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|Sewer-Gas
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|The Science of the Present Period
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|Some Curious Vegetable Growths
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|The Law of Human Increase
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|Science in Relation to the Arts I
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|Physiognomic Curiosities II
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|The British Lion
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|Scientific Farming at Rothamsted I
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|Who was Primitive Man? |94 |- |Life Among the Battas of Sumatra |109 |- |Sketch of Charles Adolphe Wurtz |114 |- |Correspondence |120 |- |Editor's Table |121 |- |Literary Notices |123 |- |Popular Miscellany |134 |- |Notes |143 |- |colspan=2| |- |Mr Goldwin Smith on the Data of Ethics |145 |- |Time-Keeping in London I |156 |- |The Relations of the Natural Sciences |165 |- |Brain-Weight and Brain-Power |172 |- |The Cell-State |174 |- |American and Foreign Asphalts |188 |- |Speculative Zoology I |195 |- |Annual Growth of Trees |204 |- |Science in Relation to the Arts II |206 |- |Musical Sensations |225 |- |Is Fingal's Cave Artificial? |231 |- |The Spectroscope and the Weather |240 |- |Criminality in Animals |244 |- |Sketch of Matthias Jacob Schleiden |256 |- |Entertaining Varieties |263 |- |Editor's Table |268 |- |Literary Notices |276 |- |Popular Miscellany |283 |- |Notes |288 |- |colspan=2| |- |The Great Comet of 1882 |289 |- |Scientific Philanthropy I |300 |- |Traces of a Pre-Indian People |315 |- |Bodily Deformities in Girlhood |322 |- |Time-Keeping in London II |328 |- |A Mastodon in an Old Beater-Meadow |341 |- |Curiosities of Superstition I |345 |- |The Gospel of Recreation |354 |- |The Influence of Education on Observation |359 |- |Speculative Zoology II |364 |- |Playas and Playa-Lakes |380 |- |Scientific Farming at Rothamsted II |383 |- |Recent Advances in Photography |397 |- |Sketch of Professor Henry Draper |405 |- |Editor's Table |410 |- |Literary Notices |414 |- |Popular Miscellany |424 |- |Notes |431 |- |colspan=2| |- |The African in the United States |433 |- |A Prehistoric Cemetery |445 |- |The University Ideal |458 |- |Curiosities of Superstition II |471 |- |Methods in Modern Physical Astronomy |477 |- |Evolution of the Stethoscope |488 |- |Social Forces in American Life |491 |- |The Formation of Lunar Craters |495 |- |Science in the Sick-Room |497 |- |The Decrease of Gold |503 |- |Natural Religion I |511 |- |Scientific Philanthropy II |521 |- |The Schools of Medicine |535 |- |Brain-Power in Education |539 |- |Sketch of Henri Milne-Edwards |545 |- |Correspondence |540 |- |Editor's Table |553 |- |Literary Notices |560 |- |Popular Miscellany |569 |- |Notes |575 |- |colspan=2| |- |The Growth and Effect of Railway Consolidation |577 |- |Queer Phases of Animal Life |589 |- |Natural Religion II |606 |- |Vivisection and Practical Medicine |615 |- |Evolution of the Camp-Meeting |622 |- |Sewage at the Sea-Side |625 |- |Icebergs and Fog in the North Atlantic |628 |- |Remedial Value of the Climate of Florida |641 |- |A South African Arcadia |650 |- |Piratical Publishers |656 |- |A Chapter in Transcendental Pathology |659 |- |The Pedigree of Wheat |662 |- |A Few Words About Eatables |677 |- |Sketch of Sir C. Wyville Thomson |693 |- |Editor's Table |699 |- |Literary Notices |704 |- |Popular Miscellany |713 |- |Notes |719 |- |colspan=2| |- |Nature and Limits of the Science of Politics |721 |- |The Economic Function of Vice |732 |- |Progress of the Backboned Family |739 |- |Curiosities of Superstition III |754 |- |Perceptional Insanities |760 |- |Dwarfs and Giants |767 |- |The Census and the Forests |774 |- |Origin of the Donkey |783 |- |Speculations on the Nature of Matter |788 |- |The Legal Status of Servant-Girls |803 |- |The New York Geological Survey |815 |- |Origin of the Calendar and Astrology |825 |- |Sketch of Increase Allen Lapham, LL.D. |835 |- |Correspondence |841 |- |Editor's Table |843 |- |Literary Notices |850 |- |Popular Miscellany |857 |- |Notes |863 |- |Index |865 |- |}Popular Science Monthly Volume 22