INDEX. 871 



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Metric Standards, New. (Misc.) 855 



Miles, Manly. Progress in Agricultural Science* 491 



Mississippi, Storage Keservoirs for the. (Misc.) 856 



Mitchell, Elisha, Sketch of. (With Portrait) 398 



Mitchill, Samuel L., Sketch of. (With Portrait) G91 



Mendenhall, T. C. The Kelations of Men of Science to the General Public. . 19 



Montezuma's Head-dress. (Misc.) 568 



Morality, A Doubtful Prop of. (Editor's Table) 267 



Morality, The Basis of. (Corr.) K 408 



Morality, The Evolutionary View of. (Editor's Table) 409 



Morgan, Appleton. What shall we do with the " Dago " ? 172 



Morris, Charles. The Storage of Cold 517 



Mounds, Some North Dakota. (Misc.) 855 



Mummies, Preservation of. (Misc.) 570 



Murdoch, John. Dress and Physique of the Point-Barrow Eskimos 222 



" Whale-catching at Point Barrow 830 



Museums, American Public, Origin of. (Misc.) 282 



Music, The Origin of. Herbert Spencer 1 



Mussels, Poisonous. (Misc.) 138 



Natural Gas Supply, The. (Misc.) 285 



New Chapters in the Warfare of Science. A. D. White 289, 433 



New England, Rural, The Decline of. A. N. Currier 384 



Northrop, John I. Cultivation of Sisal in the Bahamas* 606 



Notes 144, 287, 430, 575, 719, 863 



Nurse, a Good, The Qualifications of. (Misc.) 856 



Nyassa-Land, Resources of. (Misc.) 138 



Obituary Notes 288, 432, 720 



Ohio River, A Brief History of the.* J. F. James 739 



Ordway, John M. Non-conductors of Heat 644 



Palm-wine. (Misc.) 424 



Pamir Table-land, The. (Misc.) 572 



Pasteur Institute, New York. (Misc.) 566 



Petroleum as an Explosive. (Misc.) 716 



Phenological Observations, Value of. (Misc.) 142 



Philosophy at Harvard. (Misc.) 281 



Physical Training, Precision in. G. Demeny 467 



Plant Species, Ocean Transportation of. (Misc.) 571 



Plants, Intelligence in. (Misc.) 424 



Plants, North American, Distribution of. (Misc.) 135 



Plants of Columbia, Economic. (Misc.) 141 



Ponies, Shetland.* 538 



" Pororoca," The, or Bore of the Amazon. J. C. Branner 208 



Prairie Flowers of Late Autumn. B. D. Halsted 229 



Predisposition, Immunity, and Disease. W. Bernhardt 380 



Printing, Early, at Avignon. (Misc.) 860 



Printing-machines, Improvement of. (Misc.) 567 



Publications Received 133, 280, 423, 565, 712, 853 



Pupils or Machines ? (Corr.) A. C. Ray 119 



