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Obituary Notes. WUliam Ferrell, Martin Duncan, L. Just, Francis Brunnow, 



Dr. Barclay 288 



Cardinal Haynald, Edouard Lucas, F61ix H6ment, Charles 



Smith Wilkinson 432 



William B. Watson, Percy W. Mjles, Thomas Wharton 



Jones, Philip Herbert Carpenter 576 



A. de Qaatrefages, Jean Servais Stas, H. K. H. Hoffmann, 



Edouard Mailly, Harvey Goodwin, Joseph Lovering 720 



Thomas Sterry Hunt, Sir George Biddell Airy, Smile de 

 Laveleye, Duke of Devonshire, John Couch Adams, 



James Augustus Grant 864 



Oceanic Causeways, Recent. E. Blancbard 540 



Oil Painting^i, Durability of. (Misc.) 862 



Onion, Bermuda, Cultivation of the. (Misc.) 854 



Opium-smoking, A Defense of. (Misc.) 716 



Optics, Wayside.* C. A. Wood 616 



Organic Variation a Chemical Problem. (Misc.) 712 



Ornament.* F. Starr 44 



Ornamentation, Excess of. (Misc.) 861 



Painting, The Origin of. L. Popoff 100 



Paper, Tests of. (Misc.) !• 425 



Peabody Museum of Arcbseology. (Misc.) 853 



Peroxide of Hydrogen, Properties of. (Misc.) 427 



Personal Liberty. E. Atkinson and E. T. Cabot 433 



Phosphorus in Plants and Animals. (Misc.) 285 



Photography, Value of. (Misc.) 714 



Planets, Communication with the. A. Guillemin 361 



Playing-cards, Japanese. (Misc.) .... 136 



Political Justice. (Editor's Table) 270 



Popoff, Lazar. Origin, The, of Painting 100 



Poppy, Cultivation of the. (Misc.) 571 



Population, Our, and its Distribution. C. D. Wright 368 



" . The, of the Earth 400 



" Urban. C. D. Wright 459 



Potlach, The Uses of. (Misc.) 569 



Pottery Industry, Recent Advances in the.* E. A. Barber 289 



" The Rise of the.* E. A. Barber 145 



Preservation of delicately Colored Specimens. (Misc.) 854 



Quinby, J. W. Breathe Pure Air 192 



Races, Two Ancient. fNIisc.) 286 



Railroad, Evolution on the. (Misc.) 572 



Railway Accidents for 1889-'90. (Misc.) 855 



Railroads, South American. (Misc.) 281 



Rainfall by Explosion. (Misc.) 573 



Rapid Transit. C. D. Wright 785 



" Rare Earths," The, in America. (Misc.) 571 



Reasoner, Is Man the only ? J. Sully 506 



