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politan Museum of Art's Technical School ; Decrease of Pine in 

 Michigan ; Power of Ventriloquism in Birds ; W. H. M. Christie 



appointed Royal Astronomer xx 430 



Proper Mode of studying Science ; Prizes for Essays on Means of as- 

 sisting the Sick and Wounded of Armies ; Age of Copper-beai-ing 

 Traps, Lake Superior ; Atomic Weight of Platinum ; Peabody Mu- 

 seum of American Archaeology; New Evidence of Roundness of 

 the Earth ; Keweenaw Point, Lake Superior ; Electrical Resist- 

 ance of Iron and Steel Wire ; Philadelphia Academy of Natural 

 Sciences ; Death of F. Curry ; Crime and Education ; Communica- 

 tion of Hydrophobia ; Statistics of Sickness in the Army ; Disinfec- 

 tion by Sulphurous Acid ; Catalogue of tbe Phenogamous and Vas- 

 cular Cryptogamous Plants of Indiana ; Prehistoric Canoe xx 574 



The Rodentia ; Visitors to tbe Natives on the Western Coast of North 

 America before 1720 ; New Imported Insect ; Vaccination among 

 the Cbinese ; Character of Iron-Ores of Marquette District, Lake 

 Superior ; Calomel in the Human System ; Geological Formations 

 of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania; Death of A. Gauthier; Pun- 

 ishment for Negligence in Use of Boiler ; Agricultural Statistics in 

 the United States; Graduation of Thermometers; Locust Plague 

 in the West; Death of Ami Bou6; Nickajack Cave; Medal to W. 

 K. Brooks; New Saurian; Production of Inductive Currents by 



Distant Lightning xx 719 



School-Tax in Charleston, South Carolina; Largest Trees known; 

 Death of Theodor Schwann ; Distribution of Birds in Nevada ; 

 Educational Legislation in England ; Requirements for Admission 

 to Medical Schools ; Tests for Sight; Death of Dr. C. G. A. Giebel ; 

 Death of J. Bouillaud ; Remarkable Change in Color of the Hair; 

 Death of M. Bussey ; Meaning of the Geologic Term " Laurentian " ; 

 Remains of Large Mosasauroid Reptile ; Death of II. von Schlagint- 

 weit; Coloring-Matter of Crayon-Pencils; Death of Karl Peters 

 and Karl Fortlaa:e ; Report on Museums of Technology, Science, 

 etc. ; Death of P. Manteucci ; First Discovery of Fossil Human Re- 

 mains in Brazil; Harmlessness of the Electric Light to the Eyes, xx 862 



Novelty, Lack of, in Most Things (Misc.) ii 380 



Nubian Race, Types of xvii 512 



Nuisances, Problem of Municipal. R. S. Tracy xviii 585 



Numerals, Origin of the (Misc.) viii 380 



Origin and Curiosities of tbe Arabic x 736 



Nursey, P. F. Glass, Tempered vii 554 



Nurture, Relative Powers of Nature and, as illustrated by Twins. Francis 



Galton viii 345 



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Oak-Treee, Legend of the Devil and the (Misc.) xiii 507 



Oaths, Ordeals and. E. B. Tylor ix 307 



Obesity, Reduction of (Misc.) viii 255 



Observation in Education (Ed. Tab.) ii 371 



Observatories, Astronomical and Physical ii 365 



The English vi 530 



