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Title: Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887
Volume 1, Number 11

Author: Various

Editor: J. R. Buchanan

Release Date: January 13, 2009 [EBook #27796]

Language: English

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BUCHANAN'S
JOURNAL OF MAN.

VOL. I. DECEMBER, 1887. NO. 11.

CONTENTS OF JOURNAL OF MAN.

The World's Neglected or Forgotten Leaders and Pioneers
Social Conditions--Expenses at Harvard; European Wages; India as a
Wheat Producer; Increase of Insanity; Temperance; Flamboyant
Animalism
Transcendental Hash
Just Criticism
Progress of discovery and Improvement--Autotelegraphy; Edison's
Phonograph; Type-setting Eclipsed; Printing in Colors; Steam
Wagon; Fruit Preserving; Napoleon's Manuscript; Peace; Capital
Punishment; Antarctic Explorations; The Desert shall Blossom as
the Rose
Life and Death--Marvellous Examples
Outlines of Anthropology (continued) Chapter X.--The Law of
Location in Organology

THE WORLD'S NEGLECTED OR FORGOTTEN LEADERS AND PIONEERS.

Leif Ericson, the long-forgotten Scandinavian discoverer of North
America, nearly five hundred years before Columbus, has at last
received American justice, and a statue in his honor has been erected,
which was unveiled in Boston, on Commonwealth Avenue, before a
distinguished assemblage, on the 29th of October.

The history of the Scandinavian discovery and settlement was related
on this occasion by Prof. E. Horsford, from whose address the
following passages are extracted:

"What is the great fact that is sustained by such an array of
authority? It is this: that somewhere to the southwest of
Greenland, at least a fortnight's sail, there were, for 300
years after the beginning of the 11th century, Norse colonies on
the coast of America, with which colonies the home countr