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SCIENCE. — INDEX TO VOLUME IL 



Bolton, H. C, and Julien, A. A. Musi- 

 cal sand, 713. See also Julien, A. A., 

 and Bolton, H. C. 



Bolton's Catalogue of scientific and tech- 

 nical periodicals, 92. 



Bombay, deaths from snake-bite in, 147. 



Book notices, minor, 626. 



Borneo, nortb-eafltern, 388. 



Bobs, L. Comet ft, 1883 (Brooks), 449. 



Boston society of natural history, 518, 635 ; 

 Walker prize of, 146; zoological eocioty, 

 810. 



Botanical club, 340. 



BoTANicuLUS. Achenial hairs of Senecio, 

 267. 



Botany, elementary, 13, 105. 



Bottoms, ocean, 41. 



Boulenger, G. A., catalogue of, 810. 



Boundary-line between Guatemala and 

 Mexico, 484. 



Bove'a new expedition, 354. 



BowEKS, S. In an Indian grave, 105; 

 many snakes killed, 135. 



Boyd county, Ky., glacial phenomena in, 

 654. 



Boyle's law, apparatus for, ill. 284. 



Brachionus Gleasonii, 468. 



Brachiopoda, shell-structure of, 325. 



Brachyura in New England, 357. 



Brain-weight, 193. 



Branchial arches and clefts, 463. 



Bi'ass, dissociation of, 178. 



Brauns, D. The Ainos of Japan, 134. 



Bremiker's Logarilhmic tables, reviewed, 

 174. 



Brewster, "W. Singular lightning, ill, 

 135. 



Briggs's Steam-heating, reviewed, 686. 



Brine shrimps, American and European, 

 653. 



British association for the advancement of 

 , 477, 502, 504, 529, 549, 562, 593, 



635, 

 British Columbia, fisheries of, 342 ; fungi, 



iliuetraiions of. 346; Helices, 635; in- 

 stitution of mechanical engineers, 310 ; 



patent law, 603. 

 Bromides, ammoniacal, of zinc, 13. 

 Brontosaurus, i-estoration of, ill. 309. 

 Bronze, invention and spread of, 527; 



tempering of, 537. 

 Brooks, Margarette W. Bone fish-hooks, 



ill. 653. 

 Brooks, W. K. The phylogeny of the 



higher Crustacea, 790. 

 Brooks comet, 450, 

 Brown, R. Greenland geology, 539. 

 Buildine-stones, 481. 

 Burnham's Limestones and marbles, le- 



viewed, 203. 

 Burrill, T. J., on preparing and mounting 



bacteria, 465. 

 Butterflies, sucking apparatus in, 576; 



variations in, 353. 

 Butters, American, 291; artificial, 300. 



Cable-cars, 377. 



Cabokia, mounds of, 365. 



Calculus of variations, 366. 



Calibration of galvanometer, ill. 282. 



Cambodia, explorations in, 187. 



Cambrian rocks, 518. 



Cambridge entomological club, 30. 



Campbell, J. The mound-builders iden- 

 tified, 365. 



Capron, J. R., on auroral experiments in 

 Lapland, ill. 819. 



Carbon dioxide, action of, on heat, 583. 



Carbonic oxide, liquefaction of, 4. 



Carboniferous age, vegetation of, 529. 



Cardinalis virginianus, 167. 



Carkart, H. S. The magnetophone, or 

 the modification of the magnetic field by 

 the rotation of a perforated metallic 

 disk. 250., ill. 392. 



Carolina wren, 436. 



Caroline Island, double stars discovered 



Carpenter, W. B., on the germ-theory of 



disease, 666. 

 Cartography, Russian, 83. 

 Cartridges, compressed, 197. 

 Caryaalba, 761. 



Caspian Sea, 86 ; region, railways in, 396. 

 Cassiterite, 483. 

 Catalogues of physical and mathematical 



works, 342; of stars, errata in, 221. 

 Caterpillar, monstrous, ill. 61. 

 Catlinlte, 169. 



Catskill group of Pennsylvania, 327. 

 Caucasus, Mollusca of, 330 ; petroleum 



in, 367. 

 Caverns, Devonshire, 562. 

 Caylet, a. Obligations of mathematics 

 to philosophy, and to questions of com- 

 mon life, 477, 502. 

 Celestite, reproduction of, 313. 

 Cell-division, 190. 

 Census, tenth, table of ages of, 209. 

 Centre of gravity of mass, determination 



of, ill. 283. 

 Cereals, copper in, 143. 

 Ceylon, 825. 

 (7/(, English, 712. 

 Challenger reports, 837. 

 Chameerlin, T. C. The terminal mo- 

 raine west of Ohio, 317. 

 Chambers, V. T., 253, 839. 

 Champlain valley, 633. 

 Chandler, C. H. Kalmia, 309. 

 Chandler, S. C, jun. On the possible 

 connection of the Pons-Brooks comet 

 with a meteor stream, 683; results of 

 tests with the Almacantar in time and 

 latitude, 239. 

 Charnay collection, 170, 368. 

 Chemical elements, indexing literature of, 

 287; problems, 627; reactions, speed of, 

 289. 

 Chemistry, instruction in, at Harvard uni- 

 versity, 91; theoretical, 826. 

 Chesapeake oyster-beds, ill. 440. 

 Cheshire salt districts, 210. 

 Chester, A. H., on a new method of dry 



mounting, 465. 

 China, meteorology in, 390; telegraph- 

 line in, 186. 

 Chinch-bug in New York, 540, 621. 

 Chinese laws and customs, 337; not ho- 

 mogeneous, 379 ; tombs, 335. 

 Chitons, ortjanization of, 398. 

 Chlorine, hydrates of, 11. 

 Chlorophyll, animal, 487. 

 Cholera commission, German, 675; epi- 

 demic, cause of, 297 ; in Egypt, 838; pre- 

 cautions against, 452. 

 Chonetes, 536, 326. 



Christie, W. H. M.,on the Greenwich ob- 

 servatory, 103. 

 Chukchi, peninsula, population of, 419. 

 Cincinnati glacial dam at, 319, 436; indus- 

 trial exposition, 452; society of natural 

 history, 384, 605, 839. 

 Cinnoline derivatives, 77. 

 Circulation, action of respiratory move- 

 ments on, 496; in kidneys, 499. 

 Cirolana concharum, host for, 373. 

 Civil engineers, American society of, 75, 



100. 

 Clarke, J. T., address of, before archae- 

 ological institute, 646; report of the 

 Assos meeting, 712. 

 Class systems, Australian, 69. 

 Classification of natural sciences, 279; of 



sciences, 370. 

 Clatpole, E. W. a large crustacean 

 from the Catskill group of Pennsylva- 

 nia, 327; notes on ihe potato-beetle and 

 the Hessian fly for 1883, 337 ; Rensselae- 

 ria and a fossil fish from the Hamilton 

 group of Pennsylvania, 327; Rensselae- 

 ria from the Hamilton group of Pennsyl- 

 vania, 471; the present condition of the 

 box huckleberry, Vaccinium bracbyce- 

 rura,in Perry county, Penn., 335. 

 Cleopatra's Needle, 113. 

 Climate, Colorado, 623; in cure of con- 

 sumption, 426, 457, 682; influence of, on 

 vegetation, 519. 

 Coal flora, Australian, 630 ; volatile con- 

 stituents of, 330. 



Co-education of the sexes, 117. 

 Colombia, 54. 



Color-markings of mammals, 164; changes 

 of lungwort flowers, 319; words, 536. 

 Colorado cllnialc, 623. 

 Colored population of United States, 376. 

 Coloring-matter, animal, 463. 

 Columbines, 394. 



Comet &, 3883 (Brooks), 449, 450; of 1882. 

 290; orbit of, 280; Pods-Brooka, 666, 

 683; elliptic elements of, 654. 

 Comets, spectra of, 363. 

 Commercial science, bureau of, 340. 

 Complex variable, functions of, 308. 

 Conchology, 658. 

 Conductivity, unipolar, 136. 

 Congress of Americanists, 667. 

 Connecticut River, 118; waters, oyet«r 



farming in, 376. 

 Consolidation of bulky materials, 331. 

 Constant, solar, 44, 496. 

 Consumption, cure of, 426, 457, 682. 

 Contagia, study of, 212. 

 Continental tyue, 321. 

 Cook, C. S. The use of the spectroficope 



in meteorology, ill. 488. 

 Co-operation between government and 



state geological surveys, 314. 

 Cope, E. D. The evidence for evolution 

 in the history of the extinct Mammalia, 

 272; the structure of the skull in Diclo- 

 nius mirabilis, a Laramie dinosaurian, 

 338; the trituberculate type of superior 

 molar, and the origin of the quadrituber- 

 culate, 338; two primitive types of Un- 

 gulate, 338. 

 Copepoda, fresh-water, 39. 

 Copper extraction process, 248; in cere- 

 als, 143 ; mattes, 333 ; prehistoric, .351 ; 

 production of world, 359 ; sulphates of, 

 10. 

 Cordierite, 558. 



Cormorant, osteology of, 739, 822. 

 Corn, 335; butt and tip kernels of, 301; 



composition of, 290. 

 Cornell university, electrical science at, 

 147; mathematical library, special llet, 

 reviewed, 827. 

 Corvidae, 265. 

 Corwin, cruise of, 752. 

 Cothurnia variabilis, 467. 

 Cottin, on the fall of a balloon, ill. 189. 

 CoTJES, E. A bearing of birds' ears, ill. 



422, 552, 586. 

 Coulter, J. M. Development of a dan- 

 delion flower, 336; some glacial action 

 in Indiana, 6. 

 Cox, E. T. Cable-cars for city passenger 



traflic, 377. 

 Crevaux, death of, 151 ; search for, 30, 



222, 485; voyages of, in Guiana, 153. 

 Crico-tbyroid muscle, function of, 165. 

 Crocker, F. B. Regulation of electro- 

 motive force, 821. 

 Ckosbt, W. O. Probable occurrence of 



the Taconian system in Cuba, 740. 

 Crows, prehensile feet of, 265. 

 Crustacea, phyllopod, 571; phylogeny of, 



790. 

 Cryptogams, synonymy of, 434. 

 Crystals in bark of trees, ill. 707, 780. 

 Cuba, mines of, 81 ; Taconian system in, 



740; woods of, 780. 

 Cubics, real roots of, 153. 



Cun 



793. 



Cun^ne, tribes of, 404. 



Curare, 534. 



Current-meter, 393. 



Currents of Pacific Ocean, 117. 



Curtoneura stabulans, 697. 



Cuspidine, 449. 



CulaneouB nerves in mammals, 35. 



Cutts, R. r>.,810. 



Cyclones, ill. 589, 610, 639, 701, 729, 768. 



Cypella, pollination of, 189. 



Cypress, American swamp, 38. 



Cystoliths, formation of, 35. 



Dall, W. H. First use of wire in sound- 

 ing. 12. 

 Damage to delicate substances by packing, 

 fc5Sl. 

 Dana, J. D. Evidence from southern 



