INDEX TO VOLUME XYII. 



A 



Abbott, A. C, 339. 



Abbott's PbUomythus, 291. 



Abel, Sir F., address by, 896. 



Academy, National, of Sciences, 248. 



.Advertising esblbltlon, 241. 



Africa, health In east, 3. 



African and American, 78, 86. 



AgrlcuJtiiral experiment (arms in Wyoming, 327. 



Alcohol and digestion, 277. 



Aldepalmlllc acid, 180. 



Allen, Harrison, 338. 



Alligator products, 117. 



Alloy, brilliant, 356. 



Aluminum in iron, 82. 



Ambondrombo, ascent of, 101. 



America, the name. 9^. 



Ammen's Old Navy and the New, 291. 



Analyses, organic, 3 5. 



Anatomists, association of, 102. 



Andree's Die Fluth-Sagen, 191. 



Antbras, cure for, 159. 



Anthropological investigations in schools, 351. 



Antiseptic, a new, 304. 



Ants, use in surgery, 65- 



Appalachlan Mountain club excursions, SCO. 



Apperception, 262. 



Appletons' Sobooi Physics, 305. 



Apteryx, anatomy of the, 3 8. 



ArchEBOlogy, Mexican, 233. 



Architecture, American Idea in, 4G; home-study in, 



326: influence of Christianity on, 90. 

 Arctic expedition, Nansen's, 173 

 Aristotle as a naturalist, 128: new manuscript of, 75. 

 Armor-plate trials, 6 

 Armstrong. H. E., on teaching scientific method, 



281. 

 Asia, British influence in, 327. 

 Asphjxia, 311. 



Atkinson's Dynamic Electricity, 263. 

 Atlas ol State of New York, 247. 

 Atmosphere, eddies in the, 346. 

 Atmospheric pressure in Russia, 49. 

 Audubon monument, 133, 190. 

 Australia, explorations in central, 315. 



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Bacilli, number of, in tuberculous sputum, 328. 



Bacillus, chemistry of the tubeicle, 100. 



Bacteria, 357; action of blood on, 65; action of coffee 



on, 172; Influence otfollage on, 3 .'6. 

 Bacteriological World, 12. 

 Baker, H. B., on malaria, 197. 

 Baldwin. J. Mark, on suggestion in infancy, 113. 

 Ballooning, O. Chanute on, 201. 

 Baltimore, relief-map of, 339. 

 Banana production, 289. 

 Barkworth, T., on automatic writing, 323 

 Barometric pressure, zones of, 8; variations, 314. 

 Bashkirtsefl s Journal, 165. 

 Batteries, secondary, 7. 

 Baur, G., 228; on American box-tortoises, lOi; on a 



peculiar tortoise, 190; on homed Saurlaus, 216. 

 Bauxite in Arkansas, 171 . 

 Beal, W. J., on weeds, 200. 

 Beauchamp, W. M"., on copper implements, 25. 

 Bees, 228. 



Beetle, a water, 134. 

 Behring, E.,65. 



Bell, A. Graham, on deaf-mute marriages, ICO. 

 Bell, E., on nickel and copper deposits, 159. 

 Bereman, T. A., on cause of obliquity of ecliptic, 93. 

 BeutenmiiUer, W. , 257. 

 Blbliotheca Polytechnlca, 82. 

 Bluet's Double Consciousness, 96 

 Birds, destroying their young, 338; flight of, 45; of 



Africa, 326. 

 Bishop, Sereno E , on cause of Ice age, 239. 

 Black-knot in Ohio, 158. 

 Black Sea, exploration in, 184. 

 Bleeding era, a new, 156. 



Blood, action of, on bacteria, 6::; changes In, in dis- 

 ease, 101; corpuscles seen In one's own eyes, 120; 



corpuscles, volume of, 166; sugar in, 65. 

 Blue Hill observatory, 123. 

 Boas, F., on anthropological investigations in 



schools, 351; on mixed races, 179 

 Bogue, E. E., on Ohio State University, 208. 

 Bone grafting, 90. 

 Bonney, T. 6., on temperature of the glacial epoch, 



142. 

 Borneo. 106. 



Boston Zoological Garden, 62. 

 Bostwi3k, A. E., on lightning flashes, .561. 

 Brachytrypus, 186. 

 Brain, relief of overworked, 90 

 Branner. J. C, 214; on bauxite in Arkansas, 171. 

 Breathing, chemistry of, 17.^. 

 Brewer's Historic Note- Book, 235. 

 Brinton, D. 6., 228; on American languages, 121; on 



ethnology of Europe. 103. 

 Brinton's American Race, 55, 321. 

 British New Guinea, 163. 



Bronze, derivation of, 103. 



Bryce's American Commonwealth, 279. 



Buchanan's Therapeutic Sarcognomy, 109. 



Buffalo milk, 100. 



BuUdlng-stones of New York, 124. 



Burial of Prince Chun, 312. 



Burmah, wild tribes of, 144. 



Burten's Photographic Optics, 321. 



Butter extractor, 355. 



Call's Power through Repose, 234. 



Campbell, T>. H., 228. 



Campbell, Helen, 215. 



Canada, Royal Society, 242: 313. 



Cards, playing, in Japan, 316. 



Casati's Soudan, 165. 



Cat, ferocity of the, 326. 



Cave near Ajaccio. 228; near Vienna, 343. 



Census of Bengal, 338: of India, 286. 



Century Dlctlonari, 263. 



Chamberlaio, A. F., on the African and American, 

 78, 85. 



Cbatelain's Kimbundu Grammar., 261. 



Chemical Society's jubilee, 202. 



Chickens, feeding of, *05. 



Cholera attacking a dog, 186: epidemics, 236; toxine, 

 353. 



Church and State separation, essay on, 165. 



Clayton, H. Helm, on cyclones, 10. 66. 



Climatological periods, 7. 



Clouds, double motion of, 220. 



Coal In the Shan States, 345; In Tonqain, 74. 



Coast Survey buildings, 144. 



Cocoanut-water as a cultnre-fluid, 100. 



Coffee, action of, on bacteria, 172. 



Cold waves, 121. 135. 



Color In the school-room, 145. 



Combustion, spontaneous, 326. 



Comegys's Primer of Ethics, 165. 



Comey's Growth of New England Colleges, 139. 



Congress, agricultural, 228; of Americanists, 243; of 

 geologist?, 356; of hygiene, 314. 



Conn, H. W., on milk fermentation, 272. 



Consumption, Koch's cure of, 43. 



Continents, mean coast-distances of, 261. 



Cope's ■\'ertebrata, 3C6. 



Copper implements, 25. 



Corea, climate of, 340. 



Cork-Industry in Spain, 20. 



Com, crossing varieties of, 326 experiments, 327; 

 experiments in Illinois, 159; planting of, 331; pro- 

 tection of, from squirrels, 265: removing tassels 

 from, 171. 



Cornell University, 51. 



Costa, B. F. de, on Welsh early discovery of 

 America, 172. 



Costa Rica, 301. 



Cotterlll's Applied Mechanics, 166. 



Cox, C. F., on faith-healing In the sixteenth century, 

 96, 



Cragin's Geology of Kansas, 223, 



Creation, the story of the, 7. 



Cremation, 150. 



Crouter, A. L. E., on instruction of the deaf, 141. 



Crystals of platinum and palladium, 315. 



Cushing's Harvard Graduates, 26'2. 



Cyanogen, synthesis of, 35. 



Cyclones, 38, 47, 66; causes of, 10: Dr. Hann on, 4; 

 memoirs, Indian, 2.86; tracks in Indian Ocean, 286. 



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Dairy, better cows for the, 185. 



D'Anders's The Story of Early man, 248. 



Darwin's Coral Reefs, 164. 



Davis's Potable Water. 319. 



Davis, W. M., on Dr. Hann's studies of cyclones, 4; 

 on tornadoes. 244. 



Dawson, G. M , -348. 



Dead, the, preserving by galvano-plastic method, 6. 



Dear, education of the, 51; education, a new depart- 

 ure in, 143; fund for teaching lip-reading to the, 

 215; instruction, 105, 122; instruction of the, 14*i. 



Deaf-mutes, intermarriage of, 57, 160. 



Deafness, hereditary, 76. 



Deaver, J. B , 338. 



Diabetes, 303. 



Diamond-cutting, 259: phosphorescence, 327. 



Dletz's Flrst-Aid Haudbook, 192 



Digestion, influence of exercise on, 233. 



Dinner, a Japanese, 53. 



Diphtheria, cure for. 1. 



Disease?, plant. 291; treatment of fungous, 212. 



Dog saving another from drowning, '.;00. 



Dolbear, A. E., on lightning protection, 245; on the 

 magnetic 13eld, 188. 



Draper. D , 297. 



Dreyer's Tycho Brahe, 40. 



Dunbar's Banking, 180. 



Dwarfs of Ogowe, 298. 



Dyer's Studies of the Gods, 320. 



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Earthquakes in Japan, 6, 314; submarlne,'257. 



Earth's axis, 229. 



Echinoderms from Yucatan, 12. 



Ecliptic, cause of obliquity of, 93. 



Economic association, 23; British, 83. 



Education, association for advancing physical, 215; 

 in Germany, 106; physical, 353; progress In Japan, 

 23. 



Educational Review, 52. 



Edwards's Butterflies, 847. 



Egg-plant, 329. 



Egleston, T., on the Audubon Monument, 190. 



Egyptian temple, discovered by Petrle, 556. 



Eiffel Tower pressure-guage, S58. 



Electric lamps, repair of, 101; currents, physiologi- 

 cal effects of, 173 201; Instruments for schools, 249; 

 line in Russia, 7; phenomena In production of 

 solid carbon dioxide, 299; railway for parcels, 299; 

 welding, 271 



Electricity, Crookes on, 75. 



Electrolysis of animal tissues, 317. 



Elevator, a security, 256. 



Engelsman, B., on the education of the deaf, 51. 



Engineers, Canadian Society of, 80. 



Engineering Magazine, 291; modern marine, 119. 



Hogiand, frost In, 133. 



Entomology, the outlook for applied, 15, 29; soientfic 

 ard economic, 77. 



Ethe. drinking, 193. 



EtLics, school of, -313. 355. 



Etrusca i-Pelasgiau problem, 99; question, 172. 



Evaporat.on, 353, 354. 



Exhibition, botanical, 326; colonial, at Paris, 239, 

 218; geograihical, 23?. 



Explosion of gi-s, 311. 



Fat, dietetic employment of, 199. 



Fay, E. A., on deaf-mute education, 122. * 



Pernald, C. F., on insects, 214. 



Perree, Barr, on American Idea in architecture, 46; 



on influence of Christianity on architecture, 91. 

 Ferrel and American meteorologists, 37. 

 Perrel, Wm.. on zones of barometric pressure, 8 , on 



cyclones, 38. 

 Perrier, W. F., on harmotome, 27. 

 Fertilizers, economical use of, 186; for com, 287; tils- 



tory of commercial, 207; reports on, 339; unde'' 



glass, 200. 

 Fevers of China, 3^8. 

 Fire prevention, 354. 

 Fish catches on Cornish coast, 286; commission work, 



144, 215; in Lower Silurian, 107; collected by :h6 



" Albatross," 338. 

 Fiske range-finder, 264. 

 Fiske's Beyond the Bourn, 291. 

 Flaws in Castings, 75. 

 Flax culture in Russia, 309. 

 Flowers, do Americans like ? 187. 

 Flying machines, 245. 278. 

 Fogs, action of, on plants, 5. 

 Forests, influence of, on temperature, 313. 

 Fort Ancient, 298. 

 Foui\dations for building, 354. 

 Fowler's Quintus Curtius, 13. 

 Fraenkel, K., 64. 

 France, depopulation of, 78. 

 French accent, 315. 

 Fangous dissases, 21'3. 



Galapagos rookeries, 290. 



Gale, H. B., 228. 



Gallaudet, E. M., on new departure In deaf-mute 

 education, 143. 



Game-preservation in Germany, 225. 



Garrett, Emma, 214. 



Gelkle, J., on the ice age, 211. 



Geographic Magazine, 297; names, 315 



Geological survey of Missouri, 287. 



Geologists, congress of, 133. 



Georgian Bay survey, 48. 



Gilbert, G, K., on Lake Bonneville, 123. 



GlUett, P. G., on inter-marriage of deaf-mutes, 57. 



Glacial epoch, temperature of the, 142; grooves on 

 KeUey's Island, 358. 



Glaciers, advance of, 103. 



Glass and metal joining, 103. 



Gore's German Science Reader, 193. 



Graffenreld, de, Clare, 215. ' 



Graham's Massage, 348. 



Graham's Socialism New and Old, 81. 



Grant's Our Common Birds, 305. 



Grapes, brown-rot In, 93. 



Grasserle's Grammaire Comparee, 261. 



Greenland, exploration of, 101, 332; Nansen's .jour- 

 ney across, 93. 



Grlbayedoff's French Invasion of Ireland, 181. 



Gun-steel, 7. 



Guns, sub-marine, 119. 



Gutierrez, Don Jose, death of, 48. 



