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INDEX. 



PAGE 



Hoflfniau, A. W. von, death of 155 

 Hollick, Arthur, elected resi- 

 dent member 25 



Horse, evolution of the 107 



Hudson River valley, clays of... 33 



Hudsonian Godwit, bill of 30 



Hungary, opal mines of. 32 



Hunt, Dr. T. Sterry, death of... 72 



Instruments, ancient astronomi- 

 cal 106 



Jay, Dr. John C, death of 32 



resolutions on death of 40 



Kemp, Prof. James F., elected 



resident member 25 



Knight, George H., elected resi- 

 dent member 25 



Lake Champlain valley, trap 



dikes in 13 



Land and people of Paraguay... 24 

 Lederle, Ernest, elected resi- 

 dent member 25 



Lochs and crannogs of Scotland 48 



Lunar surface, changes on 42 



Mann, Charles Riborg, elected 



resident member 40 



Measures of stars about B Cygni 120 



Meeting of National Academy 



of Sciences 41 



Memoirs of Columbian Chemi- 

 cal Society 57 



Memorial of Dr. John L North- 

 rop 9 



Metallic tin, crystals of 96 



Mineralogical Journal, Bruce's 



American 57 



names, origin and history of 49 



Minerals, gems, and ethnology 



of the Ural mountains ... 119 



Mitchell's Geology of North 



Carolina 45 



Mme. Goguet, will of. 2 



Modern medicine, contributions 



of organic chemistry to... 107 



Morgan, J. Pierpont, elected 



resident member 25 



Mountains, their origin and his- 

 tory 45 



Muscidse, calyptrate :. 131 



Nash, Stephen P., elected resi- 

 dent member 40 



National Academy of Sciences, 



meeting of 41 



p.\oa 



Natural dyes as applied to wool 



48, 157 

 Northrop, John I., death of..... 1 



memorial of 9 



Notes on the gold cure 151 



Notes, petrographical 126 



Notices, coleopterological. No. 



Ill 2 



No. IV 125 



Observations on comet of 1892... 120 

 Observatory of Columbian Col- 

 lege, transit factors for... 41 



Oil-testing, commercial 126 



Opal mines of Hungary 32 



Origin and historj' of minera- 

 logical names 49 



of mountains 45 



of garnets 32 



Osborn, Prof. Henry F., elected 



resident member 40 



Pacific coast of America, fishes 



of the 125 



Palfeontology of cretaceous for- 

 mation on Staten Island 96 

 Paraguay, the land and the 



people 24 



Paraguayan plants 131 



Petrographical notes 126 



Phalangidse of the United States 125 



Philadelphia, geologists in 45 



Photographic measures, Rutlier- 



furd 41 



Plover, eggs of 24 



Progress of standard time 45 



Railway problem in China... 44, 156 

 Reduction of transit observa- 

 tions by least squares 25 



Report of Recording Secretary 93 

 Researches on the solar spec- 

 trum 125 



Resolutions on death of Dr. 



John C. Jay 46 



Ries, Heinrich, elected resident 



member 25 



Rocking stone at West Farms... 13 



Rutherfurd, L. M., death of..... 155 



photographic measures... 41 



Sapphire, yellow 58 



Schermerhorn, Wm. C, elected 



resident member 25 



Scirpus and Rhyncospora, spe- 

 cies of. 74 



Scotland, lochs and crannogs of 48 



Section of Biology, formation of 123 



