The Coming Total Eclipse of the Sun 1
The Most Expensive City in the World 16
A Bubble-blowing Insect 23
The Negro Since the Civil War 29
The Birds of the Adirondacks 40
The Structure of Blind Fishes 48
A Hundred Years of Chemistry 59
Mount Tamalpais 69
International Law and the Peace Conference 76
The Fate of the Beagle 86
Science Study and National Character 90
Editor’s Table 99
Fragments of Science 101
Minor Paragraphs 108
Publications Received 111
THE
POPULAR SCIENCE
MONTHLY
EDITED BY
J. McKEEN CATTELL
VOL. LVII
MAY TO OCTOBER, 1900
NEW YORK AND LONDON
McCLURE, PHILLIPS AND COMPANY
1900
COPYRIGHT, 1900,
BY McCLURE, PHILLIPS AND COMPANY.