ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 



A. 



Page. 



Address, seventh presidential xiii, 9-94 



Address, eighth presidential xxii, 95-134 



Alaska, travels in xi 



Alciue cemetery xx 



Almiqui (Solenodon cubanus) x 



Ambly stoma, description of larval form x 



Amendment to constitution xi 



Amphiuma, 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 



Arvieola (Ghilotus) pallidas 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 foi-amen of Magendie xii 



Some unusual musciilar variations in 



the human body xv 



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

 investigations iuto the mechanism of the 



elbow joint viii 



Barnard, Dr. W. S., effects of kerosene ou 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 ou anti-pjTetics 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, shajje 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 



Blackflsh of our southern waters xvi 



Bobolink, ravages of, in rice fields xvii 



Botanical section xxiv 



Botanical terms, some xix 



Bufi'alo, the last of xiii 



c, 



Cafi'eine, action of, ou the kidneys xvi 



Carrier Shell, protective devices in xviii 



Cervidse, 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, novcl facts in natural history of xvi 



Collins, 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 ai^paratus 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 



Dall, William H., exhibition of Lingula pyra- 



niidata 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 xvi 



A genus of bivalve molluscs (Cyrenella) 



new to North America xvii 



Some American conchologists (presi- 

 dential address) 95-134 



Date Palm, exhibition of cluster of fruit of. xx 



Deltoids, peculiar sexual characters Ariil 



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