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|Illustrations of the Logic of Science I
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|The Growth of the Steam-Engine I
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|The Law of Continuity
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|Modern Troglodytes
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|The System of Sirius
|47
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|The Differences of Things
|53
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|Man and the Glacial Period
|61
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|Effects of Study on the Eyesight
|74
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|The Gigantic Moa-Bird
|87
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|To the Ring Nebula
|90
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|Sketch of Michael Servetus
|91
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|Correspondence
|105
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|Editor's Table
|108
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|Literary Notices
|111
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|Popular Miscellany
|115
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|Notes
|127
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|The Growth of the Steam-Engine II
|129
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|Star or Star-Mist
|148
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|Language and the English Civil Service
|152
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|On the Comparative Stupidity of Politicians
|162
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|The Laryngoscope and Rhinoscope
|166
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|Dr Draper's Lecture on Evolution
|175
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|The Great Bengal Cyclone of 1876
|192
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|Our Six-Footed Rivals I
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|History of the Dynamical Theory of Heat I
|206
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|Open Air and Health
|216
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|The Tides II
|226
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|Modern Superstitions
|232
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|Sketch of Professor Rankine
|236
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|Editor's Table
|238
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|Literary Notices
|241
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|Popular Miscellany
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|Notes
|255
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|The Growth of the Steam-Engine III
|257
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|Health-Matters in Japan
|280
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|Illustrations of the Logic of Science II
|286
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|The Archer-Fishes
|302
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|Temperaments
|306
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|The Ice Age I
|319
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|Teachings of a Day
|327
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|History of the Dynamical Theory of Heat II
|330
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|Style
|340
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|Our Six-Footed Rivals II
|349
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|Sketch of Professor Joseph Le Conte
|358
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|Correspondence
|362
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|Editor's Table
|363
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|Literary Notices
|368
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|Popular Miscellany
|375
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|Notes
|383
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|Evolution of Ceremonial Government I
|385
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|Geysers and How They are Explained
|407
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|The Hygienic Influence of Plants
|417
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|Counting by the Aid of the Fingers
|430
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|Modern Life and Insanity
|432
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|The Growth of the Steam-Engine IV
|446
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|The Magnetic Observatory at Madison, Wisconsin
|455
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|The Chemistry of Fruit-Ripening
|460
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|Addresses of Eliot and Marsh
|473
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|Spontaneous Generation I
|476
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|Sketch of Walter Bagehot
|489
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|Correspondence
|491
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|Editor's Table
|495
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|Literary Notices
|501
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|Popular Miscellany
|506
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|Notes
|511
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|Introduction and Succession of Vertebrate Life in America I
|513
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|The Growth of the Steam-Engine V
|528
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|Evolution of Ceremonial Government II
|545
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|Opium and its Antidote
|555
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|The Telephone and How it Works
|559
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|Technical Education
|570
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|The Debasement of Coinages
|580
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|Spontaneous Generation II
|591
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|Illustrations of the Logic of Science III
|604
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|Liquefaction of the Gases I
|616
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|Correspondence
|623
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|Editor's Table
|624
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|Literary Notices
|630
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|Popular Miscellany
|635
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|Notes
|640
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