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VOL. XV
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Table of Contents Portrait of William Harvey [Frontispiece] Bramwell, John Milne PAGE [Hypnotism: Its History, Practice and Theory] 1 Buffon, Comte de [Natural History] 12 Chambers, Robert [Vestiges of Creation] 22 Cuvier, Georges [The Surface of the Globe] 33 Darwin, Charles [The Origin of Species] 43 Davy, Sir Humphry [Elements of Chemical Philosophy] 64 Faraday, Michael [Experimental Researches in Electricity] 75 [The Chemical History of a Candle] 85 Forel, Auguste [The Senses of Insects] 95 Galileo [Dialogues on the System of the World] 105 Galton, Sir Francis [Essays in Eugenics] 111 Haeckel, Ernst [The Evolution of Man] 123 Harvey, William [On the Motion of the Heart and Blood] 136 Herschel, Sir John [Outlines of Astronomy] 146 Humboldt, Alexander von [Cosmos, a Sketch of the Universe] 158 Hutton, James [The Theory of the Earth] 170 Lamarck [Zoological Philosophy] 179 Lavater, Johann [Physiogonomical Fragments] 191 Liebig, Justus von [Animal Chemistry] 203 Lyell, Sir Charles [The Principles of Geology] 215 Maxwell, James Clerk [A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism] 227 Metchnikoff, Elie [The Nature of Man] 238 [The Prolongation of Life] 246 Miller, Hugh [The Old Red Sandstone] 255 Newton, Sir Isaac [Principia] 267 Owen, Sir Richard [Anatomy of Vertebrates] 280 Virchow, Rudolf [Cellular Pathology] 292
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Acknowledgment Acknowledgment and thanks for the use of the following selections are herewith tendered to the Open Court Publishing Company, La Salle, Ill., for "Senses of Insects," by Auguste Forel; to G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, for "Prolongation of Human Life" and "Nature of Man," by Elie Metchnikoff; and to the De La More Press, London, for "Hypnotism, &c.," by Dr. Bramwell.
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