I]SrDEX 



PAGK 



About Crabs. (Illustrated) 191 



Acoustic Properties of the Atmosphere 252 



Action of Mucilage on Glass 624 



Action of Sunlight on Glass 67 



Actual Cautery, Use of the 762 



Address, Tjndall's, before the British Association 652 



Alligators swallowing their Young 506 



American Scientific Association 741 



Anderson School at Penikese 253 



Animals, Are they Automatons ? 724 



" and Fire-Arms 507 



" Extinct in the Historic Period 331 



Antagonism between Growth and Reproduction 606 



Aquarium, The. (Illustrated) 687 



Architects, Microscopic. (Illustrated) 646 



Atmosphere, The, as an AnvU 220 



Australian Compliment to American Microscopes 382 



Axial Buds in Juglans Nigra 124 



Baby-Fox, A. (Illustrated) 443 



Bees, Habits of. 759 



Birds-of-Paradise. (Illustrated) 557 



" Soaring and Sailing of 253 



Black Hills, Flora of. , 760 



Books noticed : 



" Principles of Mental Physiology " (Carpenter) 115 



" The Principles of Science " (Jevons) 116 



" Politics and Mysteries of Life-insurance " (Wright) 118 



" Contributions to Solar Physics " (Lockyer) 120 



" The Martyrdom of Man " (Reade) 121 



" The Structure of Animal Life " (A^assiz) 122 



" Present Status of Social Science " ^Hamilton) 122 



*' A Treatise on the Method of Government Surveying " (Cleven- 



ger) 123 



" The Borderland of Science " (Proctor) 123 



" The Galvanometer and its Uses " (Haskins) 123 



*' The Land of the White Elephant " (Vincent) 244 



" What is Darwinism ? " (Hodge) 246 



" The Expanse of Heaven " (Proctor) 248 



" The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer " (Bowne) 248 



" Annual Record of Science and Industry " (Baird) 249 



" The Kindergarten Messenger " (Peabody) 249 



" Fuel " (Siemens and Wormald) 250 



" Popular Key to the Birds, Reptiles, etc.," (Jordan and Van Vleck). 251 



" First Lessons in the Principles of Cooking " (Barker) 250 



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