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Front MatterSource: The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Jul., 1930), pp. i-viiiPublished by: American Association for the Advancement of ScienceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/14881 .
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SOME ASPECTS OF OCEANOGRAPHY. DR. HARALD U. SVERDRUP 19
THE RANGE OF HUMAN CAPACITIES. DR. DAVID WECHSLER ...... 35
GEOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN MAYORS. PROFESSOR S. S. VISHER 40
THE ULTIMATE INDIUSTRIALISM. C. C. FURNAS . ......................................... 43
ALLIGATORS OF THE OKEFINOKEE. DR. FRANCIS HARPER ... 51
PRESERVATION OF STEEL. DR. A. H. SABIN ...................................................... 68
LIGHTNING: IS SEEING BELIEVING? H. A. ALLARD .............................. 72
FOREST-FIRE RESEARCH. H. T. GIsBORNE ............................................................ 76
BIPED HABIT. DR. HAROLD S. COLTON ............................................ ............... 81
HYPNOTISM TO-DAY. DR. M. RUSSELL STEIN ......................................................... 86
THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE:
The Installation of Dr. Compton as President of the Massachu- setts Institute of Technology; The World's Fair at Chicago; The Centenary of Abraham Jacobi ........................... ................................... 89
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