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Front MatterSource: The Scientific Monthly, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Feb., 1926), pp. i-viiiPublished by: American Association for the Advancement of ScienceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/7433 .
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TIHE STUDY OF THE SKY IN EUROPE. DR. CLYDE FrsHER ...... .............. 89 ADOLPHO LUTZ: A LEADER IN SOUTH AMERICAN MEDICINE
AND BIOLOGY. DR. MAYNARD M. METCALF . .....................................112 THE ECOLOGY IN STEPHEN HALES' "VEGETABLE STAT-
ICKS." DR. HERBERT C. HANSON ........................... 115 DO BACTERIA HAVE DISEASE? PROFESSOR J. E. GREAVES ..................... 123 TACTUAL INTERPRETATION OF SPEECH. DR. ROBERT H. GAULT 126
THE INTELLIGENCE OF DELINQUENTS IN THE LIGHT OF RECENT RESEARCH. DR. MARGARET WOOSTER CURTI ...................... ...... 132
EARTHQUAKES. COMMANDER N. H. HECK . . ................................. ........... 139 PERPETUAL MOTION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. DR.
PAUL R. HEYL .......... .143
THE PROBLEM OF ANEMIA. DR. ELLIS KELLERT . ........................................... 146 MODIFICATIONS DUE, TO HUMAN AGENCIES IN THE MARINE
LIFE OF THE PACIFIC COAST. DR. C. MCLEAN FRASER .................. 151
RADIO TALKS ON SCIENCE: Radi,O Tra=nsmissin of Muc. PROFESSOR DAYTON C. MILLER .............. 158 Prophecy of a Chemisrt. DR. WILLIAM J. HALE .................... .................. 161 The Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory. DR. S. C. LIND ........................ 166
RELATIVITY AND LIFE. "BETA" ............................... . . . 170 THE PROGRESS OP SCIENCE:
Dedication of the Peabody Musewm of Natural History of Yale University; On the Nature of Bacteriophage; The Award of the Copley Medal to Professor Einstein; Dr. Cottrell and the Research Corporation; The Award of the Prize of the Research Corporation to Dr. Abel .............. 173
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