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lius Robert Mayer ; the Colorado Potato-Beetle in New Zealand ; 

 Growing Mushrooms in a Ooal-Pit ; De Lesseps Panama Canal ; 

 Theodor Schwann ; Pneumatic Clocks in Paris; Effect of Different 

 Gases on Eggs of Silk-Worm ; Ventilating a Eoom without Draft; 

 Waste Pyrites on Roads ; Temperature of the Head xiii 255 



Meeting of the American Association, 1878 ; British Association Meet- 

 ing, 1878; Summer Study at Cincinnati Observatory; French As- 

 sociation Meeting, 1878 ; Death of Dr. C. Pickering ; Forms of 

 Address; Hell-Fire Controversy; Botanical Specimens for Berlin 

 Public Schools ; Johns Hopkins Summer School of Zoology ; Anom- 

 alies in our System of Weights and Measures; Effect of breathing 

 Carbonic Acid ; Japanese Copper ; Whitebait in New York Bay ; 

 French Support of their Museums; Liquor Statistics in Great 

 Britain xiii 383 



Sailing of the Schwatka Expedition ; Rediscovery of the Fungus 

 Sphoeria; the Chinch-Bug; " Calaveras Skull"; New Fibrous Plant 

 for Paper-making ; Indo-Germanic Grammars; Appointment of Dr. 

 Brown-Sequard to the Chair of Physiology, College of France ; 

 Temperature at which Bacteria are killed ; Death of Professor 

 Wolfers and Rev. R. Main ; South American Earthquake, 1877 ; 

 Ensilage ; Statue to Bruno xiii 511 



Industrial Drawing at Cornell ; Remains of a Mastodon in Indiana ; 

 Meeting of German Association of Naturalists and Physicians, 

 1878; Death of W. M. Gabb; Death of C. Rokitansky ; Death 

 of Sir George Back ; Insects injurious to the Cotton-Plant ; Influ- 

 ence of Light on Cement xiii 640 



Fish and Fowl poisoned by Paris-Green ; Jupiter; New Crater on the 

 Moon's Surface ; Education of Girls; Cremation Society in Indi- 

 ana; Social Customs of Japan; Geology and Theology; Recur- 

 rence of Maxima of Sun-Spots; Wild Camels in Russia; Industrial 

 Uses of Sawdust ; Male and Female Infants in Montenegro ; Nail- 

 ers' Consumption; Bell Telephone in England; Man with Six 

 Fingers xiii 767 



Meeting of the American Association, 1879; Death of E. Quetelet; 

 New Fossil ; Machine for indicating Areas ; Death of Gustav Wallis ; 

 Characteristics of Good Petroleum ; Election of Darwin to the Paris 

 Academy of Sciences; Work of American Microscopical Congress; 

 Possibilities of the Microphone; Sugar in Beet-Roots ; Seizure of 

 Murray's Book on France ; Heat-Value of Fuel ; Importation of 

 Ivory into England; Hop-Stems for Textile Use; Horseshoeing; 

 New Volcano xiv 127 



Sixth Meeting of American Public Health Association ; Railroad 

 across Newfoundland ; Voyage to the South Pacific ; Recovery of 

 the Lost Art of tempering Copper; Agricultural Schools in India; 

 Domestication of Native Java Honey-Bee ; Death of Sir R. J. Grif- 

 fith ; Educational Statistics in the United States ; Professor Fis- 

 cher's Death; Electric Light at Sea; Causes of Color-Blindness; The 

 War of the Mineral Waters; Examination of Mineral Resources of 

 Northern China; Publication of Bruno's Works xiv 255 



Medal to E. R. Andrews ; Death of Thomas Belt ; Elements of Com- 

 pound Bodies; Copper in Pennsylvania; Pulling a Monkey's 



