Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, October 1899 Vol. LV, May to October, 1899

In nothing is the primitiveness or the absence from contamination of the Hopi better revealed than in the children, for here, as elsewhere, is it shown that they are the best co...

I regard all the sciences as, at least to a certain extent, experimental, and, notwithstanding the views of those who would regard the mathematical sciences as a series of opera...

In An Epitome of the Agricultural Situation, published by Mr. Davis in 1890, he predicted an annually increasing deficit in the world's wheat supply and the almost immediate ina...

The law of progress is quite the reverse in social development. At a primitive stage there is a marked subjection of the individual elements of society to a central authority, w...

In this work there is undoubtedly a place for institutional charity, and also for that other which is individual. The former affords a sphere for a wise economy, for prompt and...

To all who had been "healed in Christian Science" whom I met I stated plainly my object--to investigate how they had been "healed." I stated that my findings would be published,...

In 1890 the city paid for the support of prisoners and paupers in city institutions the sum of $1,949,100, and for paupers in private institutions the sum of $1,845,872. In 1898...

The Columbus meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science was looked forward to with considerable interest as the first in the new half century of that bod...

It was a source of gratification to Dr. Pepper that he lived to see all these reforms in medical education adopted. On the extension of the medical course to four years he subsc...

"A permanently high price for wheat is, I fear, a calamity that ere long must be faced," says Sir W. Crookes; but, with due deference to so great an authority, I believe that th...

But, in addition to errors arising from the common intellectual nature of men, there are others, the sources of which are to be found in the idiosyncrasies of the individual min...

A fairly good attendance, with an unusually large proportion of men prominent in science, and most cordial welcome and painstaking care of the members by the Ohio State Universi...

An instance of this nature is so striking in its relations and so pertinent to the present discussion that attention is asked to it. In the reign of James I water was supplied b...

The analogies between the life of an individual and that other organism which we call civilized society are as interesting as for any other reason because of their inexhaustible...

A few years ago a student of sociology in Chicago wrote to "all the teachers of sociology in the United States, and to others known to be deeply interested in the subject and en...

Dr. Thorndike lays stress upon the fact that a "cat which, when first put in, took sixty seconds to get out, in the second trial eighty, in the third fifty, in the fourth sixty,...

A useful manual for students in chemistry is the _Chemical Experiments_ of Prof. _John F. Woodhull_ and _M. B. Van Arsdale_ (Henry Holt & Co., New York). It embraces directions...

Books Noticed, 126, 270, 415, 557, 705, 853 African Frontier, On the South. W. H. Brown, 708. -- Studies, West. M. H. Kingsley, 418. Agriculture. Fertilizers. E. B. Voorhees, 27...

"=A vague Impression of Beauty.="--The following sentences occur in an article on The Real purpose of Universities in a recent issue of the London Spectator. They give so strang...

Entries in Index refer to all five issues of Popular Science Monthly Vol. LV: - May (pp. 1-136) https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44880 - June (pp. 137-288) https://www.gutenberg...