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Purity—An Optical Illusion—A Mountain Tarn—Experiments

in Living—The Caliph Omar—The Harivansa—The Taming

of Beasts and Men—The Study of Nature—False Teeth

or a False Conscience—Taking Ether—Moonlight—Notes

from Michaux—Vegetation and Human Life—The

Development of the Mind—The Mind and its Roots—Man

our Contemporary—Names—Wild Apples and their

Names—An Inspiring Regret—Medical Botany—The

Designs of Providence—True Sites for Houses—The

View from the Wayland Hills—An Organ-Grinder—Materia

Medica—Tobacco—More Names for Wild Apples.

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