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SCIENCE.— INDEX TO VOITIME VIII 



Quacks, laws against, 447, 514, 632. 

 Qualtrough's Boat-sailer's manual, 31. 

 Queensland and the rabbit-plague, 

 538 ; population of, 433. 



Eabbit-plague in Queensland, 538. 



Rabies, deaths from, S30. 



Race characters, 633. 



Rags, disinfection of, 177. 



Railroads of New York City, passengers 

 on, 313 ; total length of, 187. 



Railway exposition in Paris, 413 ; me- 

 teorology, 631. 



Railways, cable, 415 ; in Greece, 585. 



Ramses the Great, mummy of, 94. 



Randolph, R. Star rays, 566. 



Reade's The origin of mountain-ranges, 

 433. 



Reader, A. The teaching of natural 

 history, 484. 



Reading, Hall's, 499. 



Reasimiug, psychology of, 265. 



Reed 's Topographical drawing, 463. 



Reichert. See Mitchell and Reichert. 



Religion of ihe Uape, 437. 



Resistance coils, polarization of, .565. 



Retina of the human eye, photograph- 

 ing, 198. 



Reunion of amputated fingers, 53.5. 



Revenues, Chinese, 105. 



Revivification, 208, 312, 336, 282. 



Ribot's German pyschology of to-day, 

 87. 



Rice, W. N. Eccentricity theory of the 

 glacial period, 188 ; glacial period, 347. 



Ridgway's Manual of Nortti American 

 birdH, 98. 



Rigor mortis, 385. 



Rigveda, Arrowsmith's Kaegi's, 618. 



Riley, C. V. Pleuro-pueumonia, 631. 



Rio de Janeiro letter, 477'. 



ROCKWOOD, C. G., Jr. Catalogue of 

 earthquakes, 243 ; East Anglian 

 earthquake, 242; recent earthquake 

 literature, 242 ; Seismological society 

 of Japan, 243, 244. 



Rodent, carnivorous, 102. 



Rogers, A. E. Theory of utility, 347. 



Rogers, W. A., 122. 



Romanes on physiological selection 

 307. 



Rose of Sharon, the, 632. 



Rosmini's Psychology, 130. 



Rotch's Mountain meteorological sta,- 

 tions of Europe, .365. 



Royal society medals awarded, 534 ; of 

 Loudon, 9. 



Royce's California, 66. 



Rred's Evolution versus involution, 

 443. ' 



Rubies, artificial, 318. 



Rucker, Professor, 583. 



Rumination among human beings, 31. 



Russia and England, 454; practice of 

 medicine in, 185. 



Russian anthropological research, 505 ; 

 meteorological work, 343. 



Russians, the wolf-bitten, 76. 



Sachs's experiments on plants, 433. 



Sahara, flooding the, .35, 165. 



St. Andrews, Dr. Cunningham at, 578. 



St. Petersburg letter, 342. 



Salamanders, 13. 



Salaries of teachers, 585. 



Salmon, abnormal embryos of trout 

 and, 516. 



Salt-mine, 52. 



Sanitary association of New Jersey, 509 ; 

 matters, interest in, 313. 



Saunders, William, 412. 



Scarlatina, 136. 



Scarlet-fever and milk, 23. 



Scherzer's Production und consum., 263. 



Schley, Commander, 534. 



Schliemanu, Dr., in Crete, 479. 



School boards, women on, 433, 470, 512 ; 

 British, at Athens, 611 ; children' 

 health of, 133 ; sessions, length of, 381 • 

 superintendents, handbook of, 386. 



School-books, new, 585; on geology, 443. 



Schoolmasters, convention of, at Phila- 

 delphia, 580 ; diplomas for, 586. 



Schools, French girls', 480 ; German 

 girls', 479 ; graded systemi of, 591 ; pre- 

 paratory, and colleges, 588 ; punish- 

 ment in, 575 ; science in English, 233. 



Sciara, remarkable swarm of, 102. 



Science for a livelihood, 236, 358, 303 ; in 

 colonial education, 491 ; in English 

 schools, 323 ; the classics versus, 484. 



Science and Education, prospectus of, 

 467. 



Scientific knowledge, first steps in, 584 ; 

 men and their duties, .541 ; in parlia- 

 ment, 137 ; societies, misdirected ef- 

 fort in, 423. 



Scotland, herring fishery in, 312. 



Scranton board of trade report, 378. 



SCDDDER, S. H. The teaching of natural 

 history, 454, 515. 



Seacoast defences, 63.3. 



Sea-level and ocean-currents, 34, 99, .391. 



Seaman, L. L. Social waste of a great 

 city, 383. 



Sea-serpent, the, 258. 



Sea-water in the ears, 230, 258. 



Seaweeds, shells, and fossils, 99. 



Seismological society of Japan, 243, 244. 



Seismoscope, a Chinese, 278. 



Senses, study of the, 376. 



Se-Q,uo-Yah, the American Cadmus, 

 133. 



Serpents, poisonous, venom of, 568. 



Severn tunnel, the, 583. 



Sewage, 9, 584. 



Sewerage, separate system of, 399. 



Sexton, S. Sea-water in the ears, 258. 



Sharpless, I. Height of a meteor, 565. 



Shaw's Co-operation in a western city, 

 531. 



Ship-canal, Manchester, 137. 



Shorthand writers, 55. 



Shufeldt, R. W. A most extraordinary 

 structure, 57 ; another carnivorous 

 rodent, 102 ; government science. 35, 

 illustrations in zoological literature, 

 .389: larval amblystomaa, 367; mum- 

 mified frog, 379, 326; polydactylism, 

 367. 



Siberian university, first, 585. 



Sidgwick's History of ethics, 265. 



Sierra Nevadas, geology of, 629. 



Signature, Washington's, 349. 



Sims memorial fund, 279. 



Skin, replacement of, on a finger, 95. 



Skull, a long, 436. 



Sleeping for long periods, 298. 



Small-pox in Brooklyn, N.Y., 401 ; in 

 Loudon, 322. 



Smith, G. A., 364. 



Smith, H. H., 482. 



Smith, J. B. Polydactylism, 213. 



Smith, R. M. Methods of investigation 

 in political economy, 81, population 

 of mediaeval cities, 311. 



Smithsonian reports, 323. 



Smoke-ring, .36. 



Snake-bites, 57. 



Snake-dance, 12. 



Snider's Faust, a commentary, 537. 



Snow haU, Kansas university, 538. 



Social instincts of apes, 374 ; science 

 club in Honolulu, 75 ; statistics of 

 cities, 141 ; waste of a great city, 283. 



Socotra, 538. 



Soda-motor, 367. 



Soldiers and invalids of the war, 482. 



Sorbonue, re-opening of the, 534. 



Sorghum sugar, ,361. 



Spain, decrease of criminality in, 139 ; 

 education in, 498 ; progress in, 511. 



Sparrows, 58. 



Spectrum of ^ Lyrae, 80. 



Spine and cord, fracture of, 425; tail- 

 like extension of the human, 334. 



Spiritualism, psychology of, 567. 



Spleen, 32. 



Springer. See Wachsmuth and Spring- 

 er. 



Squid, a large, 370. 



Staebnek, F. W. The classics versus 

 science, 484. 



Staley and Pierson's Separate system 

 of sewerage, 399. 



Star rays, 566. 



Stakr, E. Muscular contraction, 36. 



Statics, treatise on, 65. 



Statistics, economic, 263 ; social, of 



cities, 141. 

 Statue of Liberty, 628 ; illumination of, 



.321 ; torch of, 587. 

 Steam and animal power, 88. 

 Steamer, a petroleum, 404. 

 Steam-heating problems, 98. 

 Stephen's Dictionary of biography, 480. 

 Stephens's History of the French revolu- 

 tion, 570. 

 Steps of men and women, length of, 



631. 

 Stereoscope, new form of, 98. 

 Stereoscopic vision, 631. 

 Stoddard, J. T. Composite portraiture, 



89. 

 Stomach, fungi in, .301. 

 Stowell's contributions to neurology, 



453. 

 Street-railways, cable, 415 ; curves on, 



292. 

 Studies for boys and girls, 489. 

 Submarine torped© boat, 255 ; voyage, 



.507. 

 Succi's fast, 298, 385. 

 Suez canal, .3.3. 

 Sugar, sorghum, 361. 

 Sugar-raising in the Hawaiians, 75. 

 Suicides in France, 410. 

 Sully, James, precocity of genius, 62. 

 Surgeons as physiolog;ists, 210. 

 Surveying, topographical, 463. 

 Sweating sickness, 190. 

 Swindler, the, 482. 

 Swindling naturalist, 124. 

 Swiss society of natural science, 44. 

 Switzerland, education in, 585. 

 Sylvester's theory of reciprocauts, 98. 



Taste, efi'ect of drugs on, 54. 



Taussig, F. W. The new school of 



economists, 33. 

 Taylor, Dr., .587. 



Taylor, T. Butter and fats, 45.5. 

 Taylor's tests for adulteration of butter, 



223. 

 Tea, abuse of, 393; delirium tremens 



from, 505 ; diseases due to, 132. 

 Teacher, A. The teaching of natural 



history, 435. 

 Teachers' certificates in Germany^ 481 ; 



meetings, 587; salaries, 585. 

 Teaching of languages, 611 ; of natural 



history, the, 435, 454, 484, 515. 

 Technical education, 381, 472 ; in New 



York, 434. 

 Teeth and fiour-dust, 513; chloride of 



iron and the, .387. 

 Telepathy, feline, 123. 

 Tetanus, origin of, 410. 

 Thayer's Greek-English lexicon. 636. 

 Thomas, C. Fort Ancient, 538. 

 1 hompson, Elizabeth; science fund, 1. 

 Thomson, G. M. Acclimatization, 426. 

 Thought-transferrence, 527. 

 Thumb-marks, 166, 212. 

 Ticknor's Ye olden time series, 411. 

 Tide tables for 1887, Pacific coast, 142. 

 Timber of the English colonies, 440. 

 Tin, 33. 



Tobacco and blindness, 366. 

 Tobacco-consumption in Europe, 466. 

 Todd, D. P. The American library as- 

 sociation, 70. 

 Todd, J. E. Barometer exposure, 58. 

 Tolmie, W. F., 628. 

 Tonquin academy of sciences, 296. 

 Tooth, expulsion of, 452. 

 Topographer, Haupt's, 463. 

 Topographical drawing, 463 ; survey of 



the Hawaiian Islands, 74; surveying, 



463. 

 Topography of Greylock, 622. 

 Torpedo boat, submarine, 184, 355. 

 Tower, Eiffel, 94. 

 Toy pistols, deaths by, 3.34. 

 Tracheotomy and intubation, 278. 

 Trade-route to Bolivia, 27. 

 Trade- winds, 1.39. 

 Trades-unionists' council, 446. 

 Train telegraphy, 421. 



