ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 



A. 



PAGE 



Acquired characters 3, 7, 21 



Acquired characters, Alphonse DeCan- 



dolle on the transmission of xix 



Address, eleventh presidential xii 



Affinities of the North American squirrels, 



etc., remarks on the xix 



American school of Neo-Lamarckians ... 59 

 Anatomy of Hesperornis, a point in the . xiv 

 Apple disease caused by Gymnosporan- 



ginm macropus vi 



Argyll, Duke of 52 



Arrow weed and jumping bean, the Mex 

 ican xvi 



Artificial selection 20 



Aspects, the winter, of the Mohave Desert 



region xviii 



Aster, a new, from Southern California . xiii 



B. 



Bacillus, hog cholera, production of im 

 munity in guinea pigs with sterilized 



cultures of xv 



Bacteria, some illustrations of ferments 



and fermentation among vii 



Bacteria, on species among xi 



Bacteriological progress in the prevention 

 and cure of disease, remarks on recent . xv 



Baker, A. B., election of xi 



Baker Frank An undescribed muscle 

 from the infraclavicular region of man . v 



Notes on dwarfs xvi 



Banks, Nathan, election of ix 



Barrows, W. B. Cuckoo stomachs and 



their contents xvii 



Bean, jumping . . xvi 



Bean, T. H. Notes on some fishes from 



British Columbia vi 



The death of salmon after spawning . . .x 



Fishes of Great South Bay xiii 



Kennerly's salmon xv 



Some fishes new to New England 



waters , xvii 



Beds, bone, age of the Peace Creek, in 



Florida xiv 



Bibliography of Economic Entomology, 

 authorship of the ix 



Biology in the public schools, the place of viii 



Birds, captive, foot disease of x 



Birds, distribution of, on the Pribylov 



Islands xvi 



Birds, fossil, a collection of, from the 



Equus beds of Oregon xiv 



Bison latifrons, specimen of, from Peace 



Creek, Florida xiii 



Boring mollusks 8, 9 



Bone beds in Florida, age of the Peace 



Creek xiv 



Botanical Division of the Department of 



Agriculture, notes on the recent field 



work of the xvi 



Boyle, C. B., election of xiv 



Bread-fruit tree, a fossil, from the Sierras 



of California xix 



British Columbia, notes on some fishes 



from vi 



Brown-Sequard 23 



C. 



Cambrian, Lower, a new genus and spe 

 cies of ostracod crustacean from ..... v 

 Carboniferous Flora, upland, peculiar 



forms in an xviii 



Challenger expedition, Haeckel's Radio- 



laria of the xviii 



Characters, acquired 3, 7, 21 



Characters, acquired, Alphonse DeCan- 



dolle on the transmission of xix 



Characters, transmission of, defined . . . .3 

 Chick, embryo of, with two protoverte- 



brae xiv 



Chipmunks, North American, remarks 



on affinities of xix 



Circumcision 8 



Classification of the apodal fishes xv 



Classification of the Tetraodontoidea . . . xvii 



Coccidium bigeminum xviii 



Color of flowers in attracting insects . . . xiv 



Color of human hair, change in vi 



Color of plumage of birds, change in . . . vi 



Colors of fishes vii 



Colors of insects vii 



Columellar plaits, development of, in 



Gastropods 9 



Committees iii 



