APPLETONS' POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY
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EDITED BY WILLIAM JAY YOUMANS
VOL. LIV NOVEMBER, 1898, TO APRIL, 1899
NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1899
Copyright, 1899, By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.
Vol. LIV.Established by Edward L. Youmans.No. 2.
APPLETONS' POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.
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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APPLETONS' POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY.
DECEMBER, 1898.