Popular Science Monthly/Volume 2

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November 1872
The Study of Sociology V	1
Epidemic Delusions	15
The Practical Man as an Obstructive	37
Development in Dress	40
Sea, Sunlight and Sky	50
Smokeless Gunpowder	61
On the Functions of the Brain	64
On Meteoric Stones	75
Science and Religion I	79
Spontaneous Generation I	83
Aims and Instruments of Scientific Thought I	93
Sketch of Prof Tyndall	103
Editor's Table	110
Literary Notices	116
Miscellany	120
Notes	128
December 1872
The Early Discipline of Mankind	129
The Coati-Mondi and its Cousins	136
Weather Prophecies	149
A New Phase of German Thought I	152
How the Feelings Affect the Hair	158
Cotton Fibres and Fabrics	161
The Physiological Position of Tobacco	167
Aims and Instruments of Scientific Thought II	174
Introduction to the Great Problem	182
Foul Air and Disease of the Heart	183
Forests and Fruit-Growing	194
A New Theory of Volcanoes	203
Great Fires and Rain-Storms	206
Professor Tyndall's Topics	212
The Cocoa-Nut Palm and its Uses	214
Humanity and Insanity	218
Drifting of the Stars	224
How was Herculaneum Destroyed?	232
Sketch of General Sir Edward Sabine	238
Editor's Table	240
Literary Notices	244
Miscellany	249
Notes	255
January 1873
The Study of Sociology VI	257
Spontaneous Movements in Plants	280
Light and Life	294
A New Phase of German Thought II	311
Evolution and the Spectroscope	320
Doctor Livingstone	327
Art in the Stone Age	343
Cultivating Wild Flowers	356
Velocity of the Will	360
Astronomical and Physical Observatories	365
Editor's Table	371
Literary Notices	377
Miscellany	378
Notes	384
February 1873
The Law of Storms Developed	385
Heat and Life	400
Nervous Health and Moral Health	416
Brain-Work and the Emotions	420
Romance of Medicine	422
The Expression of the Emotions	434
The Study of Sociology VII	450
Warming of Houses	472
Is Electricity Life?	477
Do Birds Improve in Nest-Building?	485
Antipodes and Perioeci	489
Useful Things	491
Charles Robert Darwin	497
Editor's Table	499
Literary Notices	503
Miscellany	505
Notes	511
March 1873
Earthquake-Phenomena	513
Electricity and Life	526
The Physical Characters of the Human Races	541
On the Equality of the Sexes	552
Instinct in Young Birds	561
The Study of Sociology VIII	564
The Strength of Timber	582
On the Causes of Crime	589
The Recent Progress of Natural Science	597
Epileptic Origin of Islamism	605
Asphalt Pavements	609
Regarding Matters in India	614
To A P Barnard	622
Editor's Table	623
Literary Notices	626
Miscellany	631
Notes	639
April 1873
On the Importance of the Cultivation of Science	641
The Nebular Hypothesis	650
River and Lake Terraces	661
Applied Sanitary Science	665
Barbarism in English Education	671
The Horned Frog	676
On the Transfusion of Blood	679
Science and our Educational System	695
The Troglodytes, or Cave-Dwellers of France	699
The Study of Sociology IX	708
English and American Science	734
Science and Public Affairs	736
Discovery of Mount Tyndall	739
Sketch of Professor Henry	743
Editor's Table	745
Literary Notices	751
Miscellany	756
Obituary	767
Notes	768
Index	769
Advertisements	777