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Front MatterSource: The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 48, No. 5 (May, 1939), pp. i-ivPublished by: American Association for the Advancement of ScienceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/16778 .
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RENCE KOLB .... 391
UP MOUNT KINABALU. I. JOHN A. GRISWOLD, JR. 401
LITTLE-KNOWN FOSSILS. CHARLES T. BERRY ... 415 THE I'ONOSPHERE. DR. E. 0. HULBURT .. 421
MAN'S CREATIVE YEARS IN MUSIC. PROFESSORS HARVEY C. LEHMAN AND DEFOREST W. INGERHAM ... ... ...... .... 431
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN SCIENCE MUSEUM TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES. ROBERT P. SHAW . .... ...... 443
THE POLICEMAN ON THE BEAT. PROFESSOR READ BAIN .... 450 GREAT LANDED ESTATES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION.
DR. RAYMOND E. CRIST .459
CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION IN GUATEMALAN SOCIETIES. SOL TA..463
BOOKS ON SCIENCE FOR LAYMEN: Alcohol and the Individual; The Golden Plover and Other Birds; The Heavens Again; Controlling "Indoor Weather" .468
THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE: Science and the New York World 's Fair; The Centennial of Photog- raphy; Award of the Nichols Medal to Professor Hildebrand; The Velocity of Light; The Great Anteater Group at the Field Museum; Composition of Gaseous Nebulae; A New Explanation of Submarine Canyons.471
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