INDEX 



Abbe, Prof. Cleveland, 140 



Abel, Niels Henrik, 17 



Abiogenesis, 194 



Acoustics, see Sound, phenomena of 



Actinaria, see Actinoidea 



Actinoidea, 246 



Actinozoa, see Actinoidea 



Adams, Dr. J. F. A., 201 note 



Agassiz, Alexander, 159 



Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe, birth 

 and inheritance, 148; early love 

 for science, 149; academic career, 

 149-151; personality, 150; reli- 

 gious attitude, 151; association 

 with Von Martius, 152; honors, 

 153, 154; poverty, 153, 154; 

 dream of a fossil fish, 153; be- 

 friended by Humboldt, 154; mar- 

 riages, 154, 157; visits to England, 

 155; interest in glaciers, 155, 168; 

 lectures in America, 156; pro- 

 fessor at Harvard and at Charles- 

 ton Medical School, 157, 158; 

 influence on science, 157; begins 

 Contributions to the Natural His- 

 tory of the U. S., 159; voyages in 

 The Hassler and The Bibb, 161; 

 laboratory at Penikese Island 

 161; opposition to Darwinian 

 theory, 168, 194 and note, 248; 

 death, 169; association with Dr. 

 J. B. Holder, 147; qualities as a 

 scientist, 148; lecture courses at 

 Harvard, 178; weight of brain, 

 196; theory of glacial drift, 263; 

 also 109, 193, 263, 267, 270, 271, 

 272, 277, 289, 313, 433, 435, 437, 

 438 



Agassiz, Mrs. Elizabeth Graves 

 Gary, 157, 158, 167 



Albatross, The, 401 



Alcantara, Dom Pedro d', 387 



Alcyonaria, see Actinoidea 



Aldrovandi, Ulysses, 393 



Alexander, Prof. Stephen, 128 



Alternation of generations, 436 



Amblystoma, Metamorphosis of Sire- 

 don into, by O. C. Marsh, 292 



American Fishes, by G. B. Goode, 

 400 



American Journal of Mathematics, 

 381, 



American Journal of Mineralogy, 109 



American Journal of Science, 89, 

 109, no, 115 note, 177, 193, 235, 

 240, 243, 255, 289, 290, 302 



American Naturalist, 332, 335 



American Ornithology, by Alexander 

 Wilson, 51, 61, 62, 64-66, 68 



Amphibia and Reptilia, publica- 

 tions on, by E. D. Cope, 328 



Amphioxus, 440 



Anatomy, Wyman's definition of, 

 178 



Anderson, John, 161 



Anderson, Robert, 101 



Anhinga anhinga, see Snake-bird 



Animal Mechanics, by Bell and 

 Wyman, 173 note, 191 



Annual Record of Science and In- 

 dustry, 272 



Antarctic continent, discovery of, 

 238; see also Wilkes Exploring 

 Expedition 



Anthozoa, see Actinoidea 



Anthropoid Apes, by Robert Hart- 

 mann, 188 note 



Anticlines, 255, 256 



Anticlinorium, type of mountain 

 range, 256 



Apgar, Prof. 163 



Appalachians, type of mountain 

 structure, 255, 257 



Arago, Dominique Francois, 114 



Archeological collections of O. C. 

 Marsh, 305 



Archibald, Dr. R. C., 381 



Arkansas River, expedition to ex- 

 plore the sources, 61 



Asteroids, see Astronomy 



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