A.

Abbott, C. C. American caves, 180.

read at, 249; meeting, 241.

Act of God, 241, 264, 276, 299.

Adams, H. C. Dodd's Republic of the Future, 92.
Adams's Public Debts, 164; Study of History in Amer-
ican Colleges, 282.

Afghan life in Afghan songs, 195.
Africa, Central, 42; Junker's travels in, 54; Kerr's
journey across, 321; map of, 81, 306; travels in, 221;
Wissmann's expedition across, 270.
Agricultural chemists, 113; experiment station,
Pennsylvania, 307; Science Society, 21.
Alaska boundary-line, survey of, 191; letter, 114;
natural history notes on, 264.
Alaskan Society of Sitka, 280.
Allen's Common Sense Science, 20.
Alsace-Lorraine, population of, 9.

Alvord, H. E. Economy in management of soil, 77.
American Association meeting, 85; officers, 94; Sec-
tion A, 85; Section B, 86; Section C, 98; Section D,
87; Section E, 87; Section F, 88; Section H, 88;
Section 1, 99.

Amery, C. F. Nitrogen in manures, 34.
Anderson, W. Some Western mummies, 146.
Anderson, W. W. Tornado force, 323.

Anderson's Conversion of Heat into Work, 190.
Andrews's Brief Institutes of General History, 190.
Animals, ideas of number in, 316.

Antarctic region exploration, 193.
Anthony and Brackett's Physics, 235.
Anthropological treatises, 57.

Anthropology in the American and British
tions, 231.

Ants, bees, and wasps, habits of, 320.

Apparitions and haunted houses, 289.

Arctic, notes from the, 233.

Arctic America, 3.

Aristotelian Society of London, 272.
Arkansas, pronunciation of, 107, 120.
Armor for land-defences, 124.

Brinton, D. G. Chronology of America, 76; Eskimo
and Iroquois, 300; rate of change in American lan-
guages, 274.

Brinton's Ancient Nahuatl Poetry, 222.
British Columbia, 221, 234.

Browning, O. Aspects of education, 206, 253.
Bruehl's Culturvölker Alt-Amerika's, 174.
Bryozoa, study of, 225.

Buel, R. H. Conspiracy of silence, 298.
Bumstead, S. J. Study of logic, 256.
Butler, N. M. Manual training in Norway, 255.
Butler's Effect of the War of 1812, 30.
Buzzards, sense of smell in, 319.

C.

Chamberlain, A. F. Eskimo and the Indian, 120,
273, 322: Volapük, 24.

Chamberlin and Salisbury's Driftless Area of the
Upper Mississippi, 306.

Charnay's Ancient Cities of the New World, 200.
Chemistry, University Press publications in, 191.
Cheyenne, 239, 264.

Children, false testimony of, 215; of New York, 197.
Children's minds, contents of, 304.
Chinese folk-lore, 202; wall, 287, 323.
Chloroforming while asleep, 114, 214.
Cholera and cold weather, 246; and yellow-fever,
181; at quarantine, 220, 230; bacillus, test for, 198;
Calcutta outbreaks of, 202; precautions against,
188.

Chrome as a poison, 58, 104.

Chronology of America, 76.

Clark, Alvan, 97.

Classen's Analysis by Electrolysis, 191.
Climatologist, The, 129.

Cloud-heights, 46.

Coal-mines, statistics of, 45.

Coast Survey vessels, 57, 68.

Cohen's Practical Organic Chemistry, 128.
Coin-sales, 196.

Wandel des Völkergedankens, 284.

Bastin's Elements of Botany, 140.

Bausch, E. Microscopes, 310.

D.

Darby's Nineteenth-Century Sense, 31.

Davis, W. M. Classification of lakes, 142; study of
geography, 131.

Deaths and the tide, 24.

De Bary's Comparative Morphology and Biology of
Fungi, 175.

Decimal system in England, 13.

DeGarmo, C. German normal schools, 302
Delagoa Bay, 189.

Density of the earth, 104.
Dentition, mammalian, 300.

Derelict vessels, danger to commerce from, 265
Dialects, Romanic, 174.

Diamond, a North Carolina, 168.

Diamond-field in Kentucky, 140.

Diamonds, four large South African, 69.

Diller, J. S. Diamond-field in Kentucky, 140.
Diphtherla carried by the cook, 65.

Disinfectants, Report on, 55.

Dodd's Republic of the Future, 92.

Dolbear, A. E. Tornado force, 60.

Donaldson, F. Cause of consumption, 24.

Drake's Making of the Great West, 175.

Dreams, investigation of, 229.

Drought of 1887, 321.

Duck's brain, 126.

Dutch Literary Review, 203.

Dutton, C. E. Charleston earthquake, 10, 35.
Dutton's Mount Taylor and the Zuñi Plateau, 317.
Dwarfish races, 173, 232.

Dynamite gun, 151.

Ear-boxing, 25.

E.

Earthquake of Central Asia, 140; Charleston, 10, 35;
Sonora, 81; submarine, 177.
Earthquakes, depth of, 22.

Eclipse, total solar, of 1886, 9.

Education, a rational, 13; aspects of, 206, 253: meth-
od applied to, 18; scientific, in England, 250; tech-
nical, 72.

Educational Association, National, 37; indorsement
of Blair bill, 61, 132; council, a novel, 313.
Edwards's Butterflies, 165.

Electric light in mines, 217.

Electrical exhibition in New York, 8.

Electricity in the earth, 72, 96: loss of, 151, 308.
Electroplating natural objects, 203.
Ely, R. T. Adams's Public Debts, 164.
Emin Pacha, 68.

Emminghaus's Die psychischen Störungen des Kin-
desalters, 199.

Colleges and schools, New England association of, Explosion record, 320.
202; of Ohio, Association of, 298.
Color-blind laws, 157.

Beer-trade statistics, 192.

182; sea-water ice, 118.

Bohon's Bau und Verrichtungen des Gehirns, 223.

Bones, ash in human, 179.

Botanical Club, 21.

Botany, Annals of, 238.

Botocudos, 116.

Bottomley's Mathematical Tables, 129.

Bowditch, statue of, 32.

Bowditch, H. I. Cause of consumption, 71.

Bowen, H. C. British universities, 210.

Bower and Vines's Instruction in Botany, 175.

Bowne's Philosophy of Theism, 215.

Columbia College, progress of, 253; report, 169.
Conn, H. W. Original research in college, 109; Ro-
mantic Love, 143.

Conspiracy of silence, 265, 298, 308.
Constance, Lake of, soundings in, 320.

Consumption, 30; and chest-expansion, 173: and
evergreens, 92; cause of, 24, 71; cure of, 38, 99;
grinder's, 197; treatment of, 114.
Contagion, flies as carriers of, 214.
Cook's voyages, relics of, 176.
Cooper's Animal Life, 198.

Co-operation in England, 1; in Europe, 121, 161.
Copyright with England, 25.

Explosives, modern, 205.

Eyesight of children, testing of, 264.