INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



ABDURRAHMAN.- Ameer of Cabool, contest with Ayoob Khan, 

 2, 8; favored by the British, 8; victory at Chilzina, 4; 

 capture of Herat, 4. 



Adventists. Belief of the several denominations of, 1; Sec- 

 ond Advent Christian Association, convention of, 1 : dec- 

 laration of principles, etc., 1 ; Advent Christian Publica- 

 tion Society, capital, receipts, sales, etc., 2. 



Afghanistan. (For statistics, etc., see " Annual Cyclopae- 

 dia," 1880); British policy in regard to, 2; Russia's 

 interference, 2 ; British help Abdurrahman against 

 Ayoob Khan, 2, 3 ; spirit and course of Afghan tribes, 8 ; 

 British evacuate Candahar, 8 ; hostilities between forces 

 of Abdurrahman and Ayoob Khan, 8 ; Abdurrahman's 

 victory, 4; operations of Abdul Kudus Khan, 4; surren- 

 der of Herat, 4 ; action in Parliament as to the cost of 

 the war, 862. 



Africa. (For account of religions statistics of Africa, see 

 "Annual Cyclopedia," 1879); Transvaal Republic re- 

 stored to the Boers by the British Government, 4 ; elec- 

 tion in Liberia, 4 ; King Koflfee, of Ashantee, contest 

 with the British, 4 ; surface aud population of countries 

 and districts, 4. 



Agriculture. (See COMMERCE and UNITED STATRS.) 



Akka. Dwarf race in the valley of the White Nile, 4 ; the 

 Dokkos probably related to the Akkas, 5. 



Alabama. Important acts of the Legislature in regard to 

 banks, 5; against carrying concealed weapons, 5; de- 

 claring railroad tracks to be public highways on certain 

 conditions, 5 : appointment of Board of Railroad Com- 

 missioners, duties and powers, 5, 6 ; collection of vital 

 statistics, 6 ; suppressing tramps, 6; bills introduced into 

 the Legislature, 6 ; laws passed, 6 ; statistics as to schools, 

 public, normal, etc., 7 ; penitentiary, inmates, and crimes, 

 7, 8 ; coal and iron in the State, 8 ; manufacturing 

 industries, cotton-mills, etc., 8; unoccupied lands, soil, 

 climate, etc., 8 ; taxation and revenues, 8 ; table of popu- 

 lation (census of 1880), 8 ; vote of the State at presiden- 

 tial election. Legislature and State officers, 9. 



Alaska. Population, Esquimau, Indian, Aleutian, 9. 



ALEXANDER, E. B. Colonel in United States Army, 9, 10 ; 

 services of forty years in the army, 10 ; high character, 10. 



ALEXANDER II. Emperor of Russia, 10 ; birth, 10; educa- 

 tion and natural disposition, 10; marriage, 10; family, 

 five sons and one daughter, 10 ; opposed advance on 

 Turkey In 1858, 10 ; ascended the throne in 1855, 11 ; 

 sympathy with progress, 11; emancipation of the serfs, 

 11; other reformatory measures, 11 ; sudden reaction, 

 11; benevolence of character, 11 ; extension of Russian 

 power in his reign, 11 ; antagonistic attitude toward other 

 powers, 11, 12; course toward Turkey, 12; mania of 

 Nihilism breaks out, 12 ; attempts on the Czar's life, 12 ; 

 assassination, March 13th, at St. Petersburg, 10, 12. 



Anglican Churches. List of clergy and benefices in the 



Church of England, 12 ; annual meeting of the Church 

 Missionary Society, 12, 18; work performed, 18; an- 

 nual meeting of the Society for Propagating the Gos- 

 pel in Foreign Parts, and work, 18 ; Convocation of Can- 

 terbury, 18 ; action of the Upper and Lower House on 

 questions of ritual, etc., 18 ; meetings in May and July, 18 ; 

 Convocation of York, 18, 14 ; the ornaments rubric, 18, 

 14; appointment of royal commission to inquire into the 

 constitution and working of ecclesiastical courts, 14 ; 

 Archbishop of Canterbury's letter on lay agency and co- 

 operation, 14; annual meeting of the Society for the lib- 

 eration of Religionfrom State Patronage and Control, 

 14; results thus far, 14; Church Defense Association 

 efforts, 14 ; annual Church Congress, subjects discussed, 

 14, 15; Mackonochie case, 15; Irish Episcopal Church 

 Synod, 15 ; report of work, etc., 15 ; Church of England 

 in Ceylon, steps taken toward organizing a synod, 15. 



Anglican Ritualistic Controversy. Extent of questions at 

 issue, 15; memorial to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 15, 

 16; reply, 16; counter-memorial, 16; remarks of the arch- 

 bishop in Convocation, 16; another memorial, 16; action 

 of the courts, imprisonment of two clergymen, L. P. 

 Dale and W. R. Enraght, 16, 17; both released, 17; case 

 of Rev. 8. F. Green, 17; his course and claims, 17, 18; 

 steps taken, 18; release not effected, 18; ecclesiastical 

 courts regulation bill, 18 ; conference of ritualists on the 

 Prayer-Book and rubrics, result, 18; English Church 

 Union's work, 18. 



Anthropology. Question as to the antiquity of man in Amer- 

 ica, 19 ; discovery of stone implements in various parts 

 of the country, 19 ; the Esquimau period, 19 ; measure- 

 ment of African skulls and results, 19 ; human jaw-bone 

 in Schipka Cave, in Moravia, 19, 20; discovery of a forti- 

 fied camp in Spain, 20; ancient gallery of Sandefjord, 

 Norway, 20 ; contents, 20. 



Anti- Monopoly League. Organized in New York, C52 ; 

 declaration of principles, 652, 658. 



Apache-s. Outbreak among, in Arizona, 85 ; result, 35. 



APPLETON, JOHN ADAMS. American publisher and book- 

 seller, 20 ; birth and death, 20 ; character, as a Christian, 

 a gentleman, and a business-man, 20, 21 ; noble quali- 

 ties, 21. 



Arbitration. Louisiana Court of Appeals decision, 21 : par- 

 ticulars, 21 ; powers of arbitrators, 21 ; points not well 

 settled, 21 ; course pursued in exchanges, boards of trade, 

 etc., 21. 



Archeology. Discoveries in Egypt, Chaldea, and Greece. 

 2) ; Maspero's efforts and success in Egypt, 21 ; contents 

 of a royal tomb at Thebes, 21, 22 ; number and value of 

 the articles found, 22 ; explorations of Rassam at Babylon, 

 Bosippa, etc., 22; interestinz and valuable collection of 

 antiquities (now in the British Museum), 28 ; excavations 

 at Olympia, results, 28, 24 ; discoveries at Pergamon, 24 ; 

 sent to Berlin, 24. 



Argentine Republic. President Roca's inaugural speech, 



