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SCIENCE.— INDEX TO VOLUME VIII 



Bush's Harvard, 432. 



Busk, G., 338. 



Butler, A. W. Pleuropneumonia, 587. 



Butler, Charles, 433. 



Butler, M., 481. 



Butlerow, A. M., 343. 



Butter, adulteration of, 333; in India, 



359 : and fats, 455 ; testing of, 99. 

 Butterflies, North American, 378. 

 Byrne's Professional criminals, 433. 



Cable street-railways, 415 ; compressed 

 air on, 375. 



Cakchiquels, annals of the, 32. 



California, 66 ; meteorology in, 634. 



Canal between the White Sea and Lake 

 Onega, 334 ; the Panama, 517, 632. 



Canned goods in Prance, 199. 



Cannon, a pneumatic, 552. 



Capillaries, chemical reactions in, 640. 



Capitalists and laborers, 155. 



Carnegie's Triumphant democracy, 109. 



Carpenter, W. H. Natural method of 

 language-teaching, 611. 



Carpenter's Surveying, 463. 



Carus and Engelmann's Bibliotheca 

 zoologica, 366. 



Cattell, J. M., 480. 



Cave air for house-cooling, 413. 



Cellulose in animal tissues, 299. 



Census of Paris, 95. 



Challenger reports, 399, 430, 524, 572. 



Chamberlin. T. C. Artesian well, 376 ; 

 glacial driit, 156. 



Chanute, O. Mechanical science, 183. 



Character indicators, ears as, 535; re- 

 vealed by shoe-soles, 185. 



Charleston earthquake, 211, 234, 325, 229, 

 246, 271, 301, 348, 362, 363, 369, 390, 438, 

 470, 5134, 6.30. 



Chemical industry, society of, 53 ; insti- 

 tutes in Nancy, Prance, 270 ; reac- 

 tions in capillaries, 640 ; section of 

 American association, 206. 



Chemist of Botanical gardens at Ma- 

 naus, 99. 



Chemistry, agricultural, 159 ; volumes 

 in, 235, 281. 



Chemists, association of agricultural, 

 14, 316. 



Chester's Catalogue of minerals, 230. 



Chestnut-trees in Italy, 400. 



Chevreul, 29, 57, 211, 231, 248. 



Chicago water-supply, 452. 



Childhood, 2S8. 



Children's aid society, 504. 



Chinese explorations, 514; revenues, 

 105 ; voyages to America, 402. 



Chlorate of potash as a poison, 313. 



Chloride of iron and the teeth, 387. 



Chloroform, death from, 45, 393. 



Cholera in Buenos Ayres, 536 ; in Eu- 

 rope, 332, -363; Dr. Shakespeare on, 

 345; and America, 513; in Italy, 122; 

 in .Japan, 302 ; in superstitious coun- 

 tries, 268; scare in the west, 177; 

 study of, 345. 



Christianity, politics and, in the Ha- 

 waiiaus, 74. 



Cincinnati society of natural history, 56. 



Cities, mediaeval, population of, 311. 



Civil bill, sundry, 57. 



Clark, H. J., 185. 



Clark's Philosophy of wealth, 551. 



Clarke, H. Report on source of the 

 Mississippi, 604. 



Clarke's Industrial and high art educa- 

 tion in the United States, 108. 



Classical study, 59. 



Classics versus science, the, 484. 



Claypole, E. W. Niagara gorge, 336. 



Clayton, H. H. A brilliant aurora, 134 ; 

 anemometer exposure, 458 ; barome- 

 ter exposure, 14, 134, 313; cause of 

 cool weather, 233, 381; glaciers and 

 glacialists, 325. 



Gierke's History of astronomy, 1,30. 



Clifford's Lectures and essays, 511. 



Coal-tar products, 321. 



Cocaine, dangers of, 434 ; habit, 505. 



Coca-plant, 55. 



Code, international, 32. 



Codices, Mexican, analysis of, 393. 



Coffee-eating, 187. 



Coffee-plants, 57. 



Coins and tokens, English, 99. 



Cole, A. H. Visual illusion, 370. 



Colic caused by use of a cosmetic, 56. 



Collar's Latin book, 499. 



Colleges and preparatory schools, 588 ; 

 conditional bequests to, 575 ; of the 

 United States, 586 ; physical educa- 

 tion in, 1. 



Collins, J. W. A large squid, 370. 



Colonial and Indian exhibition, 19, 53. 



COLONNA, B. A. The sea-serpent, 358. 



Colorado, geology of, 640. 



Color-bJindness on French railways, 39. 



Color-sensation, 640. 



Color-vision, SO. 



Columbia college Saturday lectures, 

 585. 



Comet, new, 300. 



Comets, expulsion theory of, 35. 



Communistic leanings, 356. 



Composite portraiture, 89. 



Compressed air, distribution of power 

 by, 372 ; on cable-roads, 275. 



Conferences at Colonial and Indian ex- 

 hibition, 53. 



Conn's Evolution of to-day, 264. 



Consanguinity in marriage, 30. 



Constantinople, water-supply of, 186. 



Consumption in Pennsylvania, 6.36 ; 

 treatment for, 433, 447. 



Consumption, production and, 263. 



Contagious diseases and boards of 

 health, 410. 



Convict labor, 357. 



Cooking-vessels, nickel-plated, 433. 



Co-operation in a western city, 531. 



Copenhagen, population of, 585. 



Copper compounds in foods, 366. 



Copper River, Alaska, 145. 



Copyright in France, 534. 



Corea by native artists, 11.5. 



Cornell university law school, 431. 



Corona, photography of the solar, 303. 



Corporal punishment in schools, 575. 



Corpus callosum in lower vertebrates, 

 167. 



COUES, E. Feline telepathy, 12.3. 



Coulter. See Arthur, Barnes, and Coul- 

 ter. 



Cray-flsh,voluntary amputation among, 

 532. 



Cream-of-tartar, adulterations of, 344. 



Cremona's Projective geometry, 617, 

 631. 



Criminality, 20 ; in Spain, 139. 



Criminals in Ohio, 425 ; lef t-handedness 

 of, 511 ; native and foreign, 513. 



Cruelty to dogs in vivisection, 132. 



Crump, M. H. Air from a cave for house- 

 cooling, 413. 



Crustacea of Chautauqua Lake, 5.36. 



CUMMINGS, J. Capitalists and laborers, 

 155. 



Cunningham, Dr., at St. Andrews, ,578. 



Customs receipts, British, 469. 



Dairy-farming in Switzerland, 384. 



Dall, C. H. a., commissioner of educa- 

 tion, 123. 



Dall, W. H. Chinese voyages to Ameri- 

 ca, 402. 



Damages for bad plumbing, 513. 



Dana, J. D. Glaciers and glacialists, 

 162. 



Darwin, biography of, 483. 



Davy lamp, 338. 



Dawson, G. M. Elliott's Alaska, 565. 



Dawson, N. H. R., commissioner of edu- 

 cation, 123. 



Dead, preservation of, 96, 536. 



Deaf-mutes dining, 210. 



Death, causes of, 322 ; certain sign of, 

 76 ; from worms, 387. 



Death-penalty, 140. 



Death-rate of negroes, 46. 



Deaths by toy pistols, 334. 



Decapitated criminal, 32. 



Defective classes in the United States, 

 354. 



Delirium tremens from tea, 505. 



Dental schools of Great Britain, 55. 



Dentition, 4.33. 



Deod<irizer, turpentine as, 123. 



Deprez, M., eccentricities of, 297. 



Derelicts, sinking of, 123. 



Development theory, the, .560. 



Dialyzers, efficiency of, 453. 



Diamond, genesis of the, 345, 392. 



Dicey, A. V., 481. 



Dickens, Charles, life of, 411. 



Dickinson, J., 222. 



Digestion, physiology of, 621. 



DiLLER, J. S. Genesis of the diamond, 

 392. 



Diphtheria, treatment of, 386. 



Diplomas for schoolmasters, 586. 



Disease, a contagious, 10 ; Addison's, 

 629 ; a possible new, 199 ; germ theory 

 of, 3 ; of coffee-plants, 57 ; propa- 

 gated by milk, 278. 



Diseases due to tea, 132 ; spinal, 5.34. 



Disinfectant, bichloride of mercury as 

 a, 186. 



Disinfection by heat, 583 ; of rags, 177. 



Dispensaries, abuse of, 380, 414 ; free, in 

 France, 411. 



Dixon, H. H., 481. 



Doctor, the first, 364. 



Domesday book, 445. 



Drawing in public schools, 108 ; topo- 

 graphical, 463. 



Drink, strong, 96. 



Drinking-water in Honolulu, 74. 



Drowning, 230. 



Dudley, W. H., 364. 



Dudley, W. L., 98. 



Dunning, W. A. Our government, 615. 



D wight, T., on the structure of bone, 

 512. 



Dyche, L. L. Science for a livelihood. 

 303. 



Dynamite explosions, 231. 



Dynamo characteristics, 583. 



Ears as character indicators, 535 ; sea- 

 water in the, 330, 3.58. 



Earth, constitution of the, 326. 



Earthquake in New Zealand, 135 ; liter- 

 ature, 242 ; of April 22, 1884, 242 ; of 

 Aug. 31, 1886, 211, 224, 335, 229, 246, 

 271, .301, 363, 390, 438, 470, 6.30; shocks, 

 effects of, on health, 630; sounds, 

 348, 369 ; submarine, 62, 534. 



Earthquakes, 243 ; and geysers, 299. 



Eccles, R. G., on pepsines, 480. 



Eclipse expedition, results of the, 362 ; 

 of the sun, 99, 313 ; at Grenada, 322. 



Economic discussion, 3 ; laws and meth- 

 ods, 46, 103 ; publications, 303 ; science 

 and statistics section of American 

 association, 317 ; statistics, 263. 



Economics and jurisprudence, 15; for 

 the people, 616 ; Harvard college 

 journal of, 385 ; in Political science 

 quarterly, 345 ; mathematical, 309. 



Economists and their teachings, 25; 

 new school of, 33. 



Edinburgh, education of women in, 

 586. 



Education act, elementary, 481 ; and 

 the cost of living, 313, 345 ; associa- 

 tion, National, 91 ; bibliography of, 

 500 ; Buisson on, 479 ; colonial, science 

 in, 491 ; elementary, on the conti- 

 nent, 593 ; history of, 500 ; in Amer- 

 ica, a French view of, 314 ; in Prussia, 

 3-34 ; in Spain, 498 ; in Switzerland, 

 585 ; industrial, 576 ; and high art in 

 the United States, 108 ; monographs 

 on, 499 ; new encyclopaedia of, 482 ; 

 of women, 245 ; in Edinburgh, 586 ; 

 physical, 581 ; primary, in England, 

 485 ; technical, 381 ; in India, 480 ; in 

 New York, 424. 



Educational conferences, 467 ; institu- 

 tions of Prussia, 597 ; matters in 

 France, 481 ; reforms in England, 481 ; 

 periodicals in Japan, 244 ; works in 

 France, 302. 



Eggs in England, 185. 



Egleston, T. Zinc in Moresnet, 413. 



Egypt, anatomical knowledge of, 363 ; 

 medical journal in, 363 ; northern 

 residents In, 367. 



