no industrial establishment in the world dreamed of maintaining a chemical lab...
6. Part 6THE COLOR OF THE AMBLYOPSIDÆ.--The three species of Chologaster are colored, with varying intensity, from C. cornutus, which is darkest, to C. Agassizii, in which the color is f...
9. Part 9But while Lieber’s Manual was thus taken as the model by various nations, there were inevitably developed serious divergencies in the rules and details. Recognizing the desirabi...
7. Part 7Still another branch of chemistry, recently developed but essentially an extension of the theory of valence, is also due to the study of optical relations. That different crysta...
11. Part 11Thirdly, they demand a sufficient amount of evidence. True science is the enemy of wildcat theories and reckless generalizations. “The United States has always come out on top i...
12. Part 12=“Winking.”=--No satisfactory determination has been made of the reason we wink. Some suppose that the descent and return of the lid over the eye serves to sweep or wash it off;...
1. Part 1The Coming Total Eclipse of the Sun 1 The Most Expensive City in the World 16 A Bubble-blowing Insect 23 The Negro Since the Civil War 29 The Birds of the Adirondacks 40 The Str...
13. Part 13On Friday, March 9th, occurred the death of two of the six surviving founders of the American Association for the Advancement of Science--Dr. Charles E. West, of Brooklyn, and P...