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THE MARCH

SCIENTIFIC M ON T HLY

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DEVELOPMENT OF CHEMICAL SYMBOLS. PROPESSOR INGO W. D. HACKE . ............ 199

BIOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO ANTHROPOLOGY. DR. LELAND W . PARR .....218..... ............... .. .. .......... 218

SOCIAL LIFE OF THE BARAMA RIVER CARIBS OF BRITISH GUIANA. DR. JOHN GILLIN ..... 227

HOUSE AND VILLAGE TYPES OF THE SOUTHWEST AS CON- DITIONED BY ARIDITY. J. W. HOOVER ................................................ 237

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SHARK ATTACKS ALONG THE SOUTH CAROLINA COAST. E. MILBY BURTON .2.7................. 279

THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE: Thomas Huston Macbride, An Appreciation; Professor Edward Bartow, President-Elect of the American Chemical Society; Award of the Perkin Medal to Dr. George 0. Curme, Jr.; The February Solar Eclipse; The Gravity-At-Sea Expedition ...................................................... 284

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