Egypt, stone implements in, 119.

Election excitement versus brains, 551.
Elective studies at Harvard, 499.
Electrical engineering school in Boston,
150; fire, ball of, 338; light industry,
government interference with, in Eng-
Tand, 537; lighting, 238; machine, 338,
363; measuring apparatus, 151. 283; rail-
way, 180; at Frankfort, ill. 240; in New
York, ill. 148; wires underground, 373.
Electrotechnical handbook, 447.
Elevation of earth's surface, causes of, 387.
Elizabeth Thompson fund, 141, 144, 421.
Elkin's work at Yale college observatory,
98.

Elliott, E. B., on electric lighting, 238;
the silver question, 237.

Ellis's West African Islands, reviewed,
306.

Elting, I., on Dutch village-communities
of the Hudson, 250.
Embryology, suggestion from, 481.
Encken on unity of mental life, 452.
Encyclopaedia Britannica on Greely's ex-
plorations, 463.

Endowment for research, 144.

Engelhardt on Admiral von Wrangell, 417.
Engineers, American society of civil, 13.
England, geographical instruction in, 78.
Ensilage in England, 500.

Entomology, economic, in Illinois, 261; in
the national museum, 445.
Equatorial currents in solar and planetary
atmospheres, 516.

Eskimo compared with languages of
northern Asia, 300.
Ethical theory, types of, 136.

Ethnography of antarctic America, 92.
Ethnology, Mexican, 405.

Europe, geological map of, 377.

Evolution through attack and defence, 339.
Exploration in Indo-China, ill. 106.
Explosions as a means of propulsion, 374;
mine, 117.

Eye, development of, ill. 194.
Eyesight and civilization, 195.

Factory hours in England, 40.

Fanning's water-supply for New York, 72.
FARNSWORTH, P. J. The English spar-
row, 541.

Fisher, C. H., on statistics of consumption
in Rhode Island, 512.

Flash language, American, 283.
FLETCHER, Alice C. An average day in
camp among the Sioux, 285; an evening
in camp among the Omahas, 88.
Fletcher, A. C., on a Sioux camp, 233; war
customs of Omahas, 231.

Flexure of transit instruments, 205, 387.
Flood Rock explosion, 315, 325, 326, 335,
353, 431.

Flora of Nantucket and Martha's Vine-
yard, 363.

Florida, miocene deposits in, 82.

Fol, H., on evidence of tail in man, 92.
Food, application of science to production
and consumption of, 234.
Food-fishes, co-operation in preserving,

420.

Foods, human, 235.

Forbes on poisonous waters in Keeling
Islands, 369.

Forestry congress, 181, 312.

Formative force of organisms, 4.

Formosa, 280.

France, height in, ill. 523.

FRANKLIN, Christine L. Science in com-
mon schools, 289.

FRANKLIN, F. Newcomb's Political econ-
omy, 495, 538.

FRAZER, P. International geological con-
gress at Berlin, 540.

French academy in its origin, 105; growth
of, 1635-1885, 190; use of, 281; associa-
tion for the advancement of science, 99;
expeditions, 259.

Freud's Coca. 119.

Friction and lost work, 275.
Fright, effect of, 550.

Fritsch's Permian reptiles of Bohemia,
reviewed, 97.

Fruit, influence of locality upon, 193.
Fungi, 277.

Fungoid growth on spider, 409.

G. An unreliable treatise on disinfec-
tants, 540.

G., A. Insular floras, 297.

GAGE, S. H. The limitations and value of
histological investigation, 226.
GAGE, S. H. and S. P. Aquatic respiration
of soft-shelled turtles, 283.

Gage, S. H. and S. P., on aquatic respira-
tion of turtles, 225.

Gagem on the ascent of Popocatapetl, 390.
GALTON, F. Types and their inheritance.
268.

Galveston, deep water at, 215.
GANNETT, H. The magnetic declination
in 1728, 283.

GARDINER, F., jun. An Arizona natural
bridge, ill. 67.

Gas, natural, geology of, 42, 184; in Illi-
nois, 520; wells, 441; of Ohio, 220.
Gastric juice injected in blood of animals,
409.

Gee. See Stewart and Gee.

Geikie's Geology, reviewed, 298.
Geographical education in England, 78,
538; news, 157; notes, 50, 71, 134, 311,
356, 380, 426, 448, 488, 515, 554; orthog-
raphy, reform in, 110; society of
Russia, 430.

Geographies, new series of, 557.
Geography, some works on, 298; study of,
349.

Geological annual, 159, 185; changes in
New South Wales, 320; congress at Ber-
lin, 158, 333, 376, 520, 540; history, con-
tradictions in, 41; map of Europe, 377;
survey of Canada, 521.

Geology and geography section of Ameri-

can association, 219; of Japan, 13; Ohio,
257; natural gas, 42, 184; recent progress
in, 217; some works on, 298; of the Vir-
ginias, 17.

German physicians, fourth congress of,
395; possessions in Africa, 40; univer-
sities, map, 244.

Germination studies, 224.
Germs, effect of sunlight on, 475.
Gestation in horned toad, 185.

Gilbert, G. K., on old shore-line of Lake
Ontario, 222.

Gilchrist trust, lectures under, 383.

GOODE, G. B. The care of pamphlets, 337;
recent Challenger monographs, 526.
Gottsche's travels, 119.

Government, city, 236; science, 536; and
the scientific bureaus, 530.
Grandidier on gigantic bird of Madagas
car, 418.

Gravity determinations in and near Japan,
319.

Gray, Dr. Asa, 160; his seventy-fifth birth-
day, ill. 465, 477.

Gray's Explorations of east coast of
Greenland, 448.

GRAY, E. P. Calendar reform, 408.
Great Basin region, reconnoissance in, 58.
Greely, A. W., arctic explorations of, 463;
rescue of, 278.

Greenland, east coast of, visited, 448; ex-

ploration of, 558; native iron in, 280.
Guatemala, pre-Columbian history of, 514.
Günther's Geophysik, reviewed, 299.
Gutta-percha, substitute for, 160.

HAGEN, H. A. An old work on political
economy, 562.

HAGUE, A. The decay of the obelisk, 510.
Haight, S. S., on accurate standards for
surveyors' chains, 215.

HALE, H. Ethnography of antarctic Amer-
ica, 92.

Hale, H., on the Blackfoot tribes, 456.
HALL, A. Height of land in Connecticut, 4;
Reineke Fuchs in political economy, 563.
HALLETT, H. S. Exploration in Indo-
China, ill. 106.

Hamy's Mexican ethnology, reviewed, 405.
Hann, J., on the laws of temperature in
the Austrian Alps, 459.
Hanno's voyage, 488.

Hare. See Woodhead and Hare.
Harkness, W., on flexure of transit in-
struments, 205, 387; the silver question,
237.

HARRINGTON, M. W. Lost rivers, 205.
Harrison, Sir J. P., on the great toe, 452.
Hartwell, E. M., on physical training in
Germany, 534.

Harvard college observatory, 556; bequest
to, 1, 384; elective studies at, 499.
HAYWARD, S. Color and other associa-
tions, ill. 338.

Hazen, H. A., on hygrometers and psy-
chrometers, 387.

Health, public, 38; chemistry in the ser-
vice of, 208; maxims of, 75.
Heat, obscure, 443.

Hehn and Stally brass's Wanderings of
plants and animals, reviewed, 426.
Height in France, ill. 523.

HEILPRIN, Angelo. The classification
and paleontology of the U. S. tertiary
deposits, 83.

Heim's Glaciers, reviewed, 56.
Helix cantiana, 418.

Hemsley's Botany of the Challenger, re-
viewed, 297.

HENNING, G. C. The English sparrow, 498.
HENSHAW, S. Coleoptera of America, 454.
Henshaw's List of American Coleoptera,
382.

HERRICK, F. H. An abnormal black bass,
ill. 243; carnivorous habits of the
striped squirrel, 338.

Hicks, H., on bone-caves in Wales, 53.
Hicks, L. E., on Dakota group in Nebras-
ka, 221.

HIGGINSON, T. W.

guage again, 283.

American flash lan-

HILGARD, E. W. Absorption of mercurial

vapor by soils, 497; the classification and
paleontology of the U. S. tertiary de-
posits, 44.

Hilgard, J. E., and his work, 139.
Hill, C. S., on statistical analysis, 237.
Histological investigations, 226.

Histology and microscopy section of
American association. 227.
Historical association, 249.
HITCHCOCK, C. H. The latest slides in the
White Mountains, 306; the recent land-
slide in the White Mountains, ill. 84.
Hitchcock, E., on Mastodon skeleton, 450.
Hoek on the Challenger Cirripedia, 527.
Hog cholera, 532.

Hogg, A., on deep water at Galveston,
Tex., 215.

HOLDEN, E. S. The care of pamphlets,
386; color and other associations, 242.
Holden, E. S., 398.

Hollick on Mitchella repens, 409.
Hooker, Sir J., 537.

Hooper's Cruise of the Corwin, reviewed,

Horse-breeding, 447.

Hough, G. W., on improvements in print-
ing-chronograph, 205.

Howe's Atlas of biology, reviewed, 462.
HOWE, H. M. The Clapp-Griffiths Besse-
mer plant, 342.

Hoyt, J. W., on re-organization of U. S.
executive departments, 237.

HUBBARD, G. G. The Kongo Free State,
map, 163.

Hubbard, G. W., on statistics of negroes,
237.

Hudson Bay expedition, 98, 350.

HUGGINS, W. An attempt to photograph
the corona, 362.

Huliva's Water-supply of Breslau, 34.
Humanism in study of nature, 64.
Hunt, E. M., on sanitary and statistical

nomenclature, 512.

Huperz on lungen gymnastik, 406.
Hurricanes, West Indian, 260.

Huxley, T. H., 334, 537; on Darwin, por-
trait, 10.

HYATT, A. Cruise of the Arethusa, 384.
Hybridization of plants, 224.
Hydrographic surveys, 118.

Hydrophobia, 312, 398, 467; as a nervous
disease, 508.

Hygiene, 278; exhibition of, 36.
Hygrometers, 387.

Hygrometry in the signal service, 536.
Hypnotism, 280, 504.

I., H. C. Star catalogues, 408.
Icebergs and temperature of sea, 118.
Iceland, 357; earthquake in, 51.
Illinois, economic entomology in, 261.
Immortality in modern thought, 126.
Incandescent lamps on railways, 153.
India, meteorites in, 333; names of
mountains in, 280.

Indian commerce, 180; superstition, 59.
Indiana state academy of sciences, 302,
490.

Indicator springs, testing, 215.
Indo-China, exploration in, ill. 106.
Industries, Alaskan, 357, 427; Siberian,
348.

Infectious diseases, 299.
INGERSOLL, E. Canadian plains, 565; the
plains of British America, 468.
Ingersoll, E., on the effect of settlement
of America upon its wild animals, 416.
Inoculation, anthrax, 120; for yellow-
fever, 535.

Inscription rocks of Monhegan, 124.
Insular floras, 297.
Insurance, fire, 136.

International convention of science as-
sociations, 203; geological congress,
158, 333, 376, 520, 540; inventions exhi-
bition, in London, 383, 429; medical
congress, 61; sanitary conference at
Rome, 101.

Iron industry of Russia. 452; native, in
Greenland, 280; ores, 290.
Iroquois clans, 231.

Irrigation of the interior of New South
Wales, 551.

Irving and Van Hise on crystalline form
of quartz grains, 140.

Island, new, in Pacific Ocean, 555.
Italian African society, 50.
Italy, area of, 135.

J., J. Illustrations of recent Italian psy-
chology, 413; productiveness, 479;
racial characteristics of Jews, ill. 322;
some reaction-time studies, 458.

J., W. Experiments in memory, 198;
Lipp's psychological studies, 308.
JACQUES, W. W. Underground wires, 6.
Jagnaux's Mineralogy, reviewed, 16.
JAMES, E. J. Newcomb's Political econ-
omy, 470, 495, 517: recent land legisla
tion in England, 455.

JAMES, J. F. An abnormal Rudbeckia,
ill. 103; the English sparrow, 497.
James, J. F., on leaves of the pitcher-
plant, 296.

Japan, agriculture in, 314; atlas of, 558;
geology of, 13; gravity determinations
in, 319.

Japanese literature, Roman alphabet in,
158; patent law, 79.

JASTROW, J. Composite portraiture, 165,
283; infant psychology, 435.
Java, puppet-shows in, 251.
Jenkins, E. H., on method of estimating
phosphoric acid, 248.

Jewish quarter in Rome, destruction of,
60.

Jews, racial characteristics of, ill. 322.
Joest's Around Africa, reviewed, ill. 114.
Johns Hopkins university, physics at,

547.

Johnson's Surveying, reviewed, 356.
Johnson, H. N., bequest of, 557.
Johnston, H. H., on an African smithy,
ill. 347.

Journalists, reputation of Washington,
301.

Jumbo, 362.

K. Physics at Johns Hopkins, 547.
Kaan, H., on hypnotism, 280.
Kane's European butterflies, 535.
Keeling Islands, poisonous waters in, 369.
Kittler's Electrotechnical handbook, re-
viewed, 447.

KOBELT, W. Colonization in Algeria, 317.
Körösi's Comfort and longevity, re-
viewed, 37.

Kolbe, C. W., on laboratory practice, 212.
Kongo, 177; climate of. 100; conference,
history of, 157; expedition to, 79; Free
State, map, 163, 244.
Korean curios, 3.

Korthals. See Bréon and Korthals.
Kowak River, exploration of, 380.
Krakatoa eruption, results of, ill. 291.
Krause's Biography of Darwin, reviewed,
276.

KUNZ, G. F. Korean curios, 3.

Kunz, G. F., on minerals from new local-
ities, 222; petrified eyes, 410.
Kurile Islands, sea-level of, 120.

Labor statistics of Massachusetts, 389.
Laboratory practice, initiatory work for,
211.

La Flesche, F., on relationship among
Omahas, 232.

Land legislation in England, 455.
Land-slide in the White Mountains, ill. 84.
Langley, J. W., on chemism, 211; neces-
sity of knowledge of molecular physics
to teach chemistry, 212.

LANGLEY, S. P. False report of the fall
of a meteorite in western Pennsylva-
nia, 336.

Langley, S. P., on invisible radiations,
203; temperature of moon's surface,
412, 443.

Lankester, E. R., 537.

Lapland, height of mountains in, 515.
Lathe as instrument of precision, 215.
Latitude, change in, 118.
Latour's Chaleur animale, 535.
Laughlin's Study of political economy,
reviewed, 534.

Lea, sanitary condition of, 334.
LECONTE, Joseph. Earthquake shocks
more violent on the surface than in

mines, 540 immortality in moder
thought, 126; the results of shad props.
gation on the Atlantic coast, 5:30.
Legislation, land, in England, 455.
Lehmann's Consumptive period, 35.
Lena polar station, 492.

LESLEY, J. P. Address before America:
association, 168.

Lepidoptera, collection of, 50.
Lettuce, 193.

LEWIS, T. H. Effigy mounds in Iowa, il.
453.

Lick observatory, ill. 186, 398, 428, 556;
crown disk for, 181; future of, 181.
Liebermeister, C., on infectious diseases,

299.

Light in deep sea, 19; method for deter
mining unit of, 183.

Lightning, injury to monument by, ill
238; and the Washington monument.
383.

Limbs, development of, 409.
Linguistic studies, 262.

Lipp's Psychological studies, reviewed.
308.

Lockington, W. N., on causes of eleva-
tion of earth's surface, 387.
Locusts, injury by, 236.

Logic, study of, in scientific schools, 242.
Lomb prizes, 534.

London fog, 494.

Longevity and comfort, 37.

Longitude signals to Mexico, 405.

Longitudes, coast-survey system of, 474.
Loomis, E. Contributions to meteorology,
62; low-pressure areas, 79.

Lucy-Fossarieu's Ethnography of an-
tarctic America, reviewed, 92.
Lumsden on Afghan tribes, ill. 69.
Lungen gymnastik, 406.

LUQUER, T. T. P. Color and other asso-
ciations, ill. 337.

Luxor, excavation of temple of, ill. 370.
LYMAN, B. Smith. The etymology of

ginkgo, 84.

e, 543.

M. Laying a cable, 545.
M., A. The min
M., C. S. Has n
Mabery, C. F..
211. See
McAdams, W
kota, 232.

MCBRIDE, T. H.

tail? 92.
laboratory practice,
,wles and Mabery.
Indian mounds in Da-

Vegetable morphology

a century ago. Goethe, 130.
McDonald on shad propagation, 433.
Macedonia, nationalities of, 451.

MCFARLAND, W. Flood Rock explosion,
431.

McGill college, science at, 374.

MCINTOSH, W. C. Phosphorescence of
marine animals, 295.

McKendrick on the action of cold on
microphytes, 393.

MCMATH, R. E. Velocity and sediment, 2.
Mad stone, 123, 163.

Madagascar, gigantic bird of, 418.

Magazines, scientific articles in, 120, 180,
490.

Magnetic constants of steel cruisers, 361;
declination in 1728, 244, 283.

Magnetism, terrestrial, in Russia, 134.
Malthus and his work, 567.
Mammals, aestivation of, 402.

Man, ancestry of, 162; evidence of tail
in, 81, 92; and mastodon, 375.
Mangrove mud in Brazil, 120.

MANN, B. P. The care of pamphlets.
407, 432.

Map of Europe, geological, 377.
Maple sirup, crystals in, 520, 539.

Maps of North America, inaccuracy of,

529.

Marsh, O. C., on Dinocerata, 454; size of
brains of extinct vertebrates, 360.
Martha's Vineyard, cable to, 545; flora of,
363.

Martin, Miss L. J., on laboratory prac-
tice, 212.

Martineau's Types of ethical theory, re-
viewed, 136.

Massachusetts labor statistics, 389; teach-
ers' associations, 450.

Mastodon and man, 375; skeleton near
Geneva, N. Y., 450.

Mathematical prize, 259; research, com-
parative activity of different nations in,

181.

Mathematics and astronomy section of
American association, 204.
Matter, properties of, 96.
Maxwell's demons, 83.

Measurements, standards of, 215.
Mechanical engineering at Cornell, 406;
methods of teaching, 216; section of
American association, 78, 214.
Mediaeval universities, 460.

Medicine in the middle ages, ill. 40.
Mees, C. L., on laboratory practice, 212.
MEIGS, M. C. Ball of electric fire, 338:
the Washington monument and the
lightning stroke of June 5, 63.
Melon's From Palermo to Tunis, re-
viewed, 447.

Memory, experiments in, 198.

MENDENHALL, T. C. The explosion at
Flood Rock, 326.

Mendenhall, T. C., on reaction time, 387;
voltmeters, 387.

Mental life, unity of, 452; suggestion,

451.

Mercurial vapor, absorption of, by soils,
497.

Metallurgy, progress in, 525.

Meteoric iron from West Virginia, 563.
Meteorites, false report of, 325, 336; in
India, 333.

Meteorological notes, 556; observations,
curious, 279; observatory on Ben Nevis,
ill. 459; observatory, floating, 117; rec-
ords, telemetric aid to, 194; station in
New Guinea, 159.

Meteorology in New England, 557.
Meteors abundant Aug. 10, 142; Biela,
489, 496, 519, 556; bright, 497; fall of, at
sea, 59; November, 279, 428.
Mexican ethnology, 405.

MEYER, O. The classification and pale-
ontology of the U. S. tertiary deposits,
143.

MICHELS, J. The English sparrow, 541.
Michie's Life of Gen. Toton, reviewed,

404.

Mineral products of United States, 99;
resources of Askabad, 359.
Minerals from new localities, 222.
Mines, earthquake shocks in, 540; loss of
life in, 538.

MINOT, C. S. Color associations with the
months, 82; the formative force of or-
ganisms, 4; a new endowment for re-
search, 144; physiology of the brain, 521.
Minot, C. S.. on death, 226; morphology
of supra-renal capsules, 226; number-
habit, 233.

Miocene deposits, 82.

Mitchella repens, 409.
Mirage on Lake Wettern, 158.

Molecular physics and theoretical chem-
istry, 212.

Mollusca, mimicry among, 9.
Monhegan, inscription rocks on, 124.
Monk Island, 555.

Moon's surface, temperature of, 412, 413,

541.

Morphology, vegetable, 130.

Morris, C., on evolution through attack
and defence, 339.
Mosquitoes vs. trout, 197.

Mounds in Dakota, 232; effigy, in Iowa,
ill. 453.

Mount Baker, eruptions of, 262.
Mountain structure, trend and crustal
surplusage in. 220.

Mountains in Lapland, height of, 515.
Mourning, forms of, 407.

Murray on mosquitoes vs. trout, 197.
Museum economy, 82; educational, of
vertebrates, 222.

MYERS, D. Meteoric activity, Aug. 10, 142.

Nantucket, cable to, 545; flora of, 363.
National academy of sciences, 419, 443,
449; chemical laboratory suggested, 536;
university, 509, 539.

Natural history, standard, 74.

Nautical almanacs, amalgamation of, 160.
Navigation, aerial, 20.

Nebula in Andromeda, new star in, 247.
310, 359, 473; spectrum of, ill. 262, 333,
336.

Negroes, statistics of, 237.

Nervous system, anatomy of, 407.
Neumann and Partsch's Physical geog.
raphy of Greece, reviewed, 299.
New England meteorological society, 490;
meteorology in, 557.

New Grenada, resources of, 314.
New Guinea, earthquakes in, 117; Ger-
man-English boundaries in, 60.
New Princeton review, the, 551.
New South Wales, geological changes in,
320; irrigation of the interior of, 551.
New York convocation of university of,
61; electric railway in, ill. 148; micro-
scopical society, 410; water-supply, 72.
NEWCOMB, S. Newcomb's Political econ-
omy, 495.

Newcomb, S., on the astronomical day,
444; Political economy, 470, 495, 517,
538.

Newton, Hubert A., portrait, 161; effect
of small bodies passing near a planet
on planet's velocity, 204.

Nice, astronomical work at, 350; observa-
tory, floating dome of, ill. 80.
Nichols, E. L., on spectrum of unclouded
sky, 207.

NICHOLS, W. R.

Chemistry in the ser-

vice of public health, 208.

Nipon central educational association,
370.

Nitrogen, determination of, 249.

Nomenclature, chemical, 368; river, 321;
sanitary, 512.

Nordenfelt submarine boat, ill. 394.
North Carolina coal-fields, 548.
Norway, northern, 515.

Norwegian fiords, 280; glacial region,
135.

November meteors, 279, 428.
Number-habit, 233.

Nuremberg, exhibition of metal-work at,
158.

O., E. The swindling geologist, 453.
Obelisk, the decay of the, 510.
Observatory, floating, meteorological, 117.
Octopus, arms of, 432.
Ohio geology, 257.
Ohm standards, 436.
Oil-wells of Ohio, 220.
Omahas, evening in camp among, 88;
relationship among, 232; war customs
of, 231.

Ontario, Lake, old shore-line of, 222.
Orinoco, expedition on, 135; travels on,

356.

Orion, new star in, 556, 558.
Ornithology, economic, 78, 259.
Orthography, geographical, 110.

ORTON, E. Problems in the study of coal,
with a sketch of recent progressive
geology, 217.

Orton, E., on Ohio gas and oil wells, 220;
Report on Ohio geology, reviewed, 257.
OSBORN, H. L. Mimicry among marine
Mollusca, 9.

Ovary of dicotyledons, 226.

Oxidation processes in animal tissues,

508.

Oxus, old bed of, 516.

Oxygen, liquefaction of, ill. 51; manu-
facture of, 99.

Oysters, culture of, 465; natural enemies
of. 392; propagation and cultivation of,
437.

Ozone in the atmosphere, 302.

Paine bequest, 1, 384.
Paint-cup, Indian, 3.

Palmer, G. H., on elective studies at
Harvard, 499.
Palmer's Edible
reviewed, 277.
Palpi of insects, 475.

and poisonous fungi,

Photographing solar corona, 131, 362,
387.

Photography, books on, 426; composite,
ill. 507; prize in, 476; stellar, 443.
Photometers, 473.

Phrynosoma, gestation in, 185.
Physical science, lectures on, 96; text-
books, 96; training in Germany, 534.
Physicians, fourth congress of German,
395.

Physics, elementary, 96; at Johns Hop-
kins, 547; section of American associa-
tion. 206.

Pickering, E. C., on stellar photography,
443.

PICKERING, W. H. An attempt to photo-
graph the solar corona without an
eclipse, 131, 362, 387; the color of the
sky, 316; a method for determining the
unit of light, 183.

PICKERNELL, F. A. The electric railway
in New York, ill. 148.

Pitcher-plant, leaves of, 296.

Pilot chart, improvements in, 279.
Plains of British America, 468; Canadian,
565.

Planet, velocity of, 204.

Plants, diseases of, 156, 203; hybridization
of, 224.

Playfair, Sir L., on state aid to science,
325.

Plunkett's Women, plumbers, and doc-
tors, reviewed, 57.

POHLMAN, J. An American Silurian scor-
pion, ill. 183.

Point Barrow station, 446.
Poisonous meat, 419.

Polar station on the Lena, 492.
Poleck on dry-rot, 160.
Poléjaeff on the Challenger sponges, 527.
Political economy. method of teaching,
534: Newcomb's, 470, 495, 517. 538; old
work on, 562; recent progress in, 411;
Reineke Fuchs in, 563; science in
France, 482; scientists,' 253.
Pollution, river, 27.

Polygonum, hybridity in, 180.
Popocatapetl, ascent of, 390.

Portolano, Italian, of the sixteenth cen-
tury, 250.

578

Portugal, cartographic work in, 59.
Portuguese children, songs of, 311.
Potash fertilizers, 260; method of estimat-
ing, 249.

Potassic hydrate and alum, reaction be-
tween, 211.

POTEAT, W. L. Untimely death of a
chipping-sparrow, 63.

POWELL, E. P. Color and other associa-

tions, 338; science in common schools,
336.

Prehistoric remains in Switzerland, 20.
Prescott, A. B., on laboratory practice,
211.

President, message of, 507; and Professor
Agassiz, 302.

Pressure-motor, universal form of, 214.
Prices from 1873 to 1884, 365.
Prize of Berlin society for advancement
of manufacture, 119; mathematical, 259;
in photography, 476.
Prizes, Lomb, 534.

Proceedings of societies, 339, 363, 387, 409.
Productiveness, 479.
Prony-brake, 216.

Psychical research, western society for,
78.

Psychological studies, 308.

Psychology, advances in French, 398; in-
fant, 435; Italian, 413.
Psychrometers, 387.

Publications, new, 340, 364, 388.
PUMPELLY, R. Soils and health, 30.
Puppet-shows in Java, ill. 251.
Puritan, yacht, ill. 168.

PUTNAM, F. W. Man and the mastodon,
375.

Putorius nigripes, ill. 549.

Quarantines, 23.

Quartz grains in sandstones, 140.
Quaternary deposits of Illinois, 221.

R., C. Recent progress in political econ-
omy, 411.

R., R. An archeologist in trouble, 386.
Radiations, invisible, 206.

Railways in Burmah, 552; electric, 180,
ill. 240; in New York, ill. 148; English
and American, 14; incandescent lamps
on, 153.

Rainfall, relation of, to cholera, 532.
Randolph, L. S., on stay-bolts in boilers,
214.

RATHBUN, R. A crab invasion, 135.

RAUCH, J. H. Chicago-River pollution,
27.

Rayleigh on civilization and eyesight,

195.

Reaction time, 387, 458.

REED, Sir E. J. The forms of ships, 52,
569.

Reemelin, C., on city government, 236.
Refraction, terrestrial, 333.

Reifsnyder, Elizabeth, medical work of,
in China, ill. 570.

REILLY, F. W. How to deal with yellow-
fever, 25.

REMSEN, Ira. City wells, 32.

Remsen's Organic chemistry, reviewed, 76.
Renal capsules, morphology of, 226.
Respiration in turtles, 225, 283.
Rheumatism, acute articular, 396.
Rhode Island, consumption in, 512.
Richards's explorations in East Africa,311.
RICHARDS, Ellen H. Science in common
schools, 289.

RILEY, C. V. Periodical cicada in Massa-
chusetts, 4; premature appearance of
the periodical cicada, 3; the song-notes
of the periodical cicada, 264.
Riley, C. V., gift of, to the national mu-
seum, 441; on injury by locusts, 236;
silk-culture in the United States, 236;
song-notes of periodical cicada, 225.
River nomenclature, 321.

Rivers, lost, 265.

Rock-salt surfaces, 207.

Rockwell, C. H., on almucantar observa-
tions, 206.

Rodrigues, J. C., on the Panama canal,
503.

Rogers, W. A., on standards of measure-
ment, 215.

Rogers's Geology of the Virginias, re-
viewed, 17.

Rohé's Hygiene, reviewed, 278.
Rome, international sanitary conference
at, 101.

Rougerie's apparatus for artificial winds,

462.

Royal society of London, entrance to, 351,
407, 486; officers of, 537; presidency of,
442.

Rudbeckia, abnormal, ill. 103.

RUHEIT, C. Color associations with the
months, ill. 142.

RUSSELL, I. C. North Carolina coal-fields,
548.

Russell, I. C., reconnoissance of, in the
Great-Basin region, 58.

Russia, geographical society of, 430; iron
industry of, 452; terrestrial magnetism
in, 134; weather in, 430.

RYDER, J. A. A new system of oyster-
culture, 465; the swimming habits of
the sunfish, ill. 103.

Ryder, J. A., on development of limbs,
409.

S., C. A. The magnetic declination in
1728, 244.

S., M. A. Doctors and their work, 571;
fourth congress of German physicians,
395.

S., O. T. The spectrum of y Cassiopeiae,
386; spectrum of the great nebula in
Andromeda, ill. 262, 336.

St. Petersburg society of naturalists, 492.
SALISBURY, R. D. The swindling geolo-
gist, 408.

Salmon, D. E., on virus of hog cholera, 532.
Salmon, D. E., and Smith, T., on new
chromogenous bacillus, 226.
SAMPSON, F. A. A mad stone, 123.
San Juan Teotihuacan, remains at, 231.
Sanborn, J. W., on customs of Senecas,
233.

Sanitary condition of the Lea and Thames,

334; conference, 101; nomenclature, 512.
Sanitation, household, 57; and science, 21.
Saurian, brain and auditory organs of, 224.
SAWYER, E. F. A new variable, 498.
SCHIMPFF, R. D. The Biela meteors, 519.
Schley and Soley's Rescue of Greely, re-
viewed, 278.

Schmitz's Consumptive period, reviewed,

35.

School of botany, 21; for electrical engi-
neering, 150.

Schools, science in, 336.

Schübeler on origin of cereals, 73.
Schuyler, E., on materials for American
history in foreign archives, 250.
Schwatka's Nimrod in the north, reviewed,
554.

Science in common schools, 289, 336;
and the state, 325.

Science, removal of, to New York, 384.
Scientific articles in the general maga-
zines, 490; bureaus, congressional com-
mittee on, 536; and the government,
530; culture, 114; titles, 464.
Scorpion, American Silurian, ill. 87, ill.
183, 184.

Scums, bisexuality of, 224.
Sea, temperature of, 118.
Sea-level, oscillations of, 120.
SEARS, J. H. Crystals in maple sirup, 520.
Sediment and velocity, 2.
Seismology, 453; in the United States, 491.
Selenium, its sensitiveness to light, 359.
Senecas, customs of, 233.

Settlement, effect of, on wild animals, 416.
Shad propagation on Atlantic coast, 433,

520.

SHALER, N. S.
of nature, 64.
Sharp, B., on development of the eye, ill.
194.

Humanism in the study

Shaw school of botany, 475.
Ship-railway, Tehuantepec, ill., map, 33.
Ships, forms of, 52, 569.

Shrinkage of earth's crust, 220.
SHUFELDT, R. W. The Mexican axolotl
and its susceptibility to transforma-
tions, 263; probable period of gestation
in the horned toad, 185; Zuñian concep-

tions of animal forms as shown in pot-
tery, ill. 266.

Siberian industries, 348; interest in geo-
graphical explorations, 516; railway, 516.
Sibiriakoff's journey in Siberia, 157.
Siemens, F., on toughened glass, 293.
Siletz agency, 230.

Silk-culture, 194; in the United States, 236.
Silurian fossils from New York, 220; at
Canaan, N. Y., 283; scorpion, ill. 87, ill.
183, 184.

Silver question, 237.

Sioux, in camp among, 233, 285.

Skulls of assassins and men of note, ill.

72.

Sky, color of, 316: spectrum of, 207.
SLACK, F. M. Color and other associa-

tions, 186.
Slave trade, 441.

Sleep, activity of mind during, 344; of
fishes, 506.

Slides in the White Mountains, ill. 84, 306.
Small pox in Canada, 533; as a Canadiar
disease, 373.

Smith, B., 140.

SMITH, T. Woodhead and Hare's Path
logical mycology, 316.

Smith, T. See Salmon and Smith.
Smithsonian price-list of publications, 53
Smoke-burning device, 215.

Societies, calendar of, 340, 364, 410;

learned, use and abuse of, 351; pro-
ceedings of, 339, 363, 387, 409; scientific,
of America, 536.

Society for promotion of agricultural
science, 2, 78, 193.

Soil, freezing of, 314.
Soils and health, 30.
Solar ring, 159.

Sorghum, extraction of sugar from, 524.
South Kensington chair of natural his-
tory, 382.

SOUTHWICK, E. B. The ginkgo-tree, 243.
Spanish earthquakes, 393.

Sparrow, English, 416, 478, 497, 520, 541,
563; untimely death of, 63.

SPAULDING, R. The scenery of Arizona,
44.

Spectral analysis of atmospheric ele-
ments, 448.

Spectrophotometer

spectroscope, 208.

and ophthalmo-

Spectrum of y Cassiopeiae, 386; of nebula
in Andromeda, ill. 262, 333, 336; of sky,
207.

Sprinklers, automatic, 215.
Squall, singular, 450.
Squirrel, habits of, 338.
Stalactites, 348.

Stally brass. See Hehn and Stallybrass.
Standards for surveyors' chains, 215.
Stanley's Kongo, reviewed, ill. 177.
Star catalogues, 408; new, in Orion, 556,558.
Stars, comparison, 427, 474; in rapid mo-
tion, 483.

State aid to science, 325; science and, 325.
Staten Island natural science associa-
tion, 409.

Statistical analysis, 237.

Statistics of negroes, 237; vital, tables
for, 531.

Stellar magnitudes, 427; photography, 443.
Steinen's explorations of the Xingu, 153.
Steiner's Physiology of the brain, re-
viewed, 521.

Stepniak's Russia under the tzars, re-
viewed, 355, 478.

STERNBERG, G. M. Disinfection, 328, 564;
the international sanitary conference at
Rome, 101.

STEVENS, W. LeC. Voss-Holtz electrical
machine, 363.

Stewart and Gee's Elementary physics, re-
viewed, 96.
STONE, G. H.

The inscription rocks on
the island of Monhegan, 124.
STONE, W. E. The ginkgo-tree, 44.
Stone implements in Egypt, 119.
STORER, F. H. A mad stone, 163.
Stratigraphy, comparative, 220.
STRONG, E. E. The Caroline Islands,
map, 287.

Struvé, O., on object glass made by Clark,
306.

during, 344; of

tains, ill. 84, 306.
; as a Canadiar

Hare's Path

nd Smith.
publications, 53

15.

340, 364, 410

e of, 351; pro-

7,409; scientific,

of agricultural

sugar from, 524.

r of natural his

ginkgo-tree, 243.

3.

478, 497, 520, 541,
nery of Arizona,

, 63.

tmospheric ele-
and ophthalmo-

e. 386; of nebula
333, 336; of sky,

15.

nd Stallybrass.
chains, 215.
d. ill. 177.
in Orion, 556,558.

74; in rapid mo-
science and, 325.
science associa-

vant, E. L., on dandelion, 193; ger-
ation, 224; hybridization of plants,
influence of locality on fruit, 193;
Ice, 193.

arine boat, ill. 394.

extraction of, 524; industry, 453.
ra, petroleum in, 40.

er's Economic essays, reviewed, 111.
h, swimming habits of, ill. 103.
ht, effect of, on germs, 475.
ys, hydrographic, 118.

NIUS, F. Annuaire géologique uni-
el, 185.

ling geologist, 408, 453.

fish cultural stations, 160; glaciers,
vth of, 59.

erland, earthquakes in, 59; glacial
dulum in, 42; prehistoric remains
0.

n man, evidence of, 81, 92.

s Lectures on physical science, re-
wed, 96; Properties of matter, re-
wed, 96.

ias striatus, 338.

3, R. S. The English sparrow, 416,
1,563; natural enemies of oysters, 392.
i (a), occultations of, 489.

SSIG, F. W. Prices from 1873 to
34, 365.

or, W. B., on shrinkage of earth's
ust, 220.

chers' association, 450; school of
nce in Boston, 477.

ing as a profession, 529.

intepec ship-railway, ill., map, 33.
raph, use of, in England, 537.

hone in Paris, map, 110; use of, for
itary purposes, ill. 239.

honic vibrations, 476.
copes, small versus large, 381.
er line, 429.

erage, ill. 513.

erature in Austrian Alps, 459; of
on's surface, 412, 443, 541; propo-
on for wholesale change of, in the
intic states, 428.

ry deposits, classification and pale-
ology of, 44, 83, 143.

es, sanitary condition of, 335.
sophical society's censorship of the
erican society for psychical re-
'ch, 81.

ophist in Washington, 453.
1odynamics, second law of, 212.
t, journey in, 18.

AS, C. The Davenport tablet, ill.

as, J. J., on influence of locality on
t, 193.

pson fund, 141, 144, 421.

ddson's explorations in Iceland, 357.
ght-transferrence, ill. 8.

iton, Prof. R. H., 79; on cylinder con-
sation, 216; Friction and lost work,
iewed, 275; on Prony-brake, 216;
eaching mechanical engineering, 216.
er, preservation of, 14.

change to civil, 80; legislation as to
idard, 62.

mb's Mind-cure, reviewed, 543.
, scientific, 44.

D. P. The future of the Lick
servatory, 181.

D. P., on pressure-motor, 214.
the great, in different nations, 452.
ado at Aden, 58; an unusual, 556.
adoes, prediction of, 557; recent, 252.
C. H. The new philology, 366.
scaspian railway, 360.

sit instruments, flexure of, 387.
t and mosquitoes, 197.

, F. W. The American ferret, ill.
the British museum of natural
tory, ill. 127; a rare dolphin, 44.
er on human crania, 526.

les, aquatic respiration in, 225, 283.
le's comet, 139, 159.

iall fellowships, 45.

s and their inheritance, 268.

ioid-fever in autumn, 374.
erground wires, 2, 6, 373.
of circular measure, 381.

U. S. coast survey, 158, 349, 491; official
scrutiny of, 121; and political scien-
tists, 253; resolutions of American as-
sociation concerning, 204; system of
longitudes, 474; what has it done for
science? 558; who should be superin-
tendent, 241; department of agriculture,
453; entomological commission, 315;
executive departments, re-organization
of, 237; fish commission, 301; geological
survey, answer to charges against, 119,
424; unfounded report of irregularities
in, 261; mineral products, 99; national
museum, entomology in, 445; naval ob-
servatory, curious observations at, 279;
naval museum of hygiene, 491; recent
volcanic eruption in, 46; signal office,
advisability of making it a civil bureau,
397; hygrometry in, 536; trouble with
students, 397; silk-culture in, 236;
tertiary deposits, classification and pale-
ontology of, 44, 83, 143.
Universities, German, map, 244; mediae-
val, 460.

University of Michigan, biology in, 359;
a national, 509, 539; of New York, con-
vocation of, 61.

Upton, Gen. E., Life of, reviewed, 404.

Vaccination in Canada, 533.

Van Ermengem on cholera microbe, re-
viewed, 154.

Van Hise. See Irving and Van Hise.
VANDERPOEL, S. O. Quarantines and

their scientific value, 23.
Variable, a new, 498.
Vegetable morphology a century ago, 130.
Vélain's Theory of volcanoes, reviewed,

255.

Velocity and sediment, 2.

Vertebrates, educational museums of, 222.
Vessel, attempt to propel, by explosions,
374.

Vetter, B., on relationships between dino-
saurs and birds, 295.

Victoria, B.C., earthquake in, 558.
Village communities, Dutch, of the Hud-
son, 250.

Vines. See Bower and Vines.
Virginias, geology of, 17.
Vital statistics, tables for, 531.
Vivisection at Oxford, 429.
Volcanic activity in the United States, 262;
dust east of the Rocky Mountains, 63;
eruption, recent, in the United States,
46.

Volcanoes, theory of, 255.
Volga, connecting, with Don, 515.
Voltmeters, 387.

Voss-Holtz electrical machine, 338, 363.

Washburn university publications, re-
viewed, 461.

Washington, agricultural convention at,
68; monument and lightning stroke of
June 5, 63; monument protected from
lightning, 383; philosophical society,
387.

Washington, portraits of, 300.
Water-supply of Breslau, 34; for New
York, 72; relation of, to cholera, 532.
Wead, C. K., on combined spectro-pho-
tometer and ophthalmospectroscope,
208.

Weather changes of long period, 208; in
Russia, 430; signals, ill. 181.
Weathercocks and drought, 528.
WEBB, J. B. The second law of ther-
modynamics, 212.

Webb, J. B., on lathe as instrument of
precision, 215; polar co-ordinates, 206;
teaching mechanical engineering, 216.
Wells, city, 32.

West Virginia, new meteoric iron from,
563.

Western society for psychical research, 78.
Whaling catch, Alaskan, 259.
Wheat grain, composition of, 415.
Whirlwinds in Beloochistan, 118.
WHITE, I. C. The geology of natural
gas, 42.

White ants in Boston, 477.

White Mountain land-slides, ill. 84, 306.
WHITFIELD, R. P. An American Silurian
scorpion, ill. 87, 181; the ginkgo-tree, 4.
WHITING, Harold. Maxwell's demons, 83.
Whiting, H., on new theory of cohesion,
274.

Wight's Maxims of public health, re-
viewed, 75.

Wild animals, effect of settlement of
America on, 416.

WILDER, B. G. Educational museums of
vertebrates, 222.

Wilder, B. G., on serrated appendages of
Amia, 226.

Wiley, H. W., on adulteration of honey,
210; extraction of sugar from sorghum
and sugar-cane, 524; laboratory prac-
tice, 211; method of estimating potash,

249.
WILKINSON, C. S. Geological changes in
New South Wales, 320.

Will-power, experimental study of, 260.
Willcox, J., on glacial action in Canada,

388.

Willet's Point, change of latitude of, 118.
Williams, H. S., on comparative stratig-
raphy, 220.

Wilson, J. M., on railroad-bridges, 14.
Winchell, Alexander, on trend and crustal
surplusage in mountain structure, 220.
Winchell, N. H., on alloy of copper and
silver, 231.

Windmill as a prime mover, 258.
Winds, artificial, 462.

WINLOCK, W. C. Comets II and III of
1884, ill. 47.

WINSLOW, Arthur. Color and other as-
sociations, ill. 243.

Winsor, J., on an Italian portolano of
sixteenth century, 250.

Wires, underground, 2, 6.

WOEIKOF, A. Stepniak's Russia under
the czars, 478.

Wolff's Windmill as a prime mover, re-
viewed, 258.

Women, education and health of, 341.
Wood, H. C., on injecting gastric juice in
blood, 409.

Woodbury, C. J. H., on automatic sprin-
klers, 215.

Woodhead and Hare's Pathological my-

Clark