Vol. XIV.] 



INDEX. 



[July-Dec, iS 



Jobns Hopkins University, £00 ; appolnttneuts, 5S, 

 251, 351, 437 ; condition of, 249 ; prosperity, 334. 



Johnson's Ordinary and Partial Differential Equa^ 

 tions, 271. 



Johnson's Trigonometry, 15. 



Johnstown flood, 112. 



Joule, J. P., death of, 298. 



Jumpers, African, 365. 



Kangaroo, decrease of, 367. 

 Kansas Academy of Science, 337. 

 Kapp's Alternate-Current Ma'ihinery, 301. 

 Klemm's European Schools, 233. 

 Kola-nut, 147. 



Lacquer, Japanese, 200. ^ 



Ladjbird, Australian, 131. 



Lake Mlstassini, 32 i, 359. 



Lake-dwelling, 387. 



Lake- dwellings at Lochavullln, 26. 



Lambs, fattening, 144. 



Leaves, fossil, 198. 



Left-legged man, 365, 412, 442. 



Leibnitz, correspondence of, 197. 



Lemon essence, 108. 



Leper colony, 264. 



Leprosy, 128 ; In Hawaii, 214. 



Lesquereus, Leo, death of, 314. 



Light, penetration cf, in ponds, 350 ; the Wells, 307. 



Lighthouse, electric, 383. 



Lightning and beech-trees, 7, 50, 86, 103 ; discharge 

 in Quebec, 305; flash, duration of, 287; globular, 

 266 ; on Eiffel Tower, 199, 222 ; on war-vessels, 263 ; 

 strokes, 257. 



Lime, neat produced in slacking, 43. 



Limestone, quarriing, 405. 



Literature versus books, 403. 



Loewy's Graduated Course of Natural Science, 271. 



Loomis, Elias, death of, 131. 



Lotus, the sacred, S. 



Lucerne, 82 



Lungs of cattle, inoculation to protect, 347. 



McCray's Life- Work of the Author of Uncle Tom's 

 Cabin, 318. 



MacDonald's Oceania: Linguistic and Anthropologi- 

 cal, 375. 



Machinery, naval, in England, 131. 



Magnolia glauca, 438 ; metal, 327. 



Malaria in Massachusetts, 264. 



Malay peoples, 386. 



Mall's Der Hypnotismus, 48. 



Mammoth deposit at Predmost, 43, 



Map of Massachusetts, 422. 



Maple-tree. 257. 



Maps, relief, 436. 



Marenholtz-Buelow'a Child and Child-Nature, 205. 



Marine conference, 133. 



Master and workmen, 28. 



Mathematical theories of the earth, 167. 



Meadowcroft's A B C of Electricity, 31. 



Mechanical engineers, 370. 



Medals of Royal Society, 367. 



Medical club at Johns Hopkins, 402 ; congress, 27. 



Medicine, history of, 196 ; In Japan, 213 ; preventive, 

 71. 



Melinite, 216. 



Memory diseases, 420. 



Mental activity In relation to pulse, 347 ; processes, 

 time-relations of, 252, 285. 



Mesozolc, the Nonh American, 160. 



Metale, volatilization of, 233. 



Meteoric showers In Atacama, 433 ; stone in Scania, 

 57. 



Microbes and salt, 383 ; and tumors, 199. 



Microscopists, American Society of, 130. 



Military science at Sheffield Sclentiflc School, 297. 



Milk, bicarbonate of sodium in, 401; boUed, 384; com- 

 position of, 281 ; sterilized, 317. 



Miirs Clasa-Book of General Geography, 223. 



Mills's Animal Physiology, 440, 



Mineral production of New South Wales, 437; waters, 

 317 



Minerals at Paris Exposition, 178. 



Minibg, electricity in. 243. 



Missouri Geological Survey, 998. 



Mitchell, Maria, death of, 9. 



Mlthridatlsm, 199. 



Monopolies and people, 207. 



Morale of the lower animals, 181. 



Morgan's Studies in Pedagogy, 337. 



Morse's Benjamin Franklin, 204. 



Mortality in New York, 30. 



MoequiioFS and science, 103; protection from, 216. 



Moths, 59. 



Motors. Perret, 69. 



Mounds of the Mississippi valley, 26. 



Movemea s. energy and rapidity of, 390, 391. 



Murdock's Recon>>tructlon of Europe, 254. 



Music at Tale, 297; evoluuon of, 244 ; theory of, 217. 



Myopia, heredity of, 84. 



Naphtha as fuel, 130 : habir, 56. 

 Nature, twenty years of, 398. 

 Nearsightedness, 147. 

 Niagara Falls map, 273. 

 Nineteenth Century CiuD, 369. 

 Nitrogen as plant-food, 328. 

 Nyassa-Land, 344. 



Oak, strength of, 112. 



ocean-currents, 387, 421. 



Oil in Burmah, 267 ; aod iron In New Zealand, 228 ; 



on troubled waters, 1, 234, 313 ; supply In Baku, 



283. 

 Olive cultivation, 176. 

 Oriental Congress. 251. 

 Ornithologists' meeting, .355. 

 Oxygen inhalation, 296. 

 Oyster In tweder, 56. 



Paints and the weather, 58, 180. 



Palestine exploration, 350. i 



Palladium, alloys of, 95. 



Paris as a seaport, 197; exposition, 9; exposition i 

 awards, 237. 



Parkes's Hygiene and Public Health, 301. | 



Pasteur institutes, 111- i 



Peabody's Thermodynamics of the Steam Engine, | 

 134. 1 



Pea-soup versus beef- tea, 264. I 



Pedagogics at The University of Pennsylvania, 26. 



Persimmon, 438. 



Petroleum In Netherlands-India, 405; of Burmah, I 

 368; origin of, 228- i 



Phelps's Struggle for Immortality, 287. 



Phi Beta Kappa memorial, 282. 



Phosphorescence, 179. I 



Photographic chart of the heavens, 57; congress, 42. i 



Photographs of lightning, 55. n 



Photography, celestial, 299; in the summer of 1889, 

 94; modem, 218. 



Phyfe's Seven Thousand Words often Mispro- 

 nounced, 337. 



Physical flelds, 442. 



Physiological psychology congress, 148. 



Plant-life of Arabia Felix, 213. 



Plant-louse. 10, 42; enemies of, 100. 



Platinum on porcelain, 283. 



Pjum curculio, 235, 297. 



Pneumonia, 83. 



Poison in cured fish, 9. 



Poisons, elimination of, 95. 



Population of Australia, 56; of Switzerland, 198; of 

 the United States, 114, 241, 297, 315; In the United 

 States, law of, 188. 



Potato poisoning, 281; rot, 299. 



Powders, smokeless, 149. 



Power, transmission of, 210. 



Praying of Chinamen, 315. 



Pressure-gauge, 363. 



Printing-offices, electric motors In, 19. 



Print?, black and blue, 298. 



Prison congress, 199. 



Prize manual, the thousand-dollar, 367. 



Prizes. Loubat, 131: of New South Wales Royal Soci- 

 ety, 129; of Poval Danish Academy, 149. 



Proctor fund, 419. 



Proctor's Strength, 254. 



Proportior, the, 227. 



Protoplasm, 352. 



Prunes. 404- 



Psychical Res'-arch, Proceedings of the Society for, 

 Part XIV., 318. 



Ptomaines, 322; in infectious diseases, 260. 



Quail, experience with, 148. 

 Quartz fibres, 61. 

 Quicksand, 366. 



Ralls, durability of, 196. 



Railway. Boynton Bicycle, 259, 278; electric, in Ban- 

 gor, 1: Kongo, 279; motor, Sprague electric, 35; slid- 

 ing, 179; Weems Electric, 20, 112. 



Railways in China, 333; in Europe, 57; in the United 

 States, 134. 



Rainfall in Australia, 112; Missouri, 265. 



Raisin trade, 387. 



Recorder, th- Moscrop, 105. 



Refrigerator, 349. 



Remedies in the Transvaal, 281. 



Richards's Manual of Machine Construction, 136. 



Riley, C. v., decoration of, 197. 



Rivers of Russia, 196. 



Roaches, extermination of, 403. 



Rock-drilling, 58. 



Hook, trial of, 195. 



Rumination in the human subject, 418. 



Russian literature, 262. 



RusslQcatlon of the Baltic provinces, 25. 



Russlum, a new metal, 131. 



Rust parasites, 266. 



St. Paul scientific society, 439. 



Salmon, young, 386. 



Sands, restricting, by grasses, 298. 



Sanitary Association, New Jersey, 400. 



Sarcophagi found atSldon, 25. 



Sausages, Italian, iZ6. 



Sawdust for wounds. 281. 



Scarlet-fever transmission, 347. 



School of science In Boston, 234. 



School-gardens, 197. 



Schools, atteLdance at German technical, 265; In New 

 Jersey, 59; technical, in Russia, 181. 



School-wagon, 112. 



Science, history of English, 403. 



Seasickness, 232. 



Seeds, sprouting of, 88. 



Seeing by electricity. 349, 401. 



Sense, an uiknown organ of, 183. 



Sensenlg's Numbers L'uiversalized, 102. 



Sewage disinfection, 281; precipitation, 203; purifi- 

 cation, 128. 



Shaler's Aspects of the Earth, 423. 



Shaw, Henry, death of, 148. 



Sibley College, 351; attendance, 216. 



SlUca-graphite paint, 74. 



Silk, arlificial, 109; danger in, 281; exhibition, 215: in 

 China. 385. 



Silks, treatment tf wild, 198. 



Silo, the, 77. 



Silvering iron, 148. 



Sinners, the breedine of, 232. 



Skin transplanting, 332. 



Skulls of Germans, 333. 



Small-pox, 365. 



Smoke formation, 283. 

 Snake venom, 281. 



Snow on Canadian Pacific Railway, 9. 

 Song-birds, 76. 



Sorbonne, new buildings of, 133. 

 Sorghum-sugar, 387. 

 Sparrows, feeding of, 113. 

 Specific gravity of air, i66. 

 Spectre. Brocken, 2:4. 

 Speed of trains, 409. 

 Spelling reform, 341. 



Spencer, Herbert, Autobiography of, 234. 

 Sponges, 351. 

 Stalactite cave, 421. 

 Stanley, 370, 371. 



Staten Island Science Association, 35. 

 Steamers on the Pacific. 333. 

 Steam-pipe covering, 250. 

 Steel, tempering, 180. 

 Sting of jelly-fish, 314, 390. 

 Stomach acids, 401; brush. 365. 

 Stone-sawing, 127. 



Storms, convectlonal currents in, 428. 

 Storm-signals, 4*1. 

 Strawberry crop, 299. 

 Students in Germany, 368. 



Sugar in Persia, 62; manufactnre of, 199; produc- 

 tion, 143, 202; of Java, 235. 

 Suggestion, 138. 



Suicides in France, 199; increase of, 131. 

 Sulphuric-acid transportation, 166. 

 Sunset glows, 137. 

 Sunshine recorder, 404. 

 Surgeon, a centenarian, 233. 

 Surveys of India, 216. 



Tea, Paraguay, 180. 



Teeth, care of, 384. 



Telegraph, flash, 179- 



Telegraphone, 194. 



Telephone on railways, 237 ; the pulsion, 434. 



Telephones and electric circuits, 181. 



Telescope, Bruce photographic, 10. 



Tellurium, 75. 



Temperature at great heights, 386. 



Temperatures at a distance. 295. 



Therapeutics, suggestive, 296. 



Thermometric bureau of Yale, 113. 



Thompson's '* Evolution of Sound " Evolved, 424. 



Thunder, 131. 



Thunder-storm propagation, 76. 



Thunder-storms, telephonic prediction of, 273. 



Thurston's Development of the Philosophy of the 



Steam-Engine, 375. 

 Tillman's Elementary Lf-^sons in Heat, 270. 

 Tobacco and insanity, 264; French and German, 



•214. 

 Tomatoes, 364. 



Tone-interval sensibility, 343. 

 Toronto meeting of the American Association, 166. 

 Torpedo-boat, the Halplne, 291. 

 Trade of Constantinople, 2S-. 

 Tree rlrgs, 112 ; roots and branches, 403. 

 Trees, dwarf, in Japan, 149; for smcky cities, 7; 



largest, in Great Britain, 25. 

 Tuberculosis, congress for, 213. 

 Tuberculous meat, 177. 

 Tuning-forks, 349. 

 Tunnel under the Hudson, 166. 

 Typhoid-fever, 232 ; weight of the body in, 203. 

 Typhus bacilli, 129. 



Universities of Australia, 112 ; of Germany, 196. 

 University extension, ISO ; of Jena, 195 ; of Toklo, 112. 

 Uranium, 217. 



Vaccination in Japan, 304 : on the leg, 365. 



Vegetable nomenclature, 283. 



Ventilation from caves, 335, 395. 



Vlbraiion in buildings, 404. 



VigQoles's Life of Charle.-> Blacker Vignoles, 63. 



Vines, diseases of, In France, 198. 



Viper swallows its young, 267. 



A^lslon, experiments in crystal, 313 ; indirect, 149. 



Voice figures. 366 ; human, growing or decaying, 33. 



Volcanic eruption on Oshlma, 9. 



Walker s Electricity in our Homes and Workshops, 



356. 

 Wallace's Darwinism, 204. 

 Warren's Mechanicj», Part I., 119. 

 Water analysis, 282; spout off the Bahamas, 315; 



spraying. 111; supply of Paris. 56, 436. 

 Waters of the Great Salt Lake, 444; softening of hard, 



173. 

 Waves, height of, 178. 

 Weather prediction by photography, 43; reports 



from Havana, 9; review. Pennsylvania, 241. 

 Weeds, destruction of, 150. 

 Weir's Our Cats and all about Them, 270. 

 Welsmann's Essays upon Heredity, 237. 

 Welding rails, 166. 

 Whales as dangers to navigation, 166; under water, 



386. 

 Wheat rust, 148,405; smut, 369. 

 White- lead' process. 299, 

 Whitham's Steam Engine Design, 119. 

 Wilson's The State, 338- 

 Wind, velocity of, on Eiffel Tower, 402. 

 Windbreaks, 234. 



Wines, California, 43; in France, 59. 

 Wool3ey,T. D., death of, 9. 

 World's fair. 28, 78, 96, 114, 132,146,150,182,218, 252, 



268. 300, 370. 

 Wright's Ice Age in North America, 118. 



Yellow-fever inoculation, 435; Dr. Sternberg on, 235. 



Zoologists' CoDgresa, 316. 



