ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 



A. 



Page. 



Address, seventh presidential xiii, 9-94 



Address, eighth presidential xxii, 95-134 



Alaska, travels in xi 



Alcine cemetery xx 



Almiqui (Solenodou cubanus) x 



Amblystoma, description of larval form x 



Amendment to constitution xi 



Ainphiuma, vertebrae of ix 



Ant-decapitating parasite xviii 



Ant nests and their inhabitants ix 



Anti-pyretics, remarks on viii 



Aplodontia, a new species of vii 



Aramus xxi 



Araujia albans as a butterfly catcher xiv 



Arvicola (Chilotus) pallidus xxi 



Autumnal hues of the Columbian flora xi 



B. 



Bacteria, parasitic, and their relation to Sapro 

 phytes xii 



Bacteria, peptonizing ferments among xx 



Baird, announcement of death of xviii 



Baird memorial meeting xxiii 



Baker, Dr. Frank, the foramen of Magendie xii 



Some unusual muscular variations in 



the human body xv 



Baker, Dr. Frank, and J. L. Wortman, recent 

 investigations into the mechanism of the 



elbow joint viii 



Barnard, Dr. W. S., effects of kerosene on ani 

 mal and vegetable life viii 



Barrows, Walter B., does the flying fish fly?. ..xviii 



Freshet notes on the Rio Uruguay... xix 



Shape of bill in snail-eating birds.... xxi 



Bat, new species from western states xii, 1-4 



Bean, Dr. Tarleton H., the trout of North 



America ix 



American and European work in deep- 

 sea ichthyology compared xv 



The young forms of some of our food 



fishes xix 



A new species of Thyrsitops from the 



New England fishing banks xix 



Beginnings of American science, the third cen 

 tury 9-94 



Beyer, Dr. H. G., remarks on anti-pyretics viii 



An alleged method of instructing the 



memory xi 



The preservation of bottled museum 



specimens xv 



Action of caffeine upon the kidneys xvi 



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Bill, shape of, in snail-eating birds xxi 



Biological notes on southern California xvii 



Bird, new to Japan xvii 



Birds, new species from Sandwich Islands xiv 



Bird rocks of the gulf of St. Lawrence xviii 



Blackfish of our southern waters xvi 



Bobolink, ravages of, in rice fields xvii 



Botanical section xxiv 



Botanical terms, some xix 



Buffalo, the last of xiii 



c. 



Caffeine, action of, on the kidneys xvi 



Carrier Shell, protective devices in xviii 



Cervidae, rapid disappearance of the shed an 

 tlers of xx 



Oetacea, the phylogeuy of xx 



Cetaceans, works published on, since 1886 xx 



Chickering, Prof. J. W., Jr., travels in Alaska xi 



Civilization as an exterminator of savage races..xvii 



Codfish, novel facts in natural history of. xvi 



CoUins, Capt. J. W., novel facts in the nat 

 ural history of the codfish xvi 



Contagious Diseases, new method of producing 



immunity from vii 



Cope, Prof. E. D., a new species of snake 



from the District of Columbia xiv 



Hyoid apparatus in urodele batrachians. ..xiv 



Corea, the country and the people.. xv 



Crozier, A. A., on some botanical terms xix 



Crustacean tracks on strata of upper Cambrian 



(Potsdam) age. xii 



Curtice, Dr. Cooper, the timber line of Pike's 

 Peak ....xx 



D. 



Dall, William H., exhibition of Lingula pyra- 



midata ix 



Superficial anatomy of species of pecten.....ix 



Amendment to constitution xi 



Historical notes on the department of 



molluscs of the National Museum xi 



Recent geological explorations in south 

 western Florida xri 



A genus of bivalve molluscs (Cyrenella) 



new to North America xvii 



Some American conchologists (presi 

 dential address) 93-134 



Date Palm, exhibition of cluster of fruit of. xx 



Deltoids, peculiar sexual characters viii 



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