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Title: Popular science monthly
Year: 1872 (1870s)
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Subjects: Science
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
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ame a professor in the Liverpool Institution. He was appointed to theMuseum in Edinburgh in 1860. Among hisscientific publications are a text-book on Economic Botany, and papers before the Royal Society of Edinburgh on Graphitein Siberia, on an undescribed variety offlexible sandstone, on Two Species of Foraminifera, and on some objects from the Nicobar Islands of great ethnological interest. Mr. Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, whosename is inseparably associated with the basic or Thomas-Gilchrist process for makingsteel from phosphoric pig-iron, died in Parison the 1st of February. He was educated at Dulwich College, England, and was in-tended for the medical profession, but entered the civil service, while he kept up allhis life a strong interest in the study of chemistry. The first announcement of the discovery in iron-working which he and his relative, Mr. Gilchrist, had made, was given in a paper which he read before the Iron and Steel Institute in 1878, On the Elimination of Phosphorus.
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ALFRED E. BREHM. THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. JUNE, 1885. ARE WE TO BECOME AFRICANIZED? By HENRY GANNETT. DURING- the past few months the presence of the negro in the United States, his future, and his possible influence upon our social and political fabric, have become a fertile subject of discussion. Thus far the argument has tended entirely in one direction, all writers seeming to be agreed that the country is rapidly getting into a badway, by reason of its millions of black laborers. Various remedies have been prescribed, all of them more or less difficult to apply. It would appear that the wisest course to pursue would be to first study the case thoroughly, and make sure that the alleged patient is really ill, before pouring into him any nauseous draughts. It is possible that he is merely a hypochondriac. In The Popular Science Monthly for February, 1883, there appeared an article by Professor E. W. Gilliam, entitled The African in the United States, in which, by a free handling of the

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