INDEX TO V'^LUME XTT 



A. 

 ott, C. C. Antiqutty of man, 103. 



luUeratlon of condimenta, 185. 

 AfricH, affalra lu Central, 11)3 ; Alohanimcdauism In, 



335, 328. 

 Agasalz Association^ 13 ; Iowa Assembly of, 173 ; 



Seaside Assembly, ItjO. 

 Agasslz's Throe Cruises of the " ltlake,"95. 

 Agricultural experiments in Connecticut, 2^. 

 Alaska explorations, 59 ; Muir glacier in, 193. 

 Alcoholism, 359. 



Altruism cousldored economically, 93. 

 Aluminium process, the Ileroult, 'Si^. 

 America, culture of North- West, 194; name of, 13. 

 American Association, 98; meeting, 87; officers, 95; 



Institute fair, 249 ; race, Mongolian affinities of, 



181, 337,339. 

 Americanists, Congress of, 58, 74, 180. 

 Anemometer constants, 351. 

 Antarctic regions exploration, 36. 

 Antiseptic ammunition. 111. 

 Auis transplanting the scale-bug, 204. 

 Ape, mental powers of, 245. 

 Archtoologlcol remains In, Costa Cuca, 156. 

 Archioology in New York, 278. 

 Arkansas, mining districts of, 109. 

 Armor-plates and projectiles, 33. 

 Association by contrast, 174. 

 Atomic weights, 309. 

 Aurora, the, 33. 

 Auati-alaslan Association of Science, 23B. 



B. 



Babylonian races, 307. 



Bacteria, 70, 310. 



Baldness, 186, 334. 



Ball's Experimental ilechanlcs, 336. 



Ball's History of ^lathematlcs, 372. 



Balloon ascension at Paris, 33. 



Bautalsan, eruption of, 126, 143. 



Bantu, migrations of the, 246. 



Bartholomew's Elementary School Atlas, 81. 



Bathing, precautions in, 68. 



Bats, are they diurnal, 96. 



Beasts of burden, human, 268. 



Bell's Facts and Opinions relating to the Deaf, from 

 America, 154. 



Bellamy's Looking Backward, 31. 



Berlitz schools of languages, 303. 



Bi-daUy, 240. 



Bill-tish, habits of, 73. 



Billion, the, 238, 340. 



Biology, Virginia school of, 125. 



Birds, oar native, 49, 71, 83, 96 ; soaring of, 267. 



Blair's Chemical .'Vnalysls ot Iron, 143. 



Blindness at night, 23. 



Blood, dlagnjsis of human, 162. 



Boats, submarine, 308, 327. 



Bosanquet's Logic, 114. 



Bottoue's Electrical Instrument Making for Ama- 

 teurs, 106. 



Brain soclabUlty, 337. 



Brandt's First Book In German, 214. 



Bray's Essays on God and Man, 336. 



Brazil exploration, 37. 



British Association money-grants, 145. 



Brooklyn Institute, 159. 



Brooks, W. P., 70. 



Buffalo on the Texas plains, 240. 



Burt's History of Greek Philosophy, 273. 



Butterflies of New England, 179. 



Ceasar's Gallic War, 348. 



Calderwood's Hand-Book of Moral Philosophy, 213. 



California, development of southern, 179: survey. 

 48. 



Cameron's Soaps and Candles, 235. 



Canal across Italy, 116 ; from the Obi to the Yenisei 

 250. 



Canals, Nicaragua and Panama, 322. 



Cancer, 67. 



Cannan's Political Economy, 175. 



Carboniferous rocks, 309. 



Carrlngton's Patriotic Header, 395. 



Census, eleventh, 35; maps ot the United States, 61. 



Centenarians ux France, 305. 



Cerebral localization, 148. 



Chamberlln, B. B., 315. 



Chambers's EncyclopEsdia, 176. 



Chardenal's First French Course, 189. 



Chemical action between solids, 184, 316 ; in a mag- 

 netic field, 56. 



Chemistry, progress of, 90. 



Chemists, agricultural, 97. 



Chest-development, 204, 



Children, dependent, 186. 



Chlsholm'3 Longman's School Geography, 69. 



Cigarette-smoking, 186, 259. 



Cincinnati Exhibition, 1, 49 ; Coast Survey exhibit 

 at, 50. 



Citizenship, intelligent, 26 ; Society for promoting 

 Good, 144, 167. 



Clausius, K., 133. 



Cium's Inebriety, 213. 



Coal-measures of Kansas, 119. 



Colleges, attendance upon, 334. 



Color audition, 140 ; sensitivity, evolution of, 245. 



Colored wools, sorting, when blindfolded, 192. 



Colsou'3 Macmlllau's Greek Reader, 249. 



Congress, scientific. In Paris, 25. 



Consumption among Indians, 148 ; In New Hamp- 

 shire, 259. 



Cook, G. H. Geological congress, 92. 



Cop^ght In works of art, 49. 



Corraslon, laws of, 119, 229. 



Cotton-plant fibre, a new, 185. 



Cranial measurements, 185. 



Cromatlon In Franco, 33; statistics, 203. 



Cruffut, W. A., 69. 



D. 



Davenport's Doath-Blow to SplrltuallHm, 274. 



De la Noh's Les Formes du Terrain, 188. 



Deception, psychology of, 244. 



Dewey's llow to teach Manners lu the School-room, 

 189. 



Dewoy's Leibniz's Now Essays coDcerulug the Hu- 

 man Understanding, 188. 



Dialect, negro, 33. 



Diphtheria carried by turkeys, 186; spread by cats, 

 260. 



Dlptora, synopsis of American, 1.55. 



Disease and panic, 253, 



Disinfectant, corrosive sublimate as, 185; phospho- 

 rus peutoxlde as, 109. 



Disinfectants that neutralize each other, 130. 



Disinfection at New Orleans, 13 ; methods, 14 ; of lotr- 

 ters, 259. 



Dog feast, 36. 



Dream excitation, 216. 



Dreams of the deaf, 153. 



Drift, limit of, 132. 



Drowning, death by, 151. 



Dunn's Indiana, 177. 



Dysentery, microbe of, 111. 



E. 



Ear affections, tuning-fork for, 68. 



Earle's Handbook to the Land-Charters, 212. 



Eclipse, solar, 289. 



Education In the magazines, 241, 



Egypt, discovery in, 140. 



Electrical absorption in dielectrics, 187 ; action on 

 steam, 269; alternating current, danger of. Ill ; 

 death from, 72 ; motor, 141 ; arc, 7: battery, light- 

 weight primary, 112: primary. 21; storage, 209, 

 269 289. 309; boat, 6; commission on traction In 

 Italy, 389 ; condensers, 269; conductors for alter- 

 nating currents, 201 ; conduit system of railways, 

 302; conduits, 309; currents, 39 ; new method of 

 producing, 224; deposition of copper, 235; diffu- 

 sion, rate of, 23 ; distribution by storage-batteries. 

 164 ; dynamo, Eickemeyer, 370 ; dynamometer, 112; 

 Edison light for houses, 284 ; system, 270; employ- 

 ment of mica In condensers, 174 ; energy absorbed 

 by different lights, 153; incandescent lamp phe- 

 nomena, 224; insulator, 142; investments, 290; 

 lamp experiments, 21; lamps for mines, 187; 

 launch, an, 247 ; light convention, 128 ; In the fu- 

 ture, 153 ; wires, 22 ; vs. gas in France, 201 ; light- 

 ing, 270; in America, 186; In mines, 30; station, 

 an immense, 334 ; locomotive at Birmingham, 270 ; 

 meter, 153; microphone, 7 ; motor, Sprague, 210; 

 plating, 30; potential variation, 66; power-dis- 

 tribution, 282 ; propulsion, 281 ; radiophone. 7 ; 

 Railway, the Hauss, 301 ; rapid transit, 45 ; resis^ 

 ance of copper, 21 ; of mercury, 142 ; road, 

 Sorague, In Boston, 324 ; standards of resistance, 

 56; street-railway*, 246; suu-lamp, 201; surface 

 road in New York. 270; tempering of steel, 210; 

 testing bureau, 35,67; tests of secondary batteries, 

 323; theory of light, 163; traction, 7; tramways in 

 salt-mines, 142: transformers, 56; treatment of 

 zinc, 66; Tudor accumulator, 173; underground 

 cables, 141 ; roads In London. 56. 



Electricity, advances in, in 1888. 328. 



Elementary. Classics, 214. 



Energy, radiant. 119. 



English language, claims of, 291. 



Eskimo measuring, 306. 



Etymology, Mississagua, 132. 



Evans's Hand-Book of Historical and Geographical 

 Phthislology, 294. 



Evolution, a notable, 120, 180. 



Execution by electricity, 261. 



Exercise among Celestials, 172. 



Feather ornament, a Mexican, 246. 



Fellows's Loisette exposed, 31. 



Filter, a simple, 68. 



Fish of the Alleghany region. 82 ; Commission, Uni- 

 ted States, 217 ; work of, 219. 



Fisher's Essentials of Geography, 164. 



Flske's Critical Period of American History, 373. 



Flint implements at Southall, 212. 



Floods In the Mississippi, 167. 



Folk-lore, Ojlbwa, :i3:3 : Teton, 3;«. 



Food-preservatives, 150. 



Forestry Association, 372 ; congress, 250. 



Forests and ralufoll. 241, 242 ; care of, 233 ; in South 

 Africa, 109. 



Fowler's Tales of the Birds, 235. 



Frederick HI., Case of Emperor, 316. 



Frost, date of first killtug, 190. 



Frult-plauts in California, 209. 



Fuel, burning pulverized, 321. 



Galloupe's Index to Engineering Periodicals, 107. 



Game, a queer, among the Navajo, 268. 



Garbage cremation, 139, 211. 265 ; disposal lu BuCfalo. 

 139. 



Gardner's Town and Country School Buildings, 249. 



Gelser, loss of, 109. 



Geodetic signals. 299. 



Geographic magazine, 225. 



Geographical Congress, 70; nomeuclalure of Can- 

 ada, 263. 



Geography, lesson In commercial, 157. 



Geological Congress, 9, 92. 193; Survey library, 160; 



publications, 01; report, 148; of Kentucky map, 



250. 

 Gerard's Land boyoud tho Forest, 'M)\, 

 Glbbons'H Tenure and Toll, 212. 

 Gibson's Introduction to Latin Syntax, 248, 

 Gravity, force of, 9. 

 Groely'H American Weathor, 274. 

 Groon, Thomas Hill, Works of, 262. 

 Groono'H First Lessons lu English, 143. 

 Greenland. Nanson's oxpedllloa across, 141, 271. 

 Guruey, Edmund, death of, SU. 



H. 



Hall and Stevens's Text-Book of Euclid's Klomoum, 



2.'J7. 

 Hall, O. Stanley. 31. 

 HamllU>n, .J. B., roslgnatlon of, 229. 

 Hanging as a method of execution, 131. 

 Hardy's Latin Reader, S19. 

 Hart's Western China, 214. 

 Hasheesh, psychic effects of, 175. 

 Headache, the sightseer's, 260. 

 Health Association, 253 ; of I'nltod States Army, 214: 



resorts, depressed areas as, 210. 

 Ueai-t, human, as an electrical battery, 197. 

 Hea^contres In man, 147. 

 Hellprln's Animal Life on our Sea-Shore, 32. 

 Homenway Expedition, 39. 

 Hewes'B Citizen's Atlas of American Politics, 1789 



1888, 165. 

 Hlnman's Eclectic Physical Geography, 113. 

 History, American, 1, 24 ; of a doctrine, 74. 

 Hoagland Laboratory, 189. 

 Hoffmann's Froebel's Kindergarten Gifts, 189. 

 Homing instinct, the. 288. 

 Hudson Bay route, 157, 

 Hughes's How to keep Order, 189. 

 Humbuggery, 277. 



Huntington's Unconscious Teaching, 189. 

 Hurricane, Cuban, 169. 

 Hurricanes, study of. 109. 

 Huxley's Practical Biology, 8. 

 lljdrographlc Office work, 2y<J. 

 Hypnotism and crime, 174; and magnet, 152; In 



Washington, 309 ; notes on, 223. 



I. 

 Ice movement, 34. 

 Identification, personal, 37. 

 Illnees of eminent men, IHI. 

 Illuminatio ', measurement of, 141. 

 Illusions of drawing and painting, 288. 

 Imagination, power of . 151. 

 Immigration, prize for essay on, 179. 

 India, sanitation in, 106. 

 Indians, Canadian, 82. 

 Insects under ground, study of, 198. 

 Intellect In Great Britain, 200. 

 Iowa Association of Science, 116. 

 Iron, protection of, from corrosion, 82; and steel, 



protection of, by electrolysis, 261. 

 Irrigation of arid lands, 61, 109, 203. 



J. 

 Jadeite discussion, 103, 192. 

 Japanese ko]t, 55. 

 Johns Hopkins University, 205 ; annual report, 291 ; 



scientific work of, 329. 

 Jones's Examples in Physics, 225. 

 Jordan's Vertebrate Animals of tho Northern United 



States, 2-35. 

 Jukes-Browne's Building of the British Isles, 176. 

 Jutland, discoveries In, 271. 



Kassai, the, 131. 



Kay's Memory, 31, 315. 



King devil, 198. 



Knee-jerk, 9. 



Kongo Free State, 131. 



Krakatoa, eruption of, 217. 



Eunz's coUeciion, .309. 



L. 

 Labor department, 38. 

 Laboratory at Wood's Holl. 37. 

 Lacing. 239. 



Lanciaul's Ancient Rome, 263. 

 Langley, S. P. History of a doctrine, 74. 

 Language, origin of, 145. 

 Lees and Clutterbuok's B. C. 1887, 263. 

 Leprosy, contagiousness of, 151 . 

 LeRow's Tho Young Idea, 294. 

 Lesley's report, .309. 

 Lewis. H. C, death of, 37. 

 Library, Congressional. 205. 

 Light, standards of. 210; surfaces feebly sensUtTc 



lo. 196 : velocity of, as affected by olcs:tric currooi, 



173 ; waves, a plea for, 80. 

 Llehining fiashos, 7 ; photographs of, II ; protection, 



17 ; shock, 171. 

 Llvy, 245. 



Lobsters for California. 27. 

 Log raft. 73. 

 Lubbock's Souses, Instlncta, and InielllgeDCO of 



Animals, 261. 



M. 



M'Keudrick's Physiology, 106. 



Mackenzie basin, resources of, .110, 314. 



Macmlllau's Greek Course. 214. 



.Magnetic declination In California, 155 ; disturb- 

 ances In tho sun, 179 ; i>olarity of earth, 116 ; sur- 

 vey, Japan, 127. 



