676 INDEX. 



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Nautical Almanac Office, work of 94 



Navajo houses, Cosmos Mindelefl" on 44 



Naval forces on Great Lakes 80 



Observatory, founding of 91, 106 



Navigators, American, superior skill of 105 



Navigazione Generale Italiana, courtesies from 51 



Nebulae, spiral, study of 123 



Nelson, E. W., ethnological studies by 36 



on Eskimo of Bering Strait 44 



Neptune, planet, discovery of 242 



study of motion of 91 



Nerve cells, study of functions of 450 



Nerves, progress in study of 449 



Nervous system, progress in study of 438 



Netherlands American Line, courtesies from 51 



Neumayer, Dr., on terrestrial magnetism 427 



Newcomb, Simon, aspects of American astronomy, by - 85 



delegate to international conference on catalogue of scien- 

 tific literature 13 



Newlands, John, on the law of octaves 248 



New Mexico, explorations in 20 



New Testament, early copies of 574 



Newton, Sir Isaac, and the sextant 102 



on alchemy 208 



quoted 342 



New York Zoological Park 59 



Niagara, utilization of 129 



Nilson's discovery of scandium 239, 241 



Nitrogen, experiments with diffusions of 253 



proportion in earth's crust 237 



Noble, Sir Henry, cited 232 



Nordenskiold, meteoric dust gathered by 238 



North American ethnology. {See Bureau of American Ethnology.) 



North Carolina, libraries and literature of 80 



North German Lloyd Line, courtesies from 51 



Norton, Professor, astronomical work of 102 



Norvegium, discovery of 240 



Nozawa, S., collections from 29 



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Obarrio, Melchor, courtesies from 51 



Observatories, astronomical, dates of founding 108 



Occultism, study of 209 



Ocean, Antarctic, depth of 417 



depths, probable origin of 350 



tides, causes of 109 



Oceanic ichthyology, Goode and Bean on 79 



Oceanography, bionomics, and aquiculture 75, 76 



Oersted, electrical discoveries by 327, 328 



Ohm's laws of electric current 98 



Olney, Secretary, estimate transmitted by 14 



Olszewsky, K., cited 244 



Omaha Exposition, law relating to xlv 



totem, significance of 577 



tribe, study of, by Miss Fletcher 577 



