INDEX 



461 



Des Moines, Iowa, solar eclipse of 



1869, 377 



Dewar, James, 37, 45 

 Dinocerata, monograph on the, by 



O. C. Marsh, 300 

 Dinosaurs of North America, by 



O. C. Marsh, 302 

 D'Orbigny, see Orbigny, Alcides 



Dessalines, d' 



Drift, glacial theory of, 263 

 Dry Tortugas, Florida, Carnegie 



Station at, 444 

 Du Chaillu, Paul Belloni, 188 note, 



190 

 Ducrotay de Blainville, Henri Marie, 



177 



Dumeril, Andre Marie Constant, 177 

 Duncan, William, 53-55, 60 

 D wight, Prof. A. W., in 

 D wight, Dr. Timothy, 90-92, 94, 



1 06 



Dwight, Dr. Timothy, Jr., 103, 116 

 Dynamo, principles of construction 



127 



Economic value of animals, 274 



Edwards, George, 61, 68 



Edinburgh, University of, men and 

 conditions at beginning of igth 

 century, 98; discussion of Wer- 

 nerian theory, 100 



Egyptian scarabs, 306 



Ehrenberg, Christian Gottfried, 290 



Elector Palatine, Karl Theodor, 

 Duke of Bavaria, 20, 41 



Electric waves, discovery of, 357 



Electricity, experiments by Joseph 

 Henry, 123 



Electrochronograph, 1 29 



Elementary Principles of Statistical 

 Mechanics, by J. W. Gibbs, 357 



Elements of Botany, by Asa Gray, 

 215, 224 



Emmons, Ebenezer, 262 



Eosaurus, discovery of, 288, 289 



Equidas, see Horse 



Equilibrium of Heterogeneous Sub- 

 stances, On the, by J. W. Gibbs, 

 350-353 



Evolution, attitude of scientists to- 

 ward, 168, 193, 248, 331; theory 

 of, 298; publications on, by E. D. 

 Cope, 332, 333 



Exchanges, system of, 271, 276 



Explosives, Science of, researches in, 

 17, 18 



Faraday, Michael, 44, 126, 127 

 Farlow, Dr. William Gilson, 183 note, 



221 



Farrington, Prof., 265, 266 

 "Father of American Ornithology," 



51 



Faxon, Walter, 163, 446 

 Fernald, Prof. Merritt Lyndon, 



163 



Fewkes, Walter, 163 

 Findlay, A. G., 355 

 Fireless cooker, 32 

 Fireplaces, correct proportions for, 



,3 2 



Fish hatcheries, see Food-fishes 

 Fish Hawk, The, 401 

 Fisher, Prof. George P., 89, 105 

 Fisher, Prof. Irving, 383 

 Fisheries Exhibitions, 394 

 Fishes, classification of, by E. D. 



Cope, 327 

 Fishes of North and Middle America, 



by Jordan and Evermann, 398 

 Fishes of the Bermudas, Catalogue of, 



by G. B. Goode, 395, 399 

 Flora of North America, by Torrey 



and Gray, 216, 218, 219 

 Flourens, Marie Jean Pierre, 177 

 Flying-fish, The, see Wilkes Explor- 

 ing Expedition 

 Fog-signals, 141 

 Folsom, Norton, 203 

 Food-fishes, Baird's studies among, 



272, 274; hatching stations, 274; 



also 399, 400 

 Foresters, The, by Alexander Wilson, 



60 



Forster, Johann Reinhold, 51, 6 1 

 Fort Wool, Va., see Chesapeake Zoo- 

 logical Laboratory 

 Foundations of Zoology, by W. K. 



Brooks, 432, 445 

 Four Rocks of the New Haven Region, 



by J. D. Dana, 263 

 Franklin, Benjamin, 95, 119, 123, 



130, 384, 386 

 Frazer, Dr. Persifor, 336 

 Fresh-water Shell-mounds of the St. 



Johns River, Fla., by Jeffries Wy- 



man, 194 note 

 Frigate, copper-sheathed, 19 



