SCIENCE. 



[Vol. XX. No. 50 



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 Lght- 

 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. 



First inserted June 19, 1891. No re- 

 sponse to date. 



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: Article 

 Jan 



Published i 

 I, 1893. 



Aboriginal North American Tea. 



Actinism. 



Agriculture, Experimental, Status of. 



Amenhotep, King, the tomb of. 



Anatomy, The Teaching of, to Advanced Medical 



Students. 

 Anthropology, Current Notes on. 

 Architectural Exhibition in Brooklyn. 

 Arsenical Potsoniug from Domestic Fabrics. 

 Artesian Wells in Iowa. 

 Astronomical Notes. 

 Bacteria, Some Uses of. 

 Bird on Its Nest, The. 

 Birds Breeding at Hanover, N. H. 

 Botanical Laboratory, A. 

 Botanists, American and Nomenclature. 

 Brain, A Few Characteristics of the Avian. 

 Bythoscopldffi and Cereopid®. 

 Canada, Royal Society of. 

 Celts, The Question of the. 

 Chalicotherium, The Ancestry of. 

 Chemical Laboratory of the Case School. 

 Children, Growth of. 

 Collection of Objects Used in Worship. 

 Cornell, The Change at. 

 Deaf, Higher Education of the. 

 Diamonds in Meteorites. 

 Diphtheria, Tox-Albumln. 

 Dynamics, Fundamental Hypotheses of. 

 Electrical Engineer, The Technical Education of. 

 Eskimo Throwing Sticke. 



Etymology of two Iroquolan Compound Stems. 

 Eye-Habits. 

 Eves, Relations of the Motor Muscles of, to Certain 



Facial Expressions. 

 Family Traits, Persistency of. 

 Fishes, The Distribution of. 

 Fossils, Notice of New Gigantic. 

 Four-fold Space, Possibility of a Realization of. 

 Gems, Artificial, Detection of. 

 Glacial Phenomena la Northeastern New York. 

 Grasses, Homoptera Injurious to. 

 Great Lakes, Origin of the Basins of. 

 •' Healing, Divine." 

 Hemipteri us Mouth, Structure of the. 

 Hofmann, August Wilhelm von. 

 Hypnotism among the Lower Animals. 

 Hypnotism, Traumatic. 

 Indian occupation of New Tork. 

 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 Association. 

 Iowa Academy of Sciences. 

 Jargon, The Chinook. 

 JaesidEe; Notes on Local. 

 Keller, Helen. 



Klamath Nation, Linguistics. 

 Laboratory Training, Alms of. 

 Lewis H. Carviil, Work on the Glacial Phenomena. 

 Lightning.New Method of Protecting Buildings from. 

 Lion Breeding. 



Ll8sa]ou"8 Curves, Apparatus for the Production of. 

 Maize Plant, Growth and Chemical Composition of. 

 Maya Codices, a Key to the Mystery of. 

 Medicine, Preparation for the Study of. 

 Mineral Discoveries, Washington. 

 Museums, The Support of. 

 Palenque Tablet, a Brief Study of. 

 Patent Ofhce Building, The. 



Physa Heterostropha Lay, Notes on the Fertility of. 

 Plot's House, A. 



Pocket Gopher, Attempted Extermination of. 

 Polarlscopes, Direct Reflecting. 

 Psychological Laboratory at Toronto. 

 Psychological Training, The Need of. 

 Psylla, the Pear-Tree. 

 Rain-Making. 

 Rice-Culture in Japan, Mexico and the United 



States. 

 Rivers, Evolution of the Loup, in Nebraska. 

 Scientific Alliance, The. 

 SistruruB 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. 

 Tracheae of Insects. Structure of. 

 Vein-Formation, Valuable Experiments in. 

 Weeds as Fertilizing Material. 

 Weeds, American. 

 Will, 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 Jan. 



I, 1892. 

 Aaron, Eugene M., Philadelphia, Pa, 

 Allen, Harrison, Philadelphia, Pa. 

 Ashmeao, Albert S., New York City. 

 Bailey, L. H., Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. 

 Baldwin, J. Mark, University of Toronto, Canada. 



Ball, v., C. B., LL.D., F.R.S., Dublin, Ireland. 



Barnes, Charles Reid, Madison, Wis. 



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



Beal, W. J., Agricultural College, Mien. 



Beals, A. H., Milledgeville, Ga. 



Beauchamp, W. M., Baldwinsviile, N.Y. 



Bell, Alexander Graham, Washington, D. C. 



Boas, Franz, Clark University, Worcester, Mass. 



Bolley, H. L., Fargo, No. Dak. 



Bolles, Frank, Cambridge, Mass. 



Bostwlch, Arthur E., Montclair, N.J, 



Bradley, Milton, Springfield, Mass. 



Brinton, D. G., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Call, E. Ellsworth, Des Moines, la. 



Chandler, H., Buffalo, N.Y. 



Comstock, Theo. B., Tucson, Arizona. 



Conn, H. W., Middletown, tionn. 



Coulter, John M., Indiana University. 



Cragin, F. W., Colorado Springs. Col. 



Cresson, HilborneT., Philadelphia, Pa. 



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



Dimmock, George, Canobie Lake, N,H. 



Dixon, Edward T., Cambridge, England. 



Farrlngton, E. H., Agric. Station, Champaign, 111. 



Ferree, Barr, l^Jew York City. 



Pessenden, Reginald A., Lafayette, Ind. 



Flexner, Simon, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Md. 



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



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



Carman. S., Mus. Comp. Zool., Cambridge, Mass. 



Gibbs, Morris, Kalamazoo, Mich. 



Golden, Katherine E., Agric. College, Lafayette, Ind. 



Grinnell, George B., New York City. 



Hale, Edwin M., Chicago, III. 



Hale, George S., Boston, Mass. 



Hale, Horatio, Clinton, Ontario, Canada. 



Hall, T. Proctor, Clark University, Worcester, Mass. 



Halsted, Byron D., Rutg. Coll., New Brunswick, N.J. 



Haworth, Erasmus, Oskaloosa, Iowa. 



Hay, O. P., Irvington. Ind. 



Haynes, Henry W., Boston Mass. 



Hazen, H. A., Weather Bureau, Washington, D.C. 



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

 D. C. 



HlckB, L. E., Lincoln, Neb. 



Hill, E. .1., Chicago, lU. 



Hill, Geo. A., Naval Observatory, Washington, D.C. 



Hitchcock, Romyn, Washington, D.C. 



Holmes, E. L. Chicago, 111. 



Hosklns, L. M., Madison, Wis. 



Hotchkiss, Jed., Staunton, Va. 



Houston, Edwin J., Philadelphia, Pa. 



Howe, Jas. Lewis, Louisville, Ky. 



Hubbard, Gardiner G., Washington, D.C. 



Jackson, Dugald C, Madison, Wisconsin 



James, Joseph F., Agric. Dept., Washington, D.C. 



Johnson, Roger B., Miami University, Oxford, O, 



Keane, A. H., London, England. 



Kellerman, Mrs. W. A., Columbus, O. 



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



Kellogg, D. S., Plattsburgh, N. Y. 



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



Loeb, Morris, New York City. 



Mabery, Charles F., Cleveland, Ohio. 



Macloskie, G., Princeton, N.J. 



McCarthy, Gerald, Agric. Station, Raleigh, N. C. 



MacDonald, Arthur, Washington, D.C. 



MacGregor, J. C, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 



MaoRitchle, David, Kaster Logle, Perthshire, Scot- 

 land. 



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



Mason. O. T., Smithsonian Inst., Washington, D. C. 



MiUrtpaugh, Charles F., Morgantown, W. Va. 



Morse, Edward S., Salem, Mass. 



Nichols, C. F., Boston, Mass. 



NuttaU, George H. F., Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, 

 Md. 



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



Osborn, Henry P., Columbia College, New York City. 



Osborn, Herbert, Agricultural College, Ames, Iowa. 



Pammel, L. H., Agricultural Station, Ames, Iowa. 



PUlBbury, J. H., Smith College, Northampton, Mass. 



Poteat, W. L., Wake Forest, N. C. 



Preble, Jr.. W. P., New York City. 



Preecott, Albert B., Ann Arbor, Mich. 



Riley, C. v., Washington, D. C. 



Ruflner, W. H., Lexington, Va. 



Sanford, Edmund C, Clark Univ., Worcester, Mass. 



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



beler. Dr. Ed., Berlin, Germany. 



Shufeldt, R. W., Washington, D.C. 



Slade, D, D., Museum Comp, Zool., Cambridge, Mass. 



Smith, John B., Rutgers Coll., New Brunswick, N. J. 



Southwlok, Edmund B., New York City. 



Stevens, George T., New York City. 



Stevenson, S. Y„ Philadelphia, Pa. 



Stone, G. H., Colorado Springs, Col. 



Taylor, Isaac, Settrington, England. 



Thomas, Cyrus, Washington, D. C. 



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



Todd, J. E., Tabor, Iowa. 



True, Frederick W,, Nat, Mus., Washington, D.C. 



Turner, C, H., Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, O. 



Wake, C, Staniland, Chicago, 111. 



Ward, R. DeC, Harvard Univ., Cambridge, Mass. 



Ward, Stanley M.. Scranton, Pa. 



Warder, Robert B., Howard Univ., Washington, D.C. 



Welch, Wm. H., Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Md. 



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



Whitman, C. O., Clark University, Worcester, Mnss. 



Williams, Edward H., Lehigh Univ., Bethlehem, Pa. 



