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THE MAY

SC>IENTIFIC MO N T HLY

Edited by J. MCKEEN CATTELL, F. R. MOULTON AND

WARE CATTELL

CONTENTS ANCIENT FINGER PRINTS IN CLAY. PROFESSOR HAROLD

CJuMMINS ............... . .389 LAND TENURE IN TUNISIA. DR. RAYMOND E. CRIST ............................... 403

VITAMINS AND SENESCENCE. PROFESsOR AGNES FAY MORGAN ... 416 SOIL DYNAM ICS. DR. C. C. NIKIFOROFF ............................................................................. 422

THE IPHYSICIST AND EVOLVING CIVILIZATION. DR. LEWI T O :N K S ...... ................................. .. ............... .... .......................... ...... ..... .............................. ......... ........ .. 4 3 0

T1HE GROWTH OF AN IDEA. PROF'ESSOR CARL E. SEASHORE ..... 438

CAN THE UNITED STATES HAVE BUTTER AND GUNS? ALFRED W. BOOTH ......4.... .......4.................................... ............. 442

THE CREATIVE YEARS: MEDICINE, SURGERY AND CERTAIN RELATED FIELDS. PROFESSOR. HARVEY C. LEHMAN .... .... 450

HEREDITY AND MENTAL TRAITS. DR. BARBARA S. BURKS 462

BOOKS ON SCIENCE FOR LAYMEN: Mysteries of the Mind; Early Americans; Total War ander the Microscope; M odern Science for the Amateur ..................................................... 469

THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE: Frederick Grant Banting, Discoverer of Insulin; The National Gallery of Art; The Geology Alcove of the Smithsonian's New "Index Exhibit";a Paleontological Expeditioq, i,nto the South Dakota Badlands; The Paper-making Machine at the Franklin Institute; Bombproof Shelters . ........ .................................................... 472

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