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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



navigation, 543 ; the printing-press, 548, 549 ; prospects 

 of technical education, 549. 



Medical Science and Practice : its Progress. The Inter- 

 national Medical Congress at London, 549; theoretical 

 pathology, 549, 550 ; progress of therapeutics, 650 ; Vir- 

 chow's doctrine of cell-growth, 550; study of morbid 

 processes, 650, 651 ; microphytic origin of diseases, 551; 

 foul gases not Injurious unless bearing disease-germs, 

 551 ; Insanity, 552 ; gout and diabetes, 552 ; progress in 

 symptomatology, 552; stethoscope, ophthalmoscope, 

 thermometer, and urinoscopy, 652 ; children's diseases, 

 552 ; children's hospitals, 552 ; experiments on living ani- 

 mals, 552 ; fruits of vivisection, 553 ; Important advance in 

 therapeutical methods, 558 ; distinct physiological effects 

 aimed at, 558 ; treatment of the Insane, 554 ; neurology, 

 554 ; hygienic treatment of diseases, 554 ; new mineral 

 remedies, 554 ; electro-therapeutics, 554; advance In ad- 

 ministration of remedies, 554 ; anaesthetics, 554, 555 ; im- 

 provements in surgery, 555; Instruments for exploring 

 the eye, ear, and larynx, 655; conservative surgery, 655; 

 antiseptic treatment, 555, 556 ; important operations made 

 possible by Llsterism, 556 ; action oftirugs, 556; hydro- 

 pathy and gymnastics, 556 ; climatology, 556 ; synthetic 

 tendency of medical science, 557 ; statistics of medical 

 literature, 55T. 



Methodist (Ecumenical Conference. Meeting in London, 

 657; allotment of delegates, 567, 558; opening of the ses- 

 sions, 55S ; papers read, 558, 559 ; resolutions passed, 559. 



Methodists. Statistics of the churches throughout the world, 

 659, 560; Methodist Episcopal Church in the United 

 States, 560; statistics, 560; Book Concern, 561; mis- 

 sionary appropriations, 561 ; statistics of missions, 661 ; 

 Conference in India, 561. Methodist Episcopal Church, 

 South. Mission and appropriations, 562. Methodist 

 Protestant Church. Statistics, 562, 563 ; General Con- 

 ference, 563. Wesleyan Methodist Connection. Statis- 

 tics, 563 ; Conferences, 564. Primitive Methodist Con- 

 nection. Statistics, 564. Methodist New Connection. 

 Statistics, 565; Conference, 565. United Methodist 

 Free Chicrches. Statistics, 565. Australasian Wes- 

 leyan Methodist Church. Statistics, 566. 



Mexico. Population of States and State capitals, 566; area, 

 567; classification of the population by races, 567; in- 

 crease of the population, 567 ; numerical superiority of 

 females, 667; the President of the Republic, 567 ; his 

 Cabinet, 567; the President of the Supreme Court, 667 ; 

 Its magistrates, 567 ; the Governors of the States, etc., 

 567 ; the Mexican Minister to the United States, 567 ; 

 the Mexican Consul to the United States, 567 ; the United 

 States diplomatic and consular representatives in Mex- 

 ico, 567 ; the Mexican army and navy, 67 ; budget esti- 

 mates, 567 ; national debt, 568 ; Mexican indemnity to 

 the United States, 568 ; commercial statistics, 563 ; pro- 

 posed commercial treaty with the United States. 568 ; 

 railways, 568, 569; extract from President Gonzalez's 

 message, 569 ; prospects social and political, 569 ; new 

 steamship lines, 569 ; submarine cable, 569 ; telegraphs, 

 569 ; new railways, 569 ; Tehnantepec interoceanic ship- 

 railway, 569; tariff reform, 570; boundary question with 

 Guatemala, 570 ; Guatemala's appeal for the good offices of 

 the United States, 570; Mr. Blaine's correspondence with 

 Mr. Morgan, 570 ; Minister Mariscal's exposition, 571. 



Michigan. Amendments of the Constitution, 574; appro- 

 priations, 574 j laws relating to public instruction, 674 ; 

 highway laws revised, 574 ; liquor and game laws revised, 

 575 ; the hotly -con tested measures in the Legislature, 

 576 ; vote for Supreme Court Judge, 577 ; for University 

 Regents, 577; circuit judges elected, 577; constitutional 

 amendments ratified, 577; Treasury balance-sheet, 577; 

 public debt, 577; trust funds, 577; specific taxes, 573; 



local Indebtedness, 578; estimated expenditures, 578; 

 tax assessment, 678; State banks, 578; savings-banks, 

 678; insurance, 678, 679; estimate of timber resources, 

 6T8; public lauds in different counties, 579; railroad 

 lands, 579, 630 ; railroad reports, 530 ; timber product, 

 680; salt product, 581; Iron, 581; copper, 581; agricult- 

 ural statistics, 582; public schools, 682; Agricultural 

 College, 582; State University, 682,583; curriculum of 

 studies, 583 ; Insane Asylums, 688 ; maintenance of in- 

 sane paupers, 584 ; State Public School, 584 ; Deaf-Mute 

 Asylum, 584; Blind Asylum, 584; Reform School for 

 Girls, 684, 585; Reform School for Boys, 585; House of 

 Correction, 585; State Prison, 685; criminal statistics, 

 685 ; population by counties, 586. 



Micliigan Fires. Extent of the forest-fires of 1881, 586 ; 

 their ravages, 586 ; committees of relief, 5S6 ; tabulated 

 losses of life and property in townships of devastated 

 counties, 587 ; table of total losses, 588 ; amounts contrib- 

 uted for the relief of the distressed, 588 ; proposed legis- 

 lative relief, 588. 



MILLER, WARNER. Senator from New York, election, 647 ; 

 biographical notice, 648. 



Minneapolis and its Mills. "Water-power facilities, 688 ; 

 method of purchasing grain, 588 ; capacity of the mills, 

 638 ; the Washburne mill, 588, 589 ; Improved process of 

 milling, 589 ; Pillsbury's new mill, 589 ; Improved quality 

 of the product, 589 ; the export trade, 589 ; saw-mills of 

 Minneapolis, 689, 590 ; Industrial growth of the city, 690. 



Minnesota. Composition of the Legislature, 590; Senator 

 elected, 590 ; history of the old railroad bonds, 590, 591 ; 

 provisions of the act to settle, 591 ; decided invalid by the 

 Supreme Court, 591 ; extra session called, 591 ; the Gov- 

 ernor's recommendations, 591 ; text of act passed to set- 

 tle at 50 cents, 591, 592 ; other legislation, 592 ; congres- 

 sional reapportionment, 592 ; Windom re-elected Senator, 

 592; lumber resources, 592, 593 ; bank statistics, 593; in- 

 surance, 598 ; agricultural statistics, 593, 594 ; census re- 

 turns, 594; Republican Convention and nominations, 

 694; platform, 594, 595; Democratic nominations and 

 platform, 595; State election, 595; amendments to the 

 Constitution, 595, 596; vote on amendments, 596; burn- 

 ing of the Capitol, 596 ; population by counties, 96. 



Mississippi. Question of tax-assessment, 596 ; valuation of 

 property, 597; Treasury statement, 597 ; State debt, 597; 

 swamp and overflowed and school lands, 597 ; public in- 

 struction, 597, 598 ; university, 598 ; agricultural colleges, 

 598; State institutions, 598; Penitentiary, 598 ; agricult- 

 ural statistics, 599 ; industrial statistics, 599 ; census 

 returns, 599 ; .Prohibition Convention and platform, 599, 

 COO ; Democratic nominations and platform, 600 ; Repub- 

 lican-Greenback ticket, 600; election returns, 600. 



Mississippi River Improvement. Former improvements of 

 internal navigation, 600, 601 ; neglect of the Mississippi, 

 601 ; duties of the Mississippi Commission, 601 ; work 

 done in 1881, 601'; two sections selected for survey, 601 ; 

 Plum Point reach, 601, 602; plan proposed for deepening 

 and conservation, 602 ; brflsh dikes and revetments, 602 ; 

 estimate of cost, 602; utility of levees, '602, 603; they 

 must reach the flood-plane of the, river, 603; uniform 

 levee system demanded, 603; evidence in favor of levees 

 and jetties, 603, 604; the Bed River and its outlets, 604 ; 

 the Atchafalaya outlet threatens to deflect the Missis- 

 sippi, 604; floods in the Missouri in 1831, 604; disturb- 

 ance of the channel, 604; character of the Mississippi 

 river-bed, 604, 605; thickness of the alluvium, 605; nature 

 of the deposits, 605 ; favorable to the work of improve- 

 ment, 605, 606 ; cut-off formed opposite Vicksburg, 606 ; 

 injury to navigation, 606 ; proportion of sediment in the 

 Missouri, 606 ; bad navigation above the mouth of the 

 Missouri, 606 ; the Atchafalaya outlet must be stopped, 



