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INDEX. 



Ancient manuscripts, 516. 



musical instruments in China, 202. 

 wells near Ashill, England, 330. 

 Anderson, M John, cxxviii. 

 Mr. A. A., 413. . 

 An dree, Dr. Karl T., 591. 

 Andrews, Mr., cv. 



Prof., 125, 176. 

 Anemometers, accuracy of, 10S. 

 Anemoscope, new, 87. 

 Angstrom, Mr., 134. 

 Prof., 26. 

 Aniline colors and infusorial earth, 529. 



fabrication, cclxxxviii. 

 Animal incrustation on the "Great East- 

 ern," 432. 

 physiology, ccxxiii. 

 remains in the lignite of the Sas- 

 katchewan district, 311. 

 Animals among the ancients, domesticat- 

 ed, 352. 

 and plants, rapid development 



of introduced, 306. 

 in Rodriguez, extinct, 353. 

 living, corresponding to those of 

 prehistoric ages, 30S. 

 Anthropological journals, clxxv. 



society, German, clxi. 

 Antifouling composition, Jesty's, 478. 

 Antiquity of human remains, 331. 



of the caverns of the Ohio Val- 

 ley, 309. 

 Antiseptic effects of salicylic acid, 530. 

 Appalachians, age of rocks in the, 236. 

 Apparatiue, cclxxxvi. 

 Apparatus and objectives, microscopic, 

 cxxxiv. 

 for recording signals automat- 

 ically, 470. 

 Aquaria, change of water in, 426. 

 Aquarium, new, at Yarmouth, 440. 

 new Westminster, 422. 

 Archaeological Association of Indiana, cliii. 

 collection from Costa Rica, 

 325. 

 Archeology of the Mammoth Cave, 327. 

 Arctic Regions, the, cxix. 



fisheries of, 439. 

 magu etic disturbances and 

 auroras of, 95. 

 Areas of cold air, movement of, S5. 



of irregular figures, 33. 

 Areschoug, Prof. J. E., ccxvii. 

 Argelander, Mr., 60. 



Prof. W. A., 591. 

 Armstrong, Mr., lxxxiv. 

 Army Signal-office, xli. 

 Arrow in a human tibia, 355. 

 Arsenic in tissues, detection of, 559. 

 Articulata, mineral substances in, 350. 

 Artificial caoutchouc, 542. 

 vanilla, 217, 457. 

 Arzberger and Zulkowski, Messrs., xlvii. 

 Ascherson, Mr., 363. 

 Asclepias syriaca, 542. 

 Ascomyces pruni, ccxiii. 

 Ash-showers in Norway, 93. 

 Asia, clxiii., clxviii. 

 Asparagus in France, 394. 

 Aspidium acrostichoides, 37S. 

 Assayiug iron, new method of, 209. 

 Asteroids, new, xxvi. 

 Astrouomical observations, ancient Egyp- 

 tian, 61. 



Astronomical Society, International, 5S9. 

 Society, Royal, 7. 

 work at Cordoba, 34. 

 Astronomy, xx. 



among the Chaldoeans, xxii. 

 in Brazil, 579. 

 in China, 580. 

 Atkins, Mr. Chas. G., 412, 421, 432, 53S. 

 Atkinson, Mr. W. R., 272. 

 Atlantic? do storms cross the, 112. 

 Atmosphere, aqueous vapor in, 87. 

 constitution of, xxxvii. 

 of Venus, 19. 

 Atmospheric dust in Norway, 241. 

 electricity, 97. 

 electricity in Spitzbergen, 



157. 

 pressure on the joints of the 



human body, 314. 

 pressure, winds, etc., 89. 

 Attar of roses, ccxix. 

 Attraction and repulsion from radiation, 



119, 173. 

 Atwater, Prof., ccxxi. 

 Aughey, Prof. Samuel, 362. 

 Aurora and ground-currents, 27. 



Borealis, electric discharges of, 

 50. 

 spectrum of, 26. 

 Auroral phenomena, 26. 

 Auroras and terrestrial magnetism, xxxiv. 



geographical distribution of, 26. 

 Austin, Mr., 350, 40S. 



Australia and China, new route between, 

 254. 

 and Polynesia, cxxxii. 

 English trout in, 307. 

 Forrest's exploration, 257. 

 Australian method for cooling water, 



455. 

 Austrian plan for supplying agricultural 



text-books, 3S0. 

 Automatic recording of signals, 470. 

 Auwers, Mr., 41. 



B. 



Babcock, Mr. H. H., 37S, 574. 

 Babirussa, 334. 

 Bach, Mr., lxxx. 

 Bache, Prof.,181. 

 Backlund, Dr., 44. 

 Bacteria, cxlviii. 



and putrefactive disease, 566. 

 Baeyer, Mr., lxxxvii, 229. 

 Bagley, Governor John J., 407. 

 Bailey, Prof., cli., 74, 350. 

 Baird, Prof. S. F., 412, 413. 

 Baker, Mr., ccxix. 



Mr. Frederick, cxxxi. 



Mr. J. G., 371. 

 Balance-spring, isochronism of, 171. 

 Baldwin, Dr., 117. 

 Mr., civ. 

 Balfour, Mr., cxcix. 

 Ballet, Mr. J., cliv. 

 Balloon observations of M. Glaisher, 2. 



voyage from Buffalo to New Jer- 

 sey, 472. 

 "Zenith," disastrous trip of, 472. 

 Ballooning, scientific, 500. 

 Balloonists, scientific, 577. 

 Bancroft, Mr. Hubert Howe, clxv. 

 Bancroft's Native Races, civ. 

 Barber, Lieut., 49S. 



