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INDEX TO VOLUME XV, 



Abbot "s The Way out of Agnosticism, 192. 



Academy of Sciences, National, 259. 



Adams's History of the United States, 97. 



Africa, Pictorial, its Heroes, Missionaries and Mar- 

 tyrs, 363. 



Alcoh Item, hallaclnalions in, 43. 



Allrghany, orthography of, 64. 



American archives in Seville, Ul. 



Anatomical nomenclature, 3-31. 



Appalachian Mountain Club, 384. 



Arc-lamp, a superior, 267. 



Arey's Laboratory Manual of Experimental Physics, 

 205. 



Arithmetic, Hindu, 234. 



Asia, 170. 



Asia Minor, explorations in, 73. 



Assyrian sculptured group, 326. 



Athletics at the University of Pennsylvania, 2S7. 



Australian aborigines, 219. 



Auto-suggestion, 302. 



Bacteria, counting, 362. 



Bacteriological laboratory at Poona, 231. 



Barclay an descrij^tive terms occasion obscurity, 224. 



Barnard Coll ge, 246. 



Baz&n's Bussla, 389. 



Bee keeping, 20.3. 



Beer, old, 188. 



Bees, new disease of, 315. 



Beet sugar In Califortiia, 56. 



BeUamy's Open, Sesame, 195. 



Biacl^mar's History of State Aid to Education, 222 ; 



Spanish Colonization, 273, 

 Blood In phthisis and cancer, 56. 

 Blower, steel pressure, 49. 

 Boole's Logic taught by Love, 179. 

 Botanic garden in Montreal, 25. 

 Brain localization, 302 ; pre-frontal region of the, 303. 

 Brannt's Manufacture of Vinegar, 248. 

 Brinton's Essays of an Americanist, 179, 292. 

 Brown's Manual of Assaying, 12. 

 Burial reform In England, 107. 

 Butter, detecting oleo In, 189; new kind of, 108. 



Caffeine, action of, 244. 



Calling, has every one a natural, 233. 



Calvert Papers, 9. 



Campbell's Footprints of Christ, 28. 



Canadian Royal Society, 342, 373. 



Canal from the North Sea to the Baltic, 8 ; Nicaragua, 



38, 188 ; Panama, 175 ; Suez, at night, 125 

 Cave, Adelsberg, 370. 

 Cave-air, experiments with, 290. 

 Caves, the Waltomo, 42. 

 Chambers's Encyclopjedia, 391. 

 Characters, transmission of acquired, 110. 

 Checkley's Natural Method of Physical Training, 



393. 

 Chemical elements, periodic law of the, 126. 

 Chemical Society, 385. 

 Cherokees, 295, 323, 338, 366, 379. 

 Children, movements in young, 260 ; recognition by 



young, '274 

 Chimney, tall factory, 40. 

 China, exploration In, 72. 

 Cholera in Europe, 108. 

 Chrysanthemum, Japanese, 38. 

 Church, monolithic, 39. 

 Cinchona-bark, 145. 

 Cinchona-trees, 25. 

 Clark University. 18. 

 Climate of Asia, 2^7; of Canada, l&S. 

 ClutterDuck's The Skipper in Arctic Seas, 180. 

 Coast of Finland, upheaval of, 159. 

 Cocoanut-butler, 24. 

 Coffee Inebriety, 374. 

 Coin in Mexico, 57. 

 Collars and vision, 236. 

 Color-blind engineers, 144. 

 Color-blindness, 3.57. 

 Coloring metals, 371. 

 Comstock's Least^quares, 30. 



Consumption in Hayti, 158; suppression of, 237, 253. 

 Cooke's Human Myste y in Hamlet, 63. 

 Cookery of the poor, 243 

 Corn for fodder, .315; dried, for fodder, .38; planting, 



.342. 

 Cornell and the lost will, 344. 

 Cows, feed for, 24. 



Cyclones and anticyclones, 332, 37'4, 388. 

 Cypress, knees of the bald, 65. 



Deaf, convention of Instructors of, 40. 



Death, hour at which it occurs, 158. 



Degree of bachelor of arts. 104. 



De Guimps's Pestalozzi, 389. 



Dictionary, New English, 12. 



Diet, normal, 56. 



Digestion, Influence of baking p.wder on, 14. 



Dragon-fly, curious doings of, 384. 



Draper Memorial report, 144. 



Drill, electric diamond, 69, 139. 



Drought in the PLOckies, 181. 



Dry-dock in Brooklyn, 301. 



Durham's Science in Plain Lsnguage, 3*9. 



Dust in street cars, 259. 



Dynamo, the Wenstrom, 42. 



Dynamos f jr Western Union, 145. 



Earl's Elements of Laboratory Work, 262. 



Ears, boxing of, 45. 



Earthquake In Queen Charlotte Islands, 301. 



Ecker's Anatomy of the Frog, 247. 



Eclipse expedition, 343. 



Edison station. Brooklyn, 33 



Education, Chicago Institute of, 25; in the Areen- 

 tlne Republ c, 260; In Germany, 202; in Spain, 

 385. 



Edwards's Butterflies of North America, 129. 



Effigy-mound, 275. 



Electric currents from mental excitation, 72 ; exhi- 

 bition at Edinburgh, 78; exhibition at Frankfort, 

 78; light convention, 139; phenomena, 370; tram- 

 way system, 198. 



Electrics, Practical, 247. 



Elevator, electric, 1. 



Ellis s The Criminal, 376. 



Engineer, the sailor as an ama'eur, 204. 



Engineers, Society of Civil, 56. 



English, origin of the, 69, 75. 



Epidemics, psychology of, 91. 



Epitomes of Three Sciences : Comparative Ph'lology, 

 Psychology, and Old Testament History, 319. 



Evolution, Popular Lectures and Discussions before 

 the Brooklyn Ethical Association, 61. 



Exercise, excessive, ,38. 



Exercises 111 Wood- Working, 130. 



Exhibition, industrial, at Stockholm, 159; Jamaica, 

 189, 217, 2^3. 



Expedition, hydrographlc, 370. 



Expeditions, geographical, 357. 



Expression of Ideas, motor, 302. 



Fall, a long, 236. 



Fan, steam-driven, 17. 



Fares, passenger, 273. 



Fast, forty days', 345. 



Fat, determination of, 314. 



Ferrel's Popular Treatise on the Winds, 142. 



Fever, intermittent, 184 ; origin of, 177. 



Fibre-machinery, 127. 



Filters, sand, 304. 



Fire-proof floor-construction, 137. 



Fires, causes of, 203. 



Fishes, color of, 311. 



Fish- weirs, aboriginal, 116, 151, 181, 251. 



Fitch's Notos on American Schools and Traiuing 



Colleges, 247. 

 Flash-light, a new, 259. 

 Floods from a sanitary standpoint, 107. 

 Fl:iwer festivals In Japan, 25. 

 Fluoroform, 244. 

 Foam, 384. 

 Fodder crops, 41, 

 Food subst tutes, 86. 

 Foods and food adulterants, 226. 

 Forestry In India, 231 ; in Prussia, 343. 

 Foul brood, 314. 

 France, nationalities In, 188. 

 Eraser's Locke, 388. 

 Fredericq'a The Study of History, 390. 

 Friese's Semitic Philosophy, 192. 

 Fund, Elizabeth Thompson Science, 357. 



Geological Society, 10. 



Geological Survey of Missouri, 301, 371. 



Geologists, congress of, 363. 



Germlcld", gastric juice as a, 177. 



Germs, gastric juice and pathogenic, 303. 



Giordano Bruno, 236. 



Glrton, life at, 40. 



Glacier, the Khone, .334. 



Glass for lens, 273 



Godwin's Railroad Engineers' Fleld-Book and Ex- 

 plorers' Guide, 206. 



Gomme's Village Commuiity, 347. 



Gorse or furze, 275, 291. 



Gray, Asa, Scientific Papers of, 11. 



Gray's Absolute Jleasurements In Electricity and 

 Magnetism, 129. 



Gray's Electrical Influence Machines, :34S. 



Grippe and cholera, 106, 



Guatemalan plants, .55 



Gulf Stream and the weather, 93. 



Gum acacia, 41. 



Hallucinations, 336 ; census of, .304. 

 Halos, solar, 195. 



Hardy's Elements of the Calculus, 2.50. 

 Heart, electrical phenomena of the 107. 

 Heat and magnetism, 370 ; and ventilation, 138. 

 Heating greenhouses, 314. 

 Highways of Europe, 244, 

 Hirn, G. A,, death of, 108. 

 Historical Association meeting, 8. 

 Historical prize, 9. 

 Home-Heading Union, ]'35. 

 Hopton's Conversation on Mines, 46. 

 Horticultural exhibition, 109. 



Howland's Practical Hluts for the Teachers of Pub- 

 lic Schools, 78. 

 Human faculty, origin of, 90. 



Hurst's Tables and Memoranda for Engineers, 236. 

 Hyde's Directional Calculus, 194 

 Hypnotism, dangers of, 319; recent studies in, 140. 

 Hypotheses, multiple working, 92. 



Ice, southward movement of, 108. 

 Icebergs in the Atlantic, 217. 

 Iceland, explorations in, 73. 

 Ind'.go, synthesizing, 144, 

 Industrial farm, 25 

 Influenza, 8, 33, 48 99, 1.34. 

 Iron and Steel Institute, 381. 



Jade, bowlder of, 16. 



James's Federal Constitution of Switzerland, 2.50. 

 Javary River, 159. 



Jevons's Pure Logic and other MI or Works, 319. 

 Jones's Elements of Logic as a Science of Proposi- 

 tions, 178. 

 Jungfrau railway, 134. 

 Justice and Jurisprudence, 26. 



Kangaroos, 245. 



Kansas Historical Society library. 126. 



Kapp's Electric Transmission of Energy, 306. 



Kilima-NJaro, 191, 300. 



Knoflach's Sound-English, 191, 224. 



Kongo, basin of the, 36. 



Labor conference, 175. 



Laboratory, Marine Biological, 246. 



Lakes, oscillations of, 117. 



Lalang, 72 



Lard, delecting cottonseed-oll In, 189. 



Lenox Library, 159. 



Leprosy, 56. 



Llebig and Rohe's Prac leal Electricity in Medicine 



and Surgery, 347. 

 L'.egols's ue la Suggestion et du Somnambulisme, 



etc., 113 

 Life, saving of, In Michigan, 177. 

 Lightning-discharge, 99, 3^6 

 LItchflela's The Nine Worlds, 248. 

 Liver, tolerance of operations on the, .56, 

 London, health of, in 1889, 107. 



JIantegazza's Physiognomy and Expression, 220. 



Manual training In Philadelphia, 803 ; In Sweden, 

 384. 



Manure, deterioration of farmyard, 23. 



Map of Massachusetts, 129. 



Marine conference, 24. 109. 



Marocco, agricultural produce of, 188, 



JIason's History of the Veto Power, 222. 



Maycock's Practical Electrical Notes and Defini- 

 tions, 236. 



Meat consumption, 1. 



Medical congress, 342 ; profession, difa.-ulties of, 8. 



Meldola's Chemistry of Photography, 60. 



Memory following cranial injury, 8. 



Mendenhall's Century of Electricity, 262. 



Mental impressions, 176 ; processes In Insanity, 108; 

 trait, a curio s, lOS. 



Merrlman and Ja;oby'3 Roofs and Bridges, 178 



Meteorite, 167 ; at Mighen'i, 72. 



Meteorites, Kiowa County, 290, 359, .384 ; Ohio, .388 ; 

 Wlnnebag.j County, 304, 333, 347. 



Meteorologi-'al features, 1689, 33 ; observations on 

 Pike's Peak 122; phenomena, peculiar, 126 ; ser- 

 vice in the West Indies, 109; topics, 318. 



Meteorology, applications of, 345. 



Mexican population and trade, 57, 



Microbes, fate of cadaveric, 177. 



Micro-graphophone, 281. 



Mlcroscoplsts, American Society of, 217, 38j. 



Midnight Talks at the Club, 319 



Milk, tuberculous, 309 ; value of boiled, 91. 



.Mills and Rowan's Fuel and its .Applications, 27. 



Mine, elecirlc locomotive for, 63. 



Minerals in Persia, -286. 



Mining engineers, .Major Powell's address to, 156.. 



Missouri Botanical Garden, 57. 



Mock sun, 133. 



Mocking-birds' phrases, 64. 



Montefiore's Henry M. Stanley, 363. 



Moon, temperature of, 108. 



Moorehead's Fort indent, 205. 



Morse's handwriting, 41. 



Mortality, infant, 177. 



Mouth- breathing and the teeth, 124. 



Movement, sensations of, 261. 



Muscular contraction, 245. 



Museum of economic botany, 244. 



Musical flames, 64. 



Natives of French colonies, 302. 



Natural-history garden for Boston, 213. 



Navigation, Inland, 343, 



Nervous sjstem, dietary for the 219. 



New Zealand fisheries, 140. 



Nicaragua footprints, :30. 



Norton's Handbook of Florida, 129. 



Nose-bleed, 303. 



Nutrition in aged organisms, i;7. 



Oases in the Sahara, 9. 

 Oil lu New Zealand, -^72. 

 Olives. 14,5. 



Orthography, amended, 199. 

 Cizone manufacture, 272. 



Pain-joy, '243. 



Pasteur, reward of, 245. 



Patten's Economic Basis of Protection, 300. 



