CONTENTS OF VOLUME II. 



SPEOTAL ARTICLES. 



PAGE 



Abbott, C. C. Occurrence of mound-builders* pipes in 



New Jersey. //( 258 



The intelligence of liirds :iOl 



Acoustic rotation apparatus. III. 818 



American association for the advancement'of science, 1.'>1, 181, 211 



Proceedings at tlie Minneapolis meeting, 190, 227, 272, 314, .'i.'iS 



American explorations at Assos. IH 546 



American oriental society t).il 



American society of ci\il engineers, tifleentb annual con- 

 vention of 7.1, luo 



American society of microscopists 4fi.» 



.Vuttaors, suseestion to 7.'f-'> 



Baird, G. W. Tlie electric liglit on tlie U. S. flsii-com- 



mission steamer Albatross. /// &12, 671, 70.i 



BsldaCCi, L. The earthquaiic of July 28, 1883, in the 



island of Ischia. Ill 3^« 



Balloon, fall of. lU 189 



Barrande, .Jo.icbim. Porlrait 699,727 



Beal, W. J. Aitricullure: its needs and opportunities . 328 

 Bell, A. Melville. A universal language and its vehicle, 



— a universal alpliabet 350 



Brooks, "W". K. 'I'iie plivioa:eny of the higher Crustacea, 790 



Carhart, H. S. Tlu- mairnctophone. Ill 392 



Carpenter, Frank D. Y. Miimesota weather . . . 202 

 Cayley, A. Obligations of mathematics to philosophy 



and to questions of common life 477, 502 



Chief sienai-offlcer's report 811 



Cook, C. S. The use of the spectroscope in meteorology. 



/// 4SS 



Cope, E. D. The evidence for evolution in the history of 



extinct mammalia 272 



Coues, Elliott. A hearing of birds' ears. III. 422, 562, .t86 



Coulter, J. M. Some glacial action in Indiana .... 

 Dana, J. D. Evidence from southern New England 



against the iceberg theory of the drift 390 



Davis, W. M. Whirlwinds, cyclones, and tornadoes. 



/// .589, 610, 639, 701, 729, 7.58 



Dawson, J. W. Some unsolved problems in geology . 190 



Diller, J. S. X. ites on the geology of the Troad . . . 2.50 

 Dimmock, George. The Arago laboratory at Banyuls. 



//( .5.56 



Dolbear, A. E. The conditions necessary for the sensa- 

 tion of light 214 



Eclipse of 1892 II 



Eddy, H. T. Kinetic considerations as to the nature of 

 the atomic motions which probably originate radia- 

 tions 70. 123 



On the kinetic tiieory of the specific heat of solids . . . 424 

 Evans, G. W. Kadiometers with curved vanes . . . 21.5 

 Farqunar, Henry. Experiments in binary arithme- 

 tic 7-55 



Field-clubs and local societies 1 



Flsk, S. A. Climate in the cure of consumption. . .426,457 



French association for the advancement of science .... 389 



Geographic control of marine sediments. Ill 560 



Germicide value of certjiin therapeutic agents, experiments 



to delermino 4.33 



Gilbert, G. K. drainage system and loess distribution 



of eastern Iowa 762 



Godwin-Austen, H. H. The Himalayas 593 



GOOde, G. B. The international fisheries exhibition. HI. 



129, 612 



Government as a publishing house 31 



Greenwich observatory 103 



H., H. A. Sun-spot observations 72 



Hall, E. H. Auroral experiments in T.j>pland III. ... 819 



Halsted, Byron D. \ combination walnut. ///. . . 761 



.Notes on sassafras.lcavcs. Ill 491 



llcer, Oswald. Portrait 683 



Hell's obnervations of the transit of Venus In 1769. ... 219 

 Hitcticock, C. H. Tlie early history of the North 



American continent 293 



Hitchcock, R. Water-bottles and thermometers for 

 deep-sea research at the International fisheries exhibi- 

 tion. Ill 15.5 



Holden, E. S. -V system of local warnings against tor- 

 nadoes .521 



The fundamental catalogue of tlie iV^r/in«r jrfAr&»cA . . 711 



PAUE 



Holden, E. S., and Hastings, C. S. A list nf twenty, 

 three (loul)le stars discovered at Caroline Island between 



April 27 an. I Mav 7, 1883 66 



Horn, George S. John Lawrence LeConte. Portrait . :8:i 



Hough, F. B. The methods of statistics 371 



Intelligence of .\merican turret spider 43 



International geodetic commission, resolutions of, in reia- 



tion to the unification of longitudes and of time . . . 814 



Java uplieaval. Ill 469 



King, F. H. The influence of gravitation, moisture, and 

 light, upon tile direction of growth in the root and stems 



of plants ., .5 



Kinnicutt, Leonard P. 'Kexraagnus' S45 



Kneeland, S. The wild tribes of Luzon. Ill 522 



Koch. Ueport of the (German cholera commission . . . 67.5 

 Lankester, E. B. The endowment of biological re- 



scarcli 504 



Leidy, Joseph. Crystals in the barlt of trees. HI. . . 707 

 Lesseps. F. de. French geographical explorations . . .596 

 Le'Wis. H. C. The great terminal moraine across Penn- 

 sylvania. //; 163 



Lick trust 609 



Lyon, D. G. Recent Babylonian research 40 



Manayunkia speciosa 762 



MarcOU. J. B. The aflinities of Richthofenia . . . . ioa 

 Marey, E. J. The physiological station of Paris. HI. 



678, 709 

 Mason, O. T. The scope and value of anthropological 



studies 358 



Merriman, G. B. liluslrative apparatus for astronomy. 



HI 218 



Minot, G. S. Balfour's last researches on Peripatus. 



Ill 308 



Composition of the mesoderm 11 



Histology of insects 430 



Origin of the mesoderm. Ill 815 



Miilier, Hermann. Porlrait 487 



National academy of sciences, November meeting of . . . 669 



National observatory 416 



National traits in science 455 



Neale, D. H. O'Neale. The national railway exposi- 

 tion. HI 3, 32, 97, 125, 417 



Newcomb, Simon. The psychological mechanism of 



direction 354 



The units of mass and force 493 



Nordenskiold, -V. E., on the inland ice of Greenland. III.. 732 

 Osbom, Henry F. Francis Maitland Balfour. Por- 

 trait 299 



Paris observatory 131 



Peale, A. C- Some geyser comparisons lol 



Peirce, C. S. A new rule for division in arithmetic . . 788 

 Pengelly , William. The Devonshire caverns and their 



contents 562 



Pickering, W. H. Surface conditions on the other 



planets 10 



Precision of observation as a branch of instruction . . . 519 



Railway lime, standard 494 



Rathtiun, R. • Sponge-culture in Florida 213 



The r. S. iish-commissioD steamer Albatross. HI. . . 6, 66 



Reade, John. Sonnet 255 



Rogers, W. A. The (ierman survey of the northern 



heavens 229 



Rowland, H. A. A plea for pure science 242 



Rvder, J. A. Oyster-culture in Holland 79 



liearing ovsters from artificially fertilized eggs at Stock. 



ton, Md". 4fl3 



Salmon, D. E. RelLabiiity of the evidence obtained in 



the study of eontagia 212 



Sauvage,' H. E. Tlie zoijloglcal station of Holland. 



Ill 618 



Sawln, A. M. Heal roots of cubics 158 



Schwatka, Frederick. The igloo of the Innuit. HI. 



182, 216, 239, 304, 347 

 Scott, W. B. On the development of teeth in the lam- 

 prey. Ill 731 



On tlie development of the pituitary body in Pctromyzon, 



and the significance of that organ in other types. III. . 184 



Shaler, N. S. The American swamp cypress .... 38 



