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- Franz Boas
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- Acquisition in Infants, p. 249
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- Devonian Strata in Montana, p. 249
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- C. P. Stone
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Chinese Iron-Foundries and Rice-Pan Casting, p. 278
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Civil and Astronomical Time, pp. 308-309
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The Royal Astronomical Society of London, p. 317
James Clerk Maxwell, pp. 317-318
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Butter, pp. 339-340
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Roads from India to Central Asia, pp. 360-362
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- R. H. Thurston
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Progress of the Lick Observatory, p. 377
Composite Portraits of Members of the National Academy of Sciences, pp. 378-379
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Mortality Experience of the Connecticut Mutual Life-Insurance Company, pp. 379-380
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American Flash Language in 1798, pp. 380-382
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Walking and Running, pp. 382-384
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Semi-Centennial of the Lyceum of Natural History at Williams College, pp. 385-386
The United States at the Fisheries Exhibition, p. 386
Physics of the Earth, pp. 386-388
Romanes' Researches on Primitive Nervous Systems, pp. 388-389
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