SCIENCE, — CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIIL 



Transcaspian railway . : • • ' ,' *„„;*„,•,, .i 

 Tyng, Emma M. Technical and manual training 



ola8ses of the Society of decorative art . . 

 Varigny, H. de. Chevreul's centennial festival 

 Voluntary amputation among cray-fish .... 

 Washington's signature 



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, 135 



472 

 248 

 532 

 349 



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Whence come race characters 7 . . . . _ ■ • 623 

 Wiley, H. W. Economical aspect of agricultu 



chemistry 



Women on the New York school board 



Wright, G. F. A salt-mine in western New York 



Zoology at the Colonial and Indian exhibition 



159 



470 

 52 

 19 



BOOK REYIEWS. 



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Agriculture in Michigan . . • • . , • • ■ 5of 



Aldrich and Meyer's Geological survey of Alabama . 4^i 



Arrowsmith's Kaegi's Kigveda . . . _ . • • °l° 



Arthur, Barnes, and Coulter's Plant^dissection . . 55^ 



Bassetfs Persia «^" 



Bastian's Psychology of Spiritualism . . . • °°i 



Benjamin's Age of electricity ^9' 



Binet's Psychology of reasoning. By J. J. . ■ • ^o5 



Bowker's Economics for the people oib 



Brinton's Annals of the Cakchiquels . . . • • ,~* 



Carnegie's Triumphant democi-acy. ByA. B.Hart . 1U9 



Carpenter's Surveying ■ ■ 463 



Challenger reports ^ya. O'**, 0,4 



Clark's Philosophy of wealth . . . ... .551 



Clarke's Industrial and high art education m the 



Ignited States .....•••• ^^ 



Gierke's History of astronomy. By H. M. Paul . . 130 



Collar's Latin book 499 



Conn's Evolution of to-day. By J. W. Powell . . .264 



Cremona's Projective geometry 617 



EUiott's Alaska 5*^ 



Ely's Labor movement 353 



Fornander's Polynesian race 355 



Fraenkel's Function of the brain 398 



French's North American butterflies .... 378 



Geikie's Geology 443 



CTraves's Life of Hamilton 639 



Hall's Reading 499 



Hall and Mansfield's Bibliography of education . . 500 



Haupt's Topographer . 463 



Holbrook's How to strengthen the memory . . .582 

 Jastrow's Population of mediaeval cities. By li. M. 



Sviith 311 



Johnson's Surveying 463 



Jones's Human psychology 88 



Lauuhardt's Mathematical economics .... 309 



McCosh"s Psychology 88 



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 . 241 

 . 569 

 . 615 

 290 



242 



Mackenzie's Hygiene of the vocal organs . 

 McLennan's Studies in ancient history 



Macy's Our government 



Maine agricultural experiment station 

 Meldola and White's report on the East Anglian earth- 

 quake of April 22, 1884. By ^. G. Rockwood, Jr. 



Minchen's Statics 65 



Mitchell and Reichert's Venoms of poisonous serpents . 568 



Morris's Study of Latin 499 



Newcomb's Plain man's talk on the labor question . 617 

 O'Reilly's Catalogue of earthquakes. By C. O. Reek- 

 wood, Jr 243 



Packard's Zoology 356 



Painter's History of education 500 



Parker's Morphology 638 



Perez's Childhood. By J. Jastroiv 288 



Porter's Mechanics and faith 110 



Prestwich's Geology. By W. M. D 109 



Reed's Topographical drawing 463 



Bibot's German psychology of to-day 87 



Rosmini's Psychology. By W. J. 130 



Royce's California 66 



Rred's Evolution versus involution 442 



Scherzer's Handbuch iiber production und consum. . 263 



Seismological society of Japan. By C. G. Rockioood, Jr. . 243 



Shaw's Co-operation in a western city .... 531 



Sidgwick's History of ethics 265 



Staley and Piersou's Separate system of sewerage . 399 



Stephens's History of the French revolution . . . 570 



Thayer's Greek-English lexicon 636 



Vines's Physiology of plants 571 



Wachsmuth and Springer's Palaeocrinoidea . . . 421 

 Whitfield's Brachiopoda and Lamellibranchiata of New 



Jersey 422 



Winchell's Geology 443 



Winnipeg country, the 637 



Wlnslow's Surveying 463 



9, 111, 133, 155, 177, 199, 223, 245, 267, 291, 313, 335, 357, 379, 401, 423, 445, 467, 503, 525. 553, 



Comment and cbiticism, l, 23, 45, 67, 



575, 619. 



Geographical notes, 26, 119, 582. 

 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, 10, 33, 57, 76, 99, 133, 143, 163, 187, 212, 231, 355, 379. 303, 322, 345, 367, 388, 412, 434, 454, 482, 514, 538, 564, 



587, 631. 

 NOTES AND NEWS. 10, 30, 54, 75, 97, 131, 138, 162, 184, 211, 339, 254. 278. 299, 320, 343, 362, 385, 409, 431, 451, 

 SCIENCE SUPPLEMENT, 15, 37, 59, 81, 103, 125, 147, 169, 191, 215. 237, 259, 383, 305, 327, 349, 371, 393, 415, 437: 

 Special correspondence : Honolulu Letter, 73 : London Letter, 9, 52, 130, 136, 238, 362, 430, 583 ; Paris 



533 ; Rio de Janeiro Letter, 477 ; St. Petersburg Letter, 343 ; Vienna Letter, 299, 



, 479, 510, 534, 

 7, 459, 485, 517, 

 Letter, 27, 94^ 



563, 628. 



', 541, 567, 633. 



, 208, 296, 382, 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIOl^rS. 



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Afghanistan, map of, showing disputed frontier . . 306 



Almiqui, the 283 



Archeological fraud (3 figs.) 403 



Artesian well at Belle Plaine, lo 276 



Ass with abnormal hoofs 304 



Barograph record of Blue Hill observatory . . . 335 



Brain of the dog 398 



Burying the wires 351 



Cable street-raUways (10 figs.) . . 415, 416, 417, 418, 419 



Chevreul, portrait of 249 



Corea by native artists 116, 117 



Corpus caUosum in the lower vertebrates (5 figs.) . 167,168 

 Earthquake of Aug. 31 (5 flgs.) . . . 273, 300, 439, 471 



Electric log 257 



Flying-fish, flight of (3 figs.) 11 



Fort Ancient, wall of 539 



Frog, a mummified 280 



Guadalajara pottery (14 figs.) 406, 407 



Health of New York during June, 93 ; July, 201 ; August, 



317 ; September, 427 ; October, 530 ; November . . 635 



Jaw of a new mammal 540 



Lea, Isaac, LL.D., portrait of 557 



Medicine in the United States (4 figs.) . 14S, 152, 153, 154 

 Meteorological observatory on Mount Wantastiquet . 453 



Mexican calendar-stone 394 



Mississippi, source of the (9 figs.) 143, 144, 601, 603, 603,606, 609 



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Mungo, mounting of (4 figs.) 338, 339 



New York art-school work (5 figs.) . . 473, 474, 475, 476 

 New Zealand and the recent eruption (2 figs.) . . 69 



Panama canal, map of 518 



Pavements (4 figs.) 340, .341 



Polydactylism (4 figs.) 166, 368 



Power distribution by compressed air in Birmingham . 373 



Rubies, artificial (4 figs.) 318 



Sea-serpent 258 



Serpent Mound, the great (3 figs.) .... 636, 627 



Skull, along (3 figs.) 436 



Threshing-sledge 539 



Torpedo boat, submarine 184, 508 



Typograph, the standard 253 



Vision, limits of 2.33 



Washington's signature, composite 350 



Composite portraits of some Smith college students 



opposite 90 

 Earthquake of Aug. 31, map of . . . opposite 224 

 Morse, E. S., portrait of . v. . . . opposite 155 

 New York City, map of, showing locations of the insti- 

 tutions of charity and coiTection . . opposite 283 

 Prayer, burying a, in Washington : a remnant of an 



expiring worship opposite 24 



