A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS. IT is my intention, in this series of papers, to give the history of the progress in Natural History from the beginning, — to show how men first approached ...

The Scottish poet, novelist, and historian Andrew Lang once quipped that politicians use statistics the way a drunkard uses a lamppost: “for support rather than illumination.” Indeed, the same line ...

A WORK, from the scientific storehouse of Professor Agassiz needs only to have attention called to its existence to command universal welcome. The readers of the “ Atlantic ” are already in some ...

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