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SANITARY SCIENCE. 



Water : Pollution of, 572 ; Purity in Upper Hudson, 593. Sewage : Pol- 

 lution of Water, 572 ; Effect of Drainage and Sewerage on Mortality in Cal- 

 cutta, 575 ; Utilizing Liquid Sewage, 574 ; Lieurnur System, 583 ; Milan 

 System, 57G ; Scott Method, 577 ; Disposal of, 583 ; Sewage Committee of 

 Birmingham, 575 ; Preventing Noxious Decomposition of, 576. 



Antiseptics, Disinfectants, and Deodorizers : Destruction of Infected 

 Germs in Cotton, 569 : Comparative Value of, 570 : Chromic Acid, 571 ; 

 Chloralum, 571 ; Protoxide of Hydrogen, 572 ; Iodine, 572 ; Theory of Dis- 

 infecting Powders, 572 ; Hydrate of Chloral, 570 ; Dry Earth, 573 ; Use of 

 Antiseptics, 580. Poisons and Antidotes : Mould in Cellars, 363. See 

 under Diseases and their Remedies. 



Associations and Institutions : Brown Institution for Sick Animals, 

 567, 568 ; Massachusetts Board of Health, 554 ; American Health Associa- 

 tion, 575. 



Miscellaneous : Climate of Mountains, 558 ; Cutaneous Absorption, 581 ; 

 Effect of Superoxygenated Atmosphere on Animals, 587 ; Effect of Bathing 

 on Weight of Body, 588 ; on Heat of Body, 594 ; Physiology of Sleep, 595. 



O. MISCELLANEOUS 597 



Institutions. A merica : New Building of Philadelphia Academy of Nat- 

 ural Sciences, 603. National Academy of Science : Washington Meeting, 

 604 ; Cambridge Meeting, 606 ; Twenty-first Meeting of American Associa- 

 tion, 607. Peabody Museum, Cambridge, 608 ; Peabody Academy of Sci- 

 ence, 608. 



Europe: Second Report of Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction 

 m Great Britain, 600 ; College of Physical Science in Birmingham, 600 ; 

 Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 597 ; Operations of British 

 Museum in 1871, 602 ; Appropriation for, 603 ; Report of Council of Brit- 

 ish Association, 597; Report of Zoological Society of London, 1871, 601 ; 

 Damage to the Jardin des Plantes by Bombardment, 601 ; New Buildings 

 for, 597. 



Individuals : Statue to Sir Humphrey Davy, 597 ; Memorial Hall to 

 George Stephenson, 597. 



General : Neglect of Chemical Studies in Great Britain, 599 ; Penny 

 Lectures in Great Britain, 602 ; Relation of European Nations to Scientific 

 Progress, 602. 



P. NECROLOGY 619 



N. INDEX TO THE REFERENCES 624 



ALPHABETICAL INDEX , 629 



