Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, November 1898 / Volume 54, November 1898

CONTENTS.

		PAGE
I.	Was Middle America Peopled from Asia? By Prof. E. S. Morse.	1
II.	The Possible Fiber Industries of the United States. By Charles Richards Dodge. (Illustrated.)	15
III.	What is Social Evolution? By Herbert Spencer.	35
IV.	The Torrents of Switzerland. By Edgar R. Dawson, M. E.	46
V.	The Evolution of Colonies. V. Political Evolution. By J. Collier.	52
VI.	Architectural Forms in Nature. By F. S. Dellenbaugh. (Illus.)	63
VII.	The Herds of the Yellow Ant. By James Weir, Jr., M. D. (Illus.)	75
VIII.	Two Gifts to French Science. By M. Henri de Parville. (Illus.)	81
IX.	The Mongoose in Jamaica. By C. W. Willis. (Illustrated.)	86
X.	The Cause of Rain. By J. R. Plumandon.	89
XI.	Dream and Reality. By M. Camille Melinand.	96
XII.	A Practical Dutch Charity. By Prof. J. Howard Gore.	103
XIII.	Sketch of Frank Wigglesworth Clarke. (With Portrait.)	110
XIV.	Correspondence: The Moon and the Weather.	118
XV.	Editor's Table: The Goal of Education.—A Doubtful Appendix to Science.—The Cause of Spain's Decadence.—Dream and Reality.	118
XVI.	Scientific Literature.	126
XVII.	Fragments of Science.	135

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APPLETONS'
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MONTHLY.

NOVEMBER, 1898.

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