SCIENCE. — CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. 



INTELLIGENCE FROM AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC STATIONS. 



OOrERNKBMT OBOAKIZATION8. 



Bureau of etbnoloKy. 5S0. 



Ocological survey, 633, 724, 777, 807, 836. 



Magnetic observatory at Los Angeles, Cal., itt. 58. 



National museum, 339, 530. 



Naval bureau of ordnance, 58. 



STATS 1NSTITDTI0S8. 



Illinois state laboratory of natural history, 483. 



Iowa weather service, 27, 339. 

 Miissachusctte institute of technology, 449. 

 .Missouri weather service. 26. 

 Ohio Wesleyan university, 91. 

 State universitv of Kansas, 90, 340. 

 University of Michigan, 208. 



PUBLIC AND PRIVATE INSTITUTIONS. 



Dudley observatory, 449. 

 Williams college, 808. 



Letteks TO THE EDITOR, 12, 44, 105, Ul. 132, ill. 167, 201, 221, ill. 265, ill. 309, 353, 402, 435, 470, 490, 539, 569, ill. 599, 620, ill. 852, 



ill. 682 712 739 784 ill. 793 ill. 820. 

 Notes and n'ewsI 27, 61, 91, 116, 146, i79, 209, 253, 297, 340, 384, ill. 412, 460, 484, ill. 516, 549, 580, ill. 004, 634, 665, 096, 725, 752, ill. 



778, ill. 808, 837. 

 Recent books and pamphlets, 30, 62, 92, 118, 160, 180, 210, 254, 298, 342, 463, 486, 518, 660, 682, 608, 636, 668. 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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Acoastic rotation apparatus (5 figs.) 818,819 



Albatross, U.S. fisb-commigsion steamer, 7; longitudinal 

 section of, 8, 9; captain's cabin, 67; main laboratorj', 

 forward end, 68; same, after end, 69; the Sigebcc 

 Bounding-macbine on, 70; forward deck of, 71 ; electric 

 light on (17 figs.) .... 643, 644, 645. 673, 674, 675, 707 

 Assos, city walls of, 647; corner of oldest polygonal city 



wall of 648 



Astronomy, illustrative apparatus for 218 



Aurora borealis, diagram of Lcmstriim's wires in experi- 

 ments on 84 



Auroral experiments in Lapland, diagram explaining. . . 820 

 Balfour, F'raucis Maitland, portrait and signature of . . . 299 



Balloon, fall of a (6 figs.) 189.190 



Banyuls, Arago laboratory at, 568; as seen from tlie labora- 

 tory 559 



Barrande, Joachim, portrait and signature of 699 



Bear, polar 542 



Bennett Island 543 



Bombinator, section through head of embryo of, 186; eec- 



tiou through head of tadpole of 186 



BoylcV law, apparatus for (2 figs.) 284 



Brontosaurue, restoration of 207 



Cars, racks of postal, 418 ; suspension truck for, 419 ; dump, 

 419; diagram showing action of suspension truck for, 

 419; elliptic spring for, 420; drawbar for, 420; automat- 

 ic brake for 421 



Chick's akull. anatomy of (9 figs.) . . . .423, 552, 653, 587, 588 



Crystols in bark 708 



Dissociation of salts, diagram showing results of ... . 289 



Dohrn, Anton, portrait and signature of 93 



Figures, nymmetrical, by reflection 38 



Fish-hooks, bone 653 



Fisheries exhibition, American section of International . . 614 



French soldiers resting 605 



Frog ovum, frontal section through 817 



Oalvanometer, method of calibration of 283 



Glacial scratches on Scotland and Shetland, map of . . . 745 



Gravity, method of finding centre of 28:J 



Greenland, map of western coa^t of, 413; map of Nordeu- 



skiold's journey on, 733; fissure in inland ice of . . . 735 



Gulf slope, chart of 616 



Heer, Oswald, portrait and signature of 583 



Heliostat 285 



Ice-chart for June, 1883 188 



Igloo, making an fee, 216; ice, with snow capping, 217; 

 diagram snowing method of building, 259 : a snow-block 

 for, 260; half-buill, 260; finishing touches to, 261; ver- 

 tical cross-section through wall of, 261 ; diagram show- 

 ing method of laying the snow -blocks fur, 260; vertical 

 section of, 304; plan of, 304; Lieut. Schwatka's party 

 encamped in snow, 34S; section through fallen, 349; 



Innult tightropes in 349 



Ischia, earthquake of July 28, 1883, on island of. . . .397, 485 

 Java earthquake, map of 469 



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JeaDnettc Island 542 



Lamprey, sagittal section through head of embryo of, 134 ; 

 section through head of older embryo of, 185 ; section 

 thruuuh head of young larva of, 185; section of inner 



side of lip of 732 



LeConte, John Lawrence, portrait and signature of . . . 783 



Lightning, singular 135 



Locomotive, logging, 126 ; logging, with geared wheels, 126 ; 

 indicator diagrams for, 127; metallic packing for piston- 

 rods of, 128; Mack's improved lifting injector for . . . 128 



Luxotype, specimen of 809 



Luzon, Igorrotes of, 523; Gaddan of, 524; Gaddan woman 



of 525 



Magnetic curves (3 figs.) 393 



Magnetic observatory at Los Angeles, plan of 00 



Magnetophone, 393; for prodiictiou of the four notes of the 



major chord 394 



Montgolfiers* monument 517 



Monument Hill, Jena delta 543 



Moraine across Pennsylvania, map of the great terminal . 166 



Miiller. Hermann, portrait of 487 



Muraenopsis tridactylus, life-size head of, 159; skull of, 

 162; hyoidean and branchial apparatus of, 163; right 

 fore-arm and rudimentary shoulder-girdle of ... . 163 



Omahas, diagram explaining marriage laws of 699 



Oysters, growth of. on tiles (3 figs.) 442,443 



Peripatus, hurizontal section through the head of. 306; gen- 

 eral anatomy, •t07; anterior portion of nen'ons system. 

 307; section of tracheal orifice. 307; part of segmental 

 organ, 308; embrvo, 308; section tbrough the open 



blastopore of the embrjo 308 



Phalacrocorax bicristatus, skull of, 640; sternum of, 641; 



knee-joint of tH2 



l*hysiological station at Paris, 680; photographic car at 

 (2 figs.), 681 ; photographs of running men at (5 figs.), 



709, 710, 711 



Pipe, mound-builder's 258 



Pristiurus, section through head of embryo of 186' 



Hocks, diagrams showing sections of 169 



Komaiea microptera facing page 811 



Uoray Head and the Old Man of Hoy 744 



SassafrsiB-Ieaves 492,684 



Scalloway from the north-east 743 



Sediments, geographic control of marine (5 figs.) . . .560, 561 



Shovel, bone 542 



Signals, electrical (2 figs.) 823 



Skulls, diagram of breadth indices of 24 



Snow-icsters, 218; knife, modem, 259; knife of bone, 259; 



shovel 262 



Spectroscope for use In meteorology (4 figs.) . . . 489, 490, 491 



Sun-spot, 266; repeated 309 



Switches and signals, iuterlocking.at Wilmington, 33 ; levers 

 operating interlocking, 33; semaphores, 98; device for 

 keeping rods tight for, 99; compensating joint for ex- 

 pansion of rods for, 99; automatic block system for . . 99 



