Vol. XVI.] 



INDEX. 



[July-Dec, i< 



Morris's CivllizatioD, 193, 306 ; History of the United 



States, 152. 

 JIosso'3 Die Purcht, 164. 

 Motor, electric, 57. 



MUUer's Lectures ou the Science of Language, 96- 

 Muir's Theory of Determinants, T., 208. 

 Musk, artincia', 76. 

 Mythology of the Hindoos, 330. 



NaiU, impurUies under finger, 205. 

 Naturalists, American, meeting of, 314. 

 Newcomb, Simon, medal presented to, 343. 

 Newhall's Trees of Northeastern America, 277. 

 Noll's History of Mexico, 26. 

 Norway, dredglngs in, 175. 



Occultism anl Theosophy. 209. 

 Oil on troubled waters, 2.53. 

 Old, phenomena of growing, 123 

 Old South Leaf! ts. 249. 

 O nithologlsts' Union, 245, 314. 

 O-teologicai notes, 51, 3.32. 

 Osteology, probl *ms of, 2SI. 



Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Eccjomy, 306 



Paris as a port, 91 ; water-3 ipply, 9i 



Pasteur, 23. 



Perry's Famou= Women of the French Court, 166. 



Philippine Islands, expedition to, 63. 



Photographic progress, 231. 



Photographing ballets, 231. 



Photo-mechanlcal work. 263. 



Phthisis, epidemic of, 37 : sea air for, 107. 



Physics, a problem in, 304 



Ptiysiology and medicine, 272. 



Plckard's School Supervision, 40. 



PUut Chart, 316 



Planets, surface-markings of, 360. 



Plant-biology laboratory, 174. 



Platinum electroplating, 245. 



Pneumonia, oxygen-gas in, 37. 



Polsoilng by mussels, 187. 



Pompeii, dis'oreries at. 203. 



Poulton's Colours of Animils, 236. 



Prairie-dogs, distance-sense in, 108. 



Preservatives for food, 77. 



Prize, Alvarengi, 286. 



Propulsion, Se^or system of marine, 244. 



Prudden's Dust and its Dangers, .361. 



Psychical Research Society, .301. 



Psychology at University of 'Toronto, 258. 



Quicksilver production, 174. 



Radiometer, cause of motion in, 234. 



Railway, electrical, 34. 



Rain, cause of, 361. 



Bains, Rocky Mountain, 1.34. 



Rats in New England, 161. 



He-actions, chemical, 303 



Reed's Hindu Literature, 193. 

 Respiration in the new-born, 65. 

 Rippsr's Steam, 26 

 Roads, movement fur better, 314 



Saccharine, physic 1 gical effects of, 77. 



Sahara, character of, 106. 



St. Rlmo's Are, 49. 



St. Petersburg, census of, 62. 



Salt, keeping dry, 174. 



Salts developed in organisms, 51. 



Sands, musical, 163, 216 



Scenic effects, novel, 104. 



Schools in Hong Kong, 20,' ; of Munich, 342. 



Schreber's Home Exercise, 180. 



Schurman's Belief In God, 193 



Science and the general public, 227 ; future of natu- 

 ral, 239. 



Scott's Cycling A-t, Energy and Locomotion, 25. 



Scudder's Book of Fables, 307 ; Fables and Folk 

 Stories, 265 



Scudder's Fossil Insects, 139 



Seasickness, 38. 



Selkirk Mountains, 12 



Shorthand congress, 33. 



Shoup's Mechanism and Personalitv, 347. 



Shufeldt s Myology of the Raven, 2'*5. 



Siam, gem mining in, 32-!. 



Sight of school-children, 342. 



Silk culture in France, 36 ; sta'istlcs in Franc ^ 217. 



Simon's Sanitary Institutions, 195. 



Skull, pleslosaurlan, 262, 290. 



State products, 92. 



Small pox In Germany, 107 ; In Ireland, 2S4. 



Smith's Electro-Chemical Analysis, 180. 



Smith's English and American Literature, 193. 



Smut, wheat, 204,270. 



Snake-bites, 107, 136. 



Societies, deg neration of technical, 50. 



Soclologv, 285. 



Soils, study of California, 150. 



Spider and young. 133. 



Spiders, bal owning, 108; some common English, 

 309. 



Sponge statue, 133. 



Square holes, cutting of, 64. 



Standards, metric, 48. 



Storms and electric wires, 38 ; path of, 314. 



Strawberries, 290 ; varieties of, 849. 



Sugar in Cuba, 172. 



Suga--be6ts as fodder, 76. 



Suicides of children, 215. 



Sun-spots 29 



Surveys, relations of state and national, 120 



Tea, Ceylon, 161 ; compressed tablets of, 6 ; iced, 160. 

 Teachers' School of Science in Boston, 216. 

 Technology, Massachusetts Institute of, 340. 

 Teeth, wearing of, 93. 



Temperature at night, 314 ; In lows and h'ghs, 2.36 ; 

 in storms, 65, 79, 1.36 : vicissitules of, 90. 



Thermodynamics, literature of, 292. 



Thilet, Russian expedition to. 48. 



Thinness versus sroutuess, '261. 



Thompson's The Philosophy of Fiction, 319. 



Thureau's Thoughts, 277. 



Tho -nton's Advanced Physiography, 35 



Thruston's Antiquities of Tennessee, 277. 



I'hunder-storms, 1; five years' ttudy of, 160. 



Thurston's Heat as a Form of Energy, 66. 



Tiger snakes, 76. 



Timber preservation, 326. 



Time, unit of, 173, 174, 206 



Toad, a peculiar, 258 



Toad •, 361. 



Tobacco-smoke, denlcotinlzlac, 134 



Tornado insurance, 15 : the Louisville, 58. 



Tornadoes since 1872, 43. 



To tolses in the -o'uth, 262. 



Tuberculosis, heredity of, 65; In England, 159 ; treat- 

 ment of, by vaccine methoi. 191. 



Tuberculous animals as food, 76. 



Tubes, waldless, 7 



Tuniel-dlsease, 63. 



Typhoid-fever in the air, 65 



Vaccination, 108. 



Vassar Student's Aid Society, -321. 



Veddahs, language of, 62. 



Vegetarianism, 191. 



Veuus, annular phase of. 303. 



Xiae and orange pests, 77. 



Volapuk, 90. 



Walker's Dynamo-Building, 1.39. 



Wallace's Life of Arthur Schopenhauer, 285. 



Warmest place in Europe, 315 



Weather in past centuries, 104. 



Weeden's Economic and Social Hi:t jry of New Eng- 

 land, 1620-1789, 165. 



Weiss, E., death of, 202. 



Welding, electric, 33, 160. 



Welsh's Digest of English and American Literature, 

 222. 



Wharton School of Finance, 1"7. 



Whistling girl, 286. 



Wiechmann's Sugar Analysts, 179 



Wind systems, 80, 108 



Woodbury's Talks with Ralph Waldo Emerson, 67. 



Woodhull's Military Hygiene, 378. 



Woodward, R. S., 47. 



Woodward's Manual Training in Education, 284. 



Wo^dy's Medical Chemistry, 179. 



Wrath silver in Anglo-Saxon times, 314. 



Wright's Elementary Physics, 66. 



