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November 1882
Sewer-Gas 1
The Science of the Present Period 20
Some Curious Vegetable Growths 30
The Law of Human Increase 39
Science in Relation to the Arts I 48
Physiognomic Curiosities II 63
The British Lion 72
Scientific Farming at Rothamsted I 81
Who was Primitive Man? 94
Life Among the Battas of Sumatra 109
Sketch of Charles Adolphe Wurtz 114
Correspondence 120
Editor's Table 121
Literary Notices 123
Popular Miscellany 134
Notes 143
December 1882
Mr Goldwin Smith on the Data of Ethics 145
Time-Keeping in London I 156
The Relations of the Natural Sciences 165
Brain-Weight and Brain-Power 172
The Cell-State 174
American and Foreign Asphalts 188
Speculative Zoology I 195
Annual Growth of Trees 204
Science in Relation to the Arts II 206
Musical Sensations 225
Is Fingal's Cave Artificial? 231
The Spectroscope and the Weather 240
Criminality in Animals 244
Sketch of Matthias Jacob Schleiden 256
Entertaining Varieties 263
Editor's Table 268
Literary Notices 276
Popular Miscellany 283
Notes 288
January 1883
The Great Comet of 1882 289
Scientific Philanthropy I 300
Traces of a Pre-Indian People 315
Bodily Deformities in Girlhood 322
Time-Keeping in London II 328
A Mastodon in an Old Beater-Meadow 341
Curiosities of Superstition I 345
The Gospel of Recreation 354
The Influence of Education on Observation 359
Speculative Zoology II 364
Playas and Playa-Lakes 380
Scientific Farming at Rothamsted II 383
Recent Advances in Photography 397
Sketch of Professor Henry Draper 405
Editor's Table 410
Literary Notices 414
Popular Miscellany 424
Notes 431
February 1883
The African in the United States 433
A Prehistoric Cemetery 445
The University Ideal 458
Curiosities of Superstition II 471
Methods in Modern Physical Astronomy 477
Evolution of the Stethoscope 488
Social Forces in American Life 491
The Formation of Lunar Craters 495
Science in the Sick-Room 497
The Decrease of Gold 503
Natural Religion I 511
Scientific Philanthropy II 521
The Schools of Medicine 535
Brain-Power in Education 539
Sketch of Henri Milne-Edwards 545
Correspondence 540
Editor's Table 553
Literary Notices 560
Popular Miscellany 569
Notes 575
March 1883
The Growth and Effect of Railway Consolidation 577
Queer Phases of Animal Life 589
Natural Religion II 606
Vivisection and Practical Medicine 615
Evolution of the Camp-Meeting 622
Sewage at the Sea-Side 625
Icebergs and Fog in the North Atlantic 628
Remedial Value of the Climate of Florida 641
A South African Arcadia 650
Piratical Publishers 656
A Chapter in Transcendental Pathology 659
The Pedigree of Wheat 662
A Few Words About Eatables 677
Sketch of Sir C. Wyville Thomson 693
Editor's Table 699
Literary Notices 704
Popular Miscellany 713
Notes 719
April 1883
Nature and Limits of the Science of Politics 721
The Economic Function of Vice 732
Progress of the Backboned Family 739
Curiosities of Superstition III 754
Perceptional Insanities 760
Dwarfs and Giants 767
The Census and the Forests 774
Origin of the Donkey 783
Speculations on the Nature of Matter 788
The Legal Status of Servant-Girls 803
The New York Geological Survey 815
Origin of the Calendar and Astrology 825
Sketch of Increase Allen Lapham, LL.D. 835
Correspondence 841
Editor's Table 843
Literary Notices 850
Popular Miscellany 857
Notes 863
Index 865