Cable street-railways, 415; compressed
air on, 275.

Cakchiquels, annals of the, 22.
California, 66; meteorology in, 634.
Canal between the White Sea and Lake
Onega, 334; the Panama, 517, 632.
Canned goods in France, 199.
Cannon, a pneumatic, 552.
Capillaries, chemical reactions in, 640.
Capitalists and laborers, 155.
Carnegie's Triumphant democracy, 109.
CARPENTER, W. H. Natural method of
language-teaching, 611.
Carpenter's Surveying, 463.
Carus and Engelmann's Bibliotheca
zoologica, 366.

Cattell, J. M., 480.

Cave air for house-cooling, 413.
Cellulose in animal tissues, 299.
Census of Paris, 95.

Challenger reports, 399, 480, 524, 572.
CHAMBERLIN, T. C. Artesian well, 276;
glacial drift, 156.

CHANUTE, O. Mechanical science, 182.
Character indicators, ears as, 535; re-
vealed by shoe-soles, 185.
Charleston earthquake, 211, 224, 225, 229,
246, 271, 301, 348, 362, 363, 369, 390, 438,
470, 534, 630.

Chemical industry, society of, 53; insti-
tutes in Nancy, France, 270; reac-
tions in capillaries, 640; section of
American association, 206.
Chemist of Botanical gardens at Ma-
naus, 99.

Chemistry, agricultural, 159; volumes
in, 235, 281.

Chemists, association of agricultural,
14, 316.

Chester's Catalogue of minerals, 230.
Chestnut-trees in Italy, 400.
Chevreul, 29, 57, 211, 231, 248.
Chicago water-supply, 452.
Childhood, 288.

Children's aid society, 504.
Chinese explorations, 514; revenues,
105; voyages to America, 402.
Chlorate of potash as a poison, 312.
Chloride of iron and the teeth, 387.
Chloroform, death from, 45, 292.
Cholera in Buenos Ayres, 536; in Eu-
rope, 322, 363; Dr. Shakespeare on,
345; and America, 513; in Italy, 122;
in Japan, 302; in superstitious coun-
tries, 268; scare in the west, 177;
study of, 245.
Christianity, politics and, in the Ha-
waiians, 74.

Coffee-eating, 187.
Coffee-plants, 57.

Coins and tokens, English, 99.
COLE, A. H. Visual illusion, 370.
Colic caused by use of a cosmetic, 56.
Collar's Latin book, 499.
Colleges and preparatory schools, 588;
conditional bequests to, 575; of the
United States, 586; physical educa-
tion in, 1.

COLLINS, J. W. A large squid, 370.
Colonial and Indian exhibition, 19, 53.
COLONNA, B. A. The sea-serpent, 258.
Colorado, geology of, 640.
Color-blindness on French railways, 29.
Color-sensation, 640.

COUES, E. Feline telepathy, 123.
Coulter. See Arthur, Barnes, and Coul-

ter.

522.

Cray-fish,voluntary amputation among,
Cream-of-tartar, adulterations of, 344.
Cremona's Projective geometry, 617,

631.
Criminality, 20; in Spain, 139.
Criminals in Ohio, 425; left-handedness
of, 511; native and foreign, 513.
Cruelty to dogs in vivisection, 122.
CRUMP, M. H. Air from a cave for house-
cooling, 413.

Crustacea of Chautauqua Lake, 536.
CUMMINGS, J. Capitalists and laborers,
155.
Cunningham, Dr., at St. Andrews, 578.
Customs receipts, British, 469.

Dentition, 433.

Deodorizer, turpentine as, 123.
Deprez, M., eccentricities of, 297.
Derelicts, sinking of, 122.
Development theory, the, 560.
Dialyzers, efficiency of, 452.
Diamond, genesis of the, 345, 392.
Dicey, A. V., 481.

Dickens, Charles, life of, 411.
Dickinson, J., 222.

Digestion, physiology of, 621.

DILLER, J. Š. Genesis of the diamond,
392.

Diphtheria, treatment of, 386.
Diplomas for schoolmasters, 586.
Disease, a contagious, 10; Addison's,
629; a possible new, 199; germ theory
of, 3; of coffee-plants, 57; propa-
gated by milk, 278.

Diseases due to tea, 132; spinal, 534.
Disinfectant, bichloride of mercury as
a, 186.

Disinfection by heat, 583: of rags, 177.
Dispensaries, abuse of, 380, 414; free, in
France, 411.

Dixon, H. B., 481.
Doctor, the first, 364.
Domesday book, 445.

Drawing in public schools, 108; topo-
graphical, 463.

Drink, strong, 96.

Drinking-water in Honolulu, 74.

Drowning, 230.

Dudley, W. H., 364.

Dudley, W. L., 98.

DUNNING, W. A. Our government, 615.
Dwight, T., on the structure of bone,

512.

DYCHE, L. L. Science for a livelihood.
303.

Dynamite explosions, 231.
Dynamo characteristics, 583.

Ears as character indicators, 535; sea-
water in the, 230, 258.
Earth, constitution of the, 326.
Earthquake in New Zealand, 135; liter-
ature, 242; of April 22, 1884, 242; of
Aug. 31, 1886, 211, 224, 225, 229, 246,
271, 301, 363, 390, 438, 470, 630; shocks,
effects of, on health, 630; sounds,
348, 369; submarine, 62, 534.
Earthquakes, 243; and geysers, 299.
Eccles, R. G., on pepsines, 480.
Eclipse expedition, results of the, 362;
of the sun, 99, 313; at Grenada, 322.
Economic discussion, 3; laws and meth-
ods, 46, 103; publications, 302; science
and statistics section of American
association, 217; statistics, 263.
Economics and jurisprudence, 15; for
the people, 616; Harvard college
Journal of, 385; in Political science
quarterly, 345; mathematical, 309.
Economists and their teachings, 25;
new school of, 33.
Edinburgh, education of women in,
586.
Education act, elementary, 481; and
the cost of living, 313, 345; associa-
tion, National, 91; bibliography of,
500; Buisson on, 479; colonial, science
in, 491: elementary, on the conti-
nent, 593; history of, 500; in Amer-
ica, a French view of, 314; in Prussia,
334; in Spain, 498; in Switzerland,
585; industrial, 576; and high art in
the United States, 108; monographs
on, 499; new encyclopaedia of, 482;
of women, 245; in Edinburgh, 586;
physical, 581; primary, in England,
485; technical, 381; in India, 480; in
New York, 424.
Educational conferences, 467; institu-
tions of Prussia, 597; matters in
France, 481; reforms in England, 481;
periodicals in Japan, 244; works in
France, 302.

Eggs in England, 185.

EGLESTON, T. Zinc in Moresnet, 413.
Egypt, anatomical knowledge of, 262 ;
medical journal in, 363; northern
residents in, 367.

Eiffel tower, 94.

Electric battery, 120; lamps, 120;
launch Volta, 301; light and human
eyes, 185; and plant-growth, 482;
compared with gas, 186; in osteotomy,
434 in London, 583; log, an, 256;
storm at sea, 536; street-railways,
387.

Electrical engineers, 121; phenomena
on a mountain, 564; transmission of
power, 137, 210.

Electricity and gas in England, 431; in
surgery, 297; the age of, 397.
Electromotive force, 181.

Elliott, E. B., corrects an error, 279.
ELLIOTT, H. W. Elliott's Alaska, 565.
Elliott's Alaska, 523.

ELY, R. T. Ely's Labor movement, 388;
philosophy of wealth, 551; the eco-
nomic discussion, 3.

Ely's Labor movement, 353, 388, 413.
Embryos in eggs, 387; of trout and sal-
mon, abnormal, 516.

Encyclopaedia, a new German, 481.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 411, 482.
Encyclopédie, Grande, 30.
Engineering at Massachusetts institute
of technology, 55.

England and Russia, 454; primary
education in, 485.

England's prosperity, 504.
English colonies, timber of, 440.
Entomological club of the American
association, 55; commission, report
of U. S., 139; society of Washington,
140.

Floods in India, 411.

Fluor, isolation of, 533.

Flying-fish, 10.

Foehn of Swiss valleys, the, 630.
Food adulterations, 296; and drug adul-
teration, 431.
Food-poisoning, 279.
FORBES, S. A. Swindling naturalist, 124.
Forel's Lake of Geneva, 298.
Forests and rainfall, 137.
Formander's Polynesian race, 355.
Fort Ancient, Warren county, O., 538.
Fossils, discovery of paleozoic, 31.
Fraenkel's Function of the brain, 398.
France, chemical institutes in Nancy,
70; exports of, 140.

FRAZER, P. Coloring geological maps,

413.
French association for the advance-
ment of science, 226; history, 291;
revolution, history of, 570.
French's North American butterflies,
378.

Freshmen at Oxford and Cambridge,

488.

Fresh-water lake, deepest, 177.
Frog, a mummified, 279, 326.
Fund, Sims memorial, 279.

Galton on stature as an hereditary
trait, 2.

Galvani's centennial, 384.

GAN. Barometer exposure, 165, 255;
glaciers and glacialists, 325.
Garbage, desiccation of, 301; removal
of, 335.
GARDINER, J. Alligators in the Baha-
mas, 369.
GARMAN, 8.
manders, 13.

Prehensile-tailed sala-

Gas, deaths from, 336; eructations, in-
flammable, 535, 630; report, Orton's,

233.

Gases, liquefied, 56.
Gas-lamp, uew, 299.
Gas-supply, 136.

Gas-wells, 534; Neff's, 101.

Geikie's Geology, 443.

Geneva, Forel's Lake of, 298.
Genius, precocity of, 62.

Geodetic congress, international, 344.
Geographical names, 327; notes, 26,
119, 582; publications, 432; society,
American, 628.
Geological maps, coloring, 413, 455;
section of American association, 205;
survey of Alabama, 421.
Geology, Geikie's, 443; of Colorado, 640;
of Long Island, 352; of the Sierra
Nevadas, 629; school-books on, 443;
Winchell's, 443.
Geometrical conics, syllabus of, 480.
Geometry, Cremona's, 617, 631.
Gerhard on the prevention of fire, 411.
Germ theory of disease, 3.
German association of naturalists and
physicians, 336, 401; encyclopaedia, a
new, 481; girls' high schools, 479;
language, importance of, 586, modern-
language association, 576.
Germany, population of, 187; suicides
in, 535.
GIBBS, J. W. Multiple algebra, 180.
Gilt to a medical academy, 410.
GILBERT, G. K. Archeological enigmas,
564.
GILDERSLEEVE, B. L. Classical study, 59.
GILES, P. Source of the Mississippi,

280.

GILMAN, D. C. Universities, 37.
Girls and what they read, 379.
Glacial action, 145; in Russia, 510; drift,
156; period, 188; theory of, 347.
Glaciation in the Lackawanna valley,
422.

Glaciers and glacialists, 76, 162, 325; in
the Alps, 585.
Gladstone's The Irish question, 230.
Glanders, 231, 291, 510.

Glass railway-ties, 363; tubes, cutting,
302.

Goblet, M., 587.

GOODNOW, F. J. Primary education in
England, 485.

GOODWIN, F. The Panama canal, 632.
Goodyear, 111.
Gopher, a new, 588.

Gordenia, W., first doctor, 364.
Goss's Birds of Kausas, 99.
Government, our, 615;

reports, 503;
science, 35.
Grace, Mayor, and industrial educa-
tion, 576.

Grain, crossing of, 433.
GRATACAP, L. P. An archeological fraud,
403; Liberty's torch, 587.
Graves's Life of Hamilton, 639.
Gray and Woodward's Seaweeds, shells,
and fossils, 99.

Greece, railways in, 585.

Greek-English lexicon, Thayer's, 636.
Greely Arctic expedition, 122.
Greenland, 120.

Greylock, topography of, 622.
Guadalajara pottery, 405.

Gulf Stream current, 535; observations
on, 139.

Gunpowder factory, 121.
Guyot's Les fôrets, 478.
Gymnastics in French girls' schools,
480.

HADLEY, A. T. Economic laws, 46.
Hair, indestructibility of, 185.
HALE, H. Origin of languages, 191;
studies in ancient history, 569.
HALL, A. Cremona's Projective geome-
try, 631.

Hall and Mansfield's Bibliography of
education, 500.

Hall's Reading, 499; appendices to the
Washington observations, 321.
Hamilton, W. R., life of, 639,
HAMMOND, H. Mosquitoes, 436.
HARROWER, H. D. Source of the Missis-
sippi, 322.

HART, A. B. Triumphant democracy,
109.

Harvard college, annual report of presi-
dent of, 302; authorities sued, 513;
Bush's, 432; chapel attendance at,
425 Journal of economics, 385; the
250th anniversary of, 229, 423.
Haupt's Topographer, 463.
Hawaiian Islands and their formation,
73; leprosy in, 75; politics and Chris-
tianity in, 74; population of, 75;
sugar-raising in, 75: topographical
survey of, 74; volcanic activity in, 67.
HAWORTH, E. Millerite, 369.
HAYDEN, E. Earthquake sounds, 369;
New Zealand and the recent erup-
tion, 68; study of the earthquake,
225; the Charleston earthquake, 246.
Hay-fever, 364.
Haymond, R., 123.
HAYNES, H. W. Americanists, 588.
Head. See Jewitt and Head.
Headache from over-study, 187.
Health association at Toronto, 367; de-
partment of New York, 199; laws and
politics, 313; Massachusetts state
board of, 230; national board of, 30;
of children at school, 138; of New
York, 505; during June, 92; July, 200;
August, 316; September, 426; Octo-
ber, 529; November, 624.
Heat in muscular tissue, 384.
Helmholtz as a benefiter, 141.
Helmholz, R. v., on condensation in
moist air, 388.

Hereditary inebriety, 526; neuroses,
536; trait, stature as an, 2.
Heredity, 125.

Herring fishery in Scotland, 312.
Herzen's vivisectional experiments, 433.
HEWINS, Miss C. M. A small library,

395.

Hibernation of bats, 281.

HINMAN, R. Source of the Mississippi,

142.

Historians, American, 479.

Historical study of local institutions,

424.
History, studies in ancient, 569.

Holbrook's How to strengthen the
memory, 582.
HOLDEN, E. S.

How astronomers may

work, 348.
HOLMES, W. H. Great Serpent Mound,
624.

Home, Douglas, 55.
Honey or maple-sugar, adulteration of,
76.
Honolulu, drinking-water in, 74; letter,
73; social science in, 75.
Horses from France, 211; in New
York, 99.

HOUGH, W. Thumb-marks, 166.
House-cooling, cave air for, 413.
HOWARD, L. O. A remarkable swarm of
Sciara, 102; voracity of the Mantis, 326.

HUBBARD, S. An electric log, 256,
Hudson's Bay, Alert expedition to, 343.
HUGGINS, W. Photography of the corona,
303.

HUNT, T. S. Volumes in chemistry,
235, 281.

Hydro-carbon burner, 378.
Hydrophobia, 386; among camels, 366;
an old cure for, 255; and the mad-
stone, 279; English commission on,
279; germ of, 23, 102; Japanese
remedy for, 511; period of incuba-
tion of, 299; prevention of, 301; reme-
dy for, 57; unknown in Lapland, 410.
Hygiene of the vocal organs, 241.
Hypnotic influence, 28.
Hypnotism, 521; a journal of, 209; in
France, 468.

HYSLOP, J. H. Psychophysics, 259.

Knight's Hume, 512.

Knowledge, first steps in, 584.
Knox's Life of Robert Fulton, 278.
Koch's museum of hygiene, 513.
Kongo, the, 26; people of the, 441.
KUNZ, G. F. Artificial rubies, 318.

Labor movement in America, 353, 388,
413 question, the, 617.
Laboratories in France, 385.
Laboratory burner, 365.
Lacaze-Duthiers, de, 27.
Lacustrine deposits of Montana, 163.
Lake, deepest fresh-water, 177, 412, 516;
on Spanish frontier, new, 120.
Lake Moeris, 27.
Lakes, glacial origin of, 45.
Lamellibrauchiata of New Jersey, 422.
Land-slide, a remarkable, 293.
Language association, German, 576;
German, importance of, 586.
Languages of the Netherlands, 510;
origin of, 191.

Language-teaching, 611.
Lanolin for ointments. 140.

Latin book, Collar's, 499; pronunciation
in our schools, 480; the study of, 499.
Launhardt's Mathematical economics,
309.

Lavoisier, 57.

Lawrence scientific school, 366.
Laws against quacks, 514, 632.
Lea, Isaac, 556.

LECONTE, John. Barometer exposure,
80; deep lake, 516; flooding the Sa-
hara, 35.

LECONTE, Joseph. Germ of hydropho-
bia, 102; polydactylism, 166.
Lectures, Saturday, at Columbia col-
lege, 585.

Legs, length of, 185.

Leipzig, psychology in, 459.
Lepidosiren in Brazil, 478.
Leprosy as a non-contagious disease,
98; contagiousness of, 511; in the
Hawaiians, 75.

LESLEY, J. P. Orton's oil report, 233;
the swindler, 482.
LESSEPS, F. de. The Panama canal,

517.

LEWIS, H. C. Genesis of the diamond,

345.

Liberty, statue of. 628; illumination of,
321; torch of, 587.
Librarians and their work, 67.
Library, a small, 395; association, Am-
erican, 70: journal, new, 76.
Lick observatory, objective for, 32.
Life, is it worth living? 301.
Lifeboat, 538.

Life-saving service, 1885, 138.
Liquids, measurement of, 302.
Lister's treatment of wounds, 279.
Literary quarrels, 528.

Literature, Indian, 54.

Lithology, a manual of, 414; Williams's,
386.
Lockhart, arrest of, 55.

London, electric lights in, 583; letter,
9, 52, 120, 136, 228, 362, 430, 583.
Longevity, 23, 56; of great men, 294: of
Presidents of the United States, 578.
Long Island, geology of, 352.

LORD, J. K. Collar's Latin book, 499.
Louis II. of Bavaria, 587.

Love, 357.

Lowell lectures in Boston, 431.
Lowell's Harvard oration, 445.
LUCAS, F. A. Mounting of Mungo, 337.
Lungs and heart, malformation of, 536;
pine-leaves in the, 511.

Malaria and plant-growth, 278; in east-
ern Massachusetts, 230.

Mammal from the American triassic,
540.

Manganese in Russia, 321.
MANN, B: P. The abuse of dispensa-
ries, 414.

Mansfield. See Hall and Mansfield.
Mantis, voracity of the female, 326.
Manufactories in Italy, 66.

Maple-sugar or honey, adulteration of,
76.

Maps, coloring geological, 413, 455.
Marchant steam-engine, 228, 386, 505.
MARCOU, J. Glaciers and glacialists, 76.
Marine biological association, London,

10.

Marriage, primitive, 569.

MARSH, J. P. Psychology of the bear,
187.

MASON, O. T.

Archeological enigmas,

528; corea by native artists, 115; Gua-
dalajara pottery, 405; planting a
prayer, 24.
Massachusetts state board of health,

230.

Mathematical economics, 309.

Mathematics and astronomy section of
American association, 219.

Maudslay's archeological work, 358.
Measles, German, 76.

Measurement of liquids, 302; of mental
processes, 237.

Mechanical science, 182; and engineer-
ing section of American association,

215.

Medals, Royal society, 534.
Mediaeval cities, population of, 311.
Medical addresses, 362; aid for the
women of India, 365; and psychologi-
cal periodicals, 140; association, Brit-
ish, 228; books, new, 385; colleges, 56;
journal in Egypt, 363: knowledge of
ancient Egypt, 262; practice in Russia,
185; school in Turkey, 186; schools,
women in, 538; students in Vienna,
299.
Medicine, 147; legal regulation of, 358.
MEIGS, M. C. Charleston earthquake,

390; constitution of the earth, 326.
Meldola and White's Report on the East
Anglian earthquake of April 22,
1884, 242.

MELENEY, C. E. Graded system of
schools, 591.

Memory, training of the, 582.
MENDENHALL, T. C. Mental processes,

258.

Mendenhall, T. C., 278.
Mental faculties of apes, 374; processes,
258; measuring, 237; time of, 281;
suggestion, 299.

MERRIAM, C. H. A new gopher, 588;
hibernation of bats, 281.

Meteor, 58, 102, 168; height of a, 565.
Meteorites in the national museum, 98;
meteors, and shooting-stars, 169.
Meteorological observatory on Mount
Wantastiquet, 453; the highest Euro-
pean, 299; phenomena in Ohio, 629;
record-book, 363; society of New Eng-
land, 382; stations in the West Indies,
380; work, Russian, 342.
Meteorology in California, 634; railway,
621.

Mexican codices, analysis of, 393; in-
scriptions, analysis of, 393.
Mexico, picture-writing in, 381.
Meyer. See Aldrich and Meyer.
Michigan state sanitary convention,
185.

Microbes, effects of cold on, 99; in milk,
432.

Micro-organisms in acute abscesses,

278.

Microscopie clinique, atlas de, 534.
Milk, frozen, for fever, 185; in cities,
267; infected, 136.
Milk-sickness, 540.
Millerite, 369.

Minchin's Statics, 65.

MINDELEFF, C. Indian snake-dance, 12.
Mineral wealth of Victoria, 387.

Mont Blanc, ascent of, 510.

MOORE, J. Earthquake sounds, 318.
Moresnet, neutral district of, 383; zinc
in, 413.

Morphology, comparative, 638.
Morris's Study of Latin, 499.

Mortality among southern negroes, 454;
of New York state for June, 302.
Mosquitoes, 436; why created, 379.
Mosses, 99.

Mound, the great serpent, 624.
Mound-explorations in Iowa, 185.
Mountain meteorological stations, 365;
ranges, Reade on, 432.

Müller on Brazilian beetles, 433.
Muirhead on the birds of Berwickshire,
364.

Mulhall on British prosperity, 620.
Mungo, the mounting of, 337.

Munroe's Index to literature of explo-
sives, 411.

Muscle-reading, 506.

Muscular contraction, surface tension
and, 36.

Museum of articles for the blind, 533;
the modern, 315.

Musk, 222.

Nerve-force, 196.

Netherlands languages, 510.

Neurological association, American,
113.

Neurology, Stowell's contributions to,
453.

NEWBERRY, J. S. Sea-level and ocean-
currents, 34, 391.

NEWCOMB, S. Can economists agree? 25.
Newcomb's Plain man's talk on the
labor question, 617.

New England meteorological society,
382.

New Jersey, Brachiopoda and Lamelli-
branchiata of, 422; sanitary associa
tion, 509.

New South Wales, population of, 142.
Newspapers of the world, 513.
NEWTON, H. A. Meteorites, meteors,
and shooting-stars, 169.
New York City railroads, passengers
on, 312; health department, 199;
health of, during June, 92; July, 200;
August, 316; September, 426; Octo-
ber, 529; November, 624; state mor-
tality for June, 302; university of the
city of, 432.

New Zealand, acclimatization in, 426;
and the recent eruption, 68; earth-
quake in, 135; progress of, 371.
Niagara Falls, study of, 138; gorge,
236.

Nickel-plated cooking-vessels, 433.
Nipher's Theory of magnetic measure-
ments, 364.

Noises, mysterious, 292; unexplained,
348.

North American butterflies, 378.

North Sea explorations, 410.

Nurses for the poor, 335; training-

Oriental association, 408; congress, 299,
425; in 1890, 514.

Orioles, carnívorous, 165.

Orton's gas and oil report, 233.
OSBORN, H. F. Corpus callosum in
lower vertebrates, 167; new mammal
from the triassic, 540.
Oxford and Cambridge, freshmen at,
488; women at, 586.
Oxygen in the blood, 296.

Pacific coast weather, 307.
PACKARD, A. S. Illustrations in zoölo-
gical literature, 434.
Packard's Zoology, 356.

Painter's History of education, 500.
Paleontological publications, 421.
Paleontology at South Kensington, 430.
Panama canal, 517, 632.

Paris as a seaport, 298; letter, 27, 94,
208, 296, 382, 532.

PARKER, H. W. Smoke-ring, 36.
Parker's Morphology, 638.

Passengers on New York City railroads,
312.

Pasteur, 45, 76, 95, 186, 209, 210, 230, 231,
366, 432, 527, 532.

Pasteurism, convert to, 121.

PAUL, H. M. Clerke's History of astron-
omy, 130.

Pavements, 341.
PEALE, A. C.

Montana, 163.

Lacustrine deposits of

Pearson, Karl, contribution of, to the
International series, 56.

Pedagogic journal, a new, 481; training
for women, 576.

Pedagogical museum, proposed, 481.
Peirce's Newtonian potential function,
98.

Pendulum, a long, 99.

Penitentiary for young criminals in
Ohio, 425.

Pennsylvania, consumption in, 636;
state geologist, annual report of, 89.
Pension system, extent of, 444.
Pepsine, 480.

Phthisis, a new treatment for, 533;
among the negroes, 142.

Physical basis of aesthetics, 419; educa-
tion, 581.

Physicians, exposure of, to disease, 133;
German, 336; rights and duties of, 525.

Physics section of American associaTM
tion, 207.

Physiological selection, 307.

Physiology of digestion, 621; of plants,
571.

Picture-writing in Mexico, 381.
Pierson. See Staley and Pierson.
Pilot chart for August, 122.
Pistols, deaths by toy, 334.
Plant-dissection, 552.

Plant-growth, 453;

light, 482.

and the electric

Plants, physiology of, 571; Sachs's ex-
periments on, 433.

Pleuro-pneumonia, 141, 291, 322, 468,
587, 631; and milk, 336.
Plumbers, 358.

Plumbing, bad, 513; damages for, 513;
inspectors, 510.

Pneumatic cannon, a, 552; street-car,
534.

Pneumonia, 189; cause of, 97, 133.
Poetry in geographical names, 327.
POHLMAN. German naturalists and
physicians, 336.

Poison, chlorate of potash as a, 312.
Poisoning by bisulphide of carbon, 386;
by ice-cream, 2, 112, 146, 177, 322;
from dyed goods, 178.

Poisonous cheese, 344; serpents, venom
of, 568.

Polar commission report, 342.
Polarization of resistance coils, 565.
Political economy, 81; situation in
Europe, 624.

Political science quarterly, 33.

Politics and Christianity in the Hawai-
ians, 74.

Polydactylism, 166, 213, 367.
Polynesian race, 355.

Pompeii, recent discoveries at, 583.
Population of Copenhagen, 585; of Ger-
man cities, 142; of the Hawaiian Is-
lands, 75; of mediaeval cities, 311;
of New South Wales, 142.

Porter's Mechanics and faith, 110.
Potanin's Chinese explorations, 514.
Pot-holes, 10.

Pottery, Guadalajara, 405.

POWELL, J. W. Conn's Evolution of to-
day, 264.

Power, animal and steam, 88; distribu-

tion of, by compressed air, 372.
Prairie dogs, carnivorous, 165.

PRATT, W. H. Stereoscopic vision,
631.

Prayer, planting of a, 24.

Precocity of genius, 62.

Prescriptions, a study of, 140.

Preservation of dead bodies, 536.

Presidents of the United States, longev-
ity of, 578.

Prestwich's Geology, 109.

Primary education in England, 485.
Princeton college, 451;

pedition, 293.

scientific ex-

Production and consumption, 263.
Professors, advertising for, 575; removal
of aged, 210.

Prussia, educational institutions of, 597;
plea for an einheitsschule in, 577.
Psychical research, 367; American so-
ciety for, 629; in England, 462, 558.
Psychological periodicals, medical and,

140.

Psychology, 88, 130; human, 88; in
England, 380; in Leipzig, 459; of fear,
351; of reasoning, 265: of Spiritual-
ism, 567; of the bear, 187, 368; recent
books on, 87.

Psychophysics, 259, 302.

Public health association at Toronto,
367; institutions, inmates of, 314.
Publications, new French, 97.
Publishers' announcements, 343, 344.
Pumice from the Java eruption, 301.
Punishment in schools, 575.
PURRINGTON, W. A.

quacks, 514, 632.
Pustule, malignant, 32.
PUTNAM, C. E.

Laws against

Electric light and plant-

growth, 482.
Pythian, R. L., 482.

646

Quacks, laws against, 447, 514, 632.
Qualtrough's Boat-sailer's manual, 31.
Queensland and the rabbit-plague,
538; population of, 432.

READER, A. The teaching of natural
history, 484.

Reading, Hall's, 499.

Reasoning, psychology of, 265.
Reed's Topographical drawing, 463.
Reichert. See Mitchell and Reichert.
Religion of the Uapé, 437.

Resistance coils, polarization of, 565.
Retina of the human eye, photograph-
ing, 198.

Reunion of amputated fingers, 535.
Revenues, Chinese, 105.
Revivification, 208, 212, 236, 282.
Ribot's German pyschology of to-day,
87.

RICE, W. N. Eccentricity theory of the
glacial period, 188; glacial period, 347.
Ridgway's Manual of North American
birds, 98.

Rigor mortis, 385.

Rigveda, Arrowsmith's Kaegi's, 618.
RILEY, C. V. Pleuro-pneumonía, 631.
Rio de Janeiro letter, 477.
ROCKWOOD, C. G., Jr. Catalogue of
earthquakes, 243; East Anglian
earthquake, 242; recent earthquake
literature, 242; Seismological society
of Japan, 243, 244.
Rodent, carnivorous, 102.
ROGERS, A. E. Theory of utility, 347.
Rogers, W. A., 122.

Romanes on physiological selection,
307.

Rose of Sharon, the, 632.
Rosmini's Psychology, 130.
Rotch's Mountain meteorological sta-
tious of Europe, 365.

Royal society medals awarded, 534; of
London, 9.

Royce's California, 66.

Rred's Evolution versus involution,

442.

Rubies, artificial, 318.

Rücker, Professor, 583.

Rumination among human beings, 31.
Russia and England, 454; practice of
medicine in, 185.

Russian anthropological research, 505;
meteorological work, 342.
Russians, the wolf-bitten, 76.

Schools, French girls', 480; German
girls', 479; graded system of, 591; pre-
paratory, and colleges, 588; punish-
ment in, 575; science in English, 223.
Sciara, remarkable swarm of, 102.
Science for a livelihood, 236, 258, 303; in
colonial education, 491; in English
schools, 223; the classics versus, 484.
Science and Education, prospectus of,
467.
Scientific knowledge, first steps in, 584;
men and their duties, 541; in parlia-
ment, 137; societies, misdirected ef-
fort in, 423.

Scotland, herring fishery in, 312.
Scranton board of trade report, 378.
SCUDDER, S. H. The teaching of natural
history, 454, 515.

Seacoast defences, 633.

Sea-level and ocean-currents, 34, 99, 391.
SEAMAN, L. L. Social waste of a great
city, 283.

Sea-serpent, the, 258.

Sea-water in the ears, 230, 258.
Seaweeds, shells, and fossils, 99.
Seismological society of Japan, 243, 244.
Seismoscope, a Chinese, 278.
Senses, study of the, 376.
Se-Quo-Yah, the American Cadmus,
133.

Serpents, poisonous, venom of, 568.
Severn tunnel, the, 583.
Sewage, 9, 584.

Sewerage, separate system of, 399.
SEXTON, S. Sea-water in the ears, 258.
SHARPLESS, I. Height of a meteor, 565.
Shaw's Co-operation in a western city,
531.

Ship-canal, Manchester, 137.
Shorthand writers, 55.

SHUFELDT, R. W. A most extraordinary
structure, 57; another carnivorous
rodent, 102; government science. 35,
illustrations in zoological literature,
389 larval amblystomas, 367; mum-
mified frog, 279, 326; polydactylism,
367.

Siberian university, first, 585.
Sidgwick's History of ethics, 265.
Sierra Nevadas, geology of, 629.
Signature, Washington's, 349.
Sims memorial fund, 279.

Skin, replacement of, on a finger, 95.
Skull, a long, 436.

Sleeping for long periods, 298.
Small-pox in Brooklyn, N.Y., 401; in
London, 322.

Smith, G. A., 364.

Smith, H. H., 482.

SMITH, J. B. Polydactylism, 213.
SMITH, R. M. Methods of investigation
in political economy, 81, population
of mediaeval cities, 311.
Smithsonian reports, 223.
Smoke-ring, 36.

Snake-bites, 57.
Snake-dance, 12.

Snider's Faust, a commentary, 537.
Snow hall, Kansas university, 538.
Social instincts of apes, 374; science
club in Honolulu, 75; statistics of
cities, 141; waste of a great city, 283.
Socotra, 538.
Soda-motor, 367.

Soldiers and invalids of the war, 482.
Sorbonne, re-opening of the, 534.
Sorghum sugar, 361.

Spain, decrease of criminality in, 139;
education in, 498; progress in, 511.
Sparrows, 58.
Spectrum of 8 Lyrae, 80.

Spine and cord, fracture of, 425; tail-
like extension of the human, 334.
Spiritualism, psychology of, 567.
Spleen, 32.
Springer. See Wachsmuth and Spring-

Tea, abuse of, 292; delirium tremens
from, 505; diseases due to, 132.
TEACHER, A. The teaching of natural
history, 435.

Teachers' certificates in Germany, 481;
meetings, 587; salaries, 585.
Teaching of languages, 611; of natural
history, the, 435, 454, 484, 515.
Technical education, 381, 472; in New
York, 424.

Teeth and flour-dust, 513; chloride of
iron and the, 387.
Telepathy, feline, 123.
Tetanus, origin of, 410.

Thayer's Greek-English lexicon, 636.
THOMAS, C. Fort Ancient, 538.
Thompson, Elizabeth, science fund, 1.
THOMSON, G. M. Acclimatization, 426.
Thought-transferrence, 527.
Thumb-marks, 166, 212.
Ticknor's Ye olden time series, 411.
Tide tables for 1887, Pacific coast, 142.
Timber of the English colonies, 440.
Tin, 33.

Tobacco and blindness, 366.
Tobacco-consumption in Europe, 466.
TODD, D. P. The American library as-
sociation, 70.
TODD, J. E. Barometer exposure, 58.
Tolmie, W. F., 628.

Tonquin academy of sciences, 296.
Tooth, expulsion of, 452.
Topographer, Haupt's, 463.
Topographical drawing, 463; survey of
the Hawaiian Islands, 74; surveying,
463.
Topography of Greylock, 622.
Torpedo boat, submarine, 184, 255.
Tower, Eiffel, 94.

Toy pistols, deaths by, 334.
Tracheotomy and intubation, 278.
Trade-route to Bolivia, 27.
Trade-winds, 139.
Trades-unionists' council, 446.
Train telegraphy, 421.