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SCIENCE. 



[Vol. XX, No. 491 



QUERY. 



Can any reader of Science cite 

 a case of lightning stroke in 

 which the dissipation of a small 

 conductor (one-sixteenth of an 

 inch in diameter, say,) has failed 

 to protect between two horizon- 

 tal planes passing through its 

 upper and lower ends respective- 

 ly? Plenty of cases have been 

 found which show that when the 

 conductor is dissipated the build- 

 ing is not injured to the extent 

 explained (for many of these see 

 volumes of Philosophical Trans- 

 actions at the time when light- 

 ning was attracting the attention 

 of the Royal Society),~^but not 

 an exception is yet known, al- 

 though this query has been pub- 

 lished far and wide among elec- 

 tricians. 



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Titles of Some Articles Published in Science since 

 Jan. I, 1892. 



Aboriginal Nortli American Tea. 



Actinism. 



Agriculture, Experimental, Status of. 



Ameuhotep, King, Lhe tomb of. 



Anatomy, The Teaching of, to Advanced Medical 

 Students. 



Anthropology. Current Notes on. 



Architectural Exhibition in Brooklyn. 



Arsenical Poisoning from Domestic Fabrics. 



Artesian Wells in Iowa. 



Astronomical N'.'tes. 



Bacteria, Some Uses of. 



Botanical Laboratory, A. 



Brain, A Few Characteristics of the Avian. 



Bythoscopldae and CereopidEe. 



Canada, Royal Society of. 



Celts, The Question of the. 



Chalicotberium, The Ancestry of. 



Chemical Laboratory of the Case School of Applied 

 Science. 



Children, Growth of. 



Collection of Objects Used in Worship. 



Cornell, The Change at. 



Deaf, Higher Education of the. 



DlDhtheria, Tox-Albumin. 



Electrical Engineer, The Technical Education of. 



Eskimo Throwing Sack'. 



Etymology of two Iroquolan Compound Stems. 



Eye-Habita. 



Eyes, Relations of the Motor Muscles of, to Certain 

 "Facial Expressions. 



Family I'rait', Persistency of. 



Fishes, The Distribution of. 



Fossils, Kotice of New Gigantic. 



Four-fold Space, Possibility of a Realization of. 



Gems, Artificial, Detection of. 



Glacial Phenomena in Northeastern New York. 



Grasses, Hoinoptera Injurious to. 



Great Lakes. Origin of the Basins of. 



" Healing, Divine." 



Hemipteri us Mouth, Structure of the. 



Hofmanu, August Wilhelm von. 



Hypnotism among the Lower Animals. 



Hypnotism, Traumatic. 



Indian occupation of New York. 



Infant's Movements. 



Influenza, Latest Details Concerning the Germs of. 



Insects in Popular Dread in New Mexico. 



Inventions In Foreign Countries, How to Protect. 



Inventors and Manufacturers, the American Associ- 

 ation of. 



Iowa Academy of Sciences. 



Jargon, The Chinook. 



JaosidEe; Notes on Local. 



Keller, Helen. 



Klamath Nation, Linguistics. 



Laboratory Training, Alms of. 



Lewis n. Carvill, Work on the Glacial Phenomena. 



Lightning, The New Method of Protecting Buildings 

 from. 



Lissajou's Curves, Simple Apparatus for the Produc- 

 tion of. 



Maize Plant, Observations on the Growth and Chemi- 

 cal Composition of. 



Maya Codices, a Key lo the Mystery of. 



Medicine, Preparation for the Study of. 



Mineral Discoveries, Some Eeoent, in the State of 

 Washington. 



Museums, The Support of. 



Palenque Tablet, a Brief Study of. 



Patent Office Ballding, The. 



Physa Heterostropha Lay, Notes on the Fertility of. 



Pocket Gopher, Attempted Extermination of. 



Polarlscopes, Direct Reflecting. 



Psychological Laboratory in the University of To- 

 ronto. 



Ps J choloeical Training, The Need of. 



f'sylla, the Pear-Tree. 



Rain-Making. 



Rivers, Evolution of the Loup, in Nebraska. 



Scientific Alliance, The. 



Sistrurus and Crotalophorus. 



Star Photography, Notes on. 



Star, The New, in Auriga. 



Storage of Storm- Waters on the Great Plains. 



Teaching of Science. 



Tiger, A New Sabre-Toothed, from Kansas. 



Timber Trees of West Virginia. 



TrachPSB of Insects. Structure of. 



Vein-Formation, Valuable Experiments in. 



Weeds as Fertilizing Material. 



Win, a Recent Analysis of. 



Wind-Storms and Trees. 



Wines, The Sophisticated French. 



Zoology in the Public Schools of Washington, D. C. 



Some of the Contributors to Science Since Ja 



Aaron, Eugene M., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Allen, Harrison, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Baldwin, J. Mark, University of Toronto, Canada 



Barnes, Charles Eeid, Madison, Wis. 



Baur, G., Clark University. Worcester, Mass. 



Beal, W. J., Agricultural College, Mich. 



Beals, A. H., MilledgevUle, Ga. 



Beauchamp, W. .M., Baldwinsvllle, N.Y. 



Boas, Franz, Clark (Jnlversity, Worcester, Mass. 



Boliey, H. L., Fargo, No. Dak. 



Bostwlch, Arthur E., Moutclair, N J. 



Bradley, Milton, Sprlngfleld, Mass. 



Brlnton, D. G., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Call, E. Ellsworth, Des Atoines, la. 



Chandler, H., Buffalo, N.Y. 



Comstock, Theo. B., Tucson, Arizona. 



Conn, H. W , lyiiddletowD, Conn. 



Cragiu, P. W., Colorado Springs. Col. 



Davis. W. M., Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. 



Dimmock, George, Canobie Lake, N.H. 



Farrington, E. H., Agricultural Station, Champaigti', 

 111. 



Ferree, Barr, ^ew York City. 



Flexner, Simon, Johns Hopkins University, Balti- 

 more, JVId. 



Foshay, P. Max, Rochester, N.Y. 



Galiaudet, E. M., Kendall Green, Washington, B.C. 



Garmau, S,, Museum of Comp. ZooL, Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



Golden, Ka'.herine E., Agricultural College, Lafay- 

 ette. Ind. 



Hale, Edwin M., Chicago, 111. 



Hale, George S., Boston. Mass. 



Hnle, Horatio, Clinton, Ontario, Canada. 



Hal], T. Proctor, Clark University, Worcester, Mass. 



Halsted, Byron D., Rutgers College, New Bruns- 

 wi'-k, N.J. 



Haworth, Erasmus, Oskaloosa, Iowa. 



Hay. O. P., IrvlGgton. Ind. 



Hayues. Henry W., BosiouMass. 



Hazeu, H. A., Weather Bureau, Washington, B.C. 



Hewitt, J. N. B., Bureau of Ethnology, Washington, 

 D.C. 



Hick?, L. E., Lincoln, Neb. 



Hill, E. J., Chicago, HI. 



Hill, Gf 0. A., Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C. 



Hitchcock, Romm, Washington, D.C. 



Holmes, E. L. Chicago. Hi. 



Hotchkiss, Jed., Stauut jn, Va. 



Howe, Jas. Lewis, Louisville, Ky. 



Hubbard, Gardiner G , Washington, D.C. 



Jackson. Dugald C. Madison, Wisconsin 



James, Joseph F., Agricultural Dept., Washington, 

 D.C. 



Johnson, Rogor B , Miami Uuiversity, Oxford, O. 



Kellermao, Mrs. W. A., Columbus, O. 



KelUcott, D. S., State University, Columbus, O. 



Kellogg, D. S., PlattsburgD. N. Y. 



Lintner, J. A., Albany, N. Y- 



Loeb, Morris, New York City. 



Mabery, Charles F., Cleveland, Ohio. 



Macioskle, G., Prioceton, N.J. 



McCarthy, Gerald, Agricultural Station, Raleigh, 

 N.C. 



MacDonald, Arthur, Washington, D.C. 



Marshall, D. T., Metuchen, N.J. 



Mason. O. T., Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 

 D.C. 



MiU paugh, Charles F.. Morgantown, W. Va. 



Nichols, C. F., Boston, Mass. 



Nuttall, George H. F., Johns Hopkins University, 

 Baltimore, Md. 



Oliver, J. E., Cornell University, Iibaca, N.Y. 



Osborn, Henry F., Columbia College, New York 

 City. 



OsSorn. Herbert, Agricultural College, Ames, Iowa. 



Paramel, L. H., j^ griculrural Station, Ames, l^wa. 



Plllsbury, J. H., Smith College, Northamptoufljjlass. 



Poteat, W. L., Wake Fornst, N. C. '^ 



Preble, Jr., W. P.. New "iork City. 



Ruffner, W. H., Lexington, Va. 



Sanford, Edmund C, Clark Uuiversity, Worcester, 



Schuteidt, R. W., Washington, D.C. 



Scripture, E. W.. Clark University. Worcester, Mass. 



Slado, D. D., Museum Comp. Zool., Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



Smith, John B., Rutgers College, New Brunswick, 

 N.J. 



Soulhwlck. Edmund B., New York City. 



Stevens, George T., New York City. 



Stevenson. S. Y., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Stone, G. H., Colorado Springs, CoL 



Thomas, Cyrus, Washington, D. C. 



Thurston, E. H., Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 



Todd, J. E., Tabor, Iowa. 



True, Frederick W., National Museum, Washing- 

 ton, D.C. 



Turner, C. H., University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, 

 O. 



Wake, C, Stanlland, Chicago, 111. 



Ward, R. DeC, Harvard University, Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



Ward, Stanley M., Scranton, Pa. 



Warder, Robert B., Howard University, Washing- 

 ton, D.C. 



Welch, Wm. H., Johns Hopkins University, Balti- 

 more. M. D. 



West, Gerald M., Clark University, Worcester, Mass. 



Whitman, C. O., Clafk University, Worcester, Mass. 



Williams, Edward H., Lehigh University, BetMe- 

 hem, Pa. 



