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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT NO. 822




NEW YORK, October 3, 1891

Scientific American Supplement. Vol. XXXII, No. 822.

Scientific American established 1845

Scientific American Supplement, $5 a year.

Scientific American and Supplement, $7 a year.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS.


I.    ANTHROPOLOGY.--The Study of Mankind.--A review of Prof.
      Max Muller's recent address before the British Association.  13141

II.   CHEMISTRY.--Standards and Methods for the Polarimetric
      Estimation of Sugars.--A U.S. internal revenue report on