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The New Naval Programme

"A Gross Error"

Cables of the New East River Bridge

The Explosive Features of Acetylene

The Yacht "Columbia" in European Waters

Congress and the Nicaragua Canal

Death of Sir William Dawson

Can White Men Live in the Tropics?

American Fruits at the Paris Exposition

Compressed Cork and Its Uses

The Monument to Robert Fulton

The Tidal "Bore" at Moncton

By Gustav Kobb

A Destructive Gas Explosion

An Electric Flash-Light Device

The Future of South Africa--II

By Edgar Mels

Simple Experiments in Physics and Chemistry

The Lecornu Cellular Kite

The New York Botanical Garden

Photographing Living Fishes at Santa Catalina Zoological Station

By C. F. Holder

An Improvement in Flue-Cutters

Departments

  • Letters

    Correspondence - December 2, 1899

  • Departments

    The Heavens in December

  • Business and Personal - December 2, 1899

  • Index of Inventions - December 2, 1899

  • Notes and Queries - December 2, 1899

  • Recently Patented Inventions - December 2, 1899

  • Patents - December 2, 1899

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December 02, 1899

Beyond XX and XY

Biology. Identity. Equality.

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