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INDEX TO VOLUME XIII. 



Academy of Science elections, 331; papers, 380'. 



Accumulators, 2 7. 



Acrophobia, 41. 



Advertising by doctors, 137. 



Africa, 42; diEcoverles in Central, 442; resources of, 

 2 0. 



Agassiz Association, 5. 



Agricultural map of America, 178; stations, utility 

 of, 219. 



Airy's English Restoration and Louis XIV., 127. 



Alcohol, methylated, 67. 



Allen and Greenough'3 Latin Grammar, 124. 



Alloy, a new, 3 9. 



Aluminium manufacture, 260, 499. 



Analyses of air and water, 175. 



Anatomical memoranda, 558. 



Andrews and Stoddaid's Grammar of the Latin Lan- 

 guage, 12. 



Anemometer constant, 204; factor, 248; the Robin- 

 son, 268, 289, 3l7. 



Anthropological Society, Women's, 60, 240. 



Anli-frlctlon metal, 399. 



Antiquarian Society, 340. 



Antlers, clustered, 321. 



Archseologlcal expedition, Hemenway, 8. 



ArchsBclogy of District of Columbia, 38. 



Architecturp, mc dt 1 school of, 476. 



Arc lamp, 235, S66. 



Arctic exploration, 101. 



Arnold's Reports on Elementary Schools, 1852-82, 

 344. 



Arsenic in fabrics, 119 



Art, pre-Columbian, 113; schools of the Metropolitan 

 Museum, 140. 



Asphaltum, 295. 



Asphjsiatlon by Uluminating-gas, 437. 



Association for the Advancement of Science, 139, 

 479. 



Audubon monument, '.3. 



Austen's Chemical Lecture Notes, 223. 



Australian exploration, 441. 



Baconian method in science, 112. 



Bacteria in the glaciers, 119. 



Baking-powders, 396, 423. 



Baldness, 175. 



Balloon, 78. 



Balzac's Louis Lambert, 65; Seraphlta, 507. 



Barnard, President A. P., death of, 358. 



Barton's The Battle of the Swash and the Capture of 

 Canada, 13. 



Base-line, Los .Angeles, 157. 



Batteries, Julien storage, «3; new secondary, 35; 

 seconda; y, 279, 366, 436; storage, for street-cars, 

 331. 



Battery, Aso, 101; Clart, 297; Detroit secondary, 297; 

 Maci ffion, 194. 



Beans in prehistoric Arizona, 233. 



Beer production, 34'i. 



Bell, a new Mountain of the, 36^. 



Bellite, 156. 



Bennett and Murray's Hand-Book of Cryptogamlc 

 Botany, 408. 



Benzoic acid in beers, 440. 



Bemheim's Suggestive Therapeutics, 365. 



BInet's Psychic Life of Micro-organisms, 185. 



Binger, Capt , explorations of, 404. 



Birds, Cucullarls propatagialls in oscinine, 16; de- 

 struction of, 441: soaring of, 15, 31, 71, 151, 169, 187, 

 205, 325, 345. 



Births, triple, 110, 1.32. 



Bismuth, voltaic current from, 398. 



Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine. 89. 



Blow-pipe, nitrous oxide, 1E5. 



Boars, wild, 287. 



Boats, submarine, 59, 300. 



Boilers, design of, 331. 



Book-buying, the decline of, 260. 



Bore in Hangchow Bay, 238. 



Boston Society of Natural History oCttcers, 341 . 



Bowditch's Hints for Teachers of Physiolf gy, 3S8. 



Brake, electric, 411, 4:9. 



Brick- work, strength of, 181. 



Bridge, submarine, SCO. 



Bridgman, Laura, death of, 421. 



British Columbia, mineral wealth of, 426; notes 

 from, 361. 



Broch, O. J., death of, 180. 



Bronze, Tobin, 230. 



Browning's Aspects of Education, 25. 



Bryce's The American Commonwealth, 24. 



Buda-Pesth, unhealtLiness of, 421. 



EuUdlng-stones of East Texas, 295. 



Bulgaria population, 380. 



Butter- making, 358. 



California, colonization of Lower, 255. 



Calorlmetrlc experiments, 379. 



Canal, Corinth, 359, 401; Manchester ship, 181. 



Canal-boat propulsion, 278. 



Canal-lifts, 181. 



Cancer contagion, 437. 



Carus's Fundamental Problems, 484. 



Case's Physical Realism, 165. 



Casey's Treatise on Spherical Trigonometry, 468. 



Census machine, electrical, 4-20; the next, 442. 



Chambers's EncyclopEedla, 285. 



Characters, inheritance of, 236. 



Chemical experiment, 449; re-actions, 340; society, 

 463; study of apple-twigs. 481. 



C'herokees, the Eastern, 130. 



Chevreul, Michel Eugene, 271; funeral of, 341. 



Child-labor, 101. 



Chimney corrosion by wood soot, 460; draught, 358; 

 repairer, 439. 



Chinch-bug In Arkarsas, 441; in Illinois, '375. 



Cholera treatment, 367. 



Chrome yellow as a poison, 347. 



Church's Mechanics of Engineering, 468. 



Churches, paper, 420. 



Cicada, periodic, 358. 



Clark University, 321, 360, 462. 



Classics and Moderns, strife of, 480. 



Claus's Elementary Text-Book of Zoology, 445. 



Clintonite, 370. 



Clocks, Japanf se, 441. 



Cloud and fog, 4*^7. 



Cloud burst, 459. 



Coal question in England, lr3. 



Coal-d'gger, electric, 250. 



Ccal mining machines, electric, 2, 



Coals, Kansas, 217'. 



Coasts of the Baltic, secular rising of the, 461. 



Cobra, shh ing stones In, 237. 



Coffee adulteraiion, 400; ariiflcial, 338. 



Colgate University, 501. 



College admlsslcn, 358. 



Colorado climate, 174. 



Color-blindness, 32, 41, 170. 



Cf mbusiion, spontaneous, 277. 



Conr position, curves of, 92. 



Congress, agricultural, 1890, 437; anthropological, 

 141, 339; botanical, S81: electrical, 312; labor, 400; 

 physiological, 320; sanitary, 331; zoologists', 320. 



Congresses at Paris, 361, 381. 



Connecticut, Fundamental Orders of, 90. 



Consumption, 482; contagiousness o*, 137, 162; germ 

 theory in, 3; prevention of, 462, 465. 



Convers'sMarilage and Divorce In the United States, 

 327. 



Copper, price of, 259. 



Copyright, international, 102. 



Coral islands, origin of, 236. 



Cory's Hypnotism or Mesmerism, 50; The Birds of 

 theWest Indies, 65. 



Cotton fabric, 251. 



Crane's La Soclete Francaise au Dix-septiSme 

 SiJcle, 507. 



Crematory, the Hughf s, i;'77. 



Criminals, Insane, 240. 



Crops in Ct llfornia, 499. 



Cruiser, submerging monitor, 229. 



Cruisers, the two-thousand ton, 471. 



Cucumber disease, 380. 



Cures, psychic, 406. 



Dairy commissioner of New Jersey, repcrt of, 386. 



Damon, Robert, death of, 401. 



Dance, Blaclsfoot sun, 215. 



Dann's German Commercial Correspondence, 148. 



Date stamp, elect ic. 160. 



Davis's Beginner's i eading Book. 149. 



Deaf, study o^, 302; teaching language to, 402. 



Deaf-mute Instruction In Cinclnnali, 482. 



Deaths by ligLtning, 359; of English solentiflc men, 

 501. 



Defective classes, census of, 38. 



Degeneration tf the race, 87. 



De Guimps's Pestalozzi, 445. 



De la Rue, Warren, dea-h of, 359. 



Denver formaiior, age of the, 290. 



Deodorant, a new, 119. 



Derelict schooner " W. L. White," 117. 



Dewey, Pre f est or John, appointment of, 331. 



Dialect Society, .36'2. 



Dictionary, science and the, 103. 



Diphtheria, 215, 357, 318; transmission of, 119. 



Diseases of menagerie animals, 30. 



Dislnfecant, mercuric chloride as a, 63. 



Disinfectants, 61. 



DistiUeiles in Russia, 360. 



DoUinger, Ignatius, 380. 



Draper memorial, 322. 



Drowning cases, 421. 



Drugs and strength, 336 ; purity of, 218. 



Du Bois-Reymcud, Dr. Paul, death cf, 360. 



Dupuis's EleiLontary Synthetic Geometry, 468. 



Dyeing and bleaching laboratory, 141. 



Dynamite gun, 56, S3. 



Dynamo, a new, 236 ; designing, 235 ; the Continen- 

 tal, 17 ; Westiughouse, 451. 



Earthquake in Japan, 500 ; In Liguria, 143; in Penn- 

 sylvania, 368. 



Eclipse of Jan. 1, 7. 



Economic Association, :63. 



Edison companies, 161. 



Education, encouragement of higher, 219; In Ger- 

 many, primary, 458 ; in India, 481 ; in Russia, 401 ; 

 of child widows In India, 358. 



Educational museum for Texa=, 101. 



Egypt, races of, 159. 



Eider, the, 181. 



Eiffel, Gustavo, 406. 



Eiffel Tower, 197, 3-20, 499. 



Electric apparatus, the Clark, 494 ; conductor, a 

 large, 230 ; conduit system, 272 ; course at Colum- 

 bia, 379 ; currents by mechanical action, 161 ; dis- 

 tribution, 81; door-opener, 394; drawbridge, .312; 

 engineering at Columbia, 81, 501 ; Light .\ssocia- 

 tloD, 4, 154, 460 ; light on the eyes, .367 ; lighting by 

 small engines, 3:6; lighting in Europe, 3.37; oscil- 

 lations. Hertz on, 79, 99, 137 ; power in mines, 

 473; power station, 351: regulator, Wagner, 377 

 system, Bentley- Knight, 373: system, Sperry, 193 

 system. Western, 351 ; tramway in England, 359 

 ULde ground system. 453; welding, 437. 



Electrlciiy and ether, ICO ; and light, 138. 



Electroplating glass and porcelain, 500. 



Elephant, skeleton of large, 421. 



Elevator speed, 237. 



Eliot's Annual Report, 103. 



Elizabeth Thompson Science Fund, 461. 



Emiu P£cha, 24, 2.38. 



Empire, our future, 38. 



Energy, conservation of, 400. 



Engine, Westiughouse, 355 ; working at a fixed cut- 

 off, 440. 



Entomological Club, 479. 



Ericsson Coast Defence Company, 236. 



Ericsson, John, 189, 198, 299 



Error, genesis of, 164. 



Essex Institute, Salem, 27'9. 



Ether and the earth's atmosphere, 390. 



Btbnologlcal comparisons, 159. 



Ethnology, report of Bureau of, 64. 



Examination and education, 333. 



Examinations, English, 309. 



Excavations at Susa, 159; by freezing, 274. 



Excelsior classes in Australia, 342. 



Exhibition, geographical, .340 ; graphic, at Stuttgart 

 881 ; In Birmingham, 281 : international novelties, 

 400; Paris, 280; Paris, United States at the, U3 ; 

 travelllEg platforms In the Paris, 401. 



Exhibitions, floating, 380. 



Felspar, or feldspar, 16. 



Fertilizer analyses, 439. 



Filters, 4.37. 



Fire alarm, 191 ; brigade In Paris, 197. 



Fish in Isolated waters, 16, '223 ; Commission experi- 

 ments, GO. 



Flowers, double, ar Iflclaily produced, 441. 



Fly as a disease-carrier, 506. 



Flylng-flsh, 337. 



Fly-wheels, 461. 



Fog, 116, 439 ; disi-ipation of, by electricity, 59. 



Pood analysis, 314; decomposing, 483; Inspection, 

 196 ; requirements of man, 36^^. 



Footnotes, 360. 



Force, lines of, •334. 



Forests, Adirondack, 318. 



Fossil wood, 11. 



Franklin Inetllute awards, 398. 



French Association for the Advancement of Tcience, 

 140. 



Fruits, 360 



Fruit-trees In southern California, 321. 



Fungi, study of, '3(0. 



Galton's Natural Inheritance, 266. 



GanguIUet and Kutter's General Formula for the 

 Uniform Flow of Water in Rivers and Other 

 Channels, -OOO. 



Garbage-disposal, Flelschmann system of, 115. 



Gas, natural, 119 ; in Ohio, 313. 



Gaslight, Improved, 96. 



Gas-spring, a deadly, 130. 



Geese, long memory of, 400. 



Geographic Society, 11 ; teachlrg, 317. 



Geological Society of America, 8, 400 ; Survey, 30 ; 

 Survey report, .343; Survey of Nebraska, 61 ; Sur- 

 vey of New Jersey, 433 



Geology, shall we teach, 305, 236, 269, 



Ge: sers, soaping, 383. 



Gibson's Text-Book of Elementary Biology, 323. 



Gilman's Profit Sharing between Employer and 

 Employee, '338. 



Glaciatlon in Greenland, 121 ; of Canada, 399. 



Glass, conductivity of, 60. 



Glycerine for sharpening edge tools, 461. 



Gold product, 180. 



Gosse's History of Eighteenth Century Literature, 

 2:i9. 



Gould's ornitholrglcal works, 387. 



Gratings, theory of, 419 ; use o', 418. 



Greaves's Statics for Beginners, 484. 



Greek temple painting, 1.81. 



Greenhouses, warming, 359. 



Greenland expedition, .501 ; Dr. Nansen's Journey 

 across, 439,477. 



Greenlanders, East, 384. 



Gum-arabic, artificial, 361. 



Gun, pneumatic, 181. 



Gunpowder, a new, 398. 



Guns, modera stot, .338; qulck-flrlng, 298. 



Hamilton's Text- Book of Pathology, 445. 



Harper's First, Second, Third, and Fourth Readers, 

 285. 



Harvard College, vote of offloers of, 101. 



Health a public duty, 198; association, 505: Bureau 

 of, 10; National Board of, 213: report of the New 

 Hampshire State Board of, 90: report of New 

 Haver, 478: report of New Jersey, 343: report of 

 New York, 304; report of Providence, 466. 



Heat, sources of, 329, -349. 



Heating and ventilating, 334. 



Hemenway expedition d'scoverie«, 29. 



Henshall's More about the Black Bass, 13. 



Historical Association, 7. 



Holbrook's Ealing for Strength, 1'3. 



Home Gymnastics for the Wtll and the Sick, 345. 



Home study, 480. 



Horns of the prong- buck, 70. 



Horse-flesh as food, 423. 



Humphrey's Favorite Authors for Children, IK 



Hurricanes, West Indian, 354, 339, 43J. 



Hypnotism, German works on, 125. 



Ice water, 506. 



Incandescent lamps, etBclency of, 4:35. 



Indian relics from Florida, 61 ; from North Caro- 

 lina, 9-3. 



Indiana -\cademy of Science, 7, 338. 



Induction coil, 35"3. 



Industrial tableaus, 301. 



Inebriate-asylums, 4. 



Inebriety, Association for Study of, 7. 



Insecticides, 357, 393. 



Insomnia, 367. 



Iron industry In the Southern States, 11 ; sllicated 

 338: smelting in China, :300. 



Irrigation in California, 110: survey for, 61. 



Ivory varnish, 333. 



Jacobl's Physiological Notes on Primary Education 

 and the Study of Language, 367. 



Jade in Alaska, 88 : question, 121. 



