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Diospyros kaki, Japanese persimmon xix 



Does the flying fish fly ? xviii 



Dynastes tityiis, abnormal abundance of x 



E. 



Eggleston, Dr. Edwai-d, queries concerning 

 certain plants and animals known to the first 



colonists of North America xvi 



Elbow joint, recent investigations into mecha 

 nism of viii 



Endoceras, fossil over eight feet in length xxi 



Eskimo art, representations of animal life in xvi 



Evotomys carolinensis xv 



F. 



Fasciation in Ranunculus and Rudbeckia x 



Fauna and flora of the Great Smoky Mountains..xix 



Fenesica tarquineus vii 



Fish fauna of the south temperate or notalian 



realm xix 



Fish, explanation of past failures in the culture 



of the Salmonidse xix 



Fish, new species of Thyrsitops from the New 



England fishing banks xix 



Fishes, Japanese chromolithographs of xviii 



Fishes, young forms of some of our food xix 



Flora columbiana, additions and changes for 1885 



viii 



Florida, recent geological explorations in xvi 



Flying Fish, does it fly ? xviii 



Foramen of Magendie xii 



Fox, description of a new species from Califor 

 nia 135-138 



Freshet notes on the Uruguay xix 



G. 



Geological horizon of unplaced faunas xviii 



Gill, Prof. Theodore, characteristics and fam 

 ilies of Iniomous fishes viii 



Tseniosmous fishes x 



The fish fauna of the south temperate 



or notalian realm xix 



Thephylogeny of the Cetacea xx 



Goode, G. Brown, exhibition of Japanese 



chromolithographs of fishes xviii 



The beginnings of natural history in 



America ; the third century 9-94 



Grasses, new species of. vii 



Grasses, recent collection of Mexican xiv 



Grasses, notes on Western xviii 



Gray Squirrel, new subspecies from Minnesota, viii 



Great Auk xx 



Great Smoky Mountains, fauna and flora of xix 



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H. 



Hallock, Charles, hyper-instinct in animals vii 



The transcontinental range of the moose... xv 

 The great Roseau swamp in north-western 



Minnesota xx 



Hesperomys anthonyi (a new mouse) xvi, 5-8 



Hill, R. T., the true geological horizon of 

 some hitherto unplaced faunas, with special 



reference to the Cretaceous of Texas xviii 



Hopkins, C. L., notes relative to the sense of 



smell in the turkey buzzard xx 



Hornaday, William T., the last of the buffalo ...xiii 

 Civilization as an exterminator of savage 



races xvii 



How the great northern sea cow (Rhytina) be 

 came exterminated xxi 



Howard, L. Q., a Rock Creek philanthropist xv 



An ant-decapitating parasite xviii 



Hydropsyche xv 



Hyoid apparatus in Urodele Batrachians xiv 



Hyper-instinct in animals vii 



I. 



Ichthyology, American and European work in 



deep sea, compared. xv 



Iniomous fishes, characteristics and families of, viii 

 Insects, some geographical variations in xix 



J- 



Japanese persimmon xix 



Joint Commission vi 



Jouy, P. L., Corea ; the country and the peo 

 ple xv 



A bird new to Japan (Pitta oreas) xvii 



K. 



Kerosene, effects of on animal and vegetable 



life viii 



Kidder, Dr. J. H., exhibition of concretions 



and grass balls xvii 



Knowlton, F. H., additions to, and changes in, 



the flora columbiana for 1885 viii 



Fasciation in Ranunculus and Rud 

 beckia x 



The recent shower of pollen in Washing 

 ton, the so-called " sulphur shower "....xvii 



L. 



Lagenorhynchus, revision of genus x 



Lepidoptera. occurrence of nocturnal, at sea xv 



Lingula, a fossil preserving the cast of the ped 

 uncle .... , xx 



