SCIENCE. — INDEX TO VOLUME VIIL 



645 



MiNOT, C. S. Heredity, 25. 



Mississippi, source of the, 142, 280, 333, 

 434, 599, 604. 



Mitchell and Reichert's Venoms of 

 poisonous serpents, 568. 



Modern-language association, German, 

 576. 



Mont Blanc, ascent of, 510. 



MOOKE, J. Earthquate sounds, 318. 



Moresnet, neutral district of, 383; zinc 

 in, 413. 



Morphology, comparative, 638. 



Moi'ris's Study of Latin, 499. 



Mortality among southern negroes, 454 ; 

 of New York state for June, 302. 



Mosquitoes, 436 ; why created, 379. 



Mosses, 99. 



Mound, the great serpent, 634. 



Mouud-explorations in Iowa, 185. 



Mountain meteorological stations, 365 ; 

 ranges, Reade on, 433. 



Miiller on Brazilian beetles, 433. 



Muirhead on the birds of Berwickshire, 

 364. 



Mulhall on British prosperity, 620. 



Mungo, the mounting of, 3-37. 



Munroe's Index to literature of explo- 

 sives, 411. 



Muscle-reading, 506. 



Muscular contraction, surface tension 

 and, 36. 



Museum of articles for the blind, 533 ; 

 the modern, 315. 



Musk, 332. 



Myers. See Gurney, Myers, and Pod- 

 more. 



National academy of sciences, 345, 448 ; 

 prosperity, 619 ; sciences academy 

 in Boston, 451. 



Natorp, Professor, 386. 



Natural history, teaching of, 435, 454, 

 484, 515 ; method of language-teach- 

 ing, 611. 



Naturalists, German, 336. 



Needles in the human body, 334. 



Neff, p. Nefl's gas-wells, 101. 



Negroes, mortality among, 454 ; phthisis 

 among, 142. 



Nelson, E. T. Revivification, 236. 



Nerve-force, 196. 



Netherlands languages, 510. 



Neurological association, American, 

 113. 



Neurology, Stowell's contributions to, 

 453. 



Newberry, J. S. Sea-level and ocean- 

 currents, 34, 391. 



Newcomb, S. Can economists agree ? 25. 



Newcomb's Plain man's talk on the 

 labor question, 617. 



New England meteorological society, 

 383. 



New Jersey, Brachiopoda and Lamelli- 

 branchiata of, 433 ; sanitary associa- 

 tion, 509. 



New South Wales, population of, 143. 



Newspapers of the world, 513. 



Newton, H. A. Meteorites, meteors, 

 and shooting-stars, 169. 



New York City railroads, passengers 

 on, .313 ; health department, 199 ; 

 health of, during June, 93 ; July, 200 ; 

 August, 316; September, 426; Octo- 

 ber, 529 ; November, 634 ; state mor- 

 tality for June, 303 ; university of the 

 city of, 432. 



New Zealand, acclimatization in, 426 ; 

 and the recent eruption, 68 ; earth- 

 quake in, 1.35 ; progress of, 371. 



Niagara Falls, study of, 138 ; gorge, 

 336. 



Nickel-plated cooking-vessels, 433. 

 Nipher's Theory of magnetic measure- 

 ments, 364. 

 Noises, mysterious, 293; unexplained, 



348. 

 North American butterflies, 378. 

 North Sea explorations, 410. 

 Nurses for the poor, 335; training- 

 schools for, 410. 

 NUTTALL, Zelia. Mexican codices, 393. 



Observatory, Leander McCormick, 76. 

 Ocean-currents, sea^level and, 34, 99, 



391. 

 Oil on waves, device for distributing, 



366 ; report, Orton'°s, 333. 

 Oleomargarine tax law, 469. 

 Oliver, J. B. Education and cost of 



living, 345. 

 Omdurman and Khartum, 585. 

 One of the agitators. Ely's Labor 



movement, 389. 

 O'Reilly's Catalogue of earthquakes, 



243. 

 Oriental association, 408 ; congress, 299, 



435 ; in 1890, 514. 

 Orioles, carnivorous, 165. 

 Orton's gas and oil report, 333. 

 OSBORN, H. F. Corpus callosum in 



lower vertebrates, 167 ; new mammal 



from the triassic, 540. 

 Oxford and Cambridge, freshmen at, 



488 ; women at, 586. 

 Oxygen in the blood, 396. 



Pacific coast weather, 307. 

 Packard, A. S. Illustrations in zoolo- 

 gical literature, 434. 

 Packard's Zoology, 356. 

 Painter's History of education, 500. 

 Paleoutologioal publications, 431. 

 Paleontology at South Kensington, 430. 

 Panama canal, 517, 633. 

 Paris as a seaport, 298 ; letter, 27, 94, 



208, 396, 383, 533. 

 Parker, H. W. Smoke-ring, 36. 

 Parker's Morphology, 638. 

 Passengers on New York City railroads, 



313. 

 Pasteur, 45, 76, 95, 186, 309, 310, 2.30, 331, 



366, 433, 537, 532. 

 Pasteurism, convert to, 121. 

 Paul, H. M. Gierke's History of astron- 

 omy, 130. 

 Pavements, 341. 

 Peale, a. C. Lacustrine deposits of 



Montana, 163. 

 Pearson, Karl, contribution of, to the 



Interuatioual series, 56. 

 Pedagogic journal, a new, 481 ; training 



for women, 576. 

 Pedagogical museum, proposed, 481. 

 Peirce's Newtonian potential function, 



98. 

 Pendulum, a long, 99. 

 Penitentiary for young criminals in 



Ohio, 435. 

 Pennsylvania, consumption in, 636; 



state geologist, annual report of, 89. 

 Pension system, extent of, 444. 

 Pepsine, 480. 

 Percival, Dr., 586. 

 Perez's Childhood, 388. 

 Perfumes of ancient Egypt, 53.3. 

 Periodicals, medical and psychological, 



140. 

 Perronnet's Mental suggestion, 399. 

 Persia, 320. 



Persian ancient art, 534. 

 Peters, Dr., 482. 

 Peters, E. T. Communistic leanings, 



256. 

 Petrography, 364. 



Petroleum, 121 ; in Scotland, 505 ; pipe- 

 line in Russia, 452 ; steamer, 404. 

 Pettee, W. H. Relations of colleges 



and schools, 588. 

 Peyer's Atlas de microscopie clinique, 



534. 

 Pharmaceutical lectures, 510. 

 Philosophical works in France, 510. 

 Philosophy of wealth, 551. 

 Phosphorus-poisoning, 10. 

 Photographing the retina, 198. 

 Photographs of buried miners, 28. 

 Photography by phosphoi-escence, 382 ; 

 composite, 89; of the solar corona, 

 303. 

 Phthisis, a new treatment for, 533; 



among the negroes, 142. 

 Physical basis of aesthetics, 419 ; educa- 

 tion, 581. 

 Physicians, exposure of, to disease, 1.33 ; 

 German, 336 ; rights and duties of, 525. 



Physics section of American associa" 



tion, 207. 

 Physiological selection, 307. 

 Physiology of digestion, 621 ; of plants, 



571. 

 Picture-writing in Mexico, 381. 

 Pierson. See Staley and Pierson. 

 Pilot chart for August, 123. 

 Pistols, deaths by toy, 334. 

 Plant-dissection, 553. 

 Plant-growth, 453; and the electric 



light, 483. 

 Plants, physiology of, 571; Sachs's ex- 

 periments on, 433. 

 Pleuro-pneumouia, 141, 291, 323, 468, 



587, 631 ; and milk, 336. 

 Plumbers, 3.58. 

 Plumbing, bad, 513 ; damages for, 518 ; 



inspectors, 510. 

 Pneumatic cannon, a, 552; street-car, 



534. 

 Pneumonia, 189 ; cause of, 97, 133. 

 Poetry in geogi'aphical names, 327. 

 Pohljian. German naturalists and 



physicians, 336. 

 Poison, chlorate of potash as a, 312. 

 Poisoning by bisulphide of carbon, 386 ; 

 by ice-cream, 3, 113, 146, 177, 322; 

 from dyed goods, 178. 

 Poisonous cheese, .344 ; serpents, venom 



of, 568. 

 Polar commission report, 343. 

 Polarization of resistance coils, 565. 

 Political economy, 81 ; situation in 



Europe, 634. 

 Political science quarterly, 33. 

 Politics and Christianity in the Hawai- 



ians, 74. 

 Polydactylism, 166, 313, 367. 

 Polynesian race, 355. 

 Pompeii, recent discoveries at, 583. 

 Population of Copenhagen, 585 ; of Ger- 

 man cities, 143 ; of the Hawaiian Is- 

 lands, 75; of mediaeval cities, 311; 

 of New South Wales, 142. 

 Porter's Mechanics and faith, 110. 

 Potanin's Chinese explorations, 514. 

 Pot-holes, 10. 



Pottery, Guadalajara, 405. 

 Powell, J. W. Conn's Evolution of to- 

 day, 364. 

 Power, animal and steam, 88 ; distribu- 

 tion of, by compressed air, 372. 

 Prairie dogs, carnivorous, 165. 

 Pratt, W. H. Stereoscopic vision, 



631. 

 Prayer, planting of a, 24. 

 Precocity of genius, 63. 

 Prescriptions, a study of, 140. 

 Preservation of dead bodies, 536. 

 Presidents of the United States, longev- 

 ity of, 578. 

 Prestwich's Geology, 109. 

 Primary education in England, 485. 

 Princeton college, 451 ; scientific ex- 

 pedition, 293. 

 Production and consumption, 263. 

 Professors, advertising for, 575; removal 



of aged, 310. 

 Prussia, educational institutions of, 597 ; 



plea for an einheitsschule in, 577. 

 Psychical research, 367 ; American so- 

 ciety for, 629 ; in England, 403, .558. 

 Psychological periodicals, medical and, 



140. 

 Psychology, 88, 130; human, 88; in 

 England, 380 ; in Leipzig, 459 ; of fear, 

 351; of reasoning, 365: of Spiritual- 

 ism, 567 ; of the bear, 187, 368 ; recent 

 books on, 87. 

 Psychophysics, 2.59, .302. 

 Public health association at Toronto, 



367 ; institutions, inmates of, 314. 

 Publications, new Fi-ench, 97. 

 Publishers' announcements, 343, 344. 

 Pumice from the Java eruption, 301. 

 Punishment in schools, 575. 

 PURRINGTON, W. A. Laws against 



quacks, 514, 632. 

 Pustule, malignant, 32. 

 Putnam, C. E. Electric light and plant- 

 growth, 483. 

 Pythian, R. L., 483. 



