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Front MatterSource: The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 49, No. 6 (Dec., 1939), pp. i-ivPublished by: American Association for the Advancement of ScienceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/17095 .
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CONTENTS WHAT CHEMISTRY IS DOING TO US AND FOR US. PROFESSOR
ROBERT E. BURK .. , . 491 RUMFORD AS A SOCIOLOGICAL ENGINEER. DR. C. HARRISON
DWIGHT .....................504 ORIGIN AND UTILIZATION OF DIATOMACEOUS PEAT DE-
POSITS. * PAUL S. CONGER .................... 509 CHANGES IN SHOSHONEAN INDIAN CULTURE. DR. JULIAN :H.
STEWARD ....................................................................................... 524 THEO'RIES OF THE FORMATION OF ORE DEPOSITS. PROFESSOR
EDSON S. BASTIN ............. ........... 538 CHARLES DARWIN AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT. PROFESSOR
ARNOLD GESELL ........................................... ................... . ................... 548 LIFE AND HABITS OF BUMBLEBEES. PROFESSOR T. D. A.
COCKERELL...554 PHYSICIAN VS. APOTHECARY, 1669-1671. PROFESSOR CHARLES
F. M ULLETT .................5.5 . .................................... .......... 558 RUBB1ER'S POSITION IN MODERN CIVILIZATION. P. W.
LITOCIFIELD ..................566 BOOKS ON SCIENCE FOR LAYMEN:
A Nation of Elders; Ants vs. Men; Human Heredity; A Scholarly Book for Scholars . ................. 568
THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE: Scientists Assemble at Columbus; Professor Corneille Heymans, Nobel Laureate in Physiology and Medicine for 1938; The Forth- co0ning Exhibition at the Carnegie Institution of Washington; Award of the Rumford Medals to Professor George Russell Harrison; Seed- less Fruits Produced by Chemicals; Industrial Research in the United. Sta,tes ......... 572
INDEX ..................587
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