CONTENTS OF VOLUME I. 



SPECIAL AETIOLES. 



PAGE 



Abbott, C. C. The intelligence of fish 327 



Occurrence of araber near Trenton, N.-J 594 



Allen, J. A. The right whale of the North Atlantic . . 598 



American exhibit at the London fisheries exhibition . . . 417 



Araerican science, future of 1 



Arctic explorations 159 



Armsby, H. P. The New-Tork agricultural experiment- 

 station 484 



Bailey, L. "W. Indian relics from New Brunswieb . . 245 



Baird, tSpencer Fullerton. Portrait 1*23 



Balfour memorial . ' 59 



Baltimore Huvface geology 277 



Belknap, G.E, A singular meteoric phenomenon. III. 4 



Bell, A. Melville. The alphabet and spelling-reform . 473 



Billing's, J. S. G-erms and epidemics 456 



Blair, H. W^. The variation of temperature under con- 

 ditions presumably tlie same. Ill 239 



Brazil, present state of science in 211 



Britisli association for the advancement of science, pro- 

 posed meeting of, in Canada 351 



Chamberlin, T. C. The copper-hearing series of Lake 



Superior 453 



Chitteuden, R. H. Chemical and physiological re- 

 searches on the ptomaines 570 



Cookie. S. Perfect interference of sound by telephoue 167 



Dall, iSr. H. First use of wire in deep-sea sounding . . 65 



MoUusks of the family Cocculinidae 130 



Dana, C. L. Transferred impressions and visual esalta- 



lioii 534 



Davis, W. M. The Cachar earthquake of 1869 .... 67 

 An early statement of the deflective effect of the earth's 



rotation 98 



Lakes and valleys in north-eastern Pennsylvania . . . 304 



The origin of cross-valleys 325,356 



Temperature and ice of the Bavarian lakes 393 



Classification of islands 484 



Late Bonneville. Ill 570 



Da'WSOn, G. M. Glacial deposits of the Bow and Belly 



liiver country 477 



Deane, Charles. The mappemonde of Sebastian Cabot 62 

 Deep-sea soundings otf the Atlantic coast of the United 



ritates. Ill 565 



Derby, Orville A. Rainfall of Uberaba, Brazil . . . 277 



The human remains of the bone-caverns of Brazil ... 541 



Button, C. E. On the Hawaiians 9 



Earth-currents, registering apparatus for. Ill 596 



Eastman, J. R. The Florida expedition to observe the 



transit of Venus 300 



Eddy, H. T. An extension of the theorem of the virial 

 and its application to the kinetic theory of the constitu- 

 tion of gases 65 



Internal molecular energy of atomic vibrations .... 421 

 Liquefaction, vaporization, and the kinetic theory of solids 



and liquids 455 



Electrical unite, international conference for the determina- 

 tion of 87 



Bmerton, J. H. Model of the giant Octopus of the west 



t:oa6l of America. Ill 352 



Eruption of Mount Etna. Ill 390 



Exploration, present condition of. 131 



Factory-bells 159 



Franklin, Christine Ladd. The Pascal hexagram . 592 



Geological nomenclature 600 



Geological nomenclature and coloring * 245 



G-eological survey (U. S.), sphere of 185 



GibbS, J. W. An alleged exception to the second law of 



thermodynamics 160 



Glacial theory before the Philadelphia academy .... 97 



Goodale, G. L. Color and assimilation 332 



On the development of chlorophyll and color granules . 421 

 Goode, G, Brown. The international fisheries exhibi- 

 tion. Ill 447,564 



GottSChe, C. Notes on the geology of Japan .... 166 



Active Japanese volcanoes 329 



Hall, E. H. Variations in the vertical due to elasticity of 



the earth's surface 10 



Magneto-motive force 391 



Harrington, M.W. A telephonic time-transmitter. III. 302 



The wedge-photometer 450 



Hazen, H. A. Rainfall at Panama 452 



The dry- and wet-bulb hygrometer 502 



A new condensing-hygromeler 597 



Head-hunters of Borneo 189 



Heap, D. P. History of the application of the electric 



lighttolightingthecoasts of France. III. 135,161,187,214,242 



Hirondelle. Ill 388 



Holden, E. S. Map of the planets and stars near the 



sun, May 6, 1883. Ill 65 



Hunt, T. Sterry. The geology of Lake Superior . . . 218 



The decay of rocks geologically considered 324 



Import duty on scientific journals 589 



International hureau of weights and measures 441 



International fisheries exhibition 447,564 



International standard time 159 



iCneeland, Samuel. The typhoon at Manila, Oct. 20, 



1882. Ill 6 



The Tagals of Luzon. Ill 297 



The Negritos of Luzon. Ill 415 



Lake Agassiz, the extinct 220 



Langley, S. P. Photographing the corona without an 



eclipse 4 



The spectrum of an argand burner. Ill 481 



Leidy, J. A study of the human temporal bone. III. 



380, 475, 506 



Marcou, J. B. Geological map of Belgium 190 



The international geological congress 512 



Martin, H. Ne'Well. Rhythmic muscular contractions 38 



Consequences of spleen extirpation 66 



Influence of the vairus nerve upon the heart 220 



The origin, after birth, of aspiration of the thorax ... 357 

 The properties of cardiac muscle and the nature of the 



action of the vagus nerve upon the heart 246 



Mathematical tripos in the University of Cambridge . . . 412 

 Minot, C. S. Anatomy and histology of Polyophthal- 



mus 96 



Criticism of Professor Huhrecht's hypothesis oi develop- 

 ment by primogeniture 165 



An apparently new animal type 305 



Life-history of the liver-fluke. Ill 330 



Researches on the Dicyemidae 392 



Early development of reptiles 511 



Montgomery, George Edgar. Darwin .... 531 



N. The watchmaking industry in Switzerland .... 296 



National academy of sciences 323 



New Testament autographs. Ill 35 



New York state survey 267 



Newberry, J. S. On the physical conditions under 



which coal was formed 89 



Newbury, Spencer B. New laboratory for physics 



and chemistry at Cornell university. Ill 538 



Nunn, Emily A. The Naples zoological station. III. 479, 507 

 Osborn, Henry F. Notes upon the foetal membranes 



of the opossum and other marsupials 451 



Penfield, S. L. Fluorine minerals 331 



Optical researches on garnet 600 



Pickering, W. H. Photographic focusing 160 



Horse-trotting from a mathematical stand-point. III. . , 355 



Planets, the small .392 



Public documents, distribution of 239 



Remsen, Ira. Influence of magnetism on chemical 



action 36 



Riley, C. V. Larval stages and habits of the bee-fly 



Hirraoneura. Ill 332 



Elephantiasis, or Filaria disease. Ill 419 



Fig-insects 599 



Rotifera without rotary organs 37 



Royal society of Canada 561 



Ryder, J. A. Rearing oysters from artificially impreg- 

 nated eggs 60 



The law of nuclear displacement and its significance in 



embryology. Ill ' 273 



Development of the membrane bones of the skull of the 



pike 513 



The protozoan parasites of the oyster 567 



Science and the newspapers 211 



Science for workingmen 295 



Scudder, S. H. Oigantic walking-stick from the coal. 



Ill 95 



