INDEX. 



401 



PAGE 



Miller, Geo. N., elected resident 



member 318 



Mineralogical Instruments, re- 

 cent accessions 43 



Mineralogical Notes 43 



" " and Speci- 

 mens 223 



Minerals collected in the Sum- 

 mer 44 



Moissan, Prof. Henri, Univ. of 

 Paris, France, elected honor- 

 ary member 1 



Moon, Method of Projecting 



views of 332 



Moon-prints from negatives 318 



Nansen, Dr. Fridtjof, elected 



honorary member 367 



Nephelis, Giant Cells in Nervous 



System 151 



Nereids Commensal with Hermit 



Crabs 214 



I. Introduction 215 



II. Nature of the Commensal- 

 ism . 215 



III. Heteronereis and Nereis 



Forms 217 



IV. Eelation of Old and New 



World Types 218 



V. Detailed description of Ne- 

 reis Cychirus n. sp. 219 

 VI. N. fucata Sav., The Euro- 

 pean Species 220 



New York City, new Minerals 

 from 44 



Paleontological Expedition from 

 Am. Mus. Nat. Hist, to 



Colorado 364 



Parsi Ceremonies 330 



Philology, sub-section 



69, 305, 330, 374 

 Photographing Waves by Con- 

 densation 2 



Poetry, Origin of 69 



Postage on Nat. Hist. Specimens 319 

 Psychology and Anthropology, 



Subsection 30, 137, 366 



Public Lecture . . .70, 138, 188, 305, 

 317, 331, 375 



Puerco and Wasatch beds 7 



Puget Sound Observations 377 



Pure Oxygen Gas 376 



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Eailway Tracks, Undulations in 



and Reduction of amount . 139 



Reception to Sir Archibald 

 Geikie 316 



Red Rock, Montana, Geology of 



the Trail 326 



Regular Business Meetings, 1, 30, 70, 



74, 138, 188, 306, 317, 331, 334, 



367, 375 



Report of American Folk-Lore 

 Society's Meeting in New 

 York, Dec, 1896 137 



Report of work of Columbia Col- 

 lege Observatory upon Vari- 

 ation of Latitude 2 



Reports 137 



Resolution of Invitation to Prof. 



Henri Moissan 1 



Resolution on death of Prof. G. 



Brown Goode 8 



Resolution on Retirement of 



Prof. D. S. Martin 188 



Reis, Dr. Heinrich, elected dele- 

 gate to International Con- 

 gress at St. Petersburg 331 



Riley, James Johnstone, elected 



resident member 375 



Rood flicker photometer, abstract 



of work 189 



Ruins of Cliff dwellers ... 8 



Russak, Frank, elected resident 



member 318 



Sands, Sculpture and Sorting of 



(Plate XV) 166 



Sandstone, Batesville, of Ark. . . 251 

 Part I. 



Introduction 251 



Historical Sketch of. 253 



Paet II. 



Description of species 254 



Part III. 



Correlation 272 



Paljeontologic Correlation. 272 

 Fossil evidence of the age of 



the Batesville Sandstone 272 

 Tabulation of the Facts ... 276 

 Summation of the Evidence 277 

 Relation between the 

 Faunas of the Batesville 

 Sandstone and the Max- 



ville Limestone 277 



Stratigraphic Correlation. . 278 



