Bolivian Cinchona Forests.

Ferns.--Nephrolepis Davillioides Furcans and Nephrolepis Duffi.
--2 engravings.

IX. PHYSIOLOGY, HYGIENE, ETC.--The Upright Attitude of Mankind.
--Review of a lecture by Dr. S.V. CLEVENGER, in which he
tries to prove that man must have originated from a four footed
being.

Our Enemies, the Microbes.--Affections caused by the same.--
Experiments of Davaine, Pasteur, and others.--How to prevent
bacterides from entering the body.--5 figures.

X. BIOGRAPHY.--Gaston Plante, the Scientist.--With portrait

Warren Colburn, the American Mathematician.

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IMPROVEMENTS IN THE HARBOR OF ANTWERP.


The harbor of Antwerp, which, excepting those of London and Liverpool,
is the largest in Europe, has been improved wonderfully during the last
decade. Before 1870 it was inferior to the harbor at Havre, but now it