Transcriber’s note: Table of Contents added by Transcriber.

[South Sea Bubbles in Science]	401
[What Makes the Trolley Car Go]	408
[Is the Christian Religion Declining?]	423
[A Century of Geology]	431
[The Applications of Explosives]	444
[A Year’s Progress in the Klondike]	456
[The Decline of Criminal Jurisprudence in America]	466
[The Blind Fishes of North America]	473
[The Man of Science in Practical Affairs]	487
[Forenoon and Afternoon]	492
[President Jordan’s “Neminism.”]	494
[Correspondence]	497
[Editor’s Table]	501
[Fragments of Science]	505
[Minor Paragraphs]	510
[Publications Received]	512

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APPLETONS’
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VOL. LVI
NOVEMBER, 1899, TO APRIL, 1900

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1900

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