848 



SCIENCK — INDEX TO VOLUME II. 



Rocks of Tryborgr, 140. 



Rodents, germ-lnytTs of, 191. 



Roeetolia aiiranliucji, 385, 



RofiERS, W. A. A new method of inves- 

 tigatiug the flexure coi-rections of a me- 

 ridian circle. 239; an improved method 

 of produeinir a dark-field ilturainalion of 

 lines ruled upon glass, 240; determina- 

 tion of the relation between the imperial 

 vard and the mcire of the archives. 250; 

 the German survey of the northern heav- 

 ens. 229. 



Rogers, AV. A., on a standard centimetre, 

 465; the action of a diamond in ruling 

 lines on glass, 465. 



Romalea niicroptera, ill. 811. 



Ross's History of land-holdiDg, reviewed, 

 768. 



Rosse, r. C, 752. 



Rotation of earth, 135. 



Rotifcrti, dfpcriptions of, 92. 



Roumanian L-lhnolotry. 133. 



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

 242; the static tck-uhone, 285; tornado at 

 Racine, 1SS3. 281. " 



Rowland, H. A., on earth-currents, 251. 



Royal socielv's awards of medals, S3S. 



HoTCE, J. "Strieker's Studies on ideas of 

 motion, 713. 



Rubellan, 55G. 



Russian cartography, S3. 



Rust, protection of iron from, 414. 



Eutaceae, pollination of, 57. 



Rutot, A., on the geographic control of 

 marine sediment, ill. 560. 



Rtder, J. A. Oyster-culture in Holland, 

 79; primitive visual organs, 739; rearing 

 oysters from artificially fertilized eggs at 

 Stockton, Md., 463. 



S., C. A. International geodetic associa- 

 tion of Europe, 656. 



S., J. M. Function of the colorless bio od- 

 conjuscles, 353. 



Sabhaciaangiilaris, 335. 



Sabine, Sir Edward, 27. 



Saccharomvees, aecospores in, 347. 



St. David's rocks, ill. 167, 635. 



St. Louis limestone, 327. 



St. Michaels, meteorology of, 61. 



St. Peters sundstones. 51. 



Salmon, D. E. Reliability of the evi- 

 dence obtained in the study of contagia, 

 212. 



Salmon fisheries in the north- wegt, 343; 

 parasite of, 2.56. 



Salt Lake City, earthquakes at, 580. 



Sand, musical, 7]3. 764. 



Sarcophai^a carnaria, 774. 



Sassafras-leaves, ill. 491, 684. 



Saturn, 307. 381; appearance of, 838; 

 rings of, 149, 764, 289, 355 ; divisions in, 

 306. 



Saunders's Insects injurious to fruits, re- 

 viewed, 174. 



Sauvage, H. E. The zoological station 

 of Holland, ill. 618. 



Sawix, a. M. Equations of third degree, 

 44; real roots of cubics, 158. 



Savornis fuscns. 303. 



Sciileswig-llolstcin, pebbles of, 443. 



Sehmelck, L., on ocean waters and bot- 

 toms, 41. 



Scholarships, English, 385. 



ScHOTT, C. A. Standard railroad time, 

 570. 



Schuster, on the eclipse of 18S2, 11. 



ScHWATKA, F. The igloo of the Innuit, 

 ill. 182,216, 259,304, 347. 



Schwatka, itinerary of, 754; trip of, up the 

 Yukon, 550. 



Science, national traits in, 455; plea for 

 ■ pure, 242. 



Sciences, classification of, 370. 



Scott, \V. B. On the development of 

 teeth in the lamprey, ill. 731; on the 

 development of the i>ituitary body in 

 Petromyzon, and the significance of that 

 orean in other types, ill. 184. 



Scott's Elementary meteorology, reviewed, 

 226. 



Scovlllite, 223. 



Screw-propeller, theory of, 442. 



Seaweed, poisonous, 333. 



Secular increa.'se of earth's mass, 820. 



Seebohm's Village community, reviewed, 

 356. 



Seed, influence of, on crop, 417; influ- 

 ence of position on, 335; testing, 334. 



Selenium cell, new form of, 283. 



Senecio, aclienial hairs of, 201, 267. 



Senegambia, Pleurotomidae of, 229. 



Sensation of light, conditions necessary 

 for, 214. 



Sensory nerves, stimuli in, 16C. 



Serers of Joal and Portudal, 133. 



Serpent venom, 34. 503. 



Serpentine of Staten Island, 323, 



Sewer-gas, 379. 



Sexual variation of Rbylina, 402. 



Shaking towers, 3(»1. 



Shaler, N. S. The American swamp- 

 cypress, 38. 



Shan country, ethnology of, 500. 



Shaping-machines, 292. 



Sharples, S. F. Kalmia or rhododen- 



dr 



, 267, 



Shell in bracbiopods and chitons, 127. 



Shell-structure of Chonetes, 52(i. 



Shells, fresh-water, from Nebraska, ill. 

 808. 



Short. J. T., 698. 



Shufeldt, R. W. Osteology of the cor- 

 morant, 822; remarks uijon the osteol- 

 ogy of Phalacrocorax bicristatus, ill. 

 640: Romalea microptera, ill. 811; the 

 habits of Muraenopsis tiidactylus in 

 captivitv, with observations on its anat- 

 omy, ill. 159. 



Siberia, charts of, 421- 



Siberinn coast, settlements on, 560; sea, 

 hvdrosraphv of, 420. 



Siemens; C. \V., 725. 



Siemens's Solar energy, reviewed, 108. 



Sierra Leone, 561. 



Singing beach, 325. 



Siphonophores, nervous system in, 571. 



Sleep, depth of, 285. 



Slirae-spinnina:, 492. 



Smiley, C. M'. The German carp, and 

 its introduction into the United States, 



Smith, E. A, Life among the Mohawks 

 in the Catholic missions of Quebec pro- 

 vince, 3615. 



Smith, E. The Iroquois, 134. 



Smith, J. Lawrence, 667. 



Smith, Q. C. Colorado climate, 623. 



Smith, S. I. Packard's Pliyllopod Crus- 

 tacea, 571. 



Smuts, American, 27-%. 



Smvth on prime meridian, 451. 



Snakes killed. 135. 



Snowballs, natural, 285. 



Social development, 368. 



Society of mechanical engineers, 636; 

 transactions of, reviewed, 267. 



Society of naturalists of eastern United 

 States. 810. 



Societv for promotion of agricultural sci- 

 ence*, 117. 



Sociology, dynamic, 45, 105, 171, 222; of 

 Kabyles, 393. 



Soil, absorption of moisture by, 110; 

 analysis, value of, 435; conductivity of, 

 480; influence of manures on, 111; 

 moisture of, 113. 



Solanum tuberosum, 712. 



Solar constant, 44, 496; eclipse of May 6, 

 1883, 237, 241; electric potential, 328; 

 enei'gy, 108; prominence, reversal of 

 lines in, 621. 



Soldiers, French, ill, 605. 



Solen, visual organs of, 397. 



Somali-land, journey to, 206. 



Sonnet. 255. 



Sorghum kernels, structure of, 334. 



Sotol.291. 



Sound, tr.ins mission of, bj' gases, 44; ve- 

 locity of, 45. 



South America, notes on, 344. 



Spain, geological commission of, 148; geo- 

 logical map of, 29. 



Specific beat of solids, 284, 424. 



Spectroscope, use of, in meteorology, ill. 



Spectrum, origin of lines A and B In, 

 327. 



Speed of chemical reactions, 2S9. 



Spermatozoon of newt, 67. 



Spider, American turret, 43. 



Spinal cord, irritability of, 433. 



Spirit-levelling. 269. 



Spirogyra majuscula, 607. 



Spilzbergen, Swedish party at, 209. 



Spizellasocialis. 301. 



Sponge-culture in Florida, 213. 



Sporangites bilobatus, 326 ; brazllienfds, 

 326. 



Sporozoon, new, 156. 



Spotliswoode, William, 27, 116, 385. 



Spraying trees, 378. 



Squares, undeveloped properties of, 241. 



Squier, G. H. Erratic pebbles in the 

 Licking valley, 436. 



Squillacea, 793. 



Staining blood-corpuscles. 33. 



Standard railroad time. 570. 



Stanlev, H. M.. on evolution as bearing on 

 method in teleologv, 634. 



Star-places, catalogue of, 840. 



Stars, catalogues of, 221. 



Slate weather services, 252 ; July reports of, 

 399; August reports of, 559; September 

 reporis of, 681. 



Staten Island, natural science association, 

 753; serpentine of, 323. 



Statistics, methods of, 371, 



Statue of Liberty, engineering of, 357. 



Steam boilers, economy of, 332; engine, 

 efliciency of, 48; electric stop for, 40; 

 spherical, 544; heating, 686; jackets 

 for steam-engines, 108; whistles, 507. 



Steamer, Sound, 241. 



Steamers, forms of, 47 ; on the Rhone, 

 385, 



Stearns and Coues' Xew-England bird- 

 life, reviewed, 357. 



Steel castings, 545 ; compressed, 8. 



Step's Plant-life, reviewed, 544. 



Sternberg, on the germicide value of cer- 

 tain therapeutic agents, 433. 



Stevenson's Geology oT southern Pennsyl- 

 vania, reviewed, 49. 



Stibnite from Japan, 29.'>. 



Stokes, A. C. Phalanstoriura digitatum 



Ste 



,496. 



Stone, G. H. The kame rivers of Maine, 

 319. 



Stone-chat, plumages of, .580, 



Stony girdle of earth, 436. 



Storer, F. H. Symmetrical linear fig- 

 ures produced by reflection along a 

 river-bank, ill. 36. 



Stowell, C. H. Trutat's Elementary 

 treatise on the microscope, 313. 



Sto well's Microscopical diagnosis, re- 

 viewed, 83. 



Strawberry, insects afiecting the, 158, 



Strieker's Ideas of motion, reviewed, 

 713- 



Stromatopora, 170. 



Strophodonta, 326. 



Strophomena, 326. 



Sturtevant, E. L. Agricultural botany, 

 335; analysis of the wild potato, 712; in- 

 fluence of position on seed, 335; paral- 

 lelism of structure of maize and sorghum 

 kernels, 334; twelve months of lysimeter 

 record at the New- York agricultural ex- 

 periment-station. 290. 



Subsidence of land, 210. 



Substitutions, linear, 472. 



Sulphates, basic, of copper, 10. 



Sulphides, formation of, by pressure, 14. 



Sulphuric acid as fertilizer, 335 ; from 

 pyrites, 79. 



Sulu Islands, 288. 



Sun and its planets, 17. 



Sundews, fed and unfed, 486. 



Sunfish, rare, increase of, 434. 



Sunflower-cake as fodder, 553. 



Sun-spot inequalities, 696; interesting, 

 ill. 266, 309; observations, 72. 



Sun-spots, 115. 



Superphosphates, fineness of, 447 ; rever- 

 sion of, 446. 



Supei-stition. from, to humbug, 637, 739. 



Surface-condensers for marine engines, 



