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EDITED BY
J. McKEEN CATTELL
VOL. LVII
MAY TO OCTOBER, 1900
NEW YORK AND LONDON
McCLURE, PHILLIPS AND COMPANY
1900
Copyright, 1900,
By McCLURE, PHILLIPS AND COMPANY.
THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY
MAY, 1900.
The circumstance which renders the coming total eclipse ofthe sun, on May 28, 1900, of special significance to thousandsof people who might otherwise entirely overlook the occasion isthe fact that the path of the moon’s shadow over the surface ofthe earth, or the track of the eclipse, is in such a convenient locality—namely,in our Southern States—as to render the places ofvisibility easily accessible. Instead of being obliged to go to theends of the earth, at a heavy expenditure of time and money, allthe while running the risk of not seeing the eclipsed sun on accountof prevailing cloudiness, we are fortunate this time to have