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Diospyros kaki, Japanese persimmon xix 



Does the flying fish fly ? xviii 



Dynastes tityus, abnormal abundance of x 



E. 



Eggleston, Dr. Edward, queries concerning 

 certain plants and animals known to the first 



colonists of North America xvi 



Elbow joint, recent investigations into mecha- 

 nism of viii 



Eudoceras, fossil over eight feet in length xxi 



Eskimo art, representations of animal life in xvi 



Evotomys caroliuensis xv 



F. 



Fasciation in Ranunculus and Riidbcckia 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 crdture 



of the Salmonidae xix 



Fish, new species of Thyrsitops from the New 



England fishing banks xix 



Fishes, Japanese chromolithographs of xviii 



Fishes, young forms of some of oiu- food xix 



Flora Columbiana, additions and changes for 1885 



viii 



Florida, recent geological exijlorations in xvi 



Flying Fish, does it fly ? xviii 



Foramen of Mageudie 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, Pi'of. Theodore, characteristics and fam- 

 ilies of Iniomous fishes viii 



Tseniosmous fishes x 



The fish fauna of the south temperate 



or notalian realm xix 



The phylogeny of the Cetacea xx 



Goode, G. Brown, exhibition of Japanese 



chromolithogi-aijhs 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 Moimtains, 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 gi'eat Roseau swamp in north-western 



Minnesota xx 



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



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

 some hitherto unplaced faimas, with special 



reference to the Cretaceous of Texas xviii 



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



snjell 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. 0., a Rock Creek philanthi-opist xv 



An ant-decapitating parasite xviii 



Hydropsyche xv 



Hyoid apparatus in Urodele Batrachians xiv 



Hyper-instinct in animals vii 



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 vl 



Jouy, P. Jj., 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 columbiaua for 1885 viii 



Fasciation in Ranunculus and Rud- 



beckia x 



The recent shower of pollen in Washing- 

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



Lagenorhynchus, revision of genus x 



Lepidoptera. occurrence of nocturnal, at sea xv 



Lingula, a fossil preserving the cast of the ped- 

 uncle XX 



