INDEX TO VOLUME XI Y. 



Aborigines of China, 438; of Tasmania, 367. 



Absinthe, 260. 



Academy of Sciences, National, 351. 



Accumulators, 325. 



Adams's The Continuous Creation, 356 



Adhesion, peculiar case of, 4'-*7. 



Adulteration legislation, 308. 



Aeronauts, minute, 138. 



Africa, Cameroons district of, 211. 



Agricultural experiment station, Indiana, work of, 

 181; experiment stations, 96, 133; research on the 

 Pacific coast, 415. 



Air In Edinburgh theatres, 178. 



Air-compressor, 431. 



Aka Expedition. 403. 



Alcohol, effect of, upon longevity, 254; for scientific 

 purposes, 19?. 



Allen's Force and Energy, 63. 



Alloy, new soft, 298. 



Allsop's Practical Electric Bell Fitting, 318. 



Aluminum manufacture, 366, 438; price of, 366. 



Ammeter, a new, 294. 



Anatomy, ancient treatise on, 148. 



Andrews's Institutes of Economics, 222. 



Angola, 405. 



Anti-friction bearing, 361. 



Antipyrine habit, 435. 



Ants, 60; intelligence of, 394. 



Arab scholars, 438. 



Arabia, ancient, 406. 



Archaeological Society of Wisconsin, 350. 



Arsenltes, spraying with, 211. 



Artesian wells in Africa, 148. 



Aryans, home of the, .38. 



Asia, Grum-Grjimailo's Journeys in, 216; improve- 

 ments In central, 75. 



Asphalt pavements near gas, 250. 



Asphalts, 74. 



Association for the Advancement of Science, 76. 



Astronomy at Johns Hopkins, 57. 



Atlantic Pilot Chart, 8. 



Aurora, height of, 333. 



Bacilli, baking, 47. 



Bacteria in milk, llf!; influence of, 368 



Bagehot, Works of, 357 



Baker's Monopolies and the People, 186. 



Bald head, bacilli on a, 233. 



Baldwin's Handbook of Psychology, 222. 



Ballou's New Eldorado, 270. 



Balls of vegetable origin, 130. 



Banana, the true, 8. 



Banana-disease, 350. 



Banana-holes, 67. 



Barnacles, 374. 



Barometer jump, Jan. 31, 59. 



Barometrical measurements, 265. 



Batteries, primary, 233. 



Beech, ethnoJoglcal significance of the, 330. 



Beer statistics, 42. 



Beltiug, leather, 343. 



Berkeley, Rev. J. M., death of, 112. 



Bird Instinct, 67. 



Birds, destruction of, in France, 19S. 



Bird's-eye maple markings, 195. 



BJornstrom's Hypnotism, 318. 



Bianford's Guide to the Climates and Weather of 



India. Ceylon and Burmah, 101. 

 Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy, 238. 

 Blindness, 295: causes of, 268. 

 Blood, parasites ot the, 254. 

 Bodily efflciency, Gallon on, 266, 394. 

 Boiler inspections, 8. 



Boone's Education in the United States, 31. 

 Bore-holes, the deepest, 250, 282. 

 Botanical congress, 57; garden In the Alps, 265. 

 Botanist, a precocious, 340. 

 Breathing, 86. 

 Breech- loading guns, 58. 

 Bricks, efQorescence on, 314. 

 Bridging English Channel, 282. 

 Brlstow, H. W., death of, 9. 

 Brooklyn Academy of Science, 8. 

 Brown-Sequard, 83, 216. 

 Buffalo increasing, 351. 

 Buhach, 127. 



Bull-dogs as watchmen, 8. 

 Burial methods, 207; Navajo tree, 50. 

 Burylng-grounds, Hallstattian, 74. 

 Butter, 388. 

 Butterfly pigment, 11?. 



Cables, lead-covered, 263: length of submarine, 199. 



Cacciatore, G., death of, 27. 



Cambridge, England, summer courses, ISO. 



Cancer, 129. 



Carbolic acid, dangers from, 214. 



Carrier-pigeon. 251, 368. 



Cattle- foods, S67. 



Cements and mortars, 76. 



Census-taking, 44; of Switzerland, 251. 



Chambers's Astronomy, I., 301. 



Chambers's Encyclopcedis, Vol. IV., 302 



Champlain period in the Susquehanna. 340. 



Chapln's Mountaineering in Colorado, 424. 



Charity and knowledge, 11. 



Chemical nomenclature, 350. 



Cherries in England, 8. 



Chimney overthrown, 58. 



I Chimpanzee, mental powers of. 215. 



China, communication with southern, 3.50; progress 

 ! of, 285. 

 ( Chinese prize essays, 235. 



Chloroform, 295. 



Cholera, 214. 



Clark University, appointments at, 215. 



Cleansing iron, 59. 



Climate of India, 43. 



Coal resources of England, 331. 



Coast Survey superintendent, 28. 



Cobra, avenging habits of, 181. 



Colic of horses, 60. 



College, International, 113. 



College Presidents' Association, 332. 



Cologne tippling, 147. 



Color of eyes in Norway, 74. 



Colorado, climate of, 381. 



Color-blindness, 267. 



Columbia, a new president of, 252. 



Combustion, spontaneous, of the human body, 94 



Confectioners' disease, 347. 



Consumption at high altitudes, 401; contagion, 30; 

 hot air inhalations in, 232; in armies, 111; open-air 

 travel as a cure for, 230; Paris commission on, 176. 



Cook, G. H., death of, 217. 



Cooling by spray, 384. 



Coppering Iron, 178. 



Copyright, 75. 



Cornea, transplanting of a, 264. 

 ! Cotton in Texas, 19C. 

 ; Cousiiis's Strength of Beams and Girders, 31. 



Cows in winter, 330. 



Craig's Linear Differential Equations, 391. i 



Cremation, 95, 401; in France, 111. 



Crematories, 336. i 



Criminality statistics, 215. 



Criminals, Ingenuity of, 232; senses of, 297. 



Croll's Stellar Evolution, 155. 



Crows in England, 131. 



Cuckoo eggs, hatching of, 25. 



Cucumber-beetle, 297. 



Cuttlefish trade, 386. 



Dabney's The Public Regulation of Hallways, 356. 



Dandelion, a belated, 412. 



Darwinism, Mr. Wallace on, 150. 



Deaf, enumeration of, 44. 



Death by electricity, 129, 221, 254. 384; dreal of, 254. 



Depth, greatest, in the Mediterranean, 402. 



Derelicts, 4. 1 



Disease, immunity from, 346; infection bill in Eng- 

 land, 385. : 



Diseased meat, 280. 



Diseases of plants, 361; Russian study of infectious, 

 214. 



Distance and size, 348; Judged by sound, 386. 



Decent, the functions ot a, 250. 



Doriot's Beginners' Book in German, 31. 



Drawbridge, the largest, 251. 



Drunkards in Norway, 281. 



Durability of engineering works, 250. 



Dust Inhalation, 213. 



Dwarf cannas, 404. 



Dynamo, new Brush alternating-current, 51; and 

 projector, 397; the Wenstrom, 159. 



Education in China, 130; in South Carolina, 77; tech- 

 nical. 265; technical, in Japan, 216. 



Educational lectures, 403 



Egyptian funeral wreaths, 27; surgical subjects, 280. 



Eiffel Tower, 43, .58; effect of cannon-firing on, 281; 

 lightning and, 222. . 



Electric balance, 295; batter^, novel, 174; cell, Clark 

 improved, 159; convention, 73; devices of the Mu- ; 

 tual Electric Company. 87; eccentricities, 305; ef- 

 fects on a mirror, 178; executions. 60. 194; exhibi- 

 tion at St. John, 9; five-lead system, 348; hoist, 175; 

 injuries, 316; lamp, 147; lamp filaments, 55: light 

 on vessels, 439; light plant, a remarkable, 275; 

 lighting, 194; lighting by the Knowles system, 67; 

 lighting in Berlin, 383; lighting in France, 196; lo- 

 comotive, 195; meter, Aron's, 123; production, Mr. 

 Edison on, 178; radiation meter, 349; railway in 

 Cincinnati, 209; railway-lamps, 56: railways, Cin- 

 cinnati, 141; rapid transit, 222; screens, i95; sig- 

 nalling from ships, 194; sunstroke, 383; sysfm, 

 Julien, 157; tanning, 194; traction, 414; transfer- 

 table, 173; wiring of ships, 84. 



Electric Light Association, 110. 



Electrical Society, New York, 385. 



Electricity, atmospheric, 147. 



Electrfilcalion from ccntact of gases and liquids, 349, 

 383. 



Elephant, a possible, 103; death of an old, 265. 



Elephants, wild, 73. 



Energy, transmission of, by compressed air, ii. 



Engine, high-speed, 413; improved air, 107; Joneon 

 compound, 191. 



Engineer, a lawyer as a marine, 422. 



Engineering progress, 4. 



Engineers, -American. In France, 8. 



Entomological Club, 7.5. 



Entomologists, working, 85. 



Ericsson and I'ulton monuments, 282. 



Etruscans, the ancient, 310. 



Exhibition, electrical, 2.33: of agriculture, i;9. 



Explorations, French, 217; In French Indo-Chlna, 

 130. 



Fibre of banana, 199. 



Fire-palls, 216. 



Fish bait, 112. 



Fisheries of France. 26. 



PIsh-hatcheries, 405. 



Flamingoes, aflinitles of, 224. 



Floating gardens, 283. 



Flora of Japan, 149. 



Fluorine, preparation of, 419. 



Fogs, London, 421. 



Fog-slgnal8, 113. 



Fooi for infants, 3S4. 



Foods of different peoples, 264. 



Poote's Economic Value of Electric Light and Power, 



15. 

 Forestry Congress, 235. 

 Forests, destruction of, in Servia, 197. 

 France, great chart of, 195. 

 Freezing In mining operations, 142. 

 Froebel, Friedrich, Autobiography of, 84. 

 Fruit-candying in Leghorn, 62. 

 Fruits and vegetables condensed, 276. 



Game-forest, Corbln's, 402. 

 Garbage cremation, 432; utilization. 111. 

 Gas battery, new form of, 31: engine, 379: inflam- 

 mable, near plants, 77: supply of natural, 282. 

 Geography-teaching, 408. 

 Geological Society, 75. 

 Geological Survey of Arkansas, 3C6. 

 Geranium, oil of, 404. 



Germs in air, 214; ot cholera, etc., in milk, 317. 

 Gnomlum, 27. 

 Goitre, etiology of, 2G5. 

 Gold extraction. 1.58. 

 Greek in education.' 404. 

 Greene's Coal and the Coal Mines, 302. 

 Greenhouse heatic g, 299. 

 Griffin, Edward H., appointment of, 57. 

 Grinnell's Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales, .^56. 

 Gulf Stream investigations, 8. 

 Gypsies, health of, 111. 



Habitations, history of, 2. 



Hsllucinations, 287: cocaine, 3-32. 



Harvard of to-day, 185. 



Heolth Association, 196.217,236,284, 292; congress, 

 147; of French Army, 203; of London, 178: of New 

 York and London, 317; ofB.ier, pay of, •.;32; regula- 

 tions in Berlin, 95; studies at University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, 405. 



Hearing of school-children, 347. 



Heights, measuring of, 224. 



Heilpriu's The Bermuda Islands, .376. 



Heliometer work at Y'..le, 130. 



Heredity of acquired characteristics, 365: pathologi- 

 cal bearings of, 263. 



Hessian-fly in England, 197. 



Highway improvements, 418, 421. 



Hindoo houses, 315. 



Hints to Travellers, Scientific and General, 302. 



Hiorns's Iron and Steel Manufacture, 2-38. 



Hippopotamus, birth of, 421. 



Historical Association, 439. 



Hoagland Laboratory, 131. 



Hog-cholera, 314, 416. 



Horn-fiy, 335. 



Horses with toes, fossils of, 266. 



Horseshoe, a nailless, 166. 



Houston's Dictionary ot Electrical Words, Terms 

 and Phrases, 287. 



Hurricanes, report on, 2:36. 



Hydrcgrapher, annual rep' rt of, .300. 



Hydro graphic Office change, 300. 



Hydrophobia, 30, 47. 



Hygiene and Sunday, 436: professors of, ;J0. 



Hypnotism exhibitions, 235; resolutiotis on, 216. 



Icebergs In the -Atlantic, 10. 



Iceland, ventilation in, 214. 



Ice-mlnlng, 198. 



Ideas, association of, 314. 



Inca, The Lost, 440. 



Incandescent lamp slide rule, 131. 



India, early history of, 217. 



Indiana -Academy of Science, 436. 



Indians. American, 21. 



Indicator, Arnold's retardation,. 55. 



Inductive capacity, 382. 



Industrial college In Philadelphia, 148. 



Inheritance of injuries, 93. 



Inherited qualities, 19.5. 



Insanity following surgical operations, 3.32. 



Insect pests, 2-31, 381. 



insomnia, treatment for. 254. 



Insula'iog compound, 414; material, 263. 



Insurance, life. .37. 



Iron Industry of New York, 25; or steel, Bookwalter 

 pr.cess for making, 113; permeability of, 56: pro- 

 tecting, against corrosion, 4.32; rust, 74. 



Irrigation In Egypt, 179. 



Jacobs and Brewer's Graphic System cf Object 



Drawing, 424. 

 Jade In Burmah, 285. 

 Jewish observances, 437. 

 Johns Hopkins Hospital, 298. 



