INDEX TO VOLUME VIII. 



Names of contributors are printed in small capitals. 



Abb6's microscope objective, 335. 



Abbott, C. C. Trenton natural bistory 

 society, 36. 



Abnormal embryos of trout and sal- 

 mon, 516. 



Acarina as an index to date of death, 

 454. 



Acclimatization in New Zealand, 426. 



Actinomycosis, 536. 



Adams, H. C. Economic laws and 

 methods, 103; economics and juris- 

 prudence, 15. 



Addison's disease, 629. 



Adelaide exposition in 1887, 142. 



Adriance's Laboratory calculations, 98. 



Adulteration of butter. Dr. T. Taylor's 

 tests for, 223. 



Adulterations, food, 296, 322 ; food and 

 drug, 431 ; of butter in India, 359 ; of 

 cream-of -tartar, 344. 



Advertising for professors, 575. 



Aesthetics, physical basis of, 419. 



Afghan frontier commission, 364 ; fron- 

 tier question, 363. 



Agricultural chemistry, 159 ; chemists' 

 association, 316 ; experiment farm 

 near Raleigh, 76 ; experiment station, 

 Maine, 290 ; experiments, 138 ; sci- 

 ence, society for the promotion of, 

 56 ; society, experimental farm of the 

 Royal, 53. 



Agriculture in Michigan, 574. 



Air, compressed, distribution of power 

 by, 372 ; on cable-roads, 275. 



Alabama, geological survey of, 421. 



Alaska, 27, 523 ; and the Seal Islands, 

 565. 



Aldrich and Meyer's Geological survey 

 of Alabama, 421. 



Algebra, multiple, 180. 



Allen, H. T. Copper River, Alaska, 

 glacial action, 145. 



Allen, J. A. Bird-destruction, 118. 



Alligators in the Bahamas, 369. 



Almiqui, the, 282. 



Alpine glaciers, 585. 



Aluminium, reduction of, .321 ; chloride, 

 411. 



Amblystomas, lai-val, 367. 



American association for the advance- 

 ment of science, 54, 134, 178 ; at Buf- 

 falo, 121 ; attendance, 138 ; commit- 

 tees, 200 ; officers, 184 ; proceedings 

 of sections, 202. 205, 206, 208, 215, 217, 

 219, 221 ; Science reports of, 155 ; geo- 

 graphical society, 628 ; historians in 

 England, 479 ; library association, 

 70 ; neurological association, 113 ; ori- 

 ental association, 408 ; public health 

 association at Toronto, 229 ; society 

 for psychical research, 029; of mechan- 

 ical engineers, 537. 



Americanists, the, 588 ; congress of, 

 528. 



Ames, C. H. Brilliant meteor, 168; 

 amputation among cray-fiah, 522. 



Anaesthesia, death after, 402. 



Anaesthetization, psychologic effects of, 

 453. 



Anatomy in ancient Egypt, 262. 



Anderson's Conversion of heat into 

 work, 413. 



Anemometer exposure, 458. 



Aniline-oil as an anaesthetic, 32. 



Animal and steam power, 88. 



Animals, are they happy ? 255. 



Anthropological research in Russia, 

 505 ; section of American association, 

 202. 



Anthropometrical tests, 376. 



Ants' eyes, experiments on, 630. 



Apes, mental faculties of, 374; social 

 instincts of, 374. 



Appalachia, first number of, 452. 



Aqueduct, an ancient, 583. 



Archeological enigmas, 528, 564 ; fraud, 

 403 ; school at Athens, 430 ; work of 

 Mr. Maudslay, 358. 



Archeology at Athens, 412; at Johns 

 Hopkins, 358 ; in Greece, 479 ; Roman, 

 lectures on, 512. 



Architecture, instruction in, 577. 



Arctic Sea, ice in the, 363. 



Aristotelian society of London, 482. 



Arnold's Elementary education on the 

 continent, 593. 



Arrowsmith's Kaegi's Rigveda, 618. 



Arsenical poisoning, 386. 



Art, society of decorative, 472. 



Artesian well at Northampton, Mass., 

 432 ; in Iowa, 276. 



Arthur, Barnes, and Coulter's Plant- 

 dissection, 552. 



Ashburner, C. A., 468. 



Asia, explorations in, 342. 



Asparagus-poisoning, 31. 



Ass with abnormal hoofs, 304. 



Assyriology at the Johns Hopkins uni- 

 versity, 409. 



Asteroid, 30. 



Astronomer royal, annual report of, 

 .31. 



Astronomers, how they may work, 267, 

 .348, 367. 



Astronomy, 130. 



Athens, archeological school at, 430 ; 

 British school at, 611. 



Atkinson, E., on national prosperity, 

 619. 



Aurora, brilliant, 124. 



Australia, gold discoveries in, 141. 



Australian association for advance- 

 ment of science, 345. 



Aybes, W. O. Carnivorous prairie 

 dogs, 165 ; revivification, 282. 



Bacilli and inoculation, 430. 



Bacillus of bread-fermentation, 433. 



Bacon, C. A. Barometer exposure, 370. 



Bacteria, 29. 



Bacteriological researches, 410. 



Bagnall's Mosses, 99. 



Bahamas, alligators in the, .369 ; weather 

 in the, 412, 629. 



Bailey, L. W. A deep lake, 412. 



Baird, G. W. Flying-fish, 10. 



Baker, H. B. Pneumonia, 189. 



Baku, oil-wells of, 342. 



Balfour, A. J., 586. 



Balloon ascension with natural gas, 302 ; 

 construction in Berlin, 367. 



Ballooning, effects of, on memory, 2.55; 

 French military, 297 : in France, 383. 



Bamian statues, the, 628. 



Barnes. See Arthur, Barnes, and Coul- 

 ter. 



Barometer exposure, 14, 58, 80, 124, 165, 

 213, 255, 370. 



Baatian's Psychology of Spiritualism, 

 567. 



Bat, a new, .588. 



Bats, hibernation of, 281. 



Batteries, residual liquids from, 400. 



Bavaria, Louis II. of, 587. 



Bayne, H. A., 279, 432. 



Bear, psychology of the, 187, 368. 



Beauchamp, W. M. a long skull, 436. 



Bed-ridden patients, 410. 



Beetles, Brazilian, 433. 



Benjamin's Age of electricity, 397. 



Bequests to colleges, 575. 



Beri-beri, 10, 478 ; in Brazil, 185. 



Berlin, crowded condition of, 140. 



Bert, Paul, 445, 532. 



Bert's First steps in scientific knowl- 

 edge, 584. 



Bethuue, C. J. C, 412. 



Bibliography, 501, 588; of education, 

 500. 



Bichloride of mercury as a disinfectant, 

 186. 



Billings, J. S. Medicine in the United 

 States, 147 ; scientific men and their 

 duties, 541. 



Binet's Psychology of reasoning, 263. 



Biography, Stephen's dictionary of, 480. 



Biology, a new journal of, 278 ; section 

 of Araericaa association, 221. 



Bird-destructicm, 2, 118. 



Birds of Berwickshire, 364 ; of Kansas, 

 99 ; the feeding of young, 209. 



Birth of a child to aged parents, 366. 



Birth-rate in France, 296. 



Bishop's muscle-reading, 506. 



Blind persons, number of, 142. 



Blindness and tobacco, 366. 



Blood stains, d-»termination of, 454. 



Boehmer, B. W., 123. 



Bolivia, trade-route to, 27. 



Bone-graftiug, 511. 



Book, a dull, 320 : exportations, 513. 



Books, new medical, 385. 



Boracic acid for fish-curing, 584. 



BOSTWICK, A. E. The limits of vision, 

 232. 



Botanical club of the American associa- 

 tion, 56. 



BOWDITCH, H. P. Nerve-force, 196. 



Bowker's Economics for the people, 616. 



Brachiopoda of New Jersey, 422. 



Brackett, C. F. Electromotive force, 

 181. 



Brackett, S. H. A bright meteor, 58. 



Brain, functions of the, 398; of King 

 Louis, 23. 



Branner, J. C. Coloring geological 

 maps, 455 ; inoculation and yeUow- 

 fever, 58. 



Branner's glaciation in the Lacka- 

 wanna and Wyoming valleys, 422. 



Brass, expansion of amalgamated, 23. 



Brazil, beri-beri in, 185 ; science in, 477. 



Brazilian agricultural station, 536 ; bio- 

 logical work, 477 ; geographical sur- 

 veys, 477 : national museum, 478 ; sci- 

 entific joui'nals, 477. 



Breathing in high altitudes, 365 ; laws 

 of, 96. 



Brewer, F. P. What was the rose of 

 Sharon? 632. 



Brinton, D. G., 452. ■ 



Brinton's Annals of the Cakchiquels, 22. 



British associaiion for the advancement 

 ot science, 268 ; customs receipts, 469; 

 medical association, 228 ; museum 

 catalogue, 198, 320; Chinese manu- 

 scripts in, 453 : prosperity, 620. 



Browu, A. D., 483. 



Brown, J., Jr. Sea^level and ocean- 

 currents, 391. 



Bruno, Life and works of, 480. 



Buckler's British butterflies, 98. 



Buisson on education, 479. 



Burgess, E., presentation to, 470. 



Burstall, Sara A. Assimilation of 

 courses of study for boys and girls, 

 489. 



