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102

PAGE
Babylonia, Astronomy

99
Remarkable development of religion
Ea, the Beneficent, and Merodach, the

Merciful .
Eridu, the earliest "Holy Cityof history 102
Ur, a Babylonian Chicago :
Sargon, earliest historical king, 3800 B C. 103
Temple of Merodach at Babylon . 103
Four divisions of the Babylonian bible,

magical texts, hymns to deities, peni-
tential psalms, and litanies . 103, 104
The story of Sargon .

104, 105
Babylonia in Egypt at Tel el-Amarna . 105
Contrast of Babylonian and Assyrian . . 106
Babylonian invention of cuneiform writing 107
Houses, commerce, art, aud manufactures

.

.

107, 108

ress

873

PAGE
Abraham, the story of .

870, 871
Acetylene, account of discovery and char-
acter

223, 224
Further information

629
Air, a lesson on

21
The sun and the air

390, 399
The component parts of

584-587
Alcohol, effects of .

· 525
American history, readings in; five papers

356–360, 455-459, 541-545, 643-646, 738-740
Americanism, the Monroe doctrine of . 743-759
University professors on

. 814
American university development; two pa-
pers . .

561-580, 657-665
Ammonia and nitric acid in the air, impor-
tance of ...

585
Antiquity, current idea of

686
Jewish in origin:

. 687
Anti-toxin and diphtheria .

24, 509
Aqueous vapor, effect of, in the atmosphere 393
Its nature and amount.

584
Ararat, Mount.

849
Argon, discovery of, by Lord Rayleigh 79

Prize of $10,000 awarded for discovery of . 390
The question of .

811
Under the Hodgkins fund

. 889
Armenia, the short story of troubles in 708

The cruel case of massacred. 765–767
Armenia in history :

849
Armenian Christianity

850
Asia in human progress

. 489
Assyria, a curse to mankind, B. C. 1306–600.688
Astronomy, the dawn of, by Mary Proctor . 122

Popular readings in, second paper . 936-943
General view of observation in 838-840
Celestial photography

841
Use of the spectroscope .

842
The sun

936-943
Distance of

· 936
Size of . .
Sun spots

939
The photosphere .

940
Thirty-five terrestrial “elements known
to exist in the sun

941
The chromosphere

942
The corona
Source of the sun's heat.

· 943
Athletic excesses in universities

75-78
Atlanta, opening of cotton exposition at 421-424
Report on by S. T. K. Prime .

634
Australian States, the seven

327
Atomic theory, Dalton's discovery of 374
"Attraction " not a true conception .
Austria, German position of .

. 695
Antagonism to Prussia .

.699
Prussia victorious over, in the Seven
Weeks' War of 1866.

803-805
Babylonia, its bible the earliest known . 27

Its place in the dawn of history . 97-110
Interest and importance of .
Two parts of, north and south .
Cities of, Eridu, Erech, and Ur.
Its scriptures the earliest known.

99

27

938

Agriculture.

108
Burial of the dead

109
Money of the Babylonians .

270
New light on Babylonia in human prog-

510
Early king of, at Mt. Sinai

867
Its Moon-god, Sin, gives name to Sinai . 868
Commerce of .

868
Conquest in the Far West.

869
Canaan a province of .

870
Its culture established in Egypt
Bacon-Shakespeare

113, 493
Bacteria, the question of .

155
Bell John, of Maryland, his estimate of
Washington

852
“ Bible” and “Paper," the same in origin

256, 693
Bible, place of the Hebrew .

686
Bibles and Beliefs of mankind
Bibles of mankind, their chronological order 693
Bicycle exercise, Dr. G. M. Hammond on . 150
Bimetallism, what is it . .

159-160
Bismarck, the Teutonic empire builder 694-700
How he made Prussia victorious over Aus-
tria

803-805
The war with France aud King William
made emperor,

881-884
Boers, the case of the .

812
Bohemian matters .

347
Books, new, their importance

3
Brain, the, a duplex organ .

504-507
Brain, the, in mari, Prof. Elmer Gates on . 609
Breathing, the art of

328
Brissot, Jean Pierre, his estimate of Wash-
ington .

.856
Britannica, The Encyclopædia, as a univer-

text-book for systematic study .
British Guiana, its relation to Venezuela . 858
British possessions.

156
Broglie, Prince de, his estimate of Washing-
ton

853
Bryant's Poets and Poetry, Library of . 612
Cabot John, his discovery of North Amer-

ica
Cabral, Pedro Alvarez, discovers South
America .

487

943

.

· 680

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.

242, 246