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|The Grape Phylloxera
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|The Limits of our Knowledge of Nature
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|The Crooked Courses of Light
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|Synthetic Chemistry
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|Universities: Actual and Ideal
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|Action of Sunlight on Glass
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|Measures of Mental Capacity
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|Law and Insanity
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|Observations of a Naturalist in Nicaragua
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|A Gigantic Relic
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|Evolution and the Doctrine of Design
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|Sketch of James P. Joule, F.R.S. |103 |- |Editor's Table |108 |- |Literary Notices |115 |- |Miscellany |123 |- |Notes |127 |- |colspan=2| |- |Have Plants a Pedigree? |129 |- |Punishing a Senior Wrangler |144 |- |More About the Grape-Vine Pest |158 |- |Scientific and Industrial Education, in the United States |170 |- |About Crabs |191 |- |Sex in Mind and Education |198 |- |Nostalgia |215 |- |The Atmosphere as an Anvil |220 |- |Cremation and its Alternatives |225 |- |A New Process for the Preservation of Wood |228 |- |Sketch of Professor Helmholtz |231 |- |Correspondence |235 |- |Editor's Table |237 |- |Literary Notices |240 |- |Miscellany |251 |- |Notes |255 |- |colspan=2| |- |Telescopic Research on the Nebula of Orion |257 |- |The Genesis of Woman |269 |- |Humming-Birds |277 |- |The Development of Psychology I |288 |- |Field Telegraph |303 |- |Hints on the Stereoscope |311 |- |The Chain of Species I |313 |- |Climate and Social Development |322 |- |The Hydraulics of Great Rivers |327 |- |Animals Extinct in the Historic Period |331 |- |The Moquis Indians of Arizona |351 |- |Mental Evolution and Necessary Truths |357 |- |Sketch of Dr. Thomas Young |360 |- |Editor's Table |365 |- |Literary Notices |370 |- |Miscellany |379 |- |Notes |384 |- |colspan=2| |- |Priestley's Discovery of Oxygen Gas |385 |- |The Physics of Ice |399 |- |The Development of Psychology II |412 |- |Distances of the Stars |423 |- |Female Suffrage |427 |- |A Baby-Fox |443 |- |Rendu and his Editors |447 |- |The Chain of Species II |460 |- |Color in Animals |470 |- |Estimate of Darwin |475 |- |Sketch of the Life of Dr. Priestley |480 |- |Editor's Table |493 |- |Literary Notices |497 |- |Miscellany |504 |- |Notes |511 |- |colspan=2| |- |Natural History of Man V |513 |- |The Photosphere and Sun-Spots |532 |- |Ferments, Fermentations, and Life |542 |- |Birds-of-Paradise |556 |- |The Chain of Species III |568 |- |Zuni Indians of New Mexico |580 |- |Food and the Development of Man |591 |- |Materials of the Science of Law |596 |- |The Alleged Antagonism Between Growth and Reproduction |606 |- |The Nobility of Knowledge |610 |- |Sketch of J. L. Le Conte |622 |- |Correspondence |624 |- |Editor's Table |626 |- |Literary Notices |631 |- |Miscellany |637 |- |Notes |640 |- |colspan=2| |- |The Fossil Man of Mentone |641 |- |Microscopic Architects |645 |- |Inaugral Address Before the British Association |652 |- |The Aquarium |687 |- |Thermal Death-Point of Living Matter I |695 |- |Mental Physiology |705 |- |Recent Researches in Photography |717 |- |The Electric Light for Steamships |720 |- |Are Animals Automatons? |724 |- |Tyndall's Relation to Popular Science |734 |- |Editor's Table |741 |- |Literary Notices |749 |- |Miscellany |759 |- |Notes |766 |- |Index |769 |- |}Popular Science Monthly Volume 5