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CONTENTS

[Recent Years of Egyptian Exploration]625
[The Gold Sands of Cape Nome]633
[A State Official on Excessive Taxation]645
[Latest Developments With the X Rays]659
[A Hundred Years of Chemistry]673
[The Science of Art Form]685
[Steam Turbines and High-speed Vessels]696
[A Survival of Mediæval Credulity]706
[Genuine Starch Factories]716
[Trade Corporations in China]722
[Editor’s Table]728
[Fragments of Science]731
[Minor Paragraphs]737
[Publications Received]639
[Index]741

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