Vol. 



XII.] 



INDEX. 



[July-Dec, iJ 



Mahdi, the captives of, 61. 



]\ralarla, 67. 



Jlammalian life, paucity of primitive, 155. 



Man, antiquity of, 103. 



Manners and meals, 3. 



JIanuscrlpta, ancient, 179. 



Map of New Jersey, 206. 



Maps of Geological Survey, 53 ; paper relief, 144 : 



projection of, 207. 

 Marine conference, 130. 

 Marmots in Russia, 23. 



Marriage and descent, laws of, 211 ; statistics, 305. 

 Mars, aspect of, 9, 35, »2 ; aatelUtes of, 143. 

 Mead's Constitution of the United States, 47. 

 Medals of Franklin Institute, 314 ; ofKoyal Society, 



New South Wales, 35. 

 M®^l<=al congress, 105, 116 ; legislation in New York, 



Medlco-legai case. 111. 



Memory, 121 ; Loisette's, 48 ; of movements, 31. 



Meteor, brilliant, 133. 



Meteorite, a false, 48 ; the Bendego, 39, 



Meteorological apparatus, exhibition of, 250; obser- 

 vations in Bavaria, 190. 



Meteorology, bibliography of, 136. 



Michelson, A. A. A plea for light-waves, 80. 



Michigan pine plains, 25; State Board of Health, 

 Annual Keport of, 347. 



Microtome, a new freezing, 307. 



Mili, 151 ; sickness, 96. 



Mineral resources of Ontario, 37. 



Minerals, rare, 33. 



Mining industries of New Zealand, 199. 



Money, paper. In Peru, 97. 



Montelius's CivlUsatiOQ of Sweden In Heathen 

 Times, 336. 



Morris's The Aryan Race, 164. 



Mosquito, poison-apparatus of, 144. 



Mouud-buildlng, 65. 



Mounds, efBgy. in northern Illinois, 118 ; shell, 96. 



Mountains and valleys, 330. 



Munroe, C. E. Progress of chemistry, 90. 



Murray's New English Dictionary, 154. 



Muscular sensation, SO. 



Museum, Army Medical, 139. 



Museums, medical, 134. 



Musical boxes, 386. 



Myrlopods, army of, 24. 



Mythology, Iroquois, 37. 



Myths, Oriental, 24. 



N. 



Newcomb, Simon, 215. 



New York Academy of Science. 167 



Nicaragua Canal, 158, 323. 



Nichol's Francis Bacon, 189 



Nickel silicates, 71. 



Night, warm air at, 139. 



Nitrogen absorbed by plants, 33. 



Nurses for country towns, 133. 



O. 



Observatory, Naval, 6. 



Ocean's bed, the, 39. 



Ohio Geological Survey, Report of, 175. 



OU-exploding rockets, 64. 



Oleomargarine, 59. 



Organic torms, variation In, 133. 



Oriental Society meeting 315 



Ornaments, evolution of, 162 ' 



Ornithological Association of Colorado, 315. 



P. 



Packard's Entomology for Beginners, 95; First Les- 

 sons In Zoology, 8. 

 Palmer, Courtlandt, death of, 48. 

 Pans Exhibition building, 57 ; statistics, 33. 

 Parker's How to study Geography, 114. 

 Parker's The Spirit of Beauty, 114. 

 Payson's Law of Equivalents, 188. 

 Perez's L'Art et la Po6sle ohez PEufant, 57 

 Petroleum, poisonous effect of, 172 

 Philippine Islands, 84. 

 Philosophical society at Vienna, 33. 

 PhUosophy and specialties, 303. 

 Phonograph, the Edison, 371 . ' 



Photographs, exhibition of, 389. 



Photo-lithography, specimens of, 371. 



Photometer, 56. 



Physical measurements of students, 34. 



Pick's Memory and its Doctors, 31. 



Pictographs, 5, 25. 



Pilot Chart, 65. 



Plants, effect of electric currents on, 310. 



Poisoning, cheese, 199 ; lead, 311 ; potato, 211. 



Poisons, organic, 335. 



Political Science Quarterly, 116. 



Politics, study of, 41. 



Porter's Our Celestial Home, 225. 



Postal-card printing, 33. 



Potter's wheel, Corean, 144. 



Prison congress, 25 ; discipline, 36. 



Prjevalsky, N. M., death of, 350. 



Proctor, R. A., 143 ; death of, 173. 



Proctor s GreatCircIe Sailing, 303 ; Old and New As- 

 tronomy, 143. 



Psychical Research, Proceedings of the Society for, 

 30, 118. 



Pyramids of Egypt, 9. 



Q- 



Quack advertising, 97. 

 Quarantine system, 69. 

 Quick's How to train the Memory, 189. 



R. 

 Railroad, Bokhara, 198 ; Russian Pacific, 182 ; the 



Obi, 271. 

 Ralls, oxidation of, 309. 

 Railway, longest tangent on, 33; speeds, English, 



Railways in Asia Minor, 49. 



Rainfall, Kansas, 10. 



Rain-gauge, 31. 



Reading, effect of practice upon, 112. 



Rib, an eighth sternum, 184. 



Richter's Die Gletscher der Ostalpen, 263. 



Riley, C. V. Variation in organic forms, 133. 



Rivers, cutting power of, 85 ; prevention of floods 



Rogers's Economic Interpretation of History, 295 • 



Story of Holland, 295. 

 EoUeston's Forms of Animal Life, 7. 

 Rosenbusch's Microscopical Physiography of the 



Rock-Making Minerals, 248 ; Petrography, 279. 

 Rupert's Guide to the Study of the History and the 



Constitution of the United States, 131. 



Sailing, great-circle, 105. 



Sand, musical, 181. 



Sargent's Latin Prose Primer, 348. 



Satellite, lunar, 131. 



School attendance, 87 ; statistics, 97 ; work and eye- 

 sight, 307. ' 



Schools in Hong Kong, 34 ; supplementary reading 

 in, 138 ; the public, 50. 



Scudder's Literature In School, 324. 



Seasickness, 139 ; fatal, 151, 



Sense Impressions, 151 ; perceptions, 332. 



Servlss's Astronomy with an Opera-Glass, 274. 



Sexton's The Ear and its Diseases, 248. 



Shaw's National Revenues, 176. 



Silk-culture, 8, 9. 



Simon's Manual of Chemistry, 302. 



Smiley, C. W. Altruism considered economically, 



Smyth, Piazzi, 108. 



Snow-storm on an electric road, 261. 



Soil classification, 150, 189, 192, 



Solar parallax, 184 ; system, motions of, 89. 



Sourness, 71. 



Southwlck's Theory and Practice of Teaching, 189. 



Spain, prehistoric race of, 162. 



Species and subspecies, 279 ; origin of, 239. 



Specti'um, Rowland's map of, 35. 



Speech and music in disease, 200. 



Spiritualism, psychology of, 47. 



Sprague motor, 210, 266. 



Stanley and Emin Pacha, 310, 333 ; expedition, 133 • 



news from, 217. 

 Starr's Hygiene of the Nursery, 236. 

 Statistics in America, 85. 



Steel, Hadfield's manganese, 384. 



Steele's Popular ChemlstiT, 107. 



Steele and Jeufes's Popular Zoology, 8. 



Stevenson. James, 63 ; death of, 57. 



Stimulants, effect of. upon the re-action time, 113. 



Stone, O. Motions of the solar system, 89. 



Strachey's Lectures on Geography, 188. 



Sulphur, vapor of, .34. 



Sun, temperature of, 1 ; utilization of energy of, 347. 



Sunset phenomena, 191. 



Surveys, their kinds and purposes, 354. 



T. 



Take heed, 204. 



Tales from Venezuela, 307. 



Tattooing, 140. 



Taylor's Is Protection a Benefit 1 176. 



Telephone, a novel, 289; fatigue from use of the, 

 259, 



Telescope for the new asti'onomy, 253. 



Temperance instruction, 139. 



Texas school of geology, 179. 



Textile patterns of ancient Peru, 246. 



Thermometric scale, 58. 



Thompson's History of Protective Tariff Laws, 115. 



Thornton's Elementary Physiography, 69. 



Thought-transferrence, 46. 



Thunder-storm periodicity, 180. 



Thunder-storms, 167 ; in England, 271. 



Tobacco, use of, 333 ; smoke as a disinfectant, 359. 



Tonics and bitters, 199. 



Tooth, inherited deficiency of, 151. 



Tornadoes, study of, 9. 



Tree-growth, influence of light upon, 161 ; on arid 

 lands, 170. 



Trees, annual ring in, 138 ; configuration of, 306. 



Trench's On the Study of Words, 164. 



Troops in India, 33. 



Trumbull's Names and Portraits of Birds which in- 

 terest Gunners, 336. 



Tuckerman Memorial Library, 236. 



Tyndall's Researches on Diamagnetism and Magne- 

 Crystallio Action, 335. 



Typhoid bacillus, 199 ; fever, 67, 147. 



Lniversity statistics, '< 



V. 



Vaccination, 163; value of, 173. 



Vaughan and Novy's Ptomaines and Leucomaines, 



69. 

 Verney's How the Peasant Owner Lives, 164. 

 Virus, vaccine, z/j, bovine, 111. 

 Vocabularies, number of words In, 32. 

 Volapiikists, the leader of, 227. 



W. 

 Walsh's Paradoxes of a Philistine, 273. 

 Washington societies, 4. 

 Water-supplies, pollution of, 293. 

 Watson's Philosophy of Kant, 81 . 

 Weather in Egypt, 137 ; predictions, 203. 

 Welch and DutBeld's Latin Accidence, 81. 

 Welch's Talks on Psychology applied to Teaching, 



Westinghouse Company's extension, 247. 



Whoopiug-cough, 151. 



Wine, plastering of, 89, 335. 



Woolt's Descriptive Geometry, 95. 



Wounds, healing of, 211 ; of the abdomen, 110. 



Wrecks on the ocean, 197. 



Wright's Children's Stories of the Great Scientists, 



225. 

 Wright's Sound, Light, and Heat, 114. 

 Writer's Handbook, the, 274. 



X. 



Xenophon's Anabasis, 248. 

 Xingu, exploration of the, 117. 



Y. 



Yellow-fever, 147, 197; camp, 215; germ, 147; in 

 Jacksonville, 131 ; treatment, 186. 



Z. 

 Zodiacal light, 180. 

 Zoological Park, National, 55. 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, 



Babylonian Empire, races of ....... .ggg 



Bantaisan, eruption of ....... '. jgg 



Conduit system of electric railways (2 figs.) .... 302, 303 



Cuban hurricane, track of ....... "* 159 



Cyclone pulverizer ........ 321 



Daft electric motor (3 figs.) ....... 381 283 



Eclipse of the sun In California .......' 289 



Edison central station ........ 384 



Freezing-microtome . ....... 307 



Frost, map showing average date of first killing .... 190 



Garbage-furnace, Des Moines ....... 365 



Gibraltar ••......,' 317 



Guatemala, archaeological remains in ..... 156 



Hauss system of electrical traction .....! ,301 



Japan, map of ......... J07 



Log-raft, map showing course of the ...... 73 



Mackenzie basin (3 figs.) ........ 314 315 



Mississippi, floods In the lower . . . . . . . ' 167 



Mounds, eiSgy ......... 119 



Muses, the three ......... 395 



Musical boxes (6 flgs.) ....... 286, 287, 288 



Nicaragua Ship-Canal, plan and profile of , . . . . ' isg] 159 



Nicaragua Canal, profile of ....... ' 333 



Panama Canal, profile of . . . . . . . . 333 



Russian Pacific Railroad, sketch-map of the ..... 183 



Sarafshan, lower course of the ....... 199 



Sprague Electric Railway at Boston ....!.' 335 



Sprague truck for street-cars ....... 266 



Synclinal mountains and anti-clinal valleys ..... 3S0 



Thomson-Houston motors ....... 383 



Tuttle, Albert H. (portrait) •■■..!'. 125 



United States, projections for the ...... 63 



University of Virginia, plan of biological laboratory at . . ! 125 



Zodiacal light •••...... 180 



Africa, map of, showing spread of Mohammedanism 

 United States, projections for the 



opposite 

 opposite 



