INDEX TO VOLUME II. 



in black-faced type refer to the numbered paragraphs in the ' weekly summary;* those in t>rdinary type, to pages. 

 Names of contributors art printed in small capitals. 



Abbott, C. C Evidences of glacial man, 

 437; kalmtas and rhododendrons, 201; 

 occurrence of mound-builders' pipes in 

 New Jersey. iU. 258 ; occurrence of the 

 swallow.tailed hawk in New Jersey, 

 22'2; the intelligence of birde, 301. 



Abyssal mollusks, '^7, 208, 453. 



Acid in juice of beet, "C. 



Aconitum lycoctonum, 691. 



Acoustic rotation apparatus, ill. 818. 



Adams's Evolution, reviewed, 659, 



Aesculus glabra, flowers of, 89. 



Africa, French missionary work in, %^r»; 

 Masai people in, 502; notes on, 298; 

 Tortuguesc in, 423 ; South, land-hold- 

 ing in, 73. 



African exploration, 92; psychology, 195. 



Agarlcus, 631. 



Agave americana, 836. 



Agricultural botany, 335; prices, history 

 of. 353 ; eUtion, New York, 687. 



Agriculture : iU needs and opportunities, 

 328; values in, 378. 



Ainos of Japan, 134. 



Alaska, ethnology of, 667; geological 

 changes in, 655, 294; vegetation in, 

 519. 



Albatross, U. S. fish-commission steamer, 

 ill. 6, 66; four-days' cruise of, ill. 615; 

 electric light on, ill. 642, 671, 705. 



Alblte. 389, 418. 



Alcohols, action of, on heart, 96. 



Alexander, Stephen, 27. 



Algae, and tastes and odors, 333 ; injurious, 

 23; Swedish, 564. 



Algebraical equations, 409. 



Algeria, artesian wells in, 116 ; geological 

 map of, 606. 



Alleghenv oil-sands. 18. 



vVllkn, J. .\. The right whale of the 

 North Atlantic, 134,267. 



Alligator lucius, 831. 



AlmacantJir, tests with, 239. 



Alnwick castle antiquities, reviewed, 136. 



Alphabet, 43S; universal, 350. 



Alpine railways, 635. 



Alps, pre-Cambrian rocks of, 322. 



Alvord, B. Importance of lime-juice in 

 the pemraican for arctic expeditions, 471. 



Amelia county, Va., minerals from, 338. 



.America, autochthones of, 37 ; north-west, 

 353. 



American apiculturist, 147; archaeological 

 institute, 753; archeology, lectures on, 

 581 ; association for the advancement of 

 science, 116. 146, 151, 179,190,211,227, 

 253. 273, 314. 340, 358, 384; at Minneap- 

 olis, 181 ; explorations at Assos, ill. 646; 

 forestry congress, 117; oriental society, 

 tjol ; ornilhologlsle' union, 516; scholar- 

 ship, 167 ; society of civil engineers, 75, 

 100; of mechanical engineers, 62, 267: 

 of microscopisls, 117, 465. 



Americanists, congress of, 667. 



Amido-compounds, nutritive value of. .^51. 



Amlurus natalis, 144; nebulosus, 144; 

 prostbisiius, 144. 



Ammocoetcs, 731. 

 Amphincma apicatum, 773. 



Arophipoda, 793. 

 Ampuliaria Powelli, 808. 

 Anaesthesia, production of, 338. 



Ancient temples, restoration of, 740. 

 Angular measure, units of, 840. 

 Anhydrite, reproduction of, 313. 

 AniUne dyes, 486. 

 Animal chlorophyll, 487. 

 Annals of matnomatics, 69S. 



Annam, -341. 



Annelid and coral, 94. 



Anomura of New England, 257. 



Anoplophrya socialis, 790. 



Ant, leaping, 386; Occident, distribution 



of, 493. 

 Antase, !i2, 



Antborayia canicularis, 774. 

 Anthracite fields of Pennsylvania, 385. 

 Anthropological institute, London, 540 ; 



studies, 3->8. 

 Antbropologv at Berlin, 539; manuals of, 



149. 

 Antimony, atomic weight of, 479. 

 Antiquity of man in America, 779. 

 Antrostomus vociferus, 167. 

 Aortic insuflaciency, 527. 

 Apatites containing iodine, 242. 

 Appalachian mountain-club, 518, 

 Apteryx, respiratory organs of, 376. 

 Aquilegia, 691; longisslroa, 691. 

 Arago laboratory at Banyuls, ill. 556. 

 Arehaeological luiititutc of America, ill. 



646, 753. 

 Archeologv, American, lectures on, 581; 



in India,' 809 ; In Portugal, 764. 

 Architeuthis, model of, at Fisheries exhi- 

 bition, 683. 

 Archiv fUr anlhropologie, 607. 

 Arctic expeditions, pemmican for, 471 : 



land, 559 ; notes, 318, 365. 

 Arion hortensis, slime-spinning by, 493. 

 Arithmetic, binary, 755; rule for division 

 in, 788. 



Arkansas, forest-trees o^, 342. 



Arlberg tunnel, 781. 



Arrow release, 369. 



Artemia salina, 571. 



Arterial pressure, 527. 



Artesian wells, 116. 



Ajithcb, J. C. A supposed poisonous 

 seaweed in the lakes of Minnesota, 333. 



Asanhus, 341. 



Asclepias, pollination of, 437* 



Ascospores in Saccbaromyces, 347. 



AsHBURNTiR, C. A. The Dora coal-field, 

 Virginia, 794. 



Asia, Pulmonata of. 429. 



Asparagin, chemistry of, 303. 



Asphalt mortar, 415. 



ABpidonectes spinifer, 338. 



Assassins, skulls of, 312. 



Association for advancement of science and 

 teaching, 210. 



Assos. explorations at, HI. 646; meeting, 

 report of, 712. 



Afltarte triquetra. 277. 



Astronomical instruments, 202. 



Astronomy, biographical blstor}' of, 623; 

 illustrative apparatus for, HI. 218. 



Atlantic Ocean, age of, 666. 



Atmospheric electricity, 291. 



Atomic motions, nature of, 76, 123. 



Audibility, limit of, 43. 



Augite, 484. 



Aurantlaceae, spines of, 566. 



Auriculidae, shell in, 371. 



Aurora. 472, ill. 75. 



Auroral experiments in Lapland, ill, 819. 



Australia, bismuth of, 554. 



Australian class systems, 69 ; coal flora, 

 520. 



Authors, suggestion to, 755. 



Automatism, conscious, 339. 



Auwers, on the Berliner jahrbuch, 711. 



Aver)-, on the Kbasl language, 651. 



AzUlan, 362. 



Aztec music, 305. 



B., L. English cA, 712; teaching language 



to brutes, 632. 

 B., M. Area of a plane triangle, 794. 

 Babbitt, F. E. Vestiges of glacial man 



in central Minnesota, 369. 

 Babylonian research, 40. 

 Bacteria, 466. 



Baird, G. W. The electric light on the 

 U. S. fisb-commUsion steamer Albatross, 

 ill. 642. 671. 705. 

 Baker. M. Magnetic observations at Los 



Angeles, Cal., HI. 58. 

 Baker, T. K. A comparison of terra- 

 cotta lumber with other materials. 292. 

 Baldacci, L. The earthquake of July 

 28, 1883, in the island of Ischia, HI. 396. 

 Balfour, Francis Maitland, portrait, 299; 



his researches on Peripatus, HI. 306. 

 Balloon, fall of. ill. 189; of Paris obser- 

 vatory, 451. 

 Banyuls, Arago laboratory at, i7/. 556. 

 Barite, reproduction of, 313. 

 Barley, growth of, 448. 

 Barometric laws, 315; maxima and min- 

 ima, 451. 

 Barrande, Joachim, por/ra/f, 699, 727; be- 

 quest of, 725. 

 Basal substance, structureless, 161. 

 Basalt, Ottendorf. 271. 

 Basic process at Peine works, 358. 

 Batstoe River, fishes of, 163. 

 Bavarian forest, 185 ; meteorology, 251. 

 Beal, W. J. Agriculture: its needs and 



opportunities, 328. 

 Beavers at London fisheries exhibition, 28. 

 Beet-juice, glutamin in. 517. 

 Belgium, geology of, 14. 

 Bell, A. M. A universal language and its 



vehicle, —a universal alphabet, 350. 

 Bell's Primer of visible speech, reviewed, 



204. 

 Ben Nevis, meteorological observatory on, 



666; observations at. 303. 

 Benedict, J. E. Invertebrates captured 



by the Albatross, 617. 

 Benzotrichloride, phenols, and pbenylam- 



ines. 50. 

 Bering Sea, news from, 205. 

 Berlin, anthropology at, .539. 

 Berliner jahrbuch, 711. 

 Beryllium, spectrum of. 243. 

 Bessemerizing copper mattes, 333. 

 BiGELOw. H. R. The mechanism of direc- 

 tion, 622. 

 Binary arithmetic, experiment* in, 755. 

 Birchbark poems, 414. 

 Bird-life, New-England, 357. 

 Birds' ears, ill. 422, 652, 586. 

 Birds, Illinois, 283; intelligence of, 301 , 

 notes of, 167; of Tonkak, 99; pacinian 

 corpuscles of, 460. 

 Bismuth of Australia, 554; solutions, 



electrolysis of, 141. 

 Biziura. anatomy of, 435. 

 Blackhara, G. E., on namllig oculars, 466. 

 Blake, J. F.. on St. David's rocks, 635. 

 Blake dredgings, 574. 

 Bleaching. 546. 

 Blissus leucopteruB, 540. 

 Blood corpuscles, colorless, 363; serum, 

 chemistry and physiology of, 31 ; ves- 

 sels, 462. 

 Boas, J. E. v., on the phylogeny of the 



higher Crustacea, 790. 

 Body and will, 600. 

 Boilers, compound engines and, 477. 

 Bolivian rivers, 274. 

 Bolometer, cheap, 137. 



