INDEX. 



Adams, propagation of long electric 



waves along wires, 364, xviii 

 Agave, species in, xii, 231 

 Alphabet, the origin of our, and the 



race of the Phenicians, xv 

 Antarctic exploration, committee on, 



report, vii, viii, ix, x 

 , geology and polar climate, vii, 



200 

 Antiseptic method, modern, iv 

 Asteroids, origin of the zone of, etc., 



351, xviii 



B 

 Balch, E. S., report on reexploring 



Wilkes Land, vii, viii 

 Barnard, photographic observations 



of Daniel's Comet, 3 

 Bauer, magnetic results of the first 



cruise of the Carnegie, xiii 

 , solar activity and terrestrial 



magnetic disturbances, 130 

 Benedict, influence of mental and 



muscular work, etc., iv, 145 

 Berlin University, invitation to cen- 

 tennial of, xvii 

 Brain of about one-half the average 



weight, from an intelligent white 



man, xi, 188 

 of an eminent chemist and 



geologist, xi 

 Branner, geology of the black dia- 

 mond regions of Bahia, Brazil, iii 

 Burial customs, Australia, furthur 



notes on, xvi, 297 



California, serpentines of central 

 coast ranges of, 315 



Carbon, conservation of the energy 

 of, X, 49 



Carnegie, magnetic results of the 

 first cruise of the, xiii 



Carrel, new surgery of the viscera 

 of the chest, xi 



Central Coast Ranges of California, 

 serpentines of, 315 



Climate, polar, vii, 200 



Cobb, a method of using the micro- 

 scope, xii 



Comets, spectra of recent, xiv 

 Congres Geologique International 



(xi*^), invitation, v 

 Congres International de Botanique 



(iii"*), invitation, iii 



Da Costa, suicide, xviii 

 Daniel's Comet, 3 



Davenport, new views about rever- 

 sion, XV, 291 

 Davies, tunnel construction of the 



Hudson and Manhattan Railroad 



Co., V, 164 

 Davis, antarctic geology and polar 



climates, xii, 200 

 Davis, the Italian Riviera, xii 

 Diamond regions of Bahia, Brazil, 



black, iii 

 Doolittle (C. L.), Obituary Notices 



of Simon Newcomb, xiv. Hi 

 (Eric), some interesting double 



stars, xiv 

 Du Bois, the great Japanese Embassy 



of i860 vi, 243 



Electric waves, propagation of long, 

 along wires, 364 



Electricity, the one fluid theory of, x 



Ether, the past and present status of 

 the, X 



drift, 52, X 



Evolution experimental, xv 



, results of recent researches in 



cosmical, xiv, 207 



Explosions in mixtures of petroleum 

 vapor with air in tubes, the propa- 

 gation of, xii, 203 



Fairchild, a new world for explora- 

 tion, V 



Flexner, experimental poliomyelitis 

 in monkeys, xi 



Fluorescence and phosphorescence, 

 effects of temperature on, x, 267 



Francke, roman mysticism in the 

 fourteenth century, vi 



Frost, spectra of re(;ent comets, xiv 



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