. mountains. a PAGE 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. IU. 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: 224 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 Lad 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 13 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 462 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. Ill. 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 floats 437 Bunker, F, S. Anti-cholera inoculation 439 Carbolic acid as a disinfectant 566 Cailletet, L. The liquefaction of oxygen. IN. 51 Chandler, S. C., jun. The change in the great nebula in Andromeda 217 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 assassins and men of note. Iul. 72 Composite portrait of the officers of the American association. Portrait 167 Composition of the wheat grain 415 Conn, H. W. A suggestion from inodern einbryology, 481 Consumpuve period, 34 Cortheli, E. L. The ship-railway between the Atlantic and Pacific. IN. 33 W. M. The recent tornadoes 252 Dall, W. H. The native tribes of Alaska 228 Deaths from wild beasts and snakes in India 344 Development of the eye. IU. 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 500 Entomology in the national museum 445 Bxcavation of the temple of Luxor. IU. 370 PAGE 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. 67 Geology of Japan 18 German universities from a new point of view. Map 214 Government and its scientific bureaus 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. INI. 106 Harrington, M, W. Lost rivers 265 Higginson, T. W. American flash language again 283 Historical association at Saratoga 249 Hitchcock, C. H. The latest slides in the white 306 The recent land-slide in the White Mountains. · tú. 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. ' iii. : Some reaction-time studies 458 Jacques, W. W. Underground wires 6 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 Laws of temperature in the Austrian Alps 459 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 American association 168 Lick observatory. nu 186 Lumsden, Sir Peter, on the tribes upon the Afghan bound ary. In 69 M. Laying a cable 545 M., A. The mind.cure 513 M., O.: S. Has man a tail ? 92 MoBride, T. H. Vegetable morphology a century ago. Goethe 130 McIntosh, W.C. Phosphorescence of marine animals, 295 Massachusetts labor statistics 389 Medical missionary work in China. in. 570 Meeting of the American public health association 511, 531 Mendenhall, T. C. The explosion at Flood Rock 326 Mexican axolotl, and ts susceptibility to transformations, 90 Minot, C. S. The formative force of organisms . 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 274 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 a of recent progress in geology. 216 Osborn, H. L. Mimicry among marine Mollusca' 9 Panama canal 303 95 4 PAGE PAGE Pasteur and hydrophobia . 398, 467 Paul, H. M. Recent gravity determinations in and near Japan 319 Reform in our calendar 324 Stars in rapid motion 483 Timing the Flood Rock explosion 325 Pickering, W. H. An attempt to photograph the solar corona without an eclipse 131 Pickernell, F. A. The electric railway in New York. IU. 148 Poisonous waters in the cocos or Keeling Islands 369 Preliminary report of the commission on Spanish earthquakes 393 Presidency of the Royal society of London 442 President and Professor Agassiz 302 Progress in metallurgy. 525 Pumpelly, R. Soils and health : 30 Puppet-shows in Java. IU.. 251 Putnam, F. W. Man and the mastodon 375 R., C. Recent progress in political economy 479 Railways in Burmah 552 Rathþun, R. A crab invasion 135 Rauch, J. H. Chicago-River pollution 27 Recent educational meeting in Boston . 351 Reed, Sir E. The forms of ships 62 Reform in geographical orthography 110 Reilly, F. W. How to deal with yellow-fever 25 Relationships between dinosaurs and birds 295 Remsen, Ira. City wells 32 Resolutions of the American association concerning the coast survey Results of the Krakatoa eruption. iu. Results of sbad propagation on the Atlantic coast 433 Richards, Ellen H. Science in common schools 289 Riley, c. V. The song-notes of the periodical cicada. 264 Routes into the interior of western China. Map. 12 Ryder, J. S. A new system of oyster-culture 465 Sanitation and science 21 School for electrical engineering in Bosion 150 Science and the state 325 Search for the gigantic bird of Madagascar : 418 Shaler, N. S. Humanism in the study of nature 64 Shufeldt, R. W. Zuñian conceptions of animal forms as shown in pottery. Nu. 266 Society for the promotion of agricultural science : 193 Steinen's explorations of the Xingu. 133 Sternberg, G. M. Disinfection 328 The international sanitary conference at Rome 101 Strong, E. E. The Caroline Islands. Map 287 Tarr, R. S. The English sparrow 416 Natural enemies of oysters 392 Taussig, F. W. Prices from 1873 10 1884. ini. 365 Telephone in Paris. N. 110 Telpherage. M. 513 Thought-transferrence in Boston." Tii 8 Todd, D. P. The future of the Lick observatory 181 Toughened glass 293 Toy, C. H. The new philology 366 True, F. W. The Anierican ferret. m. 549 The British museum of natural history. IN. 127 Tyndall fellowships 45 Typhoid-lever and its prevalence in autumn 374 Use and abuse of learned societies 351 Use of the French academy 281 Ulilization of by-products in charcoal burning 506 Vanderpoel, S. O. Quarantines and their scientific value 23 Ward, L. F. A convenient system of river nomencla 321 Water-supply of Breslau 34 Water-supply for New York 72 Webb, J. B. The second law of thermodynamics 212 Western school of botany 21 Whitfield, R. P. Ản American Silurian scorpion NU. 87 Who should be superintendent of the u. s. coast survey 241 Wilder, B. G. Educational museums of vertebrates Wilkinson, C. S. Geological changes in New South Wales 320 Winlock, W. c.' comets li and Ili of 1884: Iu. Wrangell, Admiral Baron F. von . 417 Wright, A. W. Electrical measuring instruments 151 Yacht Puritan. in. 168 ture 204 291 . BOOK REVIEWS. PAGE PAGE 155 36 38 256 354 138 37 395 111 777 425 276 92 567 137 447 97 534 405 470 548 460 97 521 57 482 571 404 98 American Society for psychical research, First report of Paul. 307 307 151 198 257 521 17 56 471 472 417 435 299 297 16 115 356 Lucy-Fossarieu's Ethnography of antarctic America. By U. Hale Malthus and his work Martineau's Types of ethical theory. By F. G. Peabody Melon's From Palermo to Tunis Methods of bacteria culture Methods of teaching political economy Mexican ethnology Newcomb's Political economy. By E. J. James North Carolina coal-fields. By 1. C. Russell Origin of mediaeval universities Perinian reptiles of Bohemia Physiology of the brain. By č. . Minot Plunkett's Household sanitation Political science in France Practical botany Pre-Columbian history of Guatemala Recent Challenger monographs. By G. B. Goode Remsen's Organic chemistry Report of the Point Barrow station Rescue of Greely. Rohe's Hygiene Russia under the tzars Schwatka's Nimrod in the north Some works on geology and geography Stanley's Kongo. Portrait, map. Sumner's Economic essays Theory of volcanoes. By C. E. Dutton Three physicaltext-books Thurston's Friction and lost work Upton, Gen. Emory, Life of . Wallace's Bud times Waring's House-drainage Washburn observatory. Wight's Maxime of public health : Windmill as a prime mover. Work of the Challenger expedition : 1. General and phys. ical, 15 ; II. From a zoological stand-point, 54; III. 481 258 Geologically viewed 412 197 308 379 137 487 156 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION NUMBER, 201. 484, 490, 517, 535, 550, 557, 572. Letter, 314, 361, 383, 453, 491, 536. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 67 PAGE Micropterus salmoides (Lac.) Gill, malformed 243 Mola rotunda 104 Monument of the first duke of Sutherland at Lilléshall, Eng. 238 Mortality, diagram exhibiting comparative, in Rhode Island, 512 Mounds, effigy, in Iowa 454 Museum, Agassiz, at Cambridge, plan of, 423 ; of natural history, the new British, on Cromwell Road, main façade of 129 Newton, Prof. Hubert Anson, portrait of 161 Oxygen, Cailletet's apparatus for the liquefaction of 51 Pitcher-plant, leaves of the (4 figs.). 296, 297 Prices from 1873 to 1874 366 Puritan, the yacht (2 figs.) 168, 169 Railway, the electric, in New York (2 figs.), 148, 149; an electric, between Frankfort and Offenbach . 240 Rudbeckia, an abnormal 103 Scorpion, an American Silurian 88, 183 Stanley, Henry M., portrait of 179 Sulu maiden 115 Tablet, the Davenport : 564 Telephone, use of, for military purposes 239 Telephones, map of Paris, showing the distribution of 111 Telpherage (4 figs.) 513, 514 Thought-transferrence, reduced facsimile of drawings showing some evidence of so-called 8 Turkish territory, sketch map to illustrate changes in, by the treaties of San Stefano and Berlin 304 Universities, German, map showing the distribution of 245 Zuñian conceptions of animal forms as shown in pottery (4 figs.). 267, 268 PAGE Afghan tribes, some types of 70 Alabama state signal service, five flags of the 200 American association for the advancement of science, composite portrait of officers of the 167 Andromeda, spectrum of the great nebula in 262 Bala Murghab, gateway of 69 Ben Nevis meteorological observatory : 460 Bernard, Claude, statue of 117 Boat, Nordenfelt submarine, trial of the, at Landskrona, Sweden. 394 Bridge, Arizona natural Caffre,' Natal 115 China, western, map showing routes into interior of, i2; medical missionary work in 570 Color associations with the months (2 igs.), 142, 143 ; and other associations (4 tige.) 243, 337, 338 Comets II and III of 1881 (5 figs.) 47, 48, 49 Darwin, Charles, portrait and signature of 11 Doctor of the old school, a French 40 Dome at Nice, section of floating (2 figs.) Edison, Thomas A., portrait and signature of 146 Eye, development of the (3 figs.) 194, 195 Ferret, the Americau 550 Forge, an African 317 France, map of, showing average height of inhabitants 523 Glacier, Rhone, map showing recession 56 Gray, Asa, vase presented to, on his seventy-fifth birthday, 465 Heads, arerage measurements of three classes of 73 Indo-China, map showing proposed railways in, 107; Pillar Rock in the Meh Ping, 107; Shan house at Kiang Hsen, 108 ; ruins at Kiang Heen, 109 ; map of, showing river-sources 400 Java, behind the scenes at a puppet-show in 251 Jewe, composite photograph showing racial characteristics of (5 figs.), 323 Krakatoa eruption, results of the i3 figs.). 292, 293 Land-slide on Owl's Head, the recent 86 Lick observatory, the (5 figs.) 187, 188, 189, 190, 191 Luxor, excavations going on in the court yard of the temple of 371 Micronesia, map of 288 80 Africa, central, map of, based on Stanley's map of the Kongo Free State opposite 163 opposite 344 Bulgaria, map showing regions affected by the recent revolution in India, further, map of, showing regions involved by the opposite 303 troubles in upper Burmah opposite 399 Ship-railway, Tehuantepec, map and illustrations of. opp. 33 Washington, three new portraits of opposite 507 ERRATA. 6 322," 323, Page 140, col. 1, 24th line from top, for ' Aucon' read 'An. con.' 1, 9th line from bottom, for 'wild 'read' mixed.' 3:22, 2, 7th line from top, for .2%'read '0.2%.' 1, 16th line from bottom, for 'Moyars' read • Magyars.' nim.' Page 419, col. 2, 14th line from bottom, for * plead' read pleaded.' 427, 1, 1st line from top, for “Catherina' read • Carharina. 441, 2, 22d line from bottom, after collections'insert • of insects.' 473, 2, 29d line from top, after * M. Gully' insert (Ciel et terre, Oct. 1, 1885. p. 355).' 566, 1, 21th line from bottom, for Crossing. Since potent.' 331, 1, 19th line from top, for • Braun 'read , Bronn.' theid,' etc., read · Crossing, since there,' etc. 330, 66 |