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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