SCIENCE.— INDEX TO VOIUME VIII 



643 



Eiffel tower, 94. 



Electric battery, 120; lamps, 120; 

 lauuch Volta, 301 ; light and human 

 eyes, 185; and plaut-growth, 482; 

 compared with gas, 186 ; in osteotomy, 

 434: in London, 583; log, an. 256; 

 storm at sea, 536 ; street-railways, 

 387. 



Electrical engineers, 121 ; phenomena 

 on a mountain, 564 ; transmission of 

 power, 137, 310. 



Electricity and gas in England, 431 ; in 

 surgery, 297 ; the age of, 397. 



Electromotive force, 181. 



Elliott, E. B., ooi-rects an error, 279. 



Elliott, H. W. Elliott's Alaska, 565. 



Elliott's Alaska, 523. 



Ely, R. T. Ely's Labor movement, 388 ; 

 philosophy of wealth, 551 ; the eco- 

 nomic discussion, 3. 



Ely's Labor movement, 353, 388, 413. 



Embryos in eggs, 387 ; of trout and sal- 

 mon, abnormal, 516. 



Encyclopaedia, a new German, 481. 



Encyclopaedia Britannica, 411, 482. 



Encyclop<^die, Grande, 30. 



Engineering at Massachusetts institute 

 of technology, 55. 



England and Kussia, 454 ; primary 

 education in, 485. 



England's prosperity, 504. 



English colonies, timber of, 440. 



Entomological club of the American 

 association, 55; commission, report 

 of U. S., 139; society of Washington, 

 140. 



Ericsson, John, 334. 



Ether, death from, 344; safer than 

 chloroform, 32. 



Ethics, history of, 265. 



Europe, political situation in, 624. 



_ Evans, E. W. Sweating sickness, 190. 

 ' Evermau, B. W., 123. 



Evolution of to-day, 264 ; versus involu- 

 tion, 442. 



Exhibition at Newcastle-ou-Tyne, 367. 



Experiment station, report of Wiscon- 

 sin, 138. 



Explosives in Great Britain, 9 ; Mun- 

 roe's index, 411. 



Exports of France, 140. 



Exposition at Adelaide, 142. 



Extraordinary structure, a most, 57. 



Eye, blinding of a student's, 386. 



Eyeless animals, 88. 



Eyes of ants, experiments on, 630. 



Faith cure, 245. 



Fall of 110 feet, 363. 



Faye's Handbook of mineralogy, 278. 



Fear, psychology of, 351. 



Ferkel, W. Sea-level and ocean-cur- 

 reuts, 99. 



Ferrel, W., 345. 



Ferrier's Functions of the brain, 480. 



Fingers, reunion of amputated, 535. 



Fish, battle between certain, 55 ; pre- 

 serving, 312; Vulpian's experiments 

 on, 466. 



Fish-culture in France, 383. 



Fish-curiug, b'i^. 



Fishery department, English, 136. 



Fitzgerald's The book fancier, 432. 



Flies as sanitary inspectors, 10. 



Flint, W. F. Science for a livelihood, 

 258. 



Floods in India, 411. 



Fluor, isolation of, 533. 



Flying-fish, 10. 



Foehu of Swiss valleys, the, 630. 



Food adulterations, 296 ; and drug adul- 

 teration, 431. 



Food-poisoning, 279. 



FOKBES, S. A. Swindling naturalist, 124. 



Forel's Lake of Geneva, 298. 



Forests and rainfall, 137. 



Fornander's Polynesian race, 355. 



Fort Ancient, Warren county, O., 538. 



Fossils, discovery of paleozoic, 31. 



Fraeukel's Function of the brain, 398. 



France, chemical institutes in Nancy, 

 270 ; exports of, 140. 



Frazer, p. Cjloring geological maps, 

 413. 



French association for the advance- 

 ment of science, 226 ; history, 291 ; 

 revolution, history of, 570. 



French's North American butterflies, 

 378. 



Freshmen at Oxford and Cambridge, 

 488. 



Fresh-water lake, deepest, 177. 



Frog, a muinmifled, 279, 326. 



Fund, Sims memorial, 279. 



Galton on stature as an hereditary 

 trait, 2. 



Galvanis centennial, 384. 



Gan. Barometer exposure, 165, 255 ; 

 glaciers and glacialists, 325. 



Garbage, desiccation of, 301 ; removal 

 of, 335. 



Gardiner, J. Alligators in the Baha- 

 mas, 369. 



Gar.man. S. Prehensile - tailed sala^ 

 mandera, 13. 



Gas, deaths from, 336 ; eructations, in- 

 flammable, 535, 630; report, Orton's, 

 233. 



Gases, liquefied, 56. 



Gas-lamp, aew, 299. 



Gas-supply, 1.36. 



Gas-wells, 534 ; Neft's, 101. 



Geikies Geology, 443. 



Geneva, Forels Lake of, 298. 



Genius, precocity of, 62. 



Geodetic congress, international, 344. 



Geographical names, 327 ; notes, 26, 

 119, 582; publications, 432; society, 

 American, 628. 



Geological maps, coloring, 413, 455 ; 

 section of American association, 205 ; 

 survey of Alabama, 421. 



Geology, Geikies, 443 : of Colorado, 640 ; 

 of Long Island, .352 ; of the Sierra 

 Nevadas, 629 ; school-books on, 443 ; 

 Wiuchell's, 443. 



Geometrical conies, syllabus of, 480. 



Geometry, Cremona's, 617, 631. 



Gerhard on the prevention of fire, 411. 



Germ theory of disease, 3. 



German association of naturalists and 

 physicians, 336, 401 ; encyclopaedia, a 

 new, 481 ; girls' high schools, 479 ; 

 language, importance of, 586, modern- 

 language association, 576. 



Germany, population of, 187; suicides 

 in, 535. 



GiBBS, J. W. Multiple algebra, 180. 



Gilt to a medical academy, 410. 



Gilbert, G. K. Archeological enigmas, 

 564. 



Gildersleeve,B. L. Classical study, 59. 



Giles, P. Source of the Mississippi, 

 280. 



GiLMAN, D. C. Universities, 37. 



Girls and what they read, 379. 



Glacial action, 145 ; in Russia, 510 ; drift, 

 156 ; period, 188 ; theory of, 347. 



Glaciation in the Lackawanna valley, 

 422. 



Glaciers and glacialists, 76, 162, 325 ; in 

 the Alps, 585. 



Gladstviue's The Irish question, 230. 



Glanders, 231, 291, 510. 



Glass railway-ties, 363 ; tubes, cutting, 

 302. 



Goblet, M., .587. 



GOODNOW, F. J. Primary education in 

 England, 485. 



Goodwin, F. The Panama canal. 632. 



Goodyear, 111. 



Gopher, a new, 588. 



Gordenia, W., first doctor, 364. 



Goss's Birds of Kansas, 99. 



Government, our, 615 ; I'eports, 503 ; 

 science, 35. 



Grace, Mayor, and industrial educa- 

 tion, 576. 



Grain, crossing of, 433. 



GRATACAr, L. P. An archeological fraud, 

 403 ; Liberty's torch, 587. 



Graves's Life of Hamilton, 639. 



Gray and Woodward's Seaweeds, shells, 

 and fossils, 99. 



Greece, railways in, 585. 



Greek- English lexicon, Thayer's, 636. 



Greely Arctic expedition, 122. 



Greenland, 120. 



Greylock, topography of, 622. 



Guadalajara pottery, 405. 



Gulf Stream current, 535; observations 



on, 139. 

 Gunpowder factory, 121. 

 Guyofs Les forets, 478. 

 Gymnastics in French girls' schools, 



480. 



Hadley, a. T. Economic laws, 46. 



Hair, indestructibility of, 185. 



Hale, H. Origin of languages, 191 ; 

 studies in ancient history, 569. 



Hall, A. Cremona's Projective geome- 

 try, 631. 



Hall and Mansfield's Bibliography of 

 education, 500. 



Hall's Reading, 499 ; appendices to the 

 Washington observations, 321. 



Hamilton, W. R., life of, 639, 



Hammond, H. Mosquitoes, 436. 



Harkower, H. D. Source of the Missis- 

 sippi, 322. 



Hart, A. B. Triumphant democracy, 

 109. 



Harvard college, annual report of presi- 

 dent of, 302; authorities sued. 513; 

 Bush's, 432 ; chapel attendance at, 

 425 ; journal of economics, 385 ; the 

 250th anniversary of, 229, 423. 



Haupt's Topographer, 463. 



Hawaiian Islands and their formation, 

 73 ; leprosy in, 75 ; politics and Chris- 

 tianity in, 74 ; population of, 75 ; 

 sugar-raising iu, 75: topographical 

 survey of, 74 ; volcanic activity in, 67. 



Haworth, E. Millerite, 369. 



Hayden, E. Earthquake sounds, 369 ; 

 New Zealand and the recent erup- 

 tion, 68; study of the earthquake, 

 225 : the Charleston earthquake, 246. 



Hay-fever, :364. 



Haymond, R., 123. 



Haynes, H. W. Americanists, 588. 



Head. See Jewitt and Head. 



Headache from over-study, 187. 



Health association at Toronto, 367 ; de- 

 partment of New York, 199 ; laws and 

 politics, 313 ; Massachusetts state 

 board of, 230 ; national board of, 30 ; 

 of children at school, i:^; of New 

 York, ,505: during June, 92; July, 200; 

 August, 316; September, 426: Octo- 

 ber, 529; November, 624. 



Heat iu muscular tissue, 384. 



Helmholtz as a benefiter, 141. 



Helmholz, R. v., on condensation in 

 moist air, ;388. 



Hereditary inebriety, 526; neuroses, 

 536 : trait, stature as an, 2. 



Heredity. 125. 



Herring fishery iu Scotland, 312. 



Herzen's vivisectional experiments, 433. 



Hewins, Miss C. M. A small library, 

 395. 



Hibernation of bats, 281. 



HiNMAN, R. Source of the Mississippi, 

 142. 



Historians. American, 479. 



Historical study of local institutions, 

 424. 



History, studies in ancient, 569. 



Hoi brook's How to strengthen the 

 memory, 582. 



HOLDEN, E. S. How astronomers may 

 work, 348. 



HOLMES, W. H. Great Serpent Mound, 

 624. 



Home, Douglas, 55. 



Honey or maple-sugar, adulteration of, 

 76. 



Honolulu, drinking-water in, 74 ; letter, 

 73 ; social science in, 75. 



Horses from France, 211 ; in New 

 York 99. 



Hough,' W. Thumb-marks, 166. 



House-cooling, cave air for, 413. 



Howard, L. O. A remarkable swarm of 

 Sciara, 102 ; voracity of the Mantis, 386. 



