ON AUCTION HERE is a beautifully leatherbound volume of The Popular Science Monthly, published by D. Appleton & Co., New York. Sized 10x8 inches, 873 pages. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of engravings. Beautiful quality fine leather, black cloth boards. With a fascinating section titled The Races of Mankind, by E.B. Tylor, F.R.S., with 24 images of Gypsies, Aboriginal Australians, American Indians, Swedes, Dyaks, Koreans, Calmucks, Dravidians, Melanesians. Increase of the Colored Population, by J. Stahl Patterson, about blacks in America increasing their population and movement north. A fascinating piece on Automatic Writing (see pictures). Intelligence of Ants, The Herring, lots more.