Food Laws.-Beverage. Water Purification. - Ventilation. AGRICUL XXVII. THE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES ORGANIC EVOLUTION.-Adaptation. -Cytology.-Heredity.-Variation.- Mutation. Inbreeding and Crossbreeding.-Determination of Dominance and Sex.-Experimental Evolution. ZOOLOGY.-Morphology.-Embry- ology. Cytology.-Experimental Zoology. BOTANY: MORPHOLOGY AND PALEOBOTANY. Angiosperms. Gymnosperms. Pteridophytes. Bryophytes.-Algae.-Fungi. PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY. TAXONOMY AND ECONOMIC BOTANY.-Seed Plants.--Trees and Shrubs.-Ferns, Mosses and Liverworts.-Fungi.-Algae.-Economic Botany. PALEON- TOLOGY.-Invertebrates.-Amphibians.-Reptiles.-Dinosaurs.-Mammals. XXVIII. ANTHROPOLOGY, ETHNOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY AND ECONOMICS ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY.-Antiquity of Man.-Archeological Ex- plorations.-America. Canada. - California.-West Coast.-Southwest. -Plains Tribes.-Algonquin Tribes.-Maine.-Mississippi Valley.-Mex- ico. Maya Culture.-South America.-Peru.-Bolivia.-Lesser Antilles. -Africa.-Paleolithic Art. SOCIOLOGY.-Inductive Method.-Demogra- phy. Teaching. ECONOMICS.Tariff and Income Tax.-Immigration. PSYCHOLOGY.-Psychological Methods.-Experimental Human Psychol- ANATOMY.-Growth Phenomena. Cytology.-Blood and Blood- XXXI. RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS Christian Denominations.-Baptist.-Second European Baptist Congress. -Congregationalist. National Congregational Council. Disciples of Christ.-New Constitution.-General Convention.-Lutheran.-General Synod and General Council.-General Conference.-Methodist.-Proposed Union of the Methodist Protestant and United Brethren Churches.- Vanderbilt University.-British Wesleyan Conference.-Presbyterian.- Presbyterian Alliance.-Presbyterian Union Movements.-Cumberland Presbyterians.-Protestant Episcopal.-General Convention.-World Con- ference on Christian Unity.-Reformed Church.-Roman Catholic.- - PAINTING, SCULPTURE, AND HANDICRAFTS.-Museums.-Morgan, Altman AMERICAN LITERATURE.—Fiction.-Short Stories.-Biography.-Poetry - - XXXIV. 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