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Shall Cuba be Free

The Florida Infamy

St. Helena and the Grave of Napoleon Fifty-Nine Years Ago

The Glasgow District Subway

By A. M. Stewart

Action of the Electric Current upon Aluminum Wire

The Spectrum of Carbon from the Electric Furnace

Organic Chemistry

Photographic Newspaper Illustrations

By Thomas Wakeman Lane

Physical Theory of the Perception of Colors

By Georges Darzens

Apparatus for making Enlargements by Daylight

Life History of the Salmon

Apparatus for Washing Negatives

The Cats of Siam

The Aims of Anthropology

By Daniel G. Brinton

Some High Mountain Observatories

By Edward Whymper

The Energy of Rain Storms

A Peruvian Salt Mine

The Yukon River

Four Little Sky Travelers

By E. E. Barnard

The Commerce in Vegetable Oils

By P. L. Simmonds

Illuminating Opaque Objects for the Microscope

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