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Vol. 9, No. 2 AUGGUST, 1919

THE SCIENTIFIC MONTHLY

CONTENTS

FORTUNES IN WASTE AND FORTUNES IN FISH. DR. VICTOR E. SHELFORD 97

OUR IRON-CLAD CIVILIZATION. PROFESSOR R. H. WHITBECK ... . . .. 125

THE UPPER CRETACEOUS MISSISSIPPI GULF. PROFESSOR EDWARD W. BERRY 131

MAN AND HIS NERVOUS SYSTEM IN THE WAR. PROFESSOR F. H. PIKE . . 145

TWO SOUTHERN BOTANISTS AND THE CIVIL WAR. NEIL E. STEVENS . . 157

WILLIAM RAMSAY. DR. BENJAMIN HARROW .167

A POSSIBLE NEW SOURCE OF FOOD SUPPLY. PROFESSOR P. W. CLAASSEN . 179

THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE Dr. Abraham Jacobi, The Semi-Centennial of Cornell University; The Proposed Medical Foundation for New York City; Scientific Items . . . . . . . . . .187

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