LIST OF ILLUSTRATIOI^S. 



PAGE 



Absorption apparatus for combustion products 175 



Arvicola, section of ovum of 525 



Baird, Spencer FuUerton, portrait of 123 



Caddis-fly cases 345 



Ooast-ligbt of Planier, section of lens 163 



Coast-lights of France, map showing range of 13S 



Comet, great, of 1882 (3 figs.) . . . ." 398 



Commutator for eiectric-ligbt lines, and plans (5 figs.) , 162, 188, 215 



Comparator, plan of 240 



Compass-needle, improvement in 485 



Cortesian plate, scheme of Lbe 586 



Draper, Henry, portrait of 39 



Draper medal (2 figs.) 32 



Dredge, rake 445 



Earth-currents, diagram of observations, 597; registering 



apparatus for 596 



Eggs, sections of, showing nuclear displacement .... 275 



Etectric-light regulator 216 



Electric machine, de Meritens dynamo-, 242; armature of, 

 243; cross-section of, 244; diagram showing direction 

 of current in, 244; field-magnets of, 243; longitudinal 



section of, 243; plan of, with line wires, 187 ; section of. 1S7 

 Electric machines, dynamo-, plan and section of building 



for 



Exhibition, plan of international fisheries 



Expansion of steel bars, diagram of (3 figs.) .... 240, 



Faulting of coal-bed 



Fejervary plate, scheme of the 



Filaria Bancroft!, development of 



Fish-hook of hone (2 figs.) 



Flying-fish, diagram of courses of flight 



Gulf Stream slope off New England coast, map of, 444; pro- 

 file of, 446; temperature curves (3 figs.) .... 532, 



Heliometer at Yale observatory 



Hirmoneura, early stages of (2 figs.), 333, 334; females ovi- 

 positing in burrows of Anthaxia 



Hirondelle 



Horse-trotting curve, showing improvement in the record . 



Ice-map for march, 1883, 387; for April 



164 

 449 



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Laboratory for physics and chemistry at Cornell university, 



539; plans of basement, first, second, and third floors . 540 

 Lighthouse tower at La Have, 162; interior of, 162; of 



Palmy re, 164; of Planier, section of 163 



Liver-fluke, developmentof . . . , 330 



Luzon, Negritos of (3 figs.) 415, 416 



Meteor, after explosion (3 figs.), 5; track of, seen in Austria, 422 



iforaine, map of Ohio, showing terminal 269 



Mount Etna, eruption of, March 22, 1SS3 390 



Net, towing 446 



Observatory, Dr. Draper's, at Hastings-on-the-Hudson . . 33 



Octopus, model of giant 353 



Ornament of bone, 575; of shell 575 



Pectythis asteroides 196 



Pendant, cruciform, from a stone grave in Tennessee . . . 309 



Planets and stars near the sun, May 6, 1883, map of . opp. 64 



Polyxenus, dermal appendages of 371 



Reservoir Butte, showing terraces of the Bonneville shore- 



571 



Salt Lake desert 573 



Soundings and temperatures off the Atlantic coast of the 



United States, chart of opposite 566 



Spectrum of argand burner, distribution of ( 



BOf f 



483 



Tagals of the Philippines (2 figs.) 298 



Telescopes in Hastings observatorj' 31 



Temporal bone, human, views and section of (3 figs.) , 381, 384, 507 



Tesserantha connecteng 195 



Time-transmitter, telephonic, and section (2 figs.) . . .302, 303 



Titanophasraa Fayoli Brongniart 95 



Trawl, beam 445 



Typhoon of Oct. 20, 1882, diagram of record of meteoro- 

 logical instruments at Manila, 7; map showing course 



of 



Weather map for January, 1883, 217; for February, 1883, 

 272; for March, 1883, 386; for April, 1883 



Zoological station at Naples, 479; plan of basement, 480; 

 ground floor, 480; upper floor, 480; diver's boat, 509; 

 dredging steamer, 508; station fisherman . . . 



EREATA. 



, line 31, for * Parama 



, " 67, for ' photographi( 



read 'Paramecium.' 

 sun ' read ' photo- 



, " 16, for 'elevation in Greenland 'read 'eleva- 

 tion in the region of greatest cold (the 

 west) in Greenland.' 

 , " 35, for ' tennicoUis' read ' tenuicollis.' 

 , " 16, for ' Chilli/ ' read ' Cheiilt/.* 

 , " 54, for ' Rogiferidae' read ' Rangiferidae.* 

 , " 54, for ' Copiidae' read * Capridae.* 

 , " 42, for ' Reptiles ' read ' Mammals.' 

 , " 19, for ' Ruricbnites* read ' Rusichnites.' 

 , " 20, for ' Traena' read ' Fraena.' 

 , lines 10, 11, the clause " the coal next the month 

 not partaking of the motion of that 

 farther in the hill " belongs to the pre- 

 ceding and not to the succeeding sen- 

 tence. 



550, 

 612, 



3 2, for ' Mittag-Zeffler ' read ' Mittag-Leffler 

 67, for ' tortricid ' read ' tineid.' 

 8, for 'dollars' read 'shillings.' 

 23, for ' Lamiura ' read ' Lanium.' 

 49, for ' Rumford ' read • Ranyard.' 

 1, for 'Tnd.' read 'Md.' 

 6, for ' Lun City ' read ' Sun City.' 

 63, for ' grypus ' read ' gryphus.' 

 49, for 'acid' read ' pentachlor- and hexa- 



cblor-compounds.' 

 34, for 'Drymoneura Gorge' read 

 monema gorgo.' 



'Dry- 



On p. ]91, the cut, which is printed bottom upward, should be 



