CONTENTS AND INDEX. 



N. S. VOL. UI- JANUARY TO JUNE, 1896. 



77(6 Names of Contributors are Printed in Small Capitals. 



Abel, J. J., Chemical Properties of the Pigment of 



the Negro's Skia, 110 

 Absolute and the Relative, J. W. Powell, 743 

 Acetylene, and its Effect on the Animal System, 198, 



Gas, 200 ; A Lecture upon, J. M. Crafts, 377 

 Achelis, Thomas, Moderne Volkerkvmde, deren Ent- 



wicklung und Aufgaben, D. G. Beintox, 482 

 Adams. Frank D., The Embankments of the River 



Poj 759 

 Adams, G. I., Extinct Felidaj, 817 

 Adirondack, Mountains and Valleys, 659, Preserve, 



702 

 Aerodrome, A Successful Trial of the, S. P. Langley, 



A. Graham Bell, 753 

 jEsop in Aztec, 129 

 Agassiz, Louis, Life, Letters and Works of, Jules 



Marcou, 745 

 Agricultural Appropriation Bill, 352 

 Agriculture, A permanent Spientific Head for the U. 

 S. Department of, 278, 350; and Horticulture, 

 Notes on, Byron D. Halsted, 398, 588, 698, 

 767, 834; First Principles of, 589; in Great Brit- 

 ain, 897 

 Alabama Industrial and Scientific Society, Eugene 



A. Smith, 852 

 Alaska as it was and is, 1865-1895, W. H. Dall, 37, 87 

 Alcohol, Study of, in Schools, 281 

 Aldeich, T. B., Fluid Secreted by Anal Glands of 



Mephitis Mephitica, 111 

 Allen, J. A., Vertebrata of the Land (Birds and 

 Mammals) in the Antarctic Regions, 317; Amer- 

 ican Shrews, C. Hart Merriam, Gerrit S. Miller, 

 -411; 'Progress in American Ornithology, 1886- 

 95,' 777, 841 

 Allen, J. A., Alleged Changes of Color in the Feathers 

 of Birds without Molting, 557; on Gtitke's Heli- 

 goland as an Ornithological Observatory, 638 

 Amber -producing Tree, an American, F. H. Knowl- 



TON, 582 

 American, Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence, 701, 838, 893; Journal of Science, 32, 174, 

 370, 527, 673, 816 

 Americanists, Society of, at Paris, 349 

 Anatomical, Material, Report of the Committee on 

 the Collection and Preservation of, J. Ewing 

 Meaes, J. D. Beyant, Thomas DvyiGHT, 77; 

 Law of the State of Pennsylvania, 84 

 Anatomists, Report of the Eighth Annual Meeting of 



American, D. S. Lamb, 73 

 Anatomy, Points in Practical, 587 

 Ancient lUyrians, 587 



Angell, Prof., and Dr. Moore, Reaction-time Exper- 

 iments, 712 

 Anomalies, The Significance of, Thomas Dwight, 776 



Antarctic,' Exploration, 63, 132, 352; and Adjacent 

 Regions, The Origin and Relations of the Floras 

 and Faunas of the, Angelo Heilpein, "W. B. 

 Scott, N. L. Beitton, A. S. Packard, Theo. 

 Gill, J. A. Allen, 305 



Anthropological, Society of Washington, 35; George 

 R. Stetson, 141; J. H. McCoemick, 531, 642; 

 Oncers of, 165; Woman's, A. Cabmen, 376, 

 487; Club of New York, 402; Institute of Great 

 Britain, 733; Section of New York Academy of 

 Sciences, Li\tngston Faeeand, 750 



Anthropologic Study of Personality, 663 



Anthropologist, The American, 65 



Anthropology, Current Notes on, Daniel G. Bein- 

 TON, 19, 62, 94, 128, 277, 349, 397, 509, 552, 586, 

 624, 663, 699, 733, 767, 833, 861, 895; of Woman, 

 19 ; Fourth Congress of Criminal, 772 



Anthropometry of the American Indians, 278 



Antiquarian Society, American, 701 



Ants, Honey, L. O. H., 923 



Ape-man from the Tertiary of Java, O. C. Marsh, 789 



Arboretum of Puget Sound University, 436 



Archaeology, Researches in American, 624 . 



Arctic, Exploration, 593, 804, 897; Chart, 804 



Argon, Prizes for Discovery of, 237 



Arnold, Carl, Eepetitorium der Chemie, S., 815 



Asiatic Elements of the Tribes of Southern Mexico, 

 803 



Astor Library, 774 



Astronomical and Physical Section of the New York 

 Academy of Sciences, W. Hallock, 142, 454, 

 787; J. 'F. Kemp, 643 



Astronomers of the Twentieth Century, Some Prob- 

 lems about to Confront the, J. K. Rees, 717 



Astronomy, H. J., 21, 63, 95, 129, 164, 197, 279, 320, 

 351, 401, 433, 475, 553, 896, 922; American 

 Judgments of American Astronomy, S. New- 

 comb, 284; at the Berlin Exposition, 629; at the 

 Cape of Good Hope, 840 



Astrophysioal Journal, 175, 450, 748 



Atwater, W. O., Chemistry of Nutrition, 489 



Auk, The, 638; Eggs of the Great, 701 



B., F., Seventh Annual Meeting of the American 

 Folk-lore Society, 86 



B., W. S., Grundriss der Krystallographie, Gottlob 

 Linck, 902 



Bacteria in the Dairy, 399 



Bacteriosis of Carnations, 767 



Bailey, L. H., Line Drawings of Blue Print, 67; 

 The Untechnical Terminology of the Sex-Rela- 

 tion of Plants, 825 



Bailey, Veenon, Occurrence of the Native Wood 

 Rat at Washington, 628 



