CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI.

SPECIAL

ARTICLES.

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Abbott, C.C. Aestivation of mammals ; what is it !

402

Action of cold on microphytes

393

Activity of the mind during sleep

344

Advance in fish-culture

353

African smithy. IN.

347

Agricultural convention at Washington

68

Agassiz, A. The coast survey and political scientists,' 253

Agassiz, Life of. Portrait

330

Agassiz museum at Cambridge. ni.

421

Alert expedition

350

American association at Ann Arbor

201

American association. Proceedings of the section of an.

thropology.

230

American association. Proceedings of the section of

astronomy and mathematics

204

American association. - Proceedings of the section of biol.

American association.- Proceedings of the section of

chemistry

210

American association. - Proceedings of the section of

economic science and statistics

235

American association. - Proceedings of the section of

geology and geography

219

American association. Proceedings of the section of his.

tology and microscopy

227

American association. Proceedings of the section of

mechanical science

214

American association. — Proceedings of the section of

physics .

206

American engineers at Deer Park

19

Angell, J.B. A need for a careful study of the history

of China

479

Answer to charges affecting the geological survey 424

Artificial winds

Association of official agricultural chemists:

248

Astronomical progress in 1884

71

Atkinson, É. The application of science to the produc-

tion and consumption of food

234

Bacilli of cholera asiatica and cholera nostras

252

Ben Nevis astronomical observatory. 10.

459

Bertillon, J. Height in France. II.

523

Blackfoot tribes

456

Bland, Thomas

440

Bolton H. C. Chemical nomenclature

368

Bone-caves in Wales

53

Brooks, W.K, Artificial propagation and cultivation

of oysters in tioats

437

Bunker, F, S. Anti-cholera inoculation

439

Carbolic acid as a disinfectant

566

Cailletet, L. The liquefaction of oxygen. ill.

51

Chandler, S.C., jun. The change in the great nebula

in Andromeda

247

Channing, E. Bulgaria and'Bulgarians. . Map 303

The Burman dispute. Maps

399

Cheyne's observations on the cholera microbe.

195

Chloroform as an anaesthetic

154

Cholera prospects for England

437

Civilization and eyesight

195

Committee reports of the American association

202

Comparison of the skulls of assassing and men of note. Tu. 72

Composite portrait of the officers of the American asso-

ciation. Portrait

167

Composition of the wheat grain

415

Conn, H. W. A suggestion from modern embryology, 481

Consumptive period

34

Corthell, E. L. The ship-railway between the Atlantic

and Pacific.iu.

33

D., W.M. The recent tornadoes

252

Dall, W.H. The native tribes of Alaska

228

Death's from wild beasts and snakes in India

344

Development of the eye. M.

194

Dewey, J. Education and the health of women

341

Drought and weathercocks

528

Dutton, C. E. The latest volcanic eruption in the

United States

46

E., S. Hypnotism

504

Edible clam introduced on the Atlantic coast

53

Edison, Thomas Alva. Portrait

145

Effect of the settlement of North America upon its wild

animale:

416

Elective studies at Harvard

499

Ensilage in England

Entomology in the national museum

445

Excavation of the temple of Luxor. IU.

370

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Extraction of sugar from sorghum and sugar-cane

524

Fletcher, Alice C. An average day in camp among

the Sioux

285

An evening in camp among the Omahas

88

Flood Rock explosion felt at Harvard college .

353

Forms of ships for war and for peace

569

Franklin, Christine L. Science in common schools, 289

French academy in its origin

105

Gage, S. H. The limitations and value of histological

investigation.

226

Gagem, C. von. The ascent of Popocatapeil

390

Galton, F. Types and their inheritance

268

Gardiner, F., jun. An Arizona natural bridge.. Tu. 67

Geology of Japan

13

German universities from a new point of view. ' Map 244

Government and its scientific bureans

530

Gray, Asa; his seventy-fifth birthday. in.

465

Growth of the French academy, 1635–1885

190

Hague, A. The decay of the obelisk

510

Hallett, H. S. Exploration in Indo-China. mn. 106

Harrington, M. W. Lost rivers

265

Higginson, T.W. American flash language again 283

Historical association at Saratoga

2419

Hitchcock, C. H. The latest 'slides in the white

mountains.

306

The recent land-slide in the White Mountains. · iu.

84

Honor to American opticians

306

Howe, H. M. The Clapp-Griffiths Bessemer plant 312

Hubbard, G.G. The Kongo Free State

163

Huxley on Darwin. Portrait

10

Incandescent lamps on railways

153

Industries of Siberia

348

Ingersoll, E. Canadian plains

565

The plains of British America

468

International geological congress at Berlin

376

J. J. Illustrations of recent Italian psychology

413

Productiveness.

479

Racial characteristics of Jews. . ill. :

322

Some reaction-time studies

458

Jacques, W. W. Underground wires

James, E. J. Recent land legislation in England 455

Jastrow, J. Composite portraiture

165

K. Physics at Johns Hopkins

517

Kobelt, w. Colonization in Algeria

317

Last cruise of the Albatross

110

Late news from Alaska

95

Laws of temperature in the Austrian Alps

Leaves of the pitcher-plant. IU.

296

LeConte, Joseph. Immortality in modern thought 126

Legal ohm standards

436

Lesley, J.P. The president's address before the Ameri-

can association

168

Lick observatory.iu.

186

Lumsden, Sir Peter, on the tribes upon the Afghan bound

69

M. Laying a cable

545

M., A. The mind-cure

M., O. S. Has man a tail ?

McBride, T. H. Vegetable morphology a century ago.

- Goethe

130

McIntosh, w. c. Phosphorescence of marine animals, 295

Massachusetts labor statistics

Medical missionary work in China. ill.

570

Meeting of the American public health association 511, 531

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

Mexican axoloti, and ts susceptibility to transformations, 90

Minot, C. S. The formative force of organisms

4

A new endowment for research

114

Mode of admission into the Royal society

486

Mosquitoes vs. trout

197

National university .

509

New theory of cohesion

Newton, H. A., Biographical sketch of. Portrait

161

Nichols, W. R. chemistry in the service of public

health

208

Nipon central educational association :

370

Nordenfelt submarine boat. IU.

394

November meeting of the National academy of sciences 443

Official scrutiny of the U. S. coast survey.

121

Origin of the cereals

73

Orton, E. Problems in the study of coal, with a sketch

of recent progress in geology.

216

Osborn, H.L. Mimicry among marine Mollusca

Panama canal

503

459

ary. In.

543

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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION NUMBER, 201.

ASTRONOMICAL NOTES, 95, 310, 333, 358, 381, 405, 427, 448, 478, 489, 516, 556.

CALENDAR OF SOCIETIES, 410. (See also advertising pages.)

COMMENT AND CRITICISM, 1, 41, 61, 81, 141, 261, 301, 325, 349, 373, 397, 419, 441, 463, 485, 507, 529, 551.

GEOGRAPHICAL NOTES, 50, 71, 134, 311, 356, 380, 426, 448, 488, 515, 554.

LETTERS TO The editor, 2, 42, 63, 82, 103, 123, 142, 162, 183, 242, 262, 283, 316, 335, 362, 384, 407, 431, 453, 478, 495, 517, 538, 558.

METEOROLOGICAL NOTES, 556.

NEW BOOKS, 356, 426.

NOTES AND NEWS, 18, 40, 58, 78, 98, 116, 139, 157, 180, 199, 238, 258, 278, 300, 312, 333, 348, 359, 371, 382, 406, 418, 428, 449, 459, 462, 474,

484, 490, 517, 535, 550, 557, 572.

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED AT EDITOR'S OFFICE, 388. (See also advertising pages.)

RECENT PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES, 387, 409. (See also advertising pages.)

SCIENCE SUPPLEMENT, 317, 341, 365, 389, 411. 433, 455, 479, 499, 521, 543, 565.

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE: Boston Letter, 384, 476; London Letter, 334, 429, 493, 537; St. Petersburg Letter, 430, 492; Washington

Letter, 314, 361, 383, 453, 491, 536.

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