DECEMBER, 1898.
EDITED BY WILLIAM JAY YOUMANS.
CONTENTS.
PAGE I. [Wheat-growing Capacity of the United States. By E. Atkinson,] 145 II. [The Racial Geography of Europe. The Jews. By Prof. William Z. Ripley. (Illustrated.),] 163 III. [The Playgrounds of Rural and Suburban Schools. By I. G. Oakley,] 176 IV. [Up the Skeena River. By George A. Dorsey, Ph. D. (Illus.),] 181 V. [Light and Vegetation. By Prof. D. T. Macdougal,] 193 VI. [The Stone Age in Egypt. By J. de Morgan,] 202 VII. [Superstition and Crime. By Prof. E. P. Evans,] 206 VIII. [A Geological Romance. By Prof. J. A. Udden. (Illustrated.),] 222 IX. [The Season of the Year. By Grant Allen,] 230 X. [Brain Weights and Intellectual Capacity. By Joseph Simms, M. D.,] 243 XI. [Speleology, or Cave Exploration. By M. E. A. Martel,] 255 XII. [Sketch of Charles Henry Hitchcock. (With Portrait.),] 260 XIII. [Editor's Table: Evolution and Education.—David Ames Wells.—A Borrowed Foundation,] 269 XIV. [Scientific Literature,] 274 XV. [Fragments of Science,] 282
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