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Front MatterSource: The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 70, No. 6 (Jun., 1950), pp. i-viiiPublished by: American Association for the Advancement of ScienceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20174 .
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Geophysical Research, Using the Poulter Method, Taku Glacier, Alaska . . . . . Cover (Photo courtesy Stanford Research Institute)
Electrophoretic Detection of Plant Virus Proteins . Sam G. Wildman and James Bonner 347
Science and the Litexary Mind .Charles I. Glicksberg 352 A Survey of Geophysics .Friedrich Gassmann 358
Radionuclides in Mineral Engineering. A. M. Gaudin and P. L. de Bruyn 365
Principles and Problems of Biological Growth .H. R Crane 376 The Current Five-Year Plan of Soviet Science in Historical Perspective . Josef Brozek 390 The Moon (Verse) . . . . Gemma d'Auria 395 Some Observations on the Economics of Atomic Power .Joseph E. Loftus 396 Science on the March:
Eros, An Important Minor Planet .Paul Herget 404 Book Reviews by N. A. Court, Wilton Marion Krogman, William M. Mann, Gladys A.
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Correspondence .409 Index .410
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