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

CONTENTS

[The Coming Total Eclipse of the Sun]1
[The Most Expensive City in the World]16
[A Bubble-blowing Insect]23
[The Negro Since the Civil War]29
[The Birds of the Adirondacks]40
[The Structure of Blind Fishes]48
[A Hundred Years of Chemistry]59
[Mount Tamalpais]69
[International Law and the Peace Conference]76
[The Fate of the Beagle]86
[Science Study and National Character]90
[Editor’s Table]99
[Fragments of Science]101
[Minor Paragraphs]108
[Publications Received]111

THE
POPULAR SCIENCE
MONTHLY

EDITED BY
J. McKEEN CATTELL

VOL. LVII
MAY TO OCTOBER, 1900

NEW YORK AND LONDON
McCLURE, PHILLIPS AND COMPANY
1900

Copyright, 1900,
By McCLURE, PHILLIPS AND COMPANY.