SCIENCE. — INDEX TO VOLUME II 



849 



413; cODditlonB on planets, 10; film, 



letters in. 309. 

 SurfacL'8, claeeltication of, 74; curvature 



of, 215; of conMUut curvature, 174 ; of 



second degree, 'iSO; parallel, 383. 

 Sua, 548. 



Swallow. tailed bawk In New Jersey, 'J22. 

 Swallows in Boston, 135, 222. 

 Swamp cypress, 38. 

 Swedish Algae, ~»tt4 ; party at Spitzber- 



gen, 209. 

 Swift, reckless, '222. 

 Swiss naturalists, meeting of, 400. 

 Sylvester, J. J., 781, 837. 

 Symbiosis. 395. 

 Symbolic earth formations, 367. 



T., W. B. Rings of Saturn, 7M. 

 Taconiau system io Cuba, 740. 

 Tadpoles, nerve-endings in, 279. 

 Tanner, Z. L. A four-days' cruise of 



the Albatross, iit. 615. 

 Tarantula, restoration of limbs in, 374. 

 Tarentula arenleola, 43. 

 Target-shooting, 473. 

 Tarr, R. S. Musical sand, 7&4. 

 Tattooing among civilized people, 585. 

 Taxation among Romans, 354. 

 Taxidermy, manual of, 312. 

 Taxodium distichum, 38. 

 Taylor's Alphabet, reviewed, 438. 

 Teeth, mutilations of, 234; of lampn-y, 



HL 731. 

 Teleology and evolution, 634. 

 Telephone, efficiency of, 239 ; static, 285. 

 Telescope, equatorially mounted, 782. 

 Temporal bones, 129. 

 Tenuirostres, tongues of, 437. 

 Terra-colta lumber, 2iJ2. 

 Terraces. 321. 



Tertiary rocks, c lass iti cation of, 696. 

 Tenticularia Cypcri, 112. 

 Testing-macbint;, Emery's, 356. 

 Telrahedrite and zinc blende, 557. 

 Textile laboratory, 696. 

 Thalaesemamillita. 147, 

 Therapeutic agents, 433. 

 Thermochemical properties of electromo 



live force, 177. 

 Thermotropism, 299. 

 Th eta-functions, double, 2. 

 Thibet, investigations in, 392. 

 Thomas, B. F. A method for the cali- 

 bration of a galvanometer, ill. 282; a 

 method of determining the centre of 

 gravity of a ma!*s, ill. 283; a new helio- 

 Btat, iti. 285 ; two forms of apparatus for 

 Boyle's law. itt. 284. 

 Thompson's Phllipp Reis, reviewed, iti. 



472. 

 Thomson and Tait's Natural philosophy, 



reviewed, 497, 795. 

 Thripidae, 578. 



Thryothorus ludovicianus, 722. 

 Thunderbolts, deaths by, 606. 

 Thunder-storms, 339. 

 Thurston, R. II. The explosion of the 



Klverdale, 464. 

 Tiffany, A. 8. The equivalent of the 

 New-York water-lime group developed 

 in Iowa, 323. 

 Timber-trees, specimens from, 668. 

 Time, standard, 755; unification of, and 



longitude, 814; universal, 697. 

 Timor, ethnology of, 406. 

 Tifsues, preservation of, 522. 

 Tobacco, fertilizers for, 510. 

 Todies, anatomy of, 281. 

 Tolles, R. B.. 726. 

 Toltecs, 325. 

 Tombs, Chinese, 235. 

 Tonkak, birds of, 99. 

 Tornado at Racine, 1883, 281; studies, 403, 



363. 

 Tornadoes, ill. 589, 610. 639, 701, 729, 758; 

 formation of, 620; warnings against, 521. 

 ToRREY, B. I>o humming-birds fly back- 



wards? 436. 

 Touch-corpuscles, 529. 

 Transit of Venus in 1769, 219. 

 Transits of Inferior planets. 239. 

 Tree-growth, 569 ; influence of winds upon, 

 470. 



Trees, spraying, 378. 



Trenton natural history society, 428,434, 

 436. 



Trepanning, prehistoric, 168. 



Tricycle, water, ill. 779. 



Trilobite with legs, 341. 



Trilobiles from Pennsylvania, 399. 



Troad, geology of, 255. 



Troglodytes, 131. 



Trouvelol's red star, tMo. 



Trie, K. W. Ziphius on the New Jersey 

 coast, 540. 



Trutat's Elementary treatise on the micro- 

 scope, reviewed, 313. 



Tryberg, eruptive rocks of, 149. 



Trvon's Conchology, reviewed, 658. 



Tuberculosis, contagiousness of, 697. 



Tudor's Orkneys and Shetland, reviewed, 

 i7/. 743. 



Tultecas. 287. 



Tunis, coast-line of. 15.%. 



Tunnel, Arlberg, 781. 



Turkey, impreKuatiou in, 105. 



Turritopsis, 773. 



Tylor, E. B. The natural history ctf 

 implements, 43. 



Tylor's lectures at Oxford, 71. 



Types of animal life, 688. 



U., W. July reports of state weathi^r ser- 

 vices, 399. 



Ullraannite, 224. 



Ulvaceae, monograph of, 56.5. 



Ungulata, primitive types of, 338. 



Unfted States bureau of ethnology, 580; 

 department of agriculture, 29; fish-com- 

 mission bulletin, reviewed, 685; geologi- 

 cal survey, 633, 724, 777, 807, 836; mag- 

 netic ybservatory at Los Angeles, Cal., 

 ///. 58; mineral resources, 413; national 

 museum, 63, 119, 339, 580; naval bureau 

 of ordnance, 58; naval institute, 28; 

 naval observatory, 415; Psyllidae of, 

 337; signal-service, 343, 387, 755, 811. 



Units of mass and force, 493. 



Universal alphabet, 350. 



ITniversity of Michigan, 208. 



Upham, W. Changes in the currents of 

 the ice of the last glacial epoch in east- 

 em Minnesota. 319; the Minnesota val- 

 ley in the ice age, 318 ; vestiges of glacial 

 man in Minnesota, 369. 



Upton, W.,4ol, 



Uranus. 264. 



Urnatella gracilis, ill. 789. 



Urocyclus. anatomy of, 278. 



Uromyces acuminatus, 21. 



Ustilagineae, new. 121. 



Ustilago axicola, 112. 



Vaccination question, 606. 

 Vaccinium brachycerum, 335. 

 Valentin, G.. 28. 

 Values in agriculture, 378. 

 Valves, pressure on, 216. 

 Van Nostrand's engineering magazine, 810. 

 Vanessa Antiopa, 353; Lintneri, 353. 

 Vapor density, 293 ; determinations, 314. 

 Variation of horizontal intensity, 176. 

 Variations in butterflies, 353. 

 Vaseline, use of, 333. 

 Vaso-dilators of lower limb, 401. 

 Vasomotor ner^-es of leg, 497. 

 Vedas, seamy side of. 538. 

 Vegetation of carboniferous age, 529. 

 Vefocity of sound, 45. 

 Venom of serpents, 34. 

 Venus, transit of, in 1769, 219. 

 VkrbiI-L. a. E. Recent explorations in 

 the region of the Gulf Stream off the 

 eastern coast of the United States bv 

 the U. 8. fish.commission, 153. 



Very. F. W. An interesting sun-spot. 

 ill. 266. 



Vesuvius, lava of. 254. 



Viallanes, on histology of Insects, 430. 



Victoria, planet, observations of, 118. 



Village community, 356. 



ViRCHOw, R. The invention and spread 

 of bronze, 527. 



Vireo noveboracenels, 302. 



Visible speech, 204; letters, 452. 



Visual organs of Solen, 397 ; primitive, 



739. 

 Vivisection, 551. 



Volatile constituents of coal, 220. 

 Vortlcella, 772. 



W., W. C. The American association at 

 Minneapolis, 181; the lessons of the 

 meeting, 211. 



Waagen. W.. on the affinities of Rich- 

 thofenia. 103. 



Wabash college, 451. 



Wadsworth, M. E. Ocean waters and 

 bottoms, 41. 



Walcott, C. D. Fresh-water shells from 

 the paleozoic rocks of Nebraska, iit. 

 808. 



Waldeyer, on composition of the meao- 

 derm, 11. 



Waldo. F. Solar constant, 496. 



Wales, pre-Cambrian rocks of, 403. 



Walker prize of Boston soc. nat. hist., 146. 



Walnut, combination, ill. 761. 



Wampum, 147. 



Ward's Dynamic sociology, reviewed, 45, 

 105. 171,222. 



Warder, J. A., 254. 



Warder, R. B. Suggestions for comput- 

 ing the speed of chemical reactions, 289. 



Ware, W. R., address of, before Archae- 

 ological institute, 649. 



Ware's Modern perspective, reviewed, 354. 



Warming and ventilating apartments, 2S3. 



Warken, C. I'rize-essays on the experi- 

 mental method in science, 683. 



Washington, biological society of, 581, 636, 

 698; philosophical society of, 29, 518. 581, 

 635, 698, 754, 355, 473, 518. 



Water, ocean, 41; gas as fuel, 219; lime 

 eroup in Iowa, 323; tricycle, ill. 779. 



Weather bulletin, Iowa, fur May, 27; fore- 

 casts, distribution of, by railways, 252; 

 in May, 1S83, i7/. 34; in June, 1883, iit. 

 186; in July, 1883, ill. 394; in August, 

 1883, iti. 624; in September, 1883, itt. 

 671; in October, 1883, ill. 786; Minne- 

 sota, 262; service in Japan, 253. 



Weather report, Kansas, for June, 90 ; Mis- 

 souri, for May, 26. 



Wt-ather services, state, July reports of, 

 399; August reports of, 559; September 

 reports of, 6-Sl. 



Webb. J. B. Descriptive geometrical 

 treatment of surfaces of tlie second de- 

 gree, 280; improvements in shaping- 

 machines, 292; regularity uf flow in 

 double-cylinder rotary pumps, 292. 



West, E. P. Personal observations of 

 the Missouri mounds from Omaha to St. 

 Louis, 366. 



Westcott, O. S. Some hitherto unde- 

 veloped properties of squares, S41. 



Wetherell, L. Swallows in Boston, 222. 



Whale, right, of North Atlantic, 132, 266. 



A\'haling-season,317. 



Wheat, composition of, 290; crop. Influ- 

 ence of temperature and rainfall on, 

 179; growth of, 448. 



Wheat-stem maggot, 577. 



Wbiriwinds, ill. 589, 610, 639, 701, 729, 758; 

 of sand. 340. 



Whispered vowels, 43. 



White, I. C. Relation of the glacial dam 

 at Cincinnati to the terrace In the upper 

 Ohio and its tributaries, 319. 



Whiting, S. F.. on college microscopical 

 societies, 465. 



Whitman, C. O. The adv^intages of study 

 at the Naples zoological station, portrait 

 ofI)ohrn,93. 



Whittlesey, C. Metrical standard of 

 the mound-builders, by the method of 

 even divisors, 365. 



Wilder, B. O., and Gage, S. H. On the 

 use of vaseline to prevent the toss of 

 alcohol from specimen jars, 333. 



Wiley. H. W. American butters and 

 their adulterations, 291. 



Williams, II. H.. 147. 



Williams college. 808. 



Williamson. W. C. The vegetation of 



the carboniferous age, 529. 

 WiUow, pollination of, 569. 



