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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
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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and illustrator of Nature-printed British Sea-weeds. Mr. Alexander Murray, formerly of theCanadian Geological Survey, died in theearly part of this year. He was born inScotland in 1811, and, after serving in theBritish Navy for several years, went to Can-ada about 1837. He was invited by Mr. W.E. Logan to join the geological survey of theprovince, which was about to be begun, and,having no previous knowledge of the sci-ence, qualified himself for the work by spe-cial studies. On the survey he was ableand efficient, and superintended a large partof the work for twenty years. He hadcharge, from 1863 to 18S3, of trie geologicalsurveys of Newfoundland, the collated re-ports of which, published in 1881, are ourchief sources of information on that sub-ject. The Rev. T. W. Webb, of Hereford,England, author of Celestial Objects forCommon Telescopes, and of numerous arti-cles on observational astronomy, died May19th. The anatomist. Professor Henle, of Giit-tingen, died on the 13th of May last.
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GDSTAV NACHTIGAL. TUE POPULAR SCIENCEMONTHLY. SEPTEMBER, 1885. THE EELATIONS OF RAILWAY MAI^AGERS AND EMPLOYES. By De. W. T. BAENARD. THE problem how to secure the most effective and harmoniousrelationship with their employes is one of rapidly growing im-portance in the minds of those managers whose duties bring theminto close contact with the rank and file of railway service, and is alsobeginning to force itself upon the attention of investors in this coun-try, as it has already largely done in Europe. Though quite generallythe real underlying cause of strikes and labor agitations, among rail-way people especially, is unequal enforcement of discipline, irregularityin or unequal distribution of work, debts incurred through the mis-fortunes—rather than, as a rule, through the fault—of the operatives,inducing restlessness, etc., their discontent usually forces itself upon theattention of the railway director in the first instance as a wages ques-tion. As the successful and economica

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