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Contents 1 Volume 1 2 Volume 2 3 Volume 3 4 Volume 4 5 Volume 5 6 Volume 6 7 Volume 7 8 Volume 8 9 Volume 9 10 Volume 10 11 Volume 11 12 Volume 12 13 Volume 13 14 Volume 14 15 Volume 15 16 Volume 16 17 Volume 17 18 Volume 18 19 Volume 19 20 Volume 20 21 Volume 21 22 Volume 22 23 Volume 23 24 Volume 24 25 Volume 25 26 Volume 26 27 Volume 27 28 Volume 28 29 Volume 29 30 Volume 30

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Action of Dark Radiations	202
Action of Sewage-Gas on Lead Pipes	251
Addresses, The Presidential	752
Agassiz's South American Observations	505
A Giant Planet	286
A Glass of Water	655
Alcoholic Hallucinations	638
Alcohol, The Physiological Position of	219
A Marked Man	249
American Plants, On the Derivation of	724
Anaesthetic, A New	373
"Ancient America," Baldwin, Notice of	244
A New Entozoon from Common Eel	758
Animal Movements, Nervous Control of (Illustrated)	344
Anthropology and Ethnology	490
Antiquity of Man (Illustrated)	288
A Phosphorus-Lamp	252
Arrow-heads in New Jersey	253
Artificial Production of Stupidity in Schools	129
As regards Spiders (Illustrated)	674
Astro-Meteorology	335
Atmosphere of the Sun	251
Atoms	245
August and November Meteors	388
Balance of Life in the Aquarium	434
Binary Stars	754
Body, Temperature of, in Health	247
Botany for Beginners (by Maxwell T. Masters), Notice of	370
Bowlders of the Long Island Drift	757
Brain-Injury, Curious Effects of a,	635
Brain, The Unconscious Action of	544
Bread, Detection of Alum in	509
Caffeine, Physiological Action of	253
Calmucks, Characteristics of the (Illustrated)	419
Carbolic Acid from Plants	766
Carpenter, Dr. William B., Sketch of	745
Cave Explorations, Recent	378
Centenarians, Physical Condition of	253
Chameleonization in Frogs and Reptiles	376
Chemical Influence of Light	766
Cholera, Origin of	381
Civilization as Accumulated Force	602
Clever Fishes	529
Coal as a Reservoir of Power	738
Coal-Gas, Purification of	503
Coal-Lands of the Rocky Mountains	632
Coal, Weather-Waste of	374
Coast Survey, The Work of the	763
Comets, What becomes of?	246
Concerning Atoms	245
Concerning Crookes	126
Condiments, Physiological Influence of	701
Consanguineous Marriages and Idiocy	250
Consciousness after Decapitation	252
Cooling and Ventilation of Railway Carriages	251
Copper in Organized Structures	253
Corals and Coral Architecture	257
"Corals and Coral Islands", Notice of (by J. D. Dana)	241
Corpulence	445
Cow's Milk, Fungi in	636
Culture of Wild Plants	376
Dana, James D. (with Portrait)	362
Dana, James D., Honors to	253
Darwinism and Divinity	188
Detection of Alum in Bread	509
Dictionary of English Etymology (Wedgewood), Notice of	586
Difficulties of the Social Science Objective Difficulties	641
Discovery of the Elements	474
Disease, Gull on the Nature of	122
Disease, Propagation of	509
Disinfection and Disinfectants	55
Dyspepsia, the Causes of	75
Early Superstitions of Medicine	95
Earthquake Waves, Measurement of	586
Eastern Thibet	379
Eclipse of the Sun (Illustrated)	17
Education, Modern Studies in	496
Place of Science in	624
Effects of Faulty Vision in Painting	174
Emotion, the Physiology of	274
English against the Classics	686
Evolution, Mr. Martineau on	313
Experiments on the Solar Spectrum	631
Exploring Expeditions, Northern	508
Facts in Relation to Rainfall	504 [ Idx ]
"First Book of Botany" (by E. A. Youmans), Notice of	120
Fish as Food	247
Flying Reptiles of the Chalk Formation in Kansas	380
Food, Nutritive Salts of	405
"Forms of Water" (Tyndall), Notice of	245
Fossil Flowers and Insects	252
Four-legged Fish	636
Frogs and Reptiles, Chameleonization in	376
Fungi in Cow's Milk	636
Gastric Juice, Late Researches on the	371
"Geological Surveys of Ohio," Notice of Report on	630
Germany, Scientific Advance in	251
Germination, Cold in	254
Gray, Prof., Sketch of (with Portrait)	491
Gun-Cotton, Spontaneous Explosions of	376
Guns, Length of	372
Has our Climate changed?	665
"Healthy Houses," Eassie, Notice of	628
Herbert Spencer and Dr. Carpenter	754
Higher Education, Modern Literatures in	396
Hints on House-building	126
Hooker, Dr., and the Kew Gardens	762
"How Plants behave," Gray, Notice of	502
Human Nature, The Study of	327
Hydrogen Flame, Observations on the	377
Hydrophobia, Chloral Hydrate in	507
Imported Enemies	620
Impure Water, Tests of	250
Insects and Flowers	758
"Instinct" (by P. A. Chadbourne), Notice of	117
Intellect, Town and Country as Producers of	600
Iron and Civilization	339
Is there a Social Science?	159
Judges, Juries, and Insanity	440
Jute	761
Knowledge, Loose and Accurate	238
Labor, The Source of	40
Lagoon Islands, Elevation of, in the Pacific	506
Lead Pipes, Action of Sewage-Gas on	251
Length of Guns	372
Lessons from a Brick	633
Liebig's Extract of Meat	373
Life in the Aquarium	434
Lightning-Rods, The Office of	639
Long Island Conglomerate	632
Loose and Accurate Knowledge	238 [ Idx ]
Lyell, Sir Charles (with Portrait)	231
Magnetic Variations	254
Man, Natural History of, The Antiquity of Man (Illustrated)	208
Man, Natural History of, The Unity of the Human Species	61
Man, Natural History of, Migrations of	299
Man as an Object of Scientific Study	366
Man, Quetelet on the Science of	45
Man as the Interpreter of Nature	684
Measurement of Earthquake-Waves	586
Meat, Liebig's Extract of	373
Meat, Preservation of	637
Medicine, The Early Superstitions of	95
Mental Exertions governed by Law	762
Meteors of August and November	388
"Michael Faraday," Gladstone, Notice of	627
Modern Literatures in the Higher Education	396
Modern Studies in Education	496
Moral Contagion	618
Morse, Prof., The Work of	115
Motions of the Stars	541
Mount Seward, Ascent of	636
Musical Mice	323
Musical Mice	510
Natural History of Man	61
Natural History of Man	208
Natural History of Man	299
Nature of the Social Science	513
New Jersey, Arrow-heads in	253
Niagara, the Past and Future of	564
"Niagara" (by G. W. Holley), Notice of	756
Northern Exploring Expeditions	508
Nutritive Salts of Food	408
Notes	128
Notes	254
Notes	383
Notes	511
Notes	640
Notes	767
Observations on the Hydrogen Flame	377
On the Derivation of American Plants	724
Origin of Cholera	381
Our Need of a Social Science	1
Oxygen, The Discoverer of	368
Painting, Effects of Faulty Vision in	174
Past and Future of Niagara	564
Permanent Photographs	250
Petroleum in Santo Domingo	766
Photographing the Eye and Ear	766
Physical Condition of Centenarians	253
Physical Science, the Study of	451
Physical Degeneracy, the Causes of	482
Physiological Action of Caffeine	253
Physiological Influence of Condiments	701
"Physiology of Man" (by Prof. Austin Flint, Jr.), Notice of	756
Place of Science in Education	624 [ Idx ]
Planets, Do they vary in Color?	374
Popular Geology	613
Power, Coal as a Reservoir of	738
Prehistoric Times (Illustrated)	101
Preservation of Meat	637
Preservation of Wood	508
Propagation of Disease	509
Providence in Physical Affairs	638
Purpose and Plan of Our Enterprise	113
Quetelet on the Science of Man	45
Radiations, Action of Dark	202
Railway Carriages, Cooling and Ventilation of	251
Rainfall, Facts concerning	504
Rats, Anecdotes of	375
Recent Strikes	623
Recent Cave Explorations	378
Relations of Death-rate to Temperature	378
Rising of Circumpolar Land	510
Sanitary Reform in India	373
School Dietaries	590
School Life and Eyesight	760
Scientific Advance in Germany	251
Scientific Associations	637
Scientific Dabblers	594
Science and Immortality	26
Science of Man	45
"Science Primers" (Chemistry, by Prof. Roscoe; Physics, by Balfour Stewart), Notice of	371
Scrutable Providences	217
Seychelles Islands, Notes on the	505
Sight and the Visual Organ	457
Singing Marmot	509
Sleep, Physiology of	411
Society, the Science of	116
Sociology, the Study of	1
Sociology, the Study of	159
Sociology, the Study of	513
Sociology, the Study of	641
Solar Spectrum, Experiments on the	631
Southern Alaska	124
"Spectrum Analysis" (Schellen), Notice of.	242
Spontaneous Explosion of Gun-Cotton	376
Spots on the Sun (Illustrated.)	144
Stimpson, Dr. William, Death of	502
Stimulation, The Question of	239
Sun, Atmosphere of the	251
Sun, Recent Eclipse of (Illustrated.)	17
Sun, the Spots on (Illustrated.)	144
Sympathetic Vibrations	765
Temperature of the body in Health	247
Temperature Relations of Death-rate to	378 [ Idx ]
The Deepest Well	253
"Theory of Heat" (by J. C. Maxwell), Notice of	500
The Female the Better Half	764
"The Lens," Notice of	627
The Leaf a Vicarious Organ	766
"The To-morrow of Death" (by Louis Figuier), Notice of	118
Thibet, Eastern	379
Town and Country as Producers of Intellect	600
Training, Effects of	252
Tyndall, Prof.	751
Unconscious Action of the Brain	544
Unity of the Human Species	61
Vegetable and Animal Food, On the Digestibility of	308
Ventilation, and the Reasons for it	356
Vesuvius	227
Vesuvius, Late Eruption of	379
Visual Images in Darkness	734
Waste, A City's	761
Water, Impurities of	248
Weather Waste of Coal	374
Were the Ancient Italians Cannibals?	632
Wild-Plants, Culture of	376
Woman and Political Power	82
Wood, Preservation of	508
Writing Machine, A New	374
Yeast	573
Yellowstone National Park	381
Zoology of the Galapagos	633

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"Administration of Justice under Military and Martial Law" (by C. M. Clode), Notice of	754
Agriculture, Ancient, in Bavaria	759
Aims and Instruments of Scientific Thought 93,	174
Ammonia in Snow-water	506
"Ancient Stone Implements, Weapons, and Ornaments of Great Britain" (by John Evans), Notice of	247
"Annals of Bee-Culture"	755
Antipodes and Periæci	489
Applied Sanitary Science	665
Art in the Stone Age. (Illustrated.)	343
Asbestos, Uses of	509
Asphalt Pavements	609
Astronomical and Physical Observatories	365
Atmospheric Pressure and Vegetable Growth	760
Atmospheric Pressure, Effect of	382
Barbarism in English Education	671
Barnard, F. A. P., Poetical Address to	622
Barnard, President, Communication from	243
"Bee-keepers' Magazine"	249
Bias, Educational	564
Biela's Comet	762
Bird, A Poison-proof	766
Birds Improving in Nest-Building	485
Birds, Our Native, acquiring New Habits	633
Birds, Young, Instinct in	561
Blood, Transfusion of 124,	679
Boiler Explosions, Probable Cause of	757
Borax, Antiseptic Properties of	381
Bowlder-like Masses of Clay in the Long-Island Drift	634
Brain, Functions of the	64
Brain-Work and the Emotions	420
Building-Stone and Fire	639
Bulb-Culture in Holland	381
Butter, Artificial	126
Carp, An Aged.	250
Carpenter, Dr., against Materialism	124
Car-wheels, Paper	763
Caterpillars, An Army of	255
Cave-Dwellers, or Troglodytes, in France. (Illustrated.)	699
Cinchona in Bengal	381
City of the Future	250
Civilization, Antiquity of	631

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Coal-Gas, Effects of, on Plants	638
Coati-Mondi, The, and its Cousins. (Illustrated.)	136
Cocoa-nut Palm, The, and its Uses	214
"Coffee: Its History, Cultivation, and Uses" (by Robert Hewitt, Jr.), Notice of	753
Combustion under Pressure	634
Comet, Biela's	762
Comets, Tails of	383
Compendious Manual of Qualitative Chemical Analysis (by Eliot and Storer), Notice of	248
Cotton Fibres and Fabrics	161
Crime, Causes of	589
Cromlechs in Algeria	638
Cultivating Wild Flowers	356
Darwin (Notice of), with Portrait	497
"Deductive and Inductive Training" (by Prof. Silliman), Notice of	504
Delusions, Epidemic	15
Detonators, Electric, for exploding Mines	761
Development in Dress	40
Discipline of Mankind, The Early	129
Disease, Temperature in	763
Diseases, Local, Relations of, to the Nature of the Soil	382
Disinfectant, An Efficacious	761
Disinfection, Careless '.	122
Do Birds Improve in Nest-Building?	485
Dredging on the New-England Coast	764
Drifting of the Stars	224
Earthquake-Phenomena. (Illustrated.)	513
Earth's Surface, Elevation and Subsidence of	766
Education in New England, estimated by Agassiz	759
Education, Coercion in	623
Education, English, Barbarism in	671
Education, Observation in	371
Educational System, Science and Our	695
Electricity and Life	526
Elevation and Subsidence of the Earth's Surface	766
Emotions, Brain-Work and the	420
Emotions, Expression of the. (Illustrated.)	434
Engineering, Ancient, among the Chinese	127
English and American Science	734
"Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis" (by Dr. Clymer), Notice of	628
Epidemic Delusions	15
Equality of the Sexes	552
Eucalyptus, Chemical Products of	253
Evolution and the Spectroscope	320
Evolution, Doctrine of	110
Experiments on the Circulation of the Frog	762
Expression of the Emotions. (Illustrated.).	434
"Family Thermometry" (by Dr. Seguin), Notice of	627
"Faraday" (by J. H. Gladstone), Notice of (by De la Rive.	377
"Faraday as a Discoverer" (by Tyndall), Notice of.	377
Ferns, Ancient	633
Fire-Escape, A New	511
Fires, Great, and Rain-Storms	206
Fool Air	121
"Forces of Nature" (by Guillemin), Notice of.	628

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Forests and Fruit-Growing	194
Fortnightly Review	755
Foul Air and Disease of the Heart	183
Frog, The Horned	676
Fruit-Growing, Forests and	194
Fuel, Economy of	506
Functions of the Brain	64
Fuzi-Yama and Hakusan	634
Gardener's Monthly	248
Generation, Spontaneous. (Illustrated.)	83
Geology of the Great Plain of Morocco	635
German Thought, New Phase of 152,	311
Glass, Facts about	252
Godwin, Mr., on the Limits of Science	746
Gold in Sea-Water,	255
Great Problem (by John R. Leifchild), Notice of.	245
Great Problem, Introduction to the	182
Greeley, Mr., Death of.	372
Gunpowder, Smokeless	61
Hair, How the Feelings affect the	158
Hand-Book of Chemical Technology (by Wagner), Notice of	244
Hartmann's Philosophy of the Unconscious 152,	311
Health, Nervous and Moral	416
Heart, Disease of the, and Foul Air	183
Heat and Life '.	400
Henry, Prof. Joseph, Sketch of, with Portrait	741
Herculaneum, how was it destroyed?	232
Horned Frog, The	676
Horse-Influenza, Causes of	765
Houses, Warming of.	472
Human Races, Physical Characters of.	541
Humanity and Insanity	218
Humming-Bird, Instinct at Fault in	254
Hydrogen-Gas, Cheap	639
Hypothesis, The Nebular	650
Importance of the Cultivation of Science	641
India, Matters in	614
Influenza in Horses, Causes of	765
Insect-Life in a Coal-Mine	255
Instinct in Young Birds	561
Is Electricity Life?	477
Islamism, Epileptic Origin of	605
Key to North American Birds (by E. Coues), Notice of	751
Labor, Mental, and Health	763
Law of Storms developed	385
Lectures on Light (by Tyndall), Notice of. (Illustrated.)	754
Life in Nature Man and his Dwelling-Place (by James Hinto), Notice of.	118
Life, Electricity and	526
Life, Heat and	400
Light and Life	294
Lightning-Rods, Ground Connection of	120
Livingstone, Doctor. (Portrait.)	327

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Man in America, Antiquity of.	638
Manual of Microscopic Mounting (by John H. Martin), Notice of	247
Maury, Matthew Fontaine	767
Meteoric Stones	75
Meteorites, Recent, in France and Italy	760
Monas Prodigiosa	249
Mysteries of Voice and Ear (by O. N. Rood), Notice of	751
Myths and Myth-Makers (by John Fiske), Notice of	752
Nebular Hypothesis, The	650
Nervous Health and Moral Health	416
Niagara, Facts relating to	249
Notes 128,255, 384, 511, 639,	768
Nothing new under the Sun	380
Observation in Education	371
Observatories, Astronomical and Physical	365
Old Age, Necessity of Carefulness in	511
Opium Poppy in France	384
Opossum, Habits of the	124
Osage Orange	383
Ostracism of a French Savant	764
Our First Year's Work	745
Ozone by a New Process	507
Paper as a Building-Material	633
Paper-Hangings, Poisonous	123
Partridge-Berries, White	254
Patriotism, Bias of . .	708
Pavement, An Unpatentable	255
Pavements, Asphalt	609
Pericardium, puncturing the	637
Petroleum, Solidifying	635
Pholades, The Boring-Organ of	253
Phosphoric Acid	383
Photograph Proofs, White Spots on	632
Photometer, Deep-Sea	639
Physical Characters of the Human Races	541
Physics and Politics (by Walter Bagehot), Notice of	503
Physiological Position of Tobacco	167
Plant-Battery	631
Plants, Spontaneous Movements in. (Illustrated.),	280
Plaster, Action of, on Soils	251
Polaris, The, Expedition	253
Popular Treatise on Gems (by Dr. L. Feuchtwanger)	378
Potato-Disease, The	250
Pouchet, Felix Archimede	767
Practical Man, The, as an Obstructive	37
Prophecies, Weather	149
Public Affairs, Science and	736
Quarterly German Magazine	377
Rain-Storms, Great Fires and	206
Rattlesnake's Rattle, Purpose of	767
Recent Discussions in Science, Philosophy, and Morals (by Spence ), Notice of	505
Recent Progress of Natural Science	597
Religion, Science and	79

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Rhinoceros, A New Species of	380
River and Lake Terraces. (Illustrated.)	661
Romance of Medicine	422
Sabine, General Sir Edward, Sketch of. (Portrait.)	238
Sanitary Science, Applied	665
Sardines	126
Science and our Educational System	695
Science and Public Affairs	736
Science and Religion	79
Science in the Household	757
Science, English and American	734
Science, Importance of cultivating	641
Science, Natural, Recent Progress of	597
Science, Sanitary, Applied	665
Scientific Expedition of the Challenger	509
Scientific Thought, Aims and Instruments of 93,	174
Sedgwick, Rev. Adam	767
Selective Power of Plants	756
Sensitive Streams	383
Sexes, Equality of the	552
Silica as a Basis of Paint	632
Silk Goods, Test for	383
Singing Flames, Practical Application of	757
Slag as a Building-Material	637
Smokeless Gunpowder	61
Snakes, Venomous, of India. ... '	510
Sociological Science in its Later Statements	240
Sociology, Study of. 1, 257, 450, 564,	708
Somerville, Mrs	501
Sound, Experiments on	378
Sparrow, The English	508
Spectroscope, Evolution and the	320
Spectrum Analysis (by Dr. H. Schellen), Notice of	116
Spider Engineering	635
Spiders, Venomous, in New Zealand	758
Spontaneous Generation. (Illustrated.)	83
Spontaneous Movements in Plants. (Illustrated.)	280
Squirrel-Pest	382
Stars, Drifting of the	224
Steam, Cultivation by	507
Stone Age, Art in the. (Illustrated.)	343
Stones, Meteoric	75
Strength of Timber. (Illustrated.)	582
Sun, The, as a Borer of Mountains	380
Sunlight, Sea, and Sky	50
Telegraphy, Government	631
Ten Laws of Health (by Dr. J. R. Black), Notice of	754
Terraces, River and Lake. (Illustrated.)	661
The Earth a Great Magnet (by A. M. Mayer), Notice of.	626
Thoughts for the Times (by Rev. H. R. Haweis), Notice of	248
Tin, Disintegration of	382
Tobacco, Physiological Position of	167
Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letter, Notice of	503
Transfusion of Blood 124,	679
Trees and Rain	123
Troglodytes, or Cave-Dwellers in France. (Illustrated.)	699
Tyndall and Froude	375

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Tyndall, Farewell Banquet to	625
Tyndall, Mount, Discovery of	739
Tyndall, Sketch of Prof. (Portrait.)	103
Tyndall's Lectures in New York	499
Unconscious, Philosophy of the 152,	311
Useful Things	491
Vegetable Caprice	383
Vegetable Physiology, Curious Phenomenon in	636
Velocity of the Will;	360
Ventilation and Warming	126
Ventilation, Parliamentary	252
Venus, Transit of	252
Vibrations produced by Various Explosives	506
Vibrio-Life, Development of.	761
Volcanic Dust	123
Volcanic Energy ..	505
Volcanic Eruption, Disastrous	253
Volcanoes, A New Theory of.	203
War and Insanity,	252
Warming of Houses	472
Weather Prophecies	149
Welding Copper,	382
Wheat, New Method for disintegrating	254
Wild Flowers, cultivating	356
Will, Velocity of the	360
Writing-Ball, Honsen's	763
Zebu and European Cattle, Cross between	635

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Agassiz's School of Natural History 123

Agassiz and Darwinism 692

Aims of Scientific Education 639

Airy, Sir G. B., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 101

Amarantus Blitum 526

" American Chemist " 395

American Scientific Association 762

Animals, Hypnotism in 618

" Antiquities of the Southern Indians " (by Jones), Notice of. 248

Ants, Social Belations of 520

Artificial Respiration in Snake-Poisoning 655

Astronomical Expedition, The Sherman 72

" Atmospheric Theory of the Open Polar Sea " (by Wheeler), Notice of. . . 778

Audible and Inaudible Sounds 780

Axles of Railway Oars 125

Battle of Life among Plants 75

Bessemer Process 254

Bias, Political 172

Bias, Theological 340

Bird, A Hoarding 655

Birds, The Intellectual Powers of 614

Black Death in New England. 28

Blood, Coloring Matter of 251

Blood, Transfusion of 509

Boiler Explosions, Theory of 650

Bone-Black, Purification of. 397

Borers of the Sea. (Illustrated.) 60

" Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences " 777

Butterflies, Controlling Sex in 252

" Caliban, the Missing Link " (by Wilson), Notice of. 395

Carbonic Acid, Elimination of, by the Skin 251

Causes which operate to create Scientific Men 65

" Childhood of the World " (by Clodd), Notice of. 249

" Chimneys for Furnaces " (by Armstrong), Notice of 777

Cholera 523

Class Bias 45

Classics as a Preparation for English 642

Clay Bowlders 126

Clay -Eaters 521

" Coal Regions of America " (by Macfarlane), Notice of. 394

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��Coffin, Prof., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 503

Coloring Matter of Blood 251

Compulsory Attendance in Colleges 235

Constitution of Matter 547

Constitution of Nebulaa. (Illustrated.) 129

Continents, Old 573

Controlling Sex in Butterflies 252

Crawfish, Eeproduction of Eyes in 525

Dangers and Securities of Science 240

Darwinism, what it means 654

Darwinism, Agassiz and 692

Death, Physiology of 270

Deep-Sea Problems 448

Dental Art among the Japanese 250

"Depths of the Sea" (by Thompson), Notice of. 122

" Descriptive Sociology" (by Spencer) 516

Diamonds, Remarkable 251

Direction, Faculty of. 521

" Diseases of the Urinary Organs " (by Gouley), Notice of. 121

Domestic Economy of Fuel 297

Drift-Deposits of the Northwest. (Illustrated.) 202, 286

Drought and Cold, Action of, on Forest-Trees 249

Ear, Hygiene of the 139

Early Hindoo Mathematics 821

Economy of Railway Locomotion 146

Education in Japan 120

Education in Sierra Leone 396

Education, Scientific, Aims of. 639

Education in the Far West 391

Educational Convention at Elmira 766

Educational Discipline, Science in 510

Egyptian Mines, Ancient 526

Elective Studies at Harvard 769

Electric Telegraph. (Illustrated.) 401

Elimination of Carbonic Acid by the Skin 251

Euthanasia 90

Evolution and Mind 359

Faculty of Direction 521

Fertilization of Flowers 652

Finding the Way at Sea 717

Fish-Culture in New Zealand 650

Flowers, Fertilization of 652

Fly, Viviparous 398

" Foods " (by Smith), Notice of. 647

Foods, Nature and Influence of 441

Footprints on the Rocks. (Illustrated.) 428

Forbes, Prof., Life of 770

Forest-Trees, Action of Drought and Cold on 249

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Fossil Monkeys 519

Freezing, Effects of, on Wine and Spirits 654

Freezing of Plants and Animals 96

Fuel, Domestic Economy of 193

Gas, Illuminating, New Material for 254

Gases : which Liquefiable 254

Geography in Schools 389

Geological Surveys in their Educational Bearings 243

Glaciers, New England 127

Glaciers, .The, and their Investigators 746

Glass-Sponges, The. (Illustrated.) 529

Godwin's, Parke, Letter 115

Habits, Acquired, Hereditary Transmission of 303

Heart-Disease and Overwork 779

Heart, Motions of 781

Heat, Morbid Effects of 497

Henslow, John Stephens. (Portrait.) 159

Hereditary Transmission of Acquired Psychical Habits 303

Heredity in Mastiffs 126

Hindoo Mathematics 321

Hippopotamus, The, and her Baby. (Illustrated.) 85

" Home and School " 774

Hotchkiss's Eevolver-Oannon 651

Human Crania, Quatrefages on 779

Hydrophobia and the Imagination 253

Hydrophobia not an Imaginary Disease 509

Hygiene of the Ear 139

" Hygiene : A Fortnightly Journal of Sanitary Science " 122

Hypnotism in Animals 618

Illumination, Magneto-Electric. (Illustrated.) 584

In Quest of the Pole 363

Industrial Occupations of "Women 653

Infant Mortality 782

Inherited Traces of Surgical Operations 521

Instinct in Insects 12, 149

Intellectual Powers of Birds 614

" Introduction to Chemical Physics " (by Pynchon), Notice of. 517

Ivory, Vegetable 251

Japan, Education in 120

Jute, Paper from 524

" Lessons in Elementary Anatomy " (by Mivart), Notice of 247

" Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity " (by Stephen), Notice of 395

Liebig, Baron, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 232

Light-Waves and Sound-Waves 519

Longevity of Trees. (Ulustrated.) 321

Lowly Vegetable Forms 469

Lunar Temperatures 448

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Madeira as a Health-Resort 652

Magneto-Electric Illumination. (Illustrated.) 584

Man, Antiquity of 255

Matter, The Constitution of 547

" Mechanism of the Ossicles of the Ear " (by Helmholtz), Notice of. 249

Mental Science and Sociology 676

Meteorological Observations in the Upper Atmosphere 520

Meteors 123

Mill, John Stuart, his Life and Character. (Portrait.) 367

" Mineral Springs of the United States and Canada " (by Walton.) 515

Mines, Ancient Egyptian 526

Mistletoe, The 397

Mommsen's History Ill

Monkeys, Fossil 519

Moon, The 756

Moon, Temperature of 448

Morbid Effects of Heat 497

Mortality, Infant 782

"Mystery of Matter " (by Picton), Notice of 775

" Myths and Myth-Makers " (by Fiske), Notice of 772

Natural Selection 22

National University 689

Nature and Influence of Foods 441

Nature and Origin of the Drift-Deposits of the Northwest 286

Nebula, The Great, in Orion 564

Nebulae, Constitution of. (Illustrated.) 129

Niagara, Observations on 210

Normal Schools, Scientific 113

Notes 128, 255, 399, 527, 655, 783

Observations on Niagara 210

Ocean-Cables 38

Old Continents 573

Orientals at Vienna 493

Orion, The Great Nebula in 564

Overwork, Heart-Disease and 779

Oxygen, Poisoning by 782

Parthenogenesis in Shrimps 399

Physical Science, its Primary Concepts 705

Physiology of Death 270

Plants, The Battle of Life among 75

Plants and Animals, Freezing of 96

Poisonous Volcanic Gases 780

Poisoning by Oxygen 782

Political Bias 172

Politics, Natural Selection in 230

" Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects," by Helmholtz 513

Porpoise, Habits of the 522

Powers, The Intellectual, of Birds 614

�� � [ Ind ] INDEX. 789

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" Prehistoric Races of the United States " (by Foster), Notice of 646

Primary Concepts of Modern Physical Science 705

Prohlems of the Deep Sea 448

Prophecy, Secular 732

Psychology, The New 32

Quatrefages on Human Crania 779

Quinine, Substitute for 527

Pace, A Singular 525

Kailway Locomotion, Economy of 146

Eemarkable Diamonds 251

"Eeport on the Noxious, Beneficial, and other Insects of Missouri" 518

"Eeport of the Board of Directors of the St. Louis Public Schools" 518

Eeport on a Topographical Survey of the Adirondack Wilderness 519

Reproduction of Eyes in Crawfish 525

Eespiration, Artificial, in Snake-Poisoning 655

Eiver-Beds, Changes in 127

Sack-Tree 527

" Sanitary Engineering " (by Latham), Notice of 772

Schools, Geography in 389

Science, its Sphere and Limits 105

" Speculation in 741

" in Educational Discipline 510

" its Dangers and Securities 240

" Physical, its Primary Concepts 705

Scientific Education, Aims of 639

" " in the Far West 391

" " in England 651

" Normal Schools 113

" Theorizing 245

Sea-Depths, how they are explored (Illustrated) 257

Seal-Fishery 125

Sea-Salt, Production of, in Portugal 252

Selection, Natural 22

" Second Book of Botany " (by Miss E. A. Youmans), Notice of 648

Secular Prophecy 732

Selection, Natural, in Politics , 230

Sex in Butterflies 252

Sherman Astronomical Expedition 72

Sierra Leone, Education in 396

Silk-Worms and Sericulture 657

Smith, Prof. J. Lawrence, his Address 762

Snake-Poisoning, Artificial Respiration in 655

Snakes swallowing their Young 783

Sociology, The Study of. 45, 172, 340, 594, 676

Sounds, Audible and Inaudible 780

Spectroscope, and the Bessemer Process 254

Speculation in Science 741

Speech, Tongueless 627

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Esthetic Sense in Animals 729

Agassiz, Prof. Louis K., his Death 495

" " " Autopsy of 633

" " u Biographical Notice. (Portrait) 608

". " " His Successor 637

Age, The, of Ice. (Illustrated) 641

Alchemy, its Future 602

Alcohol 381

Alternations in the Intensity of Diseases 569

Ancient "Well in Illinois 252

Animal-like Functions of Plants 382

Animals, The ^Esthetic Sense in 729

Antioch, Rebuilding of 126

Ashes, Leached, as a Fertilizer 509

Asphaltum in "West Virginia 636

Atmospheric Electricity and Ozone 456

Baryta, Uses of 638

Beer, Economy of 760

Bees' Wings, Uses of. 763

Body and Mind, Eelations of Ill

Books noticed :

" Civilization considered as a Science " (by Harris) 118

" Chronos : Mother Earth's Biography " (by Wood) 249

" Conservation of Energy " (by Balfour Stewart) 627

" Elements of Physical Manipulation " (by Pickering) 117

" Philosophy of Evolution " (by Lowne) 116

" Workshop Appliances " (by Shelley) 122

" Logic of Accounts " (by Folsom) 118

" Antiquities of the Southern Indians " (by Jones) 119

"Man and Apes " (by Mivart) 630

u Dictionary of Medical Science " (by Dunglison) 630

" Theory of Evolution of Living Things " (by HeDslow) 503

" The New Chemistry " (by Cooke) 500

" International Keview." 500

" The Bible and the Doctrine of Evolution " (by Smythe) 503

" Sex in Education " (by Clarke) 377

" Religion and Science " (by Le Conte) 502

" Our Common Insects " (by Packard) 247

" Descriptive Sociology " (by Spencer) 504

" Autobiography of John Stuart Mill." 376

u British Marine Alga3 " (by Grattann) 378

" Proportions of Pins used in Bridges " (by Bender) 248

" Comparative Anatomy of the Domesticated Animals " (by Chauveau). 246 vol. iv. 49

�� � [ 790 ] 77 INDEX.

Books noticed : PAGE

" Statistics of the World " (by Schem) 631

" Geological Survey of Ohio." 374

" Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects " (by Lubbock) 628

" Henslow's Botanical Charts " (by Youmans) 628

" On Intelligence " (by Taine) 629

" The Atmosphere " (by Flanimarion) 245

M English Psychology " (by Ribot) 751

" Animal Locomotion " (by Pettigrew) 753

" Prang's Natural History Series of Colored Chromos " 754

u The Stone Age " (by Tylor) 755

" Insects of the Garden " (by Packard) 755

" Manual of Physical Geography " (by White) 756

" Retaining WaUs " (by Tate) 756

" Legal Responsibility in Old Age " (by Beard) 757

" Physical Geography " (by Young) 757

" The Birth of Chemistry " (by Rodwell) 757

" Essays on Educational Reformers " (by Quick) 758

Botany, Tennyson and 193

Brain and Mind 253

Brain, A New Method with the 183

British Association 114

Carboniferous Strata, their Constitution 508

Caterpillars 381

Chemistry of the Rocks, what it teaches 694

Chromosphere, The, and Solar Prominences. (Illustrated) 385

Coal-Fields of China 250

Colorado, The Great Cemetery in 470

Concerning Serpents. (Illustrated) 257

Constellation, Past and Future of a. (Illustrated) 291

Constitution of Carboniferous Strata 508

Cooling and Contraction of the Earth's Crust 255

Correlation of Vital with Chemical and Physical Forces 156

Correspondence 633, 744

Corundum 452

Cremation 760

Cryptograph 125

Czermak, Professor 115

Dead, Disposal of the 592

De Candolle's Great Work 762

Dental Plates, New Material for 507

Descent of Man 251

Disposal of the Dead 592

Dissipation of Energy 430

Draper, Dr. J. W., Sketch of. (Portrait) 361

Drosera, Movements of. 765

Education, Liberal, in the Nineteenth Century 1

Education, Scientific, Requirements of 208

Education, Higher, of Women 748

�� � [ 791 ] INDEX. 77 i

PAGB

Electric Signaling 581

Emotional Language of the Future 319

Energy, Dissipation of 430

England and America , 631

Evolution and the Origin of Life 713

Evolution, Genesis, and Geology 324

Explosion of a Powder-Mill 231

Experiments on Living Animals 750

Eyes, Unequal Power of the 379

Facial Angle. (Illustrated). .'. 587

Feather, A (Illustrated) 686

Fish, Subterranean 639

Flowers, Double, Rationale of 762

Forces, Correlation of Vital, with Chemical and Physical 156

Freak of Nature. (Illustrated) 448

French Association for the Advancement of Science 125

Furs and their Wearers. (Illustrated) 143

Future of Alchemy 602

Genesis, Geology, and Evolution 324

Geographical Work, A Year of 735

Gladstone and Spencer 492

Glycerine, Tests for 510

Grafting, Natural 380

Grape-vine Blight 381

Great Cemetery in Colorado 470

Growth and Decay of Mind 328

Growth of Salmon. (Illustrated) 27

Haeckel's Moners. (Illustrated) 181

Health and Comfort in House-building 69

Hedge-Plant, A Good 635

Heredity, Phenomena of 55

Heredity and Eace-Improvement 170

Hooker, Dr. J. D., Sketch of. (Portrait) 237

House-building, Health and Comfort in 69

Huxley, Prof., Sketch of. (Portrait) 739

Hypnotism in Animals 75

Ice, The Age of, (Illustrated) 641

Images and Shadows. (Illustrated) 665

Improved Deep-Sea Sounding Apparatus 255

Improvements in Street-Sprinkling 124

Inertia and Force 349

Inland Seas, their Physical Conditions 878

Insects, their Migrations 382

Instincts, Survival of 88

Intelligence of the Toad 126

Jupiter, News from 433

Land -Plants in Lower Silurian 762

�� � [ 792 ] 772 INDEX.

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��Language, Emotional, of the Future 319

Leached Ashes as a Fertilizer 509

Lectures, Scientific 242

Liberal Education in the Nineteenth Century 1

Lignite-Beds of the Rocky Mountains 763

Lime-Soils and Potato-Rot 637

Livingstone's Death 627

Localization of the Faculty of Speech 125

Lockyer, J. N., Sketch of. (Portrait) 109

Locusts, A Swarm of 636

Malformations 383

Man, The Descent of 251

Man, Antiquity of 759

Man in the Miocene, Relics of 254

Mantis, or Praying Insect. (Illustrated) 710

Mars by the Latest Observations. (Illustrated) 187

Matter, Force, and Inertia 494

Matter, its Physical Constitution 493

Metamorphic Rocks, Age of 509

Meteorological Notes 507

Migrations of Insects 382

Mill, Education and Science 368

Mind, Brain and 253

Mind, Growth and Decay of 328

Minerals, Spang Collection of 433

Modern Optics and Painting. (Illustrated) 415, 572

Moab, Land of, its Geology 764

Molecules, Theory of. 276

Moners, Haeckel's. (Illustrated) 181

Mud-Minnow, its Breeding Habits 744

Natural Grafting 380

Natural Varieties 382

New Method with the Brain 183

New Guinea, its Population 632

News from Jupiter 433

Notes 127, 256, 383, 511, 639, 767

Observatory, United States Naval 704

Ocean Steamships 766

Octopus, The, and its Prey 254

Optics, Modern, and Painting. (Illustrated) 415, 572

Origin of Life, The, and Evolution 713

Origin of the Potato-Disease 123

Our Ancestors on the Goose-Question. (Illustrated) 565

Ozone and Atmospheric Electricity 456

Painting and Modern Optics. (Illustrated) 415, 572

Papillon, Fernand, his Death 627

Papyrus, An Ancient 251

Parchment, Substitute for 123

�� � [ 793 ] INDEX. 773

PAGB

Passions, Physiology of the 552

Past and Future of a Constellation. (Illustrated) 291

Pathology of the Passions 65G

Phenomena of Heredity 55

Phylloxera Vastatrix 381

Physical Conditions of Inland Seas 378

Physical Constitution of Matter 493

Planet, the Ringed. (Illustrated) 39

Plants, Animal-like Functions of 382

Population of New Guinea 632

Potato-Disease, Origin of 123

Potato-Rot, Lime-Soils and . 637

Powder-Mill Explosion. 231

Praying Insect, or Mantis. (Illustrated) > 710

Prediction, A Scientific, verified 253

Preparations for the Coming Transit of Venus 212

Primary Concepts of Modern Physical Science 92, 219, 349

Proctor's Lectures 116

Proctor, R. A., Sketch of. (Portrait) 486

Psychology of the Sexes 30

Public Instruction and Sanitary Science 421

Quicker than Lightning. (Illustrated) 309

Quinine 380

Race-Improvement, Heredity and 170

Radicalism, Conservatism, and the Transition of Institutions 129

Raspberry, Garden, its American Origin 510

Rats, an Episode on. (Illustrated) , 344

Rebuilding of Antioch 126

Refrigerating Machine 639

Relations of Body and Mind Ill

Relics of Man in the Miocene 254

Replies to Criticisms 295, 402, 541

Requirements of Scientific Education 208

Ringed Planet, The. (Illustrated) 39

Rumford's Discoveries in Thermodynamics 758

Salmon, Growth of. (Illustrated) % 27

Sand-Blast 511

Sanitary Science and Public Instruction 421

Science, its Influence on Philosophy 619

Science, Education, and Aristocracy 480

Science and the Press 635

Science, Physical, Primary Concepts of , 92, 219, 349

Scientific Education, Requirements of 208

Scientific Lectures 242

Scientific Prediction verified^ 253

Scientific School, A New 241

Sensation and Motion in Plants 761

Sericulture in Brazil 250

Serpents. (Illustrated) 257

�� � [ 794 ] 774 INDEX.

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Sewage Fertilization 507

Sewage, Utilization of 767

Sex, is it determined by Nutrition 761

Sexes, Psychology of the 30

Shadows, Images and. (Illustrated) 665

Shark, The Shovel-nosed. (Illustrated) 65

Signaling, Electric 581

Silk-worm's Thread, its Length 508

Solar Prominences, The Chromosphere and. (Illustrated) 385

Sounding Apparatus, Improved 255

Spang Collection of Minerals 433

Speech, Localization of the Faculty of 125

Spencer and the "Women 746

" Spencer-Crusher," Another 621

Street-Sprinkling, Improvements in 124

Study of Sociology 129, 242, 295, 402, 492, 541

Substitute for Parchment 123

Subterranean Fish 639

Sun's Envelope 127

Sun-driven Engine 765

Survival of Instincts 83

Tarantism 76G

Tennyson and Botany 193

Tests for Glycerine 510

Theory of Molecules 276

Toad, Intelligence of 126

Transit of Venus, Preparations for the Coming 212

Trout from an Artesian Well 759

Typhoid Fever, Etiology of 764

Unequal Power of the Eyes 379

United States Naval Observatory 704

Varieties, Natural 382

Vegetable Growth, Eapidity of 510

Vivisection 672

Walking, Swimming, and Flying. (Illustrated) 528

Wasps' Nests of Clay. . '. 637

Water-Filters 759

" Water turned to Blood." (Illustrated) 202

Weeping-Willow, The 252

Well, An Ancient, in Illinois 252

What the Chemistry of the Rocks teaches 694

Work and Influence of The Monthly 747

Winslow, Forbes 760

World, The, before the Introduction of Life. (Illustrated) 513

Year, A, of Geographical Work 735

Yosemite Valley of Glacial Origin 122

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��PAGB

About Crabs, (Illustrated) 191

Acoustic Properties of the Atmosphere 262

Action of Mucilage on Glass 624

Action of Sunlight on Glass 67

Actual Cautery, Use of the Y62

Address, Tyndall's, before the British Association 652

Alligators swallowing their Young 506

American Scientific Association 741

Anderson School at Penikese 253

Animals, Are they Automatons ? 724

" and Fire-Arms .' 507

" Extinct in the Historic Period 331

Antagonism between Growth and Eeproduction 606

Aquarium, The. (Illustrated) 687

Architects, Microscopic. (Illustrated) 646

Atmosphere, The, as an Anvil 220

Australian Compliment to American Microscopes 382

Axial Buds in Juglans Nigra 124

Baby-Fox, A. (Illustrated) 443

Bees, Habits of. 759

Birds-of-Paradise. (Illustrated) 557

" Soaring and Sailing of 253

Black HUls, Flora of. 760

Books noticed :

" Principles of Mental Physiology " (Carpenter) 115

. " The Principles of Science " (Jevons) 116

" Politics and Mysteries of Life-insurance " (Wright) 118

' Contributions to Solar Physics " (Lockyer) 120

" The Martyrdom of Man" (Reade) 121

" The Structure of Animal Life " (Agassiz) 122

" Present Status of Social Science " (Hamilton) 122

"A Treatise on the Method of Government Surveying" (Cleven-

ger) 123

" The Borderland of Science " (Proctor) 123

" The Galvanometer and its Uses " (Haskins) 123

" The Land of the White Elephant " (Vincent) 244

" What is Darwinism ? " (Hodge) 246

" The Expanse of Heaven " (Proctor) 248

" The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer " (Bowne) 248

" Annual Record of Science and Industry " (Baird) 249

" The Kindergarten Messenger " (Peabody) 249

" Fuel " (Siemens and Wormald) 250

" Popular Key to the Birds, Reptiles, etc.," (Jordan and Van Vleck). 251

" First Lessons in the Principles of Cooking " (Barker) 250

VOL. v. 49

�� � [ 790 ] 770 INDEX.

Books noticed : paob " Tabular Statements of the Agriculture of the United States " (Eug-

gles) 371

" Higher Schools and Universities in Germany " (Arnold) 373

" Krusi's Drawing " 374

The Doctrine of Evolution " (Winchell) ; 375

"Field Ornithology" (Ooues) 376

" Proceedings of the Georgia Teachers' Association " 376

" The Great Ice Age " (Geikie) 377

"My Visit to the Sun" (Benson) 378

" The Principles of Science " (Jevons) 378

" Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections ; the Constants of Nature "

(Clarke) 499

" Physiology for Practical Use " (Hinton) 499

" The American Annual Cyclopaedia " 500

" Smithsonian Report for 1872 " 501

" The Construction of Mill-Dams " 502

" Theory of the Glaciers of Savoy " (Rendu) 502

" Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences " 502

" Anatomy of the Invertebrata " (Siebold) 502

" Free-hand Drawing " 503

" Logic, Inductive and Deductive " (Bain) 631

" Ancient Faiths embodied in Ancient Names " (Inman) 632

" Health and Education " (Kingsley) 632

" Catalogue of South Missouri Normal School " 636

" BuUetin of the Cornell University " 758

" Assaying by the Spectroscope " 758

" Transmission of Consumption " (Hamlin) 768

"Contributions to the Geology, etc., of the Lower Amazonas"

(Hartt) 758

" The Devonian Brachiopoda of Erer6 " (Rathbun) 758

" Mammals of Kansas, Colorado," etc. (Allen) 758

"Reception of Dr. Gould" 758

" Geographical Variation in North American Birds " (Allen) 758

" Transformation of the House-Fly " (Packard) 768

" Bench and Bar Review " 758

" The Science of Law " (Amos) 749

" The Relations of Christian Educators to the Modem Phases of Sci- ence " (Martin) 750

" The Philosophy of Spiritualism " (Marvin) 751

"Manual of Geology" (Dana) 751

" The Ship of Fools" (Barclay) 752

" The Psychological and Medico-Legal Journal " 752

" United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries " (Baird) 752

" Essays and Addresses by Professors, etc., in Owens College " 753

" Report of the Geological Survey of Iowa " (White) 764

" Theory and Practice of Life Assurance " (Van Amringe) 765

" Statistical Atlas of the United States " (Walker) 756

" Building, Construction Timber, and Brick " (Burn) 756

" Inorganic Chemistry " (Kemshead) 756

"Alcohol" pudley) 757

" Epidemic Delusions " (Marvin) 767

" Character and Position of Neutral Axes " (Nickerson) 767

" Papers, chiefly Anatomical " (Wilder) 757

^ " Mechanical Properties of Construction Materials " (Thurston) 767

Brain Development in the Mammalia 638

Braiuj Functions of. 505

Cautery, Actual, Use of the 762

Centennial Celebration 237

" of Chemistry 240

" of Discovery of Oxygen 493

�� � [ 791 ] INDEX. - 771

FAes

Chain, The, of Species 460, 568

Chemistry, Synthetic 39

Chloroform and Ether 507

Climate and Social Development 322

Coggia's Comet 637

Color in Animals. ... '. 471

Colorado Potato-Beetle 761

Conditions affecting the Sex of Offspring 124

Crabs. (Illustrated.) 191

Cremation and its Alternatives 225

Crooked Courses of Light. (Illustrated) 32

Cyclones, Belt's Theory of 504

f

Darwin, Estimate of. 475

Death-Point, Thermal, of Living Matter 695

Deposits in Steam-Boilers 124

Design, Doctrine of, and Evolution 98

Determination of Oxygen in Water. 126

Development of Psychology 288, 412

Dicotyledonous Plants, Species of 254

Distances of the Stars 423

Dogs, do they perspire ? 764

Dust of the Universe 626

Education, Kew Experiments in 744

" of Women 764

" Scientific and Industrial, in the United States 170

" Sex in 198

" War and 870

Electric Light for Steamships 720

Eozoon Canadense 127

Estimate of Darwin 475

Evolution and the Doctrine of Design 98

" Mental, and Necessary Truths 357

Female Suffrage 427

Ferments, Fermentations, and Life 543

Field Telegraph. (Illustrated) 303

Fish, English, in Indian Waters 126

Food and the Development of Man 591

Foreign Lesson and Domestic Application 108

Fossil Edentates 384

Fossil Man of Mentone. (Illustrated) 641

Genesis, The, of Woman 269

Gigantic Relic 94

Glass, Action of Sunlight on 67

" Action of Mucilage on 624

Grape-Vine Pest. (Illustrated) 158

Grasshopper Plague in the West 760

Great Lava-Flood of the West 381

Growth and Reproduction. 606

Habits of Bees 759

Hair-Snakes 509

Have Plants a Pedigree ? (Illustrated) 129

Helmholtz, Prof., Sketch of. (Portrait) 231

Hints on the Stereoscope. (Illustrated) 311

Humming-Birds. (Illustrated) 277

Hydraulics, The, of Great Rivers 327

�� � [ 792 ] 772 INDEX.

PAOS

Ice, The Physics of. (Illustrated) 399

Improvement of Human Life 383

Insanity, Law and 77

Insurance Value 235

Jasmine Flowering Early 127

Joule, Dr. J. P., Sketch of. (Portrait) 103

Lake Superior Gold-Mines 380

Lava-Flood, The Great, of the West 381

Law and Insanity 77

" Science of 596

Le Conte, Dr. J. L., Sketch of. (Portrait) 622

Life, Human, Improvement of 383

Life in an Attenuated Atmosphere 379

Light, The Crooked Courses of. (Illustrated) 32

Limits of our Knowledge of Nature 17

Lizard, an Edible 768

Malayan Civilization, an Ancient Eelic of 123

Man, Natural History of. (Illustrated) 513

Materials of the Science of Law 696

Measures of Mental Capacity. (Illustrated) 72

Mental Disease, Kesponsibility in . . 240

Mental Evolution and Necessary Truths 357

" Physiology 705

Mentone, Fossil Man of. (Illustrated) 641

Microscopic Architects. (Illustrated) 646

Moquis Indians of Arizona. (Illustrated) 851

More about the Grape- Vine Pest. (Illustrated) 158

Mound Prairies 506

Movement of Storms 639

Natural History of Man. (Illustrated) 513

Nature, Limits of our Knowledge of. 17

Nature's Distribution of Trees , , 126

Nebula of Orion, Telescopic Kesearch on. (Illustrated) 257

Need of a New Chronology 379

Newcomb, Professor 125

New Process for the Preservation of Wood 228

Nicaragua, A Naturalist's Observations in , 89

Nitrogen of the Soil 765

Nobility of Knowledge 610

Nostalgia 215

Notes 127, 255, 384, 511, 640, 766

Ocean, Temperature of the 507

Orion, Telescopic Research on Nebula of. (Illustrated) 257

Oxygen Centennial 628

" Discovery of, by Priestley 385

" in Water, Determination of 126

Pacific, Topography of the Bed of. 508

Paints, Why they crack and peel 381

Peabody Museum of Natural History 638

Pelican, An Aged 254

Penikese, Anderson School at 253

Pharmacopoeia, An International 760

Photography, Recent Researches in 717

�� � [ 793 ] INDEX. -j-ji

PAGE

Photosphere, The, and Sun-Spots. '(Illustrated) 532

Phylloxera. (Illustrated) 1

Physics of Ice. (Illustrated) 399

Physiology, Mental 705

Plants, have they a Pedigree ? (Illustrated) 129

" how they imbibe Ammonia 511

Pneumatic Dispatch 255

Polaris Voyage, Results of the 382

Porpoise, Anatomy of the 768

Potato-Disease ' 125

Potato-Beetle, The Colorado 761

Priestley, Sketch of. (Portrait) 480

" his Character 497

" Celebration 504

" his Discovery of Oxygen Gas 385

Principles, The, of Sociology 369

Prof. Tyndall's Address 746

Psychology, The Development of. 288, 412

Punishing a Senior "Wrangler 144

Raft, A New 510

Recent Progress in the Higher Education 630

" Researches in Photography 717

Relic, A Gigantic 94

Relics of an Ancient Malayan Civilization 123

Religion and Science 313

Rendu and his Editors 447

Reproduction of Ancient Colors 764

" of Organs in Fish 511

Researches on the Zodiacal Light 380

Responsibility in Mental Disease 240

Results of the Polaris Voyage 382

Rivers, Great, Hydraulics of 827

Science Minister for England 251

Science, Religion and .^. 813

Scientific Association, The American 741

" and Industrial Education in the United States 170

Sex in Mind and Education 198

" of Offspring, Conditions affecting the 124

Shepherd-Dog, A Clever " 127

Shepherd-Dogs 510

Skunk-Madness 510

Soaring and Sailing of Birds 258

Social Development,. Climate and 822

" Science Association . . 867

South-Sea Surgery 509

Sparrows, English 768

Species, The Chain of . .* 460, 568

" New, by Sudden Variations ' 764

Sponge-Fisheries 505

Stars, Distances of the 428

Steam-Boilers, Deposits in 124

Stereoscope, Hints on the. .(Illustrated) 811

Stoves of Cast and "Wrought Iron 509

Sun-Spots, The- Photosphere and. (Illustrated) 532

Synthetic Chemistry , ; .^ 89

Tea-Production in Bengal 765

Telescopic Research on the Nebula of Orion. (Illustrated) 257

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Temperature of the Ooean .* 507

Theology, The Progress of * 114

Thermal Death-Point of Living Matter 695

Trees, Action of Frost on Position of 508

" Nature's Distribution of 126

Tyndall's Address at Belfast 652

" (Editorial) 746

" Eelation to Popular Science 734

Unionidse of North America 762

Universities, Actual and Ideal 46

Volcanic Eruption in the Sandwich Islands 379

War and Education 370

Who are the Propagators of Atheism? 365

Woman, The Genesis of .' 269

Wood, A New Process for preserving 228

" Conversion of, into Lignite 763

Young, Dr. Thomas, Sketch of. (Portrait) 860

Zodiacal Light, Researches on the 380

Zuni Indians of New Mexico. (Illustrated) 580

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Address before the American Association 197, 308

Address to an Atom 639

Agriculture, Portuguese 378

Amoeba, how it takes its Food 758

Anassthetics and Metaphysics 638

Animal Movements 444

Animals not Automata 405

Anomalies, Facial 73

Antlers of Deer, Growth and Reproduction of 251

Apoplexy 705

Artificial Butter 12g

" Furs 378

Atmosphere, The, in relation to Fog-Signaling. (Illustrated) 541, 685

Automaton, A Human 253

" Backing Out" 366

Bacteria and their Effects. (Illustrated) 399

Ballooning Spider 635

Bears. (Illustrated) 281

Bells, Cheap Substitute for 381

Biology for Young Beginners. (Illustrated) 340, 574

Birds'-Nests 481

Black Death in Egypt 638

Bongos, their Food 766

Brain, Experiments on 376

Books noticed :

" The Building of a Brain " (Clarke) 115

" L'Astronomie Pratique " 117

" Journal of Speculative Philosophy " 118

" One Year of Science " 120

" Exposures in Fire-Insurance " (Ross) 120

" Introduction to Biology " (MacGinley) 120

" Statistical Atlas of the United States " 120

The Transit of Venus " (Forbes) 121

Prof. Tyndall's Belfast Address " 121

" The Physiology of Man " (Flint) 244

" Evolution and Progress" (Gill) 245

" Animal Mechanism " (Marey) 246

" The Maintenance of Health " (Fothergill) 248

" Cave-Hunting " (Dawkins) 249

" Qualitative Analysis " (Hill) 249

" Deutsche Rundschau " 250

" Outlines of Cosmic Philosophy " (Fiske) 367

" Light-Houses " (Elliot) 370

" History of the Conflict between Religion and Science " (Draper) 371

" Chemical and Geological Essays " (Hunt) 372

vol. vi. 49

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�� � [ 790 ] 77 o INDEX.

��Books noticed : page

" Principles of Sociology " (Spencer) 372

" The Common Frog " (Mivart) 373

" The Native Kaces of the Pacific States " (Bancroft) 506

" Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture " 507

" Insanity and Disease " (Tourtellot) 507

" Animal Physiology " (Cleland) 509

" Elements of Zoology " (Harrison) 509

" Report of Chicago Relief Society " 624

" The Doctrine of Descent " (Schmidt) 625

" Religion as affected hy Modern Materialism " (Martineau) 625

" Three Essays on Religion " (Mill) 626

" The Elements of the Psychology of Cognition " (Jardine) 627

" Influence of Music on Health and Mind " (Chomet) 628

" Tables for Determination of Minerals " (Frazer) 628

" Outlines of Proximate Organic Analysis " (Prescott) 629

" Polarization of Light " (Spottiswoode) 629

" Researches in Acoustics " (Mayer) 629

" Metallurgical Properties of Missouri Iron-Ores " (Schmidt) 629

" Half-Hour Recreations in Science " 630

" Community of Disease in Man and Other Animals" (Lindsay) 630

" Metamorphism in the Lignite-Beds of Dakota, etc." (Allen) 630

" A Ramble round the World " (Hiibner) 630

" The Voice in Singing " (Seiler) 631

" Habits of Some American Birds " (Gentry) 631

" Nomenclature of Diseases " 631

" The Foes of the Farmers " 631

" An Elementary Treatise on Steam " (Perry) 631

" Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences " 632

" Archives of Dermatology " 632

" The Protoplasm Theory " (Curtis) 632

" Organic Chemistry " (Watts) 632

" The Chemistry of Light " (Vogel) 750

" Scientific London " (Becker) 751

" Practical Treatise on Gases of Coal-Mines " (Atkinson) 752

" Observations of Sun-Spots " (Spoerer) 752

" The Elevations of Certain Datum-Points of the Great Lakes," etc.

(Gardner) 753

" Polarization of Lieht " (Spottiswoode) 754

" What is Music ? " (Rice) 755

" Chemical Examination of Alcoholic Liquors " (Prescott) 755

" Elements of Magnetism and Electricity " (Angell) 755

" Principles of Metal-Mining " (Collins) 756

" Treatment of Electricity " (Fieber) 756

" The Cultivation of Art " (Cooper) 756

" Antiquity of Christianity " (Alberger) 756

Brachiopoda, their Systematic Position 510

Butter, Artificial 122

Capture of Elephants 756

Coal in California 757

Catching Cold 636

Cause of " Cold Snaps" 632

Celestial Chemistry 420

Cell-Theory, The, in Physiology. . .- 634

Chameleons. (Illustrated) 526

Chemical Theory '58

Chemistry, Future of 276

Climate of the Glacial Period 3*4

Co-education 364

" Cold Snaps," Cause of 632

Colorado, Exploration of 759

�� � [ 791 ] INDEX. 771

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Concerning Bears. (Illustrated) 281

Confessions of a Beformed Smoker 70

Conflict, The Great 227

" of Beligion and Science 301

Contagious Ophthalmia 377

Correctness of Photographs 71

Corrosion of Glass 253

Cotton-worm, Habits of the 757

Cremation among North American Indians 25-4

Crystalline and Molecular Forces 257

Curious Winter Climate 511

Darwin and Haeckel 592

Disease, Causes of. 761

Disease, Ordinary, its Mental Aspects 562

Drought and Potato-Disease 126

Early Study of Geography ' 212

Earth's Botation, Betardation of the 743

Eclipse of April, 1875 000

Educated to Death 57

Education and Invention 637

Education, Modern, A Demand of 635

" Science of 381

• ' Incentives in 748

Eggs, Decomposition of 375

Electrical Girl 588

Elongation of Trunks of Trees 511

Emotions, The, in Primitive Man 331

Equation, The Personal (Illustrated) 385

Evolution, Herbert Spencer and 20

" Social 604

" ' its Causes 616

Evolution in Ornament. (Illustrated) 266

Evolution, Literature of 745

Experiments on Living Brain 376

Facial Anomalies 73

Fallacies, Alleged, in Science 499

First Traces of Man in Europe 672

Floating of Solid in Molten Iron 633

Flowers and Insects 636

Fog-Signaling. (Illustrated) 541, 685

Food of the Bongos 766

Fort, A Primitive 380

Fossil Horses 125

Fossil Bemains of Man 379

Fraunhofer, Dr. Joseph, Sketch of. (Portrait) 739

Fuegians, how they keep warm 125

Furs, Artificial 378

Future of Chemistry 276

Genesis of Superstitions.. 513

Geography, Early Study of 212

Germination, Changes during 758

" Temperature of. 637

Glacial Epoch and Insects 379

" Period, Climate of 374

Glass, Corrosion of. 253

Great Conflict, The 227

�� � [ 792 ] 77 2 INDEX.

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Growth of Deer's Antlers 251

Gunpowder, Manufacture and Conveyance of 717

Haeckel, Prof., Sketch of. (Portrait) 108

Heat as a Disinfectant 381

Hermit of Ked-coats' Green. (Illustrated) 301

Horse, Paces of the. (Illustrated) 129

Horses, Fossil ' 125

House-heating in Sweden 254

How Leaves are blanched by Sunlight 124

How the Amoeba takes its Food 758

How the Fuegians keep warm 125

Huber, Sketch of. (Portrait) 486

Human Automaton 253

Human Locomotion. (Illustrated) 48

Hydraulics of Kivers 237

Hydrophobia, Some Superstitions on 174

Illuminating Gas, New Source of. 377

Incentives in Education 748

Insect-catching Plants 766

Insects and Flowers 636

Insects, Suctorial, how they feed 255

Intercollegiate Spouting-Match 622

Language, Teaching of .- 322, 470

Life, Matter and 110

Lightning among a Flock of Geese 378

Literature of Evolution 745

Locomotion, Human. (Illustrated) 48

Lovering's Address 197, 308

Magnetism and Imagination 762

Man in Europe, First Traces of 672

Man, how changed by Migration 765

Manufacture and Conveyance of Gunpowder 717

Marey on Animal Movements. (Illustrated) 444

Matter and Life 110

Maudsley, Dr. Henry, Sketch of. (Portrait) 612

Medicine, Siamese 378

Mental Aspects of Ordinary Disease 562

Mental Culture, Physiological Basis of 183

Mental Picturing in Science 620

Metric System of Weights and Measures 255

Milk, Voelcker on 759

Mineral-collecting 112

Moa, Fossil P^emains of. 379

Moas, Living 765

Mound-Builders 380

Nature, Order of 764

Natural History of the Oyster. (Illustrated) 1, 157

Nest and Eggs of Thistle-Bird 743

Nests of Birds 481

Newcomb, Prof., on American Science 238

Notes 126, 255, 382, 512, 639, 766

Observations on the Transit 509

Observatories, English 530

Odors and Life : 142

�� � [ 793 ] INDEX. 773

PAGE

On the Correctness of Photographs 710

Ophthalmia, Contagious 377

Ornament, Evolution in. (Illustrated) 266

Ornithological Land-lubber 375

Oxidation retarded by Molecular Vibration 255

Oyster, Natural History of. (Illustrated) 1, 159

Paces of the Horse. (Illustrated) 129

Personal Equation. (Illustrated) 385

Photographs, On the Correctness of 710

Photography and the Chemical Centennial , 115

Physiological Basis of Mental Culture 183

Pitcher-Plant 379

Plants growing within Eggs 634

" how they are distributed , 636

" Insect-Catching 766

" Respiration of 60

Poisoned Soils 638

Portuguese Agriculture 378

Potato-Disease and Drought 126

Pottery of Mound-Builders 380

Priestley, Joseph 90

Rabbit, A Rare Species of . . . .' 252

Rain-Drops on the Sea. (Illustrated) 732

Reason against Routine in teaching of Language 322

Reform, Social, Science and 504

Relations of Women to Professions 454

Reply to Critics 422

Reproduction of Burnt Records 763

Respiration of Plants 60

Retardation of the Earth's Rotation 743

Rights of Originality 114

River Hydraulics 237

Robin, Usefulness of the 124

Rotation of the Earth 250

Royal Institution and Society of Arts 655

Society, Origin of 759

��..

��School Hygiene 633

Science and Social Reform 504

" from the Pulpit 734

Seeds, Vitality of. 760

Sexes, Future Relations of the 614

Siamese Medicine 378

Smith, Dr. J. Lawrence, Sketch of. (Portrait) 233

Social Evolution 604

" " Causes of 616

Society of Arts and Royal Institution 655

Soils, Poisoned 638

Some Superstitions of Hydrophobia 174

Sonorous Sand 764

Species, A Lost, rediscovered 762

" Transmutation of. 253

Spencer, Herbert, and the Doctrine of Evolution 20

Spider, The Triangle. (Illustrated) 641

"Spiritual Pirates " 599

Sponge, A Fresh-Water 758

Steam, Waste Heat of, saved 763

Struggle for Existence 376

�� � [ 794 ] 774 INDEX.

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Superstitions, Genesis of 513

Swedish Stove 254

Systematic Position of the Brachiopoda 510

Tea- Adulteration 123

Temperature of Germination 637

Thermal Death-Point of Living Matter 185

Thistle-Bird's Nest and Eggs 743

Thistle, Extermination of. 766

Tidal Influence on Vegetable and Animal Life 125

Todas, The 123

Transit of Venus. (Illustrated) 214, 509

Transmutation of Species 253

Trees in Towns 761

Triangle Spider. (Illustrated) 641

Trunks of Trees, Elongation of . . 511

Tyndall and his Reviewers 500

" and his Critics 422

Usefulness of the Robin 124

Venus, Recent Observations of 760

Vibration, Molecular, retarding Oxidation 255

Water-Supply of Islands. (Illustrated) 440

"Weights and Measures, Metrical 255

"Women and the Professions 454

Woman Suffrage 87

" " Prof. Oairnes on 112

"Woman's Place in Nature 292

"Worm, A, that Sparrows refuse 377

"Wyman, Dr. Jeffries, Sketch of. (Portrait) 355

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Ab8Inthe and Alcohol 378

Address to Medical Students 62

Air, Compressed, its Effects 122

Air-Bladder of Fishes 638

Aliaskan Mummies 630

American Association at Detroit 755

American Origin of the Chinese 509

Ammonia in the Air 246

" Influence of, on the Color of Flowers 254

Amphioxus, Huxley on . . ,' 632

Amulets, Cranial. (Illustrated) 607

Ancestors of the Esquimaux. 382

Animal Intelligence 121

" Life in Madagascar 738

" Phosphorescence 458

Animals, Sense of Humor in 631

Antiseptic, A New 680

Antiseptics and Infusoria 253

Ants. (Illustrated) 257

Aquaria, Distribution of "Water in 126'

Arctic Ice-Travel 468

Are Languages Institutions ? 142

Arsenical Colors 126

Artificial Preparation of Organic Bodies 726

Atmospheric Moisture, Distribution of 483

Atropia, Antidote to 382

Australian Fever-Tree 344

Authorship, Physiology of. 93

BaUoon Ascent, Disastrous 245

Bats and their Young. (Illustrated) 641

Bee-Sting 765

Bees, Perception of Color by 250

Biography of a Bird. (Illustrated) 315

Birds, Can they converse ? 505

" Inland, Migration of. 183

Books noticed :

" Nature and Life " (Papillon) 114

" The Microscope " (Carpenter) 116

" Health " (Smith) 116

" Natural History of Man " (Quatrefages) 117

VOL. VII. 49

�� � [ 790 ] 770

��INDEX.

��Books noticed : paoii

" Heredity " (Ribot) 117

" Surveys and Explorations " (Wheeler) 119

" Philadelphia Academy of Sciences " 119

" Natural History of Montana and Dakota " 119

" Migrants and Sailors " 119

" On the Muridae " (Ooues) 119

" English Grammar " (Morris) 119

" Invertebrate Fossils" (White) 119

" English Men of Science " (Galton) 235

" The Heart of Africa " (Schweinfurth) 237

" Fungi " (Cooke and Berkeley) 240

" The American Garden " 242

" Birds of the Northwest " (Ooues) 242

" Elements of Embryology " (Foster and Balfour) 242

" Improvement of Health " (Knight) 242

" Oatechism of the Locomotive " (Forney) 243

" Elements of Mechanics " (Nystrom) 248

" Lectures about the Teeth " (Ohase) 243

" A Manual of Physiology " (Kuss) 243

" Report of Massachusetts Oommissioners of Lunacy " 244

" International Scientific Series " 244

" The Unseen Universe " 244

" The Life and Growth of Language " (Whitney) 368

" The Sexes throughout Nature " (Blackwell) 370

" Text-Book of Botany" (Sachs) 371

" Massachusetts Board of Health " 372

" The Law of Inheritance " (Sturtevant) 373

" Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society " 374

" Report on Insects of Missouri " (Riley) 375

" Determination of Minerals " (Foye) 376

" Report of Milwaukee School Oommissioners " 376

" Vertebrata of Eocene of New Mexico " (Oope) 376

" Principles of Sociology " (Spencer) 491

" Transits of Venus " (Proctor) 491

" The Unseen Universe " 492

" Proceedings of the American Association " 495

" The Maintenance of Health " (Fothergill) 496

" The Geological Story briefly told " (Dana) 497

" Art-Life of R. Wagner " (Burlingame) 497

" Astronomical Observations, United States Naval Observatory " 500

" Storms, Their Nature, etc." (Blasius) 501

" Geographical and Geological Surveys" (Humphreys and Wheeler). . 501

" Meteorological Observations " 501

" List of Elevations " , 502

" Annual Address " (Comegys) 502

" Brooklyn Journal of Education " 502

"The Aerial World" (Hartwig) 623

" British Wild-Flowers " (Lubbock) 623

" Harmonies of Solar System " (Alexander) 624

" Geological Survey of Alabama " (Smith) 626

�� � [ 791 ] INDEX. -jji

Books noticed : page

" Fishes of East Coast of North America " (Gill) 626

" Manual of Diet " (Chambers) 626

" Archaaological Eesearches " (Putnam) 627

" Determination of Minerals " (Fuchs) 627

" Devonian Trilobites of Errer6 " 627

" Peabody Museum " 627

" Problems of Life and Mind " (Lewes) 750

" Printing for the Blind " 751

" Eeport of the Astronomer Royal " 751

" A Summer in Norway " (Caton) 753

" Sanitary Journal " 754

" Composition of Ground Atmosphere " 754

" Navigation " (E vers) 754

" Theory of Solubility " (Walz) 754

" Harvard University " 754

" Geological Survey of Pennsylvania " 755

Botanic Garden for Chicago 254

Bronze and Copper, Ornamentation of 381

California, Viniculture in 123

Camphor and Plant Growth 379

Can Birds converse ? 505

Carnivorous Plants 252

Catastrophe, The First and Last 268

Cave Explorations 246

Cerebration, Sexual 287

Challenger Expedition 26

Chemical Eadiations. (Illustrated) 19

Chemistry 761

Chinese, American Origin of 509

Cliipmunk, The American. (Illustrated) 433

Cincinnati Zoological Garden 249

Civilization, Savagism and 159

Climate and Time 719

Coast-Survey Measurements 759

Cobra-poison, Influence of, on Ciliary Action 766

Cocoa, its Nutritive Value 380

Color, Perception of, by Bees 250

Colorado Valley, (Illustrated) 385, 531

Colors, Arsenical 126

Compressed Air, its Effects 122

Conservation of Force 229

Conservative Design of Organic Disease 160

Copper and Bronze, Ornamentation of 381

Copper- Poisoned Pastures 766

Corals, Growth of 636

Corrected again 367

Cotton Gunpowder 247

Cousins, The Marriage of. 508

Cranial Amulets. (Illustrated) 607

Criticism, Premature 124

�� � [ 792 ] 772 INDEX.

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Croll on Climate and Time 719

Culture, Scientific 513

Cyclone, The, in the Universe 209

Darwinism by Descent 253

Deep-Sea Bottom 121

Deeper Harmonies of Science and Keligion 66, 301, 573

Detroit Meeting of American Association 755

Dietetic Value of Gelatine 249

Disastrous Balloon Ascent 245

Diseases of Artisans 510

Distribution of Atmospheric Moisture 483

" of Water in Aquaria 126

Dogs, Social Feeling in 507

Draper and his Critics 230

Earthquakes and their Causes 732

" in 1874 377

Education, Mental Discipline in 699

" The Higher 402

Electricity, Velocity of 761

Endowment of Scientific Research 354, 437

Eocene Mammals, New 124

Ephesus, Wood's Discoveries at. (Illustrated) , 228

Equine Idiocy 639

Esquimaux, Ancestors of the 382

Eucalyptus Globulus 344

Evergreen, A New Ornamental 509

Evolution and the After-Life. (Illustrated) 46

" Evidence of 756

" how far visible 108

Expensiveness of Scientific Education 746

Experiment, A Social 619

Eye, Human, Defects of 381

Fermentation, Pasteur on . . . 711

Ferns in South-Pacific Islands 636

Fever-Tree 344

First and Last Catastrophe 268

First Traces of Man in Europe. II 10

Fish, A Motherly 126

" Culture 503

" Eggs, Transportation of 761

Fishes, Air-Bladder of 638

" Mouthless 638

" Parental Instinct in 638

Flames, Cause of the Light of. 696

Fog, A Curious 507

Signals 120

Food-Eations of the French People 508

Force, Conservation of 229

Forests and Rainfall 207

�� � [ 793 ] INDEX.

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��PAGB

Fossil Ungulates from New Mexico 638

Fossils in Trap-Rock 124

French People, Food-Rations of the 508

Fresh-Water Mollusks. (Illustrated) 563

Frogs hatched under Colored Glass 639

Fulgurites 249

Gar-Pike 759

Gelatine, its Dietetic Value 249

Geographical Work of 1874 218

Glaciers of Norway 458

" Ancient, of the Sierra Nevada 762

Glass, Toughened 505

" Tempered. (Illustrated) 554

Gopher, The Prairie 637

Grasshopper Dinners 759

Grasshoppers, where do they belong ? 507

Grove, W. R., Sketch of. (Portrait) 363

Hail in Spray of Yosemite Fall 763

Hands and Feet, Muscular Structure of 757

Hardwicke, Robert 252

Heat evolved by Friction of Ice 504

Hemlock, Poisoning by 250

Higher Education 402

Hilgard, Prof., Sketch of. (Portrait) 617

Horses' Ribs 214

House- Ventilation 596

Houses for Laborers 635

Ice-Travel 468

Iceland, Volcanoes in 630

Idiocy, Equine 639

Infirmities of Speech 463

Infusoria, Antiseptics and 253

Instinct and Intelligence ...... ^ 653

Insulation of Lightning-Rods 378

Intelligence of Animals 121

International Weather Reports 506

Iowa Meteor. (Illustrated) 588

Iron and Steel, Testing 377

Jute, Cultivation of, in the South 127

" Knox the Incomparable " 621

Laborers' Houses 635

Lactometry and Morals 110

Languages, are they Institutions ? 142

Light, Mechanical Action of. (Ill ustrated) 683

" of Flames, Cause of. 696

Lightning, Mechanical Power of 488

" in an Electric Clock 379

�� � [ 794 ] 774 INDEX.

��PAOB

��Lightning-Stroke 637

" Kods. (Illustrated) 399

" " The Form of. 746

Linnaeus, Anecdote of 250

Longitude, Telegraphic Determination of 426

Loomis on Storms 633

Lyell, Discourse on the Death of 90

Madagascar, Animal Life in 738

Man in Europe, First Traces of 10

Marriage of Cousins 508

Massachusetts Survey 248

Mathematics, Study of 758

Mechanical Action of Light. (Illustrated) 683

Mental Discipline in Education 699

Metal Eoofs as Lightning-Conductors 254

Meteor, The Great Iowa. (Illustrated) 588

Meteorology 761

" Kelations of, to Life 508

Microscope, The, and its Misinterpretations. (Illustrated) 177

" " as a Detective. 248

Migration of Inland Birds 183

Modern Street-Pavement 80

Mollusks, Fresh-Water. (Illustrated) 563

Monkeys from a Cold Climate. (Illustrated) 665

Mortuary Statistics of Virginia 246

Motions of Sound. (Illustrated) 410

Mouth, how kept shut 630

Mouthless Fishes 638

Mummies, Aliaskan 630

Muscular Structure of Hands and Feet 757

Musk-Eats, how captured 125

Narcotics 611

Natural History, Progress of 749

New Eocene Mammals 124

Niagara Gorge 631

Norway, Glaciers of 458

Notes 127, 255, 382, 510, 639, 767

One-sided Development 764

Orang and Man 758

Order, A New, of Mammals 121

Organic Bodies, Artificial Preparation of 726

" Disease, Conservative Design of 160

Parasite in Child's Mouth 506

Parental Instinct in Fishes 638

Paris-Green 629

Pasteur on Fermentation 711

Phosphorescence, Animal 453

Phylloxera and American Vines 762

�� � [ 795 ] INDEX. 775

PAQB

Physical Culture 663

Physical Features of the Colorado Valley. (Illustrated) 531, 670

Physiology of Authorship 93

Plants, Carnivorous 252

Poisoning with Hemlock 250

Pollution of Elvers 378

Popular Verdict, A 542

Porcelain Clay 760

Potato, its Origin 127

" Beetle. (Illustrated) 704

" Bugs, are they poisonous ? 700

Prairie Gopher 637

Premature Criticism 124

Pi-iestleyana 122

Progress of Natural History 749

Pulse, Infrequency of. 381

Pyrophone, The. (Illustrated) 444

Kainfall, Forests and 207

Kecent Earthquakes 377

" Polar Explorations 320

Eelativity of Truth 488

Research, Scientific, Endowment of 354, 437

Respiration and Versification 510

Respirator, Denayrouze's 251

Rivers, Pollution of 378

Salicylic Acid 680

Savagism and Civilization 195, 332

Science and the Book of Genesis 487

" allaying National Antipathies 764

" and Religion 66, 301, 573

Scientific Culture 513

" Education, Expensiveness of. 746

" Prophecy 17

" Research, Endowment of 354, 437

Scotland, Summer Temperature of 506

Sea- Anemones. (Illustrated) 1

Secchi on Solar Spots 633

Sense of Taste, Experiments on 634

Sensitiveness of Silver-Salts to Light 766

Sexual Cerebration 287

Sirenia 760

Sleep and Digestion 628

Snake-eating Snake . . 765

Social Experiment 619

" Feeling in Dogs 507

" Science Association 365

Solar Disk, Temperature of 763

Sound, The Motions of. (Illustrated) 410

Speech, Infirmities of . 463

�� � [ 796 ] 776 INDEX.

PAGE

Spelling 233

Stanley's Sermon 113

Stokes, Prof., Sketch of. (Portrait) 742

Storms in the United States 633

• ' Successor of Steam " 123

Suicide in Prussia 381

Sun's Work, The 348

Taste, Experiments on 634

Telegraph Operators, Education of 125

Telegraphic Determination of Longitude 426

Temperature, Distribution of, on Solar Disk 763

" of Scotland 506

" of Body, in Disease 247

Tempered Glass. (Illustrated) 554

Thermometer, A New, for Deep Sea 379

Thorough-Breds, do they revert ? 634

Thunder-Showers 340

" Storms 629

To Herbert Spencer 628

To our Patrons 110

Toadstools and their Kindred. (Illustrated) 129

Toughened Glass 505

Trap-Kock, Fossils in 124

Tribes of "Western Australia 764

Truth, Relativity of. 488

Twins, What Savages think of 632

Under False Colors 365

Use of Narcotics 611

Vegetation as a Disinfectant 380

Velocity of Electricity 761

Ventilation of Houses 596

Verdict, A Popular 542

Versification and Eespiration 510

Viniculture in California 123

Volcanoes in Iceland 630

Water, how injured by Organic Matter 125

" Absorption of, by Grain 380

Weather Reports, International 506

Wheel Animalcule, its Tenacity of Life 253

Whewell, Dr. William, Sketch of. (Portrait) 105

Wood's Discoveries at Ephesus. (Illustrated) 223

Zoological Garden at Cincinnati 249

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A COREEOTION Ill

Abbott, Dr. Charles 73

Acoustical Eesearch 477

Alcohol, is it Food ? 103

American Pedigree of the Camel 124

Ancestors of the British 122

An Interesting Bird. (Illustrated.) 657

Animal Parasites and Messmates. (Illustrated.) 670

Arctic Meteorology 124

Arctic Research 762

Are the Elements elementary ? 463

Art, Modern, Frailty of 379

Association in its Relation to Labor 586

Balloons and Carrier-Pigeons 765

Barnard, Prof. W. S 149

Bastian, Dr. H. C, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 108

Beer, Condensed 250

Beet-Culture 764

Biology, Modern Philosophical 595, 710

Bird, an Interesting. (Illustrated.) 657

Birds, Reptilian Affinities of 124

" Migrations of 761

Boiler-Incrustations 125

Books noticed :

" First Book of Zoology " (Morse) : 115

" Money and Mechanism of Exchange " (Jevons) 117

" Religion and Science " (Shields) 118

"American Academy of Arts and Sciences" 118

" American State Universities " (Ten Brook) 119

" St. Louis Public Schools " 119

" Smithsonian Report " 240

" Bacteria " (Stimson) 243

Fire-Burial " (Blind) 243

" Missouri State University " 243

" Geological Survey of Indiana " (Cox) 244

" Scripture Speculations " (Stevens) 244

" Arithmetic " (Fish) 244

" Algebraic Problems " (Ficklin) 244

VOL. VIII. 49

�� � [ 790 ] 770

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��Books noticed : ^agb

" Half-Hours with Insects " (Packard) 245

" Manual of Metallurgy " (Greenwood) 245

" Nature and Culture " (Kice) 245

" Currency and Banking " (Price) 373

" Meteorology " (Tice) 373

" American Philological Association " 374

" Marine Hospitals " 375

" Mechanics' Friend " (Axon) 375

" Mechanical Engineer " (Thurston) 376

" Politics as a Science " (Reemelin) 376

" Melanosiderite " (Cooke) 376

" Foetal Manatee " (Wilder) 376

" Gases from Meteorite " (Wright) 376

" Report on Trichinosis " (Sutton) 377

" Preventive Medicine " (Gay) 377

" Health Fragments " (Everett) 377

" Mineral Deposits in Essex County, Massachusetts " (Brockway) 377

" Aerial Locomotion " (Coughtrie) 377

" Half-Hours in Science " . 377

" Pseudomorphs of Chlorite " (Pumpelly) 377

" Irregularities in the Teeth " (Kingsley) 378

" The Cotton-Worm" (Grote) 378

" American Engineer " 378

" Nature of Light " (Lommel) 497

" Mind " 497

" British Association " 498

" Strength of Beams " (Allan) 499

" Pottery among Savages " (Hartt) 499

" Difference of Thermal Energy," etc 499

" Noctuidse of America " (Grote) 499

" State Medicine " (Allen) 499

" Graphical Statics " (Du Bois) 500

" Affairs in Alaska " (Elliott) 600

• ' Our Wasted Resources " (Hargreaves) 500

" Travel in Africa " (Andersson) 500

" Dissertations and Discussions " (Mill) 500

" Soluble Glass" (Feuchtwanger) 500

" Report of Commissioner of Education " 500

" Emotions and Will " (Bain) 634

" Teacher's Hand-Book " (Phelps) 634

" Uranian and Neptunian Systems " (Newcomh) 635

" Scientific Monthly " 637

" Journal of Mental Disease " 637

" Science By-ways " (Proctor) 637

" American Naturalist " 637

" Descriptive Sociology " (Spencer) 752

" Human Physiology " (Flint) 753

" Animal Parasites " (Van Beneden) 753

" Life-Histories of Animals " (Packard) 753

" The Genera Geomys and Thomomys " (Ooues) 754

�� � [ 791 ] ��INDEX. 771

Books noticed : ^*^<*^

" Selection and Use of the Microscope " (Pliin) 754

" African Travel " (Southworth) 755

" American Journal of Microscopy " 755

" Michigan Board of Health " 755

" Examination of Drinking-Water " (Macdonald) 756

" The Colorado and its Tributaries " (Powell) 756

" Cholera Epidemic of 1873 " 756

" Certain Explosive Agents " (Hill) 756

" Taxidermist's Manual " (Brown) 756

" Soul-Problems " (Peck) 756

" Startling Facts in Modern Spiritualism " (Wolfe) 757

" Contributions from the Laboratory " (Schweitzer) 757

" Views and Interviews on Journalism " (Wingate) 757

" Forms of Life within the Oral Cavity " (Peirce) 757

" Prospector's Manual " (Schofield) 757

" Journal of the American Electrical Society " 757

" Survey of Minnesota " (Winchell) 757

" Bulletin of the United States National Museum " 757

" Bulletin of the Buflfalo Society of Natural History " 758

" Necessity of a Mechanical Laboratory " (Thurston) 758

" Zapus Hudsonius " (Coues) 758

Mammoth Cave of Kentucky " (Forwood) 758

Geological Notes " (Eogers) 758

" Weights, Measures, and Money " (Clarke) 758

Booted Eagle 249

Border Territory between the Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms 641

British, Ancestors of the 121

" Physical Characters of the 505

Butterworth, Hezekiah 177

Camel, its American Pedigree 124

Canarians, Eeligion of the 269

Canker-Worm 249

Carpenter, Dr. William B 165, 570

Carrier-Pigeons and Balloons 765

Cave-Dwellings in Kentucky 125

Cazelles, Dr. E : 595, 710

Centennial Display of Minerals 251

Champlin, J. D,, Jr 665

Changes in Courses of Rivers 122

Character of Modern Knowledge 724

Chemistry and Pharmacy 501

Chinese Civilization 509

Cholera, Diffusion of 761

Clarke, F. W 463

Climate, Influence of Water on 507

Clinical Thermoscope 123

Coal-Deposits in New York State 761

Comparative Psychology of Man 257

Condensed Beer 250

�� � [ 792 ] 772 INDEX. .

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" Conflict, The, of Ages " 493, 627

Coniferse, Fossil 638

Consumption, is it contagious ? 250

Contributions to Meteorology 763

Controversy on Acoustical Kesearch 477

Cost of a Small-Pox Epidemic 510

Cranial Measurements 503

Crawfish, Blind, from Mammoth Cave 397

Curious Behavior of a Snake 507

Curious Indian Eelic. (Illustrated.) 73

Dawson, Dr. J. W., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 231

Deems, Eev. Charles F 434

Deeper Harmonies of Science and Religion. IV 225

Diamond-Cutting. (Illustrated.) 206

Diffusion of Cholera 761

Disease induced from the Influence of the Passions 60

Divining-Rod, its Antiquity 123

��Education, Practical 382

" Question at Montpellier 495

" Scientific, how it is evaded 750

Electricity, Lessons in. (Illustrated.) 607

Elements, are they elementary ? 463

End of the Penikese School 494

Engineering, Origin and Development of 33

European Life in India 510

Euthanasia, Natural 617

Excommunicated Insects 504

Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus 638

Fallacies of Testimony respecting the Supernatural ; 570

Fires at Sea 504

Fluorescence. (Illustrated.) 471

Flying-Machines. (Illustrated.) 458

Fog-Signals 380

Force and Work 762

Forests and Rainfall Ill

Formation of Sand-Dunes. (Illustrated.) 357

Fossil Crustacean, A New 124

" Coniferie 688

Freak of the Curly- Willow 760

French Scientific Association 248

Functions of Association in its Relation to Labor 586

Fur-bearing Animals, Changes in Skin of 252

Galton, Francis 345

Geography and Evolution 192

Geology at Syracuse University 508

German Darwinism 235

�� � [ 793 ] INDEX.

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��PAOK

Germany, Disproportion of Sexes in 255

Glaciers, Polar 702

GodefFroy Museum 699

Greenland, Life in . 431

Guano-Deposits, Continuity of 250

Guibord, The Case of 367

Gunning, Prof. W. D 180

Haeckel, Prof. Ernst 67, 502

Hamilton, Dr. A. M 88

Hamlin, Dr. A. C 206

Hawkshaw, Sir John 33, 508

Hermit-Crabs, Habits of 639

Herrick, Mrs. S. B 17

Herschel, Caroline Lucretia, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 736

History and the Centennial 629

Holden, Prof. E. S 269

Horseshoe Nebula in Sagittarius. (Illustrated.) 269

Hunt, T. Sterry, Sketch of. (Portrait.) ; 486

Huxley, T. H 641

Hydrography 513

Hydroids. (Hlustrated.) 17

Ice-Action 121

Idol-Worship and Fetich-Worship 158

Indians, A Libel upon the 748

Induced Disease from tlie Influence of the Passions 60

Infection, A'ehicles of 382

Infirmities of Speech 366

Inland Sea, Proposed, in Algeria 665

Insect-killing Plants 766

Insectivoroiis Plants. (Illustrated.) 45

Instinct and Acquisition 310

" Plasticity of 449

Iron and Steel, Testing of 246

Is Alcohol Food? 103

Kangaroo, Natural History of. (Illustrated.) 409

Kidder, Dr. J. H 657

Kitchen-Midden, Contents of a 379

Labor and Association 586

Lace and Lace-making. (Illustrated.) 521

Lakes, Oscillations of 379

Le Conte, Dr. J. L 285

Leighton, William 315

Leland, E. Pt 45

Lessons in Electricity. (Illustrated.) 607

Lewis, E 367

Lex Talionis 746

�� � [ 794 ] 774 INDEX.

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Libel, A, upon the Indians 748

Libraries, Public, in France 766

Liebig's Influence on German Science 639

Life in Greenland 431

Lights of Different Colors, Penetrating Power of 760

Limestone, A Piece of 165

Locust of the Kocky Mountains 605

Lommel, Eugene 471

Man, Comparative Psychology of 257

Martineau and Materialism 129

Martineau's Eeply to Tyndall 746

Mayer, Alfred M 453

Mental Faculties, Strange, in Disease 177

" Overwork 765

Merriraan, C. C , 702

Metals, Behavior of, with Hydrogen 254

Meteorite, Passage of a 766

Meteorology of Sun and Earth 75

" Arctic 124

" Contributions to 763

Michels, John 95

Microcephaly 249

Microscope, A Home-made. (Illustrated.) 95

Migrations of Birds 761

Mill, An Indian 503

Mivart, St. George 409

Modern Biological Inquiry 285

" Art, Frailty of 379

" Philosophical Biology 595, 710

" Knowledge, Character of 724

Museum Exchange 460

" Godeffroy 699

Natural Euthanasia 617

IJature of Fluorescence. (Illustrated.) 471

Nebula in Sagittarius. (Illustrated.) 269

Nitrogen in Plants 503

Notes 126, 255, 385, 510, 640, 768

Numerals, Origin of the 380

Obesity, Eeduction of 255

Opium-Habit 767

Opossums, (Illustrated.) 149

Optical Illusion 254

Origin and Development of Engineering 33

Oscillations of Lakes 379

Our Great American University 543

Overwork, Mental 765

Ownership of the Dead 322

�� � [ 795 ] INDEX. 775

PAGE

Parasites, Animal. (Illustrated.) 670

Penetrating Power of Different Colored Liglits 7G0

Penikese School, End of the 494

Pharmacy and Chemistry 501

Physical Characters of the British 505

Piece of Limestone, On a IfiS

Plants, Insectivorous. (Illustrated.) 45

" Respiration of ' 248

" Insect-killing 766

Plasticity of Instinct 449

Polar Glaciers ." 702

Pork, Trichinous 759

Prince Rupert's Drops 315

Progression and Retrogression. (Illustrated.) 180

Prolific Peaches 509

Propagation of Waves in Liquids 253

Properties of Protoplasm 67

Proposed Inland Sea in Algeria 665

Public Libraries in France 766

Putrefaction arrested by Pressure 247

" and Infection, Tyndall on 686

Rat, A, in the Telegraph Service 254

Rats and Mice, how they use their Tails 764

Reading as an Intellectual Process 212

Reduction of Obesity 255

Refraction of Sound , 767

Relations of Women to Crime 1, 334

" of Sex to Crime 724

Religion of the Canarians 249

" Science and 434

Remedy for Boiler Incrustations 126

Reptilian Affinities of Birds 124

Respiration of Plants 248

Restoration of Faded Writings 253

Resuscitation of the Drowned 251

Retrospects of our Past Hundred Years , 630

Revivals and Insanity 383

Richardson, Dr. B. W 00, 617

Rivers, Changes in the Courses of 122

Rodriguez, Extinction of Animals in 252

Romanes, George J 449

Ruggles, Samuel B 322

Sand-Blast. (Illustrated.) 300

" Dunes, Formation of. (Illustrated.) 357

Science and Religion 225, 434

" Teaching in English Schools 281

" in Germany and England 369

" The Warfare of 385, 553

" in English Schools 689

�� � [ 796 ] 776 INDEX.

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Scientific Institutions 502

' Education, how it is evaded V50

" Apparatus, Exhibition of 638

Sensory Centres in the Brain 881

Sex and Crime ' 724

Sexes, Disproportion of, in Germany 255

Soda-Lakes of Wyoming 767

Solar Radiation, Intensity of 252

Sound and Fog Signals 380

" Refraction of 767

Sounding a Newspaper Fog " 489

Spalding, D. A 310

Spencer, Herbert 158, 257

" his Philosopliy 235

" Sketch of. (Portrait.) 620

Stanley's Expedition 246

Stewart, Prof. Balfour 75

Strachey, Lieutetiant-General 192

Strange Menttil Faculties in Disease 177

Submarine Cables, A New Enemy of 507

Suicide in Large Cities 88

Sun and Earth, Meteorology of 75

Supernatural, Fallacies of Testimony respecting the 570

Temperature and Vegetation 506

Terrestrial Radiation 252

Testimony respecting the Supernatural, Fallacies of 570

Testing Iron and Steel 246

Thermo-Diffusion 248

Thermoscope, Clinical 123

Thudichum, Dr. J. L. W 724

Timber-Trees, Maturity of 503

Trapping Wild-Turkeys 253

Trichinous Pork 759

Trout-Culture 251

Tuckwell, Rev. W 281

Twins 345

Tyndall, Prof. John 129, 482, 607, 686

" Martineau's Reply to 746

University, Our Great American 543

Use of Bushy Tails 125

Utah, Children in '. . . . 381

Vaile, E. O 212

Van de Warker, Ely 1, 334, 724

Vehicles of Infection 382

Victoria Niyanza, Exploration of 246

Vivisection, Value of 509

" vindicated 751

�� � [ 797 ] INDEX. -jjj

FAas

Ward, W. S 300

' Prof. Henry A. 699

"Warfare of Science 385, 553

Water and Climate 507

Watering-Places, Sanitary Condition of 508

Weeden, William B 586

Welding, Kationale of 253

Wheatstone, Sir Charles, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 363

Which Universe shall we study ? 112

White, Andrew D 385, 553

Wilder, Burt G 460

Willow, Curly, Freak of the 760

Wise Public Benefactor, A 760

Women, Relations of, to Crime 1, 334

Work, Force and 762

Wyoming, Soda-Lakes of 767

Youmans, Eliza A 521

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��PAGE

Abbott, C. C, Phases of Bird-Life 343

" Academy," The, for Americans Ill

Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 747

Accidental Variation 750

Adder, Cunning of the 251

Adler, Felix, Hebrew Eeligion 589

Air, The, in Courts of Justice 756

Air-Bags for raising Ships 632

Air-Germs and Spontaneous Generation. (Illustrated.) 91

Amber, Dredging for 121

American Association at Buffalo 755

American Colleges vs. American Science 467

Amphibious Fishes. (Illustrated.) 546

Anaasthesia, Discovery of. 506

Ancient American Civilization 118

Ancients, Backwardness of the, in Natural Science 438

Animal Powers of Offense and Defense 355

Animals, Conscience in ! . 80

Antelope, The American 378

Antiseptic Properties of Thymol 381

Ants, Habits of 252

Apotheosis of Steam 430

Argentine Eepublic, Science in the 463

Army-Worm Moth 380

Arsenic, Detection of 637

Astronomy, Origin of 124

Aurora, Cause of the 638

Automatic Light-Begister 122

Awards at the International Exhibition 69

Axes and Hatchets. (Illustrated.) 186

Babyhood, Lingual Development in 129

Backwardness of the Ancients in Natural Science 438

Bain, Alexander, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 360

Bastian, H. Charlton, Organisms and their Media 215

" " The Invertebrate Brain 702

Bats. (Illustrated.) 523

Battle-Axe, A Stone 612

Beadle, J. H., Social Experiments in Utah 479

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�� � [ 10 ] 77 o INDEX.

PAGE

Bedding in Sleeping-Cars 764

Beer, Condensed 879

Bernstein J., Observing Interior of the Eye '. 684

Bigotry in Scientific Controversy 324

Bird-Life, Certain Phases of ' 343

Birds, Timidity of 637

Blanchard, E., Voice in Man and Animals 385, 513

Blasius's Theory of Storms. (Illustrated.) 294

Books noticed :

The Unseen World " (Fiske) 112

History of Natural Science " 114

Diseases of Modern Life " (Richardson) 114

Floral Decorations " (Hassard) 115

Memoir of Caroline Herschel" 115

Analytical Processes " (Gill) 115

Map of Indian Territory " (Ruffner) 116

Polytechnic Review " 116

Fermentation " (Schutzenberger) 245

Memoir of Count Rumford " (Ellis) 246

Rumford's Complete Works " 246

Life-Histories of Birds" (Gentry) 247

Report of Trustees of the Harvard Zoological Museum " 247

Physiology of the Circulation in Plants " (Pettigrew) 247

Recent Advances in Physical Science " (Tait) 248

Through and Through the Tropics " (Vincent) ... 248

Early Literature of Chemistry " (Bolton) 248

Diseases of the Nervous System " (Hammond) 249

Painters' Magazine " 249

Magnetism and Electricity " (Guthrie) 249

Notes on Building Construction " 249

Legal Chemistry " (Naquet) 249

Principal Characters of the Dinocerata " (Marsh) 249

The Ancient Regime " (Taine) 369

The Warfare of Science " (White) 370

Die 100-jahrige Republik " (Becker) 371

French Political Leaders " 871

History of the United States " (Doyle) 371

The Childhood of Religions " (Clodd) 372

Physical Basis of Immortality " (Blackwell) 372

William Whewell " (Todhunter) 372

The Christ of Paul " (Reber) 373

Meteorology and Health " (Blasius) 373

Lessons from Nature " (Mivart) 373

Encyclopaedia of Chemistry " 374

Angola and the Congo " (Monteiro) 374

Roads, Streets, and Pavements " (Gillmore) 375

Topographical Survey of New York " (Gardner) 375

The American State and Statesmen " (Dix) 375

The Bible and Science " (Weiss) 375

The Yucca-Borer " (Riley) 375

Electrical Measurement " (Day) 376

�� � [ 11 ] INDEX. 77 i

Books noticed : **<>

" The Johns Hopkins University " 376

" Prehistoric Man " (Wilson) 500

" The Wages Question " (Walker) 501

11 Eecord of Science for 1875 " (Baird) 502

" Manual of the Apiary " (Cook) 502

" Standard Facts and Figures " (Sullivan) 502

" Proceedings of the Poughkeepsie Society of Natural Science " 502

"Man" (Xemo) 503

" Changes in a Nebula " (Holden) 503

" Public-School Question " 503

" Survey of the Territories " 503

" Memoirs of the Peabody Academy of Science " 503

" Bulletin of the Survey of the Territories " 503

" Natural History of Kerguelen Island " (Kidder) 504

" Eozoon Canadense " (Dawson) 504

" Bulletin of the United States National Museum " 504

" Transactions of tbe Kansas Academy of Science " 504

" The Historical Jesus of Nazareth " (Schlesinger) 504

" Bulletin of the Bussy Institution " 504

" Manual of the Vertebrates of the Northern United States " (Jordan) 504

" Condensed Classics " 504

" Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club " 505

" American Catholic Quarterly Review " 505

" Geometrical Chemistry " (Wurtz) 613

" American Cyclopasdia " 622

" Darwiniana " (Gray) 624

" Transcendentalism " (Frothingham) 627

" Life of Macaulay " (Trevelyan) 627

" Logic of Chance " (Venn) 628

" Survey of Colorado " (Hayden) 628

" Village Communities " (Maine) 629

" Perm Monthly " 629

" The Five Senses of Man " (Bernstein) 758

" Similarities of Physical and Religious Knowledge " (Bixby) 759

" Scientific Bases of Faith " (Murphy) 759

" Hay-Fever " (Beard) 760

" Hygiene of the United States Army " (Bilhngs) 760

" Report on the Insects of Missouri " (Riley) 761

" Geological Agency of Lateral Pressure " (Niles) 761

" Geographical Variation in Mammals " (Allen) 761

" Kansas Horticultural Society " 761

" The Constants of Nature " (Clarke) 762

" Archivos do Museu Nacional " 762

Boring-Moth from Florida '. 494

Boyd, David, Science and the Logicians , 224

Brain, The Invertebrate 702

Brain-Weight and Mental Power 254

Buckland, Frank, Natural Trumpet of the Crane 137

Buffalo, Destruction of the 377

Cameron, Lieutenant, his Explorations 381

�� � [ 12 ] 772

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Cause of the Aurora 638

Centennial Exhibition, New Departure at the 106

Certain Phases of Bird-Life 343

Challenger, Cruise of the ' 630

Channing, W. F., Organized Homesteads 733

Character and Work of Liebig 49

Chromis Pater-Familias. (Illustrated.) 322

Circulation, Oceanic 506

Clarke, F. C, Hypnotism 211

Clarke, F. W., Colleges and Science 467

Climatology of New Zealand 119

Clothing the Young 122

Coal in Pennsylvania 507

Coal-Gas as Fuel 635

Cochineal Cactus, Culture of the 636

Cold of the Ice-Period, Causes of 280

Cold, Effects of, on Milk 635

Colleges, American, vs. American Science 467

Color, The Constants of. (Illustrated.) 641

Concrete Construction 509

Condensed Beer 379

" Conflict," The, and the " Warfare " 757

Congress of German Anthropologists 120

Conrad, V. L., Blasius's Theory of Storms 294

Conscience in Animals 80

Cornwall, Prof. H. B., Petroleum 140

Crane, Natural Trumpet of the. (Illustrated.) 137

Criminal Justice in 1876 498

Crocodile, Habitat of the 124

Crookes, W., Mechanical Action of Light 257

Cunning of the Adder 251

��f-i

��Dallinger, Rev. W. H., Spontaneous Generation 448

Daly, C. P., Geographical Progress 37

Daly, Judge, his Address 108

Deems, Rev. C. F., Science and Religion 239

Destruction of the Buffalo 377

Diamond-Fields of South Africa 378

Distances, Measuring, by Sound 251

Dreams, Philosophy of 766

Dredging for Amber 121

Drunkard, Body-Temperature of the 507

Dry Thunder-Storms 765

Early Western Explorers 493

Electricity, Lessons in. (Illustrated.) 30, 158, 331

English Philosophy in Germany 243

Eucalypti as Timber-Trees 509

Evolution, Mathematics in 202

Experiments on Hypnotism 211

Exploration of Victoria Cave 125

�� � [ 13 ] INDEX. 773

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��Eye, Observing Interior of the. (Illustrated.) 684

Fattening Oysters 637

Fauna, Winter, of Mount Marcy 509

Fight between Mouse and Scorpion 377

Fishes, Amphibious. (Illustrated.) 546

" Night-Habits of . 632

Fishing for Glass Sponges 120

Fitting Recognition of American Science 290

Flint, Dr. Austin, Jr., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 103

Foliage, Periodic Movements of 634

Forestry 632

Forests, Underground, in Thames Valley 255

Formation of Lakes 539

" " Mountain-Chains 253

Fossils, Recently-Discovered 631

Geographical Progress, Recent 37

Geography, Modern Scientific. (Illustrated.) 713

Germination, Temperature of 121

Glacial Phenomena 381

Glaciers, The Polar 178

Glass Sponges, Fishing for 120

Granite, A Mountain of 123

Grasshoppers, The Western 749

Halstead, Byron D., Moulds 398

Hamilton on Social Science 619

Hamilton, R. S., Present Status of Social Science 602

Hammers and Percussion. (Illustrated.) 11

Heat, The New Philosophy of 363

Hebrew Religion, Evolution of 589

HerseheL Caroline L. II 58

Hints for the Sick-Room 173

Hittell, J. S., Apotheosis of Steam 430

Holland, Major, Myriapods 570

Homesteads and Households, Organized 733

Hospitals and Pauperism 738

Houses for the Industrious Poor 508

Houses, New, Unhealthiness of. 117

Huxley, J. H., Species 409

Huxley's Lectures 500, 621

Hypnotism, Experiments on 211

" Spontaneous 633

Ice, Streams dammed by Drift 379

lies, G., Mathematics in Evolution 202

Industrial Applications of Solar Heat / 550

Infants, Medication of 255

Ingersoll, Ernest, Mollusks of the Rocky Mountains 43

�� � [ 14 ] 774 INDEX.

PAGE

Insect Parasites in Trout-Ponds 763

Justice, Criminal, in 1876 498

Klein, H. J., Scientific Geography 713

Lakes, Formation of 539

Lessons in Electricity. (Illustrated.) 30, 158, 331

Lettuce for Silkworms 121

Lewes, G. H., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 743

Liehig, his Character and Work 49

" Statue to 618

Light, Mechanical Action of. (Illustrated.) 257

" Colored, Treatment of Lunatics with 634

Light-Registering Machine 122

Lingual Development in Babyhood 129

Littrow, Carl von, Backwardness of the Ancients in Science 438

Loan Exhibition in London 510

Local Distribution of Plants 676

Locust of the Rocky Mountains 377

Locusts in Africa 766

Lortet, The Chromis Pater-Familias 322

Loss of Self -Control in Battle 507

Lubbock on the Habits of Ants 252

Lunatics, Treatment of, with Colored Light 634

Malaria 416

Marsh-Water as a Vehicle of Ague-Poison 764

Mathematics in Evolution 202

Mayer, Prof., on Sound 633

McCosh, Dr. J., The Supernatural 21

Measuring Distances by Sound 251

Meat, Methods of preserving . 125

Mechanical Action of Light. (Illustrated.) 257

Medals, The Rumf ord 244

Medication of Infants 255

Mello, Rev. J. M., Rock-Structure 426

Menopoma Alleghaniense 763

Merriman, C. C, Polar Glaciers s 178

Meteorites, Source and Composition of 382

Mississippi River, how it wears away its Banks 380

Mivart, St. George, What are Bats ? 523

Modern Scientific Geography. (Illustrated.) 713

Mollusks of the Rocky Mountains 43

Money, Paper, French Experiments with 615

Monstrosities, Cause of 123

Moth, A, that bores for its Food 250

Moulds, Our Common. (Illustrated.) 398

Mound-Builders, A Relic of the 510

Mountain-Chains, Formation of 253

�� � [ 15 ] INDEX.

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Mount Marcy, Winter Fauna of 509

Musical Tones, Perception of. 382

Myriapods. (Illustrated.) 570

Natural History in New Guinea 767

Natural Trumpet of the Crane. (Illustrated.) 137

Naturalist, A Neglected 764

Nature of Invertebrate Brain. (Illustrated.) , 702

New Guinea, People of 507

New Houses, TJnhealthiness of 117

New Zealand, Climatology of 119

Newberry, J. S., Cold of Ice Period 280

Newberry, Prof. J. S., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 490

Notes 126, 255, 385, 511, 639

Observing Interior of Eye. (Illustrated.) 684

Oceanic Circulation 506

Odling, "William, The Revived Theory of Phlogiston 560

Ordeals and Oaths 307

Organisms and their Media 215

Organized Homesteads and Households 733

Ostrich-Farming 636

Oysters, Fattening 637

��Paper-Money, French Experiments with 615

Pauperism and Hospitals 738

Pennsylvania Coal 507

Periodic Movements of Foliage 634

Petroleum 140

Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences 506

Philosophy, English, in Germany 243

" of Dreams 766

Phlogiston, The Revived Theory of 560

Pig, The Prehistoric 631

Plants, Fertilization of 765

" Local Distribution of 676

Polar Glaciers, The 178

Predatory and Industrial Societies 718

Prehistorio Relics at the Centennial Exhibition 508

Prepossessions regarding the Supernatural 21

Preservation of Zoological Specimens 254

Probable Age of the World 649

Promotion of Science 494

Putrid Blood, Toxic Action of. 635

Radiometer, The 364

Rattlesnakes and their Bites 123

Recent Advances in Telegraphy. (Illustrated.) 71

Recent Geographical Progress 37

Relic of Mound-Builders 510

�� � [ 16 ] 77 6 INDEX.

PAOB

Religion, What constitutes 239

" Hebrew, Evolution of 589

" and Science as Allies 690

Rigg, Rev. A., Axes, Hammers, etc 11, 186

Riordan, R. , Recent Advances in Telegraphy 71

Roberts, Dr., on Spontaneous Generation 638

Rock-Structure. (Illustrated.) 426

Rogers, Prof, William B. , Sketch of. (Portrait.) 606

Romanes, G. J., Conscience in Animals 80

Rood, 0. N., Constants of Color 641

Root-Hairs of Plants 765

Riicker, Prof., Soap-Bubbles 575

Rumford, Count, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 231

Rumf ord Medals, The 244

Russel, Dr. C. P., Malaria 416

Russell, I., " Uncertainty and Vanity of Science " 351

Russell, I. C, Formation of Lakes 539

��Salt Lake, Ancient Condition of 633

Sauvage, E., Amphibious Fishes 546

Schutzenberger, P., Air-Germs and Spontaneous Generation 91

Science and the Logicians 224

" in the Argentine Republic 46

" and Religion as Allies 690

" The Promotion of. 494

" Social, its Present Status 602

" Teaching for the Young 119

Scorpion and Mouse, Fight between 377

Sea-Soundings without a Line 252

Ships, Air-Bags for raising 632

Shooting-Stars 637

Sick-Room, Hints for the 173

Silica, Appropriation of, by Plants 631

Silkworms, Lettuce for 121

Simonin, Louis, Industrial Applications of Solar Heat 550

Soap-Bubbles 575

Social Experiments in Utah 479

" Science, Present Status of 602

" " Hamilton on 619

Societies, Predatory and Industrial 718

Society an Organism 1

Solar Heat, Industrial Applications of 550

Sound, Prof. Mayer on 633

Measuring Distances by 251

The Controversy about 751

Sounds produced by blowing into Flame 125

South-African Diamond-Fields 378

South Carolina, Subterranean Streams in 197

Species 409

" Transformation of 122

�� �� � [ 17 ] INDEX. 777

PAGE

Spencer, Herbert, Society an Organism 1

" " Predatory and Industrial Societies 718

Spider, A Sound-Producing 383

Spontaneous Generation, Air-Germs and. (Illustrated.) 91, 448, 638

" Hypnotism 633

Steam, Apotheosis of 430

Stone Battle- Axe 612

Stonehenge, Who erected 750

Storms, Blasius's Theory of. (Illustrated.) 294

Strain, Effects of, on Magnetism of Soft Iron 124

Streams, Damming of, by Ice 379

Subterranean Streams in South Carolina 197

Suez Canal, its Present Condition 508

Sulphide of Carbon as an Insecticide 767

Sunday and the Centennial Exhibition 364

Supernatural, Prepossessions for and against the 21

Taine, Hippolyte, Lingual Development in Babyhood 129

Tanning Process, A New 118

Telegraphy, Recent Advances in. (Illustrated.) 71

Temperature of Germination 121

Thompson, Benjamin, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 231

Thomson, Wyville, on Oceanic Circulation 506

Thudichum, Dr. J. L. "W., Character of Liebig 49

Thunder-Storms, Dry 765

Thymol, its Antiseptic Properties 381

Trades, Unhealthy 634

Transformation of Species 122

Trumpet of the Crane. (Illustrated.) 137

Tylor, Ordeals and Oaths 307

Tyndall, Prof. John, Lessons in Electricity 30, 158, 331

" Uncertainty and Vanity of Science " 351

Unhealthy Trades 634

Utah, Social Experiments in 479

Variation, Accidental 750

Vegetarianism 118

Victoria Cave, Exploration of 125

Vivisection in England 382

Voice in Man and Animals 385, 513

Ward, L. F., Local Distribution of Plants 767

Water-Hammer 362

Weddas of Ceylon 120

"What are Species ? 409

"What constitutes Religion ? 239

"Wheeler, C. G., Science in Argentine Republic 463

Who shall study the Babies ? 241

�� � [ 18 ] 778 INDEX.

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��Wilson, Rev. Robert 197

World, Probable Age of the 649

Wylie, W. Gill, Hospitals and Pauperism 738

Toumans, Eliza A., Caroline Herscbel 58

Zoological Specimens, Preservation of 254

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Abnormal Fkuits 761

Aboriginal Settlements of the Pacific Coast. (Illustrated.) 353

Accoutrement of a Field-Geologist. (Illustrated.) 708

Age of Trees, and their Period of Leafing 121

Air, Compressed, Effects of, on Animals 120

Air and Clothing 654

Alabama, Coal and Iron in 637

Albertite 634

Alcohol, Estimation of 765

" its Effects on Brain-Substance 17

America, Science in 319

" Astronomy in 75

American Astronomical Achievement 446

" Forestry, Association 251

" Geographical Society 508

" Zoologists, what they have done for Evolution 1, 181

Animals and Steam-Engines 631

" Journeyings and Dispersal of. 576

Annihilation of the Mind 715

Antarctic Icebergs 631

Ants, Foray of an Army of. 117

Aquarium, The New York ! 234

Arctic Expedition, The British 511, 379

" Regions, Winter-Quarters in 766

Arnott, Dr., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 100

As regards Bishop Coxe 107

Astronomy in America 75

Atmosphere, Combat with an Infective 641

Audubon's Lily rediscovered 675

Baer, K. E. von 638

Bain, Alexander , 638

Education 418, 513, 620

Ball-Paradox. (Illustrated.) 725

" " Explanation of 761

Bartlett's Ozone Generator 114

Bastian, H. C, The Invertebrate Brain. (Illustrated.) 27

Bat-Guano 122

Beard, G. M., Mind-Reading 459

vol. x. 49

�� � [ 790 ] 77 o INDEX.

PAGE

Bees, do they hear ? 121

Biology in Common Schools , 615

" Study and Teaching of. 298

" The Study of 527

Birds, Destruction of, by Telegraph-Wires 766

" Destruction of, in the United States 636

Bond, Thomas, Laws of Health 198

Books noticed :

" Talks about Labor " (Larned) 108

" Sound " (Blaserna) 240

" Races of Man " (Peschel) 241

" Geology of Ohio " (Newberry) 242

" Vertebrates of Northern United States " (Jordan) 243

" Centennial Situation of Woman " (Bullock) 243

" Kinematics of Machinery " (Reuleaux) 244

" Ethics of Spinoza " 244

" Comparative Zoology " (Orton) 245

" What Young People should know " (Wilder) 245

" Practical Botany " (Koehler) 246

" Theory of Medical Science " (Dunham) 246

" California Notes " (Turrill) 246

" Elements of Physical Manipulation " (Pickering) 246

" Knight's Mechanical Dictionary " 372

" Elementary Practical Physiology " (Foster) 373

" The Religion of Evolution " (Savage) 373

" Public Libraries in the United States " 374

" Theory of Color " (Von Bezold) 375

" Chemia Coartata " (Kollmeyer) 375

" Building Construction " 375

" St. Louis Public Schools " 375

" Prehistoric Remains at Cincinnati " (Clarke) 376

" The Greenstones of New Hampshire " (Hawes) 376

" Filth-Diseases " (Simon) 376

" Fifty Years of my Life " (Albemarle) 376

" Massachusetts Health Report " 376

" Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Sciences " 377

" Physics " (Arnott) 500

" Physical Fatalism" (Birks) 501

" Winds of Doctrine " (Elam) 502

" Inventional Geometry " (Spencer) 502

" Geographical Distribution of Animals " (Wallace) 504

" Inclusions in Gems " (Lea) 505

" Essays on Mind, Matter," etc. (Townsend) 505

Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia " (Ruschenberger) 506

Dinychthys " (Newberry) 506

Textile Colorist 507

" Mechanics " (Rossiter) 377

" Fragments of Science" (Tyndall) 621

" Technological Dictionary " (Tolhausen) 621

" Principia " (Wright) 622

' The Problem of Problems " (Braden) ... 623

��u

�� � [ 791 ] INDEX. 771

Books noticed : PAGE

" Aerial Navigation " (Mansfield) 623

" Idioms spoken in the Southwest " (Gatschet) 624

" Land-Birds of New England " (Minot) 624

" The Andes and the Amazon " (Orton) 625

" Science Lectures " 625

" Practical Cookery " (Henderson) 626

" Elementary Biology " (Huxley and Martin) 626

" Recent Advances in Science " (Tait) 627

" Essays in Literary Criticism " (Hutton) 627

" Life-History of our Planet " (Gunning) 628

American Library Journal 628

" Report of an Exploring Expedition " (Newberry) 629

" Forest-Culture " (Cooper) 629

" Vaccination " (Chapman) 629

" Rules for Dictionary Catalogue " (Cutter) 629

" Popular Health Almanac " 630

" Fonakigrafik Teacher " (Smith) 630

" Matter and Force " (Macomber) 630

" Surface-Drainage " (Folsom) 630

" Essential Piety of Modern Science " (Chadwick) 630

" Notes on Life-Insurance " (Smith) 751

" Functions of the Brain " (Ferrier) 752

" Carlyle Anthology " (Barrett) 753

" New Encyclopaedia of Chemistry " 753

" Archology " (Blakeslee) 753

" Plains of the Great West " (Dodge) 754

" Applications of Physical Forces " Guillemin) 754

" Bench and Bar of Saratoga County " (Mann) 755

" Art of Projecting " (Dolbear) 756

" Text-Book of Physiology " (Foster) 756

" Fleets of the World " (Parker) 756

Brandy, Cognac 428

British Arctic Expedition 379

Calculi, Intestinal, in Horses 760

Canine Sagacity 202

Canniff, W., Communication from 742

Canons of the Colorado 252

Caoutchouc-yielding Trees 126

Carlyle and the Darwins. 362

Cephalization 632

Chamberlain, C, Life in Lapland 450

Chemistry, The Science vs. the Art 691

Clarke, S. W., Laboratory Endowment 729

Clothing and Air 654

Coal and Iron in Alabama 637

Coal-Mines, Fires in 763

Coca, its Physiological Action 127, 251

Cognac Brandy, Production of 428

Cold in the Head, Remedy for 117

Cold, Meats cooked by 125

�� � [ 792 ] 7?2 INDEX.

PAGB

" Cold Waves," Movements of 124

College Exploring Expeditions 249

Colorado, Insects and Flowers in 743

Combat with an Infective Atmosphere 641

Commercial Manias 371

Compressed- Air Locomotive. (Illustrated.) 473

" Conflict of Science and Religion," The So-called 72

Constancy of Motion 225

Cooke, Prof. J. P., Jr., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 491

Cooking-Utensils, Poisonous 252

Cooling the Air in Buildings 113

Copernican Theory, Evolution and the 236

Copyright, International 746

Crane, T. S., Ball-Paradox 725

Crookes, "William, his Scientific Labors. (Portrait.) 739

Daly, Charles P., Geographical Research in 1876 553

Dana on Cephalization 632

Darwins, Carlyle and the 362

Dawson, J. W., The Conflict of Science and Religion : 72

Deep-Sea Bottom Deposits .... , 378

Deodorization of Petroleum-Products . 251

Development, Difficulties of, as applied to Man 60

" Hypothesis, is it sufficient ? 86

Diatoms, are they absorbed by Plants ? 253

Disinfectant, Sulphurous Acid as a 762

Distance and Dimensions of the Sun. (Illustrated.) 402

Distribution of Plain, Prairie, and Forest 247

Draper, J. W., Science in America 319

Draper's Book at Rome 106

Earlier Forms of Life. (Illustrated.) 257

Early History of Fire. (Illustrated.) 17

" Man of North America 582

Earth, The, how it was regarded in Old Times. (Illustrated.) 542

" The, how it was explored in 1876 553

Eccentricity in Wood-Growth 379

Education, Bain on 620

��u

��" as a

��in Massachusetts 635

Science 418, 513

Scientific, Prof. Martin on 368

Edward, Thomas, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 594

Edward, Thomas, his Biography 751

Electrical Phenomena of Dioncea muscipula 247

Electricity, Development of, by Light 510

" Effects of 121

Electric Light, its Economy 763

Elephant, Voice of the 766

Entomological Specimens, Preservation of 125

Eucalyptus as an Anti-Periodic 249

Evolution and the Copernican Theory 236

�� � [ 793 ] INDEX. 773

PAGE

Evolution of the Horse 118

Evolution, What American Zoologists have done for 1, 181

Farquharson, R., Mental Overwork 326

Fermentation and Disease 129

Fermentation and Putrefaction 742

Fight between a Trout and a Water-Snake 234

Fire, Early History of. (Illustrated.) 17

Fires in Coal-Mines 763

First Popular Scientific Treatise 718

Fish, A Rapacious 760

Florida Cockroach 759

Flounders, Asymmetry of the Eyes in 636

Flowers, Insects, etc., in Colorado 361

Foray of Ants 117

Forestry Association, American 251

Formation of Raindrops and Hailstones. (Illustrated.) 522

French Association, The 115

Fruits, Abnormal 761

Galileo, Trial of. 385

Gallium 638

Gariel, C. M., Compressed- Air Locomotive 473

Gas Manufacture and Gas Companies 478

Geikie, Prof., Field-Geologist's Accoutrement 708

Geological Congress, International 381

Geology, How they teach, in Rome 120

Geographical Society, The American 508

" Getting right on the Record " 102, 363

Glacial Theory, Supplement to the 112

Glen Roy, Parallel Roads of. (Illustrated.) 309

Gorilla, The Berlin 511

Grote, A. R., Early Man in North America 582

Grote on the Peopling of America 764

Habit, Transmission of. 380

Hailstones, Formation of. (Illustrated.) 522

Health, The Laws of 198

Heart's Action, Experiments on 248

Hell-Gate Explosion - 105

Hitchcock, C. H., Earlier Forms of Life , 257

Horse, Prof. Huxley on the 369

Horses, Intestinal Calculi in 760

How to reach the Pole 508

Huxley's Lectures. (Illustrated.) 43, 103, 207, 285

Huxley, Biology 527

" Prof., on the Horse 369

Hygrometers 509

Hypnotism, Phenomena of 758

Ice Age in Great Britain 118

�� � [ 794 ] 774

��INDEX.

��PAGE

Ice, Plasticity of. 637

Ice, Preservation of 764

lies, George, Constancy of Motion 225

Illinois (Southern) Academy of Science 763

Inequality of the Ocean-Bed ; 250

Infantile Culture ... 38

Insect Fertilization of Plants 380

Insects and Flowers in Colorado 361

" in Colorado 612

International Copyright 746

Intestinal Calculi in Horses 760

Invertebrate Brain, Nature of. (Illustrated.) 27

Iron Manufacture, Improvements in 249

Iron, Preservation of, against Rust 765

Is the Development Hypothesis sufficient ? 86

Is the Moon a Dead Planet ? 568

Japanese Metallurgy 115

Joly, Prof. N., History of Fire 17

Journeyings and Dispersal of Animals 576

Kauri Pine 123

Laboratory Endowment 728

Langley, S. P., First Popular Scientific Treatise 719

Lapland, Nature and Life in 450

Laws of Health, The 198

Lectures of Prof. Huxley 103

Lewis E., Long Island Coast 434

Life, The Earlier Forms of. (Illustrated.) 257

Light, Electricity developed by 510

Lightning, Effects of, on Trees 120

Protection of Buildings from 154

" in a Telegraph-Office 511

Lily, Audubon's, rediscovered 675

Lockwood, Samuel, Audubon's Lily 675

Locomotive, Compressed-Air. (Illustrated.) 473

Locust-Plague, Efforts to stop the 380

Long Island Coast, Hps and Downs of. (Illustrated.) 434

McCosh, Dr. James, The Development Hypothesis 86

Man, Early, in North America 582

" Paleolithic , 250

" The Races of 508

Manias, Commercial 371

Marey's Experiments on the Heart's Action 248

Marriage, Primitive Theories of 272

Marsh, Prof., and his work 122

Martin, H. N, Biology 298

on Scientific Education 368

Mathematical Controversy 744

�� � [ 795 ] INDEX. 775

PAQR

Maudsley, H., The Medical Profession 330

Maxwell, Prof. J. Clerk, Protection from Lightning 154

Mayer, Prof. A. M., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 230

Meat and Eggs, Dietetic Value of. 381

Meats cooked by Cold 125

Mechanical Tools. (Illustrated.) 173

Medical Profession in Modern Thought 330

" Students, Qualifications of 382

Meehan, Thomas, Communication from 102

Meehan, T., Insects, etc 743

Menopoma, how it casts its Skin 252

Mental Overwork 326

" Physiology, A Case in 235

Merriman, C. C, World-Creations 701

Meteorites, how regarded in Former Times 634

Meteorological 759

Meteor-Shower in October 253

Mezieres, A., Trial of Galileo 385

Mind, Annihilation of the 715

Mind-Reading 459

Monkey Astuteness 254

Monkeys, Sexual Selection among the 379

Moon, The, is it a Dead Planet ? 568

Moon's Influence on the "Weather 56

Mormonism 156

Morse, E. S., American Zoologists and Evolution 1, 181

Morse's Lectures 619

Motion, The Constancy of 225

Nature and Life in Lapland 450

Nature of the Invertebrate Brain. (Illustrated.) 27

Nature, The Order of the 748

Nickel-Ores in New Caledonia 120

Nitrogen, Absorption of, by Plants 510

Northerly Winds of California 119

Notes 127, 255, 383, 512, 639, 736

Numerals, Arabic, their Origin. (Illustrated.) 736

Ocean-Bed, Inequality of the 250

Order of Nature 748

Origin of the Arabic Numerals. (Illustrated.) 736

Overwork, Mental 326

Ozone-Generator 114

Paleolithic Man 250

Parallel Roads of Glen Roy. (Illustrated.) 309

Pavements, Wooden 118

Petroleum Products, Deodorization of 251

Pet Snakes 119

Pettenkofer, Max von, Air and Clothing 684

Philanthropic Fanaticism and Science 363

�� � [ 796 ] 77 6 INDEX.

��PAGE

��Phylloxera, The, and American Vine-Stocks 511

Physical Science in English Schools 23

Physiological Action of Coca 251

Physiology of Mind-Reading 459

Picus Viridis, The Tongue of 113

Plain, Prairie, and Forest 247

Plant-Eaters of North America. (Illustrated.) , 678

Plants, Insect Fertilization of 380

" Taking Impressions of 254

Plasticity of Ice 637

Pole, How to reach the 508

Political Economy in the United States 367

Potassa, Qualitative Determination of 762

Potatoes, Influence of Color of Soil on 635

Powder-Paper ... 253

Prairies, Origin of. 633

Prenatal and Infantile Culture 38

Prestel, M. A. F., The Moon's Influence on the Weather 56

Proctor, R. A., Astronomical Achievement 446

• " " " Astronomy in America 75

Production of Cognac Brandy 428

Protection of Buildings from Lightning 154

Psychic Phenomena 763

Putrefaction and Fermentation 126

Putrescible Fluids, Experiments with 758

Qua, D. V. T., Arabic Numerals ' 736

Qualifications of Medical Students 382

Races of Man 508

Radiometer, Note on the 113

Railway-Signal, An Improved 253

Railways, Inspecting, by Machinery 126

Raindrops, Formation of. (Illustrated.) 522

Relations of the Air to our Clothing , 654

Remsen, Ira, Chemistry 691

Respirator, A New 122

Rigg, Rev. A., Tools 173

Rock-Crystals, Gathering of 383

Russel, C. P., Vital Statistics 697

Rust, Prevention of 765

Sagacity, Canine 202

Sanitary Fact, An Important 123

Savage Races, Decline of 765

Schumacher, P., Aboriginal Settlements 353

Science and Religion 72

" in America 313

" English Schools 23

" " the United States 115

" and Ventilation 760

�� � [ 797 ] INDEX. 777

PAGE

Science vs. Art of Chemistry 691

" Philanthropic Fanaticism and 363

" The Diffusion of 497

Scientific Education, Prof. Martin on 368

Seed-Production in the Sugar-Beet 122

Seguin, Dr. E., Prenatal and Infantile Culture 38

Selenium, Action of Light on 116

Settlements, Aboriginal, of the Pacific Coast'. (Illustrated.) 353

Sewage Utilization 123

Sexual Selection among the Monkeys 379

Sharks 348

Shells from Colorado 248

Signal, An Improved, for Railroads 253

Simmons, "W. E., Gas-Manufacture 478

Size of the Principal Telescopes in the World 574

Smith, Adam, Honor to .' 496

Societies for the Diffusion of Science 497

Soil, Color of, its Influence 635

Solar Distillery 758

Some Questions answered 616

Spencer, Herbert, Primitive Marriage 272

Spencer's Classification of Sciences 609

Spider, A Fishing 762

Spontaneous Generation 757

Statistics, Vital ' 697

Steam, Economy in Use of. 382

Struggle for Existence 382

Studies of an Engineer 509

Study and Teaching of Biology 298

Study of Biology 527

Sugar-Beet, Seed-Production in 122

Sulphurous Acid as a Disinfectant 762

Summer School of Natural History 766

Sun, Distance and Dimensions of the. (Illustrated.) 402

Supplement to the Glacial Theory 112

Talking by Telegraph 507

Telescopes, Size of the Principal 574

Tenney, S., Plant-Eaters 678

Theories of Primitive Marrriage 272

Thomson, Sir W., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 357

Tomato-Plant, The, as a Protection against Insects 250

Tools, Mechanical. (Illustrated.) 173

Transfusion of Blood 761

Transmission of Habit * 380

Trial of Galileo 385

Trowbridge, J., Annihilation of the Mind 715

Tyndall and Roberts on Abiogenesis 757

Tyndall, John, Fermentation 129

" " Infective Atmosphere 641

" " Glen Roy 309

�� � [ 798 ] 77 8 INDEX.

PAGE

Ups and Downs of the Long Island Coast. (Illustrated.) 434

Ventilation, Science and 760

Venus's Fly-Trap, Electrical Phenomena of 247

Vesuvius, Threatened Eruption of 763

Vines, American, and the Phylloxera 511

Vital Statistics < 697

Vivisection, Legislation about. 125

Wallace, A. R., Difficulties of Development 60

Water-Snake and Trout, Fight between 234

Water-Tanks 124

Weapons, Ancient 255

Weather, The Moon's Influence on the 56

Wedderburn, D., Mormonism .....' 156

Winds, Northerly, of California '. 119

Wood- Ants, Habits of. 634

Wood-Growth, Eccentricity in 379

Wood Pavements , 118

World-Creations 701

Young, C. A., The Sun 402

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Aboeigines, American, how they disposed of their Dead 638

Advance in Medical Science 767

Air and Houses 196

Aluminium 507

American Association for the Advancement of Science 762

Animals, Mental Disease in 639

Antennae of Insects 637

Anthropology in Germany 764

Anti-Ferments 251

Antique Marbles 67

Ants, Habits of 39

Appalachian Mountain Club 382

Aqueducts. (Illustrated.) , 26

Archjeology .' < 639

Associations, Scientific 605

Astronomical Discoveries 756

Astronomical Observations on the Rocky Mountains 123

Atheism, The Accusation of 367

Atmospheric Pressure. (Illustrated.) 316

Bad Odors in Reservoired "Water 469

Bain, Alexander, Education as a Science 391

Barff's Method of preserving Iron 633

Barnard, F. A. P., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 100

Bath, Hebra on Use of 634

Bathybius and the Moners 641

Bert, P., Atmospheric Pressure 316

" " Transmission of Excitations 230

Blood, Circulation of the 294

Blue Glass 109

Books noticed :

" The English Constitution " (Bagehot) 110

"Principles of Sociology" (Spencer) 112

" Electricity and the Telegraph " (Prescott) 116

" Lessons in Electricity " (Tyndall) 116

" Philosophical Discussions " ("Wright) 117

" Russia" ("Wallace) T 117

VOL. XI. 49

�� � [ 790 ] 770 INDEX.

Books noticed : page

" Agricultural Eeport" 118

" Continuous Bridges " (Bender) 118

" Alcoholic Poison " (Kellogg) 118

" The Jukes" (Dugdale) 118

"Early Migrations" 118

" Japanese Wrecks " 118

" Early Maritime Intercourse " 118

" St. Louis Academy of Science" 118

" Skin-Diseases" (Duhring) 119

" Pagan and Christian Symbolism " (Inman) 119

" Physics " (Arnott) 119

" Lectures on Light " (Tyndall) 242

" Fish " 243

" Political Economy " (Bastiat) 244

" Cross and Self Fertilization " (Darwin) 244

" Alphabet in Finance " (McAdam) 245

" Geology of Indiana " (Cox) 245

" Condensed Classics " 245

" Zoological Society of Cincinnati " 245

" David and Anna Matson " (Duniway) 245

" Chemical Analysis " (Douglas and Preston) 246

" Chemists' Manual " (Mott) 246

" The Microscopist " (Wythe) 246

" Michigan Board of Health " 247

" Commissioners of Education " 247

" How to Camp Out " (Gould) 247

" Principles of Sociology " (Spencer) 247

" New Lands within the Arctic Circle " (Payer) 371

" Cooking Manual " (Corson) 373

" Best Beading " (Perkins) 373

" Milton Anthology " 373

" Geometrid Moths " (Packard) 373

" Moral Maxims " (Baldwin) 374

" Symbolical Language " (Knight) 374

" Analysis of Religious Belief " (Amberly) 374

Radical Revieic 375

" Dynamics " (Bottomley) 375

" Smithsonian Eeport " 375

" Cellulose " 375

" Acoustics, Light, etc." (Lees) 376

" Poughkeepsie Natural Science Society 376

Western Review 376

" Analysis of Milk " (Baumhauer) 376

" Myehtis " (Seguin) 376

" Metric System " 376

" Ancient Glaciers of New Zealand " (Russell) 376

" Natural History of Illmois " 376

" Topographical Surveys " (Gardner) 376

" Geographical Surveys " (Warren) 377

" New York Meteorological Observatory " (Draper) 377

�� � [ 791 ] ��INDEX. J -J I

Books noticed : i'-^gb

" American Zoology " (Packard) 377

Kindergarten Messenger 377

" Cyclopedia of Education " (Kiddle and Schem) 497

" Science and Religion " (Winchell) 498

Turkey " (Baker) 500

Chemistry " (Peckliam) 501

" Forces of Nature " (Guillemin) 501

" Wisconsin Academy of Sciences " 501

" Was Flowers " (Duncan) 502

" University of Cincinnati " 502

" Astronomical Hypothesis " (Furniss) 502

"Dakota Calendar " (Mallery) 502

" Development of the Animal Kingdom " (Lewis) 503

" Personal Immortality " 503

" Western Diptera " (Osten-Sacken) 503

" The Black Hills " (Jenney) 503

" Ohio Fish Commission " 503

" Shade-Trees " (Stewart) 504

" Science-Lectures " : 504

"Isis unveiled" (Blavatsky) 504

" Nomisma" (Oernuschi) 624

" Scientific Basis of Delusions" (Beard) 624

" Oriental Religions " (Johnson) 625

" Descriptive Astronomy " (Chambers) 627

" List of Elevations " (Gannett) 627

" Influence of Physical Conditions in the Genesis of Species " (Allen). 628

" Geology of the Uintah Mountains " (Powell) 628

" Geographical Surveys " (Wheeler) 628

" Insectivorous Mammals " (Ooues) 628

" Philadelphia Board of Health " 628

" Coordinate Surveying " (Walling) . 629

" Problem of Problems " 629

" The Earth's Chemistry " (Lockyer) 629

" Tailed Amphibians " (Smith) 629

" Characters of Corypodontidfe " (Marsh) 630

" Topographical Atlas-Sheets " 630

" Iron and Steel Constructions " (Weyrauch) 680

" Gold and Debt" (Fawcett) 630

" Ornithology of the Red River Region " (McCauley) 630

" Experimental Science " : Light (Mayer and Barnard) 757

" Fish and Fisheries " "^57

" Ancient Society " (Morgan) '^^^

" Theoretical Chemistry " (Remsen) '^^^

" Physiological Esthetics (Allen) 60

" Survey of the Territories " (Hayden) 760

< " Sanitary Science " (Leeds) *^^

" Massachusetts Health Reports " 761

" Art Education " (Nichols) 761

" Linear Perspective " (Honey) 761

" Record of Science and Industry " (Baird) 761

�� � [ 792 ] 772 INDEX.

PAfiB

Bowel-Complaints, High Temperature and 507

Brame, 0. E., Zodiacal Light 349

Brewer, T. M., The Museums of Europe 472

Brooks, W. K., Instinct and Intelligence 585

Brownell, T. F., Does it take Time to think ? 564

Buchanan, J. R., Psycho-Physiological Sciences 721

Building System of Philadelphia 510

Bunce, 0. B., Over-Production, or Over-Consumption 306

Candle, The Electric. (Illustrated.) 429

Cannon, Steel-Bronze 632

Carpenter, William B., on Spiritualism 12, 161

Catastrophism, King on 491

ChampHn, J. D., Marbles 67

Chinese Modes of Fishing 251

Chloroform, Deaths from Inhalation of 254

Cinchona Alkaloids, The 763

Circulation of the Blood ... 294

Civilization and Morals 549

Clarke, F. W., Specimens of Educational Literature 713

Cleopatra's Needle 380

Climatic Influence of Vegetation 385

Color-Blindness , 250

Copper, Determination of 251

Copper Salts, are they poisonous ? 511

Cosmic and Organic Evolution 672

Cotton-Culture in Egypt 121

Cones, E., Imagination 455

" Cram," Jevons on 239

Cremation of Dr. Winslow 765

Crime and Education 380

Crotch, W. D., The Norwegian Lemming 404

Curtiss, L. R., Molecular Magnitudes 653

Darwin, Testimonials to 121

Death, New Test of 254

Decline of Parties ^^^

Decline of Party Government 'i'34

Distribution of Standard Time in the United States 174

Divisibility of Gold 74

Does it take Time to think ? 564

Dog-Story, A Big 488

Domestic Retrospect and Prospect 513

Drinking, Moderate, "What is 252

Drops. (Illustrated.) 544

Dupuy, E., Heredity in Nervous Diseases 332

Early Man of North America 365

Eccles, R. G., The Labor-Question 605

�� � [ 793 ] INDEX. 773

PAGK

Educational Literature, Specimens of. (Illustrated.) 713

Education and Crime 380

Education as a Science 391

Electric Candle. (Illustrated.) 429

Elementary Instruction in Physiology 668

Emperor, A Philosophic 461

Evolution, Cosmic and Organic 672

Evolution of the Family 129, 251

Evolution Theory, Sir Wyville Thomson on , . , 126

Excitations, Transmission of. (Illustrated.) 280

Expedition, Scientific, around the World 249

Experiments, Simple, in Optics. (Illustrated.) 658

Extinction of a Prehistoric Kace 124

Extirpation of our Larger Mammals 258

Eyes, Hygiene of the 506

Family, Evolution of the 129, 257

Family and State 370

Farrier, Art of the 378

Fermentation 363

Fermentation and Disease 236

Fisher, G. J., Circulation of the Blood 294

Fishes, Odd Forms among. (Illustrated.) 525

Fishing, Modes of, in China 251

Florida Keys, Fauna and Flora of 687

Flowers, Change of Tint in 638

Forces, Initiatory 150

Foster, Michael, Protoplasm 422

Foster, G. F., Gravitation 57

Fruit-Culture in England 249

Gar-Pike, Habitat of 366

Gar-Pikes. (Illustrated.) 1, 186

Garvei-, J. A., Matches 413

Geological Changes in Colorado 510

Geological Estimates 688

Geological Time, A ISTew Measure of 509

Germs, Destruction of 124

Gold, Divisibility of : V4

Grasshoppers, Extermination of. 116

Gravitation 37

Ground-Air. (Illustrated.) 280

Guillemin, A., New Star 59

Habits of Ants S9

Haeckel, Ernst, Bathybius 641

Heat, Influence of, on Galvanic Conductivity 123

Heat and Motion, and Political Economy 329

Heredity in Nervous Diseases 332

Heresy, The Latest Cases of 494

�� � [ 794 ] 774 INDEX.

PAGE

High Temperature and Bowel-Complaints 507

Holden, E. S., Standard Time 174

Honey-Dew 237

Huxley, T. H., Instruction in Physiology 668

Huxley's American Lectures 709

Ignorant Enterprise 122

lies, G., Initiatory Forces 150

Imagination 455

Import of Protoplasm 422

Indications of Progress 753

Inebriety, Fatality of 636

Initiatory Forces 150

Insanity, Is it on the Increase ? 508

Insects in Colorado ' 104

Instinct and Intelligence 585

Iron, Barff's Method of preserving 633

Italy, The Observatories of. 538

��Jevons on " Cram " 239

Jevons, iProf., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 745

Jupiter and Saturn, their Physical Condition 233

Jupiter's Cloud-Masses, Movements of 81

King, Clarence, on Catastrophism , 491

Kirkwood, D., Mars and its Satellites 706

Labor- Question, The 605

Lankester, E. E., Huxley's American Lectures 709

Larned, Civilization 549

Lattimore, S. A., Bad Odors in Water 409

Lemming, The Norwegian. (Illustrated.) 404

Life, Material Kesources of 339

Lockwood, S., Owls 142

Locust, The, in Manitoba 508

Locusts, The Seventeen-Year 765

Lubbock, Sir John, Ants 39

Man, Early, of North America 365

Marbles, Antique ' ^7

Mars and its Satellites ^^^

Marsh, Prof. O. C, Bigsby Medal awarded to 252

Marsh-Fevers . 250

Matches 413

Material Eesources of Life 339

Matter and Mind 183

Mauna Loa, Eruption of. 125

Meat-Supply, Extending the 253

Medical Science, Advance in T67

Meek, F. B., Death of. 382

�� � [ 795 ] INDEX. 775

PAGE

Mental Disease in Animals , 639

Mental Overwork 105

Mesmerism, Spiritualism, etc 12, 161

Metals, Our Domestic 636

Metric Weights in Massachusetts 379

Mind, Matter and 183

Mind-Reading hy the Ear 362

Minerals, Rare, in Colorado 632

Molecular Magnitudes 653

Moss-Copper 637

Movements of Jupiter's Cloud-Masses 81

Museums of Europe 472

Mushrooms, Edible 366

Mystery of Pain 634

Nature, Study of, in Schools . 367

JSTear-sightedness in Schools 122

Nervous Diseases, Heredity in 332

Newcomb, Simon, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 612

New Star in Cygno. (Illustrated.) 69

Niaudet, A., Electric Candle , 429

Nisbet, C, Pessimism and its Antidote 682

Notes 127, 255, 383, 511, 639, 768

Observatories of Italy 538

Odd Forms among Fishes. (Illustrated.) 525

Optics, Simple Experiments in. (Illustrated.) 658

Oswald, Dr. F. L., Vegetation and Climate . 385

Outerbridge, A. E., Divisibility of Gold. 74

Over-Consumption, or Over-Production ? 306, 489, 615

Overwork, Mental 105

Owls, American. (Illustrated.) 142

Oxygen, Discovery of, in the Sun 618

Palmer, J. A., Toadstools , 93

Parties, Decline of 755

Party Government, Decline of 734

Pearce, S. A., The Modern Piano-forte 691

Pessimism and its Antidote 682

Pettenkofer, Max von. Air and Houses , 196

" " Ground-Air 280

Philadelphia, Building-System of. 510

Physiology, Elementary Instruction in , 668

Piano-forte, The Modern 691

Political Economy, Heat and Motion and 329

Pottery, Aboriginal, of Illinois. (Illustrated.) 573

Prescott, A. B., Material Resources of Life 339

Pressure, Atmospheric, and Life. (Illustrated.) 316

Pritchard, H. B., Science and War 599

Proctor, R. A., Jupiter's Cloud-Masses 81

�� � [ 796 ] 776 INDEX.

PAGE

Progress, Indications of 753

Protoplasm, Import of 422

Psychic Phenomena 253

Psycho-Physiological Sciences V21

Rabbits in New Zealand 379

Rare Minerals in Colorado 632

Rayet, G., The Observatories of Italy 538

Relation of Air to the House we live in 196

Relative Importance of Ideas 108

Remains that were not Prehistoric 631

Renan, E., Spinoza 217

Retina, Retention of Impressions by 252

Retinal Nerves, Action of the 381

Retrospect and Prospect 513

Rumor, A Baseless 241

Saline Deposit, A Curious '. 236

Salt-Bed at Goderich 505

Sawdust as Manure 507

Schneider, E., Tides 271

Science and War 599

Science, How it is advanced in Norway 125

Sellers, G. E., Pottery 573

Seelye on Civihzation and Religion 621

Seventeen-Year Locusts 765

Sewing-Machine, The, in Political Economy 481

Shad in the Ohio 505

Siberia, Reopening Route to 378

Silk Fabrics 636

Silver-bearing Sandstones 764

Simmons, W. E., Aqueducts 26

Singing in the Ears 104

Skeptic, A Philosophic, how reconciled to Religious Faith 487

Smith, G., Dechne of Party Government 734

Snoring, and how to stop it. (Illustrated.) 704

Space, New Ideas about 364, 749

Sparrow, The English 506

Specimens of Educational Literature. (Illustrated.) 713

Spencer, Herbert, Evolution of the Family 129, 257

" " Status of Women 433

" " Retrospect and Prospect. 513

Spinoza 217

Spiritualism, Carpenter on 750

Spiritualism, Mesmerism, etc 12, 161

Spontaneous Generation 381

Standard Time, Distribution of, in the United States 174

Status of Women and Children 433

Steel-Bronze Cannon 632

Stewart, Balfour, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 359

��H

�� � [ 797 ] INDE'X.

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��PAGE

Stock-Feeding, Economy of 383

Sudan, Eesources and Industries of 126

Sun-spot Periods 488

Supplements of the Popular Science Monthly 238

Tan, Spent, as Manure 507

Tenney, Prof. Sanborn, Death of. 631

" " Fishes 525

Testimonials to Mr. Darwin 121

Thurston on Domestic Metals 636

Tides 271, 616, 748

Tin, where got by the Ancients 383

Tint, Change of, in Flowers 633

Toadstool-Eating 93

Torpedo, Electrical Phenomena of. 382

Treatment of the Opium-Habit 763

Trout, Voracity of the 254

Trowbridge, D., Jupiter and Saturn 233

Turkey, Wild, Domestication of the 635

Vaux, C, A Philosophic Emperor 461

Vegetation, Climatic Influence of 385

Vienna Scientific Club 632

Viper-Poison, Experiments with 767

Wallace, A. R., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 235

War and Science 599

Ward, L. F., Evolution 672

Water-Tortoise, its Food 381

Wheat-Fungus, A New, in California 509

White, F. E., Matter and Mind 183

White Paint 633

Wilder, B. G., Gar-Pikes 1, 186

Wild-Turkey, Domestication of the 635

Winslow, Dr., Cremation of 765

Wood-Ants, Feeding-Habits of. 104

Woodruff Scientific Expedition 749

Worthington, A. M., Drops 544

Wyeth, J. A., Snoring 704

Youmans, Eliza A., Experiments in Optics 658

Zodiacal Light. (Illustrated.) 349, 617

��END OF VOL. XI.

�� �

[edit] Volume 12

[ 769 ] INDEX.

��PAGE

Addresses of Eliot and Marsh 473

Air, Compressed, in Coal-Mining 638

Air and Health 216,

American Biology, Progress of. 624

American Contributions to Electrical Science 744

Ancient Ruins of Colorado 120

Andaman-Islanders 120

Ants, The Slaves of 116

Ants, how they stand Heat and Cold 763

Apparatus, Electrical, for Beginners 506

Arachnidan, A Formidable 254

Archer-Fishes. (Illustrated.) 302

Artificial Ice 508

Artificial Eespiration 252

Bagehot, W., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 489

Bain, A., Language and Civil Service 152

Beavers in Colorado 766

Bees, Duration of Flight of 119

Belief in Hell 627

Belt, T., Man and the Glacial Period 61

Bevington, L. S., Teachings of a Day 327

Biology, American, Progress of 624

Blast-Furnace Slag . 762

Blood, Local Temperatures of the 252.

Books noticed :

" Holy Eoman Empire " (Bryce) Ill

" Physiology of Mind " (Maudsley) Ill

" Lightning-Protection " (Spang) 112

" Lithology of the Adirondacks " (Leeds) 112

" Naturhistoricher Yerein von Wisconsin " 11.3

" Ages of Sun and certain Fixed Stars " (Kirkwood) 113

" Locust-Plague" (Riley) 113

" Compendium of Facts " (Emery) 113

" General History of Connecticut " 113

" Weighing and Measuring " (Chisholm) 114

" Bible of Humanity " (Michelet) 114

" Lectures and Essays " (Blanchard) 114

" Fishes of Upper Georgia " (Jordan) 114

VOL. XII. 49

�� � [ 770 ] 77 o INDEX.

Books noticed : PAGE

Metallurgical Review ... 115

" Rest for Women " (Putnam-Jacobi) 241

" Fifteen-Cent Dinners " (Corson) 244

" Telegraphic Determination of Differences of Longitude " 244

" Civilization and Duration of Life " (Lewis) 245

"Physical Geography" (Geikie) 246

" Survey of Colorado " 246

" Fur-bearing Animals " (Coues) 246

" The Polaris Expedition " 247

" Methods of Ethics " (Sidgwick) 368

" Isis Unveiled " (Blavatsky) 369

" United States Entomological Commission " 370

" Outlines of Chemistry" (Wheeler) 370

" Through Rome on " (Waters) 370

" The World's Progress " (Putnam) 371

" The Ottoman Turks" (Creasy) 371

" The Hidatsa Indians " (Matthews) 371

" Survey of the Territories " 371

" New York Meteorological Observatory " 372

" Central Park Menagerie" 372

" Geyser-Basins " 372

" The Two-Ocean Water" (Comstock) 372

" American Palaeozoic Fossils " (Miller) 373

" Serpent and Siva Worship " 373

" Scientific Course of Study " (Bessey) 373

" Davenport Academy of Sciences" 373

" Boston Society of Natural History " 373

" Insects of Missouri " (Riley) 373

" Savings-Banks " (Townsend) 374

" Egypt as it is " (McCoan) 374

" Heredity " (Brush) 374

" Heredity " (Parker) 374

" Criminality " (Stevenson) 374

" Elements of Geology " (Le Conte) 501

" Deterioration and Race-Education " (Royce) 503

" Notes on Leather" (Lyle) 503

" Kansas Academy of Sciences " 503

"A, B, C, of Finance" (Newcomb) 504

"Robinson Crusoe's Money" (Wells) 504

" Steam-Engineering " (Nystrom) 504

" Public-Health Papers " 504

" Smithsonian Report" 505

" Religious Feeling " (Smyth) . 505

" Sanitary Condition of Houses " (Waring) 505

" How to use the Microscope " (Phin) 505

" Anales del Museo de Mejico " 505

" Pessimism " (Sully) 630

" Ancient Life-History of the Earth " (Nicholson) 631

" An American Girl" (Sola) 632

" Money " (Walker) 632

�� � [ 771 ] INDEX. 771

Books noticed : PAGE

" Money and Legal Tender " (Linderman) 633

" The Positive Philosophy and Religion " 633

" Gerrit Smith " (Frothingham) 634

" Transcendentalism " (Cook) 634

" Physiography " (Huxley) ... 749

" Chauncey Wright's Letters " (Thayer) 750

" Freethinking and Plain Speaking " (Stephen) 751

" Source of Muscular Power " (Flint) 751

" The Kahala " (Pancoast) 752

" What was He ? " (Denton) 752

" North American Ethnology " 753

" Heating and Ventilation " (Schumann) 753

" Inorganic Chemistry " (Thorpe) 753

" Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club " 753

" The Silver Country " (Anderson) 753

" Determination of Rocks " (Jannetaz) ... 753

" Volumetric Analysis " (Muir) 754

" Philosophic Ideas " (Wilmshurst) 754

" Peabody Museum of Archaeology " 754

" Relations of Pain to Weather " (Mitchell) 754

" Birds of Connecticut " (Merriam) 755

" The Glacial Period in the Southern Hemisphere " (Belt) 755

" Poisonous Mushrooms " (Ott) 755

" White Mountains of New Hampshire " 755

Young Scientist 755

Brain, A Low Mammalian 124

British Association Papers 117

Buckland on the Berlin Gorilla 253

Buckland, A. W., on Stimulants 117

Building-Stones of St. Lawrence County 255

Caoutchouc, Mineral 508

Carnivorous Plants 758

Castor-Oil 511

Cerebellum, Functions of the 119

Ceremonial Government, Evolution of 385, 545, 641

Chemistry of Fruit- Ripening 460

Chinese Famine, Causes of 759

Chinese Medicines 762

Chloroform 738

Clairvoyance, Wallace and 745

Coinages, Debasement of 580

Color, Distribution of, in Animals 761

Colorado, Ancient Ruins of 120

Colors, Simultaneous Contrast of 118

Comparative Stupidity of Politicians 162

Compressed Air in Coal-Mining 638

Concerning Belief in Hell 627

Congo, Stanley's Exploration of the 635

Constitution of the Nebulae 118

�� � [ 772 ] 77 2 INDEX.

PAGE

Continuity, The Law of 29

Cook and his " Biology " 495

Cooking 760

Corals, Living 737

Counting by the Aid of the Fingers 430

Cyclone in Bengal 192

Dallinger on Minute Animal Forms 122

Damon, W. E., Corals 737

Davis, E. W., Magnetic Observatory at Madison, Wisconsin 455

Dawkins, B., on Museums 125

Debasement of Coinages 580

Differences, The, of Things 53

Digestion, Recent Observations on 123

Dissipation of Energy 701

Doctoring Darwin 363

Doses, Size of. 126

Draper, J. W., Evolution 175

Drowning-Accidents 510

Duration of Flight of Bees 119

Dynamical Theory of Heat, I. (Illustrated.) 206, 330

Earthquakes in Japan 507

Earthworms in Agriculture 510

Edison's Phonograph. (Illustrated.) .' 719

Edison's Phonograph 748

Education, Technical , 570

Electrical Apparatus 506

Electricity in War 382

Electrical Science, American Contributions to 744

Electro-plating 252

Eliot, President, his Address 473

Embalming, New Process of 639

Energy, Dissipation of 701

Environment, Influence of 122

Epidemics and Ablution 639

Ethnological Specimens, Interesting 377

Eucalyptus, The, in the Future. (Illustrated.) 662

Evolution, History of 175

Evolution of Ceremonial Government 384, 545, 641

Extirpation of Injurious Insects 123

Eyesight, Effects of Study on 74

Famine, Chinese, its Causes 759

"Farewell" 509

Filters of Spongy Iron 379

Fish-Breeding, Impure Water fatal to 637

Fish-Culture, Notes on 249

Fishes, Marine, in Lake Nicaragua 380

Flainniarion, C, System of Sirius 47

�� � [ 773 ] INDEX. 773

PAGK

Flight of Bees 119

Florida Lizards 249, 363

Formidable Arachnidan 254

Formosa, Travels in 761

Fossil Reptiles, New 757

Fruit-Ripening, Chemistry of 460

Functions of the Cerebellum 119

Garden-Schools 757

Gas as a Fuel 637

Gas-Well, A, in Kansas 376

Gases, Liquefaction of. (Illustrated.) 616

Gases, The last of the 635

Gassiot, J. P., Death of. 117

Generation, Spontaneous 476

Germ-Theory 743

German Handicraft 636

Geysers, and how they are explained. (Illustrated.) 407

Glacial Period, Man and the. (Illustrated.) 61

Gorilla, Buckland on the 253

Government, Ceremonial 545

Gratacap, L. P., The Ice Age 319

Graves of Mound-Builders. . . 638

Growth of the Steam-Engine. (Illustrated.) 129, 257, 446, 528

Handicraft, German 636

Health-Matters in Japan 280

Heat, Dynamical Theory of. (Illustrated.). 206, 330

Heliotype Process 639

Hell, Belief in 627

Honey, Production of 765

Horse, The, in America 744

Human Stature 508

Huxley, T. H., Technical Education 570

Hygiene, Individual 380

Hygienic Influence of Plants 417

Ice Age 319

Ice, Artificial 508

lies, G., Law of Continuity 29

lies, G., Dissipation of Energy 701

Illuminating Gas, Purification of 765

Hlustrations of the Logic of Science 1, 286, 604, 705

Improvements in Photography 509

Impure Water fatal to Fish-Breeding 637

Inaudible Vibrations 119

Individual Hygiene 380

Influence of Environment 122

Insanity, Modern Life and 432

Insects, Injurious, Extirpation of. 123

�� � [ 774 ] 774

��INDEX.

��PAGE

Intensity of Different-Colored Lights 759

International Scientific Service 249

Introduction and Succession of Vertebrate Life in America. (Illustrated.) 513, 672

Japan, Ancient Man in 377

Japan, Health-Matters in 280

Japanese Fruit-Tree, A New 378

Jeffreys, J. G., on Evolution 117

Kansas Gas- Well 376

Language in Education 238

Language and the Civil Service 152

Laryngoscope and Rhinoscope. (Illustrated.) 166-

Law of Continuity 29, 495, 623

Le Conte, Prof. Joseph, Sketch of 358

Le Conte, Joseph, Geysers 407

Leland, E. R., Debasement of Coinages 580

Leverrier, Death of 117

Lightning-Rods, do they attract 760

Liquefaction of the Gases. (Illustrated.) 616

Living Corals 737

Living out-of -Doors 509

Lizards of Florida 249, 363

Local Temperatures of the Blood 252

Lockwood, S., The Eucalyptus 662

Logic of Science, Illustrations of the 1, 286, 604, 705

Loomis, Prof., on Rain Areas i 250

McLean, W., Effects of Study on Eyesight 74

Magnetic Observatory at Madison, Wisconsin % 455

Man in Japan 377

Man and the Glacial Period. (Illustrated.) 61

Man, was He preglacial ? 381

Marbleized Utensils 381

Marpingen Miracles 724

Marsh, Prof., his Address 473

Marsh, O. C, Vertebrate Life in America 513, 672

Mauna Loa, Eruption of. 125

Mayer, A. M., Edison's Talking-Machine 719

Mechanics of Nature 763

Medicines, Chinese 762

Men of Science, Narrowness among 108

Mind-Reading 362

Mineral Caoutchouc 508

Mineral Oils, Origin of 124

Moa-Bird, The Gigantic. (Illustrated.) 87

Modern Life and Insanity 432

Modern Superstitions 232

Modern Troglodytes 37

�� � [ 775 ] INDEX. 77 5

��PAGE

��Monkey, New Species of 507

Mont Blanc, Discovery of 506

Moral Sense, Origin of 378

Morse, E. S., Health-Matters in Japan 280

Mound in Utah, Contents of a 123

Muscular Power, Source of 729

Museums of Natural History 501

Narrowness among Men of Science 108

Nebulae, their Constitution 118

Nicaragua, Lake, Marine Fishes in 380

Niemeyer, Dr. P., Air and Health 216

Non-Poisonous Coloring for Preserved Vegetables 638

Notes 127, 255, 383, 511, 640, 767

Oils, Mineral, Origin of 124

Open Air and Health 216, 494

Opening of the Museum 501

Opium and its Antidote 555

Optical Experiment, A New 122

Oswald, F. L. Modern Troglodytes 37

Our Six-footed Rivals 196, 349

Peirce, C. S., Logic of Science 1, 286, 604, 705

Peppermint-Culture 511

Pettenkofer, M. von, Hygienic Influence of Plants 417

Pharmacopoeia, The United States . 247

Phonograph, Edison's. (Illustrated.) 719, 748, 756

Photographs, New Solar 748

Photography, Improvements in 509

Plague of Rats 376

Plants, their Hygienic Influence 417

Pneumatic Clock Regulator 251

Poinier, P., Dynamical Theory of Heat 206, 330

Poisonous Leguminous Plants 764

Poisons of the Intelligence 738

Political Economy in Law-Schools 121

Prescott, A. B., Fruit-Ripening 460

Preservation of Wood

Proctor, R. A., Star or Star-Mist 148

Pumpkins, Composition of 376

Railroad-Strike, The Great, of 1877 107

Rankine, Prof., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 236

Rats, A Plague of 376

Reptilia, New Order of Extinct 378

Respiration, Artificial 252

Rest for Woman 492

Rheumatism, Salicylic Acid in 248

Richet, C, Opium and its Antidote 555

�� � [ 776 ] 77 6 INDEX.

PAGE

Eichet, C, Chloroform 738

" Eing Nebula," To the 90

Eivals, Our Six-footed 196, 349

Salicylic Acid in Ebeumatisni 248

Sauvage, E., Archer-Fishes 302

Savings-Banks and State Control 238

Saxon, J. W., The Differences of Things. 53

Schneider, E., The Tides 226

Science, Denationalizing 126

Science, Logic of 1, 286, 604, 703

Seasons, Alternation of, and Tree-Growth 382

Secchi, Frof., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 742

Seeger, Dr. S., Laryngoscope and Ehinoscope. (Illustrated.) 166

Servetus, Michael, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 91

Shaw, G. M., Telephone 559

Simultaneous Contrast of Colors 118

Singing-Flames and Inaudible Vibrations 119

Sirius, The System of. (Illustrated.) 47

Six-footed Eivals, Our 196, 349

Slag, Utilization of 762

Slaves of Ants 116

Smell, Extraordinary Development of Sense of 125

Society, The Science of 367

Solar Photographs 748

Source of Muscular Power 729

Spencer, H., Ceremonial Government 385, 545, 641

Spiders, how they spin 766

Spongy Iron Filters 379

Spontaneous Generation 476, 591

Stagnation of Trade, The Present 106

Stanley's Trip down the Congo 635

Star, or Star-Mist U8

Stature, Human 508

Steam-Engine, Growth of the. (Illustrated.) 15, 129, 257, 446, 528

Steam-Engine, A New Type of. 11

Stoddard, J. L., To the " Eing Nebula " 90

Study, Effects of, on the Eyesight T4

Stupidity, Comparative, of Politicians 1""

Style 340

Sugar-Manufacture, New Process of ' 5 ^

Sun-Spots and their Effects 365

Superstitions, Modern -32

Talking-Machine, Edison's. (Illustrated.) ' 19

Taste-Perceptions - 50

Teachings of a Day 3-7

Teasel, Common, Sensitiveness of its Leaves "37

Technical Education ^70

Telephone, The, and how it works. (Illustrated.) 5 ^9

�� � [ 777 ] INDEX. 777

��PAGE

��The Telephone anticipated 116

The Telephone, Teachings of 625

Temperaments 306

Theine, Proportions of, in Different Kinds of Tea 760

Thurston, E. H., Growth of the Steam-Engine 15, 129, 257, 466, 528

Tides 105, 226, 491

Tissandier, G., Liquefaction of the Gases 616

Topographical Surveys and Health 253

Torpedo, Invention of the 507

Travels in Formosa 761

Tree-Growth, Alternation of Seasons and 382

Trees and Health 758

Troglodytes, Modern 37

Trowbridge, J., Counting by the Aid of the Fingers 430

Tuke, D. H, Modern Life and Insanity 432

Tyndall, J., Spontaneous Generation 476, 591

Underground Clock-Regulator 251

United States Pharmacopoeia 247

Van de "Warker, E., Temperaments 30ij

Vegetables, Preserved, Non-Poisonous Coloring for 038

Vertebrate Life in America 513, 672

Vibrations, Inaudible, and Singing-Flames 119

"Wakefulness, Remedy for 121

"Wallace and Clairvoyance 745

War, Electricity in 382

Waste of Wire-Works 379

Waters, A. W., on the Shifting of the Earth's Axis 118

Weasel, The Wicked 697

Weather-Observations, Value of 764

Weights and Measures 375

Whitney Glacier 636

Wood, Preservation of 382, 510

Wright, T. H., Style 340

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Age of Gymnastics 129

Alaska, Agricultural and Mineral Resources of 766

Allbutt, T. C, Brain-Forcing 217

Allen, G., Origin of Fruits 597

American Influence on Civilization 495

Amphlett, J., Genealogy 583

Ant, The Agricultural 123

Anthropology, Progress of 668

Ants, how they distinguish each other 638

Appleton, George S. 497

Ararat, Mount, Ascent of , 381

Archaeological Researches in the Great American Bottom 506

Archaeology, North American. , 510

Armadillos, Gigantic Extinct. (Illustrated.) 139

Artificial Precious Stones 539

Associations, The Scientific 745

Astronomical History of Worlds 571

Aurora Borealis. , 508

Bain, A., Education as a Science 302, 660

Bald Mountain 635

Barnett, S., Metric Reform 82

Bathing as a Cause of Ear-Disease. 634

Baumhauer, E. H. von, The Teredo and its Depredations 400, 545

Beard, G. M., The Scientific Study of Human Testimony 53, 173, 328

Bird-eating Trout , 124

Birds' Eggs and Birds' Nests , 124

Black, J. R., Night Air in Cities. 105

Books noticed :

" Treatise on Chemistry " (Roscoe and Schorlemmer) 112

" Diseases of the Eye " (Carter). . . . 113

" History of England in the Eighteenth Century " (Lecky) 113

" Natural Law " (Simcox) 114

" Dictionary of Music and Musicians " (Grove) 114

" Proteus, or Unity in Nature " (Radcliff) 114

" Scriptural Doctrine of Retribution " (Beecher) 115

" Vital Magnetism " (Parson) 115

" Myths and Marvels of Astronomy " (Proctor) 116

" Creed of Christendom " (Greg) 116

" Aneroid Barometer " 116

vol. xm. 49

�� � [ 790 ] 77 o INDEX.

Books noticed : PA<5E

Princeton Review 117

" Creed and Deed " (Adler) 117

" Determination of Minerals " (Frazer) 117

" Mound-making Ants " (McCook) 117

" Mechanics of Ventilation " (Rafter) 118

" Engineering Construction " (Shields) 118

" Foundations " (Gaudard) 118

" Star-gazing " (Lockyer) 244

" Spectrum Analysis " (Lockyer) 244

" Epoch of the Mammoth " (Southall) 245

" Essays, Chemical and Geological " (Hunt) 247

" Pottery " (Nichols) 248

" Primitive Property " (Laveleye) 249

" Syllabus of Lectures on Anatomy " (Stowell) 249

" Synoptical Flora of North America " (Gray) 371

American Journal of Mathematics 372, < 52

" Tropical Nature and other Essays " (Wallace) 373

" The Sugar-Beet in North Carolina " (Le Doux) 375

" Doctrine of a Future Life " (Alger) 375

" Insanity in Ancient and Modern Life " (Tuke) 376

" Boy Engineers " (Lukin) 376

" Intercultural Tillage " (Sturtevant) 376

Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 376

" Chemical Experimentation " (Sadtler) 376

" At the Court of King Edwin " (Leighton) 376

" Adamites and Preadamites " (Winchell) 498

" Principles of Teaching " (Johonnot) 501

" Psycho-Physiological Sciences " 502

" Flowers and Ferns of the United States " (Meehan) 502

" Experimental Science Series " (Mayer) 503

" Matter and Motion " (Maxwell) 503

" Comparative Psychology " (Bascom) 504

" Wisconsin Geological Survey " (Chamberlin) 504

" State Regulation of Vice" (Powell) 504

" Mineralogy " (Collins) 504

" Wheeler's Surveys" 504

" Sanitary Science " (Richardson) 505

" Cerebral Hyperemia (Hammond) 505

" Agriculture " (Tanner) 505

" Music and Musicians " (Grove) 505

" Lessons in Cookery " 625

" Annual Record of Science and Industry " (Baird) 628

" Ethics of Positivism " (Barzellotti) 629

" Elements of Dynamic " (Clifford) 630

" Physical Technics " (Frick) 63

" Current Discussions." II 631

" Ferns of Kentucky " (Williamson) 631

" Survey of the Territories " 631

" Manual of the Apiary " (Cook) 631

" Vertebrates of the Northern States " (Jordan) 631

" Twenty-five-Cent Dinners " (Corson) 632

�� � [ 791 ] INDEX.

��771

��Books noticed : page

" Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences " 632

" History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine (Thurston) 749

Journal of Physiology 751

" Democracy in Europe " (May) 753

" Report on Forestry " (Hough) , 755

" New Oyclopaadia of Chemistry " 755

" Physics of the Infectious Diseases " (Logan) 756

" On the Nature of Things " (MacVickar) 756

" Art Hand-Books " (Carter) 756

" Principles of Light and Color " (Babbitt) 756

" Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States " (Meehan) 757

" Kensington Science-Lectures " 757

" Care of our Eyes " (Angell) 757

" Short Studies of Great Lawyers " (Brown) 757

" The Dance of Death " (Herman) 757

Botanical Science, Development of 119

Brain, Study of the 237

Brain-forcing 217

Brick Walls, Discoloration of 379

Brownell, T. F., Curious Systems of Notation 420

Cactus as a Lava-Breaker 511

Calculating-Machine, A New 761

Cardiff Giant and other Frauds 197

Carpet-Beetle 634

Catholicism and Eternal Punishment 368

Ceremonial Government, Evolution of , 25, 146, 292

Chahoon, G., Water-Supply of Rivers 288

Character, Influence of Chemical Research on 764

Chinese Loess 242

Civilization and Science 257, 385, 529

Clarke, F. W., Scientific Courses of Study 187

Classics, The, in Germany 623

Clearing Land with Dynamite 120

College of the City of New York , 106

Color-Blindness 120

Composite Portraits. (Illustrated.) 460

Conscience in Evolution 513

Consciousness under Chloroform 694

Contagious Diseases, Prevention of 381

Cooke, J. P., Jr., The Radiometer and its Lessons 1

Cookery and Education 620, 748

Copying by Photography 251

Copyright, International 618

Creosote as a Timber-Preserver 382

Curious Systems of Notation 420

Davis, W. M., Formation of Nebulaa , 339

Davis, William Monroe 625

Death of a Generation 122

Development of Botanical Science 119

�� � [ 792 ] 77 2 INDEX.

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Devil, The, and the Oaks 507

Discoloration of Brick Walls , , 379

Discolored Sea-Water 253

Disinfection of Streets and Sewers 250

Distribution of Prairie and Forest 122

Dread and Dislike of Science 410

Drowning, Pain in 93

Du Bois-Reymond, Civilization and Science 257, 385, 529

Du Bois-Reymond, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 360

Dynamite, clearing Land with 120

Earthquake in North Carolina 635

Efccles, R. G., Radical Fallacy of Materialism 354

Eclipse, Solar, of 1878 633

Edison, T. A., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 487

Education as a Science 302, 660

Education, Liberty of Science and 107

Electricity in Thunder-Storms 689

Electric Light ....,-. 380, 634

Embryo Life, Studies of 382

English Schools, Science in 558

Eternal Punishment, Catholicism and 368

Evolution of Ceremonial Government 25, 146, 292

Evolution, The Place of Conscience in 513

Evolution Theory, is it atheistic ? 760

Eyes of Deep-Sea Animals 382

Facts about the Rain-Tree. 119

Finite and Infinite 73

Fish-Worm, A Big 508

Fodder-Plant, A Drought-Proof. 763

Fog-Signals. (Illustrated.) 275

Fog-Signals, Recent Experiments on 380

Foote, Elisha, Electricity in Thunder-Storms , 689

" Forest-Beds " of Ohio, Age of 507

Forests, Atlantic and Pacific, Differences between 762

Fossil Mammal from the Jurassic of the Rocky Mountains 377

Fowle, T. W., Conscience in Evolution 513

Fruits, Origin of 597

Fuel, Domestic, Grass and Straw as 761

Galton, F., Composite Portraits 460

Galvanic Cell, A New Form of. 765

Gases, Liquefaction of the. (Illustrated.) 78

Gates, N. J., The Relation of the Finite to the Infinite 73

Genealogy 583

Geological History of New York Island and Harbor. (Illustrated.) 641

Geological Question, An Interesting 765

Gigantic Extinct Armadillos. (Illustrated.) 139

Glass, A New Method of annealing 764

�� � [ 793 ] INDEX. 773

PAGE

Grape-Culture 254

Grinnell, G. B., Sketch of Prof. Marsh 612

Grote, A. R., Man and his Structural Affinities 429

Growth of Photography 119

Growth of the Steam-Engine 64

Gymnastics, The Age of 129

Hallucinations of the Senses 698

Hanging, The Question of Pain in 349

Harpy Eagle '. 250

Hartt, 0. F., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 231

Hasheesh 482

Health-Lift, Disadvantages of the 254

Henry, Joseph : 365

How New York got a College 106

How Sound and Words are produced. (Illustrated.) 43

Huxley's Address at the Harvey Tricentenary 396

Huxley, Progress of Anthropology 668

Illustrations of the Logic of Science 203, 470

Infant's, An, Progress in Language 587

Journalism, Progress of 241

Lake-Dwellers, how they lived 639

Land, clearing of, with Dynamite 120

Land-Slides, Remarkable 121

Language, An Infant's Progress in 587

Le Conte, J., Science and Mental Improvement 96

Lewes, G. H., The Dread and Dislike of Science 410

Liberty of Science and Education.. . 107

Life, Monera and the Problem of 455

Lightning-Rods 509

Liquefaction of the Gases. (Illustrated.) 78

Lockyer, J. N., Water-Waves and Sound-Waves 166

Locomotive-Whistles 126

Logic of Probabilities 236

Logio of Science 203, 470

��Magnets, Floating, An Experiment with 380

Man and his Structural Affinities. (Illustrated.) \ 429

Mars, its Inner Moon 383

Marsh, O. C, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 612

Materialism, The Radical Fallacy of 354

Maudsley, Dr., Hallucinations of the Senses 698

Medico-Psychological Rubbish 507

Meteorological Notes 125, 636

Metric Reform 82

Monera and the Problem of Life 455, 563, 677

Monkeys, their Dislike for Snakes 379

Montgomery, E., Monera and the Problem of Life 455, 563, 677

�� � [ 794 ] 774 INDEX.

PAGE

Moquis, their Sun-Worship ,,.,,......, . 378

Morse, E. S., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 102

Motion, Voluntary 444

Mountains, how made 762

Miiller, Max, on the " Origin of Reason" ... Ill

Muslin Glass .., 251

Natural History, New Fact in 510

Nebula?, The Formation of ...... . 339

Nebulae, Variability of 251

Newberry, J. S., Geological History of New York Island and Harbor. . . . 641

New York, how it got a College. 106

Night- Air in Cities , 105

Nitrification 638

Notation, Curious System of * 420

Notes 127, 255, 383, 511, 640, 767

Organ-Piano 378

Origin of Fruits 597

Origin of Reason HI

Oswald, F. L., The Age of Gymnastics 129

Oustalet, E., Pygmy Monkey 184

Pain in Drowning , . 93

Pain in Hanging 349

Peirce, C. S., Logic of Science , 203, 470

Pennsylvania Oil-Regions 252

Personal Reminiscences of some Deceased Savants. 20

Photographic Process, A New. (Illustrated.) 441

Photography, copying Designs by 251

Photography, Growth of 119

Plant and Animal Life, Analogies of. 508

Poisons of the Intelligence 482

Pollock, F., An Infant's Progress in Language 587

Prairie and Forest, Distribution of. . , 122

Probabilities, Logic of 23<i

Protoplasm, The Study of 746

Pygmy Monkey. (Illustrated.) 184

Radiometer, The, and its Lessons 1

" Rain-Tree," Facts about the n9

Reason, Origin of HI

Relation of the Finite to the Infinite 73

Religion and Science at Vanderbilt University 492

Reminiscences, Personal, of some Deceased Savants 20

Research, Systematic Promotion of "58

Richet, C, Hasheesh 483

Russia in Europe "35

Ryder, J. A., Gigantic Extinct Armadillos 139

Salt Lake 253

�� � [ 795 ] INDEX. 775

PAGE

Sap, New Theory of the Flow of. 767

Science and Education, Liberty of. 107

Science and Mental Improvement 96

Science in the English Schools 558

Science in Eelation to Teaching 631

Science, the Dread and Dislike of 410

Scientific Courses of Study 187

Scientific Study of Human Testimony 53, 173, 328

Sea-side Studies. (Illustrated.) 312

Sedgwick on " Vestiges of Creation " 242

Senses, Hallucinations of the 698

Septic Organism, A New 511

Setting Tires with Hot Water 122

Sewer-Building 121

Shaw, G. M., Sound and Words 43

Silk-School Farm 759

Snake- Affection 126

Sound and Words. (Illustrated.) 43

Sound, Magnifying 367

Sparrow, The English 637

Spider, A Magnetized 126

Spence, P., Voluntary Motion 444

Spencer, H., Ceremonial Government 25, 146, 292

Spencer, H., Consciousness under Chloroform 694

Steam-Engine, Growth of the 64

Sterne, Cams, Artificial Precious Stones 539

Stockwell, G. A., The Cardiff Giant and other Frauds 197

Streets and Sewers, Disinfection of. 250

Studies of Embryo Life 382

Study of the Brain 237

Subterranean Water-Courses 124

Sun-Worship among the Moquis 378

Teleological Ideas, how acquired 760

Tenney, S., Sea-side Studies 312

Teredo, The, and its Depredations. (Illustrated.) 400, 545

Testimony, Scientific Study of 53, 173, 328

Thurston, P. H., The Growth of the Steam-Engine 64

Timber preserved by Creosote , 382

Timber, Rapid Decay of. - 639

Tires, setting, with Hot Water 122

Tissandier, G., Liquefaction of the Gases 78

Tracy, R. S., Pain in Drowning 93

Tracy, R. S., Pain in Hanging 349

Tracy, R. S., Yellow Fever 714

Trout, Bird-eating 124

Tyndall, J., Recent Experiments on Fog-Signals 275

Variability of the Nebulae 251

Vaughan, D., Astronomical History of Worlds 571

Vestiges of Creation, Sedgwick on 242

�� � [ 796 ] 77 6 INDEX.

��PAGE

��Vesuvius, Threatened Outbreak of 378

Vision, Peculiarities of 510

Vogt, Carl, Personal Reminiscences of some Deceased Savants 20

Voluntary Motion 444

Water-Courses, Subterranean 124

Water for Domestic Uses 759

Water-Supply of Rivers 288

Water- Waves and Sound-Waves. (Illustrated.) 166

West, Charles, Logic of Probabilities 236

Yellow Fever 714

Yellow Fever, and what to do about it 747

Yellow Fever, Artificial Cold in the Treatment of 763

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��PAGE

Aard-Vaek, or Earth-Hog. (Illustrated.) 572

Advantages of Oral Teaching 690

Afghanistan 252

African Elephant, its Proposed Domestication 551

Agassiz's Zoological Laboratory 834

Agricultural School, A French 253

Alcohol, Effects of, on Character 379

Allen, G., "Why do we eat our Dinner ? 799

America, The Peopling of ^^

American Hairy Tortoise 530

Ancient Hygiene 549

Animal Intelligence 214

Animals and Plants, Differences between 30

Antiquity of the Practice of Inoculation 695

Ant Community, History of an 248

Ants, Battle-Eoyal among 121

Ants' Nest. . . /. 693

Are the Elements elementary ? 407

Artificial Diamonds 687

Astronomical Magnitudes and Distances 291

Atheism and the. Church 621

Atmospheric Electricity and Plant-Growth 247

Backgammon among the Aztecs ' 491

Bain, A., Education as a Science 55, 152

Bain, A., John S. Mill 697

Balloons, Use of, in Arctic Exploration 837

Battle-Royal among Ants • • 121

Beard, G. M., Experiments with Living Human Beings Gil, 751

Beaver, Sagacity of the 123

Beginning of Nerves in the Animal Kingdom. (Illustrated.) 303

Belt, Thomas, Death of 255

Bidder, George, the Calculating Boy 835

Biology and " Woman's Eights " 201

Black Diamonds 337

Blindness and its Causes 838

Blood-sucking Squirrel 838

VOL. XIV. — 54

�� � [ 862 ] 842 INDEX.

Books noticed : page

• Scientific Memoirs " (Draper) 113

Handbook of Chemistry " (Tidy) ; 115

Sound " (Mayer) 115

Free Eeligious Association " 116

Photometric Eesearches " (Peirce) 116

In the Wilderness " (Warner) 116

• Metric Weights and Measures " 116

Sound and the Telephone " (Blake) 116

American College Directory " 116

New York Meteorological Observatory " 117

American Indians " (MaUery) 117

Lewis Brooks's Museum " 117

Deep-Sea Soundings " (Jewell) 117

AU around the House " (Beecher) 239

Fish and Fisheries " 240

■ Life of George Combe " (Gibbon) 240

Deterioration and Race Education " (Eoyce) ' 241

Superstition in all Ages " (Meslier) 241

American Antiquarian " 242

Parks and Gardens of Paris " (Robinson) 243

Tribes of California " (Powers) 244

American Colleges " (Thwing) 244

Dictionary of Music and Musicians " 244

The Bible of To-day " (Chadwick) 396

Stock-Breeding " (Miles) 398

Ontological Science " (Day) 399

Life in other Worlds " (Miller) 399

Filtration of Water " (Nichols) 399

Old House altered " (Mason) 400

Goethe's Faust " 400

Practical Chemistry " (Muir) , 400

The Blessed Bees" (AUen) 400

Proportions of the Steam-Engine " (Marks) 400

Flower-Painting " (Duffield) 400

The Railway " (Sterne) 401

Golden Songs of Great Poets " 401

Geology of Wisconsin " 401

United States Entomological Commission " 401

Color-Blindness " (Jeffries) 402

Geometrical Drawing " (Vose) 402

The Commonwealth reconstructed " (Clark) 535

Early History of Mankind " (Tylor) 536

Introductory Chemical Practice " 537

Elementary Chemistry " (Roscoe) 538

Christ's Words " (Turner) 538

American Quarterly Microscopical Journal " 539

Science News " 540

Report of Johns Hopkins University " 540

Ancient Cemetery of Chacota Bay " 540

Telegraph in America " (Reid) 541

�� � [ 863 ] INDEX. 843

Books noticed : ^age

" Walks in London " (Hare) 542

" Science Observer " 542

" Survey of the Lakes " 542

" Survey of Minnesota " 542

" Minerals, etc., of the Pacific Coast " 542

•' The Indian Question " (Pope) 542

"Origin, Progress, and Destiny of the English Language " (Weisse).. 678

" Law of Property in Intellectual Productions " (Drone) 679

" Ferns in their Homes and Ours " (Robinson) 680

" Sanitary Examinations of Water, etc." (Fox) 681

" General Vaccination " (Harris) 682

" Constituents of Climate " (Lente) 682

" Democracy in Europe " (May) 682

" Native Flowers and Ferns " (Meehan) 683

" Races of European Turkey " (Clark) 683

• ' Smithsonian Report " 683

" United States Geological Survey " 683

" Economic Monographs " 684

" Strength of Materials " (Kent) 684

" Zoology of the Vertebrate Animals " (Macalister) 684

" Total Abstinence " (Richardson) 684

" Journal of a Tour in Marocco " (Hooker and Ball) 821

" Education as a Science " (Bain) 822

" Demonology and Devil-Lore " (Conway) 824

" Paradoxical Philosophy " 825

" How to he plump " (Duncan) 825

" What is the Bible? " (Sunderland) 826

" How to parse " (Abbott) 826

" Agricultural Ant of Texas " (McCook) 826

" House Air " (Donaldson) 826^

" Wanderings in South America " (Waterton) 827

" American Journal of Otology " 828

" Industrial Education " (Hogg) 828

" Air and Moisture on Shipboard " (Turner) 829

" Genealogy of Plants " (Ward) 829

" Notes on Cladocera " (Birge) 829

" The Air we breathe " 829

" The Soul and the Resurrection " (Kellogg) 829

" Jurassic Dinosaurs " ( Marsh) 829

" Principles of Breeding " (Brewer) 829

" Aphididae of the United States " (Riley and Monell) '829

" Art Anatomy " (Howe) ... 829

Brain-bulk, its relation to Intelligence 551

Brooks, W. K., Animals and Plants 30

Brunton, T. Lauder, Reflex Action and Disease 639

California Climate, and Consumption 836

Candle-Fish 546

Carhart, H. S., Astronomical Magnitudes and Distances 291

Carnivorous Caterpillars 121

�� � [ 864 ] 844 INDEX.

PAGB

Causes of Ocean-Currents 686

Ceremonial Government. \' ;I lY

Chemical Elements 600

Childhood, The First Three Years of 591

Civilization and Teeth 689

Coal-Gas Combustion, Products of 541^-

Coffee-Houses and Kum-Shops 1Q3

College Education 248

Colors, Contrast of. (Illustrated.) \

Commercial Products of New Caledonia 834

Conscience, is it primitive ? 647

Copyright Commission, The English. 296

Copyright and Morality 53O

Corona, the Sun's, Light of. . . . 495

Cotton-Worm 4O6

Crystallization of Gold, Silver, etc. (Illustrated.) 434

Cultivating Disease 250

Ourari ggg

Curteis, G, H., Atheism and the Churcli ..... 621

Curtiss, L. E., Molecular Dynamics 375

Damon, W. E., The Devil-Fish and its Pielatives. . . 345

Dangers of Moldy Bread 545

Darwin m. Galiani 4Q9

Davy, Sir H., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 813

Deep-Sea Soundings II9

Destruction of American Forests 550

Devil-Fish, The, and its Relatives. ^Illustrated.) 345

Diamonds, Artificial 687

Dietetic Curiosities 721

Differences between Animals and Plants 30

Discovery of a Few Salt-Deposit 124

Disease, Cultivating ' 250

Distribution of Spiders 124

Domestic Economy, Improved 395

Drinking-Water from Agricultural Lands 44

Du Bois-Reymond, E., Darwin th. Galiani 409

Early Traces of Man 794

Eastern Fish-Story 406

Easy-Chairs, The Science of 186

Economic Statistics of the World 691

Edison's Inventions. (Illustrated.) 130

Education as a Science 55, 152

Education, College 248

Education, Rational, Progress of Ill

Effects of Alcohol on Character 379

Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 668

Electric Illumination 234

Electric Light, Werdermann's 545

�� � [ 865 ] INDEX. • 845

��PAGE

��Electric Light 553

Electric Light as a Source of Nitric Acid 692

Electricity,. Atmospheric, and Plant-Growth 247

Elements, are they elementary ? 407

Elephant, the African, its Proposed Domestication 551

English, its Place in the Higher Education 81

English Eule, Effects of, in India 404

Entomology, Important Discovery in 836

Experiments in Sound. (Illustrated.) 65

Experiments with Living Human Beings 611, 751

Explosions from Combustible Dust. (Illustrated.) 159

Fever-Factories 143

Fiords of Glacial Origin on Long Island 831

Fires and their Causes 653

First Three Years of Childhood 591

Fish-Story, An Eastern 406

Flammarion, C, Intra-Mercurial Planets 714

Forests, Destruction of 550

Formation of Mountains. (Illustrated.) 460

Fothergill, J. M., Alcohol 379

French Agricultural Schools 253

Friendships of Animals 182

Galileo, What Medicine owes to 403

Galton, F., Psychometric Facts 771

Gas-Stoves and the Products of Combustion 692

Gelatine as a Food-Preserver ' 251

Germany, Restrictive Tendencies in 676

Girard, M., Curari 369

Grataeap, L. P., Ice Age 90

Grave-Digger Beetle 126

Gray, Elisha, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 523

Gregan, T. J., Crystallization of Gold, etc 434

Growth of Mining Engineering in the United States 403

Growth of Mushrooms 125

Gutta-Percha, Substitute for 126

Hair, Pigments of the 694

Hairy Water-Tortoise 245

Health and Recreation 780

Heredity 356

History of an Ant Community .' 248

History of Map-making 830

Honey-Bee, its Sting. (Illustrated.) 635

How to keep cool 549

Huxley, Professor, before the English Copyright Commission 166

Huxley on the Hand 544

Hygiene, Ancient 549

Ice Age, The 90

�� � [ 866 ] 846 INDEX.

��Igneous Eocks, Organic Matter in. 688

lies, G., Heredity 356

Important Discovery in Entomology , , 836

Improved Domestic Economy 395

In an Ants' Nest 693

India, English Kule in 404

Inoculation, Antiquity of. 695

Insect Eagman 839

Insects and Colored Flowers 529

Intra- Mercurial Planets. (Illustrated.) 714

Investigating the Cotton-Worm 406

Iron, Protection of, from Eust 687

Japan, An Early Eace in. (Illustrated.) 257

Japan, Science Lectures in 388

Japanese Fermented Liquors 252

Judson, J. A., Drinking- Water 44

Kneeland, S., The Monstrous in Art 731

Kuntze, 0., The Peopling of America 78

Language and the Emotions 190

Lardner, Dr., and Ocean Steam-Navigation 529, 673

Leaves, Physical Functions of. (Illustrated.) 365

Le Conte, J., Sociology and Biology -. . 325, 425

Lee, H., Singing Mice 102

Leland, E. E., Mites, Ticks, and other Acari 502

Lingual Study, An Historian's Notion of 819

Lockyer on the Chemical Elements 533, 600

Making Sound Vibrations visible 834

Malaria, Vehicles of 544

Mammoth, The Arctic, when it came 794

Man, Early Traces of 794

Manufacture of Sea-Salt at San Francisco 247

Map-making, History of 830

Maury, M. F., Black Diamonds 337

Medicine, what it owes to Galileo 403

Mercurial Deposit on Animal Teeth 125

Metric System, shall we adopt it ? 757

Microphone, The, does it magnify Sound ? 233

Mill, J. S • 697

Mineral White, A New 126

Mining Engineering in the United States 408

Mites, Ticks, and other Acari. (Illustrated.) . . 502

Molecular Dynamics 375

Monstrous, The, in Art 731

More Eoom for the Sciences 674

Morse, E. S., An Early Eace in Japan 257

Mortillet, G. de. Early Traces of Man 794

�� � [ 867 ] INDEX. 847

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Mounds, Curious, in California 233

Mountains, Formation of. (Illustrated.) 460

Movement of Water in the Suez Canal 550

Movements of Plants 250

Mummy, Studies of a 404

Mushrooms, Growth of 125

Musk-Bison 122

Mutilations and Heredity 233

Natural Selection 121

Nerves, The Beginning of, in the Animal Kingdom. (Illustrated.) 303

New Caledonia, Commercial Products of 834

New Form of Stereoscope 120

New Guinea and its Inhabitants 742

New Plant 690

Notes 127, 255, 407, 552, 695, 540, 840

Noxious Vapors and Health 254

Ocean-Currents 686

Old Phrenology, The, and the New. (Illustrated.) 475

Oleomargarine 249

Organic Matter in Igneous Eocks 688

Origin of Upland Lakes 810

Oswald, F. L., Dietetic Curiosities 721

Oswald, F. L., Fever-Factories 143

Our Parks 405

Oustalet, E., Aard-Vark 572

Oxygen, Effects of 118

Pain, " Uses "of 124

Parasites in Pork . 551

Pearls and their Origin 693

Peck, L. W., Explosions from Combustible Dust 159

Penguin, The, how it rears its Young 547

Persian Hair-Dye 249

Personal Equation 837

Peruvian Antiquities 835

Petermann, Dr., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 231

Phelps, J. W., The Radiometer 76

Phrenology, The Old and the New. (Illustrated.) 475

Physical Functions of Leaves. (Illustrated.) 365

Pigments of the Hair 694

Planetary Rings and New Stars 466

Plant, A New 690

Plant Respiration 403

Plants, Movements of 250

Plants and Atmospheric Humidity 668

Plants and the Peopling of America 78

Pope and Anti-Pope 320

Population-Density and Death-Rate 686

�� � [ 868 ] 848 , INDEX.

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Prescott, G. B., Edison's Inventions 130

Printing and tlie Perpetuity of Civilizations 685

Products of Coal-Gas Combustion 547

Progress of Eational Education Ill

Protection and Socialism 389

Psychometric Facts 771

Pure Teas 247

Eadiometer, The 76

Eainfall and Sun-Spots 831

Eecreation, Health and 780

Eeflex Action and Disease 639

Eelation, Scientific, of Sociology to Biology 325, 425

Eeligious Eecognition of N"ature. , . . 392

Eeorganization of the Government Surveys 543

Eestrictive Tendencies in Germany 676

Eesurvey of the Yellowstone Park 836

Eetentive Memories 690

Eichardson, B. W., Health and Eecreation. ' 780

Eobin, Value of the, to the Agriculturist 251

Eomanes, G. J., Animal Intelligence , . . 214

Eomanes, G. J., Beginning of Nerves 303

Eood, 0. N., Contrast of Colors 1

Sagacity of the Beaver 123

Salt-Deposit, New, in New York 124

Schmidt, O., Science and Socialism 577

Science and Socialism 577

Science in Eelation to War 817

Science Lectures in Japan 388

Science of Easy-Chairs 186

Sciences, More Eoom for 674

Scientific Instruction, Elementary, in Germany 107

Scientific Eelation of Sociology to Biology 325, 425

Sea-Salt, Manufacture of, at San Francisco 247

Shall we adopt the Metric System ? 757

Shingle-Nails swallowed by Cattle 692

Silk-worm Moths, how they escape from the Cocoon 122

Singing Mice 102, 673

Snake, A Useful 123

Sociology, its Scientific Eelation to Biology 325, 425

Sound, Experiments in. (Illustrated.) 65

Sound, Professor Tyndall on 832

Sound- Vibrations made visible 834

South American Fossils, Interesting Collection of 687

Spencer, H., Ceremonial Government 17

Spencer, Herbert, before the English Copyright Commission 296, 440

Spider Architecture 246

Spiders, Distribution of 124

Spottiswoode, "William, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 105

�� � [ 869 ] INDEX. 849

PAOK

Squirrel, A Blood-sucking 838

Stark, A. B., English in Higher Education 81

Statistics, Economic, of the World ^ 691

Steering of Ocean-Steamers 545

Stereoscope, New Form of. 120

Sting of tlie Honey-Bee. (Illustrated.) 635

Storage and Purification of Water 546

Strange Animal-Friendships 182

Studies of a Mummy 404

Substitute for Gutta-Percha 126

Suez Canal, Movement of Water in 550

Sun's Corona, Light of the 405

Sun's Long Streamers, The , 659

Sun-Spots, Rainfall and 831

Surgical Operation, A Unique. 548

Teaching, Oral, its Advantages 690

Teas, Pure 247

Teeth, Civilization and. ..." .. 689

Thomson, Sir W., on Deep-Sea Soundings 119

Titles. 17

Torpedo Transport 118

Traces of an Early Race in Japan, (Illustrated.) 257

Tylor, E. B., Backgammon among the Aztecs 491

Tyndall, J., Virchow and Evolution 266

Tyndall, J., The Electric Light 553

Tyndall on Sound 832

Tyndall, Professor, before the English Copyright Commission 39

Typhoid-Fever Poison 514

Unique Surgical Operation 548

Upland Lakes, Origin of. 810

Useful Snake 123

"Uses" of Pain 124

Vanderhilt University again 237

Van de Warker, E., Typlioid-Fever Poison 514

Vaughan, D., Planetary Rings and Xew Stars 466

Vehicles of Malaria 544

Vertebral Articulations in Birds 832

Virchow and Evolution 266

Vogt, C, Pope and Anti-Pone 320

Waldstein, C, Language and the Emotions 190

Wallace's Theory of Zoological Derivation 694

Wallace, A. R., New Guinea 742

Wallis, Gustav, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 386

Ward, J. C, Origin of Upland Lakes 810

Water, Drinking, from Agricultural Lands 44

Werdermann Electric Light 545

�� � [ 870 ] 850 • INDEX.

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Why do we eat our Dinner ? 799

Wilkinson, W., Is Conscience primitive ? 647

Wilson, A., The Old Phrenology and the New 475

Winchell on College Education 248

" Woman's Eights," Biology and ... ■. 201

Women and the Study of Science 119

Woorara-Poison ^69

Wyandotte Cave, Kecent Exploration of 833

Yellow Fever 388

Yellowstone Park, Kesurvey of. 836

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Abstraction in Science, The Eesults of 825

Aconite, its Physiological Action 281

Adulteration of Food and Drugs 286

Africa, Central, Explorations in 283

Africa, Southern, Pinto's Trip across 286

African Civilization, A Specimen of 863

Age of Cave-Dwellers in America 488

Age of Ice 833

Age of the World 137

Agnosticism as developed in Huxley's " Hume " 478

Allen, G., "Pleased with a Feather" 366

Allen, C, A Problem in Human Evolution 250

Allman, G. J., Protoplasm and Life 721

Alum in Baking-Powders 285

American and European Archeology 712

American Association, its Saratoga Meeting 853

America's Place in History 560

Ant-Intelligence 860

Argan-Tree of Southwestern Marocco 569

Armsby, H. P.; The Source of Muscular Power 812

Arsenic, its Physiological Effects 139

Asphaltum and Amber in New Jersey 71 9

Atlantis not a Myth 759

Audiometer, The 571

Bachelor, O. E., Observations on the Chameleon 178

Bain, A., Growth of the Will 10

Bain, A., John Stuart Mill 327, 750

Bain, A., The Classical Controversy 631

Barker, G. F., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 693

Barnard, W. S., Micro-Organisms 764

Baths, Cold-Water 567

Bathybius, Huxley on 862

Bats, their Geographical Distribution 574

Beard, G. M., A Remarkable Coincidence 628

Bennett's Expedition to the North Pole 557

Bergh, Mr., Letter from 409

Bergh, Mr., and the Sparrows 412

Birth, Life, and Death of a Storm 684

Black, J. E., Eemoval of Inherited Tendencies to Disease 433

vol. xv. 55

�� � [ 886 ] 866 INDEX.

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656

��Blake, E. Vale, Spontaneous and Imitative Crime

Bodily Conditions as related to Mental States 40

Bodily Injuries from Falling Meteorites 566

Books noticed :

" Cooley's Cyclopaedia of Practical Receipts " , 129

" Health, and how to promote it " (McSherry) 130

" After Death, what ? " (Piatt) 130

" The Reign of God not the Reign of Law " (Bacon) 131

" Health Primers " 132

" Scientific Memoirs " (Draper) 132

" Habit and Intelligence " (Murphy) 134

41 National Dispensatory " (Stille" and Maisch) 135

" Modern Chromatics " (Rood) 271

" American Chemical Journal " 273

" Journal of the American Chemical Society " 273

" Testing of Water-Wheels " (Emerson) 274

" Outline of General' Geology " (Comstock) , 274

" Sewer-Gases " (Varona) 2'T4

" Reading as a Fine Art " (Legouve) 274

" Ocean Wonders " (Damon) 275

" Life of Baroness Bunsen " (Hare) 275

" American Plant-Book " 275

" Chemical Physiology " (Vaughan) 275

" Color-Sense " (Allen) 276

" Physical Exercise and Consumption " (Davy) 276

" Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States " (Meehan) 276

" Coal " (Thorpe) 2 77

" Comparative Anatomy " (Gegenbaur) ' 277

" Materia Medica " (Dunham) 277

" Fasting Girls " (Hammond) 278

" Political Economy " (Roscher) 278

" Index Medicus " 278

" The Teacher " (Blakiston) 278

" Mixed Essays " (Arnold) 279

" Evolution of Man " (Haeckel) 415

" Moore's Rural Life " 417

" Life-saving Apparatus " (Lyle) 417

" Treatise on Chemistry " (Roscoe and Schorlemmer) 417

"Art of Questioning " (Fitch) 417

" Political Economy " (Allen) 418

" Notes of a Naturalist " (Moseley) 418

"Problems of Life and Mind" (Lewes) 419

" Sewer- Air " (Nichols) " 419

" Physics " (Guthrie) 420

" Hearing" (Burnett) 420

"Art of Singing" (Sieber) 420

" The Currency Question " (Hughes) 420

" The Schools of Ontario " 421

" Word and Work " (Robert) 421

" Wisconsin Tornadoes " (Daniells) 42 *

" Dictionary of the English Language " (Skeat) 42 1

�� � [ 887 ] INDEX. 867

Books noticed : page

" Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms " 421

" Bulletin of the United States National Museum " 422

" American Statistical Keview " 422

" The Human Species " (Quatrefages) 560

" Combustion of Coal " (Barr) 562

" Man's Moral Nature " (Bucke) 563

" Reign of the Stoics " (Holland) 563

" The Temperaments " (Jacques) 564

" Color-Blindness " (Jeffries) 564

" Money, Trade, and Industry " (Walker) 564

" Birds of the Colorado Valley " (Coues) 565

" Aids to Family Government " (Mayer) 565

" Beneficial Influence of Plants " (Anders) 565

" The Data of Ethics " (Spencer) 705

" The Sportsman's Gazetteer " (Hallock) 708

" Journal of Physiology " 709

" Souvenirs of Madame Vigee Le Brun " 709

" Outlines of Field Geology " (Geikie) 710

" Cultivation of the Senses " 710

" Peabody Museum " 710

" United States Entomological Commission " 711

" Insects of Illinois " 711

" Progressive Japan " (Le Gendre) 711

" Sketch of Dickinson College " (Himes) 845

" Entwicklung des Menschengeschlectes " (Steinach) 846

" Philosophy of Music " (Pole) 847

" Laboratory Teaching " (Bloxam) 848

" Analysis of Urine " (Hofmann) 849

" Dictionary of Music " (Grove) 849

" Commercial Organic Analysis " (Allen) 850

" Mind and Brain " (Calderwood) 850

" The Round Trip " (Codman) 851

" History of England " (Guest) 851

" Scientific English Grammar " (Colegrove) 851

" Free Religious Association " 851

" Life and Work of J. Henry " (Pope) 852

" National Education " (Bennett) 852

" Roman Catholicism in the United States " 852

Botanical Usurper, A 283

Brackett, W., Modern Science in its Relation to Literature 166

Brain, Living, Experiments on 855

Brightness and Distribution of the Fixed Stars 503

Brooks, W. K., Condition of Women from a Zoological Point of View. 145, 347

Browning, W., A Question of Eating 345

Bunbury, C, Visit to the New Zealand Geysers 356

Cave, A Remarkable, discovered in Algeria 717

Chameleon, Observations on the 178

Chemistry in its Relations to Medicine 214

Chloral and other Narcotics 491, 646

Cinchona-Cultivation in California 861

�� � [ 888 ] 868 INDEX.

PAGE

Clarke, Professor, on Lockyer's Researches 138

Classical Controversy, The 631

Classification of Words 714

Clews in Natural History. (Illustrated.) 14

Clifford, Professor, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 258

Climate at Great Altitudes 426

Clough, J., A Correction 265

Coal, The, of the Future : 856

Cold-Water Baths 567

Color-Sense in Savages 715

Combe, George, his Autobiography 109

Complaint, A, about the Monthly 698

Conder, F. P., Explosions in Coal Mines 200

Condition of Women from a Zoological Point of View 145, 347

Constitution of the Sun 855

Continent, Growth of a 280

Cooley, L. R. C, The Molecular Theory 462

Copyright, International, the London " Times "on 265

Cortambert, E., Selecting a First Meridian 156

Crime, Spontaneous and Imitative 656

Curiosities, Dietetic. II 30

Curiosities of Nervousness 282

Curious Survivals of Savagism 268

Dangers of Darwinism 68

Death, On the Fear of 123

Descartes on the Invention of the Telescope 430

Development of the House-Fly. (Illustrated.) 618

Diaphragm, Improved, for Phonograph 423

Dietetic Curiosities. II 30

Disease, Removal of Inherited Tendencies to 433

Disease of the Body as a Mental Stimulant 71

Diseased Condition of the Faculty of Wonder 196

Distinction between Man and Animals 138

Division and Distribution of the Electric Light 712

Dog's Affection, A 572

Draper's Researches on Oxygen in the Sun 716

Drilling Rocks by Electricity 573

Drugs, Adulteration of 575

Dry-Rot in Timber 525

��Earth, Shape of the 857

Earthquake of November 18, 1878 139

Earthworms 124

Eating, A Question of. 345

Edison's Electro-Chemical Telephone 854

Electric Light, how to make it steady 857

Electric Light, its Division and Distribution 712

Electric Pen, A New 285

Electrical Fishes 427

Elliott, E. T., The Age of Cave-Dwellers in America 488

�� � [ 889 ] INDEX. 869

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Esquimau Skull, Dimensions of the 859

Evolution, Geographical 548

Explanations that do not explain 410

Explorations in Central Africa 283

Explosions in Coal Mines, are they preventable \ 200

Eye, The, its Sensibility to Light 142

Famines in Ancient and Modern Times 137

Farquhar, H., Brightness and Distribution of the Fixed Stars 503

Fear of Death 123

Fixed Stars, Brightness and Distribution of the 503

Fodder-Tree 717

Food and Drugs, Adulteration of 286

Food and Feeding 377, 514, 620

Forces, Wasted 289

Fortieth Parallel, Geological Survey of the 302

Fossil Rhinoceros in Siberia 572

Fossils, New and Interesting 713

Fraukland, Professor, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 838

Furniss, J. J., Home-made Spectroscope. (Illustrated.) 808

Gairdner, Professor, Diseased Condition of the Faculty of Wonder 196

Games, The History of 225

Galton, F., Generic Images 532

Geikie, A., Geographical Evolution 548, 593

Generic Images 532

Geographical Evolution 593

Geography, Modern, what it includes 569

Geological Survey of the Fortieth Parallel 302

Geysers of New Zealand, A Visit to the 356

Gladstone on Natural History 573

Globe, Terrestrial, A Large 424

" Goat-Suckers," why so called 574

Goose, A Carnivorous 430

Government Aid to Artisan Schools 140

Grief in a Chimpanzee 142

Growth of a Continent 280

Growth of the Will 10

Harris on Social Science 702

Haviland, C. T., The Eesults of Abstraction in Science 825

Heat and Light 428

Heliograph, The Mance 429

History of Games 225

Horse, A, with a Load in his Stomach 428

House-Fly, Development of the. (Illustrated.) 618

How the Humming-Bird feeds 141

Human Evolution, A Problem in 250

Humming-Bird, how it feeds. 141

Huxley on Bathybius 862

Huxley, T. H., Sensation and the Sensiferous Organs 86

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Indian Problem, The 3 4

Insanity in Eussia 425

Insect-Destruction of Evergreen-Trees 855

Insects, Neuter 470

Iron Surfaces, New Process for the Protection of 429

Ironless Civilization, An 715

Japanese Archasology 141

" Jumping Frenchmen " 428

Kiddle, Mr., Letter from 408

King- Vulture 1 431

Life-saving Service of the United States. (Illustrated.) 182

Lightning-Eods, The Size of 431

Lightning-Stroke, Eemarkable 409

Listening to the Pulse 571

Locomotion, A Study in. (Illustrated.) 317

London " Times " on International Copyright 265

Long Island Drift, its Easterly Extension 861

Luminous Phenomenon, Eemarkable 859

Lyman, 0. E., Novelty in Patents 612

McCosh, J., Agnosticism as developed in Huxley's " Hume." 478

Man and Animals, The Distinction between 138

Marey, E. J., A Study in Locomotion . . 317

Marey on Electrical Fishes 427

Maudsley, H., Materialism and its' Lessons. 667

Mayer, J. E., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 397

Mental States, Bodily Conditions as related to 40

Meridian, Selecting a First. (Illustrated.) 156

Metal, Another New 718

Meteorological 568

Meteors, Falling, Injuries from 566

Meteors, Flight and Fall of 718

Meteors, November, Story of the. (Illustrated.) 445

Micro-Organisms and their Effects in Nature 764

Mill, J. S 327, 750

Mogador, its Climate 859

Molecular Theory 462

Mound-Formations of California, Origin of 856

Monarchy and its Drawbacks 545

Morality and Evolution 124

Muir, P., Eesidual Phenomena 101

Muscular Power, The Source of 812

Music, why it is pleasurable 568

Mythologic Philosophy 795

National Academy of Sciences 280

Natural Well 718

Nervousness, Curiosities of 282

�� � [ 891 ] INDEX. 871

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��Neuralgia, Storms and 281

Neuter Insects 470

New and Interesting Fossils 713

New Guinea and its Inhabitants. II 57

Newberry, J. S., Geological Survey of the Fortieth Parallel, 302

Norton, H. B., Age of Ice 833

Notes 143, 288, 431, 576, 719, 863

Novelty in Patents 612

Observations on the Chameleon 178

O'Connor, W. D., United States Life-saving Service 182

" Oil on the Troubled Waters " 143

Opium-eating and Intemperance 858

Opium-Smoking 429

Orang-outang, The, at Home 854

Origin of Worlds 1

Oswald, F. L., Dietetic Curiosities. II 30

Oswald, F. L., Serpent-Charm 606

" Outing," The Annual 284

Oxygen in the Sun 716

Patents, Novelty in 612

Phrenology 265

Physics, The Study of, in the Secondary Schools 159

Physiological Action of Aconite 281

Physiological Effects of Arsenic 139

Pinto's Trip across Southern Africa 286

" Pleased with a Feather " 366

Poison, What is a? 284

Poison-Proof Animals 858

Poisson, J., The Vanilla-Plant 642

Population Statistics ' 858

Pottery, Ancient American 575

Powell, J. W., Mythologic Philosophy 795

Prince Imperial, The 559

Problem, A, in Human Evolution 250

Protoplasm and Life 721

Pythagoras on Beans 410

Question, A, of Eating 345

Beading, what the Eyes see in 570

Becreation, Science and Philosophy of 772

Beeducation of the Adult Brain 455

Bemarkable Coincidence 628

Bemoval of Inherited Tendencies to Disease 433

Bemsen, I., Chemistry in its Belation to Medicine 214

Besidual Phenomena 101

Besults of Abstraction in Science 825

Bichardson, B. W., Chloral and other Narcotics 491, 646

Eobson, M. H., Development of the House-Fly 618

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��Eomanes, G. J., Science and Philosophy of Kecreation 772

Savagism, Curious Survivals of 268

Science and Philosophy of Recreation 772

Science, Modern, in its Relation to Literature 166

Scientific Associations, The 842

Scott, R. H., Birth, Life, and Death of a Storm 684

Seeds of Disease 426

Selecting a First Meridian. (Illustrated.) 156

Sensation and the Sensif erous Organs 86

Sensibility of the Eye to Light . 142

Serpent-Charm 606

' Serpent-Charm " 841

Sharpey, "W., Reeducation of the Adult Brain 455

Snake, A Two-Headed 715

Social Relations of the Future 568

Social Science, Harris on 702

Source of Muscular Power 812

Sovereign, An Imported 860

Specimen of African Civilization 863

Spectroscope, A Home-made. (Illustrated.) 808

Spiritualism again 700

Spiritualism as a Scientific Question 577

Spontaneous and Imitative Crime 656

Stars, Variable 427

Statistics of Population 858

Steadiness of the Electric Light 857

Steel, Hard and Soft, Strength of 287

Stoney, G. J., Story of the November Meteors 445

Storm, Birth, Life, and Death of a 684

Storms and Neuralgia 281

Story of the November Meteors. (Illustrated.) 445

Study of Physics in the Secondary Schools 159

Sun, Constitution of the 855

Superstitious Beliefs, Survival of 425

Sympathy in an Ants' Nest 572

Taylor, C. F., Bodily Conditions as related to Mental States 40

Telegraphers and Consumption 716

Thompson, E. H., Atlantis not a Myth 759

Thompson, H., Food and Feeding 377, 514, 620

Trowbridge, J., Study of Physics 159

Two-headed Snake 715

Tylor, E. B., The History of Games 225

Typhoid Fever and Well-Water 423

Uniformity System, The, is it an American Idea ? 424

United States Life-saving Service. (Illustrated.) 182

Vanilla-Plant, The 642

Variable Stars 427

�� � [ 893 ] INDEX. 873

PAGK

Vaughan, D., Origin of Worlds 1

Vaughan, D. (Editorial.) 127

Vaughan, D., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 556

Vaughan, D., ou the Origin of Asteroids 570

Visit to the New Zealand Geysers 356

Wahl, W. H., Wasted Forces 289

Wallace, A. R., New Guinea and its Inhabitants. II 57

Wasted Forces 289, 698

Well, A Natural '. 718

Well- Water and Typhoid Fever 423

Whales and their Neighbors 237

What is a Poison? 284

What shall we eat? 140

What the Eyes see in reading 570

Whitney, W. D., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 121

Will, Growth of the 10

Wilson, A., Clews in Natural History 14

Wilson, A., Whales and their Neighbors 237

Wines as Intoxicants 142

Women, their Condition from a Zoological Point of View 145, 347

Wonder, Diseased Condition of the Faculty of 196

Wonderful Phenomenon, A, accounted for 699

Woolf, P., Neuter Insects 470

Words, Classification of, by Ideas 714

Worlds, Origin of. 1

Wundt, W., Spiritualism 577

Youmans, E. A., Autobiography of George Combe 109

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About Snakes 571

Africa, Population of 426

Algeria, Cost of the Proposed Lake in 139

Ancient Methods of Filtration 495

Ancient Uses of Cork 429

Animal Mounds in the Pyrenees 135

Animal Transformations, New Views of. (Illustrated.) 625

Anthropometric Observation 431

Anthropology, Recent 145

Antiquity of Man 572

Arago's Statue, The Inauguration of 114

Archasopteryx, Carl Vogt on the 136

Arithmetic, Early Methods in 204

Arsenic in Kindergartens 694

Arsenic in the Household and School " 715

Artesian Wells and the Great Sahara 530

Association of Ideas. (Illustrated.) 577

Astronomical Discoveries, Announcement of 715

Athletics in Schools 677

Atlantis, On 266

Authorship, Intellectual Straining in 93

Bain, Alexander, On John Stuart Mill 25, 311, 501

Bain on the " Data of Ethics " 210

Bennett, A. Hughes 519

Billson, William W., on the Origin of Criminal Law 433

Bird-Reasoning ' 139

Bolton, Professor H. Carrington 495

Books noticed :

" Ethics of Science and Duty " (Bascora) 125

" Freedom in Science and Teaching " (Haeckel) 127

" Geological Survey of Ohio," Vol. Ill 129

" Distribution of Heat in the Spectra of Various Sources of Radia- tion " (Jaynes) 130

" A Defense of Philosophic Doubt " (Balfour) 130

" The Science of the Bible " (Woolley) 131

" Nests and Eggs of American Birds " (Tngersoll) 131

" The Evidence of the Senses " (Stevenson) 131

" Haeckel's Genesis of Man " (Ward) 132

" Easy Lessons in Popular Science " (Monteith) 133

VOL. XVI. — 55

�� � [ 900 ] 866 INDEX.

Books noticed : ?aoe

" Hints toward a National Culture " (Boyce) 133

" Scientific Lectures " (Lubbock) 133

" Science Lectures at South Kensington " 133

" Zoology of Invertebrate Animals " (Macalister) 133

" Gray's Botanical Text-Book " (Gray) 277

" Hygiene and Public Health " (Buck) 279

" First Lines of Therapeutics " (Harvey) 281

" Neurility " (Clevenger) 282

" la Life worth Living? " (Mallock) 417

" Naval Hygiene " (Wilson) 418

" Silk Goods of America " (Wykoff) 419

" Geology of the Lower Amazonas " (Derby) 421

" Primitive Manners and Customs " (Parrer) 421

" Papers read before the Pi Eta Scientific Society of Eensselaer Poly- technic Institute " 422

" American Ornithology " (Wilson and Bonaparte) 422

" The Rosicrucians " (Jennings) 423

" Antiquities and Platycnemism of the Mound-Builders of Wisconsin "

(De Hart) 423

" The Silkworm " (Riley) 423

" Geology of the Diamantiferous Regions of the Province of Parana,

Brazil " (Derby) 423

• ' First Step in Chemical Principles " (Leffman) 424

" Young Folks' Cyclopaedia of Common Things " (Champlin) 424

" Inorganic Chemistry " (Valentin) 424

" The Value of Life " (Anonymous) 424

" Octavius Perinchief " (Lanman) 561

" Arctic Voyages of Nordenskjold " 563

" Illustrated Dictionary of Scientific Terms " (Rossiter) 564

" The English Language and its Early Literature " (Gilmore; 565

" Darwinism and other Essays " (Fiske) 565

" Shell Mounds of Omari " (Morse) 566

" Fuel, its Combustion and Economy " (Clark) 566

" Units and Physical Constants " (Everett) 566

" Solar Light and Heat " (Allen) 567

" First Book of Qualitative Chemistry " (Prescott) 567

" Electro-Metallurgy " (Watt) 567

" Ceremonial Institutions " (Spencer) 698

" Theory of PoHtical Economy" (Jevons) 699

" The Chemistry of Common Life " (Johnston) 701

«' Astronomy for Schools and Colleges " (Newcomb and Holden) 702

" Progress and Poverty " (George) 02

" Lectures and Essays " (Cliflford) 703

" An Essay on the Bible Narrative of Creation " (Grote) 705

" Triassic Formation of New Jersey " (Russell) 707

" Erasmus Darwin " (Krause) 707

" Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Annual Repoi-ts of the Geological Survey

of Indiana " (Cox) 708

" Modern Meteorology " 708

" The Great Fur Land " (Robinson) 708

�� � [ 901 ] INDEX. 867

Books noticed : page

" The Berea Sandstone of Ohio " (Orton) 709

" The Crayfish " (Huxley) 850

" The Refutation of Darwinism " (O'Neill) 851

" Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota " (Winchell). . 851

" The Kansas Review " 851

•' The Californian " 851

" Zoology for Students and General Readers " (Packard) 852

" Problems of Life and Mind " (Lewes) 852

" The Younger Edda " (Anderson) 852

" Elementary Lessons on Sound " (Stone) 852

" Dictionary of German Terms used in Medicine " (Cotter) 853

" Theology and Mythology " (O'Donoghue) 853

" Popular Romances of the Middle Ages " (Cox and Jones) 853

" The American Entomologist " (Riley and Fuller) 853

" American Monthly Microscopical Journal " (Hitchcock) 853

" Economics of Industry " (Marshall) 853

" On the Native Iron of Greenland " (Smith) 854

" The Development of the Human Race " (Steinach) 854

" Beer, and its Manufacture formerly and now " (Planitz) 854

"•The Berkeley Quarterly " 855

" The "Workshop Companion " 855

" Blowpipe Analysis " (Landauer) 855

" United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries " 855

" Guides for Science-Teaching " 855

Literary Notes 850

Bigelow, W. S., Letter from 842

Bleaching Preparation, New 861

Brain-Cells, Education of 200

Brain, Size of, and Size of Body 872

Brain-Texture and Mental Make-up 143

Buckland, Frank 318

Buell, Charles J., Letter from 842

Burials, Premature 389

Butter-making, Improvements in 571

Canal Routes, Interoceanic 380

Cannibals, South African 286

Carpenter, Professor William B 614

Casualties, Railroad 413

Cattle, The Wild, of Great Britain 138

Celluloid, Composition and Uses of 859

Century-Plant, A Precocious 575

Chandler, Dr. Charles F., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 833

Chesapeake Laboratory, Work at the 570

Chinese, Morality among the 270

Chromatics, Rood's— A Misleading Criticism 274

Circulating Libraries and Contagious Disease 138

Colorado, Southern, Prehistoric Ruins in 666

Coloring Matters, New 575

Color-Sense, Education of the 425

�� � [ 902 ] 868 INDEX.

PAGE

Commerce, Removing the Barriers of 416

Conant on International Copyright 697

Conant, William C 653

Cork, Ancient Uses of 429

Correspondence 266, 408, 554, 693, 842

Crayfish, The. (Illustrated.) 789

Criminal Law, Origin of 433

Criminal Law, The Origin of 842

CroU's " Climate and Time " 810

Crookes, "William 13, 157

Curious Ways of getting Food. (Illustrated.) 770

Dalby, W. B 197

Daly, Charles P , 478

Data of Etliics, Reception of the 408

Daylight in the Schoolroom 517

Death of Professor B. F. Mudge 569

Detective, A Scientific 141

Diamonds, Artificial 716

Diseases of Wild Animals 11

Diving, Improved Method of. 711

Dolmens in Japan. (Illustrated.) 593

Dove, Heinrich Wilhelm, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 261

Eastern City, A Fabled 427

Eddy, William A. The Evolution of a New Sense 66

Editor's Table 121, 267, 408, 555, 695, 842

Educational Reform, Conditions of 849

Education for Guidance 559

Education of the Color-Sense 425

Education, Higher, of Women, Hygiene in the 519

Electricity and Vegetation 712

Electric Light, Distribution of the 284

Electric Light, Progress of the 570

Electrification, Expansion of Bodies by 574

Emergencies, Common Sense in 719

Enjoyment, The Duty of 640

Epidemics, Two Remarkable 286

Evolution, Fallacies of, A Reply to 101

Expansion of Bodies by Electrification 574

Experimental Legislation 754

Exj)eriments in Punishment 481

Fairchild, Herman L 770

Far West, The Geology of the 568

Filtration, Ancient Methods of 495

Fish, A New Food- 711

Fish, Animal Heat of ■ ■ 861

Fishes, Voice in 574

Fitch, Dr. Asa, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 116

�� � [ 903 ] INDEX. 869

��PAGE

��Food, Curious "Ways of getting. (Illustrated.) V70

Forces, Wasted 408

Form, the Pleasure of Visual 780

Fourcy, Charles de "^^

France, Apprentice-Schools in 285

Free Schools of America, The Early 663

Free-Will, Scientific Aspects of 745

Frost-Phenomena ^^2

Fuel, Water as 653

Gannett, Henry 666

Gas and the Electric Light 859

Geographical Science, The Beginnings of. (Illustrated.) 236

Geology of the Far West 568

George, Henry, On the Study of Political Economy 601

Glaciers, Experimental 860

Granville, J. Mortimer 200

Great Britain, The Wild Cattle of 138

Green Mountains, Age of the 858

Green, Nelson W 71

Grote, A. E., Letter from 266

Gypsies, Origin of the 540

Hanoverian Village Life '^67

Harmony, Modern, Imperfections of 508

Hay, Dr. George, Letter from 694

Hemp-Plant, Intoxicating Properties of the * 19

Herrings ^-

Hoffmann, Frederick, Sketch of Dove 261

Honeycomb, a Living. ... 824

Honey-making in the United States 142

Hopkins, J. H 798

Horses, Many-toed. (Illustrated.) 258

Household Pet, A Roguish. (Illustrated.) 318

Hygiene in the Higher Education of Women 518

Ice, Age of 554, 693

Ideas, The Association of. (Illustrated.) 577

Imperfections of Modern Harmony 508

Improvements in Butter-making 571

Intellectual Straining in Authorship ^^

Intemperance in Study "45

International Copyright, Conant on 697

Interoceanic Canal Question, Some Features of the 842

Iron-making, Petroleum in 287

Iron, Passivity of 719

International Weather-Service, The. (Illustrated.) 289

Interoceanic Canal Routes. (Illustrated.) 380

Jackson, George A 236

James, William 577

�� � [ 904 ] 870 INDEX.

��PACK

��Japan, Dolmens in. (Illustrated.) 593

Javal, M., On Daylight in the Schoolroom 517

Jevons, Professor W, Stanley 754

Jupiter, What is He doing? (Illustrated.) 737

Kindergartens, Arsenic in 694

Knowledge, First-hand and Second-hand I97

Langley, S. P., Recent Progress of Solar Physics 1

Lankester, Professor E. Ray 789

Learning to write 795

Le Conte, John, Mars and his Moons 82

Le Conte, Joseph, The Genesis of Sex 167

LeflBngwell, Dr. A. J 745

Legislation, Experimental 754

Leidy, Professor Joseph 612

" Let well enough alone " 695

Libraries, Circulating, and Contagious Disease 138

Lightning-Rod, Investigating the 863

Lindsay, W. Lauder 346

Literary Notices 125; 277, 417, 561, 698, 850

Lubbock, On Science in the Primary Schools 429

Luminous Power, Distribution of, in the Sun's Rays 137

Lungren, C. M., Progress and Poverty 721

Lyford, M., Letter from , 693

Lyons, Lieutenant T. A 35, 179

Mackay, G. Eric 389

Maclagan, Dr. T. J., On Typhoid Fever 460

Man, On the Antiquity of 140, 572

Many-toed Horses. (Illustrated.) 258

Maps and Map-making before Mercator. (Illustrated.) 478

Mars and his Moons 82

Marsh, O. C 219, 363

Mason, R. O 330

Matamata, The. (Illustrated.) 684

Matter, Radiant. (Illustrated.) 13, 157

Maury, Professor T. B., International "Weather-Service. (Illustrated.). . . . 289

McGee, W. J 810

Meteoric Display, An Expected 247

Meteorology, Ocean. (Illustrated.) 35, 179

Mill, John^Stuart 25, 311, 501

Minerals, Action of Organic Acids on 710

Monkey, Intelligence of a Pet 714

Moral Sense in the Lower Animals 346

Morals, Goldwin Smith on 267

Morse, Professor E. S 593

Mudge, B. F., Death of 569

Nature, The Force behind ^ 614

Neison, E 337

�� � [ 905 ] INDEX. 871

��PACK

��Niger, Source of the ^60

Nordenskjold, What He has done 137

Nordhoff, Walter ^67

Norton, H. B., Letter from • 554

ffotes • • • • • 1^3' 287, 432, 570, 720, 864

Observations, Anthropometric ^ 431

Ocean Meteorology. (Illustrated.) 35, 179

Oregon, Salmon Industries of 5(3

Origin of Criminal Law ^^^

Origin of the Gypsies 540

Paleontological Discovery, History and Methods of 219, 263

Pasture, Sheep poisoned at 5 <5

Pearce, S. Austen 508

Perrier, Edmond ^^5

Petroleum in Iron-making 287

Petroleum for Steam-making 136

Phenomenon, Interesting Luminous 554

Philosophy, Mythologic 56

Phosphorescence, Vegetable ^^^

Phylloxera, Applications for 718

Physiology, The Study of. 43

Plants, Agency of, in Earth-building 713

Plants, Assimilative Power of. 142

Plants, The Textile, of the World 831

Platinum, Experiments with 134

Political Economy, Study of 601

Popular Miscellany 134, 283, 425, 568, 710, 858

Population of Africa 426

Powell, J. W., Mythologic Philosophy 56

Precocity, Cases of Remarkable 428

Prehistoric Ruins in Southern Colorado 666

Premature Burials 389

Prescott, Ellen 804

Preservative Process, A New 717

Proctor, Richard A., Expected Meteoric Display 247

Progress and Poverty 721

Progress of the Electric Light 570

Publications Received 183, 282, 425, 567, 709, 856

Punishment, Experiments in 431

Punishment, Vengeance in 555

Pye-Smith, P. H., The Study of Physiology 43

Rabies, Transmissibility of Human 712

Radiant Matter 13, 157

Railroad Casualties 413

Rhine, Alice H 663

Records, Prehistoric 545

Respecting Rubbish 97

�� � [ 906 ] 872 INDEX.

��PAOI

��Eitter, Carl, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 689

Pwiver-Beds, The Old, of Middle California 858

Romanes, George J 101

Salmon Industries of Oregon . . . . ! 573

Saporta's World of Plants before the Appearance of Man. (Illustrated.). . 446

Sargassum. Does it vegetate in the Open Sea? 573

Sauvage, E 684

Schools, Athletics in 677

Schroeder, Lieutenant Seaton 530

Science in the Primary Schools ... 429

Scientific Teaching in the Colleges 556

Scorpion, Suicide of the 712

Seamen, Color-Blindness of. 285

Searle, Arthur 673

Seelj, G. B., Letter from 554

Sense, A New, The Evolution of 66

Sex, The Genesis of 167

Sheep, poisoned at Pasture 575

Silliman, Benjamin, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 550

Skinner, Josej)h J 397

Slack, H. J 737

Snakes, How they shed their Skins 710

Social Distinctions, Traditional Origin of. . . , 430

Solar Appendages 121

Solar Physics, Recent Progress of 1

Sounds, Discrimination and Memory of 428

Spies, Concerning Honors to 122

Spiritualism, Middle- Age 354

Springs and Wells, Overflow of. (Illustrated.) 71, 266, 397

Stammering and its Causes 863

Stars, The Immensity of the 140

Stoves, Ventilating 124

Study, Intemperance in 645

Suicide, A Consideration of "^98

Sully, James 780

Sun-Spots and Rainfall 861

Tea-drinking, Effects of Excessive 862

Teeth, Effects of Tobacco on the 1^7

Telescope, Most Powerful in Existence 337

Theologian, A Young, Letter from 693

Thresher-Shark, Habits of the • • 1^9

Tobacco-Pipe, Antiquity of the 862

Tobacco-Smoking, Parkes on '18

Traditional Origin of Social Distinctions 430

Trowbridge, J. T., Letter from 266

Tuke, D. Hack 645

Tylor, E. B., Recent Anthropology -'^

Typhoid Fever, how conveyed '^""

�� � [ 907 ] INDEX. 873

PAGE

575 Upper Air, Proportion of Oxygen in

. . XT V 1 330

Vaccination in New fork

Vaile, E. O., Early Methods in Arithmetic ;J"*

Vaugiian, Professor Daniel, The Works of. 125

Vegetable Phosphorescence

Vengeance in Punishment ^ '

Vessels, Ptaising Sunken "^^

Vilain, Jean

Village Life, Hanoverian

Voice in Fishes

Wahl, William H

Ward's Natural Science Establishment

_, , 000

Water as Fuel ^^g

Waves, Stilling the, with Oil

Weather-Service, The International. (Illustrated.) ^o^

What is Jupiter doing? (Illustrated.)

Wild Animals, Diseases of.

Windows, Stained

World of Plants before the Appearance of Man • • "^

Zoological Work at the Chesapeake Laboratory 570

��END or VOL. XVI.

�� �

[edit] Volume 17

[ 885 ] 1 1ST DEX.

��PAGE

��Adipose, The Impediment of. 60

Affection, Animal 406

Africa, Prehistoric ' 287

African Tribe, A New 862

Albro, W. P., Letter from 121

Algaa, Relation of, to the Phanerogams 714

Algebras, Spaces, Logics 516

Algerian Sahara, Fertilization of the 138

Allen, Professor Grant 495, 650

Amherst College aud Evolution 120

Amherst College, Evolution in 405

Anaesthetic, A New 424

Ancient Race, Relics of, in Eastern New York 286

Animal Development, The Rate of 254

Animals, and the Faculty of Direction 692

Animals, Legal Prosecutions of 619

Anthony, Professor "W. A 831

Ant, The Cutting 717

Ants, Slave-making 424

Artesian "Wells on our Western Plains 428

Asphalt and Amber in the Mud of New Jersey 718

Association, American Scientific 693

Automatism in Portrait-Painting 140

��*6

��Bacteria, Diffusion of 860

Barker, George F., Modern Aspects of the Life-Question 750

Barnard, "W. S., Zoological Education 666

Bee, Lessons from the Tongue of the 422

Bell, Alexander Graham 813

Beer, About 280

Bellesme, M. J. de, How Insects direct their Flight. 114

Berghaus, Dr. A., The Medicinal Leech 478

Birds, ^Esthetic Feeling in 650

Birds, Notes on a Few of our 386

Blake, E. Vale, The Impediment of Adipose 60

Bolas, Thomas 802

Bookbinding, Deterioration of, by Illuminating Gas 143

Books noticed :

" England : Her People, Polity, and Pursuits " (Escott) 126

" The Interoceanic Canal and the Monroe Doctrine " 127

vol. xvii. 55

�� � [ 886 ] 866 INDEX.

Books noticed : PAGE

" Free Ships " (Codman) 127

"Labor-Making Machinery " (Powers) 127

" Action of the United States Tariff " (Tylor) 127

" Report of the Department of Public "Works of the City of New- York " 129

" The Theosophist " 130

" Report of Harvard College Observatory " 131

" History of the English Language " (Lounsbury) 131

" The Mound-Builders " (McLean) 131

" Insect Lives " (Ballard) 131

" Eyesight " (Carter) 132

" Perception of Space and Matter " (Walter) 132

" The Metaphysics of the School " (Harper) 132

" Vocal Physiology and Hygiene " (Holmes) 133

"Electric Induction " (Gordon) 133

" Therapeutics and Materia Medica " (Semple) 133

" Forensic Medicine and Toxicology " (Hemming) 133

" Aids to Anatomy " (Brown) 133

" Report of the New York Meteorological Observatory for 1878 "

(Draper) 133

" Water-Color Painting " (Penley) 134

" Protection of Forests a Necessity " (Dorien) 134

" Experiments on Rainfall " (Stockbridge). 134

" Improved Dwellings for the Laboring Classes " 13-4

" Report on Magnetic Determinations in Missouri in 1879 " (Nipher). 134

" Chemical Exercises in Qualitative Analysis " (Rains) 272

"Henry's Contribution to the Electro-Magnetic Telegraph" (Taylor). 272

" History of Political Economy in Europe " (Blanqui) 273

" Nervous Exhaustion " (Beard) 275

" Science Primers : Introductory " (Huxley) 275

" Health and Health Resorts " (Wilson) 276

" Instruction in the Mechanic Arts " (Atkinson) 276

" The Cotton-Worm " (Riley) 276

" Index to the Publications of the United States Naval Observatory "

(Holden) 276

" Report on Lands of Arid Region of the United States " (Powell). ... 276

" Studies in Fermentation " (Pasteur) 277

" Text-book of Physiology " (Foster) 277

u A Forbidden Land " (Oppert) 277

" Geological Survey of Colorado " (Hayden) 278

" Sunshine and Storm in the East " (Brassey) 278

" Preadamites " ( Winchell) 410

"Life and Writings of Buckle" (Huth) 412

" Fundamental Concepts of Modern Thought " (Eucken) . . . , 413.

" Chemistry" (Bloxam) 413

" Pharmacographia " (Fliickiger) 414

" Philosophy of Religion " (Caird) 414

"Watering-Places of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland" (Gutmann) 415

" Life : Its True Genesis" (Wright) 415

" Handbook of Hygeine and Sanitary Science" (Wilson) 416

" Handbook of Double Stars " (Crossley, Gledhill, and Wilson) 416

�� � [ 887 ] INDEX. 867

Books noticed : PA0E

" Pay Hospitals (Burdett) 416

" Key to Ghostism " (Mitchell) 417

" Common Mind-Troubles " (Mortimer-Granville) 417

" Sanitary Dwelling-Houses " (Oorfield) 417

" Our Homes " (Hartshorne) 417

" Education " (Spencer) 560

" New Departure in Collegiate Control and Culture " (Mills) 563

" The Morals of Evolution " (Savage) 564

" Brain and Mind " (Drayton) 564

" Sea-Sickness " (Beard) 564

" The Throat and its Functions " (Elsberg) 565

" Alva Vine " (Gordon) 565

" Study of Some of the Starches " (Stowell) 565

" Management of Children " (Hale) 565

" Prevention of Disease " (Weist) 565

" Problems of Insanity ,1 (Beard) 565

" New Characters of Mosasauroid Reptiles " (Marsh) 566

" Bulletins of the United States Survey of the Territories " 566

" Guide to Modern English History " (Cory) 566

" Introduction to Study of Sign-Languages among North American

Indians " (Mallery) 566

" Camps and Tramps in the Adirondacks " (Northrop) 566

" Report of Wisconsin Geological Survey for 1879 " (Chamberlin) 567

" Deutsch-Amerikanische Apotheker-Zeitung " . 567

" Silver in Relation to Industry and Trade " (Brown) 567

" Naturhistorische Verein filr Wisconsin 567

" Early Man in Britain " (Daw kins) 697

"Reports of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Eth- nology " 698

" Taxidermist's Manual " (Brown) 699

" Fugitive Spectra " (Trouvelot) 700

" Proceedings of Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences " 700

" Health and Healthy Homes " (Wilson) 701

" Water Analysis " (Frankland) 701

" Health " (Corfield) 702

" Child's Catechism of Common Things " (Champlin) 702

" Free Land and Free Ships " (Cox) 702

" Sea- Air and Sea-Bathing " (Packard) 702

" Radical Mechanics of Animal Locomotion " (Wainwright) 702

" The Microscope in Medicine " (Beale) 703

" The Field Engineer " (Shunk) 703

" Hygienic and Therapeutic Relations of House-Plants " (Anders) 703

" Fabulous Gods denounced in the Bible " (Hauser) 703

" Practical Keramics " (Janvier) 704

" Tin in Burmah, Siam, and Malacca " (Reyer) 704

" Schiller's Complete Works " (Hempel) 704

" Landsberg's Illustrated Weekly " 704

" Tromso Museums Aarshefter " 704

" The Brain as an Organ of Mind " (Bastian) 846

" Degeneration " (Lankester) 848

" The Obelisk and Freemasonry " (Weisse) 8-19

�� � [ 888 ] 868 INDEX.

Books noticed : page

" Surveys of Northwestern Lakes " (Oomstock) 849

" The Microscopist's Annual " 850

" North American Entomologist " - 850

" Haveenoid " (Mott) 850

" The Oriental and Biblical Journal " 850

" The Thousand Islands " (Hough) 850

" Coal-Trade of Pennsylvania " (Sheafer) 851

" American Health Primers " 851

" Memoirs of the Science Department of Tokio University " 851

" American Journal of Philology " 851

" Report of the Department of Statistics and Geology of Indiana "... 852

Boole, George, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 840

Botel Tobago, The Aborigines of 718

Breath, Temperature of the 855

Buchan, J. M., Climate and Complexion 1, 279

Buffalo, The, and his Pate 40

Butter-making in Denmark and Sweden 859

��'c

��Criminal Law, Origin of. 121

Carbon Button, The. (Illustrated.) 10

Carlisle, the Lord Bishop of, God and Nature 27

Carpenters, About 233

Carpet-Beetle, The 287

Catskill Mountains, The 568

" Ceremonial Institutions," The London " Times "on 125

Chemical Exercises for Ordinary Schools 522

Chemistry, Industrial Application of Cold in 858

Chemistry, The New, a Development of the Old 393

Child, A. L., Letter from : 692

Children, New-born, Hygiene of 715

Children, The Infectious and Contagious Diseases of. 249

Chimborazo and its Climbers 714

Chinese Civilization, Origin of 856

Cinchona-Forests, The, of South America 507

Circulation, Changes in the, during Cerebral Activity 303

Clarke, Professor F. W., My Fire 321

Classics, The, that educate us 145

Climate and Character, American 705

Climate and Complexion 1? 279

Crayfish for Study 405

Crayfish, The, Where to find 135

Coloring of the Waters in Seas and Lakes 706

Comets of 1843 and 1880, The 714

Cooperation in England 742

Copyright, International, Wilkie Collins on 554

Copyright, Matthew Arnold on 121

Cotton-Worm, Investigation of the

Criticisms corrected 795

Correction, A 692

Correspondence 120, 405, 552, 692

Cumings, Elizabeth 823

�� � [ 889 ] INDEX. 869

��PAGE

��Currents, Atmospheric, and Carbonic Acid 421

Daly, Chief Justice, Recent Geographical Exploration 171

Dampness and Diphtheria 281

Damposcope, The 282

Darwin, Francis, Climbing Plants 635

Deformity, Fashion in. (Illustrated.) 721

Delpech, Dr., the Infectious and Contagious Diseases of Children 249

Desert, Central Arabian, Features of the 281

Diamonds, Artificial 259

Diamonds, Artificial, Production of 861

Disease, Water in 854

Distribution of Plants, On the Modes of 365

Diving-Process, Mr. Fleuss's New 575

Dogs, Domestic, Origin of 420

Dog, Thread-Worm of the 860

Dress, in Relation to Health 182

Dust, A Shower of 553

Dust. Atmospheric 341

Earth, The Interior of the 289, 453

Earthquakes, A Systematic Investigation of 429

Echoes in Buildings 141

Editor's Table 121, 265, 406, 554, 693, 843

Education as an Aid to the Health to Women 823

Electrical Experiment, An, of the Eighteenth Century 422

Electric Light, The, and Vegetation 283

Electric Light, The Jablochkoff, in London 706

Electricity and Agriculture 664

England, Cooperation in 742

Engler, E. A., the Carbon Button 10

Energy, The Availability of 244

Enigma, A Zoological 359

Epidemics 425

Equatorial Temperatures 715

Ethics, Scientific, A Vindication of 324

Europe, The Winter in 136

" Evolution admitted, what then ? " 409

Explanation. An ... 582

Exploration, Recent Geographical 171

Explosion, A Remarkable Coal-Mine 429

Eyesight of Readers, The 711

Fairchild, Herman L 224, 600

Farbenlehre, Goethe's 215, 312

Fashion in Deformity. 721

Feet of Chinese Women, Compression of. 712

Ferment, A Fossil 138

Fetich-Worship and Witchcraft, African 428

Fison, Lorimer, Views of Primitive Marriage 203

Flower, William Henry, Fashion in Deformity 721

�� � [ 890 ] 8 7 o INDEX.

��PAGE

��Forests, Silicified, of the Yellowstone Park 570

Fossil Man, The 350

Glass, to pierce, with the Electric Spark 285

Geology and History 495

Geology, Studies in Experimental 200

George, Henry, the Kearney Agitation in California 433

Germs, Destruction of Infectious 824

Goatman, E. A., Letter from 405

Goethe and the Artistic Study of Nature 406 .

God and Nature 27

Green, Traill, Letter from 552

Griffin, La Eoy F., Animals and the Faculty of Direction 692

Halstead, George B., Algebras, Spaces, Logics 516

Harvard Medical Course, The 716

Harvard, Recent Original Work at 482

Haynes, Henry W., the Fossil Man 350

Health-Cure, The, as a Remedy for Adversity 574

Heat-Engines, Possible Efficiency of 831

Heliograph, Messages by 716

Herbert, Hon. Auberon, State Education : a Help or Hindrance ? 585

Hicks, J. D., Letter from 552

Higgs, Dr. Paget, Electricity and Agriculture 664

Hitchcock, J. R. W., Recent Original Work at Harvard 482

Hoffmann, Frederick, Sketch of Friedrich Mohr 402

Horses, Managing, by Electricity 139

How Animals digest. (Illustrated.) 600

How Animals eat 224

Human Race, The Crossing of the 166

Huxley, Professor T. H 337, 467

Hybrids, Fertility of 858

Hygieopolis, A Chinese 287

Hysteria and Demonism 86, 155, 376

Iceland 710

lies, George, Cooperation in England 742

Illusions and Apparitions 571

India-Rubber Industries 802

Ingersoll, Ernest, the Buffalo and his Fate 40

Intelligence, Animal 287

Insects, Bacteria as Destroyers of 93

Insects, How they direct their Flight 114

Insects in Libraries 286

Insect-Powders as Remedies for Flies and the Aphis 282

Ivins, William M., Comparative Jurisprudence 577

James, Joseph F., on the Modes of Distribution of Plants 365

Japanese, Stature of the 142

Jones, William, Legal Prosecutions of Animals 619

Joy, Professor Charles A., Biographical Sketch of Frederick Wohler 539

Jurisprudence, Comparative 577

�� � [ 891 ] INDEX. 871

��I'AGK

��Kearney Agitation, The, in California 433

Kirkwood, Daniel, Letter from 553

Lake Bonneville, Ancient Outlet of 855

Lankester, E. Ray, F. R. S., Bacteria as Destroyers of Insects 93

Law of Mutual Help, The 709

Lee, Professor William, M. D., the Extreme Rarity of Premature Burials.. 520

Leech, The Medicinal 478

Leidy, Joseph, Sketch of. (With Portrait.) 684

Le Sueur, M. D., a Vindication of Scientific Ethics 324

Life-Question, Modern Aspects of the 750

Light, Production of Sound by 813

Lightning- Conductors, Efficiency of 421

Lights, Rhythmic and Colored, for Lighthouses 427

Literary Notices 126, 272, 410, 500, 097, 846

Literature, Sham Admiration in 48

Lord, W. W., Letter from 120

Man in America 571

Marsh-Odors, The Source of 138

Mauris, Maurice, About Carpenters 233

Maxwell, James Clerk, Sketch of 116

Meat, Diseased, Effects of 572

Medusa, A Fresh- Water 856

Meridian, Carrying a French, into Africa 575

Merrill, Harry 386, 692

Metallic Compound, A New 282

Metals, Precious, Production of, in Colorado 287

Meunier, Stanislas, Studies in Experimental Geology. (Illustrated.) 200

Miller, W. D., the Availability of Energy 244

Minot, C. S., Changes of the Circulation during Cerebral Activity 303

Mohr, Friedrich, Sketch of 402

Mollusks, The, Capture among Ill

Morphia, Danger of the Hypodermic Use of 425

Mountains, The Highest, of the Earth 859

Muir, M. M. Pattison, the New Chemistry a Development of the Old 393

Murder, Curious Discovery of a 857

My Fire (Poem) 321

Natural Vegetation at San Francisco, Changes in 853

Nature, Mysterious Sounds of 772

Newcomb, Professor Simon, Sketch of Otto Wilhelm Struve 263

Newton, The English Precursors of 609, 777

Night-Schools in New York and Paris 681

Nile, Ancient Channels of the 861

Nolan, Edward J 684

Notes 143, 288, 431, 570, 719, 863

Nubian Race, Types of the. (Illustrated.) 512

Olfactory Nerves, Abnormal Action of 092

Origin of Species, The Coming of Age of the 337

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PAGE

Ornithorhynchus, The Australian 769

Oswald, Felix L., a Zoological Enigma 359

Osteophone, The 142

Paint, Luminous 707

Payn, James, Sham Admiration in Literature 48

Photophone, The New 898

Plants, Climbing. (Illustrated.) 635

Politics against Political Science 557

Polyscope, The Electrical 110

Popular Miscellany 135, 279, 419, 568, 705, 853

Precocity a Sign of Inferiority 430

Premature Burials, The Extreme Rarity of 526

Preyer, "W., Psychogenesis in the Human Infant 625

Primitive Marriage, Views of 203

Psychogenesis in the Human Infant 625

Publications Received 134, 278, 418, 567, 704, 852

Quatrefages, A. De, the Crossing of the Human Races 166

Radau, R., The Interior of the Earth 289, 453

Radiation, Freezing of a Lake by 572

Railway, An Electrical 285

Richardson, Dr. Benjamin W., Dress in Relation to Health 182

Richet, Charles, Hysteria and Demonism 86, 155, 376

Rhine, Alice H., Night-Schools in New York and Paris 681

Root-Growth, A Singular 427

Sanitary Problems, The, of New York City 419

Santorin and its Eruptions (M. Fouque's) 534

Saurians, Development of the Limbs of 284

School-Life, Hygienic Conditions of 863

Science not atheistic 124

Science Primers, Misuse of the 269

Science, The Martyrdom of 71

Scientific Meeting, The Boston 843

Sea, The Milky 573

Sewage in College Education 693

Shipman, Paul R., The Classics that educate us 145

Silkworms, Rearing, in England 280

Slater, J. W 71, 254

Snakes and Snake-Poison 284

Sociology and Theology at Yale College 265

Soils as Filters 572

Solar System and its Neighbors, The 612

South America rising or sinking ? 708

Sparrow, Observation of the English 552

Spencer, Herbert 795

Springer, Robert . 772

Squirrels, Sports in the Colors of 862

State Education : a Help or Hindrance ? 585

�� � [ 893 ] INDEX. 873

��PAGE

��St. Gothard Tunnel, The 530

Struve, Otto Wilhelm, Sketch of. (With Portrait.) 263

Suicide, A Consideration of 120

Sully. James, the Pleasure of Visual Form 77

Summer Schools of Natural History 279

Tea and Coffee, Physiological Effects of * 853

Temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans 710

Thompson, Daniel G., Letters from 120, 405

Tissandier, Gaston, Atmospheric Dust 344

Tyndall, Professor John, F. E. S., Goethe's Farbenlehre 215, 312

Violin, The, its Construction and Perfection 423

Visual Form, Pleasure of 77

Vivisection, What it has done for Man 711

Vocal Cords, Stammering of the 141

Volcano rising from a Lake 713

Volcanic Eruptions and Earthquakes in 1879 713

��Warring, C. B., the Solar System and its Neighbors 612

Watches, A Test for 283

Water, Germs of Disease in 570

Watering-Places, Sanitary Perils at 426

Wellcome, II. S., the Cinchona-Forests of South America 507

Wernich, Dr. A 828

Wild Silks 137

Wilson, Dr. Andrew, Some Facts and Fictions of Zoology 96

Wohler, Frederick, Biographical Sketch of 539

Youmans, Eliza A., Chemical Exercises for Ordinary Schools 522

Zadig, On the Method of 467

Zanzibar, Climate and Meteorology of 857

Zoological Education 666

Zoology, Some Facts and Fictions of. 96

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Accomplishments, The Vahie of 496

Adams, 0. K 123

Esthetic Evohition in Man -339

Africa, Eastern, Mr. Thomson's Journey in 856

Africans, Craniology of the 429

Allen, Professor Grant 339

American Institute Fair, The ; 127

Animals or Plants? 430

Animals, The Sense of Direction in 122

Antarctic Expedition, An 431

Anthropological Society, The German 425

Ants, About 696

Apes, Young, Studies of. 426

Appleton, Thomas G 539

Arctic Journey, Lieutenant Schwatka's 27Y

Art, Evolution and Originality in . 697

Association, The French 141

Asteroids, The, and Jupiter. .... 715

Attention, Expectant, in Animals 285

Aubrey- Vitet, M. E 806

Automatic Brake, The Westinghouse 140

Barbarism, Lingering 638

Barton, Boiling W., M. D 262

Beard, George M., M. D 170

Binding, Deterioration of, in Libraries 718

Birds, English and American , 142

Birds, Singular Powers in 853

Bolton, Professor H. Carrington, Ph. D 191

Bone-Caves in Pennsylvania 707

Books noticed :

" Two Worlds are Ours " (Macmillan) 129

" A True Kepublic " (Stickney) 129

" An Elementary Text-Book of Botany " (Prantl and Vines) 132

" Contributions to the Archaeology of Missouri " 133

" Life on the Seashore " (Emerton) ,. 133

"Introduction to the Mortuary Customs among tlie North American

Indians " (Yarrow) 133

" Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College " (Pick- ering, Searle, and Fpton) 134

" The Hair, its Growth, Care, Diseases, and Treatment " (Leonard). . . 134

" Essays on Art and Archjeology " (Newton) 134

vor,. xviir. 55

�� � [ 886 ] 866 INDEX.

Books noticed : p^^g

" Qualitative Chemical Analysis " (Douglass and Preocott) 135

" Some Thouglits concerning Education " (Locke) 135

" The New Text-Buok of Physics " (Cooleyj 135

" Eminent Israelites of the Nineteenth Century " (Morals) 136

" Manual of Hydraulic Mining " (Van Wagenen) 136

" Deep-Sea Sounding and Dredging " (Sigsbee) 136

" Odontornithes " (Marsh) 270

" German Thought " (Hillebrand) 272

" The Elementary Principles of Scientific Agriculture " (Lupton) 273

" Summer-Land Sketches " (Oswald) 274

"An Elementary Treatise on Analytical Geometry " (Bowser) 275

" The Minor Arts " (Leland) 275

" The Textile Record of America " (Nagle and Ryckman) 276

" Diseases of the Throat and Nose " (Mackenzie) 276

" Memoirs of the Science Department, University of Tokio, Japan "

(Mendenhall) 276

" The Atomic Theory " (Wurtz) 418

" The Skin in Health and Disease " (Bulkley) 420

" A Text-Book of the Physiological Chemistry of the Animal Body "

(Gamgee) 421

" A Physical Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism " (Gordon) 421

" School and Industrial Hygiene " (Lincoln) 422

" The Ocean as a Health-Resort " (Wilson) 423

" The Piiilosophy of Mathematics " (Bledsoe) 423

" The Orthoepist " (Ayres) 423

" What to do first in Accidents or Poisoning" (Dallas) 424

Scotch Sermons " 559

" Modern Thinkers " (Denslow and Ingersoll) 562

" The Scientific Basis of Spiritualism " (Sargent) 564

" Progress and Poverty " (George) 564

" Medical Heresies historically considered " (Smythe) 665

" Passages from the Prose Writings of Matthew Arnold " 565

" The Journal of Physiology " (Foster) 565

" The Beautiful and the Sublime " (Kedney) 566

" A New School Physiology " (Dunglison) 566

"Diphtheria: Its Cause, Nature, and Treatment" (Gregg) 566

"Animal Life as affected by the Natural Conditions of Existence"

(Semper) 698

" Annual Pveport of the Chief of Engineers, United States Army " 701

" Life and her Children " (Buckley) 701

" Transcendental Physics " (Zollner and Massey) 702

" Consumption, and how to prevent it " (Mays) 703

" British Thought and Thinkers " (Morris) 703

" Elementary Projection-Drawing " (Warren) 704

" Practical Plane Geometry and Projection " (Angel) ) . . 704

" The Publishers' Trade-List Annual, 1880 " 704

" The Geology of Hudson County, New Jersey " (Russell) 704

" An Elementary Course of Geometrical Drawing " (Vose) 705

" Among Machines " 705

" Telegraphic Determination of Longitudes on the East Coast of South

America " (Green, Davis, and Norris) 705

�� � [ 887 ] INDEX. 867

Books noticed : page

" The Relations of Science to Modern Life " (Potter) 705

" Learning to Draw " (Viollet-le-Duc) 706

" A Text-Book of Elementary Mechanics " (Dana) 700

" Summary of Substantialism " (Story) 706

" The Feeling of Effort " (James) 700

"Food for Invalids " (Fothergill & Wood) 843

" Study of Indian Languages " (Powell) 844

" Geology of the High Plateaus of Utah " (Dutton) 844

" The Power of Movement in Plants " (Darwin) 845

" The Study of Political Economy " (Cossa) 848

" Young Folks' Cyclopedia of Persons and Places " (Champlin) 848

" James Smithson and his Bequest " (Rhees) 848

" Culture of the Sugar-Beet " (McMurtrie) 849

" Sanskrit and its Kindred Literatures " (Poor) 849

" High Schools " (Northrop) 849

" Geological and Natural History of Minnesota " 850

" Noxious and Beneficial Insects of Illinois " (Thomas) 850

" Abridgment of the Nautical Almanac for 1881 " 850

Breath, Temperature of tlie 708

British Association, The Fiftieth Meeting of the 138

Brunton, T. Lauder, M. D., F. R. S 226, 374

Buckland, Mr. Frank 812

Buckley, Arabella B 90

Burglar- Alarm, The Electric 56

Burns, Professor E. S 760

Calvin, S 610

Carhart, Professor H. A 513

Caribbean Sea, The Deep Valley of the 287

Caves in Japan 143

Cerebral Localization 599

Chahoon, George 122

Change as a Mental Restorative 285

Chasles, Michel, Sketch of 840

Chemical Affinity, A New Theory of. ... 717

Chemical Elements, Evolution of the 526

Chronology, History of. 760

Clarke, Professor F. W 337

Climatology of Europe 716

Coal, A Piece of 610

Consumption and Climates 284

Coral, Rate of Growth of 719

Correspondence 122, 262, 696

Cox, Sir George W 408

Crane, Professor T. F 824

Criticisms Corrected. (Herbert Spencer) 101, 387

Crust of the Earth, M. Faye's Theory of the 574

Cyclone, A Miniature 264

Death, Distinctions between Real and Apparent 401

De Costa, B. F 31

�� � [ 888 ] 868 INDEX.

PACK

Deep-Sea Animals, Sensitive Organs of , 575

Demagogues, Powder and Ball for 128

Denuing, W. F jij-g

Disease, Do Stenches cause ? 856

Dumas, Sketch of Professor , 257

Dust, A Shower of : . . . . 263

Earthquakes, M. Delaunay 's Theory of 855

Eddy, William A. 49g

Editor's Table 125, 265, 412, 553, 697

Educational Logic, Curious 267

Education as a Hindrance to Manual Occupations 26

Education, Mixed 719

Education, Physical 303, 456, 577, 753

Eel, Structural Peculiarities of the 569

Electricity, Atmospheric 513

Electric Light, The Diffusion and Softening of the 715

Electric Light, the Maxim 424

Electro-Motors and Dynamo-Machines, Improvements in 280

Elevators, Improved Safety Construction of 137

Europe, American Storms in 862

Facts, Mr. Herbert Spencer's 263

Faraday, Henry and 76

Farquhar, W. H 264

Field-Naturalists' Club, A 415

Fisher, L. C 696

Fishes, The Migrations of 212

Folk -Lore, Plantation 824

France, Infertility in 859

Eraser, Dr. William 401

Fruit, The Stone-Grains in 428

Galton, Francis, F. R. S 64

Gardner, W. H., M. D 43

Geikie, Professor Archibald, F. Pv. S 654

Glacial Man, The, in America 31

Glaciers, Retreat of .' , 862

Gould, Mr. John 860

Grate, An Improved Smokeless 854

Gravels, Trenton, The Age of the 567

Greek, The Study of, at Cambridge 412

Hallowell, H, C '. 264

Harmond, Dr. J 384

Haviland, Charles T 681

Hawkins, John 696

Heat in Tunnel -Excavations 713

Heat, The Sun's 11

Heidenhain, Dr. R 362

�� � [ 889 ] INDEX. 869

PAGE

Heincke, Dr. Friedrich 212

Henry and Faraday 76

Hofmann, A. W 257

Horses and their Feet 468

Huxley, Professor T. H., F. K. S 159

Hypnotism 108

Hypnotism, Artificial 362

Hystero-Deraonomania, An Epidemic of 851

Ignorance, The Advantages of. 337

Imagery, Mental 64

Indigestion as a Cause of Nervous Depression 226, 374

Indigo, The Manufacture of, in Bengal 708

Industrial Education, Methods in 202

Insect Conservatism, Lubbock on 396

Johnston-Lavis, H. J., F. G. S 776

"Jumpers " of Maine, Experiments with the 170

Kirkwood, Professor Daniel 542

Lassell, William (obit.) 716

Laveleye, Emile de 669

Lead Pipes, Perforation of, by Rats 708

Lead Pipes, Rats and 429

Liability, Some Notes on a Doctor's 769

Life, The Profusion of 96

Lightning-Rod, Form of the ' 572

Lights, Artificial 283

Literary Notices 129, 270, 418, 559, 698, 843

Lubbock on Insect Conservatism 396

Lungren, Charles M 217, 323, 483

Luxury, The Morals of 669

Lyman, Oliver E 769

Lyons, P. F 263

Man and the Vertebrate Series 783

Man, Esthetic Evolution in 339

Married Women, The Legal Position of 643

Marshall-Islanders, The 278

Mayer, Professor Alfred M 76

McCosh, James 122

Mendenhall, Professor T. C 356

Meteor, A Brilliant 696

Meteoric Stones, The Markings of 282

Meteors, The August 178

Meteors, The November 542

Millikin, Dan 262

Mimicry, Protective, A Case of 262

Mind as a Measure of Nature 681

Mind in Work ' 709

�� � [ 890 ] 870 INDEX,

PAGB

Minerals, Artificial Production of. 857

Miners, Diseases of 717

Mining, Preliistoric, in North Carolina 5G8

Mirage, The, on Swiss Lakes 286

Monday-Lectureship Philosophy 556

Moon, Changes on the 710

Morgan, Lewis H., Sketch of 114

Morris, Charles 80, 783

Motion, Optical Illusions of , 519

Motors, Domestic (0. M. Lungren) 217, 323, 483

Muscle, Mode of Termination of Nerves in 853

Musical Valley, A 429

Music, Oriental 237

Myer, Albert J., Sketch of 408

Mythological Crows, A Flock of 4

��o

��Naturalists, The Felicity of 821

Notes 143, 287, 431, 575, 719, 863

Nuisances, Municipal, The Problem of 585

Ocean-Currents, The, of Greenland and Iceland 710

Oceanica, The Black Races of. 744

Ocean, Variability of the Level of the 718

Oil-Plants of French Guiana 384

Organic Form, The Evolution of 80

Oswald, Felix L., M. D 303, 456, 577, 753

Oysters, The Green Color of. 855

Parsons, Samuel, Jr 797

Pearce, S. Austen, Mus. Doc, Oxon 237

Peckhamite, The New Mineral 861

Peirce, Professor Benjamin, Sketch pf 691

Photography, Progress in 570

Physical Education (Oswald) 303, 456, 577, 753

Physical Education (Editor) 418

Plants, Darwin on the Movements of 498

Plants, the Relative Hardiness of 797

Plow and Wheel-Carriage, Origin of the (Tylor) 448

Pneumonia, Elevator 854

Political Institutions, The Development of (H. Spencer). 1, 145, 289, 433, 624, 721

Political Science 125

Popular Miscellany 137, 277, 424, 567, 707, 851

Pottery, Types of 138

Pourtales, Count, Sketch of 549

Powell, J. W 114

Progress, Human, The Forces of ^53

Publications Received 137, 276, 424, 566, 707, 850

Quarantine, and Systematic Medical Inspection 861

Rainfall, Relation of Elevation and Exposure to 714

Reading, What the Eye sees in 262

�� � [ 891 ] INDEX. 871

��PAGK

��Respirtition, Effect of Physical Training on 284

River-Water, Purification of, by Organic xVgents 709

Rock- Weathering, as Illustrated in Churchyards 654

Romanes, George J 1*^8

Sabbath, The (J. Tyndall) 246, 310

Sanitary Improvement, Ethcacy of 430

Science and Culture 1'59

Science at Princeton College 122

Science at the University of Michigan 123

Science in the Colleges 126

Science College, Sir Josiah Mason's 265

Science in the Schools of France 573

Science, Prehistoric, en Fete 544

Sciences, The National Academy of 412

Scientist, An Ancient 883

Sea, Carbonic Acid in the 862

Sea, The Deep Explorations of, off the Coast of France 855

Seguin, Dr. Edouard 268

Sewerage, The Study of, in London 414

Sewer-Waters, The Purification of. 806

Smelting-Furnace, A New 281

Spencer, Herbert 1, 101, 145, 289, 387, 433, 624, 721

Spencer, Mrs. A. G 643

Solar Machine, A . 283

Solar System, M. Faye's Theory of the 858

Spiders and Tuning-Forks 718

Split Stones in the Desert 569

Stammering 711

State, The, as an Educator 664

Strawberry- Leaf Beetle, The 852

Suicide, Relation of Age and Marriage to 282

Suicide, Statistics of 860

Thermometers, Examination of, at the Yale Observatory 367

Thermometers, Variations in the Fixed Points of 286

Thompson, Professor Silvanus P. 26, 202, 519

Thunderstorms, The Phenomena of 572

Tracy, R. S., M. D 585

Transformation of Sound into Light 142

Trees, The Circulation of Sap in 140

Trichinosis on a British School-ship 574

Turquoises 712

Tylor, E. B 448

Tyndall, Professor John, F. R. S 246, 310

Typhoon, A Japanese 356

Varigny, Henry de 599

Verneau, Dr. R 744

Vine-Slip, Only a 539

Visual Tests, The Regulation of 571

�� � [ 892 ] 872 INDEX.

��PAOB

��Vogt, Carl 638

Volcanic Cones, Origin and Structure of 776

Waldo, Dr. Leonard 367

Walpole, Spencer 812

Ward, Lester F 526

Water-Plants, Variations in the Forms of 570

Wilson, H. H 664

Women, The Early Practice of Medicine by 191

Yellowstone, The Great Glacier of the 568

Youmans, Eliza A 498

Young, Professor C. A 11

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Abbott, Benjamin Vaughan 372

Aborigines, The Australian 680

Academy of Sciences, Minnesota 131

Accidents, Industrial, etc 285

African Races, Movements and Mixtures of. 568

Agnosticism at Harvard 266

Air-Engine, The M6karski 429

Air, Impure, and Disease 283

Alcohol, Natural Production of 238

American Association at Cincinnati, The 859

American Association, the. Meeting of 422

American Continent, The Primeval 229

Animal Heat, Refrigeration and 278

Animals, the Larger, Gradual Disappearance of 280

Anotlier World down here 43

Anthropology, German 132

Anthropology in Russia 284

Anti-vivisectionists, A Case for the 409

Ants, Cutting and Slave-making 129

Ants, Intelligence of. 495, 81 6

Arrow-Poison of the South-Sea Islands 714

Arsenical Poisoning, Physiology of 134

Asphalt, Origin and Uses of 539

Atwater, Professor AY. 261

Behring Strait, Geological Features of 130

Bell, Alexander Graham 186, 324

Biblical Criticism, The Science of 408

Blood, The, and its Circulation 460, 644

Books noticed :

" Studies from the Biological Laboratory of Johns Hopkins Univer- sity " 116

" The Irish Land Question " (George) 119

" Medical Hints on the Production and Management of the Singing

Voice " (Browne) 119

" Report of the Commissioner of Education for 1878 " 120

" Photometric Researches " (Pickering) 120

" Studies of the Food of Birds, Insects, and Fishes'*' 120

" United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries," Report for 1878. . 121

" Natural Theology " (Bascom) 121

VOL. XIX. 55

�� � [ 886 ] 866 INDEX,

Books noticed : page

" Drainage for Health " (Wilson) 121

" The Care and Culture of Children " (Sozinskej) 122

" Baldwin Locomotive Works' Catalogue " 122

" ' Change ' as a Mental Restorative " (Mortimer-Granville) 122

" Puehlo Pottery " (Putnam) 122

" Adam Smith " (Farrer) 122

" The Devonian Insects of New Brunswick " (Scudder) 123

" Orange Insects " (Ashmead) 123

" Pwural School Architecture " (Clark) 123

" English Rural Schools" (Hulbert) 123

" Electric Lighting bj Incandescence " (Sawyer) 124

" The Cause of Color among Races " (Sharpe) 124

" The Boy-Engineers " (Lukin) 125

" American Sanitary Engineering " (Philbrick) 125

" The Food of Fishes " (Forbes) 125

" Extracts from Chordal's Letters " 126

" Tide-Tables for 1881 " 126

" Report on the Marine Isopoda of New England " (Harger) 126

" A Syllabus of Anglo-Saxon Literature " (Hart) 126

" Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Colorado ". . . 126

" Papilio " 126

Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects " (Helmholtz) 269

" The Human Body " (Martin) 270

" Victor Hugo : his Life and Works " (Barbou) 271

" The Telescope " (Nolan) 271

" Sight ; Monocular and Binocular Vision " (Le Conte) 272

" Sketches and Reminiscences of the Radical Club " (Sargent) 272

" Our Native Ferns " (Underwood) 273

" Drugs that enslave " (Kane) 273

" Reminiscences of Dr. Spurzheim and George Combe " (Capen) 273

" History of the Free-Trade Movement in England " (Mongredieu) . . . 273

" Is Consumption contagious ? " (Clapp) 274

" The Spirit of Education " (B6esau) 274

" Electricity in Relation to Medicine and Surgery " (Rockwell) 274

" The Logic of Christian Evidences " (Wright) 274

" First German Book " (Worman) 274

" General Physiology of Muscles and Nerves " (Rosenthal) 412

" The Old Testament in the Jewish Church " (Smith) 413

" Trance and Trancoidal States in the Lower Animals " (Beard) 416

" Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia " 417

" United States Entomological Commission Report on Rocky Moun- tain Locust " 417

" Cooperation as a Business " (Barnard) 417

" Contributions to the Anatomy of the Milk-weed Butterfly " (Bur- gess) 418

" Locke's Conduct of the Understanding " (Fowler) 418

" Middletown Scientific Association. Occasional Papers " (Gardner). 418

" Railroads and Telegraphs " (Giddings) 418

" The Diet-Cure " (Nichols) 418

" Modern Architectural Details " (Bicknell and Com stock) 418

�� � [ 887 ] INDEX, 867

Books noticed : page

" The Magazine of Art " 418

" How to tell the Parts of Speech " (Abbott and McElroy) '. . . . 419

" A Fourth State of Matter " (Outerbridge) 419

" Observatory of the University of Miclngan, Report of the Director" 419 " United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, Meteorological Researches "

(Ferrel) 419

" Our Trees in Winter " (Robinson) 419

" Cruise of the United States Revenue Steamer Corwin " (Hooper). . . 419

" Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration " (Weeks) 420

" Observations on Jupiter " (Trouvelot) 420

" Working Drawings and how to use Them " (Haupt) 420

" Imaginary Quantities " (Argand) 420

" The Endowment of Scientific Research " (Davidson) 420

" Anthropological Society of Washington, D. C, Abstract of Transac- tions " 421

" Thoughts on Agricultural Education " (Sturtevant) 421

" The Nature of Vibration in Extended Media " (Robinson) 421

" History of the Christian Religion to the Year 200 " (Waite) 421

" A Practical Treatise on Nervous Exhaustion " (Beard) 421

" Anthropology " (Tylor) 557

" Illusions " (Sully) 559

" Literary Style and other Essays " (Mathews) 560

" The Bolometer and Radiant Energy " (Langley) . 561

" Second German Book " (Wormau) 561

" Report on Foreign Life-saving Apparatus " (Lyle) 561

" Geological Survey of Alabama " (Smith) 561

"American Nervousness, its Causes and Consequences" (Beard) 562

• ' The Library " (Lang) 562

" The Microscope, and its Relation to Medicine and Pharmacy "

(Stowell) 562

" Principal Characters of American Jurassic Dinosaurs " (Marsh) 562

" The Climate, Soils, Timbers, etc., of Kentucky " (Procter) 562

" Inductive Metrology " (McGee) 563

" Nostrums in their Relation to the Public Health " (Prescott) 563

" On Philadelphite " (Lewis) 563

" On the Geographical Distribution of the Indigenous Plants of Eu- rope and the Northeast United States " (James) 563

"United States Life-saving Service, Annual Report of Operations ". . 563

" The School of Life " (Alger) 563

" Rapid Breathing as a Pain-Obtunder " (Bonwill) 564

" Gill-Nets in the Codfishery " (Collins) 564

" Philadelphia Water Department, Annual Report of Chief-Engineer " 564

" Antiquities of New Mexico and Arizona " (Hoffman) 564

" Political Eloquence in Greece Demosthenes " (Bredif and MacMa-

hon) 564

" The Bacteria " (Magnin) 706

" Life of Voltaire " (Parton) 707

' Marine Algse of New England and Adjacent Coast " (Farlow) ? 709

" Hand-Book of Chemical Physiology and Pathology " (Vaughan) 709

" English Philosophers David Hartley and James Mill " (Bower) . . . 709

�� � [ 888 ] 868 INDEX.

Books noticed : page

" Text-Book- of Experimental Organic Chemistry " (Jones) 710

" The Botanical CoUector's Hand-Book " (Bailey) 710

" The Sun " (Young) 852

" Chinese Immigration in its Social and Economical Aspects " (Seward) 853

" Discovery of Palceolithic Flint Implements in Upper Egypt " (Haynes) 855

" A Memorial of Joseph Henry " 855

• ' Anniversary Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History " . . 856

"Indigestion, Biliousness, and Gout in its Protean Aspects." Part I.

(Milner) 857

" Ranthorpe " (Lewes) 857

" Sewer-Gas and its Dangers " (Brown) 858

" The Wilderness-Cure " (Cook) 858

" A Text-Book of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene " (Scovell) 858

Bryant, Charles S 635

Buchanan, J. G 59

Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm, Sketch of 550

Campos, Life and Nature in the 133

Cattle-Raising in South America 835

Cave-Temples, The, of India 713

Cemeteries, Are, unhealthy ? 657

Chesapeake Zoological Laboratory 276

Cleve, M. J 830

Climate and Health 567

Cohn, Professor Herman 54

Color- Blindness 91

Color-Blindness, and Education of the Color-Sense 567

Color-Blindness, Hereditary 423

Colored Men in China 843

Color in Flowers, Conditions of 717

Color-Sense, The, among Uncivilized Peoples 138

Colton, G. H 554

Comets, About 790

Cope, E. D., Sketch of 110

Copper-Mines, Ancient, of Isle Royale 601

Correspondence 554, 697, 843

Couty, M 835

" Craters," Lunar 713

Cremation, Progress of. 277

Cynicism, opposed to Progress 78

Darwin, Charles, F. R. S 663

Deaf, The Horace Mann School for the 84

Death, The Phenomena of 394

Deep-Sea Investigation 59

Degeneration 218, 382

Digestive Agent, A Vegetable 574

Diphtheria, Origin of 284

Diseases and the Weather 275

Disinfectant, A New .... 138

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Draper, H. IST 94

Drowned, the, Burial of the Souls of 573

Drowning, How to prevent 369

Duckworth, Djce, M. D 491

Dunbar, CM 101

Dust, the Nucleus of Fog 142

Dyeing, Influence of Physical Structure on Processes of 5T0

Dyer, T. F. Thistleton 67

Dynamite, The Safe Manufacture of 286

Earth-Beds, Frost-formed 572

Earth, How the, is weighed 743

Earthquakes in England 282

Earthquakes, The Mental Effect of 257

Earth's Crust, The Secular Changes of Level in the 715

Eddy, William A 78

Editor's Table 114, 265, 408, 555, 698, 846

Education, Physical 7, 145, 334, 450, 595, 721

Educational Progress, Another Step in 267

Education, Self-Government in 555

Education, State 703

Egleston, N. H 176, 311

Electricity, Storage of. 5G6

Electricity, The Modern Development of Faraday's Conception of 242

Electric Lighting, Recent Advances in 378

Electric Lights for the French Coasts 142

Electric Measurement, Units of 131

Electric Motor, Improved 130

Energy, The Electric Storage of 546

Eucalyptus, The, in the Roman Campagna 94

Explosions, Some Facts about 281

Eyes and School-Books 54

Fairbairn, Dr., and the Synthetic Philosophy 846

Fairchild, Herman L 460, 644

Faraday Lecture, Helmholtz's 268

Fayrer, Dr. J., F. R. S 171

Field Club, The Buffalo 265

Filtering Apparatus, An Improved 283

Fish, C. F . . . , 24

Food- Animals, Slaughter of, among the Jews 139

Forestry, European Schools of 311

Forestry in India 137

Forest-Culture in Alpine Ravines 830

Forests, our. The Value of 176

Forest-Trees, Undergrowth and 426

Fortress, A, of the Polished-Stone Age 718

Fossil, The Human, of Schipka Cave 571

French Association at Algiers 423

Fruits and Seeds, On 156, 354

�� � [ 890 ] 870 INDEX,

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��Fryatt, F. E 511

Fungi as Insecticides 136

Galton, Francis, F. E. S 519

Geological Action, Efficiency of Present Causes in 430

Germs, Examination of, in tlie Air 136

Glucose and Grape-Sugar 251

Gratacap, L. P 229

Great Primitive European Sea 86t/

Ilalsted, B.vron D 543

Harvest-Mites or Jiggers 845

Health and Material Prosperity 127

Ilelmholtz, Professor H 242

Herring, The 483

Higgins, Dr. P. J 531

Hitchcock, Korayn 652

Huntington, A. K 808

Hurt, Alden B 400

Huxley, Professor T. H., F. E. S _ 433, 795

Hypnotic Phenomena, The Eeality of 279

Ice-Sheet, The Glacial, in the Interior States 425

Information wanted , 698

Inheritance 663

Intellectual Property, Eecent Advance in the Law of 372

Irrigation, Alkaline Deposits from Waters of. 573

Jackson, Dr. Charles T., Sketch of. 404

Johnston-Lavis, H. J., F. G. S 49

Jordan, Professor David S 1

Koehler, S. E 91

• ' Ladies' Deposit," the Boston, Lessons of 698

Length, About Measures of 652

Life Insurance, Modern Basis of 625

Life Insurance, Origin and History of 482

Life Insurance, Practical Business of. 732

Lighthouse, The New Eddystone 574

Literary Notices 116, 269, 412, 557, 706, 852

Lizard, Habits of the Green 286

Lubbock, Sir John 156, 354

Lunar Lore and Portraiture 511

MacCormac, Ilcnry 369

Malo, Leon, 0. E 539

Mankind, The Eaces of 289

Manley, Dean V. E 698

Marcel, Gabriel 680

�� � [ 891 ] INDEX. 871

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Matter, Gaseous, Action of Radiant Heat on 33

Medical Science, The Cultivation of. 774

Medicine, Connection of the Biological Sciences with 795

Milk, The Insufficient Use of. 491

Minnesota Academy of Sciences 131

Molecule? What is a 688

Morrison, M. G 84

Mortality, in Different Pursuits 716

Mound-Builders, The 128

" Mountain-Sickness," Mr. Whymper's Experiments with 569

New Guinea, Stone-Age Civilization in 429

Newton, Sir Isaac, An Unpublished Letter of 572

Notes 143, 287, 431, 575, 719, 864

Opium, Persian 716

Oswald, F. L., M. D 7, 145, 334, 450, 595, 721

Paget, Sir James 774

Parasites in Food and Drink 712

Patterson, J. Stahl 665, 784

Petting, Effects of, on Animals 135

Phaeodaria, The 285

Photophone, The, in Research 114

Physiological Effects of. Compressed Air 861

Physiology, Book, abroad 114

Pisciculture, The Origin and Progress of 140

Plant-Life, The Unit in 543

Plant-Migrations 430

Political Institutions, The Development of 197, 342, 577, 750

Politics, Science in 711

Popular Miscellany 127, 275, 422, 565, 711, 859

Population, the Colored, Increase and Movement of. 605, 784

Post and Telegraph, Influence of the, on International Relations 101

Prairies, Why are, Treeless ? 424

Preece, W. H 378

Publications Received 127, 274, 421, 564, 710, 859

Radiant Energy, Production of Sound by 186, 324

Radiant Heat, Action of, on Gaseous Matter 33

Refrigeration and Animal Heat 278

Research, The Endowment of ' 572

Robinet, M. G 657

Romanes, George J 495, 816

Roses, The Otto of 135

Sahara, The, M. Soleillet on 571

Saliva, The, and the Gastric Juice 129

Salmon on the Pacific Coast 665

Salmon, Story of a 1

Sanitary Protection Associations 141

�� � [ 892 ] 872 INDEX,

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��Saratoga, Mineral Springs of 24

Scliool-Books, Eyes and 54

School-Room Ventilation 531

Schuster, Dr. Arthur, F. R. S 468

Science-Teaching, Progress of Higher 676

Self-Government in Colleges 697

Sewage-Farming 285

Skinner, A. N 790

Skull -Worship 276

Somnambulism 711

Sound, Production of, by Radiant Energy 186, 324

Sound-Signals 428

Spectroscopy, Modern, The Teachings of 408

Spencer, Herbert 197, 342, 577, 750

Spencer, Thomas D., M. D 394

Spouting Springs, The Phenomena of 554

State Education : A Necessity 635

Steel, Progress in the Manufacture of 808

Stevens, W. Le Conte 697

Stockhardt, Sketch of Julius Adolpli 261

Stone, W. H 676

Study of Anthropology, The 862

Sulphur Formation in the Soil of Paris 574

Sunstroke and some of its Sequelae 171

Taylor, George H., M. D 554

Telegraph and Postal Service, Union of the 400

Telescope, The Great Vienna 712

Tin in Australia and other Countries 425

Tissandier, Gaston 238

Touch, Structure of the Organs of 570

Trees and Lightning 277

Tylor, E. B., F. R. S 289

Tyndall, Professor John, F. R. S 33

Tyndall Trust Fund, The , 116

Venukoff, M 684

Vessels, Some Preliistoric 80

Vibrations, Mechanical, as a Remedy in Neuralgia 280

Vibrations, Mechanical, Control of Pain by 554

Visions, The, of Sane Persons 519

Vivisection, Darwin's Views on 424

Vogt, Carl 620

Volcanic Cones, Origin and Structure of 49

Watterhofer, Dr. Otto 743

"Watson, James Craig, Sketch of. 693

Weather, The, and Summer DiarHnieas 426

Wehle, Theodore 482, 625, 732

Wiley, Professor Harvey W 251

Williams, W. Matticu 43

�� � [ 893 ] INDEX. 873

��PAGK

��Will-o'-the-Wisp, The, and its Folk-Lore 67

Wilson, Dr. Andrew 218, 382

Winchell, Alexander, LL. D 693

TVinchell, Professor IST. H 601

Woman as a Sanitary Reformer 427

"Women, Papuan, and Feasts 427

World, the Old, Unexplored Parts of 684

Writing, physiologically considered 620

Yellowstone Yalley, Glacial Action in the 278

Young, Professor 0. A., Biographical Notice of 840

��END OF VOL. XIX.

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[edit] Volume 20

[ 887 ] INDEX.

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Abbott, Benjamin Vaughan 340, 794

Academy, The Philadelphia 531

Alcohol, Disinfection of 428

Allen, Professor Grant 591, 817

American Climate and Character 109

American Scientific Association 267

Ancient Masons' Marks, Significance of 426

Anecdote, The Anatomy of an Old 369

Animal Retribution 861

Animals and the Telegraph 574

Animals, How they Breathe. (Illustrated.) 448, 742

Animals, The Reversion of Domesticated, to the Wild State 716

Animals, Wild, as Man's Associates 528

Anthrax, Vaccination for 142

Anti-Resonators, Metallic 140

Archaeologists, German and Austrian, Congress of 571

Architecture, Acoustics in 572

Armsby, H. P 378

Astronomy in High-Scbools 300

Bacheler, A. W., Letter from 843

Ball, Professor Robert S 479

Beebe, William S., Letter from 403

Bellows, Henry W 700

Bigelow, Albert, Letter from 843

Billson, William W ; 369

Biology in Public Schools 713

Birds, Jurassic, and their Allies 312

Birgham, Francis 83

Blood, Circulation of, in the Brain 718

Boohs noticed :

" Ancient Bronze Implements of Great Britain and Ireland " (Evans) . 127

" The Journal of Physiology 128

" Volcanoes " (Judd.) (" International Scientific Series.") 129

" The Bible and Science " (Brunton) 129

" Sorghum and Corn-stalks " (Collier) 131

" Naso-Pharyngeal Catarrh " (Coomes) 131

" The Hysterical Element in Orthopedic Surgery " (Shaffer) 132

" Industrial Applications of Chemistry " (Mallet) 132

"Educational Journalism " (Bardeen) 132

" Septicaemia in the Rabbit produced by Human Saliva " (Sternberg).. 132 vol. xx. 55

�� � [ 888 ] 866 INDEX.

Books noticed : paob

" What shall we do with the Inebriate ? " (Crothers) 132

" Report of Wisconsin State Board of Health " 132

" Synopsis of the Fresh-Water Rhizopods " (Hitchcock) 133

" Mineral Resources of the Hocking Valley " (Hunt) 133

" Butterflies, Structure, Changes, etc." (Scudder) 133

" Primitive Industry " (Abbott) 133

" Hygiene of Bright's Disease " (Edwards) 134

" The Figure of the Earth " (Merrirnan) 134

" Rugby, Tennessee " (Hughes) 134

" Pharmacology and Therapeutics " (Brunton) 134

" Suicide " (Morselli). ( u International Scientific Series.") 275

" The Foreigner in China " (Wheeler) 279

" A Hand-book of Vertebrate Dissection " (Martin and Moele) 280

" Algebra for Schools and Colleges " (Newcomb) 281

" Man's Origin and Destiny " (Lesley) 282

" The Microscope and its Revelations " (Carpenter) 283

" Artificial Anassthesia and Anaesthetics " (Lyman) 409

"Teaching Chemistry and Physics in the United States " (Clarke).. . . 411

" Illustrations of the Earth's Surface. Glaciers " (Shaler) 411

" Synchronological Chart of Universal History " (Adams) 412

" Mexican Paper : An Article of Tribute " (Valentini) 413

" Noxious and Beneficial Insects of Illinois" (Thomas) 413

" The Landa Alphabet " (Valentini) 413

" Outlines of Morphology, Physiology, and Classification of Plants "

(McNab) . 414

"Seedless Fruits " (Sturtevant) 414

" Loxolophodon and Uintatherium " (Osborn) 415

" Ancient Philosophy from Thales to Cicero " (Mayor) 415

" Report of the Chief Signal Officer for 1879 " 416

" Report of the Horological and Thermometric Bureaus of the Win- chester Observatory, Yale College" (Waldo) 416

" Field Experiments with Fertilizers " (Atvvater) 416

" Smithsonian Institution Report for 1880 " (Baird) 417

" Short History of the Bible " (Keeler) 417

" The Spelling Reform " 417

" English History for Young Folks " (Gardiner) 417

" Maximum Synchronous Glaciation " (McGee) 417

" Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education " 418

" The Disposal of the Dead " (Bermingham) 418

" Pliocene Man in America " (Southall) 418

" Cotton Production of Louisiana " (Hilgard) 418

" The Young Folks' Astronomy " (Champlin) 418

" The Total Solar Eclipse of July, 1878 " (Langley) 419

" Papers on American Archaeology " (Bandelier) 419

" Materialism, Ancient and Modern " 419

" Sea-Mosses " (Hervey) 419

" Concepts and Theories of Modern Physics " (Stallo) 557

" The French Revolution " (Taine) 560

" The Harrow-gate Waters " (Lewis) 562

" Report of Commissioner of Education for 1879 " 562

�� � [ 889 ] INDEX. 867

Books noticed : pacb

" Mechanics 7 Liens " (IToyt) 562

" Report of Geographical Surveys west of the One Hundredth Me- ridian " 563

" English History for Students " (Gardiner and Mullinger) 563

" First Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey " (King) 563

" Manual of Sugar Analysis " (Tucker) 564

" Book of the Black Bass " (Henshall) 564

" The Human Figure " (Warren) 564

" The Wandering Jew " (Conway) 564

" Comparative Mythology and Folk-lore " (Cox) 565

" Uranometria of the Southern Heavens " (Gould) 700

" The Law of Personal Rights (Willard) 701

" The First Book of Knowledge " (Guthrie) 702

" Ecce Spiritus " 702

" The Land of the White Elephant " (Vincent) 703

" The Honey- Ants of the Garden of the Gods," etc. (McCook) 703

" Suicide " (O'Dea) 704

" Nature and Function of Art " (Eidlitz) 705

" Dangers to Health " (Teale) 706

" A Study of the Pentateuch " (Stebbins) 706

" The Opium-Habit and Alcoholism " (Hubbard) 706

' Autobiography of Mark Rutherford " (Shapcott) 707

" The League of the Iroquois " (Hathaway) 707

" Zoological Atlas " (McAlpine) 707

" The Verbalist " (Ayres) 708

" New System of Ventilation " (Gouge) 708

" Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes " (Webb) 708

" The Labor Question " 708

" Elements of Quaternions " (Hardy) 708

"The Brain and its Functions" (Luys.) ("International Scientific

Series.'") 847

" Text-Book of Organic Chemistry " (Strecker) 849

" Sensation and Pain " (Taylor) 849

" Antiseptic Surgery " (Championniere) 851

" Origin of Primitive Superstitions " (Dorman) 851

" Calendar of the University at Tokio " 852

" English Philosophers : Bacon " (Fo wler) 852

" Elements of Geometry " (Newcomb) 853

" History of Settlements along the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers " (Fer-

now) 853

" House-Life of the American Aborigines " (Morgan) 853

" Geology of the Environs of Tokio " (Brauns) 854

" Resources of the Black Hills of Dakota" (Newton and Jenney) 854

" Measurements of the Force of Gravity at Tokio " (Mendenhall) 854

Botanist, A, of the Ninth Century 523

Bowen, Eliza A 300

Broca, M. Paul, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 261

Brocks, Margarette W., Letter from 268

Brush, Professor George Jarvis, Sketch of. 117

Bryant, Charles S., Letter from 553

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Bucknill, Dr 806

Buildings, Prevention of Damp in 712

Burns and Scalds, Soda a Eemedy for 663

Calendar, The Javanese 820

Canon, The Unaweep 781

Carpenter, F. D. Y 225

Carpenter, Dr. William B 244

Cartholicism, Protestantism, and Suicide 220

Cemeteries, Sanitation of 422

Chinese Immigration : A Sociological Study 721

Climate and Character, American 109

Coal-Dust, Explosive Force of 425

Coal Production of the World 138

Coal, Spontaneous Combustion of 717

Coffee and Tea, The Chemistry of 359

Color-Blindness, Tests for 859

Colorado Desert, The 384

Comet b, 1881, Constitution of. 427

Comets' Tails, Theories of 860

Convulsions, Epidemic 498

Copper-Mines of Isle Eoyale 122

Coyyright Law, Progress of 340

Correction, A 267, 403

Correspondence 122, 267, 403, 553, 842

Cremation in Italy 422

Davis, Dr. J. B., Death of 570

Deer-Horns, Evolution of 859

Delauney, G 184

Desert, The Colorado 384

Deville, M. Henri Saint-Claire, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 543

Discoveries, Eecent German Archaeological * 712

Disease-Germs 244

Diphtheria-Poison, Nature of 714

Dreams and the Making of Dreams 461

Drechsel, Dr. Edmund 5 1 2

Du Bois-Beymond, Emil 433

Earth-Worms and their Wonderful Works. (Illustrated.) 289

Editor's Table 123, 268, 404, 554, 696, 844

Education, Physical (Hygienic Precautions Popular Fallacies) 50, 156

Eggs, About.. S/ 55

Egyptian Marriage and Animal Worship 717

Electrical Exhibition, The International 141

Electricity, The Recent Wonders of 6G9 > 786

England, Decline of Country Population in 140

Engler, Edmund A 304

Entertaining Varieties 398, 548, 688, 830

Eocene Strata of Alabama, The 566

Error, A Typographical 403

�� � [ 891 ] INDEX. 869

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Ether, The Interstellar , 142

Explosives, Modern r . 794

Explosives, Speed of 429

Fairchild, H. L .* 448, 742

Fallacies, Popular 156

Farnsworth, P. J 267

Fauna, Deep Sea, Characteristics and Diversities of 285

Feature, A New 556

Forces Inorganic, Balance and Compensation of 123

Fossils, New Carboniferous 861

France, New Conditions affecting Life in 860

Gannett, Henry 781

Gardens, The Floating, of Cashmere 284

Garretson, Frederick, M. D 541

Geikie, James 665

German Naturalists and Physicians, Association of 574

Gesture-Speech 135

Gould, Professor B. A., Sketch of. (Portrait.) '683

Government, Elective, The Machinery of 628

Granville, Dr. J. Mortimer 102, 461

Guebhard, Adrien 175

Hakim ben Sheytan, Travels and Adventures of 688, 830

Hardaker, Miss M. A 577

Hartwich, C 523

Health, Heat and 573

Heart-Disease, Hope for Sufferers by 711

Heat and Health 573

Hildebrand, F 657

Hitchcock*, Professor C. II 229

Hitchcock, C. H., Letter from. .'. 403

Houses, Ancient Aboriginal 287

Hovey, H. C, Letter from 403

Human Life, The Duration of. 95, 553

Huxley, T. H 165

Hyacinth-Bulbs 817

Hygienic Precautions 56

Ice Period, North America in the 229

Images of the American Stone Age 286

Indian Burial-Caves 711

Infectious Organisms, Cultivation of 424

Irving's Works, Copyright of 554

��James, Joseph F 384

Jews, Physiological Immunities of the 426

Jones, Louise Coffin, Letter from 123

Jurassic Birds and their Allies 312

�� � [ 892 ] 870 INDEX.

PAGK

Kafiristan, The Kafirs of 138

Kingsley, J. S 531

Lake Erie, Origin of 136

Lamp, The Bunsen. (Illustrated.) 378

Lansing, Gerrit L 721

Larrahee, W. H 289 621

Lawes, Rev. W. G 324

Leprosy, Hawaiian 567

Le Suenr, W. D 615

Libraries, Free Circulating 698

Life, Human, The Duration of 95

Literary Notices 127, 275, 409, 557, 700, 847

Lockwood, Professor Samuel 477

Longevity, Antediluvian 842

Lounsbury, Professor T. R 117

Lubbock, Sir John 65 193

Lyell, Sir Charles. (Portrait.) 591

Macleod, H. Duncan 735

Malarial Organisms 857

Mammalian Foot, Development of the 572

Mammoth Cave 284

Mammoth Cave, Scientific Exploration of 403

Map, A Review 225

Marriage and the Family, are they in Danger ? 713

Marsh, Professor O. C 312

Materialism and Positivism 615

Matter, A Little 538

Mead, C. M., Letter from 842

Meteoric Stones, Discovery of Organic Remains in 83

Meteorites, Organic Remains in 568

Meunier, Stanislas 655, 778

Microbes, A Glossary of 718

Militancy and Industrialism in Virginia 271

Mind, The Practical Study of 554

Mood, Mountains of the 688, 830

Morality ? Has Science yet found a New Basis for 753

Morality, Scientific, Goldwin Smith on 844

Morris, Charles 609

Morse, Professor Edward S 528

Morselli, Henry, M. D 220

Mound-Builders, Identity of the Indians with the 267

Mound-Builders, Inscriptions of the 421

Mound-Builders, "Who were the 137

Nature, The Available Energy of. 87

Negro, Intellectual Condition of the Savage 139

Nervous Conditions, Muscular Expression of. 584

New Guinea and its People. (Illustrated.) 324

North xVrnerica in the Ice Period 229

�� � [ 893 ] INDEX. 871

��PAGK

��Notes 143, 28S, 430, 574, 719, 862

Nuisance, An Electrical 843

Number-Forms and Colors, Letter on 123

Obituary, Professors L. H. Morgan and Jobn W. Draper 569

Organic Remains in Meteoric Stones 83

Oswald, Dr. Felix L 56, 156

Oudemans, J. A. C 820

Outerbridge, A. E., Jr 538

Oyster-Beds, Deterioration of American 29, 145

Oyster, Longevity of the 477

Oysters, Sewage in 857

Paleontology, Rise and Progress of. 165

Panama Canal, Our Policy respecting the ... , 273

Panama Canal, The Gulf Stream and the 665

Paris, Time-keeping in. (Illustrated.) 304

Pasteur, M. Louis, Sketch of. (Portrait.) 823

Pathology, Scientific and Popular Experiments in 714

Peach-Trees, The Yellows in 856

Peppercorne, F 663

Pettenkofer, Dr. Max von 332, 468

Photometry 428

Physiological Chemistry, The Fundamental Problems of. 512

Plants, Fifty Years' Study of the Distribution of 710

Plant-Life, Influence of Electric Light on 569

Plants, Longevity of 657

Plants, Movements of 421

Popular Miscellany 135, 284, 420, 566, 710, 855

Popular Science Monthly, Charges against the 404

Population, Finding the Center of 420

Positivism and Materialism 615

Powell, Professor John W., Sketch of. (Portrait.) 390

Preece, W. H '. 669, 786

Prescott, Albert B 359

Publications received 135, 283, 420, 565, 709, 854

Putnam, G. P.'s Sons, Letter from 55 i

Quackery within the Profession 681

Question, An Archaeological 403

Railroads, Safety on Suburban 716

River-Antelope, A South African 427

Rocks and Soil, Effects of Lightning on. (Illustrated.) 655

Rocks, Vibration of, in Patapsco Valley 541

Rodents, Fossil and Living 423

Salt Lake, Freezing of a 858

Sanitary Relations of the Soil 332, 468

Science, A Dangerous Tendency in 715

Science, A Half-Century of. 65, 193

�� � [ 894 ] 8 72 INDEX.

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Science and Party Government 696

Science and the Woman Question 577

Science-Teaching, An Experience in 242

Science, Modern, The Scholastic Prelude to 735

Scientific Instruments, A Collection of Quaint 858

Sea-Water, Does it contain Free Carbonic-Acid Gas? 428

Sea, The Sirens of the. (Illustrated.) 621

Seeds, Fossil. (Illustrated.) 778

Sex, Equality and Inequality in 184

Shells, Ancient and Modern 136

Sheytan, Hakim Ben, Travels and Adventures of. 688, 830

Shipman, Paul R 315

Signal Service, Extension of the 507

Sketch of Professor B. A. Gould. (Portrait.) 683

Smith, Professor Goldwin 628, 753

Snakes, Australian 567

Society, The Industrial Type of 1

Soda, A Remedy for Burns and Scalds 663

Soil Analysis, Value of 566

Soil, Sanitary Relations of the 332, 468

Solaville, M. de 95

Soldering by Pressure 862

Sound and Radiant Heat 650

Spectrum, Action of the Different Rays of the 139

Spectrum Analysis, The Real Discoverer of 568

Spencer, Herbert 1

Sponges, Propagating, by Cuttings 141

Suicide, Catholicism, Protestantism, and 220

Sulphurous Acid, Disinfecting Powers of 429

Swift's, Dean, Disease 806

Telelogue, The 286

Temperature, Influence of, oh the Chirp of the Cricket 268

Thomson, Sir William 87

Tiflis, The Archaeological Congress at 572

Time, A Glimpse through the Corridors of 479

Time-keeping in Paris. (Illustrated.) 304

To Eat and to be Eaten 609

Towne, Edward C 109

Transcendental Physics 315

Trees, Fossilized Standing 429

Trouve's Electric Canoe 137

Trowbridge, C. A., Letter from 122

Trowbridge, Professor John 507

Tyndall, Professor John 650

Typography and Eye-sight 424

Vegetable Structures, Permanence of 861

Venus, Approaching Transit of 857

Vision, Experiments in 142

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PAGK

Volcanic Products. (Illustrated.) 347

Volcanoes, The Supposed, in Central Asia 715

Volcanoes : Their Action and Distribution. (Illustrated.) 43

Vortex-Rings, Studies of. (Illustrated.) 175

Ward, Stanley M 242

Warner, Dr. Francis 584

Whales and their Habits 423

Winslow, Erving 683

Winslow, Lieutenant Francis 29, 145

Woman Question, The, from an Anthropological Point of View 275

Word-Blindness 570

World-Problems, The Seven 433

Worry 102

Yandell, David W 498

Yorktown Centennial, Further Lessons of the 268

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Advertisements, Quack 121

Africa, Elephant-Service 860

America, Ancient Sun- Worship and the Cross in 711

American Forestry 419

Anaesthetics, The Manageable Zone of 716

Animal and Plant Life, A Partnership of 835

Animals, Domestic, The Introduction of 246

Animal Self-Defense. (Illustrated.) 595

Anthropology, Suggestions to Observers in 139

Apo, The Mysterious Volcano of 429

Aquarides, The, or July Meteors 424

Archaeological Researches, American 561

Architecture, Acoustic 454

Area of the United States, Calculating the 572

Arnold, Matthew 737

Aryans. The Original Home of the 571

Association, The American 561, 855

Association, The British 562

Astronomical Panics 192

Astronomical Symbols, Origin of the 425

Astronomy, Chaldean. 858

Atlantic Coast, Old and New Latitudes on the 574

Aurora Borealis, Forms of 286

Ayres, Dr. TV. 350

Bachelor, O. R., M. D 100

Bacteria, Disadvantages and Advantages of. 709

Badoureau, M 391

Beecher on Theology and Evolution 697

Bell, Sir Charles, and Physiological Experimentation 178

Bill, M. B, 788

Bird, A Gigantic Fossil. (Illustrated.) 467

Book-Men, The. 470

Books noticed :

" Physical Education " (Oswald) 127

" Voyage of the Vega " (Nordenskiold) 128

" Origin and Growth of Religion " (Davids) 130

"Bacteria" (Cohn) 131

" Beliefs about Man " (Savage) 131

" Transactions of the Georgia Medical Association " (Campbell) 131

"The Universe^ (Pouchet) 132

" The Gospel of the Stars " (Seiss) , 132

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Books noticed : pa.&s

" Voice-Production " (Patton) 133

"The Study of Trance" (Beard) 133

"Sparks from a Geologist's Hammer " (Winchell) 133

" Principles of Chemical Philosophy " (Cooke) 133

" Report of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College "

(Pickering) 134

" Palaeolithic Implements of the Valley of the Delaware " 134

" Analysis of Milk and Milk-Foods " (Gerber) 134

"The Brain of the Cat " (Wilder) 134

"Publications of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology" 135

" The Science of Mind " (Bascom) 135

"Myth and Science " (Vignoli) 270

" Easy Lessons in Science " (Barrett) 271

"Die chemische Ursache des Lebens (Loew and Bokorny) 272

" The Oyster Industry " (Ingersoll) 272

"The Seal Islands of Alaska " (Elliott) 272

" The Areas of the United States (Gannett) 273

" Statistics of the Production of the Precious Metals in the United

States " (King) 273

"Eeport of the Chief Signal-Officer of the Army" (1881) 273

" The Constants of Nature Atomic Weights " (Clarke) 273

" The Chemistry of Cooking and Cleaning " (Richards) 274

"The Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota" (1880)

(Winchell) 274

" La Lumiere Electrique " (Alglave and Boulard) 274

" Bi-Monetism " (Stringham) 275

" Guides for Science Teaching " (Hyatt and Crosby) 275

"The New Ethics" (Sewall) 275

" Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History " (1880) 275

" How to make the Best of Life " (Mortimer Granville) 276

" Report on Diphtheria " (Staples) 276

" The Use of Tobacco " (Hinds) 276

"The Temple rebuilt" (Abbe) 276

" Incandescent Electric Lights " (Du Moncel and Preece) 276

" Diseases of Memory " (Ribot) 410

" The Present Religious Crisis " (Blauvelt) 411

"Egyptian Obelisks " (Gorringe) 413

" The Properties and Motions of Fluids " (Stanley) 414

"Myron Holley " (Wright) 415

" Report of the Connecticut Agricultural -Experiment Station " (1881) 416

" The Occult World " (Sinnett) 416

" Marriage and Parentage " 416

" The New Infidelity " (Grote) 416

" Elementary Treatise on Electricity " (Maxwell) 417

" Management and Feeding of Infants " (Keating) 417

" Opium-Smoking in America and China " (Kane) 417

" Study of the Various Sources of Sugar " (Ware) 417

"Vaccination " (Edwards) 418

" First Aid to the Injured " (Shepherd) 418

" Ants, Bees, and Wasps " (Lubbock), 650

" Capital and Population " (Hawley) 551

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Books noticed : PAGB

" John Stnart Mill " (Bain) 551

" Medical Adviser in Life Insurance " (Sieveking) 552

" Geological Survey of New Jersey " (1881) 553

" From River to Sea " (Gleed) 553

" Political Institutions " (Spencer) 553

" Production of the Precious Metals in the United States " (King) 554

" Hand-Book of Invertebrate Zoology " (Brooks) 554

" The Floating Matter of the Air " (Tyndall) 555

" A Dictionary of Music and Musicians " (Grove) 556

" Our Homes " (Hartshorne) 556

" The Wine Question " (Ellis) 556

" The Rhymester " (Hood) 556

" The Books of all Time " (Leypoldt and Jones) 556

" A Reading Diary of Modern Fiction " 557

" Practice of Commercial Organic Analysis " (Allen) 557

" Currency " (Willson) 557

" History of the Water-Supply of the World " (Bell) 558

" Dictionary of the French Language " (Masson) 558

"How the Great Prevailing Winds and Ocean - Currents are pro- duced " (Taber) 558

" Primary Helps " (for the Kindergarten) (Hailmann) 558

" Geology of the Henry Mountains " (Gilbert) 559

" A Bibliography of Fossil Insects " (Scudder) 559

" Tables for the Determination, Description, and Classification of Min- erals " (Foye) 559

" A Geographical Reader " (Johonnot) 699

" The Science of Ethics " (Stephen) 700

M Modern Applications of Electricity " (Hospitalier) 700

" Etymological Dictionary of the English Language " (Skeat) 701

" Our Merchant Marine " (Wells) 702

" Science Ladders " (D'Anvers) 702

" The Gospel of Law " (Stewart) 703

" Manual of Object-Teaching " (Calkins) 703

" Treatment of Common Accidents and Diseases " (Turner) 703

" Good Cheer" 703

" Copyright in Books " (Dawson) 704

" Treatise on Diseases of the Skin " (Duhring) 704

" Errors in the Use of English " (Hodgson) 704

" American College Directory " 705

" What is Bright's Disease ? " (Pancoast) 705

" Kant's ' Critique of Pure Reason ' " (Morris) 705

" Psychology of the Salem Witchcraft " (Beard) 706

" Geological Sketches " (Geikie) 706

" Natural Religion " (by the author of " Ecce Homo ") 847

" Ernestine " (Von Hillern) 850

" Practical Microscopy " (Davis) 851

" Guide to the Flora of Washington and Vicinity " (Ward) 852

" Reminiscences of Oriel College " (Mozely) 853

" Students' Guide in Quantitative Analysis " (Bolton) 854

" Astronomy for Schools and General Readers" (Sharpless) 854

Borax in America. (Illustrated.) 350

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Boston Water-Supply, Purification of the 136

Bowen, Eliza A 218

Brachiopoda, The Systematic Position of the 428

Brandt, K 836

British Schools, Sanitary Eeports of '..' 138

Brown, Allan D 773

Brown, Kev. E. Woodward 60

Brush, Professor George J 795

Bryce, Peter, M. D 239

Buell, Charles J 122

Burmese Tribe, A Curious 328

Burnett, Dr. Swan M 86

California, The Eucalyptus in 710

Carpenter, Dr. William B 178

Chemistry in High-Schools 218

Chinese, The : Their Manners and Customs 679

Cities, The Development of. (Illustrated.) 391

Civilization, Food and 282

Clarke, F. W 171

Climate, Forests and 562

Clouds? What are 751

Coal-Dust, Diseases from 718

College Government 549

College Officers, The Appointment of 171

Collens, Hon. T. Wharton 470

Color-Blindness and Color-Perception 86

Color-Names and Color-Sense 719

Correspondence 121, 406

Country, The Topmost, of the Earth 527

Culture, Science and 123

Cushing, F. H 186

Cuttle-Fishes, Past and Present of the. (Illustrated.) 753

Darwin, Charles R., LL. D., Sketch of 260

Darwin, Charles Robert 266

Darwin Memorial, The 699

Davis, Charles E., L. B 121

Deaf and Dumb, Lip-Teaching for the 858

Deaf-Mutes, Provincial Accents among 279

Decay, How Plants resist 524

De Rochas, M. A 645

Diamonds, Brazilian, and their Origin 610

Dieulafait, M 826

Discovery, Egyptological 716

Discussion, A Premature 376

Disease, Progress of the Germ Theory of 462

Disinfectants, Value of 863

Dollinger, Dr. J. von 205, 300

Donkin, Horatio 634

Doubt, Delusions of 788

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Drunkenness, The Utility of 785

Du Bois-Reymond, Emil 317, 433

Ducks, Wild, Domestication of 280

Dumas, Littre, Pasteur, and Taine 667

Earth, The, A New Weighing of 565

Earth-Worms, Influence of, on Plants 122

Eclipse, Solar Observations of the Last 572

Editor's Table 123, 266, 406, 544, 696, 843

Education, Industrial, in the Public Schools 809

Education, National, and National Necessities 444

Eggs of Reptiles and Insects as Food 429

Egleston, N. H 1

Egyptological Discovery 716

Electric Storage-Batteries 408

Electromania 650

Elephants, About. (Illustrated.) 480

Ensilage, Experiments in 707

Entertaining Varieties 112, 402, 541, 692

Eucalyptus, The, in California 710

Evolution, Mozley on 767

Exercise, Du Bois-Reymond on 544

Exercise, The Physiology of 317, 433

Expeditions, French Exploring 570

Experimentation, Physiological, Sir Charles Bell and 178

Explosions and Explosives 773

Fairchild, H. L 595

Fire, Trials by, and Fire-Jugglers 645

Fishes, Dr. Giinther on the Study of 383

Fishes, Eye-like Organs of 164

Flesh-eating no Sin 711

Flies, How, climb 711

Flower, An Insect-lodging 572

Flowering Plant, The Oldest 570

Fly, The Hessian 136

Focke, W. O. 524

Food and Civilization 282

Food-Colors, Poisonous 717

Food-Plants,- Pedigree Selection in 859

Foot, The, and how it should be treated 714

Force, Matter and, Definitions of 406

Forestry, American 419

Forestry, Scientific 856

Forests and Climate 562

Forest, The Great Arctic 569

Galton, Francis 53

Geological Influences in English History 564

Geometry, Transcendental 507

George, Hector 663

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PAGB

Germ Theory of Disease, The, Progress of 462

Gold, Origin of Native 140

Gorceix, M. H 610

Graham, Douglas, M. D 721

Grave-yard, A Merovingian 715

Giinther, Dr., on the Study of Fishes 383

Hair, Sudden Whitening of the 520

Haldeman, Professor S. S., Sketch of, with Portrait 395

Harvest-Time 574

History, English, Geological Influences in 564

Horse, The, in America 285

Houses, Sanitary Inspection of 430

Hydrocarbon, A New Natural 141

Hydrodynamics and Electricity 253

lies, George .- 331

Illumination, Electric and Gas 577

Implements, Palaeolithic, American and European 718

Indians, Southern, The Mound-Builders and the 563

Indigo, Synthesis of 283

Insane, Unscientific Treatment of the 706

Insanity, Neglect of the Study of 712

Insects, Fossil 567

Investigators, Wealthy Scientific 696

Jacques, William W., Ph. D 454

Japan, Scientific Societies in 566

Jelly-Fish, An Ideal 426

Jewish Tribe, A Newly Discovered 710

Jews, The, in Europe 205, 300

Kepley, Ada H 123

Kingsley, J. S 687

Kirkwood, Daniel 192

Krause, Dr. Ernst 164

Kreitler, Lieutenant G 328, 527

Lakes, Temperature of Water at Top and Bottom of 137

Land Formation on our Globe, The Law of 861

Lane, Alfred C , 507

Latitudes, Old and New, on the Atlantic Coast 574

Lauth, Charles 310

Lead in Food and the Industrial Arts 708

Le Sueur, W. D 96

Light and Heat, Origin of the Sun's 278

Lion-Tamer's, A, Method 714

Literary Notices 127, 270, 410, 550, 699, 847

Literature and Science 737

Literature and Science, Matthew Arnold on 843

Littre, Dumas, Pasteur, and Taine 667

London, Improved Sanitary Condition of. 423

�� � [ 889 ] INDEX. 871

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��Longevity 587

Lovett, Robert W 34

Lubbock, Sir John, Sketch of 104

Lungren, CM 577

Machinery, Recent Applications of Science to 565

Malaria, The Microbe of. 563

Mammoth, Folk-Lore of the 137

Manufactory, The Poisons of the 663

Massage : Its Mode of Application and Effects 721

Mastodon, Recent Existence of the 138

Matter and Force, Definitions of 406

McBride, T. H 289

Meats, Some Rare 139

Medal, The Albert 713

Medical Schools, A Criticism of 279

Melograph, The Repeating 142

Memorial, The Darwin 699

Men, Measurements of 53

Merrick, T. B 121

Meteorograph, The 717

Meteorology, Tree 713

Meteors, The Aquarides, or July 424

Method, A Lion-Tamer's 714

Meunier, Stanislas 467

Mexico, The Mound-Builders in 860

Microbe, The, of Malaria 563

Mind, The Future of. 239

Mineralogy, The Progress of American 796

Miracles not out of Date 281

Molds, About the. (Illustrated.) 244

Monkeys 20

Moon, Is the, red-hot ? 571

Moon, Mountains of the 112

Morais, Nina 70

Morfit, 751

Mound-Builders, The, and the Southern Indians 563

Mountains, The Timber-Line of 857

Mud- Volcanoes in Sicily 569

Music, The Relation of, to Mental Progress 378

Mythology, Anthropoid 655

Necessities, National, and National Education 444

Nordenskiold, Baron Adolf Eric, Sketch of, with Portrait 533

Notes 143, 287, 431, 575, 719, 863

Obesity and its Treatment 426

Obituary 575

Odors, On the Diffusion of 84

Officers, College, The y Appointment of 171

Oolite, How, may be formed 708

�� � [ 890 ] 8 72 INDEX.

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��Orang-Outang, Number of Species of the 861

Oswald, Felix, M. D 587, 817

Palaeolithic Implements, American and European -, 718

Panics, Astronomical 192

Parasites 141

Parasitism, Reciprocal 426

Pasteur, Littre, Dumas, and Taine 667

Pearce, S. Austen, Mus. Doc, Oxon 378

Periodicals, Scientific, Catalogue of 421

Perkins, Professor George H 637

Persian Gulf, The Salt Deposits of the 568

Photometer, A Selenium 863

Physician, The, of the Future 637

Physics, Modern, Stallo's Concepts of 96

Physiognomic Curiosities 817

Piseco Lake-Trout, and T-Lake Falis 424

Placzek, Dr. B 655

Plant-Cells and their Contents. (Illustrated.) 289

Plants, How, resist Decay 524

Plants, The Protective Organs of 284

Plants, The Oldest Flowering 570

Poisons, The, of the Manufactory 663

Popular Miscellany 136, 277, 419, 560, 707, 855

Porcelain, and the Art of its Production 310

Pressure, Atmospheric, and the Sea-Level 562

Priestley, Dr 121

Princeton, The Great Telescope at 560

Progress, Mental, The Relation of Music to 378

Progress, The Slow, of Ideas 548

Propeller, The Screw- 430

Property, Problems of 331

Protoplasm 361

Publications Received 135, 277, 418, 559, 706, 855

Quack Advertisements 121

Quinine, The Tree that bears 100

Race, A New, in Course of Development 566

Rain-Fall, The Laws of 423

Randle, E. H . .- 406

Reciprocal Parasitism 426

Reproach, A Very Modern 268

Researches, American Archaeological 561

Richardson, Benjamin Ward, M. D., F. R. S ! 444

Rock Excavator, A Mechanical. (Illustrated.) 427

Rocks, Vibration of 406

Rogers, Professor William B., Death of. 429

Rutherford, R. C 84

Salmon-Disease, The 421

Salt Deposits, The, of the Persian Gulf 508

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Sanitary Inspection of Houses 430

Sanitary Objects, Co-operation of Medical Officers and People in 861

Say, Thomas, Sketch of, with Portrait 687

Scarlatina, The Soil and 858

Schools, British, Sanitary Reports of 138

Schools, Public, Science in the 122

Science and Culture 123

Science in the Public Schools 122

Science, Recent Applications of, to Machinery 565

Science, Speculative 145

Scientific Meeting, The Montreal 8-46

Sea-Level, Atmospheric Pressure and the 562

Seeds, Clouds of 142

Seeds, The Germination and Vitality of 278

Self-Defense, Animal. (Illustrated.) 595

Senses, The Development of the 34

Sewage-Irrigation in German Cities 568

Sewerage of Large Villages 277

Siberian Products 281

Siemens, C. William. 223

Signs, More, of the Times 545

Sioux Superstitions 422

Smith, Professor Goldwin, as a Critic 18

Societies, Scientific, in Japan 566

Sociology, Spencer's Descriptive 406

Sound-Shadows in Water 420

Spencer, Herbert 18, 767

Spencer's Descriptive Sociology 406

Spider, My 513

Spiders, Silk-spinning 281

Springs, Intermittent, The Mechanics of. (Illustrated.) 370

Stallo, J. B 145

Stallo's Concepts of Modern Physics 96

Stars, Variable 709

Stereoscope, The. Its History. (Illustrated.) 37

Stereoscope, The. Its Theory. (Illustrated.) 197

Stevens, W. Le Conte 37, 197

Storage-Batteries, Electric 408

Straight, Professor H. H. 809

Sugar, The Chemistry of 500

Sun-Spots, What are? 422

Sun, The, A New Theory of 223

Sun- Worship and the Cross in Ancient America 711

Superstitions, Sioux 422

Sword, The Genesis of the. (Illustrated.) 79

Symbols, The Astronomical, Origin of 425

Taine, Littr6, Dumas, Pasteur, and 667

Telegraphy, Sea, ft>r Ships flf

Teleradiophone, The 425

Telescope, The Great, at Princeton 560

�� � [ 892 ] 874 INDEX.

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Terra del Fuegians in Paris 285

Thomson, Wyville 286

Thought, Liberty of 60

"Thought-Reading," A Note on 634

Times, More Signs of the 545

Tobaccoism 284

Topmost Country, The, of the Earth 527

Training-School, Manual, The Functions of an American 621

Tree-Planting, Methods and Profit of 1

Trees, Forest and Shade, Insect Enemies of 280

Tree, The, that bears Quinine 100

Tribe, Jewish, A Newly Discovered 710

Trout, Piseco Lake-, and T-Lake Falls 424

Tubercle, The Bacilli of 712

Tubercular Disease, The Cause of 257

Tunnel, "What Perils might come out of a 718

Tyndall, Professor 257, 462

Underhill, Mrs. Z. D 376

Units, Electric 142

Vessels, Armored, A New Plan for 857

Vibration of Rocks 406

Vibrations, Transmission of 428

Villages, Large, Sewerage of 277

Virchow, Professor Rudolf, Sketch of, with Portrait 836

Vivisection, The Ethics of 344

Vivisection, What has been gained by 140

Volcano, An Artificial 140

Volcano, The Mysterious, of Apo , 429

Volcanoes, Mud, in Sicily 569

Wallace, Alfred Russel 20

Walterhofer, Dr. Otto 370

Water, Sound-Shadows in 420

Water, Tastes and Smells in 573

Waters, Mineral, The Formation of Saline 825

Wealthy Scientific Investigators 696

AVhite, Francis Emily, M. D 361

Whitening of the Hair, Sudden 520

Wiley, Professor Harvey W 500

Wilks, Dr. Samuel 344

Williams, W. Mattieu 650, 785

Wilson, Dr. Andrew 480, 753

Winter, W. H. T 513

Woman Question : A Reply to Miss Hardaker on the 70

Wood-Ducks, nabits of 713

Woodward, Professor C. M., Ph. D 621

Word-Blindness 574

Zufii, The, Social, Mythic, and Religious Systems 1 8G

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Abbott, Charles C., M. D 315

Abney, Captain, F. R. S 397

Aborigines of the Isthmus 427

Adulteration ? What is 859

African, Tbe, in tbe United States 433

African, The, in the United States, Letter on 841

Allen, Nathan, M. D., LL. D 139

Allen, Professor Grant 94, G62

Anios, Sheldon 721

Animal Life, Queer Phases of. 589

Antiquity of Man in America 286

Arcadia, A South African 650

Asphalts, American and Foreign 188

Ass's Milk for Infants 425

Astronomers, Amateur, Work for 862

Astronomy, Physical. Modern Methods in 477

Backboned Family, Progress of 739

Bain, Alexander 458

Bates, Henry Hobart, M. A 788

Beard, R. O., M. D 535

Beets, Wine from 287

Benson, Berry 120

Bergeron, M 495

Bicycles and Civilization 556

Bicycle Controversy, The, in Stockbridge, Letter on 550

Birds in Cold Weather 431

Boileau, J. P. H., M. D ' 172

Boodle, R. W 511, 606

Books noticed :

" Ideological Etymology " (Andrews) 123

" Elements of Universology " (Andrews) 123

" Vice Versa " (Anstey) 125

" The Coming Democracy " (Harwood) 126

" The Change of Life " (Tilt) 126

" The Cornell University Register " (1881-'82) 126

" Light " (Wright) 127

" Memoir of Daniel Macmillan " (Hughes) 127

" Progressive Religious and Social Poems " (Vaughan) 127

" Water-Power of the Southern Atlantic Water-Shed " (Swain) 127

" Studies in Science and Religion " (Wright) 128

" Physiognomy " (Stanton) 129

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Books noticed : page

" Statistics of the Population of the United States " ("Walker) 129

" Wave-Lengths of Fraunhofer Lines " (Mendenhall) 129

" Report on Submarine Mines " (Abbott) 129

" Chronological List of Auroras," 1870 to 1879 (Greeley) 130

" Statistics of Public Indebtedness " (Porter) 130

" Appalachia," June, 1882 130

" Atlantis " (Donnelly) 131

" Meteorology of Tokio, Japan " (Mendenhall) 132

" The Chemistry of Sake-Brewing " (Atkinson) 133

" Construction and Maintenance of Time-Balls " (Hazen) 133

" George Eipley " (Frothingham) 276

" The New Botany " (Beal) 277

" Is Consumption contagious ? " (Clapp) 277

" The Sun " (Young) 278

" La Navigation Electrique " (Dary) 278

" Report of Smithsonian Institution " (1880) 278

" The Peak in Darien " (Cobbe) 279

" The Fire-Protection of Mills " (Woodbury) 279

" Easy Star Lessons " (Proctor) 280

" Report of the Commissioner of Education for 1880 " 280

" Manual of Blow-pipe Analysis " (Cornwall) 281

" Catalogue of 1,098 Stars " 282

" James Mill" (Bain) 414

" The Winners in Life's Race " (Buckley) 415

" Herbert Spencer on the Americans, and the Americans on Herbert

Spencer " 416

" Unity Pulpit " (Savage) 416

" A Practical Treatise on Hernia " (Warren) 417

" Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington " 418

" A Guide to Modern English History " (Cory) 419

" Address (New England Manufacturers' and Mechanics' Institute)

(Atkinson) 419

" Contributions to Mineralogy " (Genth) 419

" Age of Tejon Rocks of California " (Heilprin) 420

" Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences " 420

" How to succeed " (Abbott) 420

" Cerebral Hyperemia; Does it exist? " (Buckley) 420

" The Solution of the Pyramid Problem " (Ballard) 421

" A Guide to Collodio-Etching " (Hartley) 421

" United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries " (1879) 421

" The Gulf Stream " (Bartlett) 422

" Proceedings of the Department of Superintendence of the National

Educational Association " (1882) 422

" Putnam's Art Hand-Books " (Carter) 422

" A Dictionary of Music and Musicians " (Grove) 422

" The Hoffman Cover and Binder " 423

" American Journal of Physiology " 423

" Modern Stenographic Journal " 423

" Ragnarok " (Donnelly) 560

" Zoological Sketches " (Oswald) 561

" Check-List of North American Birds " (Coues) 563

�� � [ 887 ] INDEX. 867

Books noticed : PAGE

" New Check-List of North American Moths " (Grote) 563

" House-Drainage " (Gerhard) 564

" Diagram for Sewer Calculations " (Gerhard) 564

" New Method of learning the French Language " (Berger) 564

" Chapters on Evolution " (Wilson) 564

" Dress and Care of the Feet " (Kahler) 565

" Report of the Maryland Fish Commissioner " (Ferguson) 565

" Report of the Wisconsin Board of Health " 565

" Youth : Its Care and Culture " (Mortimer-Granville) 565

" Report of the Detroit Board of Health " 586

" American Citizens' Manual " (Ford) 566

" Railroad Economics " (Robinson) 566

" Strength of Wrought-Iron Bridges " (Robinson) 566

" Potable Water " (Folkard) 566

" Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club " 566

" Report of the Ninth Cincinnati Industrial Exhibition " 566

" Practical Life and the Study of Man " (Wilson) 567

" Schelling's Transcendental Idealism " (Watson) 567

" Speech and its Defects " (Potter) 567

" The Magazine of Art " 567

" Revue Scientifique " 568

" Facts and Phases of Animal Life " (Morwood) 704

" Swift " (Stephen) 705

" Herbert Spsncer on American Nervousness " (Beard) 706

" History of the Pacific States of North America." Central America.

(Bancroft) 707

" Anatomy of Birds " (Shufeldt) 708

" American Society of Microscopists 708

" Poems " (Savage) 708

" Work at Harvard Observatory " (Pickering) 709

" Gospel of the Stars " (Seiss) 709

" Education, Moral " (Buchanan) 710

" Report of the Peabody Museum " 710

" Lectures on Art " 711

" The Factors of Civilization " 711

" American Hero-Myths ... 711

" Wide Awake " 712

" Report on Six Hundred Tornadoes " 712

" The Science of Politics " (Amos) 850

"Description of Houghton Farm " (H. E. A.) 851

" Anatomical Technology " (Wilder and Gage) 853

" Experimental Physiology " (Owen) 853

" Physics, and Occult Qualities " (Taylor) 853

" Barometric Hypsometry " 854

" The Eleventh Commandment " (Barrili) 854

" Signal-Service Tables " (Dunwoody) 854

" A Study of Tennyson's ' The Princess ' " (Dawson) 854

"Text-Book of Geology " (Geikie) 855

" Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College " 856

" Quintus Claudius " (Eckstein) 856

" Traits of Representative Men " (Bungay) 856

�� � [ 888 ] 868 INDEX.

PAGE

Brain-Weight and Brain-Power 172

Briesen, T. von 503

Brooks, Professor W. K 195, 364

Buckley, Arabella B 739

Biittner, C. G 650

Calendar, Origin of the, and Astrology 825

Camp-Meeting, Evolution of the 622

Cell-State, The 174

Cemetery, A Prehistoric 445

Cesspools, The Poison of 718

Child, A. L., M. D 204

Chittenden, C. E 842

Citric Acid, Action of, on Minerals 288

Civilization, Bicycles and 556

Civilization, Coeval Grades of. 430

Colin, Professor Ferdinand 174

Cold, The Poles of Extreme 570

Colored Population, Vital Conditions affecting the 714

Comets, M. Eespighi on the Light of 574

Comets, Professor Huggins on 428

Comet, The Great, of 1882 289

Consumption, Infectious 716

Continent, The Sunken Southern, again 429

Copyright Discussion, Letter on 842

Correspondence 120, 550, 841

Cowries and African Currency 141

Craters, Lunar, The Formation of 495

Cremation, Advantages of 861

Criminality in Animals 244

Cults, Ancient, among the Berbers of Morocco 286

Curiosities, Physiognomic ^

Customs, Ancient Old World and American, Analogies of. 287

Dawkins, W. Boyd \ 2

Deafness, Dizziness and " 3

Deformities, Bodily, in Girlhood ^ 23

Delboeuf, M VG7

Depression, The, of our Atlantic Coast 136

Donkey, Origin of the " r83

Draper, Professor Henry, Sketch of 405

Du Bois-Beymond, Eniil

Dwarfs and Giants ^^

Eatables, A Few Words about 6 ' i " r

Editor's Table 121,268,410,553,699,843

Education, Bain on University

Education, Brain-Power in

Education, Machine

71 1

Education, Mechanical and Vital '

�� � [ 889 ] INDEX. 869

PAGK

Education, the Influence of, on Observation . 359

Edwards, Henri Milne-, Sketch of 545

Egleston, N. II 774

Egypt as a Health Resort 141

Elder and the Juniper, Folk-Lore of the 861

Engler, E. A 156, 328

Errata 863

Esquimaux, The 137

Farming, Scientific, at Rothamsted 81, 383

FingaPs Cave, Is it artificial ? 231

Flora, North American, Succession of 135

Flora, The, of North America 283

Florida, Remedial Value of the Climate of 641

Foester, Professor William 825

Fog-Signals, Aberrations in 857

Foot-prints, Fossil, Human, in Nevada 137

Forestry, Scientific, Progress of 140

Forests, The Census and the 774

Forests, The World's, Waste of 428

Forest, The Possible Annual Yield of a 572

Fouillee, M. Alfred 300, 521

Geological Map, the Proposed, of Europe 283

Giants, Dwarfs and 767

Gilliam, Professor E. W 433

Girlhood, Bodily Deformities in 322

Gold, The Decrease of 503

Growth, Annual, of Trees 204

Growths, Some Curious Vegetable 30

Gulf Stream, The 134

Hall, James, LL. D 815

Hallock, E. J., Ph. D 188

Hamilton, Frank Hastings, M. D 1

Hammond. Dr. W. A 760

Hericourt, M 225

House-Walls, Hygiene in 135

Hunt, T. Sterry, F. R. S 165

Ice and Fog in the North Atlantic 628

Implements, Stone, Value of the Evidence of 859

Increase, Human, The Law of 39

Indians of the Hudson Bay Territory 424

Indians, The American, and the Aryan Race 286

Infection ? Do House-Flies convey 571

Insanities, Perceptional 760

Iroquois, the Pagan, Festivals of 860

Isthmus, Aborigines of the 427

James, Joseph F 445

Janssen, Jules C 477

�� � [ 890 ] 870 INDEX.

PAGE

Jaw-Bone, The Infant Giant, of Stramberg 138

Juniper, Folk-Lore of the Elder and the 8G1

Kacheen, Marriage Customs of the 573

Lacassagne, A 244

Land Question, Herbert Spencer and the 858

Lansing, Gen-it L 577

Lapham, Increase Allen, Sketch of. 835

Larrabee, W. H 30

Law against Eight 699

Ledyard, L. W 842

Le Sueur, W. D., B. A 145

Letters, Eoman, Physiological Analogies of the 285

Life, American, Social Forces in 491

Life, Animal, Queer Phases of 589

Life-Insurance, The Decline of 429

Lion, The British 72

Literary Notices 123, 276, 414, 560, 704, 850

Lockwood, S., Ph. D 341

Lunatics, Criminal, Responsibility of 859

Lyman, Oliver E 803

Magnified Objects, Apparent Size of 137

Mallock and his New Science 121

Man, Antiquity of, in America 286

Marriage Laws, Indian 135

Mastodon, A, in an Old Beaver-Meadow 341

Matter, Speculations on the Nature of 788

Medicine, The Schools of. 535

Mental Shock and Inebriety 717

Miles, Manly, M. D 81, 383

Moraine, The Glacial, in Pennsylvania 134

Mortality in Town and Country 424

Mound-Builders, Were the, Indians? 285

Musical Sensations 225

Names, Geographical, Central American, Letter on 120

Narcotics, Lessons on the Danger of 718

Nerve- Vibration as a Eemedy 575

North Atlantic, Ice and Fog in the 628

Notes 143, 288, 431, 575, 719, 863

Observatory, Dearborn, Work of the 570

Ohm's Law, Experimental Demonstration of. 713

Oswald, Felix L 6, 345, 471, 589, 754

Overwork, The Question of 411

Parrish, Dr. Joseph 622

Pasteur, A Medal to 284

Pathology, A Chapter in Transcendental 659

Petroleum, Origin of. 284

�� � [ 891 ] INDEX. 871

PAGE

Philanthropy, Scientific. 300, 521

Photography, Eecent Advances in 397

Physics, Instruction in 8G2

Physiognomic Curiosities 63

Pietrement, 0. A 783

Piratical Publishers 656

Piratical Publishers or a Piratical Government 702

Plants, Use of the Gummy Secretions of. 572

Playas and Playa Lakes 380

Politics, Hindrances to the Science of 848

Politics, Nature and Limits of the Science of 721

Popular Miscellany 134, 283, 424, 569, 713, 857

Prairies, Formation of 285

Pre-Indian People, Traces of a 315

Pressure, Atmospheric, Subterranean Effects of 716

Primitive Man ? Who was 94

Principle in Small Things 273

Publications Received 133, 282, 423, 568, 712, 856

Publishers, Piratical 656

Radcliffe, Dr. 0. B 677

Radiations, Solar, Langley's Observations on 715

Railway Consolidation, Growth and Effect of 577

Railway Consolidation, Letter on 842

Records, Ancient Maya 718

Recreation, the Gospel of. 354

Redding, Benjamin B., Obituary Notice of 575

Religion, Natural 511, 606

Rhine, Alice Hyneman 625

Roberts, Charles, F. R. C. S 322

Roman Remains 863

Rothamsted, Scientific Farming at 81, 383

Russell, Israel C 380

Russian Geological Research 287

Schleiden, Matthias Jacob, Sketch of 256

Schools, European Technical 573

Schreiber, Dr. A 109

Science, Incentives in the Pursuit of 844

Science in Relation to the Arts 48, 206

Science in the Sick-Room 497

Sciences, the Natural, The Relations of 165

Science, The, of the Present Period 20

Scientific Weekly, The New 843

Scott, Leonard 656, 843

Sea-side, Sewage at the 625

Servant-Girls, Legal Status of the 803

Sewer-Gas ... 1

Shackford, Captain J. W 628

Shooting-Stars, their Traditions and Origin 142

Sick-Room, Science in the 497

�� � [ 892 ] 872 INDEX.

��PAGE

��Siemens, 0. W., F. R. S 48 206

Small Things, Principle in 273

Smith, Mr. Gold win, on the Data of Ethics 245

Smyth, C. Piazzi 240

Snake, A Lignitied 239

Snake, Lignified, More ahout the 713

Social Porces in American Life 491

Spectroscope, The, and the Weather 240

Spencer, Herbert 354 491

Spencer, Herbert, and the Land Question 858

Spencer, Herbert, The Banquet to 410

Spencer's Impressions of America 268

Stanley, H 120

Statue, The Bartholdi 414

Stature, American 571

Stethoscope, Evolution of the 488

Storms, Origin of, Letter on 120

Suicide in Switzerland 860

Sumatra, Life among the Battas of 109

Sun, Theory of his Light and Heat, Letter on 120

Superstition, Curiosities of 345, 471, 754

Survey, Northern Transcontinental 715

Survey, The New York Geological 815

Thomson, Sir C. Wyville, Sketch of 693

Time Keeping in London 156, 328

Trees, Annual Growth of. 204

University Ideal, The 458

Varieties, Entertaining 263

Venus, Observations of the Recent Transit of . . . 569

Vice, The Economic Function of 732

Vivisection and Practical Medicine 615

Walton, Dr. George E 641

Weeks, Clara S 497

Wheat, The Pedigree of. 662

Whitehouse, F. Cope, M. A 231

Wilks, Samuel, M. D 488

Wine from Beets 287

Wurtz, Charles Adolphe, Sketch of 114

Yeo, Dr. G. F 615

Young, Professor C. A 289

Zoology, Speculative 195, 364

��END OF VOL. XXII.

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Africa, German Explorations in 571

Agricultural Experimental Stations 596

Aims, Higher Professional 425

Air, Liquid, and Solid Alcohol 427

Allen, Dr. Nathan 433

Allen, Professor Grant 65

Americanitis 286

Andrew, Sallie L 382

Animals, How much they know 39

Animals, Vegetating, and Symbiosis 811

Anthrax, Symptomatic, and Disinfectants . : 426

Armsby, H. P 596

Association, The American 858

Astronomical News, Publication of 287

Astronomy, The Boundaries of 94, 239

Bad Lands, The Little Missouri 468, 634

Baerenbach, Friedrich von 195

Ball, Robert S., F. K. S 94, 239

Bassett, Austin B 553

Bathing, Suggestions about 718

Bayard, Edward, M. D 732

Beard, Dr. George M 137

Bell, Louis 536

Black, J. R 698, 845

Blackwell, E., M. D 388

Bond, A. Curtis 475

Books noticed :

" Animal Intelligence " (Romanes) 123

" Essays in Jurisprudence and Ethics " (Pollock) 125

" A History of the People of the United States " (McMaster) 125

" Pharmaceutische Rundschau " (Hoffmann) 127

" Whence, What, Where ? " (Nichols) 127

" Bulletin of the Archaeological Institute of America " (Greenleaf) . . . 128

" Loess and Associated Deposits of Des Moines " (McGee and Call). . . 128

" Papilio " (Edwards) 128

" A Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Skin " (Duhring) 129

" A Dictionary of Electricity " (Greer) 129

" The Storage of Electricity " (Greer) 129

" On Prehistoric Trephining and Cranial Amulets " (Fletcher) 130

tol. xxni. 55

�� � [ 886 ] 866 INDEX.

Books noticed : PAGE " The Naval Use of the Dynamo-Machine and Electric Light " (Mur-

dock) 130

" The Sociologist " (Chavannes^ 130

" Journal of Social Science " 131

" On the Value of the ' Nearctic,' as one of the Primary Zoological

Eegions " (Heilprin) 131

" Eeport of the Entomologist : Department of Agriculture " 131

Bulletin of the Buffalo Naturalists' Field Club " 131

"Exploration of Parts of Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana" (Sheridan). 132

" The Place of Original Research in College Education " (Wright) 132

" A Study of the Manuscript Troano " (Thomas) 132

" The Elements of Forestry " (Hough) 133

" The American Journal of Forestry " (Hough) 133

" The Scientific and Technical Reader " 134

" Tables for Students and Beginners in Vegetable Histology " (Pen- hallow) 134

Transactions of the Linnsean Society of New York " 134

Ansichten tiber die Ursachen der Vulcane " (Reyer) 134

Neptunisch oder Plutonisch ? " (Reyer) 134

The Foundation Principle of Education by the State " (Barnett) 134

Forest Protection, and the Tariff on Lumber " 135

Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. Report, 1882 " 135

Seed-Breeding " (Sturtevant) 135

Development of Mineral, etc., Resources of Colorado for 1881 and

1882 " (Smith) 135

The Manual Training-School of Washington University, St. Louis "

(Woodward) 135

Dynamic Sociology " (Ward) 273

Man before Metals " (Joly) 276

On the Desert" (Field) 277

Home Gymnastics and Swimming " (Hartelius) 278

The Alternative " 279

Idyls of Norway " (Boyesen) 279

Aboriginal American Literature " (Brinton) 279

Science in Short Chapters " (Williams) 279

Diadem of School Songs " (Tillinghast) 280

Conflict in Nature and Life " 416

Our Home Physician " (Beard) 418

Correspondence of Carlyle and Emerson " 418

Examination of Medicinal Chemicals " (Hoffmann and Power) 419

The Possibility of Not Dying " (Kirk) 420

Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission " (1881) 420

Electro-Magnets" (Du Moncel) 421

A Perpetual Calendar " (Barnard) 421

Pocket Logarithms " 421

Report of the Bureau of Ethnology " (Smithsonian Institution) 421

American Humorists " (Haweis) 422

'Jesus, his Opinions and Character " 422

Introduction to the Study of Organic Chemistry " (Pinner) 422

Entomological Papers, Iowa State Horticultural Society " (1882) 422

�� � [ 887 ] INDEX. 867

Books noticed : page

" Manual of Assaying Gold, Silver, Copper, and Lead Ores " (Brown) . 423 Experiments with Kerosene on Insects of the Orange-Tree and

Cotton-Plant " (Riley) 423

Shade-Trees, Indigenous Shrubs, and Vines " (Stewart) 423

'Professional Papers of the Corps of Engineers of the United States

Army" 423

Astronomical Papers " (Newcomb) 423

The Bacteria " (Burrill) 423

The Q. P. Index Annual for 1882 " 424

'Notes of Talks on Teaching" (Parker) 559

Anniversary Address, Class of 1832, Union College " (West) 561

The Life of James Clerk Maxwell " (Campbell and Garnett) 561

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Poet, Litterateur, Scientist " (Kennedy) . . . 561

Methods of Social Reform," etc. (Jevons) 562

Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development " (Galton) 562

Wealth-Creation " (Mongredien) 563

Alcoholic Inebriety, from a Medical Stand-point " (Parrish) 563

Catalogue of Publications of the Smithsonian Institution " (Rhees) . 564

The Leading Men of Japan " (Lanman) 564

The Builder's Guide and Estimator's Price-Book " (Hodgson) 564

First- Year Arithmetic-Teacher's Manual " (Hoose) 565

Astronomy corrected " (Philbrook) 565

Lowest Forms of Water Animals " (D'Anvers) 565

Compendium of the Tenth Census " 565

Geological Survey of New Jersey, 1882 " (Cook) 565

Report of the Chief Signal-Officer " (1880) 566

'The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review " (Hopkinson) 566

' The Physiology of Protoplasmic Motion " (Englemann) 566

Lectures to the Employes of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com- pany " (Martin, Sewell, Sedgwick, and Brooks) 567

The Unending Genesis " (Simmons) 567

'Proceedings of the Davenport Academy of Sciences. ... 567

Proposed Ordinance, Rules and Regulations for Plumbing, in Phila- delphia 567

Appalachia," April, 1883 567

Outline of Qualitative Analysis " (Stoddard) 568

The Advanced Question-Book " (South wick) 568

Parish Institutions in Maryland " (Ingle) 568

Old Maryland Manors/' (Johnson) 568

Life of Sir William E. Logan " (Harrington) 709

On Work and Wages " (Brassey) 709

The Religion of Humanity " (Frey) 710

The Cause of Variation " (Curtis) 710

Notes on Evolution and Christianity " (Yorke) 710

Eve's Daughters " (Harland) 711

Legal Provisions respecting the Examination and Licensing of Teach- ers 711

Bacteria, and the Germ-Theory of Disease " (Gradle) 711

School-Books on Physiology and Hygiene " (Chaille) . . . , 712

' The American Trotting-Horse " (Brewer) 712

�� � [ 888 ] 868 INDEX.

Books noticed : page

" Natural Cure of Consumption, Bright's Disease, etc." (Page) 712

" The Medico-Legal Journal " 712

" Van Loan's Catskill Mountain Guide " 713

"Political Economy " (Walker) 713

" Mastery " ? T 13

" A Visit to Ceylon " (Haeckel) 713

" The Maintenance of Health " (Fothergill) 714

" Descriptive Sociology " (Spencer) 852

" Thermal Springs of the Yellowstone National Park " (Peale) 855

" The Diseases of the Liver " (Harley) 855

" American Museum of Natural History " 855

" Saxon Tithing-Men in America " (Adams) 856

" Medical Economy during the Middle Ages " (Fort) 856

" A Dictionary of Practical Medicine " (Quain) 856

Bosworth, R. S 409

Boundaries, The, of Astronomy 94, 239

Boyesen, H. H 237

Boys, C. Vernon, Esq 365

Brain-Health 572

Brain- Work, On, and Hand-Work 104

Brain-Work under Pressure 862

Bridge, The East River, Constructive Elements of 385

Bridge, The Great, and its Lessons 339

Buchner, Max 399

Burial, A Premature 143

Burmese Animal Life 142

Buttercup, From, to Monk's hood 65

Cahall, W. C, M. D ^

Campbell, CI. T ' 00

Carpenter, F. D. Y "J

Cat-Lore 5 ' 3

Catskill Mountain-Tops, Vegetation of the 283

Chambers, Prehistoric Underground 570

Channing, W. F., M. D 540

Chase, Pliny Earle ~

Cheesman, James "

Chemistry and Pharmacy

Civilization, Traits of Ancient American

Clothing and the Atmosphere ' '

Cities, Ancient, in Guatemala

Coal, How the Ancient Forests became 56

Cod-Mountain, A, in the Sea ' 15

Coins, Antique, Baron Stjerstedt's 2 ^ 2

Color-Blindness, Some Peculiarities of 5 ' 3

Colors, Association of, with Sounds ^90

Combustion, Spontaneous '

Constitutions, Written and Unwritten

Consumptives, Florida as a Health Resort for

Cookery, The Chemistry of 2 14, 373, 509, 586, 818

�� � [ 889 ] INDEX. 869

PAGE

Copernicus, Darwin and 249

Copyright in China 715

Corona, Photographing the 285

Correction, A Homoeopathic 700

Correspondence 114, 267, 408, 552, 698, 845

Criticism, A 698

Cyclones and Tornadoes 748

Darwin and Copernicus 249

" Data of Ethics," the, A German View of 195

Dawson, Dr. J. W 827

De Chaumont, Professor, M. D., F. R. S 658

Deep-Sea, A "Wonder from the 75

Deformities due to School-Life 572

De Parville, Henri 490

De Saporta, M. G 56, 673, 753

Descent, Perrier on the Theory of 524

Disease, The Germ-Theory of 577

Dix, Dr., on the Woman Question 120

Dix, Dr., The Back-down of 409

Dog, a Superstitious 63

Drunkards ? our, What shall we do with 140

Du Bois-Reymond, E 249

Duncan, John, the Weaver-Botanist 717

Dyer, T. F. Thiselton 251

Dyspepsia 141

Earth, How the, was Peopled 673, 753

Earth-Tremors 430

Eclipse, The Solar, of May, 1883 140

Editor's Table 116, 268, 409, 554, 701, 849

Education, Technical 475

Electric and Gas Lights, Hygienic Qualities of 860

Elephant, The, Mental Capacity of 497

Elephants, Intelligence shown by 848

English, Teaching 553

Espinas, M. A 524

Evolution 237

Examinations, Cram 285

Faculaa and Sun-Spots 642

Fangs, False, in Harmless Snakes 431

Farr, Dr. William, Sketch of 404

Fernald, F. A 39, 385

Fire-proof Building Construction 613

Fisheries of New York 427

Fishes, Musical 571

Florida as a Health Resort for Consumptives 114

Flowers, The Colors of 837

Food, Ways of Preserving 623

Foot-Prints, the Nevada, Dr. Harkness on. 859

�� � [ 890 ] 870 INDEX.

PAGE

Forests, North American, The Geological Distribution of 517

Frauenstein, Georg M 682

Funerals, Chiriqui 716

Funerals, Scotch, in the Olden Time 141

Funeral-Wreaths, Egyptian, restored 284

Furnace, A Smoke-consuming 717

Furnace-heating and Ventilation, Hints on 861

Geology, Some Unsolved Problems in 827

Germ-Theory, The, of Disease 577

Gest, J. Henry 527

Gotz, Johannes 88

Gradle, Professor H., M. D 577

Grain-growing, Selection in 354

Greek and Latin against Nature and Science 116

Guatemala, Ancient Cities in 428

Gymnastics 77

Halsted, Byron D., Sc. D 741

Harkness, Dr., on the Nevada Foot-Prints 859

Herbert Spencer and the French Academy 554

Hewitt, Abram S 339

Highway, the Suspended, Opening Day of 411

History, Unwritten 317

Holmes, Dr., The Banquet to 272

Homoeopathy and Quackery 847

Homoeopathy as a Science 732

Hornaday, William T 497

Howell, Thomas J 517

How much Animals know 39

Huxley, Professor T. H 317

Hygienic Science, The Growth of 658

lies, George 289

Indians, Brazilian, Capacity of 716

Insanity 627

Insanity, The Prevention of 139

Instinct, Developing a New 552

Instincts, Some Newly Remarked 71 9

Insurance Management, Improvements in 143

Investigations, Thermo-Chemical, The Aim of 770

Jacobi, Abraham, M. D 773

Jostrow, Joseph , 849

King, A. F. A., M. D 644

Eriitzer, Dr. Hermann 623

Lamb, R., C. E 54

Lente, Frederick D., M. D 114

Le Sueur, W. D., B. A 444

�� � [ 891 ] INDEX. 871

PAGE

Letter, An Intercepted 115

Life, Cost of 202, 409

Life, Microscopic, in the Air 28

Lightning-Rods 429

Literary Notices 123, 273, 416, 559, 709, 852

Liver-Fluke, The, of Sheep 741

Locusts as Food for Man 531

Logan, Sir William, LL. D., F. G. S., Sketch of 691

Lovett, Robert W 362

Lunt, Horace 669

Lyle, David A., U. S. A 531

McBride, Professor T. H 468, 634

McBride, R. W 701

McFarland, R. W 409

McGloin, Frank 553

Magnetic Storms and Sun-Spots, Recent 163

Malaria, Mosquitoes and 644

Man, Fossil, in America 137

Map-making, Primitive 682

Marriage and Divorce Laws, Our 224, 663, 701

Matter, Living and Not-Living 721

Measures, English and Metric 431

Medical Quacks and Quackeries 145

Mello, Rev. J. Magens, F. G. S 180

Mendenhall, Professor T. C 20

Merrick, E. T 663

Meters for Power and Electricity 365

Microscopy as a Science 575

Monk's-hood, From Buttercup to 65

Moraine, The Glacial, in Pennsylvania 425

Mortality in London and New York, Curves of 717

Mosquitoes and Malaria 644

Mythology, Our Indian 527

Nationalities in New York City 569

Natural History, The New York State Museum of 139

Nature, The Remedies of 1, 187, 303, 477, 604, 760

New England Population, Changes in 433

Newton, Heber, and the Heresy-Hunters 271

New York City, Nationalities in 569

Niagara Falls as a State Park -. - J4 r Q

Notes 144, 287, 431, 575, 720, 863

Nursing, Modern, The Historical Development of. '773

Olivier, Louis 28

One who has been Insane 627

Oswald, Felix L., M. D 1, 187, 303, 477, 604, 699, 760

Owen, Professor Richard, F. R. S., Sketch of 109

Patterson, J. S 552

�� � [ 892 ] 872 INDEX.

PAGE

Perrier on the Theory of Descent ' 524

Perry, Professor Thomas Sergeant 13

Pettenkofer, Max von, Sketch of 841

Pharmacy, Chemistry and 46

Physics in General Education 20

Plant-Growth, Long Days and 862

Plants, Insectivorous 382

Pluto, The Case of the Dog 553

Politics, Modern, The Anarchy of 444

Popular Miscellany 137, 281, 425, 569, 715, 858

Population, New England, Changes in 433

Portrait, The First Daguerrean 138

Pratt, John .' 202

Prehistoric Underground Chambers 570

Progress and the Home 412

Psychology, African 399

Publications Received 136, 280, 424, 568, 714, 858

Putnam, Joseph Duncan 425

Quartz, its Varieties and Formation 180

Quackery, Concerning 850

Eadau, M. R 787

Radiation, On 456

Railroad Problem, The, in the United States 289

Rank and Title 453

Reclamation 268

Reis, Philipp, Sketch of 540

Remedies, The, of Nature 1, 187, 303, 477, 604, 760

Remsen, Professor Ira 46

Reply, Dr. Oswald's 699

Rest, The Right to 285

Revenge, Animal 283

Rhine, Alice Ilyneman 408

Ricker, C. J., M. D 847

Right-Handed ? Why are we 86

Ringueberg, Eugene N. S 63

R. M. N 104

Room enough in the World yet 286

Savages, Fertilizers and 863

Savings, The, of Science 798

Scholarships, The Tyndall ... 412

School-Life, Deformities due to 572

Schools and Infectious Diseases 429

School-Sessions, Too Long 429

Science and Conscience 13

Science and Faith 281

Science, Literature, and Theology 268

Science. Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of

Science at Minneapolis 849

�� � [ 893 ] INDEX. 873

PAGa

Science-Teaching, On, in the Public Schools 207

Scruples, Keligious, Satisfying 718

Sea-Sickness, The Cause of * 362

Sea-Wall, A Natural 536

Sea-Waves, The Formation of 492

Sedgwick, W. T., Ph. D 811

Serviss, Garrett P 163

Sewage at the Sea-Side 408

Sheep, The Liver-Fluke of 741

Shepherd, Dr. F. J 145

Shipman, Paul R 721

Silliman, Professor Benjamin, LL. D., Sketch of 259

Simmonds, P. L 798

Smell, Insect Organs of 284

Smith, George Clinton 748

Smith, Henry A 642

Smith, P. C 552

Solar Rays, Machines driven by 337

Sorel, Emile 492

Sounds, Association of Colors with 490, 848

Spectrum, the Visible, Lengthening 88

Spencer, Herbert, and the French Academy 554

Spring, M. W 68

Stammering, Treatment of 138

Starch, The Granule of 687

Stewart, Gordon A 224

Stout, H. R., M. D 848

Street, Charles R 267

Superstition, The Dead-Language 701

Swimming, Position and Stroke in 54

Symbiosis and " Vegetating Animals " 811

Teaching English 553

Telephone, The, with a Sketch of its Inventor, Philipp Reis 540

Tin-Ware, Action of Acids on * 571

Thermo-Chemical Investigations, The Aim of 770

Thomsen, Julius 770

Tissandier, G 337

Tobacco Smoke, The Poisons in 427

Tornadoes, Cyclones and 748

Tornado, How to act in a 281

Tracks, Human, More Supposed Pre-Glacial 846

Transfusionist, Troubles of a 863

Trees, The Age of. 552

Tyndall, Professor John, F. R. S 456

Vaillant, M. L 75

Vapor, Influence of, on Radiation 287

Vital Phenomena, Two, Explained 575

Vivisection in the State of 2STew York 169

Vogel, August 837

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��INDEX.

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Ward, W. E 613

Water, Aeration of Peaty 860

Water, Getting, in the Desert 426

Water, On the Colors of 68

Weddings, Bedouin 574

Whistling 251

Wilder, B. G., M. D 169

Williams, W. Mattieu 214, 373, 509, 586, 818

Wohler and " Vital Energy " 553

Woman Question, Dr. Dix on the 120

Women, The Industrial Position of 388

Wonder, A, from the Deep-Sea 75

Woodland and Water-Course 669

Worcester, Alfred, A. M 77

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Acids, Effect of Watering Plants with 570

Africa, The Stone Age in 717

Alcohol regarded as a Beneficial Agent 858

Allen, Professor Grant 387, 606

Alloys, New Serviceable Metallic 143

Alps, The, in Roman Times 134

America, Prehistoric Art in 818

Animal Friendships 264

Animals, Defenses of the Lesser 484

Anthropological Studies, Scope and Value of 282

Anthropology and Philanthropy 283

Anthropology in Italy 718

Asthma and its Treatment 262

Astley, A. F 542

Athletics, College 446, 587

At Lee, Samuel Yorke 357

Aurora Borealis, The 474

Backsheesh in Arcadia 861

Baldwin, A. S., M. D 554

Big Trees, The, of Turkistan 283

Birds, The Ancestry of 606

Birds with Teeth? Are there 857

Birth-Rate in a New Hampshire Town 555

Bixby, Professor J. T 6

Black, Dr., Dr. Oswald again replies to 112

Bleunard, M. A 574

Boardman, A. G. 410

Bodies, why some feel colder than others 857

Bodin, Dr. Th 234

Book Notices :

" French and German Socialism in Modern Times " (Ely) 122

" The Vertebrates of the Adirondack Region " (Merriam) 123

" Dynamo-Electric Machinery " (Thompson) 125

" Local Government in Illinois " (Shaw) 125

" Local Government in Pennsylvania " (Gould) 125

" Local Government in Michigan and the Northwest " (Bemis) 125

" The Sciences among the Jews before and during the Middle Ages "

(Schleiden) 125

" Lake Agassiz " (Upham) 126

vol. xxiv. 55

�� � [ 886 ] 866 INDEX.

Book notices : page

" The Iroquois Book of Rites " (Hale) 126

" The Homoeopathic Leader " (Cowl) 126

" A Practical Arithmetic " (Wentworth and Hill) 126

" The Yellowstone National Park " (Winser) 127

" How can we escape Insanity ? " (Page) , 127

" Chemistry, Inorganic and Organic " (Bloxam) 127

" Manual of Taxidermy " (Maynard) 127

" Revista de Agricultura " (De Adan) 127

" Brain-Rest " (Corning) 128

" On the Conservation of Solar Energy " (Siemens) 128

" A New Theory of the Origin of Species " (Ferris) 128

u The American Citizen's Manual " (Ford) 128

" Faust's Laws of Health " (Kopp) 128

" Cobbett's How to get on in the World " (Waters) 129

" French Forest Ordinance of 1669 " (Brown) 129

" The Pine Moth of Nantucket " (Scudder) 129

" A Book about Roses " (Hale) 129

" Authors and Publishers " 130

" Record for the Sick-Room " 130

" Contributions to the History of Lake Bonneville " (Gilbert) 130

" Libraries and Readers " (Foster) 130

" Libraries and Schools " (Green) 130

" Handsaws, their Use, Care, and Abuse " (Hodgson) 131

" Studies in Logic " 131

" Deep Breathing " (Ciccolina) 131

" Books for the Young " (Hewins) 131

" The Modern Sphinx " (Savage) 131

" On the Relations of Micro-organisms to Disease " (Belfield) 132

" Hand-Book of Vertebrate Dissection " (Martin and Moale) 132

" Die Kupferlegirungen," etc. (Reyer) 132

" Die Korperliche Eigenschaften der Japaner " (Baelz) 132

" What Social Classes owe to each other " (Sumner) 271

" Report, New York State Experiment Station," 1882 272

" Report, Connecticut State Board of Health " 272

" Report, Smithsonian Institution," 1881 273

" God and Creation " (Howison) 273

" Worcester's New School Dictionary " 273

" Historical Studies" (Coan) 274

" The Factors of Civilization" 2 ^ 4

" History of the New York State Teachers' Association " (Kirk) 274

" Verbal Pitfalls " (Bardeen) 274

" Astronomy " (Newcomb and Holden) 2 4

M Finland ; its Forests and Forest Management " (Brown) 274

" God out and Man in" (Piatt) 275

A Correction (Spencer's " Descriptive Sociology ") 275

" The Law of Heredity " (Brooks) 416

" Cobbett's English Grammar " (Ayres) 417

" Das Studium der Staatswissenschaften in Amerika " (James) 418

" Twelfth Report Geological and Geographical Survey of Territories "

(Hayden) 4]8

�� � [ 887 ] INDEX. 867

Book notices : page

" Sea-Sickness " (Hudson) 418

" Cumulative Method for learning German " (Dreyspring) 418

" Questoes Hygienicas " (Farinha) 418

" Dangers to Health " (Teale) 419

" Limestones and Marbles " (Burnham) 419

" Muster Altitalienischer Leinenstickerei " (Lipperheide) 420

" Keport on Division of Philosophical Faculty " (University of Berlin) . 420

" Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission " 421

" Animal Life " (Wright) 421

" Mineral Resources of the United States " (Williams) 421

" Ueber das Galvanische Verhalten der Amalgame des Zinkes und des

Cadmiums" (Robb) 421

"Physician's Visiting List for 1884" 422

" Handy Book of Object-Lessons " (Walker) 422

" King's Hand-Book of Boston " 422

" World-Life " (Winchell) 561

" Man a Creative First Cause " (Hazard) 564

" The Organs of Speech " (Von Meyer) 565

" Ocean Grove Camp-Meeting Association " (Report) 566

" The Evolutionary Significance of Human Character " (Cope) 567

" Horses, their Feed and their Feet " (Page) 567

" Photo-Micrographs " (Sternberg) 567

" Pamphlets on Sewer-Gas and Typhoid Fever " (Hamilton and Ayer) 568

" The Influence of Athletic Games upon Greek Art " (Waldstein) 568

"Index to Articles on History, Biography, Literature, Society, and

Travel " (Griswold). 568

" A Physician's Sermon to Young Men " (Pratt) 568

" Hydraulic Tables " (Flynn) 569

" The Oyster Epicure " 569

" Excursions of an Evolutionist " (Fiske) 706

" Fallacies " (Sidgwick) 707

" A Natural History Reader " (Johonnot) 708

" Lectures on Painting " (Armitage) 709

" Archivos do Museu National do Rio de Janeiro " (Netto) 709

" Tertiary History of the Grand Cafion District " (Dutton) 710

" Electricity in Theory and Practice " (Fiske) 710

M Mounds of the Mississippi Valley " (Carr) 711

" Materia Medica and Therapeutics " (Bartholow) 711

" Human Proportion and Anthropometry " (Fletcher) 711

" Motions of Fluids and Solids " (Ferrel) 712

M Meteorological and Physical Observations " (Sherman) 712

" Report of United States Life-saving Service," 1882 712

" Distribution of Rainfall in United States " (Dunwoody) 712

" North Atlantic Cyclones of August, 1883 " (Southerland) 712

u Horological and Thermometrical Bureau of Yale College Observa- tory" (Waldo) 712

" Chemical Problems " (Foye) 713

" Steam-Heating" (Briggs) 713

" Hand-Book of Sanitary Information " (Tracy) 844

" Concepts and Theories of Modern Physics " (Stallo) 845

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Book notices : . page

" Aboriginal American Authors " (Brinton) 846

" Cassell's Family Magazine " 847

" Natural Philosophy " (Sharpless and Philips) 847

" Transactions of the American Dermatological Association " (Van

Harlingen) 847

u Winter Resorts of Florida," etc. (Graves) 847

" God and the State " (Bakunin) 848

" Movements of the Atmosphere " (Ferrel) 848

M Elementary Botany " (Macloskie) 848

" The Sun not at Rest " (Tischner) 848

" Dictionary of Music and Musicians " (Grove) 848

" Evolution " (Adams) 849

" Qualitative Chemical Analysis " (Beilstein) 849

" Manual of Chemistry " (Watts) 849

" Geology of the Eureka District " (Hague) 850

" United States Geological Survey, Second Report " (Powell) 850

" The Natural Genesis " (Massey) 850

" Contents of a Bone-Cave " (Cope) 851

" Cruise of the Revenue Steamer Corwin " 851

" Report on Oyster-Beds " (Winslow) 851

" Explosive Materials " (Berthelot) 852

" Ores of Leadville " (Ricketts) 852

" Berly's Electoral Directory " 852

" Recherches sur des Diatomees " (Prinz and Van Ermengen) 853

" Geological Survey of Alabama " (Smith) 853

" Report on Injurious Insects of New York " (Lintner) 853

" Drainage and Sewerage of Dwellings " (Gerhard) 853

" The Trichiniasis Question M 853

Boys and Girls, Growth of 571

Brazil, Science in 428

British Association, The 278

Brush, E. F., M. D 793

Bulbs, The Poisonous Principle of 282

Building-Stones, Durability of 855

Burnett, Swan M., M. D 813

Buzzards, How, find their Prey 425

Caribs, The, and the Greeks 716

Caro, M. E , 191

Carter, Joseph 90

Chad, Lake, Trees of 137

Chance, The Illusion of 209

Changes, Recent Geological, in Western Michigan 826

Check-Reins, Use and Abuse of 281

Child, A. L., M. D 259

China, Deforestization and Floods in 142

Choate, J. B 248

Cholera, Bacteria and 429

Circumstances, The Control of 335

City, Magnetism of a Great 429

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PAGE

Classical Question, The, in Germany 289

Classical Schools, Science in 409

Classics, Queer Defenses of the 269

Classics, Science versus the 674

Classics, The Current Study of, a Failure 117

Clouston, T. S., M.D 214, 319

Cold, Catching 368

" Colds " 714

College Athletics 446, 587

Collegiate Influence upon the Lower Education 702

Combustion-Products from Different Lights 575

Comet, The, of 1812 and 1883 488

Cooke, Professor Josiah P 1

Cookery, The Chemistry of 98, 228, 361, 496, 686, 773

Copper, Antiseptic Qualities of 135

Correspondence 112, 262, 409, 554, 700, 834

Craighead, James B , 836

Crannogs, Scotch and Irish 860

Crystals, The Natural Setting of. 248

Date-Palm, the, Cultivation of 281

Daubr6e, M 515

Dawson, Dr. J. W 61

Dead Languages, " Church-and-State " Function of 412

Dead Languages, Education without 538

Dead-Language Studies necessarily a Failure 265

Decay, Sub-aerial, of Kocks 714

De Saporta, M. Antoine 474

Disease, Communicability of, by Food 138

Dogs, Can, be taught to read ? 715

Du Bois-Reymond, Emil 145

Dyspepsia, Infantile 115

Earthquakes, The Causes of 515

East-African Tribes, Two 719

Eclipse, The Recent, of the Sun 573

Eddy, William A 209, 335

Editor's Table 117, 265, 412, 556, 702, 839

Education, Collegiate Influence upon the Lower 702

Education, Female, from a Medical Point of View 214, 319

Education without Dead Languages 558

Eggert, Professor C. A 674

Egyptian, Ancient and Modern, Schools and Libraries 141

Electricity from Gas 286

Electric Railway, The 742

Elephants' Tricks 411

Energy, Muscular, The Source of 377

Engineering, Mechanical, Fifty Years of 530

Erie, Lake, Origin of the Eastern End of 423

Evolution, The Physician's Part in 141

�� � [ 890 ] 870 INDEX.

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Eye-sight, Defective 357

Eyes, Why the, of Animals, shine in the Dark 813

Farming in Japan 284

Fairer, J. A 53

Feet, the, Fashion and Deformity in 645

Female Education from a Medical Point of View 214, 319

Fernald, F. A 491

Fever and Ague, The March of. 425

Fingal's Cave, Fact and Fancy regarding 856

Fires, Origin of, in London 862

Fishes, Food-, of Lake Erie 426

Fiske, Lieutenant Bradley A 742

Fluid Currents, Carrying Power of 555

Fodders, Artificial Drying of 285

Food, Communicability of Disease by 139

Food-Fishes of Lake Erie 426

Foot-prints, Human, in Stratified Rock 262

Forbes, George J 409

Force, Vital, Physiological Significance of < 760

Forel, F. A " 306

Forests, The Geographical Distribution of 115

Fossils, Ideas about 279

Foster, Thomas 187, 311, 808

Fox, George Henry, M. D ?97

France, The Check in the Growth of 718

Function and Structure 573

Funeral-Weddings, Karen 427

Gas, Electricity from 286

Gases, Effect of, on Insects 860

Genius and Heredity 191

Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Etienne, Sketch of 403

Geology, Some Unsolved Problems in 61

Germany, The Classical Question in 289

Glacial Period, the, Temperature of 671

Glacial Theories at the American Association 276

Glaser, Professor L 484

Greek in the Colleges 424

" Greek Question," The 1

Greeks, The Caribs and the ? 16

Greer, Henry 254

Grim, George W 207, 411

Growth of Boys and Girls 671

Habitation, The, and the Atmosphere 169

Hallock, Edward J., Ph. D 831

Happiness, The Morality of 187, 311, 469, 808

Harding, A. C 530

Hasheesh, An Overdose of 509

�� � [ 891 ] INDEX. 871

PAGE

Hearing, Defective, in School-Children 280

Hedgehogs and their History 428

Heredity, Genius and 191

Higgins, Dr. P. J 639

Hofmann, August Wilhelm, Sketch of 831

Holt, William T 837

Honey, Ancient Love of 137

Horses, Work of Shod and Unshod 837

Horses, Working Capacity of Unshod 542

House-Building in the East 544

Hubbell, Herbert P 262

Humr.n Foot-prints in Stratified Rock 262

Humboldt, Alexander von 145

Humboldt, Professor Virchow on 140

Hungerford, Mary C 509

Hydrogen, Peroxide of 856

Hygiene in Schools 425

Ice Age, The 570

Idiosyncrasy 387

Iguanodon, The 351

Infants, Superstitions about 429

Infection, Inlets for 73

Insects, Effects of Gases on 860

Ischia and its Earthquakes 24

Jackal, The, Fox Fables, and the Dog-Star 142

Jacques, Dr. William W 503

James, Davis L 411

James, E. J., Ph. D 289

Jury System, The 676

Kamchatka, The Sunny Skies of 863

Karen Funeral-Weddings 427

Kepley, Ada H 645

Kerosene, Dangerous 461

Kirkwood, Professor D 488

Lacquers, Japanese 858

Lakes, Early Colonists of the Swiss 306

Larrabee, W. H 598

Lamarck, Sketch of 105

Land-Birds in Mid-Ocean 207

Language, Learning one, by studying others 414

Leaves, Transparent Points in 286

Le Conte, Joseph 555

Leprosy, Biblical and Modern 797

Le Sueur, William D 780

Lightning, Photographing a Streak of 752

Lightning without Audible Thunder 575

�� � [ 892 ] 872 INDEX.

PAGE

Lights, Combustion Products from Different 575

Limbs, Centripetal and Centrifugal Movements of the 136

Literary Notices 122, 271, 416, 561, 706, 844

Loess-Deposits, American 837

Loess, The, Deposits of Northern China 243

Luders, M. A 539

Malaria and the Progress of Medicine 238

Malaria, How and where it thrives 715

Malaria, Mosquitoes and 700

Malaysian Ideas, Fogginess of 286

Mars, Surface Characters of the Planet 249

Massage and Mental Hygiene as Curative Agents 139

McFarland, R. TV 555

McGee, TV. J 115

Mechanical Engineering, Fifty Years of 530

Mexico and its Antiquities 618

Michigan, Western, Recent Geological Changes in 826

Microphone, A Home-made 574

Mineralogy, Methods of Instruction in 754

Mitchel, Ormsby Macknight, Sketch of 695

Modern Thought, A Defense of 780

Moner, From, to Man 577

Mounds, The Aboriginal Significance of 280

Muscular Energy, The Source of. 377

Nadaillac, The Marquis de 818

Nature, The Remedies of 45, 196, 454, 628, 800

Notes 143, 287, 431, 575, 719, 863

Omahas, Parental Rights and the Gens among the 277

Oswald, Dr., again replies to Dr. Black 112

Oswald, Felix L., M. D 45, 112, 196,454, 628, 800

Pacific Slope, The Extinct Volcanoes of the 572

Page, C. E., M. D 115, 368

Pear, the, Pathology of 571

Philanthropy, Anthropology and 283

Physician's, The, Part in Evolution 141

Pigs as TVine-Bibbers 426

Plagues, Animal 284

Plants, Phosphorescence in 140

Politics, Science as a Hope in 656

Pond-Mud as a Diarrhcoa-Breeder 426

Popular Miscellany 133, 276, 423, 570, 714, 855

Proctor, Richard A 692

Profession, The New 254

Pyburu, George , 85

Pygmies, The. 862

�� � [ 893 ] INDEX, 873

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��Queues, Severed, The Chinese Superstition of. 861

Race Divisions, Indistinctness of 717

Radau, M. R 169

Rainbows, On 659

Raisins, How, are dried 135

Randall, 0. E 555

Religion, Influence of the Environment on 6

Religious Retrospect and Prospect 340

Remedies, The, of Nature 45, 196, 454, 628, 800

Reply, A, to Editorial Statements 701

Richards, Professor E. L 446, 587

River, A Subterranean, in Austria 859

Rocks, Sub-aerial Decay of 714

Rowland, Professor H. A 30

Salt, Use of 430

Salts in Rivers and in the Sea 716

Sands, The Singing, of Manchester, Massachusetts 280

School-Children, Defective Hearing in 280

School Examinations 133

School-Recesses, The Utility of 90

Schools and Libraries, Egyptian, Ancient and Modern 141

Schools, Hygiene in 425

Science and Jack-Puddings 572

Science and Safety at Sea 692

Science in Classical Schools 409

Science, Pure, A Plea for 30

Science, Remarks on the Influence of 82

Science versus the Classics 674

Sea, Science and Safety at 692

Serviss, Garrett P 180

Sewage, Disposition of 138

Sidereal System, The Study of our 279

Siemens, Sir Charles William, Sketch of 549

Slavery, The Coming 721

Smith, Theodore 837

Snakes, The Venom of 134

Sneeze, How we, laugh, stammer, and sigh 491

Social Subjects, Suggestions on 160

Speech, The Faculty of 793

Spencer, Herbert 340, 433, 721

Spencerian Philosophy, The Edinburgh Review on the 839

Spider, Turret-, Intelligence of a 430

Stebbins, F. R 700

Steel-Iron 427

Stephen, Leslie 82

Stevenson, William G., M. D 760

Stillman, J. M., Ph. B 377

Stoddard, Professor John T 461

�� � [ 894 ] 874 INDEX.

PAaE

Stone Age, The, in Africa 717

Stone Implements, Superstitions about 859

Structure, Function and 573

Study, Physiologically considered 639

Stump-Wells, Old, in the Mississippi Bottom 836

Sumner, Professor W. G 160

Suns, Green, and Red Sunsets 598

Sun-Spots, A Belt of. 180

Sun, The Recent Eclipse of the 573

Superstitions, Vinous 234

Sutphen, Joseph W 520

Tarantula-Bites and the Dancing-Cure 277

Telescope, A Home-made 85

Telescope, The Home-made 410

Thorne, R. T 73

Thought, A Defense of Modern 780

Tidal Anomalies 411

Time, The New Standard of 423

Tissandier, Gaston 752

Toryism, The New 433

Trees, Concentric Rings of 259

Trees, The Age of 53, 554

Trees, The Big, of Turkistan , 283

Tyndall, John, F. R. S 659

Under-ground "Wires 503

Velain, M. Ch 24

Vinous Superstitions 234

Vital Force, Physiological Significance of 760

Volcanoes, The Extinct, of the Pacific Slope 572

Wadsworth, M. E 754

Water-System, A Prehistoric 539

White, Frances Emily, M. D 577

Williams, F. W 243

Williams, W. Mattieu 98, 228, 361, 496, 686, 773

Wills, Last, and Testaments 520

Wilson, Henry H 676

Wind-Sounds in the Desert 285

Wires, Under-ground 503

Wooldridge, C. W., M. D 826

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��Abbott, Charles C, M. D 474

Adaptation to Climate 396

Agnosticism, Christian 78

Albinism, A Curious Case of 122

Allen, Grant 50, 332, 433

American Association, The 565

American Scientific Association, Meeting of the 698

Andes, The Southern, and Patagonia 574

Animals, Communication with 426

Animals, Man's Right over 759

Anomalies, Human, The Significance of 721

Anthropology, The Study of 605

Antiques, Bogus American 714

Army-Worm, The . 718

Astronomers, Longevity of 60

Astronomy, The, of Primitive Peoples 620

Averroes, Sketch of 405

Bandy-legged Children, Glasgow's 400

Barometer, A Crab-Shell 140

Batteries, Storage, in Electric Lighting 143

Beaver, The, and his Works 14

Benedict, George Grenville 696

Benefaction, A Model 268

Berghaus, Dr. A 396

Birds' Tastes for Color and Music 715

Bolton, Sarah A. C 123

Book Notices:

• ' Bacteria " (Magnin and Sternberg) 130

" Flowers and their Pedigrees " (Allen) 131

" Record of Family Faculties " (Galton) 132

Clavis Rerum." 133

" Bleaching, Dyeing, and Calico- Printing " (Gardner) 133

• ' Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada, 1882,

1883 " 134

"A System of Rhetoric" (Bardeen) 135

" Energy in Nature " (Carpenter) 136

" A Defense of Modern Thought " (Le Sueur) 136

" A Plea for the Cure of Rupture " (Warren) 136

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�� � [ 884 ] 866 INDEX.

Book l!^otices : paok

" The Topographer " (Haupt) 137

" Insanity in its Medical Relations " (Hammond) 269

"Examination of Herbert Spencer's Philosophy of the Unknowable"

(Lacy) 270

" Indiana Geological Reports " (Oollett) 271

" Text-Book of Physics " (Daniel) 271

• ' Relation of Animal Diseases to Public Health " (Billings) 272

" Relations of Mind and Brain " (Oalderwood) 273

• ' The Fertilization of Flowers " (Mtiller) 274

" The Unity of Nature " (Argyll) 274

" For Mothers and Daughters " (Cook) 274

" The Philosophy of Self-Consciousness " (Fitzgerald) 275

" Hand-Book of Tree-Planting " (Egleston) 275

• ' Protection to Young Industries " (Taussig) 275

" Federal Taxation " (Barnett) 275

" Kansas City Review " 276

" Canadian Record of Natural History and Geology " (Donald) 276

" Text-Book of Inorganic Chemistry " (Von Richter) 276

" The Past and Present of Political Economy " (Ely) 414

"Practical Essays " (Bain) 418

" James and Lucretia Mott " (Hallowell) 419

" Property and Progress " (Mallock) 420

"The Story of the Coup d'Etat" (De Maupas) 420

" The Ellipticon " (Naish) 420

" Literature of the Scandinavian North " (Horn) 421

" Life and Times of John Bright " (Robertson) 421

"Evidence for Evolution in the Histology of the Extinct Mammalia"

(Cope) 421

"Local Government and Free Schools in South Carolina " (Ramage). 422

" Voice, Song, and Speech " (Browne) 422

" The Guegtience " (Brinton) 422

" The Cinchona-Barks " (Fluckiger) 423

"Scientific Papers, Vassar Brothers' Institute " (Cooley) 423

" Gospel of St. Matthew," fonetic edishun (Vickroy) 423

" Medical Directory of Philadelphia, 1884" (Hoppin) 423

" Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington " Gilbert) 423

" Geological Excursions " (Winchell) 556

" Brain-Exhaustion " (Corning) 557

" Methods of Historical Study " (x\dams) 557

" The Bible analyzed " (Kelso) 558

" Book of the Beginnings " (Newton) 558

" Outskirts of Physical Science " (Dale) 558

" Home and School Training " (Arey) 558

" Science and Art of Education " (Payne) 559

"A History of Tuberculosis " (Sattler) 559

" Biogen " (Coues) 559

" The Land Laws " (Pollock) 560

" Destructive Influence of the Tariff" (Schoenhof) 560

"Politics " (Crane and Moses) 560

" House-Drainage " (Gerhard) 561

�� � [ 885 ] INDEX, 867

Book Notices : ^^^^ "Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. Report, 1883"

(Johnson) 561

" Glacial Boundary in Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky " (Wright) 561

" Real and Imaginary Effects of Intemperance " (Thoraann) 561

" Mineralogy " (Collins) ■ 561

" New York State Survey. Report, 1883 " (Gardiner) 561

" Teaching of Drawing in Grammar-Schools " (Perry) 562

" The American University " (Burgess) ■ 562

" Administrative Organization " (LL. B.) 562

" Ancient Egypt in the Light of Modern Discoveries " (Oshorn) 562

" Bilateral Asymmetery of Function " (Hall and Hartwell) 563

" The Railroad as an Element in Education " (Hogg) 563

" Psychological Medicine and Nervous Diseases " (Mann) 563

• ' Treatment of Wounds " (Mitchell) 564

" Truths and Untruths of Evolution " (Drury) 564

" Outlines of Psychology " (Sully) 704

" The True Theory of the Sun " (Bassnett) 705

" The Consolations of Science " (Straub) 706

• ' Government Revenue " (Roberts) 706

" Six Centuries of Work and Wages " (Rogers) 708

" Key to North American Birds " (Coues) 708

" Mental Evolution in Animals " (Romanes) 709

" The Franco-American Cookery-Book " (D61i6e) 710

" Geology of the Lead and Zinc Mining District of Cherokee County,

Kansas " (Haworth) 711

" Cotton Production of Georgia " (Loughridge) 711

" Whirlwinds, Cyclones, and Tornadoes " (Davis) 711

"Massachusetts State Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletins " 711

" Synopsis of Fishes of North America " (Jordan and Gilbert) 712

" Home Science " (Hopkins) 712

" Recent Improvements in Astronomical Instruments " (Newcomb). . . 712

" American Meteorological Journal " 712

" The New Chemistry " (Cooke) 845

• ' Health in the Household " (Dodds) 846

" La Fabula de los Caribes " (De Armas) 846

" Reflex Nervous Influence " (Smith) 846

" Cotton Production of Florida " (Smith) 847

"Reports of the Peabody Museum of American ArchsBology and

Ethnology " (Putnam) 847

" Archaeological Institute of America " 847

" The Theories of Darwin " (Schmid) 847

" Manual of the Mosses of America " (Lesquereux and James) 848

" On a Carboniferous Ammonite from Texas " (Heilprin) 848

"Fire-proof Buildings with Wooden Beams and Girders" (Dolman). 848 "Wages and Trade in Manufacturing Industries in America and

Europe " (Schoenhof) 848

" Handbook of Hygiene and Sanitary Science " (Wilson) 848

" Reforms : Their DifiSculties and Possibilities " 849

" Intellectual Arithmetic " (Colburn) 850

" Text-Book of Popular Astronomy " (Peck) 850

�� � [ 886 ] 868 INDEX,

Book Notices : page

" Nippon Shoku butsu meii " (Matsumura) 851

" Beginnings with the Microscope " (Manton) 851

" History of the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood " (Chap- man) 851

" Machinery of the Heavens " (Pichereau) 851

" Physics in Pictures " (Eckardt) 851

" In the Heart of Africa " (Baker) 852

" The Globe Pronouncing Gazetteer of the World " 852

" Sorghum " (Collier) 852

" A Bachelor's Talks about Married Life and Things adjacent " (Aik-

man) 852

" Lecture Notes od General Chemistry " (Stoddard) 852

^'Tokology " (Stockham) 853

" The Man nersm The -State " (Spencer) 853

" Modern Keproductive Graphic Processes " (Pettit) 854

" The Hollanders in Nova Zembla " (Tollens) 854

" Fifth Avenue to Alaska " (Pierrepont) 854

Boring Power, The, of Mollusks 717

Brain- Weighings, Value of 717

Bremont, Dr. F61ix 643

Bricks, Microbes in 142

British Association, The 277, 698

Bronze, Virchow on the Origin of 573

Butternuts, Hickory-Nuts and 433

Buchner, Max 167

Oasamicciola? What destroyed 718

Cataracts, The One Hundred, of the Iguazu 574

Catastrophes, Geological 280

Ceremonies, Curious Funeral 831

Change as a Eecreative Agent .... 431

Character, The Measurement of 732

Chemistry, The, of Cookery 62, 212, 514, 636, 778

Chinese Coroners' Inquests 690

Christian Agnosticism 78

Cholera-Germ, The 829

Circles, Why we walk in 572

Climate, Adaptation to 396

Coal, and the Coal-Tar Colors 201

Cochin, M. Denys 201

Cocoa-Nut, The Milk in the 50

Colorado for Invalids 313

Color and Music, Birds' Tastes for 715

Convicts, Innocent, Eeparation to 508

Cooke, Professor Josiah P 577, 772

Cookery, The Chemistry of 62, 212, 514, 636, 778

Correction, A 704

Correspondence 121, 696

Cram, W. A HO

Culture, Scientific 577

�� � [ 887 ] INDEX. 869

PAOB

Curteis, The Eev. Canon T8

Darwinism in the Talmud 279

Deaf, Instruction of the 713

De Candolle, M. Alphonse 784

De la Roche, iStienne 543

Diseases of Plants 385

Dodder, How the, became a Parasite 647

Drinking- Water, Clean 244

Duck, Courtesy and Sagacity of the 861

Dust, Attractions and Repulsions of 862

Dusts in Submarine Deposits, Volcanic and Cosmic 860

Early Rising, The Art of 569

Earthquake of August 10th, The 856

Editor's Table 123, 266, 410, 553, 698, 843

Education, Classical and Scientific, Sir John Lubbock on 566

Education, Liberal, President Eliot on 412

Electrical Exhibition, The Coming International 425

Electric Light, The, and Health 858

Electric Lighting, Storage Batteries in 143

Ensilage and Fermentation 219

Experience, A Typical 121

False Knowledge 141

Fetichism of the Bantu Negroes 767

Fetich, The College, once more , 701

Fire, A People who can not make 569

Fisher, George Jackson, M. D 405

Fischer, M. J 522

Fisk, Samuel A., M. D 313

Flat-foot 667

Fleuss, The, Breathing Apparatus and Safety -Lamp 717

Flies, How, hang on 68

Floods in Mountain Valleys, Prevention of 143

Flower, William H., F. R. S 605

Foster, Thomas 103, 378, 537, 663, 825

Frauenstein, G. M 620

Frere, Sir Bartle 717

Fresh-Water Pearls 430

Galton, Francis , 732

Gas-Poisoning 427

Geography and the Railroads 230

Geyser Regions, The World's 494

Giffen, Robert, LL. D 22

Glacial, The, Dam and Lake of the Ohio River 716

Glasgow's Bandy-legged Children 400

Grapes as Food 123

Greek Question, The, Further Remarks on 772

Greely Arctic Expedition, The 856

�� � [ 888 ] 870 INDEX,

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Gutta-Percha 861

Guyau, M. M 357

Guyot, Arnold Henry, Sketch of 261

Hallock, Edward J., A. M., Ph. D 138

Halsted, Byron D 159

Happiness, The Morality of 103, 378, 537, 567, 663, 825

Harrison, Frederic 440

Hart, Samuel, M. D 189

Hay, George, M. D 400

Health, National, and Work 653

Hickory-Nuts and Butternuts 433

Himalayas, Climbing the 859

Hospital, Our New Skin and Cancer 94

Howe, Edwin J., M. D 244

Hughlings Jackson, J., M. D 171

Hydrophobia, The Prevention of 376

Ice-Making, Du Motay's Process of 796

Idiot ? Was he an 110

Iguazu, The One Hundred Cataracts of the 574

Indians, The American, Old- World Origin of 571

Inebriate Patients, Treatment for 571

Inebriety, Dr. Crothers's Studies of 427

Insects and Disease 122

Insects, Our Debt to 332

International Science ; 698

Ireland, Reafforesting of 570

Iron, On the Supposed Discovery of, in Prehistoric Mounds 138

James, Joseph F 647

Jastrow, Dr. J 230

Jaques, Dr. Heinrich 508

Johnson, Edward 47

Jordan, Professor David S 547

Klinkerfues, Professor, Death of 278

Knowledge, What, is of most Worth 696

Krakatau, The Volcanic Eruption of 365

Lancaster, Albert B. M 60

Langley, J. K, F. R. S 800

Legislators, The Qualifications of 696

Legislators, The Sins of 1, 145

Lesley, Professor J. P., Sketch of. 693

Life, where did it begin ? 73

Light, An Absolute Unit of 715

Lightning, Protection against 678, 810

Literary Notices 130, 269, 414, 556, 704, 845

Lubbock, John 426

Lyman, Oliver E 181

Lyon, Rev. George G 320

�� � [ 889 ] INDEX. 871

PAGK

Malcolm, J. G 696

Manganese iu Plants 861

Man's Right over Animals 759

Manual Training, The Fruits of 347

Mask-Dances, The, of New Ireland 572

Mather, Frederick G 530

Measurement, The, of Character 732

Medicine-Man, The Training of a 570

Mental Science, The Progress of. 266

Mesmerism, The Physiological Aspect of 800

Mesmerism, The True and False in 568

Metallurgy, The Beginnings of 86

Microbes in Bricks 142

Miles, Manly, M. D 219

Milne-Ed wards's Marine Investigations 716

Minnesota, Physiographic Conditions of. 715

Missouri River, The Upper, System 594

MoUusks, The Boring Power of 717

Monkeys, My 522

Morality, The, of Happiness 103, 378, 537, 567, 663, 825

Morris, Charles 671

National Health and Work 653

Naturalist, Some Rambles of a 474

Negroes, the Bantu, Fetichism of 767

Nervous System, Evolution and Dissolution of the 171

Nettle, The, as an Economical Plant 714

Nickel-Plating in the United States 568

Neuralgia, The Weather and. 281

New Ireland, The Mask-Dances of. 575

Notes 143, 286, 431, 575, 719, 863

Numbers, The Mystic Properties of 543

Numismatics in the United States 428

Obituary Notes 864

Occupation, Influence of, on Physical Development. 859

Ohio River, The Glacial Dam and Lake of the 716

Paget, Sir James, F. R. S 653

Palestine, Geological Survey of. 430

Parliamentary Influence, Spencer on 129

Parsons, Henry B 627

Pasteur, M. Louis 376

Pasteur, The Life-AYork of 235

Patagonia, The Southern Andes and 574

Peale, A. C, M. D 494

Pearls, Fresh- Water 430

Penhallow, D. P 385

Philanthropy, Scientific 481

Physiological Experiment, The Future of 282

Physiology versus Metaphysics 249

�� � [ 890 ] 8/2 INDEX,

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��Plant Contraction, Mechanism of 284

Plants, Cultivated, The Origin of. 784

Plants, Diseases of 385

Plants in iVmerica, Chinese 862

Poej, Professor Felipe, Sketch of 647

Poisons developed in the Body 283

Pole and Wire Evil, The 181

Popular Miscellany 138, 277, 425, 565, 718, 855

Population, The Problem of 671

Prehistoric Mounds, On the Supposed Discovery of Iron in 138

Primitive Peoples, The Astronomy of 620

Progress and Social Improvement 123

Prohibition, An Experiment in 47, 696

Railroads, How State Monopoly of, works 858

Eambles, Some, of a Naturalist 474

Rayleigh, Professor Lord 739

Rayleigh, Professor Lord, Sketch of 840

Religion, Retrogressive 451

Religion. The Ghost of 440

Remember, Where and how we 609

Reparation to Innocent Convicts 508

Reproduction, Modes of, in Plants 159

Retrogressive Religion 451

Reyer, Dr. E 86

Rheumatism, Seasonal Variations of 429

Richet, Charles 759

River-Beds, Winding, Origin of 284

River- Water, Effect of Sewage on 575

Rombouts, Dr. J. E 68

Russian Scientific Societies 285

Salt-Deposits, The, of Western New York 530

School Examinations, Dr. Michael Foster on 281

School-Work, Effect of, on the Brain 282

Science and Art, Are, Antagonistic ? 357

Science and the Tennperance Reform . . 553

Science, Physical, The Recent Progress of 739

Scientific Culture 577

Scientific Philanthropy 481

Scientific Societies, Russian 285

Scientists, The, at Montreal 843

Scott, Professor W. B! 261

Scribner, G. Hilton 73

Seasons, The, Correlations of T14

Seely, G. B 796

Sewage, Effect of, on River- Water 575

Shepherd, Francis J , M. D 721

Siberian Superstitions 572

Sins, The, of Legislators 1, 145

�� � [ 891 ] INDEX. 873

PAGE

Sloane, T. O'Conor, Ph. D 652

Smokers, Hygiene for. . .• 543

Solar Storms and Sun-Spots 142

Somerville, Mary, Sketch of ; 113

Sorghum as a Source of Sugar 627

Sound-Mills, Professor Dvorak's 258

Spectacles, Shall we put, on Children ? 429

Spencer, Herbert 1, 145, 289, 451

Spencer on Parliamentary Influence 129

Springs and the First Settlements of a Country, Kelation of 857

Spruce-Forests of Maine, A Destroyer in the 856

Starr, M. Allen, M. D 609

Stature, British, Facts about 278

Stethoscopy 189

Stockwell, Dr. G. A 14.

Studies, College, Yale Professors on 124

Stretchers and Ambulances, Construction of. 857

Sun-Kinks 652

Superstition, The Great Political 289

Superstitions, Political, The Survival of 410

Superstitions, Siberian 572

Swiss, The, Society of Natural Sciences 140

Talmud, The, Darwinism in 279

Taste, Deprived of the Pleasures of 425

Theology, The New 320

Thermometers, How to expose 428

Things, The Elevation of Phrases above 843

Typhoid Fever, Causes of 280

Unit of Light, An Absolute 715

Unscientific Science-Teaching 139

Upper Missouri Eiver System, The 594

Vance, Lee J 481

Wages, Capital, and Rich Men 788

Walshe, Dr. Walter H 249

Ward, Lester F , 594

Warmest Month, The 855

Weather, The, and Neuralgia 281

Weather, The, Health, and Crime 566

Williams, W. Mattieu 62, 122, 212, 514, 636, 778

Woodward, Professor CM 347

Working-Classes, The Progress of the, in the Last Half-Century 22

Yale Professors on College Studies 124

Youmans, W. J., M. D 94

Zoological Gardens, The Ideal 573

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Abuse, The, of Political Power 273

Acupuncture, Chinese 859

Addresses, American Association 282

Addresses, British Association 138

Agnosticism, Last Words about 310

Agnostic Metaphysics 299

Agriculture, Field-Experiments in 498

Air-Wave, The Krakatoa, Yelocities of 423

Alabama, The Cotton Production of 422

Alcoholic Trance 187

Allen, Grant 177, 468

Allen, W. F 145

Amazon, The Great Bore of the 855

American Aspects of Anthropology 152

Animal Character, Oddities of 261

Animals, The Food of 858

Anthropology, American Aspects of 152

Apiculture 803

Architecture, The, of Town-Houses . 379

Aristotle as a Zoologist 796

Arithmetic, Advantages of a Binary 574

Armsby, Professor H. P 498

Arrangement, Internal, of Town-Houses 826

Arts, Domestic, in Damaraland 99

Ascetic, An, Indian Tribe 717

Association, American, Addresses 282

Association, British, Addresses 138

Association, The American, at Philadelphia 124

Association, The French 285

Association, The, of Official Chemists 286

Astronomy, Pending Problems of 46

Aughey, Samuel 267

Beaver, More about the 267

Benedict, W. Pv 731

Biedermann, Dr 691

Birds'-Nests, Edible, Gathering 430

Birds, Why, sing 541

Birds, Wild, in Cities 718

�� � [ 886 ] 866 INDEX.

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Bloody Sweat 357

Boas, Dr. Franz 768

Book Notices :

" A Naturalist's Rambles about Home " (Abbott) 128

" The Discoveries of America to the Year 1525 " (Weise) 129

" Samuel Adams, the Man of the Town-Meeting " (Hosmer) , 129

•' On the Nature of Light" (Stokes) 129

" Chemistry " (Attfield) 130

"Electricity, Magnetism, and Electric Telegraphy" (Lockwood) 130

" Principles of Ventilation and Heating " (Billings) , 130

" Natural Law in the Spiritual World " (Drummond) 131

" Forestry in Norway " (Brown) 131

" The New Physics " (Trowbridge) .- 132

" Hand-Book of the Dominion of Canada " (Dawson) 133

" Excessive Saving a Cause of Commercial Distress " (Crocker) 133

" Electrical Apphances of the Present Day " (Heap) 133

" The Fallacies in ' Progress and Poverty ' " (Sanson) 134

" Cholera, and its Preventive and Curative Treatment " (Ray) 134

" New Method of recording the Motions of the Soft Palate " (Allen) . . 134

" Formation of Poisons by Micro-Organisms " (Black) 134

• ' The Orchids of New England " (Baldwin) 134

" Taxation in the United States, 1789-1816 " (Adams) 135

" Institutional Beginnings in a Western State " (Macy) 135

" Indian Money as a Factor in New England Civilization " (Weeden). 135

" Hand-Book for Horsewomen " (De Bussigny) 135

» Catholic " (Capel) 136

" Manual of Biblical Geography " (Hurlbut) 136

." Introduction to the Study of Modern Forest Economy " (Brown). . . 136

" Forests and Forestry in Northern Russia," etc. (Brown) 136

" South Carolina " (Hammond) 136

" Relations between Rehgion and Science " (Exeter) 277

" Cottages" (Brunner) 278

" Commentaries on Law " (Wharton) 278

" Diseases of the Throat and Nose " (Mackenzie) 278

" Outline of the Future Religion of the World " (Stanley) 279

" Mineral Resources of the United States " (Williams) 279

" Education by doing " (Johnson) 279

" Life and Labor in the Far, Far West " (Barneby) 279

" Correspondences of the Bible " (Worcester) 280

" Geology and Mineral Resources of the James River Valley, Vir- ginia" (Campbell) 280

" Arithmetical Aids " 280

" Grammar of the German Language " (Brandt) 280

" Reader of German Literature " (Rosenstengel) 280

" Tableaux de la R(5volution Frangaise " (Crane and Brun) 281

" Elements of Analytic Geometry " (Newcomb) 281

" Report of Smithsonian Board of Regeuts " 281

" A Compend of Geology " (Le Conte) 413

"The Destiny of Man " (Fiske) 414

" Shoppell's Building Plans " (Shoppell) 414

�� � [ 887 ] INDEX. 867

Book Notices : page

" My Farm of Edgewood " (Mitchell) 415

" Forestry in the Mining Districts of the Ural Mountains," etc. (Brown) 415

" Comprehensive Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene " (Cutter) 415

" American Newspaper Annual " (Ayer) 415

" How we live " (Johonnot and Bouton) 410

" Book of Cats and Dogs," etc. (Johonnot) 416

" The True Issue " (Donnell) 416

" Wages and Tariffs " (Donnell) 416

" Outlines of Eoman Law " (Morey) 416

" A Thousand Questions in American History " 417

" Book of Plant Descriptions " (Grofi) 417

" Essays by ' Wheelbarrow ' " 417

• ' Wonders and Curiosities of the Eailway " (Kennedy) 417

" Lessons in Chemistry " (Greene) 417

" The Laws of Health " (Hutchison) 418

" Systematic Mineral Eecord " (Shepard) 418

" United States Commissioner of Fish. Eeport, 1880 " 418

" Medical Jurisprudence and Toxicology " (Eeese) 418

" Commissioner of Education. Eeport, 1882, 1883 " 418

" Commissioner of Agriculture. Eeport, 1883 " 419

" Geological Survey, New Jersey, 1883 " (Cook) 419

" Our Birds in their Haunts " (Langille) 419

" Wonders of Plant- Life," etc. (Herrick) 419

" Magneto-Electric and Dynamo-Electric Machines " (Schellen) 420

" Cassell and Company's Holiday Catalogue " 420

" Migration Legend of the Creek Indians " (Gatschet) 420

" Principles of Political Economy " (Mill) 559

" A System of Psychology " (Thompson) 502

" The Eeality of Eeligion " (Van Dyke) 563

" Thomas Carlyle " (Froude) 563

" Women, Plumbers, and Doctors " (Plunkett) 564

" The American Psychological Journal " (Parrish) 564

" Tenants of an Old Farm" (McCook) 505

" The Way out " (Bellamy) 565

" The Philosophy of a Future State " (English) 565

"Elementary Text-Book on Physics " (Anthony and Brackett) 566

" Young Folks' Ideas" 566

" An Appeal to Ctesar " (Tourgee) 566

" Fichte's Science of Knowledge " (Everett) 567

" Origin of Cultivated Plants " (De Candolle) 706

" The New Philosophy " (Paine) 708

» Text-Book of Botany " (Sachs) 708

" Eudimentary Society among Boys " (Johnsoji) 708

" Town and County Government " (Channing) 709

" Prehistoric America " (De Nadaillac) 709

" The Eclectic Physiology " (Brown) 709

" Icaria" (Shaw) 709

" Elements of Chemistry " (Norton) 710

" Archaeological Tour in Mexico " (Bandelior) 710

" Science in Song " (Eichards) 710

�� � [ 888 ] 868 INDEX.

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" Eeports of Meetings of Scientific Associations " (" Science ") 710

" Representative British Orators " (Adams) 710

" Elementary Treatise on Analytic Mechanics " (Bowser) 711

" Elements of English Speech " (Choate) 711

" T. Lucreti Oari de Rerum Natura " (Kelsey) 711

" Country Cousins " (IngersoU) 711

" Land and its Rent " (Walker) 712

" Public Relief and Private Charity " (Lowell) 712

" The Human Body " (Martin) 712

" Bermuda " (Dorr) 712

" Vocal and Action Language " (Kirby) 712

" The Rise of Intellectual Liberty, from Thales to Copernicus " (Hol- land) 845

"Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary

of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-'81 " (Powell) 846

" Sixth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of Illinois "

(Rauch) 847

" Notes on the Opium-Habit " (Meylert) 847

" Comparative Physiology and Psychology " (Clevenger) 847

" Annual Report of the Chief Signal-OfBcer to the Secretary of War

for the Year 1883 " 848

" Osteology of Numenius Longirostris " (Shufeldt) 848

•' The Asiatic Cholera " (Hamilton) 848

" Comparative Study of the New High German Language, Theoretical

and Practical " (Valentine) 848

"Description of Carcharodon Carcharias " (Stevenson) 848

" Black and White : Land, Labor, and Politics in the South " (For- tune) 849

"Degeneration the Law of Disease " (Merriam) 849

" Protection and Communism " (Rathbone) 849

" Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club " 849

"The Sun " 849

"Journal of the New York Microscopical Society " (Braman) 849

" Original Researches in Mineralogy and Chemistry " (Smith) 850

" Poems of Sidney Lanier " 850

" Man in the Tertiaries " (Morse) 850

" The Agricultural Grasses of the United States " (Vasey) 850

"The Chemical Composition of American Grasses" (Richardson). . . . 850

" United States Publications : Monthly Catalogue " 850

" The Story Hour " (Wixon) 850

" Proceedings of the American Society of Microscopists " 850

"Geonomy: Creation of the Continents by the Ocean-Currents" '

(Grimes) 851

" Sunlight " 851

"An Account of the Progress of Chemistry in the Year 1883" (Bol- ton) 851

"Rural Schools; Progress in the Past; Means of Improvement in the

Future " 851

" The Composition and Methods of Analysis of Human Milk " (Leeds), 851

"The Journal of Mycology " (Kellerman, Ellis, and Everhart) 852

�� � [ 889 ] INDEX. 869

Book Notices : page

" Notes on the Progress of Mineralogy in 1884 " (Lewis) 852

"Mind in Medicine " (Bartol) 852

" Babyhood " (Harland) 852

Breitenbacli, Dr. W 365

Brennan, G. A 268

Brewster, Sir David, Sketch of 546

Brooks, Professor W. K 323

Bilttner, Rev. 0. G 99

Cacao, Cultivation of 141

Calcuhiting-Machines 441

Campbell, CI. T., M. D 524

Cancer, English Experiences with 688

Cancer, Increase of. 572

Canker- Worm, The 569

Cannibalism as a Custom 205

Capacities, A Blind Man's 861

Cave-Men, The Esquimaux and the 287

Cell, Structure and Division of the Organic 810

Chavannes, Albert 269

Chemistry, The, of Cookery 91, 217, 368, 517, 671, 819

Chemists, OflScial, The Association of 286

Children, Omaha 574

Children's Parties, Evils of 572

Chilian Volcanoes, Active and Extinct 88

Chimpanzee, Psychology of the 853

Chinese Ancestral Worship, Origin of 861

Cholera 503, 621, 750

Chronology of the Fossil Flora 574

Cities, Wild Birds in 718

Civilization, Rapid Perils of 224

Clarke, Frank Wigglesworth 577

Classics, Question, the, German Testimony on 20

Collection, the Lapham, The Loss of 568

Collet, Oscar W 376

Consciousness, The Nervous System and 731

Continent, A Former Southern 428

Contrast, Is the, valid ? 126

Cookery, The Chemistry of 91, 217, 368, 517, 671, 819

Correspondence 267, 553, 840

Cotton Production, The, of Alabama 422

Craighead, J. B 39

Crothers, T. D., M. D . 187

Culture, The Relation of Science to 557

Cumberland Sound and its Eskimos 768

Customs, Old, of Lawlessness 105

D'Alviella, Count Goblet de 779

Damaraland, Domestic Arts in 99

Davies, Nathaniel E., L. R. 0. P 213

�� � [ 890 ] 870 INDEX.

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Death-Rates, Sick-Eates and 524

De Saporta, M. Antoine 529

Development, Industrial, Science and 429

Dolphin, Superstitions about the 691

Dominica, A Naturalist's Excursion in 679

Drift-Oopper in Iowa 856

Dunn, H. P., F. R. C. S 688

Earthquake, The, of September 19th 424

Earthquake, Recent, Extent of the 268

Economy of Light 423

Edible Birds'-Nests, Gathering 430

Edis, Robert W., E. S. A 379, 826

Editor's Table 124, 269, 407, 554, 701, 841

Education, A Project in Industrial 632

Electrical Conference, the, Discussions at 286

Electricity, What is ? 76

English Board-Schools, Over-pressure in 862

Esquimaux, The, and the Oave-Men 287

Evolution and the Destiny of Man 456

Expert Testimony, Medical 603

Eye-sight, The, Importance of cultivating 715

Fast Modern Life, Suicide a Product of 857

Ferment-Organism, The, in Plant-Growth 715

Fernald, F. A 20, 336, 796

Field-Experiments in Agriculture 498

Fire-insurance, A Chapter in 759

Fish and Fishing in Chinese "Waters 652

Floods, the Ohio, Causes of 840

Flora, Chronology of the Fossil 574

Flora, North American, Characteristics of 422

Flowers, Queer 177, 553

Fog-Particles, Experiments with 570

Food and Feeding 468

Food for Mice, Oil and Earths as 857

Fossil Human Skeletons, Antiquity of 430

Fouill^e, Alfred 194

Fowls, Domestic Parasites in 714

Fuel, Natural Gas as a Source of = 142

Fungi, How, live in Winter 611

Gases, the Elementary, Liquefaction of 249

Gas, Natural, as a Source of Fuel 142

Geographical Society, The Oldest 717

Germany, Studying in 347

Girls, Physical Training of 495

Gladiators of the Sea 336

Glashan, J. C 1 69

Glass, Phosphoric, and its Applications 427

�� � [ 891 ] INDEX. 871

��TAQE

��Habit, Curious Change of 268

Hall, Lucy M., M. D 495

Hall, Professor James, Sketch of 120

Halsted, B. D., Sc. D 611

Hamilton, Dr. Frank H 603

Hammond, William A., M. D 1

Harrison and Spencer on Religion 407

Harrison, Comte, and Spencer 125

Harrison, Frederic 299

Harvard, Progress of 841

Herbert, Sir Auberon 352

Hibernation of Snakes 424

Homologies between North America and Europe 426

Horse, Przevalsky's Wild 571

lies, George 759

Hlusory Memories 423

Industrial Education, A Project in 682

Influences determining Sex 323

Insect-eating Men 573

Insects, The Parental Foresight of. 694

Instinct, The Darwinian Theory of 586

Interior, the Earth's, The Condition of 569

International Medical Investigation 572

��'D"

��Jametel, M. Maui'ice 653

Jamin, Jules 249

Jewish Success, A Jewish Explanation of 275

Johow, Dr. Fr 679

Jury System, the, A Glance at 289

��Kennedy, Professor Horace M 347

Krakatau's Present Condition 425

Krakatoa, the, Air-Wave, Velocities of.. 423

Kulischer, Herr M 105

Land- Animal, The Oldest 714

Languages, American, Major Powell on . 425

Language-Studies, The Conflict of ' 703

Lapham Collection, the, The Loss of 568

Last Words about Agnosticism 310

Laughlin, J. Laurence, Ph. D 721

Lawlessness, Old Customs of 105

Le Sueur, W. D 456

Life, The Painless Extinction of 641

Lighthouse-Lights, Testing 719

Light, Economy of 423

Lighting, Electric, in America 714

Liquefaction of the Elementary Gases 249

Liquor Legislation 787

�� � [ 892 ] 872 INDEX.

PAGB

Literary Notices 128, 277, 413, 559, 706, 845

Literary "Work, Hard , 571

Lock, 0. G. Warnford 482

Lucas, M. Edouard 441

Man, Evolution and the Destiny of 456

Marine Life, Protective Mimicry in 365

Mason, E. 840

Materialism, A Healthy 409

Materialism, The Bad Logic of 701

McMillan, G. C 554

Mears, L. D 268

Meats, Strange, Tastes for 717

Medical Investigation, International 572

Memories, Illusory 423

Men, Insect-eating 573

Meridian, Prime, The International, Conference 421

Metaphysics, Agnostic 299

Meteorological Society, The New England 854

Mica, Industrial Uses of , 716

" Mind as a Social Factor " 554

Mind, the. The Eelations between, and the Nervous System 1

Morris, Charles 810

Mountain Observatories 388

Muata Yanvo, Family Eelations of the 860

Museums, Limited, Advantages of 376

National Defense, Heavy Ordinance for 854

Negro, The Future of the, in the South 39

Nervous System, The, and Consciousness 731

North America, Homologies between, and Europe 426

North, Franklin H 632

Notes 143, 287, 431, 575, 719, 863

Numbers, Forbidden 716

Observatories, Mountain 388

Observing Faculties, the, School-Culture of 169

Ochsenius, Dr. Karl 88

Oddities of Animal Character 261

Oil-Supply, The, of the World 108, 252

Omaha Children 574

Opium-Habit, Treatment for the 860

Overhead "Wires, Danger from 427

Over-pressure, Against, in Schools 426

Painless Extinction of Life, The 641

Parasites in Domestic Fowls 714

Parental Functions, State Usurpation of 352

Patagonian Geology 428

Perils of Rapid Civilization 224

�� � [ 893 ] INDEX. 873

PAGE

Pests, New, in Exchange for Old 719

Pettenkofer, Dr. Max von 503, 621, 750

Phenomenon, A Novel 554

Philanthropy, Scientific 269

Philosophy, Origin of the Synthetic 30

Phosphoric Glass and its Applications 427

Physical Training of Girls 495

Placzek, Dr. B 541

Plant-Growth, The Ferment Organism in 715

Plants, Flowering, as Ozone-Generators. 568

Political Economy, The Character and Discipline of 721

Politics and Science 412

Politics, Science in 577

Pooley, J. H., M. D 357

Popular Miscellany 138, 282, 421, 568, 714, 853

Population, Health and Density of 859

Powell, J. W 452

Powell, Major, on American Languages 425

Powell, S. W 67

Power, Political, The Abuse of 273

Prime Meridian, The International, Conference 421

Pringle, Allen 803

Protective Mimicry in Marine Life 365

Pulse-Waves, Velocity of. 424

Pyburn, George 553

Quatrefages, M. de. Sketch of 697

Queer Flowers 177, 553

Kailway Employes, The Sight and Hearing of ... 433

Rainfall as affected by Wind 858

Recesses, School, Value of 570

Religion and the Doctrine of Evolution 239

Religion, Harrison and Spencer on 407

Richardson, Benjamin Ward, M. D., F. R. S 641

Romanes, G. J., F. R. S 586

Roscoe, Sir Henry, Sketch of 402

Sandstone, Atmospheric Action on 427

School-Culture of the Observing Faculties 1G9

School Management, Science in 269

School Recesses, Value of 570

Schools, Against Over- pressure in 426

Schools, My, and Schoolmasters 330

Science and Industrial Development 429

Science in Politics 577

Science in School Management 269

Science, Politics and 412

Science, The Relation of, to Culture 557

Scientific Education, The Larger Import of 452

�� � [ 894 ] 874 INDEX.

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��Scientific PLilanthropy 269

Scorpion-Lore verified 855

Scylla and Charybdis of Administration, The 842

Sea, the, Gladiators of 33g

Sea- Water, Properties and Constitution of 529

Sex, Influences determining 323

Short-sightedness, The Question of, in French Schools 142

Sick-Eates and Death-Eates 524

Sight, The, and Hearing of Eailway Employes 433

Skeletons, Fossil Human, Antiquity of 43O

Slater, James F 840

Snail-Culture 573

Snakes, Hibernation of 424

South, The Future of the Negro in the 39

Sowing Fertilizers 806

Spencer, Harrison, Comte and 125

Spencer, Herbert 30 310

Spider-Threads for Economical Uses 718

Starvation, its Moral and Physical Effects 213

Stephens, C. H 289

St. Johnston, A 205

Studying in Germany 347

Success, Jewish, A Jewish Explanation of 275

Suffrage, The Problem of "Universal I94

Sulphur and its Extraction 482

Sweat, Bloody 357

Tastes for Strange Meats 71 7

Temple, F., D. D 239

Thermometers, Local Variations in 855

Thomson, William, M. D 433

Time-keeping, The Eeformation in I45

Time, The Accurate Measurement of 659

Tobacco, Effects of, on Youth 497

Torrent, Drowning the, in Vegetation ... 67

Town-Houses, Internal Arrangement of 826

Town-Houses, The Architecture of 379

Trance, Alcoholic 187

Trowbridge, Professor John , 70

Trowbridge, Professor John, Sketch of 836

Tylor, E. B., F. E. S 152

Tylor, Edward B., Biographical Sketch of. 264

Tyndall, Professor John 33O

Universal Suffrage, The Problem of I94

Unknowable, The Eeligious Value of the 779

Usurpation, State, of Parental Functions 352

Vegetation, Drowning the Torrent in 67

Volcanoes, Chilian, Active and Extinct 88

�� � [ 895 ] INDEX. 875

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Wampum 425

Weather ? the, Do Animals foretell 840

Why Birds sing 541

Williams, Gorham D 787

Williams, W. Mattieu 91, 217, 368, 517, 671, 819

Willson, Tlieo. B 659

Wind, The, as a Land-Oarver 42o

Wine Statistics of the World 429

Wires, Overhead, Danger from 427

Withington, 0. F., M. D 224

Woolen Underclothing, Advantages of 428

Young, Professor 0. A 46

Zufii Civilization, Development of 860

Zoologist, Aristotle as a 796

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Abbott, Charles , 308

Aerial Navigation 696

Aerial Navigation, Eecent Progress in 296

Africanized, Are we to become ? 145

Aged, Hygiene of the 389

Air-Breathers, The Oldest 395

Allen, J. Antisell 117

Alloys, Coinage 137

American Air, Alleged Nerve-exciting Properties of. 141

Animals, Arctic, Color of 423

Ant, The White 735

Antipathies 137

Arch geological Frauds 308

Arctic Exploration and its Object 78

Aryan Origins 138

Association, The American 423

Association, The British 423

Astronomers, Some Self -Made 340

Banking, National, The Future of 491

Bark Dresses 566

Barnard, Dr. W. T 577, 768

Barr, James, M. D 503

Barre, M. L 544

Bathing, The Objects of 431

Beecher on Evolution 412

Beet-Sugar, Sorghum and, in the United States 425

Behrens, Dr. W. J 595

Benedict, W. R 66 15

Berthelot, Pierre E 113

Biology, Recent Progress in ""*

Birds' Nests, the Edible, Structure of 431

Blondes and Brunettes 861

Boaz, Dr. Franz t8

Book, Concerning the Suppressed 433

Book Notices :

" American Political Ideas " (Fiske) 122

" The Nature and Reality of Religion " (Spencer, Harrison, and

D'Alviella) 123

" Land-Laws of Mining Districts " (Shinn) 124

�� � [ 888 ] 866 INDEX.

Book Notices : page

" Mining-Camps " (Shinn) 124

" The Jukes " (Dugdale) 124

" A Popular Exposition of Electricity " (Brennan) 124

" The Care of Infants " (Jex-Blake) 125

" Climatic Maps of the United States " (Denison) 125

" Controlling Sex in Generation " (Terry) 125

" The National Dispensatory " (Stille and Maisch) 125

" Occult Science in India " (Jacolliot) 126

" The Sanitary Engineer " (Meyer) 126

44 Johns-Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science " 127

" One Hundred Years of Publishing " 127

" The Mentor " (Ayres) 127

" The Next Step of Progress " (Keyser) 127

" School-Keeping " (Orcutt) 127

" Diluvium ; or, The End of the World " (Pidgeon) 127

" Ingglish az She iz Spelt " (Federheld) 128

" Practical Work in the School-Room " 128

4i Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and through the Looking-Glass "

'(Carroll) 128

" Serapis" (Ebers) 128

" The Wane of an Ideal " (Colombi) 128

" The Canadian Eecord of Science " 128

M Shadows " (Wetherbee) 129

44 Maryland's Influence upon Land Cessions to the United. States "

(Adams) 129

" Egypt and Babylon " (Rawlinson) 129

" Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine " 129

" Proposed Plan for a Sewerage System " (Gray) 130

" Tables, Meteorological and Physical " (Guyot) 130

" The Ornithologist and Oologist " 130

" Our Bodies ; or, How we live " (Blaisdell) 131

" Stories by American Authors " 131

44 Jelly-Fish, Star-Fish, and Sea-Urchins " (Romanes) 272

" Geology and the Deluge " (Argyll) 273

44 The Rescue of Greely " (Schley and Soley) 273

44 In the Lena Delta " (Melville) 273

44 Mind-Reading and Beyond " (Hovey) 274

44 The Patriarchal Theory " (McLennan) 275

14 United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries," Report, 1882. . . . 275

44 United States Life-Saving Service," Report, 1883 276

44 Researches on Solar Heat," etc. (Langley) 276

44 The Stars and Constellations " (Hill) 276

44 The 4 Quincy Methods ' illustrated " (Partridge) 277

44 Mortality Experience, Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company " 277

44 Vertebrata of the Tertiary Formations " (Cope) 277

44 The Ten Laws of Health " (Black) 278

14 Observatorio Nacional Argentino, Resultados " (Gould) 279

14 Distribution of Products " (Atkinson) 280

44 Paradise Found " (Warren) 280

44 The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences " (Clifford) 415

�� � [ 889 ] INDEX. 867

Book Notices : page " Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College "

(Pickering) 41 5

" The Chemistry of Cookery " (Williams) 417

" The Text-Book of Hygiene " (Robe) 417

" The Microtomist's Vade-Mecum " (Lee) 417

" The Diamond Lens " (O'Brien) 418

" The Life of Society " (Brown) 418

" The Limits of Stability of Nebulous Planets " (Kirkwood) 418

" Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station," Report, 1884 (Lazenby). . . 418

" Introduction to the Study of the Compounds of Carbon" (Remsen). 419

" Geology of the Virginias " (Rogers) 419

" Introduction to Practical Chemistry " (Bowman) 419

" Fallacy of the Present Theory of Sound " (Mott) 420

" School Bulletin Year-Book " (Bardeen) 420

" Obiter Dicta " 420

" The Sun and his Phenomena " ("Webb) .... 420

" A Catalogue of Chemical Periodicals " (Bolton) 421

" Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington " 421

" How should I pronounce ? " (Phyfe) 421

" The Lenape Stone " (Mercer) 421

" Transactions of the New York State Medical Association," 1884

(Flint) 55

" Representative American Orators " (Johnston) 557

" Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute " (Rodenbough) 557

" An Inglorious Columbus " (Vining) 558

" Assyriology " (Brown) 558

" Local Institutions in Virginia " (Ingle) 559

" Geology of the Oomstock Lode and the Washoe District" (Becker). 559

" Comstock Mining and Miners " (Lord) 559

" Contributions to the Fossil Flora of the Western Territories "

(Lesquereux) 560

" Madam How and Lady Why " (Kingsley) 560

" Photo-Micrography " (Malley) 561

" The Occult World " (Sinnett) 561

"Russia under the Tzars " (Stepniak) 561

" Report of the United States Geological Survey," 1881, 1882 (Powell) 561

" Tables to facilitate Chemical Calculations " (Dittmar) 562

" Contributions to North American Ethnology " 562

" The Lenape and their Legends " (Brinton) 563

" Humboldt's Philosophic Grammar of American Languages " (Brinton) 563

" The Protestant Faith " (Olmstead) 563

" Man's Birthright " (Clark) 564

" Hegel's ^Esthetics " (Kedney) 564

" The Invalid's Tea-Tray " (Brown) 564

" Materials for German Prose Composition " (Buchheim) 564

" On Oxygen as a Remedial Agent " (Wallian) 565

" Scientific Culture and other Essays " (Cooke) 701

" The Religious Aspect of Philosophy " (Royce) 702

" The French Revolution " (Taine) 704

" The Morals of Christ " (Bierbower) 704

�� � [ 890 ] 868 INDEX.

Book Notices : page

" The History of the Present Tariff" (Taussig) 704

" The History of the Surplus Revenue of 1837 " (Bourne) 705

"Proceedings of the Colorado Scientific Society for 1883 and 1884".. 705

" The Museum " 705

" Symbolism and Science " (Smith) 705

" Lessons in Hygiene " (Cutter) 705

" Christian Thought " (Deems) 706

" Account of the Progress in Zoology in 1883 " (Gill) 706

" Archaeological Institute of America," Report, 1884, 1885 706

" Proceedings of the Modern Language Association of America," 1884 . 706

" Notes on the Literature of Explosives " (Munroe) 706

" Elephant Pipes " (Putnam) 707

" Mushrooms of America " (Palmer) 707

" A Course of Practical Instruction in Botany " (Bower and Vines) . . 707 " The Basic Pathology and Specific Treatment of Diphtheria," etc.

(Ziegler) 707

" Theory and Practice of Topographical Surveying " (Johnston) 707

" Lineal Measures of Semi-civilized Nations " (Brinton) 708

" Magnetism of Iron and Steel Ships " (Lyons) 708

" The Religion of Philosophy " (Perrin) 708

" Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 1882 to 1884 " 709

" Sanitary Suggestions on Disinfection " (Palmer) 709

" The Filth Power " (Olcott) 709

" Mind in Nature " 709

" Remarks upon Chipped Stone Implements " (Putnam) 709

" Contagiousness of Tuberculosis '* (Webb) 709

" Foul Brood " (Jones) 710

" Bulletins of the United States Geological Survey " 710

" Ethical Culture " (Weston) 710

" The Sanitary Monitor " (Winn) 710

" Architectural Studies " 710

" The Abdominal Brain " (Bedell) 711

" A New Philological Theory " (Mogyorosi) 711

" Collected Essays on Political and Social Science " (Sumner) 847

" The Microscope in Botany " (Behrens) 848

" The Treatment of Opium- Addiction " (Mattison) 849

" The Field of Disease : Preventive Medicine " (Richardson) 849

" The Windmill as a Prime Mover " (Wolff) 849

" Proceedings of the United States National Museum," 1884 850

" Local Institutions of Maryland " (Wilhelm) 850

" United States Life-Saving Service," Report, 1884 850

" Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Periodicals " (Bolton) 851

" Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota " (Winchell). . . 852

" Life of Frank Buckland " (Bompas) 852

" Forests and Forestry in Poland," etc. (Brown) 852

" Magneto- and Dynamo-Electric Machines " (De Cew) 852

" Lectures on the Science and Art of Education " (Payne) 853

" Lectures on Teaching " (Fitch) 853

" Talks Afield " (Bailey) 853

" Lessons in Elementary Practical Physics " (Stewart) 853

�� � [ 891 ] INDEX. 869

Book Notices : page

" The Nature of Mind " (Prince) 854

" Outlines of Psychology " (Lotze) 854

" On Teaching " (Oalderwood) 854

" Properties of Matter " (Tait) 854

" Theory and Practice of Teaching " (Thring) 855

" Bureau of Labor Statistics, Illinois," Report, 1884 855

Brazilian Oranges 429

Brehm, Dr. Alfred E 234, 263, 625

Bronzes, Modern 536

Brooks, Professor W. K 15

Building and Ornamental Stones of the United States 520

Butcher's-Meat and Headaches 428

Canada, The Mediterranean of 222

Cardinal Pitri on Scientific Studies 283

Carpets, Persian 428

Chaldean, The, Lunar Cycle 143

Champagne, Making 137

Chemistry, The, of Cookery 81, 259

Chevreul, M., Sketch of. 548

Cholera, Prevention of. 25

Climate and Vegetation 430

Clothes-Question, The, Another Side to 428

Coal-Dust and Mine-Explosions 858

Coal-Dust in Fire-Damp Explosions 714

Coal, the, Question, A Scientific View of 63

Coinage Alloys 137

Colonies, Lost, of America 40

Color and Flavor, Relation of, in Fruits and Vegetables 140

Color of Arctic Animals 423

Colors, Photographing 430

Colors, The Physiology of 683

Conductors, Do Insulated, attract Lightning ? 574

Continents, Denudation of the 430

Cookery, The Chemistry of 81, 259

Cope, Professor Edward D 605, 789

Coral Islands, Life on 860

Corn, Hulled, and Samp 118

Corona, On the Solar 755

Correction 566

Correspondence 117, 696

Corrupt Legislation 425

Crickets and " Hair-Snakes " 136

Crime, Madness and 425

Currency of the Cannibal Islands 137

Curtis, H. H 96

Darwin, The, Memorial 532

Daubree, M. A 819

De Laveleye, A Rejoinder to M 188

�� � [ 892 ] 870 INDEX.

PAGE

De Laveleye, Emile 165

Denudation of the Continents 430

Development Theory, The, Ethics and 368

Diet in Relation to Age and Activity 322, 509

Disease, Tissue-Selection in the Genesis of 836

Disinfectants, Comparative Value of 285

Disinfectants, Sulphurous, Use of. 218

Dogs' Tongues, Medical Virtues of 715

Drummond, Professor Henry 735

Duk-Duk, The 572

Dusts, Industrial, Dangers from 570

Dust, Was it Volcanic or Cosmic ? 575

Earthquake Phenomena 356

Earthquakes, A Study of Recent 819

Earthquakes, Effect of, on Buildings 134

Edible Birds' Nests, The Structure of 431

Editor's Table 118, 268, 410, 553, 696, 844

Education, An Experiment in Primary 468, 614

Education, Liberty in 268

Education, Officialism in 554

Eels, The Mystery of 569

Electricity, Atmospheric, Source of 134

Emigration from the Old World 569

Energy, The, of Life Evolution 789

Epilepsy, A Chinese View of .' 862

Eskimos in Ancient New Jersey 567

Essex Institute, Fifty Years of the 132

Ethical Science, Training in 96

Ethics and the Development Theory 368

Eucalyptus, Malaria and the 856

Evolution, Beecher on 412

Experiment, An, in Primary Education 468, 614

Facts, The Study of 699

Fallacies about Mines 566

Fauna, The, of the Sea-Shore 623

Felts, Why Wool 133

Fernald, F. A 360, 638

Fig, Fructification of the 117

Fire, How Yakuts make a 427

Floras, How, are changing 423

Flour, " Whole Wheat," Food- Value of 718

Flowers, Insect Fertilization of 595

Flower, W. H., F. R. S 195

Frankland, Professor Edward, M. D 289

Franklin, Selim M , 661

Frauds, Archaaological 308

Frazer, James G 668

Fruit, Value of, as Food 715

Fuel, The, of the Future 207

�� � [ 893 ] INDEX. 871

TAGE

Gambling at Monte Carlo 571

Gannett, Henry 145

Gas-Wells, Natural, The Pittsburg 712

Genius and Insanity 447

Germ-Life, Pasteur's Researches in 86

Ghost, The Primitive, and his Eelations 668

Gitzycki, Georg von 368

Glacial Period, The, Temperature of 573

Gore, G 63

Grote, Augustus E., A. M 246, 377

Gutter-Stones, The Vegetation of 717

Hair, Changes in the Color of the 138

" Hair-Snakes," Crickets and 136

Haliburton, R. G 40

Hanging, The Mechanics of 503

Harp-Seal, The, in the St. Lawrence River 140

Hatch, Mrs. E. D. W 831

Headaches, Butcher's-Meat and 428

Health, The Weather and 141

Hens and Eggs, British 426

Herbs, Poisonous and Medicinal, in India 718

Herzog, Herr C 311

Highway, A, in the Himalayas 139

Holden, Edward S 401

Huggins, William 755

Hutton, R. H 800

Huxley, Professor 532

Hygiene of the Aged 389

lies, George 51

Illiteracy as a Source of National Danger 118

India, Poisonous and Medicinal Herbs in 718

Industrial Education in Common Schools 712

Inebriety, Religion and 427

Insanity, Genius and 447

Insect Fertilization of Flowers 595

Iridium, The Manufacture and Applications of 142

Iron-Ore Bed, How an, was formed 135

Jacobi, Dr. Mary Putnam- 468, 614

Jules Verne as a Scientific Authority 135

Keen, William W., M. D 1

Kerosene, Concerning 252

Kesteven, W. Henry 836

King Country, The, and the Maoris 567

Kinley, Isaac 117

Lagrange, E 340

Lancaster, 1 696

�� � [ 894 ] 872 INDEX.

3PAGE

Langley, Professor S. P 401, 643

Lankester, E. Ray , 664

Laughlin, J. Laurence, Ph. D 31

Laveleye, A Rejoinder to M. de 188

Laveleye, Emile de 165

Leaves, On 344, 479

Legislation, Corrupt 425

Leland, E. R 491

Liberty in Education 268

Life Evolution, The Energy of 789

Life, Restoration of 861

Literary Notices 122, 272, 415, 556, 701, 847

Locust, How the, lays its Eggs 696

Lubbock, Sir John 344, 479

Lubricants, Theory of 139

Madness and Crime 425

Malaria and the Eucalyptus 856

Malarious Countries, Tomruasi-Crudeli on 785

Man and the other Vertebrates, Origin of 605

Man, can he be modified by Selection ? 15

Maple-Sugar, Early Mention of 287

Masai Land, Social Life in 857

Mascart, M. E 683

Master, A very Old 103

Medical Educati n, The Present Aspect of 589

Medico-Legal, The, Society 282

Mediterranean, The, of Canada 222

Memorial, The Darwin 532

Merrill, George P 520

" Metaphysical, The, Society " 800

Miue-Explosions, Coal-Dust and 858

Mines, Fallacies about 566

Mole, The, a Friend to Man . 284

Monkeys, The "Ways of 234

Morality, The Science of 661

Morton, S. T 334

Moseley, Professor H. N 623

Moths and Moth-Catchers 246, 377

Mussulman Industries, Decline of. 138

Mystery, A, of the Growth of Trees explained 424

Nachtigal, Dr. Gustav, Sketch of 691

Navigation, Aerial 696

Navigation, Aerial, Recent Progress in 296

Nervous System, The, and Consciousness 66, 150

New Guinea, Arts and Customs in 573

New Jersey, Ancient, Eskimos in 567

Newton, Professor II. A., Sketch of 840

Niagara Falls, Changes at 857

�� � [ 895 ] INDEX. 873

PA6E

Notes 143, 287, 432, 575, 719, 863

Nursey, Perry F., 0. E 536

Obesity 284

Official Science at Washington 844

Officialism in Education 554

One Hundred Years, How to live 574

Opium, An Experience with 334

Oranges, Brazilian 429

Oranges in Palestine 575

Origin of Man and the other Vertebrates 605

Origins, Aryan 138

Oxley, J. Macdonald 222

Pacific Coast Panthers 286

Paint, " Anti-fouling," for Ships 571

Palestine, Oranges in 575

Palmer, Charles B 696

Panthers, Pacific Coast 286

Pasteur's Researches in Germ- Life 86

Peat, Formation of 716

Peat-Smoke as an Antiseptic 861

Peckham, Professor S. F. 252

Pettenkofer, Max von 25

Persian Carpets 429

Philosophy, A Test of. 121

Photograpbing Colors 430

Pigments, Spectro-photometric Study of 142

Pitri, Cardinal, on Scientific Studies 283

Plants, The Early Study of 750

Plant-Tissues, Contraction of, by Cold 862

Poisoning, Deaths by 140

Political Economy, Methods of teaching 31

Political Tendency, a Pernicious 410

Pompeii, Interesting Finds in 860

Popular Miscellany 132, 282, 423, 566, 712, 856

Races, American, The Identity of 568

Races, Evolution of Warlike and of Peaceful 283

Railroads, Telegraphs, and Civilization 311

Railway Managers and Employes, The Relations of 577, 768

Rats, A Story of Two 713

Rat, The Trading- 831

Recess, The Value of 285

Refuse, Household and City, Cremation of 286

Religion and Inebriety 427

Religion without Dogma 51

Research, Private Encouragement of. 567

Richardson, Dr. B. W 541

�� � [ 896 ] 8 74 INDEX,

PAGE

Sahara, Observations in the 715

Samp and Hulled Corn 118

Sanitarium, A Great Winter 289

Scholarships, The New Tyndall 553

School-keeping, Suggestions on 134

Schools of Fifty Years ago and of To-day 282

Science, English Board-School 713

Science, New Chapters in the Warfare of 721

Science, Official, at Washington 844

Science versus Immorality 696

Scientific, A, Commonplace-Book 716

Sea-Shore, The Fauna of the 623

Selection, Can Man be modified by ? 15

Sewage, Water Purification of 568

Sharp-Shooting, Savage 569

Ships, " Anti-fouling " Paint for 571

Siberia and the Exiles 625

Sirup, Water-Melon 424

Sleep, How to, well 431

Smoking, Toxic Effects of 136

Socialism, De Laveleye on 270

" Society, The Metaphysical " 800

Soil-Ferment, The 283

Sorghum and Beet Sugar in the United States 425

Spelling, How, damages the Mind 638

Spencer, Herbert 188

Star-Fish Life, Curiosities of 360

Spreading it too Thin 413

State, The, versus the Man 1 65

Stevens, Professor W. Le Conte 296

Stones, Building and Ornamental, of the United States 520

Sully, James 447

Sun and Moon, Enlargement of the, at the Horizon 717

Sunlight and the Earth's Atmosphere 643

Superstitions, Celtic 862

Tarr, Ralph S 356

Teak-Tree, The, and its Timber 572

Teeth, Mutilations of the 858

Telephony, Underground, Difficulties of 717

Temperature of the Glacial Period 573

Thompson, Sir H 322, 509

Thompson, William Gilman, M. D 589

Time-Reckoning, Curiosities of 544

Tissandier, G 218

Tissue-Selection in the Genesis of Disease 836

Toads, Spade-Foot 133

Tommasi-Crudeli on Malarious Countries, and their Reclamation 785

Trees, A Mystery of the Growth of, explained 424

Tunnels, Increase of Temperature in 859

�� � [ 897 ] INDEX. 875

��tage

��Tyndall, John 86

Vegetation, Climate and 430

Vegetation, The, of Gutter- Stones 717

Vital Tenacity, Measures of 541

Vivisection, Our Recent Debts to 1

Von Pettenkofer, Max 25

Wales, The Prince of. 532

War, Curious Excuses for 555

Wardman, George 207

Water-Melon Sirup 424

Water-Purification of Sewage 568

Watson, L. H., M. D 389

Weather, The, and Health 141

Whales, Past and Present 195

White, Andrew D 721

Williams, W. Mattieu 81, 259

Winter Sanitarium, A Great 289

Wires, Underground, and Atmospheric Electricity 857

Wool, Why it felts 133

Yakuts, How, make a Fire 427

Youmans, Edward L 433

Youmans, Eliza A 750

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Abbott, Charles C, M. D G35

Acclimatization 507

Agatized Wood of Arizona 362

Agricultural Colleges, Popularizing 5G8

Alaska, The Native Tribes of 286

Allen, Grant 73, 034-, 596

All the AVurld Akin 377

American History, A New Field of 371

Anajsthesia, Local, Prolongation of 283

AnsDsthetics, Ancient 573

Analogy, A Signiticant 2G8

Andrews, Miss E. F 779

Apes, the Man-like, External Form of 736

Arbor-Day 689

Arctic Exploration, Opposing Views of 427

Arctic Soil, Frozen, Depth of 857

Art, the Teacher's, How to Exalt 569

Association, the American, Chemistry at 136

Association, the American, Physics at 138

Association, the American, Mechanical Science at 140

Association, the American, Geology at 284

Association, the British 141

Astronomy, Women in 534

Andition, Colored 717

Bacteria and Surgical Lesions 857

Baths, Vapor- and IIot-Air 565

Beecher's Position on Evolution 554

Beet-Sugar, Production of, in Germany 424

Biological Teaching in Colleges 577

Birds, Arctic, The Social Life of 209

Bishop's Ring around the Sun 466

Blind Men's Dreams 139

Blunders, Catholic, A Catholic on 123

Books noticed :

" Modern Science and Modern Thought " (Laing) 125

" Prehistoric Fishing " (Kan) 126

" Town Geology " Hleilnrin) 127

" Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada ". . . . 128

" The Copper-bearing Rocks of Lake Superior " (Irving) 128

�� � [ 904 ] 882 INDEX.

Books noticed : paob

" Older Mesozoic Flora of Virginia " (Fontaine) 129

" The Q. P. Index " for 188-t 129

" Commercial Organic Analysis " (Allen) 129

" Insomnia " (Lyman) 129

" List of Tests " (Wilder) 129

• • Descriptive America " (Brockett) 130

" Symbolic Algebra " (Cain) 130

" Tes.ting-Machine9 " (Abbott) 130

" Recent Progress in Dynamo-Electric Machines " (Thompson) 130

" Stadia-Surveying " (Winslow) 130

" The Steam-Engine Indicator " (Le Van) 130

" The Figure of the Earth " (Roberts) 130

" Healthy Foundations for Houses " (Brown) 130

" Maps of the Dominion of Canada " (Langevin) 130

♦' Notes from the Physiological Laboratory of the University of Penn- sylvania " (Randolph and Dixon) 130

" American Newspaper Annual " (Ayer & Son) 131

• ' How to drain a House " (Waring) 131

" Ballooning " (May) 131

• ' The Lock-Jaw of Infants " (Hartigan) 131

" Malthus and his W^ork (Bonar) 132

" Report of Smithsonian Institution, 1883 " 132

'• Cholera " (Still6) 132

" Silver-Lead Deposits of Eureka, Nevada " (Curtis) 132

" Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences " 133

" Dinocerata " (Marsh) 133

" Paleontology of the Eureka District " (Walcott) 134

" Manual of Phonography " (Pitman and Howard) 134

" Chemical Problems " (Stammer) 134

" Exercises for translating into German " (Lodeman) 134

" A Text-Book on Nursing " (Weeks) 272

" The Study of Political Economy " (Laughlin) 272

" Philosophic Series " (McCosh) 273

" Report on the Illuminating Quality of Oils " (Castle) 273

" The Azoic System "' (Whitney and Wadsworth) 274

" The Grimke Sisters " (Birney) 274

" Report of Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station " (Goess-

mann) 275

" Placer-Mines and Mining-Ditches " (Williams) 275

" Influence of the Proprietors in founding the State of New Jersey "

(Scott) 275

" Natural Co-ordination as evinced in Organic Evolution " (Eraser).. . 276

" Population by Ages " (Landsberg) 277

" The Minting of Gold and Silver " (WiUiams) 277

" The Modification of Plants by Climate " (Crozier) 277

" Report of New York Bureau of Statistics of Labor for 1884 " (Peck) 278 " Phonetic Text-Books " (March, Vickroy, Burnz, Leigh, Longley, and

Pitman) 278

" Zoologic Whist and ZoOnomia " (Kirk) 279

" The Tehuantepec Ship-Railway " (Corthell) 279

�� � [ 905 ] IXDEX. 883

Books noticed :

" Tupors of the American Historical Association," Nos. 1 and 2 279

'• Stmlies in (Jenerul History, etc " (White) 279

" Etlieiency and 1 Juration ol' Incandescent Electric Lamps " 279

" Transactions of the Academy of Science, Kansas City, Missouri "... 279

" The Iloosier Naturalist " (Jones and Trouslot) 280

" Aims and Methods of the Teaciiing of Physics" (Wead) 280

" Ecclesiastical Institutions " (Spencer) 412

" Physical Expression " (Warner) 413

" Recent American Socialism " (Ely) 414

" Planting Trees in School-Grounds," etc 414

" Otfices of Electricity in the Earth " (Philbrook) 415

'• Origin of Species " (Philbrook) 415

" Niagara Park Illustrated " (Rhine) 415

" History and Management of Land Grants for Education " (Knight), 415

" City S'jhool Systems in the United States " (Piiilbrick) 416

" The Boys' and Girls' Pliny " (White) 416

" Twenty-five Years with the Insane " (Putnam; 416

" The Co-operative Commonwealth " (Gronlund) 416

The Blood-Covenant " (Trumbull) 417

" Mind-Cure on a Material Basis " (Titcomb) 417

" Methods of Research in Microacopio«l Anatomy and Embryology "

(Wiiitman) 418

" Report on Forestry " (Egleston) 418

The German Verb-Drill " (Dreyspring) 418

" Lectures on House-Drainage " (Putnam) 418

" Guide to Sanitary House Inspection " (Gerhard) 418

" Marvels of Animal Life " (Holder) 419

" Rudder Grange " (Stockton; 419

" The Last Meeting " (Matthews) 419

"The Commonwealth of Georgia" (Henderson) 419

" Life and Correspondence of Louis Agassiz " (Agassiz) 556

" Scientific Theism " (Abbot) 558

" Polysynthesis and Incorporation in American Languages " (Brinton) 559

" Consanguineous Marriages " (Withington) 559

" Bad '1 imes " (Wallace) 559

" Overpressure in Schools " (Robertson) 560

" Sanitary Science and Public Hygiene " (Robertson) .... 560

" American Constitutions " (Davis) 560

"Report of New York Agricultural Experiment Station " 561

" Italian Popular Tales " (Crane) 561

" Two Years in the Jungle " (Hornaday) 561

" Journal of the American Akad6m6 " (Wilder) 561

" A Political Crime " (Gibson) 562

" Something about Natural Gas " (Thurston) 562

" A Mortal Antipathy " (Holmes) 562

" Milk Analysis and Infant Feeding " (Meigs) 562

• ' A Text- Book of Medical Chemistry " (Bartley) 563

" Saxe Holme Stories " 563

" A Wheel of Fire " (Bates) 563

" Bird-Ways " (MUlcr) 563

�� � [ 906 ] 884 INDEX.

Books noticed : paob

'• The Heart, and how to Take Care of it " (ITalc) 563

" Gray's Botanical Text-Book, Vol. II " 703

" French Dishes for American Tables " (Caron) 705

" Railroad Transportation " (Iladley) \ 705

" The Philosophy of Education " (Tait) 706

" Rational Communism " 706

" The Will " (Eckstein) 706

" Heating and Ventilation " (Curtman) 706

" Joint-Diseases " (Willard) 707

" Surgical Treatment of Infants " (Willard) 707

"The Prehistoric Palace of the Kings of Tiryns" (Schliemann) 707

" Brain-Rest " (Corning) 708

Report of Drainage and Water-Supply of Chicago " 708

" National Conference of State Boards of Health " 708

" The Annals of the Cakchiquels " (Brinton) 709

• ' Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, 1881-'82 " (Powell) 709

" Modern Molding and Pattern-Making " (Mullin) 709

" Dictionary of Music and Musicians " (Grove) 709

" The Journal of Physiology " (Foster) 710

" Revision of the Palaeocrinoidia " (Wachsmuth and Springer) 710

" Writings of Isaac Lea, LL. D." (Scmlder) 710

" Bulletin of the Sedalia Natural History Society " 710

" Bulletin of the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences" 710

" The System of High Licenses " (Thomann) 711

"An Iron Crown " 711

" The Fixed Idea of Astronomical Theory " (Tischner) 711

" Free Cities in the Middle Ages " (Klemm) 711

" Manual of American Land-Shells " (Binney) 711

" Results of Ornithological Explorations " (Stejneger) 711

" Reception-Day," No. 4 711

" Notes on the Opium-Habit " (Meylert) 711

" Introduction to the Study of Chemistry " (Remsen) 843

" Class Interests " 844

" Problems in Philosophy " (Bascora) 845

" Japanese Homes and their Surroundings " (Morse) 846

" The New Agriculture " (Cole) 847

" Price-List of Smithsonian Publications " 847

" The Mammalia " (Schmidt) 848

" Protection versus Free Trade " (Hoyt) 848

" The Raising and Management of Poultry " 848

" Scarlet Fever " (Comstock) 848 ,

" Catholic Historical Researches " (Lambing) 849

" Evolution and Religion " (Beecher) 849

" Introspective Insanity " (Hamilton) 849

" Crystallization in Washoe Rocks " (Hague and Iddings) 849

" Ericsson's Destroyer and Submarine Gun " (Jaques) 850

" The Evolution of Revelation (Whiton) 850

" Syllabus of Instinction in Biology " (Fall) 850

" Marlborough " (Saintsbury) 850

" Household Remedies " (Oswald) 850

�� � [ 907 ] JXDEX. 885

Books noticed : p^oe

" State Mineralogist of California, Report " 850

•' War and Peace " (Tolstoi) 851

" Botany of tbo Rocky Mountain Region " (Coulter) 851

•' Biological Studies, Johns Hopkins University" (Martin and Brooks) 851

• ' The Louisiana Purchase " (Robertson) 851

" History of German Literature " (Scherer) 852

•' Men, Women, and Gods " (Gardener) 852

" Mechanics and Faith " (Porter) 852

" Report of the United States Geological Survey " (Powell) 853

•' Social Wealth " (Ingalls) 853

" Mineral Resources of the United States " (Williams) 853

" The Greek Islands " (Field) 853

" Wonderful Escapes " (Bernard and Whiting) 854

• ' The Spartan and Theban Supremacies " (Sankey) 854

" The Early Hanoverians " (Morris) 854

" Bulletins of the United States Geological Survey " 854

Botany as a Recreation for Invalids V79

Brehm, Dr. Alfred E 209

Bridges, Iron, Limits of Stress on 142

Buckland, Frank, Sketch of 401

Burmah, Tlie Fine Arts in 718

Burrouglis, John 407

Battner, C. G 526

Canada, The French Problem in 781

Carlisle, The Bishop of 248

Carlyle, Masson's Interpretation of 224

Carpenter, Dr. W. B., Sketch of, 538

Cashmere, Metal- working Art in 139

Catholic, A, on Catholic Blunders 123

Ceilings, Advantages of Low 863

Chemistry at the American Association 136

Chemistry, New Problems in 141

Civilization, The Influence of Inventions upon 474, 656

Clarke, George H 781

Climates, Local, of Exposure 715

Clover, Concerning 73

Cold, Effects of, on Microbes 859

Colleges, Biological Teaching in 677

Color in Animals, Origin of 94

Colorado as a Winter Sanitarium GfiS

Colors, The Harmony of 424

Common Schools, Science in 140

Communal Societies 325

Congo, the. Meteorology of. 427

Congo, The Value of the 570

Connecticut, Oyster- Culture in 567

Controversy, The Gladstone-IIuxley 840

Coral-Harvest, The 863

Corporations and their Employes 268

�� � [ 908 ] 886 IXDEX.

PACT?

Correspondence 2G8, 407

Cosmogony and Physics, Hindoo 42G

Creation and of Worship, Dawn of 865

Culture, Mental Progress and 122

D'Alviella, The Count 145

Damaraland, Medical Practice in 526

Dancing as Physical Training 571

Davis, W. M 466

Dawn of Creation and of Worship 865

Democracy in the High-School 859

De Montessus, M 819

De Varigny, Henry 56

Dev\-ey, John, Ph. D 606

Dinner, A Chinese, in High Life 57ti

Discrimination in Railway Rates .... 494, 586

Dreams, Blind Men's 139

Drnramund, Professor Henry, Comments by 803

Dust in Room< 574

Dynamiters? the, Who shall try 426

Eads, James B., Sketch of 544

Enrtiiquake, An, Experience 719

Earthquake-proof Buildings 566

Earthquakes in Central America 819

East River and Hell Gate, The Improvement of 433

Eddy, William A 307

Editor's Table 122, 209, 410, 554, 699, 840

Education, Higher, Health and Sex in 606

Education, Higher, The Problem of 84

Education in Politics 840

Education, Moral, A Case in 699

Education. Negro, Twenty Years of 24

Eggert, Professor C. A 84

Egleston, N. H 689

Ellis, T. S., M. R. C. S 395

Elm-leaf, The, Beetle 429

Employes and Employers 565

Encrinites, Living 284

Enterprise, Individual, in Scientific Research 421

Evolution, Beecher's Position on 554

Evolution, Organic, The Factors of. 754, 843

Farlow, Professor W. G 57Y

Feet, The Physiology of the 395

Fish out of Water 334

Fisk, Dr. Samuel A 668

Flower, The, or the Leaf 342

Flower, W. H., F. R. S 315

Flying-Fish, The " Flight "of 287

�� � [ 909 ] JXDEX. 887

TAOB

Flying-Machines 1

Forest ? What is a Ileal 507

Forestry Congress, The American 281

Forests in the Pacific Region 421

Forniosan Siictch, A 802

Froedoin, Scientific 408

French, The, Prohleni in Canada 781

Game, a, TIio History of. 282

(Jems, Tlie, of tlie National Museum 823

(lenesis, Mr. Gladstone and 788

(Jenesis, Proem to 614

Genesis, The Interpreters of, and the Interpreters of Nature 449

Geological Congress, The International 5G9

Geology at the American Association 284

Germination, Temperature of 574

Ghost, The Decline of the 410

Glacial Action, The Southern Limits of 856

Gladstone-IIu.\ley, The, Controversy 840

Gladstone, Mr., and Genesis 788

Gladstone, William E 614, 865

Hale, Horatio 296

Hand-Work, The, of School-Children 812, 843

Hartmann, Robert 706

Health, Instinct as a Guide to 517

Hell (iate. The Improvement of East River and 433

Heredity, Some Aspects of 142

Hewitt, G, C 268

High-School, The, Democracy in 859

Hindoo Cosmogony and Physics 426

Hochheimer, Lewis 830

Honey-I3ee, Vision of the 143

Horsley, V., F. R. C. S 100

House-Huilding, Japanese 643

Housekeeping, Family Schools of 422

Howard, Charles P 169

Human Remains, Prehistoric, in Mexico 420

Hume, John F 69

Huxley, Professor T. II 449, 788

Huygeas, Sketch of. 835

Hyatt, Professor Alpheus, Sketch of. 261

Hydrophobia, Inoculation against 289

Ice-Cave, A New Zealand 570

Indians, The, of Mount Roruima 283

Inertia of the Eye and the Brain 861

Infancy in the City 683

Inoculation against Hydrophobia 289

Insect Habits 283

�� � [ 910 ] 888 INDEX.

PAGE

Insects, Neuter 217

Instinct as a Guide to Health 517

Instruments, Two Wonderful 51

Interpreters, The, of Genesis and the Interpreters of Nature 449

Invalids, Botany as a Recreation for 779

Inventions, The Influence of, upon Civilization 474, 656

Investing, The Art of 69

Jacobi, Dr. Mary Putnam- 342

Japanese House-Building 643

Jews, the, Race Characteristics of 428

Juries, Reform of 716

Keating, J. M 24

Kendall, Rev. Henry 377

King, D. B 160

Knowledge, Intellectual, Mechanical Repetition and 571

Knnz, George F 362, 823

Lagrange, E 534

Laing, S., M. P 18

Languages, American, The Study of 856

Lansing, Gerrit L 494, 586

Law, Mediaeval English 423

Lawes, Sir John Bennet, Sketch of 694

Leaf, The Flower or the 342

LefEngwell, Dr. A 51

Lepper, Charles H 112

Lesley, Professor J. P 192

Literary Notices 125, 272, 412, 556, 703, 843

Lunatics, A Free Colony of 56

Machine, A Thinking 596

Malaria-Factories in Mauritius 571

Malaria, Protection against 860

Man, Tertiary, M. de Mortillet on 571

Man-like Apes, the, External Form of 736

Many Drugs, Few Remedies 716

Marchal, M. Paul 94

Mather, T. W 1

Mauritius, Malaria-Factories in 571

Mayr, Heinricb, Ph. D 679

McElroy, Jolm 485

Mechanical Science at the American Association 140

Mediaeval English Law 423

Medical Practice in Damaraland 626

Mental Progress and Culture 122

Meteorological Society, The New England 669

Mexico, An Economic Study of 721

Mexico, Prehistoric Human Remains in 420

�� � [ 911 ] INDEX. 889

PAGE

Microbes, Eflfects of Cold on SfiO

Militancy, European, The Increasing Curso of 521

Milk, How, is tainted 421

Modern Science and Modern Tiiought 18

Moisture, How Woods preserve 429

Montreal, The Epidemic at 270

Moose, The Quaternary, of New Jersey 715

Morri.^, Charles 217, 325

Morse, Professor E, S 643

Motor Cent<;rs, The, and the Will 100

Mountain-Farming in Norway 602

Mountains, Two New Zealand 860

Murghab Valley, tbe. Salt Lakes of 423

Museum, The National 717

Museum, the National, Gems of. 823

Museums, Educational 285

Musket, The, as a Social Force 485

Natural TTeirship 377

Nature, The Uniformity of 248

Nature, The Uniformity of, aerain 407

New Guinea, Life in 568

Newton, General John 433

Nonconformity 367

Norway, Mountain-Farming in 862

Notes 143, 287, 430, 574, 719, 8G3

Odling, Dr. W., F. R. S 388

Organic Evolution, The Factors of 754

Ornament, Architectural, and Dancing-Girls, Symbolism of. 858

Oswald, Felix L., M. D 517

Oyster-Culture in Connecticut 567

Fallen, Cond6 B 408

Palmer, Charles B 409

Party Government 271

Pasteur, M. Louis 289

Peckham, Grace, M. D 683

Photography in Color, Tlie Problem of 531

Physics at the American Association 138

Physiological Experiment, Uses and Nature of 425

Physiology, The, of the Feet 395

Planet, the Trans-Neptunian, The Search for 714

Plants growing at Strange Heights 138

Playfair, Dr., on State Science 125

Playfair, Sir Lyon 37, 236

Playfair, Sir Lyon, Sketch of 117

Politics, Education in 840

Popular Miscellany 135, 281, 420, 565, 713, 856

Popularizing Agricultural Colleges 568

�� � [ 912 ] 890 INDEX.

FAOB

Postal Savings Banks 1 60

Poteline 567

President Lesley's Address 269

Primitive Money, The Origia of . . . . 296

" Prodigies," Ti»e Real Nature of. 713

Proem to ttenesis 614

Putaam-Jacobi, Dr. Mary 342

Railway Rates, Discrimination in 494, 586

Relations of Things, The Study of tlie 353

Religion, The Scientific Study of 145

Repetition, Mechanical, and Intellectual Knowledge 571

Resinous "Woods, Durability of. 679

Rest, Holiday, Principles of 858

RickofiP, Rebecca D 812

Ring, Bishop's, around the Sun 466

Rood, Professor O. N 531

Roraima, Mount, The Indians of 282

Salt Lakes of the Miirghab Valley 423

Science in Common Schools 140

Schmidt, Oscar 817

School-Children, The Hand- work of 812, 848

Science in its Useful Applications 388

Science, Modern, and Modern Thought 18

Science, Relations of, to the Public Weal 37, 236

Scientific Research, Individual Enterprise in 421

Scientific Study, The Spirit and Method of. 192

Sewage, London, The Problem of 861

Silk, Shall we raise, at a Loss ? 136

Sketch, A Formosan 862

Smith, Chauncey 474, 656

Society, The New England Meteorological 569

Soil, Arctic, Frozen, Depth of 857

Spencer, Herbert 367, 754

Spider, An Affectionate Mother- 428

Stability in Systems of Thought 701

Star, The New 135

Storm, a, The Travels of 857

Stress, Limits of, on Iron Bridges 142

Study out of School 714

Success in Life, Conditions of. 429

Sun-heating Apparatus, A, for Rooms 566

Surgery, "Rages "in 422

Tarr, Ralph S 261

Taxation, State, Recent Experiments in 460

Teacher's Art, the. How to exalt 569

Teeth, The, of the Coming Man 817

Telescope, The Refracting 169

�� � [ 913 ] IXDEX. 891

PAOE

Tomporfttiirc of (icrmination 574

Ten Evck, II. J 400

Thibetans, the, Home Life of 112

Thoinusville at. a Winter Resort 188

Thou^'ht, Systems of, Stability in 701

Tobacco, More about the Efifects of GG8

Tornado-I'rediction, Progress in 307

Tornado, The Genesis of a 409

Trees, l)istribution of, in Canada 714

Trees, Estimating the Ape of 424

Turkistan Deserts, the, Sands of 672

Uniformity, The, of Nature, again 407

Varieties, The, of the Unman Species 315

Virchow, Professor Kudoljjh 507

Wallace, Alfred Russel 521

Weather-Lore, Animal G35

Wells, David A 721

Whale, the, Origin of 283

Whipping- Post, The 830

Will, The Motor Centers and the 100

Women in Astronomy 534

Wood, Agatized, of Arizona 362

Woods, how they preserve Moisture 429

Words and Things 572

Workmen's, A, Scientific Class 140

Youmans, E. L 188

Youmans, Eliza A 353

ZuOi, Poetry and Reality in 717

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Abysses, the Oceanic, Condition of 715

Agrarian Agitation, A Canadian Chapter in 462

Air, Sea, and Mountain > 141

Alum as a Water- Claritier 858

Animal Diseases, The Microbes of 761

Animals, What may, be taught 168

Antarctic, The, Ocean 660

Antiseptics and Disinfectants 860

Arbitration and Conciliation, New Light on 567

Architecture, Evolution in 642

Armsby, Professor H. P 831

Ashley, Charles S , 721

Association, the American, The Buffalo Meeting of 844

Astronomical Work, Dr. Gould's, The Magnitude of ....... 280

Bacteria under High Pressure 140

Baker, Francis H 642

Balloon, Travel by .428

Barefooted ? Should Children go 861

Benedict, Professor W. R 626, 747

Bergen, Mrs. F. D 367

Bienenfeld, Bernard . . . 124

Birds, The Flying Force of 427

Birds, the, Protect 281

Black and White, Are, Colors? 814

Blackfuot Tribes, the, Ethnology of 204

Bohemian Glass 346

Bolton, Professor H. O 523

Books noticed :

" Three Years of Arctic Service " (Greely) 127

" Easy Lessons in German " (Dreyspring) 129

" The Determination of Rock-forming Minerals " (Hussak and Smith). 129

" History of the Pacific States " (Bancroft) 130

" Practical and Analytical Chemistry " (Trimble) 130'

" Evolution of To-Day" (Conn) 131

" The Sun " (Guillemin and Phipson) 131

" History of California " (Hittell) 132

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�� � [ 886 ] 866 INDEX.

Books noticed : page

'* A Text-Book of Inorganic Chemistry " (Yon Bichter and Smith) 132

" Ventilation of Buildings " (Butler) 133

" Water-Meters " (Browne) 133

" Mechanical Integrators " (Shaw) 133

" Preservation of Timber by Antiseptics " (Boulton) 133

" Chemical Analysis " (Scott- White) 133

" First Lessons in Philosophy " (Handley) 133

"Chemical Equilibrium the Result of the Dissipation of Energy"

(Liveing) 1 34

" Moisture and Dryness " (Denison) 134

" Comparative Literature " (Posnett) 269

" Hunting Trips of a Ranchman " (Roosevelt) 270

" Influence of Sewerage and Water-Supply on the Death-Rare in Cities"

(Smith) 272

" The Epic Songs of Russia " (Hapgood) 273

" Applied Geology " (Williams) 273

" Fifth Annual Report of the United States Geological Survey "

(Powell) 275

" Gyrating Bodies " (Warring) 275

" American Diplomacy " (Schuyler) 275

" Dutch Village Communities on the Hudson River " (Elting) 276

" Town Government in Rhode Island " (Foster) 276

" The Narragansett Planters " (Channing) 276

" Pennsylvania Boroughs " (Holcomb) '. . . . 276

" Proceedings of the American Society of Microscopists," 18S5 277

" Studies in General History " (Sheldon) 277

" Injurious and other Insects in New York " (Lintner). 277

" Upland and Meadow " (Abbott) 415

" Flowers, Fruits, and Leaves " (Lubbock) 41 6

" Popular Government " (Maine) 41 6

" Oceana " (Froude). 417

" The Adirondacks as a Health Resort " (Stickler) 418

" What does History teach ? " (Blackie) 418

" Transactions of the Anthropological Society of Washington " 418

" Essays on Educational Reformers " (Quick) 419

" The Late Mrs. Null " (Stockton) 419

" Hobbes" (Robertson) 419

u Appalachia" 420

" Appalachian Mountain Club Register " 420

" Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission," 1885 420

" The Order of Creation " (Gladstone, Huxley, and others) 420

" Wonders of European Art " (Yiardot) 421

" Elements of Universal History " (Cottinger) 421

" Scriptures, Hebrew and Christian " (Bartlett and Peters) 421

" The Story of Chaldea " (Ragozin) 421

" Did Reis invent a Speaking Telephone ? " (Dolbear) 421

" On Telephone Systems " (Dolbear) 421

" Notes on Certain Maya and Mexican Manuscripts " (Thomas) 422

" Railroad Terminal Facilities at New York " (Mordecai) 422

" Artesian Wells " (Chamberlin) 422

�� � [ 887 ] INDEX. 867

Books noticed : page

" Commissioner of Education, Report for 1883-'84 " 422

" A Manual of Mechanics " (Goodeve) 422

" Evolution " (Deems) 423

" The Choice of Books " (Harrison) 423

" Poetry as a Representative Art " (Raymond) 423

"The Fisheries and Fishing. Industries of the United States" (Goode). 423

11 Teacher's Hand-Book of Psychology " (Sully) 556

" Triumphant Democracy " (Carnegie) 558

" California " (Royce) 559

" Food Materials and their Adulterations " (Richards) 559

" Scientific Laboratories of Denison University " (Herrick) 560

" Food Consumption " (Wright and Atwater) 560

" Hand-Book of Plant Dissection " (Arthur, Barnes, and Coulter) 560

" Protection or Free Trade " (George) 561

"Industrial Depressions," Report of Commissioner of Labor on

(Wright) : 561

" Socialism and Christianity " (Behrends) 562

" Political Science Quarterly " 562

. " Persia " (Bassett) 562

" Outlines of Geology " (Geikie) 563

" Class-Book of Geology " (Geikie) 563

' ; The Wealth of Households " (Dawson) 564

" Manual Training " (Horn) 564

" Color-Studies " (Janvier) 564

u Astronomy during the Nineteenth Century " (Gierke) 564

" Forests and Fruit-Growers " (Kinney) 565

" Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education " (Technical In- struction and Education in Japan) 1885 565

" Monthly Catalogue of Government Publications " (Hickox) 565

" Life and Genius of Goethe " (Sanborn) 565

" An Apache Campaign in the Sierra Nevada " (Bourke) 566

11 John Cabot's Landfall and Norumbega " (Horsford) 566

" Smithsonian Report for 1884 " 566

" Elements of Economics " (Macleod) 700

" Colorado Scientific Society Proceedings " 701

" Psychology " (McCosh) 702

" Manual Training " (Ham) , 703

" Contributions to the Tertiary Geology and Paleontology of the United

States " (Heilprin) 704

" Annual Address " (Riley) 704

" Climatic Treatment of Disease " (Marcy) 704

" Kant's Ethics " (Porter) 705

" The Economical Fact-Book " (Bowker) 705

" Municipal Administration " (Mathews) 705

14 Bulletins of the United States Geological Survey, Nos. 15 to 26 " 705

" Constitutional and Political History of the United States " (Jame- son) 706

"A Puritan Colony in Maryland " (Randall) 706

" Davenport Academy of Sciences, Proceedings " 706

" On Small Differences of Sensation " (Peirce and Jastrow) 707

�� � [ 888 ] 868 INDEX.

Books noticed : page

kt Diseases of thee Nrvous System " (Hammond) 707

" History of the Sabbath and Sunday " (Lewis) 707

" Medicine of the Future " (Flint) 708

" Life " (Wilder) 708

" The Olden Time Series " 708

" Qualitative Chemical Analysis " (Beilstein) 708

" Watts's ' Manual of Chemistry ' " (Tilden) 709

" State Control of Medical Education and Practice " (Curtiss) 709

" Development of Viviparous Osseous Fishes " (Ryder) 709

" Outlines of the History of Ethics " (Sidgwick) 845

" Numbers Illustrated " (Rickoff and Davis) 846

" Geological Studies " (Winchell) 847

" Guide to the Recognition of Orders of Cryptogams " (Sargent) 847

" History of California," Vols. IV and V (Bancroft) 848

" Physical Training in American Colleges " (Hartwell) 849

" Report on Drainage of Massachusetts River Valleys " 849

" The Science of Business " (Smith) 850

" The Fitting-Schools " (Von Taube) 851

" Anthropophagy " (Darling) 851

" Proceedings of the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Sci- ence," 1885 (Halstead) 851

" The Journal of Physiology " (Foster) 852

' Science and the State " (Shufeldt) 852

" The Country Banker" (Rae) 852

" Industrial and High-Art Education " (Clarke) 853

" Report of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station," 1885. . 853

41 Old School Days " (Harris) 854

" The Great Conspiracy " (Logan) 854

" Smithsonian Accounts of Progress in 1885 " 854

Bottoms, Deep-Lake, Fauna of. ...*..... 717

Box-Wood, A New Species of .......,. 430

Brain, The Care of the 886

Brooks, Margarette W 317

Brooks, Professor W. K 806

Butler, Professor N. M 482

Camphor, Japanese 280

Cancer, Origin of 569

Carbonic Acid, Use of Liquid 428

Carpets, Oriental 572

Champion, A Pony 142

Charity and Sentimentality 125

Chemistry, Recent Progress in 523

Chicago, The, Public Schools 425

Children, Animal and Plant Lore of 367, 842

Children, Should, go barefooted ? 861

Chorea, School-Life and 717

Christie, W. H. M 795

Church, The, and State Education 554

Climate, Geological, in High Latitudes 852

�� � [ 889 ] INDEX. 869

PAGE

Clocks, Primitive 180

Coal- Waste as a Manure 712

Coan, Titus M., M. D ' 508

Coast, the New England, Glacial Elevations of 135

Commercial Crisis, the Present, Causes of 491

Cooking Apparatus, A New Hot-Water 571

Colors ? Are Black and White 814

Coral Island, Life on a 800

Correspondence 122, 411, 841

Counting unconsciously 221

Cray-Fish, Some Peculiar Habits of the 784

Crime, Education and 570

Crystallization, The Problem of 46

Cyclone, Autobiography of an Ancient 573

Cyclones, Periodicity of 859

Daubree, M. A 374

Dawson, Joseph 75

De Candolle on the Production of Men of Science 34

Delbceuf, M. J 168

Diet, The Philosophy of 818

Domestic Fireplace Construction, The Principles of 230

Don't 268

Doty, Harry Austin 814

Dudley, P. M., C. E 433, 604

Earth-Contraction and Mountains 283

Earthquakes and other Seismic Movements 305

Earthquakes in China 571

Earthquake-Vibrations, Variation in 286

Eaton, Virgil G 803

Economic Association, The American 426

Editor's Table 125, 266, 412, 554, 698, 842

Education and Crime 570

Education, Some Outlines from the History of 626, 747

Eels and their Young 254

Einhorn, Alfred 46

Elements, New Chemical 714

Engelmann, George, M. D., Sketch of 260

Ethnology of the Blackfoot Tribes 204

Evolution bounded by Theology 145

Evolution in Architecture 642

Evolution, Organic, The Factors of 54, 192

Exercise, The Influence of, upon Health 323

Exercise, The Physiology of 841

Extinction of Species, the, Causes of 429

Eyes, Swedish, Colors of 428

Fear, A Psychological Study of . . 771

Financial Stringency, Causes of 285

�� � [ 890 ] 8 7 o INDEX.

PAGE

Fire-Extinguishers, Automatic 137

Fishes and Frogs, Parental Peculiarities in 136

Fish, Fossil, in New Jersey Trias , 574

Fiat-Fish, The Science of 107

Fleas, Development of 861

Flying Fish, Does the, fly ? 122

Flying Force, The, of Birds 427

Food Accessories and Digestion 63

Food, Poisons formed from 284

Forest Devastation in Japan 714

Forest Preservation, Canadian 141

Fouillee, Alfred 681

France, Eastern, Mineral Springs of 508

Fraud and its Victims 842

Fungi, Parasitic, on Plants 138

Future, A Bald and Toothless 803

Galton, Francis, Sketch of. 117

Gaudry, Albert 827

Genesis, The Interpretation of 122

Genius and Precocity 469, 594

German Paleontological Museums 827

Gillmore, Parker 617

Gould's (Dr.) Astronomical Work, The Magnitude of 280

Government, the Federal, Transportation and 335

Hndley, Arthur T 1

Hale, Horatio 204

Hamerton, Philip Gilbert 83

Heat, A New Prospective Source of 140

Heavens, the, Photographing 71

Heer, Oswald, Sketch of 546

Hereditary Diseases and Race-Culture 639

Holder, C. F 784

Horse-Eating 711

House Sanitation, Ancient 140

Hovelacque. M. A 98

Huxley, Professor T. H 458

Ice, What, can do 282

lies, George 462

India-Ink, The Story of 859

Indian Medicine 649

Inebriety, Premonitions of 862

Inherited Memories 858

Insect Species, an, Distribution of 428

Inventions, The Genesis of 136

Iron, Rustless 393

Irrawaddy, The Problem of the 427

Irrawaddy, The River 712

�� � [ 891 ] INDEX. 871

PAGE

James, Joseph F 660

Japan, Forest Devastation in 714

Japan, Science in 861

Jordan, Professor David Starr 212

King-Crab, The, in New Waters 569

Kinley, Isaac 122

Klein, Dr. H. Y 71

Laboratory, The Physical, in Modern Education 504

Labor Troubles 266

Language, The Evolution of 98

Larrabee, W. H 34

Le Play's Studies in Social Phenomena 787

Leroy-Beaulieu, Paul 491

Le Sueur, W. D ' 145, 577

Lick Observatory, the, Advantages of 710

Life, Human, The Lengthening of 862

Life on a Coral Island 806

Lion Country, In the 617

Literary Notices 127, 269, 415, 556, 700, 845

Liquorice, Cultivation of 715

Liquors, How Alcoholic, are made 75

Lockwood, Professor S 245

Lore, Animal and Plant, of Children 367, 842

Madness, The Millennium of 226

Mange, P. F 411

Mather, Frederic G 180

Medicine, Indian 649

Memories, Inherited 858

Mercator, Gerard, Sketch of 404

Metal, The Coming 713

Meteorites, Meteors, and Shooting-Stars 733

Meteorites, The Origin and Structure of. 374

Mexico, An Economic Study of 11, 153, 289, 411, 444

" Note on 556

Microbes, The, of Animal Diseases 761

Minerals, The Development of 397

Moral Faculty, The Development of 29

Moral Teaching in Public Schools 698

Mountains, Earth-Contraction and 283

Museums, Paleontologieal, German 827

Natural Phenomena, The Prediction of 538

Nature, Some Economics of 666

Neith, The Hypothetical Planet 285

New Chemical Elements 714

Newton, General John, Sketch of 834

�� � [ 892 ] 8 7 2 INDEX.

PAGE

Newton, Professor Hubert A 733

Niagara Falls at the American Association 856

Nineteenth Century Club, The 567

Nitrification 831

Notes 142, 287, 431, 574, 718, 863

Nuisauce, A Bee 139

Ocean, The Antarctic 660

Oswald, Felix L., M. D 226

Outlines, Some, from the History of Education 626, 747

Oyster, How the, makes his Shell 279

Parsee Children 568

Parsee Funerals 426

Phenomenon, A Curious Optical 841

Philosophy, The, of Diet 818

Photographing the Heavens 71

Pictures and Prints, The Care of 83

Planet, The Hypothetical, Neith 285

Pleasure and Pain, The Nature of 681

Poisons formed from Food 284

Poisons, The, in Spoiling Food 250

Polygamy, An ^Esthetic View of 857

Popular Miscellany 135, 279, 425, 567, 710, 856

Porter, Ex-President, on Evolution 577

Preston, Dr. G. J 639

Prever, Professor W 221

Protect the Birds 281

Psychical Research, The Progress of 482

Psychology as a Science 699

Punjab, The 138

Putnam, Frederick Ward, Sketch of 693

Race-Culture, Hereditary Diseases and 639

Rafinesque 212

Railroad Regulation, The Difficulties of 1

Ranney, Professor Ambrose L., M. D 386

Richards, Professor E. L . . . 322

Richet, Charles 771

Rivers, Underground 716

Rosenberry, A. B., M. D 841

Rowland, Professor Henry A., Ph. D 504

Rustless Iron 393

Schafft, Dr. A 538

School-Life and Chorea 717

Schwarz, Professor Heinrich 346

Science and the State . 412

Science, De Caudolle on the Production of Men of 34

�� � [ 893 ] INDEX. 873

PAGE

Science in Japan 861

Scratching in the Animal Kingdom 245

Sea-Bathing, Principles of 426

Sea-Voyages, Advantages of 716

Sharpless, Professor Isaac 519

Shooting-Stars, Meteorites, Meteors, and 733

Silk-Culture, An Experiment in 317

Silk-Culture, The " Profits "of 568

Snails, American, Life-History of. 573

Snake-Poison, Antidotes for 124

Snake-Poisoning 283

Social Phenomena, Le Play's Studies in 787

Solar Heat, Influence of Direct, on Vegetation 139

Soles and Turbot 107

Somauli-Land, Incidents of Travel in 713

Somaulies, Traits of the 570

Spectroscope, The, and the Elements 430

Spencer, Herbert 54, 192

Springs, Mineral, of Eastern France 508

Stations, Signal, at Sea 862

Stinde, Julius 250

Stockwell, G. Archie, M. D 649

Storms, Cuban 430

Stringency, Financial, Causes of. 285

Sully, James 29, 469, 594

Swallows, Intelligence of. 142

Swamps, draining, Have we gone too far in. ... . 282

��Teaching, Scientific, The Extension of 458

Tea-Drinking, is, Salutary ? 286

Teale, T. Pidgin, F. R. C. S 230

Telephone, Professor Pickering's 281

Tenant-Farmers, Happy 137

Thomas, B. F 841

Thoulet, M. J 397

Time, Good, and its .Ascertainment 519

Time, Universal . 795

Toad-Lore. ... , 429

Transportation and the Federal Government 335

Trap-Dike, The, of Southeastern Pennsylvania 279

Trias, New Jersey, Fossil Fish in 574

Trouessart, E. L 761

Turquoises 284

Universal Time 795

Vegetation, Influence of Direct Solar Heat on 139

Warner, A. G 787

Warring, C. B 122, 352

�� � [ 894 ] 874 INDEX.

• PAGE

"Weather, Extremes of, in the Past. . .. Til

Wealth, The Distribution of 721

Welch, J. C 335

Wells, David A 11, 153, 289, 444

Wells, James S. 0., Ph. D 393

Whelpley, H. M 842

Wilson, Dr. Andrew 666

Wind-Carving in Maine 860

Woods, and their Destructive Fungi 433, 604

" " " " " Note on 555

Yeo, Dr. J. Burney 63

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Abbott, Charles C 322

Abbott, Charles C, Sketch of 547

African People, A Curious 429

Africa, Southeastern, Prehistoric Monuments in 138

Age, The Scientific 814

Alcoholic Liquors, Trade Distinctions in 96

Alcoholism, Some Inherited Phenomena of 858

Allen, Grant 101, 590

Amianthus 860

Animal-Plants and Plant- Animals 678

Animals and Plants, The Life-Term of 430

Animals, The Voices of 396

Anthropomorphism, Fetichism, or 514

Antiquity of Speaking Man 855

Arago, M., Sketch of 259

Argument, A Wonderful 412

Arrow-Eelease, Methods of 568

Arsenic in Wall-Papers 135

Asafoetida 716

Associations, The British and French 124

Association, The French 135

Astronomy, Solar, Recent Advances in 24

Astronomy with an Opera-Glass 743

Atlantic Ocean, Geology of 41, 184

Attention and Yolition, the Physiology of 227

Bacterial Products as Antidotes for 280

Becker, James T 841

Beetles as a Nuisance 409

Beetle, The Carpet- -. 856

Beetle, The Mexican Luminous 863

Benedict, Professor W. Ft 51, 212

Bird-Migration 803

Birds and their Daily Bread 600

Birds, the Giant, of New Zealand 660

Birds, The Wings of 240

Blind, Visions of the 281

Books noticed :

" Aristocracy in England " (Badeau) 125

" Sallustius' Jugurtliine War " (Herbermann) 126

VOL. XXX. — 55

�� � [ 890 ] 866 INDEX.

Books noticed : page

" A History of Education " (Painter) 12G

" The Depression in Trade and the Wages of Labor " (Crocker) 127

" Astronomy by Observation " (Bowen) 127

" A Farmer's View of a Protective Tariff " (Griscom) 128

" The Eear-Guard of the Revolution " (Kirke) 128

" Insects affecting the Orange " (Hubbard) 129

" Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club " (Transactions) 129

" Archivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro " 129

" Conference Faite au Museum National " (ISTetto) 129

" Lorenz-Alma Tadema " (Ebers) 130

" Lettre a Monsieur Ernest Renan " (Xetto) 130

" Kidnapped " (Stevenson) 130

" Report of the United States Entomological Commission " (Riley) 180

" The Mystery of Pain " (Hinton) 180

" Volcanic Eruptions and Earthquakes in Iceland " (Boehmer) 131

" Cassell's National Library " (Morley) 131

" Historical Society of Southern California " 181

" A Study of Primitive Christianity " (Janes) 132

" First Lessons in Zoology " (Packard) 133

Letters and Journal of "W. Stanley Jevons " (Jevons) 269

" Origin of Republican Government of the United States " (Straus). . . 270

" Paralyses " (Bastian) 271

" The Butterflies of the Eastern United States " (French) 271

"The Industrial Situation and the Question of "Wages" (Schoenhof). . . 272 " Architecture, Heating, and Ventilation of Institutions for the Blind"

(McElroy) 272

" Selections for Written Reproduction " (Shaw) 273

" United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries " 273

" Report of the United States Entomological Commission" (Riley) 273

" Duffy's Wave-Motor as a Source of Power " (Duffy) 274

" The American Journal of Biology " (Valin) 274

" Mechanics of the Girder " (Crehore) 274

"Bulletin of the United States Geological Survey " 274

" Prophylaxis against Infectious Diseases " (Sternberg) 275

" The Relation of Hospitals to Medical Education " (Withington) 275

" The Journal of Physiology " (Foster) 275

" Report of the Forest Commission of New York " 275

" Report of the United States Entomologist for 1885" (Riley) 276

" Report of the American Historical Association " (Adams) 277

" The Grammar-School Reader " 278

" The Hygiene of Nature " (Curtiss) 278

" Easy Lessons in French " (Dreyspring) 278

" The Three Systems of Life Insurance " (Tabor) 278

" A Directory of Authors " (Griswold) 279

" A New Philosophy of the Sun" (Rogers) 279

" A Navajo Skull " (Turner) 279

" Osteology of Conurus CaroliniensLs " (Shufeldt) 279

" Johns Hopkins University Studies " 414

" Numbers Applied " (Rickoff) 415

'• The Irish Question " (Gladstone) 415

�� � [ 891 ] INDEX. 867

Books noticed : p^gg

" The Life of Robert Fulton " 416

" General Biology " (Sedgwick) 416

" The Menorah. A Monthly Magazine " (Peixotto) 416

" The Philosophy of Education " (Rosenkranz) 417

'• Topographical Drawing and Sketcliing " (Reed) 417

" Report of the Commissioners of Fisheries of the State of New York " 418

" The Age of Electricity " (Benjamin) 418

" Elements of Geodesy " (Gore) 419

" History of the Land Question in the United States " (Sato) 419

" The American Citizen's Manual " (Ford) ... 419

" History of the Appointing Power of the President " (Salmon) 420

" First Steps in Scientific Knowledge " (Bert) 420

" Report upon the Third International Geographical Congress "(Wheeler) 421

" Sechrist's Hand-Book and Railway Equipment " (Sechrist) 421

" Brachiopoda and Lamellibranchiata of the Raritan Clays," etc.

(Whitfield) 421

" Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research " 422

" History of the Pacific States of Xorth America " (Bancroft) 558

" A Treatise on the Practice of Medicine " (Bartholow) 559

" Studies in Ancient History " (McLennan) 560

" Entertainments in Chemistry " (Tyler) 560

" N. "W. Ayer and Son's American Newspaper Annual " 560

" The Theory and Practice of Surveying " (Johuson) 561

" The Town and City Government of New Haven " (Levermore) 562

" House-Plants as Sanitary Agents" (Anders) 562

" Geological Survey of Alabama " (Smith) 563

" Report of the United States National Museum " 563

" Analysis of the Urine " (Hof mann and Ultzmann) 564

" Oils and Varnishes " (Cameron) 564

" Through a Microscope " (Wells, Treat, and Sargent) 564

" The Luminiferous ^ther " (Wood) 565

" Hand-Book of Mineralogy " (Foye) 565

" Flow of Water in Open Channels, Pipes," etc. (Flynn) 565

"Theory of the Construction of Helicoidal Oblique Arches" (Culley). . 565

" The Making of Pictures " (Whitman) 568

"Lectures and Essays by the late William Kingdon Clifford" (Stevens

and Pollock) 566

" Theory of Magnetic Measurements " (Nipher) 567

" The First Three Tears of Childhood " (Perez) 702

" Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates " (Wiedersheim and Parker). . . 703

" Precious Stones " (Burnam) - 704

" Mind " 704

" Hand-Book of Zoology " (Dawson) 705

" Elementary Course in Practical Zoology " (Colton) 705

" Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology " 706

" The Earth's Annular System, or the Story of the Rocks" (Vail) 707

" Diseases of the Digestive Organs in Infancy and Childhood " (Starr) . 707

" History of the French Revolution " (Stephens) 707

" The Pedigree of Disease " (Hutchinson) 708

" Outlines of Lectures on Physiology " (Mills) 708

�� � [ 892 ] 868 INDEX.

Books noticed : page

" Elementary Politics " (Ealeigh) 708

" How to strengthen the Memory " (Holbrook) Y09

" Hygiene of the Vocal Organs " (Mackenzie) 709

" Ten Dollars Enough" (Owen) 709

" Hand-Book of Hygiene and Sanitary Science " (Wilson) 709

" Students' Hand-Book of Historical Geology " (Jukes-Browne) 710

" The Buchholz Family " (Stinde) 710

« Manual of Lithology " (Williams) 710

" Mineral Springs of the United States " (Peale) 711

"Geographical and Geological Distribution of Animals" (Heilprin).. . . 845

" Physiological Botany " (Youmans) 846

« The Origin of the Fittest" (Cope) 847

" Our Arctic Province" (Elliott) 848

" Nomenclature of Colors, etc." (Ridgway) 849

"A Trip around the World" 849

" Commercial Organic Analysis " (Allen) 849

" The Swiss Cross " (Ballard) 850

" Ham-Mishkan, the Wonderful Tent " (Randall) 851

• ' Geological History of Lake Lahontan " (Russell) 851

" The Conflict of East and West in Egypt " (Bowen) 852

" The Poison Problem " (Oswald) -. 852

" The Old Order changes " (Mallock). . . 853

Book- Worms, and their Food 429

Bradley, W. E 96

Brain-forcing in Childhood 721

Brain-volume and Intelligence 717

Bridge, Captain Cyprian 199

British Health Resorts 861

Brocken, The, and its Mist-Effects 426

Bunce, Oliver B 507

Burroughs, John 145

Cambodia, A Scientific Mission to 310

Canadian Northwest, The Mounds of 574

Cappie, J 227

Carlisle, The Bishop of 384

Centenarians, The Habits and Family History of 618

Chapin, Henry Dwight, M. D 757

Charleston Earthquakes, The Cause of the 281

Charity, Undiscriminating Evils of 286

Chevreul at a Hundred 33

Childhood, Brain-forcing in 721

Children's Studies, The Order of 138

Civil-Service System, A Nearly Perfect 573

Climate, The Canadian 856

Clocks, Celebrated 640

Consumption, The Hygienic Treatment of V9

Cooke, Professor Josiah Parsons 195

Correction, A 713

Correspondence 409, 554, 841

�� � [ 893 ] INDEX. 869

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Crandon, Frank P 296, 520

Crazy Mountaias, Views of Life in the 539

Crothers, T. D 109

Dabotas, The, and their Holy Stones 137

Dawson, Sir William 41, 184

Death-Eate, English, Decrease of 427

Deer, Acclimatization of 286

Defense, Evolution of Means of 285

Delusion, The History of a 733

Diamond-Mines, The South African 459

Disappearance of an Island , 719

Disinfection, Infection and 764

Earthquakes, The Theory of 857

Earthquake, The Recent 123

Editor's Table , 121, 267, 410, 555, 698, 842

Education, Heredity and 284

Education, Some Outlines from the History of 51, 212

Egypt, Petroleum in 857

Europe, Mineral Springs of 570

Evermann, Barton W 803

Evil, Prophets of. 555

Explosion, A Remarkable 810

Explosions, Coal-Mine Gas, and the Weather 718

Families, Maternal. 141

Fernald, Frederik A 378

Fetichisra or Anthropomorphism. 514

Flower, Professor W. H 240

Fruit-Evaporator, A, for the Public 862

Fulgurites, or Lightning-Holes 529

Functions of the State 699

Gas-Light, A New Incandescent 425

Genius and Mental Disease 663

Geography, The Place of, in Schools 142

Geologic Time, Mr. Darwin on 281

Geyern, Detlev von 396

Glacial Action in East Africa 718

Glacial Drift, An Inventory of 282

Glass-Snake, The 854

Great Cities, Misgovernment of 296, 520

Gi'eat Men, Longevity of 286

Griffin, Professor L. R. F 810

Grotto, The Blue, of Busi 861

Habit, The Laws of 433

Hale, Horatio 660

Hall, Dr. L. M 612

Hammond, William A., M. D 721, 841

Handwriting, Composite Photography of. 140

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ITarvard College, The New Eequisitions for Admission at 195

Hatch, E. D. W f 539

Health, Public, The State and 280

Health Eesorts, British 861

Heredity and Education 284

Holden, Edward S., Sketch of. 114

Hound, The, of the Plains 360

Houses, Our, How to warm 235

Humphry, Professor CIS

Huxley, Professor T. H 493, 789

Indian Craniology, A Note on 409

IndustriaUsm, The Growth of 843

Inebriates, Regimen for 136

Inequality, Social and Physiological 757

Infants, Milk for 137

Infection and Disinfection 764

Ingersoll, Ernest 360

Inventions, How evolved 139

Island, an. Disappearance of 719

Isochromatic Photography 868

Jade Ornaments in America 715

James, J. F 70

James, "William 433

Joint-Snake, More about the 841

Joint-Snake, An Explanation of the 841

Joint-Snake, The, Idiocy 554

Kingsley, J. S 631

Land Question, Some Points on the 507

Land- Waves 571

Languages, The Origin of. 712

Larrabee, W. H 33

Laterite and its Odors 71 9

Law-Codes, The Inconveniences of 862

Lesquereux, Leo, Sketch of 835

Lewis, Rev. A. H., D. D 11

Lightning-Holej5, Fulgurites or 529

Lilly, W. S 474

Linton, Mrs. E. Lynn 168

Literary Notices 125, 269, 414, 558, 702, 845

Lubbock, Sir John 327

McBride, Professor T. H 180

McCabe, L. R 835

Maniacs, Inebriate, 109

Manners, Lady John • 543

Manual Instruction 327

Marshall, William 600

Massage 543

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Materialism and Morality 474

Mathematics and Meteorology, Stanley Jevons on 715

Mather, Frederick G 640

Maurel, M 310

Measuring the Earth's Surface 242

Meerschaum 8G2

Melody in Speech 778

Merrill, George P 529

Metchnikoff, Leon C5

Meteorology, Mathematics, and, Stanley Jevons on 715

Mills, T. Wesley, M. D 651

Mines, the Lake Superior, Increase of Temperature in 573

Monkeys, A Legend of, and Stones 715

Monkeys, The Mental Faculties of 17

Morality, Materialism and 474

Morals, Science and 493

Morgan, Applet on 577

Mountains, The Rocky 571

Mouse, The "White-footed 322

Naturalist, How a, is trained 631

Xature, The Experimental Study of 372

Newberry, Professor J. S 1

New Zealand, The Giant Birds of GOO

North America in the Ice Period 1

North America, The Hickory-Nuts of 70

Notes 142, 287, 430, 575, 719, 863

Novels, Scientific 424

Ocean, Surface-Currents of 137

Ornithorhyncus, The 858

Oscillations of Italian Soil 716

Oswald, Felix L 162

Overstrain, Cardiac 427

Paradoxes, Australian 425

Parrot-Stories 574

Pavy, F. W 372

Pellew, George 514

Petroleum in Egypt 857

Pfuhl, Dr 678

Philipott, Henry J 554

Photography, Isochromatic 863

Physical Functions, Balance among the 424

Physical Geography, Professorships of 134

Physiology, The true Aim of, 821

Plant-Cells, Energy in 180

Plant-Food, The Future of the Supply of 284

Plants, The Protection of Rare Species of 717

Political Economy, The Future of 425

Poor, the. What makes, Poorer 289

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Popular Miscellanv 134, 280, 423, 5G8, 712, 854

Precious Stones, Artificial 424

Prejevalski, Nicholas, Sketch of 402

Prayer, Professor W 821

Psychology, Sully's Iland-Book of. 256

Psychology, Comparative 651

Quirigua, The Ruins of 856

Railroads, Are, Public Enemies ? 577

Races, The Intermingling of 336

Read, Carveth 256

Reade, John 336

Realism, Scientific and Pseudo-Scientific 789

Religious Education, Science in 351, 451

Rice, How cleaned and polished 427

Richardson, Benjamin Ward 79

Rich, the. What makes, Richer 289

River, A, made a Nuisance 860

Robarts, L. W 829

Robbins, E. Y 235

Roose, Robson, M. D 764

Royer, Madame Clemence 17

Sandwort. A Mount Washington 590

Sansone, Francesco 242

School Life and Health 714

Science and Morals 493

Science and Statesmanship 842

Science and Theology 145

Scientific, The, Age 814

Seasoning Timber 714

Serviss, Garrett P 743

Sesostris 140

Shufeldt, R. W 409

Siemens, Dr. Werner 814

Signals, Marine 283

Skepticism, Political 410

Smith, John B 409

Society, The Racket of 426

Sociology, Comte and Spencer on 65

Soil, Italian, Oscillations of 716

South Africa, A Strange Sight in 557

South-Sea Islands, Life in the 199

Speech, On Melody in 778

Spring, The Stars of 743

State, The, Functions of. 699

Stature, Hereditary 139

Stevenson, William G., M. D 663

Sumner, William G 289

Sunday, Legislation, Origin, and Results of 11

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��Superstition, Rustic 832

Superstitions, Zoological 162

Survival, An Unhappy , 121

Taxidermy, A Boy's Lesson in , 423

Thistles 101

Thompson, Daniel G 351,451

Timber, Seasoning 714

Turpentine-Farming 829

Valbert, M. G 733

Vinegar and its Mother 378

Volcanic Eruption, The, in New Zealand 428

Wall-Paper?, Arsenic in I35

"Water-Color Drawings, Durability of 283

Water Colors, the Preservation of 569

Water, How, becomes Oxygenized 138

Water, Potable 859

Water, Self-Purification of. 713

Weber, F 778

Week, The, of Seven Days 384

Wells, Barometric 716

Wells, Low Water in, and Typhoid Fever 134

Wiggins, The Lesson of 267

Winlock, W. C 114

Woman, The Higher Education of 168

Women, Higher Education of, and the Family 612

Workingmen's Co-operative Organizations 569

Youmans, Edward L., Sketch of 688

Youmans, Eliza A 688

Youmans, Professor, Death of 698

Young, Professor C. A. 24

Yucatan, Dr. Le Plongeon's Researches in 572

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