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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



anatomy of the tactile organs, 753 ; junction of nerves 

 and muscles, 753 ; duration of muscular contraction, 753 ; 

 affections resulting from compressed air, 758 ; paralysis 

 and death among workmen in the St. Louis Bridge cais 

 sons, 753 ; causes of exhaustion, 754 ; prevention, 754 ; 

 new works on physiology, 754 ; records of investigations 

 in periodical publications, 754, 755. 



ntury.\n Australian drug, 755; description of the plant, 

 755; its effects and uses, 755. 



PLATT, THOMAS C. Elected Senator from New York, 643 ; 

 his resignation, 644; Conkling joint letter, 644-646. 



Population, Center of, in the United States. Definition, 

 755; position in 1830, 756; method of determination, 

 756; determination in 1870, 756; the center in 1790, 756; 

 its changes of position in the successive decades, 756; 

 slight variations of latitude, 757; rate of westward 

 progression in the different periods, 757; table showing 

 the movement of the center since 1790, 757. 



Portugal. Reigning house, 757; the Constitution, 757, 758; 

 electoral system, 758; the Cabinet, 758; legation in the 

 United States, 758; area and population of provinces, 

 753; of colonial possessions, 758; population of cities, 

 758; army, 758; navy, 758; budget for 1882, 758, 759 ; na- 

 tional debt, 759 ; history of the debt, 759 ; foreign trade, 

 759; cotton imports from Great Britain, 759; shipping, 

 759, 760; railways and telegraphs, 760; hostile demon- 

 strations against the Government, 760; the Lorenzo- 

 Marques Treaty, 760 ; visit of the King of Spain, 

 760. 



Presbyterian : the Case of Professor W. Robertson Smith- 

 History of the case, 760 ; the writings which gave oc- 

 casion to the proceedings against him, 760; findings of 

 the committee of the Free Church commission, 760 ; de- 

 cision of the commission, 760; proceedings before the 

 Assembly, 761; motions to remove him from the pro- 

 fessorial chair, 761, 762 ; declaration of Professor Smith, 

 761; action of the Assembly, 761. 



Presbyterians. Statistics of the Presbyterian Church in the 

 United States of America, 762, 763 ; boards and missions, 

 763; the General Assembly, 763; reorganization of syn- 

 ods, 763; vacant churches and unemployed ministers, 

 764; the Indians, 764; Presbyterian Church in the United 

 States, 764; statistics, 764; committees, 764, 765; General 

 Assembly, 765; United Presbyterian Church of North 

 America, 765; statistics, 765; boards, 765; General As- 

 sembly, 766; Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, 

 766; Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, 766; 

 General Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, 

 766; Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 766, 767; Pres- 

 byterian Church in Canada, 767; Presbyterian Church in 

 England, 767, 763; Established Church in Scotland, 765, 

 769 ; committees, 768 ; General Assembly, 768 ; arbitrary 

 acts of missionaries in Central Africa, 768 ; the " Scotch 

 Sermons," question and difficulty, 769 ; action of the Pres- 

 bytery of Glasgow, and the decision of the Assembly in 

 Mr. Macfarlane's case, 769; the Free Church of Scot- 

 land, statistics as to the receipts of Education Commit- 

 tee, widows and orphans' fund, sustentation fund, Com- 

 mittee for the Highlands and islands, Home Mission and 

 Church Extension Committee, Church Extension Build- 

 ing Fund, and Foreign and Colonial Missions, 769 ; for- 

 eign missions, missionaries, etc., 769 ; meeting of General 

 Assembly, 709 ; case of Robertson Smith, 769 ; decision 

 against using a harmonium in a Presbyterian church, 

 769, 770 ; the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland, 

 income decrease in number of members, etc., 770 ; Welsh 

 Calcinistic JJethodist Church, statistics of numbers, 

 income, etc., 770 ; Presbyterian Church in Ireland, 

 meeting of the General Assembly, 770 ; statistics as to 

 membership, receipts, etc., 770 ; Waldensian Church 



of Italy, statistics of, 771 ; Presbyterian Alliance 

 of India, meeting of the, subjects discussed, etc., 771. 



PBESTON, JOHN 8. An American writer and Confederate 

 soldier, born in Virginia, 771 ; career and death, 771. 



Protestant Episcopal Church. Statistics of the, as to dio- 

 ceses, missions, contributions, etc., 771 ; tabular view of 

 the clergy, parishes, and communicants in the several 

 dioceses and missions, 772; educational institution?, 77.' ; 

 Episcopal churches in foreign countries, 772 ; table of 

 ratio of communicants to population, 772 ; committee 

 meeting on "liturgical enrichment,'' view as to the 

 proper course to be pursued, 772, 773 ; action of the Illi- 

 nois dioceses, organizing a Province, discussing the need 

 of appellate court, etc., 778 ; Church Temperance Soci- 

 ety, objects of, the means to be used, etc., 773 ; the sev- 

 enth Church Congress, programme of the work, discus- 

 sions, papers, etc., 773 ; Domestic Missions, receipts and 

 work, 774 ; Committee for Foreign Missions, receipts and 

 work, 774 ; Woman's Auxiliary to the Board of Missions, 

 receipts and work, 774 ; the Mexican League, meeting 

 of, receipts and work, 774. 



Pr ussia. The King and Prussian ministry, 774; population 

 of different provinces and religious denominations, 774; 

 revenues, expenditures, and public debts, 774 ; meeting of 

 the Diet, 774; three important questions under discussion, 

 774, 775; debate on the relation of the Church to the 

 state, 775; negotiations with Rome, 775; discussion on 

 bill for remission of taxes, bill passed, 775; debate on 

 bill for disposal of moneys accruing to Prussia from sur- 

 plus imperial revenue, 775 ; attack on Bismarck's customs 

 policy, 775; the Chancellor's reply, 775, 776; reform of 

 local administration, government measure not adopted, 

 776 ; ministerial changes, 776 ; the new Economical 

 Council, meeting of, 776; disturbances against the Jews, 

 776; railroads purchased by the Government, 776. 



Public. Documents. Message of President Arthur, first 

 session of the Forty-seventh Congress, 776-oT. 



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Radiophony. Bell's and Tainter's experiments, 787; mo- 

 lecular action induced by light on all kinds of substances, 

 787; diagrams illustrating the experiments, 787; appli- 

 cation of the principle in physical science, 787; the spec- 

 trophone, 787, 788; Tyndall's experiments and result, 

 787, 788. 



RAINS, GABRIEL J. An American military officer, born in 

 North Carolina, 788, 7S9 ; served in the Seminole Indian 

 War and the Mexican War, 789 ; joined the Confederate 

 army, 789 ; death, 789. 



REAGAN, J. H. Representative from Texas, 13?; on inter- 

 state commerce, 173-176. 



Rhode Island. Act passed by the Legislature relating to the 

 constitution and organization of the General Assembly, 

 789; Democratic nominations, Republican nominations, 

 789 ; the Liquor Prohibitionists meet, and, after discus- 

 sion, nominate State officers, 789, 790; Greenback-Labor 

 part}' Convention, 790; nominations and resolutions 

 adopted, 790 ; Republican candidates elected. 790 ; action 

 of the Legislature for retiring justices of the Supreme 

 Court, 790 ; preamble and resolutions for inviting dele- 

 gates of the French Republic at Torktown centennial to 

 Rhode Island, 790, 791 ; finances of the State, receipts, 

 expenditures, State debt, 791 ; savings-banks deposits, 

 791; educational statistics, 791 ; charitable, correctional, 

 and penal institutions, 791 ; railroads, 791 ; fish-culture, 

 791; "The Public Statutes" published, 791; United 

 States Senator elected, 791. 



Roman Catholic Church. The Pope's position in Rome, 

 792 ; action of the Italian Government in seizing property 



