INDEX. 



Absorption spectra of certain solu- 

 tions, effect of temperature on, 

 194, xi 

 Aerial locomotion, xiii 

 Ahikar, story of the Wise, xvi 

 Air, exploration of the upper, by 

 means of kites and balloons, 8, v 

 Australian aborigines, burial customs 

 of, 313, xiv 



B 



Bacterial life in water, effect of 

 bleaching powder upon, viii 



Balch, Edwin Swift, Why America 

 should re-explore Wilkes Land, 34, 

 vi, vii 



Thomas Willing, The American- 

 British Atlantic Fisheries Ques- 

 tion, 319, vi 



Barnard, remarkable changes in the 

 tail of Comet C, 1908 (More- 

 house), X 



Barus, adjustment for a plane grat- 

 ing, 166, xi 



electrometric measurement of 



the voltaic potential difference be- 

 tween the two conductors of a 

 condenser, 189, xi 



electron method of standardiz- 

 ing the coronas of cloudy conden- 

 sation, 177, xi 



Bauer, solar activity and terrestrial 

 magnetic disturbances, xi 



Bell, aerial locomotion, xiii 



Beverages and medicines, habit- 

 forming agents in, xi 



Blair, exploration of the upper air 

 by means of kites and ballons, 8, v 



Bloomfield, extent and number of 

 the Indo-European peoples, viii 



The Hindu Idea, iv 



Bogert, coal tar products and their 

 application in the arts and medi- 

 cine, v, vi 



Brain weight records, some condi- 

 tions modifying the interpretation 

 of human, vii 



Brains of two white philosophers 

 and two obscure negroes, vii 



Bright, some aspects of the question 

 of English speaking, iv 



Brown, device for tabulation of the 

 sums of numerous variable func- 

 tions, viii 



Bryant, volcanic formations of Java, 

 vi 



Bryce, personal reminiscences of 

 Charles Darwin and the reception 

 of " The Origin of Species," Hi, xi 



Burial_ customs of the Australian 

 aborigines, 313, xiv 



Bush, The Burning, and the origin 

 of Judaism, 354, viii 



Cannon, correlation of the gastric 

 and intestinal digestive processes 

 and the influence of emotions upon 

 them, XV 



Carter, evolution of the city of 

 Rome from its origin to the Gallic 

 Catastrophe, 129, vi 



Cetacea, South American fossil, viii 



Cheyney, The Court of Star Cham- 

 ber in the time of Elizabeth and 

 the early Stuarts, xvi 



Chrysocolla from Chile, 65, vii 



Clarke, chemical work of the U. S. 

 Geological Survey, viii 



Coal tar products and their applica- 

 tion in the arts and medicine, v, vi 



College of Physicians, invitation to 

 dedication of its new Hall, xv 



Color in plants, modification of, vii 



Comet C, remarkable changes in the 

 tail of, 1908 (Morehouse), x 



Condenser, electrometric measure- 

 ment of the Voltaic potential dif- 

 ference between the two conduc- 

 tors of a, 189, xi 



Conklin, the world's debt to Darwin, 

 xx.rviii 



appointed Delegate to N. Y. 



Academy of Sciences, iv 



Coronas of cloudy condensation, 177, 



X 



Cylinders, linear resistance between 

 parallel conducting, 142, x 



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