CONTENTS. 397 



Page. 



De la Ri^'k, Artliur Auguste, eulogy on, by M. Dumas 184 



Tides and Tidal Action in Hapjjors, by Prof. J. E. Hilgard 207 



Observations upon the Electricity of the Atmosphere and the Aurora 

 BoREALis, mado duriug the Swedish expedition of 18C8 to the North Polo, by 



Prof. Selim Lemstkom, with notes by Professor De la Rive 227 



On a Dominant Language for Science, by Alphonse De Candolle, with 



notes by Dr. John Edw. Gray 239 



On Underground Temperature, by Charles A. Schott and Professor Everett 249 

 On a Series op Earthquakes in North Carolina, commencing on 10th Febru- 

 ary, 1874, by Prof. Warren Du Pre, with notes by Prof. Joseph Henry 254 



Report on the Transactions of the Society of Physics and Natural 



History, of Geneva, from June, 1872, to June, 1873, by Prof. A. De la Rive. 261 

 Warming and Ventilation, by Arthur Morin, (continued from rej^ort of 



1873) 272 



Applications 272 



Infant Asylums 273 



Primary schools 278 



Adult schools 281 



Night schools of design 281 



Lyceums and colleges 284 



Workshops 287 



Manufixctories 290 



Workshops in which dust is produced 291 



Cutlery-works 292 



Grindstones used wet 291 



Drying-chambers 203 



Linen-dry iug chambers 293 



Powder-drying rooms 295 



Barracks 295 



Hospitals 297 



Asylums 305 



Churches 306 



Railroad-stations 306 



Courts and covered markets 308 



Glass roofs and ceilings 308 



Dwelling-houses • 310 



Court-yards 311 



Kitchens 311 



Privies , 312 



Sinks : 315 



Dining-rooms 31.') 



Reception-rooms i 319 



Halls of assembly and lecture-rooms 321 



Theaters 323 



Stables and cow-houses 331 



Means of control of ventilation 332 



Ethnology. 



Ancient graves and shell-heaps of California, .by Paul Schumacher 335 



Account of the burial of an Indian squaw, San Bernardino County, Califor- 

 nia, May, 1874, by W. M. King 350 



Ancient mounds of Mercer County, Illinois, by Tyler McWhorter , 351 



Antiquities of Whitesides County, Illinois, by W. H. Pratt 354 



A study of skulls and long bones, from mounds near Albany, Illinois, by Dr. 



R. J. Farquharson 361 



