BUCHANAN’S
JOURNAL OF MAN.
Vol. I.
December, 1887.
No. 11.
CONTENTS.
- [The World’s Neglected or Forgotten Leaders and Pioneers]
- [Social Conditions]—[Expenses at Harvard]; [European Wages]; [India as a Wheat Producer]; [Increase of Insanity]; [Temperance]; [Flamboyant Animalism]
- [Transcendental Hash]
- [Just Criticism]
- [Progress of discovery and Improvement]—[Autotelegraphy]; [Edison’s Phonograph]; [Type-setting Eclipsed]; [Printing in Colors]; [Steam Wagon]; [Fruit Preserving]; [Napoleon’s Manuscript]; [Peace]; [Capital Punishment]; [Antarctic Explorations]; [The Desert shall Blossom as the Rose]
- [Life and Death—Marvellous Examples]
- [Outlines of Anthropology (continued) Chapter X.—The Law of Location in Organology]
The World’s Neglected or Forgotten Leaders and Pioneers.
Leif Ericson, the long-forgotten Scandinavian discoverer of North America, nearly five hundred years before Columbus, has at last received American justice, and a statue in his honor has been erected, which was unveiled in Boston, on Commonwealth Avenue, before a distinguished assemblage, on the 29th of October.
The history of the Scandinavian discovery and settlement was related on this occasion by Prof. E. Horsford, from whose address the following passages are extracted: