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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, December 1898
Various and William Jay Youmans
257 pages~5 hr 8 min read24 chapters$4.99
A sociologist maps the races of Europe; a traveler poles up the Skeena to the Tsimshian villages. This December 1898 Appletons' also weighs schoolyard playgrounds, the effect of light on plants, and fresh finds from the Stone Age. A cross-section of Victorian science and society. Open one issue and tour a restless century's mind.
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24 chapters
- 1APPLETONS' POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY
- 2THE WHEAT-GROWING CAPACITY OF THE UNITED STATES.
- 3THE RACIAL GEOGRAPHY OF EUROPE. A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY.
- 4SUPPLEMENT.—THE JEWS.[1]
- 5THE PLAYGROUNDS OF RURAL AND SUBURBAN SCHOOLS.
- 6UP THE SKEENA RIVER TO THE HOME OF THE TSIMSHIANS.[25]
- 7LIGHT AND VEGETATION.
- 8THE STONE AGE IN EGYPT.
- 9SUPERSTITION AND CRIME.
- 10A GEOLOGICAL ROMANCE.
- 11THE SEASON OF THE YEAR.
- 12BRAIN WEIGHTS AND INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY.
- 13SPELEOLOGY, OR CAVE EXPLORATION.[57]
- 14SKETCH OF CHARLES HENRY HITCHCOCK.
- 15Editor's Table.
- 16EVOLUTION AND EDUCATION.
- 17DAVID AMES WELLS.
- 18A BORROWED FOUNDATION.
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