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Youmans (EDWARD LIVING- STON)

EDWARD LIVING- STON, an American scientist, long the editor of the "Popular Science Monthly"; born in Coeymans, N. Y., June 3, 1821.

His chief works are: "Alcohol and the Constitution of Man" (1854); "Hand- Book of Household Science" (1857); "Correlation and Conservation of Forces" (1864); "The Culture Demanded by Modern Life" (1867); etc. He died in New York City, Jan. 18, 1887.

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