INDEX. 



A. 



Ai5i5E,Mr.,25. 



Abbott, General H. L., 605. 



Abbot, Mr., ISO. 



Abel, Professor, 89. 



Abietine, a new hydrocarbon, 92. 



Abraham, Mr., 150. 



Abyssinian gold, 497. 



Academy of Sciences, National, 604, 606. 



St. Louis, 612. 

 Acari, muscular fibre in, 278. 

 Acetic acid against eczema, 5S9. 

 Achatinellas, Sandwich Island, 271. 

 Acherontia atropos, 266. 

 Achras sapota, 98. 

 Acid and zinc, 498. 

 Adams, Mr., 243. 

 Adler, Professor, 160. 

 Adulterations in ground coffee, 460. 

 Aeby, Carl, 295. 

 yEpyornis, 213. 



Aerolites, fall of, in Hungary, 22. 

 African Congo expedition, 196. 

 Africa, explorations in, 162. 



Rohlf 's travels in, 212. 

 Agaricus, 112. 

 Agassiz, Mrs., 204. 



Professor, 123, 124, 130, 131, 204, 

 207, 210, 214, 215, 259, 261, 309, 312, 

 006. 

 Agricultural Department on cattle dis- 

 eases, 3S1. 

 Society of Massachusetts' 

 prizes for fish-culture, 406. 

 Agricultural Society of New York, 373. 

 Agriculture and Rural Economy, 357. 

 Ailuropus, 318. 

 Air currents, upper, 49. 

 Airy, Prof. G. B., 34, 39, 77, 617. 

 Alabama fish commissioners, 406. 



shad in, 427. 

 Alaska and British possessions, boundary 



of, 185. 

 Alaska, fossil elephant in, 333. 



spawning of cod-fish in, 436. 

 Albany fish-culturists' association, 400. 



observatory of, 7. 

 Albertite and Grahamite, asphaltic min- 

 erals, 131. 

 Albumen and aniline black, 512. 



development of fibrine from, 2S1. 

 of eggs, composition of, 99. 

 Albuminous food for ruminants, 394. 

 Alcaloids of opium, 552. 

 Alcohol, anhydrous, SS. 



elimination from the system, 554. 

 in water, detection of, 103. 

 physicians against, 553. 

 reactions of, 87. 

 Alcoholic fermentation, 111. 



products of distillation, 103. 



Aldehydes and phenols for colors, 93. 



Alderson, Sir J., 579. 



Aletornis, 306. 



Algae of Rhode Island, 342. 



Alga in the stem of a dicotyledonous 



plant, 342. 

 Algeria, glaciers in, 124. 

 Alleghany observatorv, object-glass of, 



612. 

 Allen, Mr. J. A., 320, 321. 

 Alloy, a new, 44. 



Alpaca, dyeing with iodine green, 510. 

 Alpine species of plants in Brazil, 157. 

 Altman, Captain, 171. 

 Alum in bread, test for, 462. 

 Ambert, Mr. Gustave, 147. 

 America, archaeology in, 329. 



prehistoric man of, 295. 

 salmon flv-tishing on its north- 

 west coast, 262. 

 American and French fisheries, 398. 



Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, Dubuque 

 meeting of, 607. 



birds in Europe, 247. 



birds, work on, 310. 



butterflies, Edwards's work on, 

 267. 



fossil vertebrates, new, 305. 



Health Association, 578. 



Indians use the boomerang, 235. 



journal of conchology, 611. 



lobster, 269. 



mastodon, new, 242. 



medical books, 617. 



Naturalist, 609. 



Oriental Society, 305. 



ornithology, 311. 



oysters in England, 270. 



Palestine Exploration Society, 

 160, 177. 



Philological Society, 609. 



plants, list of new species de- 

 scribed in 1872, 355. 



serpents, 254, 334. 



sterling, 544. 



whale-lishery in 1871, 437. 

 Amherst College, observatory of, 7. 

 Ammodytes americanus, 426. 

 Ammonia and nickel, 538. 



and snake-poison, 5S5. 



for washing wool, 471. 



from the atmosphere extracted 

 by humus, 344. 



in making preserves, 454. 



synthesis of, 113. 



water for starch, 472. 



and copper, 501. 

 A moor River, nephrite axe found in, 229. 

 Anaesthesia from chloroform and mor- 

 phine, 556. 

 Anaesthetics in butchering, 455. 



