CONTENTS AND INDEX. 



N. S. VOL. lY— JULY TO DECEMBER, 1890. 



The Names of Contributors are Printed in Small Capitals. 



A., J. A., Preliminary Synopsis of the American Bears, 

 C. Hart Merriam, 145 



Academic Freedom in Eussia, 752 



Acetylene, 719 



Achemenidean Inscription, The Second Column of the, 

 165 



Adams, Frank D., A Handbook of Eocks for Use 

 without the Microscope, J. F. Kemp, 764 



Adaptations in Cave-dwelling Animals, C. L. F. , 192 



Address, by the President before the British Associa- 

 tion, Joseph Listee, 409 ; by the President be- 

 fore the Zoological Section of the British Asso- 

 ciation, E. B. PotTLTON, 625, 668; of the Vice- 

 President before Section B. — Physics, A. A. A. S., 

 C. L. Mees, 507 



Aeronautics, International Cooperation in, W. de 

 FONVIELLE, 762 



After-image, An Uncommon, Hiram M. Stanley, 52 



Age of the Island Series, Lester F. Ward, 757 



Agricultural Science, Society for the Promotion of, C. 

 S. Plumb, 392 



Agriculture and Horticulture, Notes on, Byron D. 

 Halsted, 17, 137 



AiTKEN, E. Gr., The Position of the Companion of 

 Sirius, 877 



Alai and Pamir, 612 



Alberger, on a Self-cooling Condenser, 15 



Allen, Harrison, Tarsius fuscomanus, 804 



Allen, J. A., A Eeprehensible Method of Determin- 

 ing Priority of Publication, 691 ; The Date of Pub- 

 lication,- 838 



Alphabets, Origin of the Ancient Indian, 526 



American, Journal of Science, 55 ; Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, Forty-fifth Meeting, 

 Buffalo, Aug. 24-29, 1896, Charles E. Barnes, 

 280 ; Association for the Advancement of Science, 

 The Buffalo Meeting of, 222, 226, 241, 277, 280, 

 284, 321, 328, 344, 346, 355, 382, 388. 429, 461, 

 470, 475,507, 548, 558, 581, 601; Museum of Nat- 

 ural History, Opening of the East Wing of, 849 



Americanists, International Congress of, 264 



Anatomy, The Teaching of, 46 ; Thomas D wight, 

 142 



Anderson, A. P., Abnormal Eesin Ducts in Conifers, 

 431 



Anthropological, Journal, A New, 192; Society, Ger- 

 man, 750; Society of Washington, J. H. Mc- 

 CORMICK, 847, 925 



Anthropology, Current Notes on, D. G. Brinton, 16, 

 45, 76, 108, 135, 165, 191, 263, 304, 351, 402, 

 450, 488, 526, 561, 613, 649^ 684, 717, 750, 789, 

 831, 912, 936; at the A. A. A. S., G. H. Per- 

 kins, 388 ; at the British Association, A. C. 

 H addon, 63; of French Polynesia, 685; Psy- 

 chology and Philology, Section of the N. Y. 



Academy, Livingston Farrand, 696; Paris, 

 School of, 789 ; The Limitation of the Compara- 

 tive Method in, Franz Boas, 901 



Antiquities of Costa Eica, 613 



Apple Tree, Curious Freak in an, T. H. Lennox, L. 

 H. Bailey, 317 



Apples, New, E. Lewis Sturtevant, 572 



Araucanian Studies, 831 



Archseological, Map of Ohio, 789; Artefacts, Distribu- 

 tion of, in America, 937 



Archaeology of Switzerland, 561 



Argon and Helium, 492, 831 



Armadillo, A Nine-handed, A. B. Baker, 52 



Astronomical, Notes, H. J., 18, 109,526, 564, 614, 652, 

 720, 751, 790, 832, 871 ; Society, British, 75; 

 Cipher Code, 106 ; and Physical Section of the 

 N. Y. Academy of Sciences, Wm. Hallock, 622 



Astrophysical Journal, 503, 799 



Atkinson E., What is True Money? 559 



Atkinson, Geo. F., A Compendium of General Bot- 

 any, Max Westermaier, 54; Botany at the A. A. 

 A. S., 429; Albert Nelson Prentiss, 523 



Atkinson, Geo. F., Sporophy 11- transformation in Di- 

 morphic Ferns, 434 



Atlas of the Pacific Ocean, 45 



Atmospheric, Dust Observations, 489 ; Electricity and 

 Telephones, 650; Air, Impurities in, 913 



Atomic Theory, A Completed Chapter in the History 

 of the, Edward W. Morley, 241 



Auk, The, 176 



Automobile Carriages, 570 



Ayres, Brown, Mechanical Models of the Circuit, 349 



Babb, Cyrus C, Eecent Hydrographic Examinations 



in the Appalachian Area, 103 

 Bacteriological Eesearch, Organization of, 654 

 Bailey, L. H. , Curious Freak in an Apple Tree, 318 

 Bailey, L. H., Nursery Book, 495; Morphology of the 



Canna Flower, 440 

 Baker, A. B. , A Nine-banded Armadillo, 52 

 Baldwin, J. Mark, Criticisms of Organic Selection 



724; An Optical Illusion, 794 

 Bancroft, W. D. , Distillation with Vapour, 471 

 Barbour, Erwin Hinckley, A Two-headed Tor- 

 toise, 159 

 Barnes, Charles E., American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science ; Forty-fifth Meeting, 

 Buffalo, August 24-29, 1896, 280; Proceedings of 

 the Botanical' Society of America, 366 ; Prantl's 

 Lehrbuch der Botanik, 765 

 Barnes, C. E., Terminology of Eeprod action and of 

 Eeproductive Organs, " 437 ; What is the Bark? 

 437 

 Barus, C, a Curve-tracing Top, 444, 572 

 Barus, Carl, on Carbon Dioxide, 55 



