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THE OCTOBER

SCIENTIFIC M ON T HLY

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

WARE CAMTELL

CONTENTS VITAMIN RESTORATION OF FOODS AS VIEWED BY THE

PHEYSICIAN. PROPESSOR RuSSELL M. WILDER ................................................ 295 SIR CHARLES LYELL'S NUGGETS OF AMERICAN HISTORY.

EMILY EVELETH SNYDER .3.0........................................... 303 ELECTRON MICROSCOPES AND THEIR USES. DR. JOSEPH A.

BECKER and ARTHUR J. AHEARN ... ... . ...... .... 309 ASPECTS OF URBAN AND INDUSTRIAL GEOGRAPHY IN TAS-

M ANIA. DR. CLIFFORD M. ZIERER .................................... .............. 325 THE FUTURE OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES. PROFESSOR GEORGE

A. LUNDBERG .................................... 346

CHRISTOP1HER WREN, F.R.S. PROPESSOR DOROTHY STIMSON ........... ... 360 THOUGH1TS ON SUBSPECIES. W. L. MCATEE ...................................................... 368 SCIENCE AND MORALS. JOSEPH B. GITTLER . ......................................... 371 THE MYTH OF POISON GAS. MORRIS GORAN ......................................... 374 BOOKS ON SCIENCE FOR LAYMEN:

Time and Its Mysteries; A Biologist Looks at Society; Fighting the Fungi That Attack Man's Food Supply; Dealing with Hypnosis ...... 377

THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE: Robert Boyle, 1627-1691; Research Conferences in Chemistry at Gibson Island; Physical Anthropology in the New Index Exhibit of the Smithsonian Institution; X-raying a Mummy at the Field

I Mu-

seum, of Natural History; Static Electricity and Automobiles ............ 380

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