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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



Creed In the Church of England, 15; action of the 

 committee, 15; members of the committee, 15; repre- 

 sentation of the laity in the meetings of the Convoca- 

 tion, 16; meeting of the Irish Synod, 16; partial re- 

 port of the committee ou the revision of the prayer- 

 book, 16; revision of the lectionary, 16; address in 

 reply to one received from the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church in the United States, 16; proceedings on the 

 charges against Mr. Bennett, 16-18; the Church Con- 

 gress, 18; the agitation for reform, 18; the bishopric 

 of Madagascar, 18; correspondence on church union 

 in South Africa, 19; Free Church of England, 19. 



ANNECKE, Colonel FRITZ. Obituary, 637. 



ANTHONY, HENRY B. Senator from Rhode Island, 119; 

 proposes Standing Committee of Investigation, 128, 

 129; on resolution appointing Retrenchment Com- 

 mittee, 135; rules the amendment to the appropriation 

 bill, being the election bill, to be in order, 184; on the 

 bill, 190. 



Antioch. Visited by an earthquake, 267; account of the 

 same, 267. 



Arctic Explorations and Discoveries, 33. 



Argentine Republic. Boundaries, 19; provinces, 19; pop- 

 ulation of chief towns, 20; immigration, 20; govern- 

 ors of the provinces, 26; finances, 20; exports and 

 imports, 20; commercial relations with foreign coun- 

 tries, 21; national bank, 21; railways, 21, 22; tele- 

 graphs, 22; army, 22; shipping statistics, 22; schools, 

 22 ; libraries, 22 ; singular meteorological phenome- 

 non, 23; outbreaks, 23; discovery of coal-mines, 23; 

 revolution in Corrientes, 23; war against masonry, 

 23; massacre at Tandil, 23; Earl Granville's dispatch, 

 23, 24; yellow fever at Montevideo, 24; revolution in 

 Santiago, 25; international questions with Bolivia, 

 24; controversy with Brazil, 76; boundary question 

 with Chili and Bolivia, 102; geographical exploration 

 and discovery, 340. 



Arizona. (See Territories of the United States.) Resolu- 

 tions of the California Legislature concerning Indian 

 outrages in, 85, 86. 



Arkansas. Political campaign, 25; division in the Re- 

 publican party, 25; convention held and resolutions 

 adopted by each faction, 25, 26; meeting of the Lib- 

 eral Republican Convention and the resolutions, 26; 

 resolutions of the Democratic Convention, 26; regu- 

 lar Republican State ticket, 27 ; platform, 27, 28; 

 State ticket of Liberal Republican party, 28; address 

 of the Democratic Committee, 28; persons entitled to 

 registration, 28; election, 28, 29; election frauds, 29; 

 Investigation of same, 29; State debt, 29; unfortunate 

 disturbances in Pope County, 29; action of the Gov- 

 ernor, 29; proclamation by the Governor, 30; report 

 of General Bishop on the state of affairs in Pope 

 County, 30; shooting of a justice of the peace, SO; 

 General Upham sent into Pope County to preserve 

 the peace, 30; circular issued by General Upham to 

 the citizens of the county, 31; railroads, 31; aid to 

 railroads, 31; railroads in progress, 31,32; mineral 

 resources, 32; value of property, 32; State Industrial 

 University, 32; city of Little Rock, 32; religious sta- 

 tistics, 32; libraries, 32; newspapers, 32. 



ARLES-DUFOUR, JEAN BARTHELEMY. Obituary, 638. 



Army of the United States. Expenditures of the War De- 

 partment, 82; estimates for 1873, 32; war accounts, 

 32; horses and mules in the service, 32; army uni- 

 forms, 33 ; supplies to Indians, 33 ; Freedmen's 

 Bureau, 33; location and strength of the army, 33; 

 pensions, 33 ; army medical museum, 33 ; medical 

 and surgical history of the war, 33; appropriation for 

 the manufacture of arms, 33; coast defences and forti- 



fications, 34; torpedo experiments?- 34; work of the 

 Signal-Office, 34; verification of the probabilities, 34; 

 importance of this branch of the service, 34; national 

 cemeteries, 34; West Point Academy, 34. 



Army Medical Museum. (See Army.) 



ASHBURNAM, General, the Hon. THOMAS. Obituary, 640. 



Asia. Progress of Japan, 34; of China, 34; difficulties in 

 Central Asia, 34; assassination of the Viceroy of Brit- 

 ish India, 34; famine in Persia, 34, 35; treaty between 

 England and the Netherlands, 35; political changes, 

 35; area and population of divisions and subdivis- 

 ions, 35; geographical exploration and discovery in, 

 341; Russian operations in Central Asia, 720-723. 



ASPER, JOEL F. Obituary, 629. 



Astronomical Phenomena and Progress. The supply of 

 solar heat, 35; elements in the solar spectrum, 36; 

 solar outbursts and magnetic storms, 36; the sun's 

 temperature, 36 ; the eun's rotation, 37 ; eun-epots 

 and the cholera, 37; sun-spots and the vine-crop, 37; 

 forms of solar protuberances, 38; planetary influence 

 upon solar activity, 38; asteroids, 39; lunar objects 

 suspected of change, 89; the transit of Venus in 1874, 

 39; the disintegration of comets, 40; the motion of 

 stars, 40; star-depths, 41; the star Eta Argus, 41; 

 spectroscopic study of nebulae, 41 ; spectra of the 

 planets, 42; observations in the southern heavens, 

 42; photographing celestial objects, 42; the zodiacal 

 light, 43; luminous matter in the atmosphere, 44. 



ATKINSON, ARCHIBALD. Obituary, 602. 



Aurora Borealis. Description of the display of February 

 4th, 44; months when brilliant auroras are likely to 

 be seen, 45; observations by Prof. Twining, 45. 



Australia. Area, and population of British colonies in, 

 45; growth of the colonies, 45; immigration, 45; rev- 

 enue and expenditure of the colonies, 46 ; imports 

 and exports, 46; navy, 46; railroads, 46; telegraphs, 

 46; education, 46 ; New South Wales, 46; Victoria, 

 46; South Australia, 46; Western Australia, 46; Tas- 

 mania, 46; Queeneland, 47; New Zealand, 47. 



Austria. SOPHIA FREDERICA DOROTHEA WILHELMINA, 

 Archduchess of, birth, death, 47; career, 47. 



Austria. Area, population, and density of population, 

 287; ecclesiastical statistics, 287; nationalities, 287. 



Austro - Hungarian Monarchy. Government, 47; area 

 and population, 47; area and population of provinces, 

 47; population of the capitals, 47, 48; population of 

 towns, 48; social and industrial statistics, 48; nation- 

 alities in the Leithan provinces, 48, 49; percentage of 

 nationalities in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, 49; 

 religious statistics in the cis-Leithan provinces, 49; 

 number of professors and students in the universi- 

 ties, 49; in other literary institutions, 49; in special 

 schools of learning, 49; people's school, 49; denomi- 

 national character of schools, 49; agricultural statis- 

 tics, 49; periodicals, 49; companies for the naviga- 

 tion of the Danube, 49; Austrian army, 49, 50; the 

 provincial Diets, 50; action of the Government con- 

 cerning the cis-Leithan provinces, 50; change in the 

 electoral law, 50; opening of the Diets of the cis- 

 Leithan provinces, 50; opening of the Reichsrath, 51; 

 features of the proposed new electoral law, 51 ; na- 

 tionalities, 287. 



AYRES, DANIEL. Obituary, 629. 



BABINET, JACQUES. Birth, death, 51; career, 51; works, 



51. 



BACHE, Dr. J. C. F. Obituary, 650. 

 BACHE, HARTMAN. Birth, death, 51; career, 52. 



