INDEX. 



649 



Pottery and stone implements, 2S3, 286. 



Pouillet, Mr., 16. 



Pound nets in Lake Erie, 409. 



Powalky,Mr.,20. 



Powell & Lealand, Messrs., cxxxviii., 



cxlv., cxlviii.,18S. 

 Major, cv., cxxiii., cxxvi., clxv., 



2S6, 2S9, 29S, 326. 

 Powers, Mr. Stephen, cxxvi., clii., clxiv. 

 Pozzi, Dr. Samuel, clxxi. 

 Precipitation of metals by zinc, 207. 

 Prehistoric remains, 271. 



near Schaffhausen, 

 327. 

 researches, cli. 

 Preparation of absolute alcohol, 533. 

 of carbonated water, 447. 

 of ebonite, 543. 

 of good vinegar, 447. 

 Preservation of fruit, 391. 

 Preserving eggs, 456. 



meat, etc., by acetate of am- 

 monia, 446. 

 Prestel, Mr., 80. 

 Prettner, Mr. J., xlii. 

 Preventing boiler incrustation, 4S7. 

 Prevost, Mr., lxxxv. 

 Price of gas, 442. 

 Prime numbers, 4. 

 Principle of energy, 5. 

 Pringsheim, Prof.,"ccxvii. 

 Printing color, new black, 52S. 

 Pritchard, Rev. C, xxii. 

 Pritchett, Mr. C. W., xxii. 

 Priwoznick, Mr., 228. 

 Prizes for American fish, French, 426. 



piscicultural, 425. 

 Problems in anthropology, clxx. 

 Proctor Mr. 21. 



Prout & Middle'ditch, Messrs., 396. 

 Prunieres, Dr., clix., 332. 

 Psychical anthropology, clxxii.^ 

 Publications on zoology, clxxvii. 

 Puddling iron, 462. 



mechanical, cclxi. 

 Pueblo Indians of Taos, 328. 

 Puiseux, Mr., xxv. 



Pulmonary disease, curability of, 556. 

 Pumpelly"& Schmidt, Messrs., ciii. 

 Purification of hydrocarbons, 526.' 

 Pnschl, Mr., 154. 



Putnam, Mr. F. W., clxxxviii., 295, 313, 

 327, 5S9. 



Mr. J. D., 249. 

 Putty, removal of dry, 450. 

 Pyrethrum carnenm and roseum, 379. 

 Pyrite of the Blue Ridge, 210. 

 Pyroleter, the, 482. 

 Pyrometer, electrical, 191. 



reliability of Siemens', 153. 

 Pyrophone, the, 179. 



Q- 



Quatrefages and Hamy, Messrs., 333. 



Mr., clxviii. 

 Qneckett Microscopical Club, cxxxv. 

 Qnetelet, Prof., xxxviii. 

 Quito Observatory, xxi. 



R. 

 Race of people discovered in India, a 



strange, 323. 

 Races, abilitv of different, 321. 

 Radde,Mr.,3S5. 



Ee 



Radiation, increase of, with temperature, 

 119. 

 solar, 14, 15. 

 Radiometer of Crookes, 137. 

 Railroad accidents, ccxlii. 

 elevated, ccxli. 

 foreign, ccxl. 

 statistics, ccxl. 

 Railroads, ccxxxvii. 

 Railway system, underground, ccxli. 

 Railways, consumption of wood by, 473. 

 Raimoni, Prof., 3S2. 

 Rain, hourly distribution of, 114. 

 Rainfall and solar spots, 79. 



periodicity of, 87. 

 Ramsay, Mr., lxxxix., ex. 

 Ramsay's bleaching bath, eclxxxii. 

 Ranyard, Mr., xxviii. 

 Raoult, Mr., lxxxvi., eclxxxv. 

 Raritan Bay and Delaware River, differ- 

 ence of level in, 253. 

 Rathelot, Mr., 579. 

 Rau, Dr. Charles, clxiii. 

 Rautert, Mr., xc. 

 Rawlinson, Canon, clvi. 

 Rawson, Governor, 87. 

 Rayet, Mr., lxiv. 

 Rayleigh, Lord, 122, 132. 

 Raymond, Capt. C. W., 57. 

 Red us, Mr. Elise'e, clxxii. 

 Record of publications in geology, etc., 



587. 

 Red chalk and red clay, origin of, 243. 



color of alcoholic preparations, re- 

 storing, 312. 

 marking-ink, 518. 

 snow-plant, ccxii. 

 Redard, Mr., 251. 

 Redding, Mr. P. B., 431. 

 Red fern, Prof., 306. 

 Redfield, Mr., xl., 372. 

 Redier, Mr., 84. 

 Redier's barometer, 111. 

 Redner, Dr., clxxii. 

 Reed, Mr. Edwin, clxx. 

 Reeder, Mr. H. J., 413. 

 Rees, Prof. Max, ccxii. 

 Reess & Will, Messrs., 37S. 

 Reflection of light, 146, 

 of sound, 12S. 

 of thin films, 191. 

 Reflex-illuminator, Wenham's, exxxvi. 

 Refractometer, Abbe's, 136. 

 Refrigerators, improved, 451. 

 Regnault, Mr., xxxvii. 

 Reichardt, Mr., lxxxvi., 544. 

 Reicheuau, Dr., 316. 



Reindeer period, representations of ani- 

 mals from the, 335. 

 Reinke, Mr., cexv. 

 Reiss, Dr., civ. 

 Reliquiae Aquitanic?e, clvii. 

 Remedies against phylloxera, 3SS. 

 Removal of dry putty, 450. 



of nitric acid stains, 525. 

 Renard, Mr., lxxxiv. 

 Reuaud, Mr., 427. 

 Renou, Mr., 85, 115. 

 Renouf, Mr., 61. 

 Report, Major Powell's final, 29S. 



of the American Fish-CulturistS' 



Association, 412. 

 of the Connecticut Commissioners 

 of Fisheries, 406. 



