Juvenile Near-Sightedness 30, 



Kansas Academy of Science 1877 450, 



" Fruit Lists of Forest Trees for 



Kansas City Academy of Science, 



252, 317, 445, 509, 574, 638, 



Kansas Pacific R. R., Trial of Air Brakes upon 



Kenzie, Prof. W. K., the lola Gas Well 



" '* Weather Report for Kansas, 



Oct., 1877 



Laboratory Notes, by T. A. Edison 



Lamp Chimneys, Blue 



" Lighting by Electricity 



Laws of Pigital Reduction 



Lead, Shipment of, to China 



Lead Furnaces, Improyement in 



Leather not a Chemical Compound 



Lemon Cordial 



Leverrier and His Work 



Life from Other Worlds 



Light Eujitting Flowers 



Light and Sound, Analogy of 



Liquid Sulphur, a Mine of 



Lofty Railroad Engineering 



Longest Bridge in the World 



Lubbock, Sir John, on Ants 



Luminosity of Colors 



Maintenance of the Pavements in Paris 



Marbles, Antique 



Mars, the moons of 379, 407, 495, 



Marsh Fevers, the True Nature of 



Mastodon Tusk, Discovery af, at Kansas City 



" " " by E. L. Shinn 



Material Resources of Life 



Mechanics and Engineering 325, 



" of Ventilation 457, 



Medical Profession in Modern Thought 



" Society of Missouri, Annual Meeting 



Medicine and Hygiene 177, 498, 537, 593, 



Metallurgy 



Meteor of Dec. 21, 1876 



Meteors, Amateur Observations ot 



" of Oct. 1-20, 1877 



Meteoric Stones and Shooting Stars 



Meteorites Observed in Nov. and Dec., 1877 



Meteorology, 39, 171, 241, 257, 272, 333, 393, 556, 696, 

 " and Sun Spots, Connection I3etween.. 



" Bearings of, upon Agriculture and 



Hygiene 



Method of Determining the Wind's Velocity 



Mica and Its Uses 



Midsummer Heat in May 



Mi'k, the Souring of in Thunder Siorms, Explained 



Mine ot Liquid Sulphur 



Mineralogy 137, 209, 321, 385, 603, 



Mineral Oil as a Fuel 



" Region of S. W. Missouri and S. E. Kansas 



" Resources of Mitsouri 



Minerals at the Kansas City Exposition 1877 



Mirage, the Cause of 



Missouri Coal Measures, Thickness of. 



" Iron Ore of the C;irboniferous Age 



" Meteorology tor Dec, 1877 



" Mineral Resources of 



" Mounds in Central and Southeastern 



" Mound Builders 15, 



Moabite Stone, the Famous 



Money and Legal Tender, Linderman 



Monnier Process of Reducing Refractory Ores 



Moonlight, Proctor upon 



Moons ol Mars 3:9, 407, 495, 



Mound Builders of Missouri 15, 



Mounds in Illinois 535, 



" Utah 



Mud, Argentiferous 



Mudge, Prof. B. F.,the Impossibility of Flesh Fos- 

 silization 484, 



" " Fossil Leaves in Kansas 



Mycense, Schliemann's Discoveries at 



National Observatory, New Site Suggested for 



Natural History 106, 



Near Sightedness of School Children 30, 



Nevada, Cloud Bursts in 



New Material for Paper 



New Method of Illuminating a Town 



New Sun and Its Disappearance 



New use for Asbestos 



Night Stinging Spiders 



593 

 509 

 18'1 



766 



252 

 257 



559 

 60 

 61 

 684 

 500 

 607 

 569 

 432 

 677 

 491 

 508 

 314 

 98 

 315 

 640 

 610 

 HI 

 626 

 762 

 137 

 759 

 247 

 336 

 446 

 337 

 610 

 546 

 177 

 189 

 672 

 328 

 39 

 494 

 666 

 724 

 639 

 71" 

 176 



241 

 556 

 268 

 243 

 620 

 315 

 650 

 570 

 385 

 144 

 445 

 171 

 392 

 650 

 697 

 144 

 638 

 531 

 207 

 63.T 

 ,328 

 517 

 759 

 .531 

 536 

 205 

 270 



625 

 654 

 2 

 768 

 361 

 593 

 51 

 187 

 753 

 101 

 252 

 113 



Notable Antiquities of the United States 206 



Notices of Periodicals, etc. received, 



63, 127, -.91, 256, 319, 447, 512, 575, 640, 703, 767 



November Meteors, Amateur Observatioas of 494 



Obelisks, the Fortunes of the 567 



Observations, Importance of Simultaneous 333 



Occultation of Venus, Dec. 8, 1877 629, 706 



Olympia, the Excavations at 200, 661 



Oil, Discoveries af, in a Fourth Sand Rock 491 



Oregon, the Wonderful Fossil Beds of 608 



Ores, Refractory, Monnier Process for Reducing.... 328 



Origin of Petroleum 186 



Oxygen in the Sun, Spectroscopic Discovery of 428 



Palseontology 36 



Paper, a New Material for 187 



Paris, Exhibition of, 1878 761 



" Letters on Scientific Matters 425, 561, 646, 755 



Parker, Prof J. D., on the River Bluffs 485 



Patent Medicines and Secret Remedies 436 



Paving Compositions for Streets........ 169 



Peabody Museum, Yale College, 399 



Perfumery of the Ancients 569 



Periodicals, etc. received 



62, 127, 91, 256, 319, 446, 512, 575, 640, 703, 767 



Peruvian Tidal Wave 282 



Petroleum, Apparatus for Burning in Locomotives 39 



" Bitumen, Asphaltum, etc 209 



" Origin of 186 



Phonograph, the Talking 681 



Photography, Btue Glass 250 



' Applied to Astronomy 497 



Phylloxera, Premium for the Destruction of. 125 



Physiology 23,413, 509 



Plan for Exploring the Arctic 743 



Planets, Positions of, for June, 1877 239 



Pleasanton, A. J., on Blue Glass 91 



Pneumatic Dispatch at Berlin 441 



Polar Expeditions, value of. 81 



Popular Education 301 



" Fallacies 357 



Poughkeepsie Academy of Science, Report of. 765 



Powell, Gen. W. H.,New Combination for Nail Iron 381 



Precious Stones 260 



Prehistoric Races of the United States, Foster 570 



" Remains Found at Kansas City 193 



Prevention and Extinguishment of Conflagrations 147 

 Pritchett, Prof. C. W., Astronomical Notes for 



January, 1878 698 



Pritchett, Prof. C W., Astronomical Notes: — Mars 759 



" " Occultation of Venus 7(5 



Proceedings of Societies 252, 317, 318, 446, 450 



Process of Electro-Plating, new 465 



" Heliotyping 59 



Production of Crystalline Figures on (jlass 621 



Properties of Iron and Steel Constructions, Wey- 



rauch's 164 



Pruning of Grapevines 55 



Purification of Bismuth 466 



Quackery in Electro-Magnetism 600 



Railway Brakes, tests of. 35, 252 



" Trains, revolving tail lights lor 507 



Recent Geographical Researches 86 



Relations of Ventilation to Draught 245 



" " the Atmosphere to Vegetation 162 



Relics, Indian, at Davenport, Iowa 208 



Religion and Science 114 



Removal of Stains from Woven Fabrics 377 



Report of the Crops of 1876 53 



Researches, Recent Geographical in the East 8ii 



Revival of the Sea Serpent Question 106 



Ribbon Fish 369 



Ricord's Cough Pills 439 



River Bluffs, peculiarities of 485 



Rheumatism, formula for 499 



Rumbold, Dr. T. F., the Functions of the Uvula.... 23 



Roberts, Rev. J. G., notice of Lecture by 190 



Rose Slips, how to Propagate 434 



Roses, indoors and out 433 



'* raised from seed 623 



San Juan Mines, review of the past season 641 



Sand Cracks, remedy for 127 



Sand Rocks of Colorado, fossils of the 564 



Satellites of Mars 379, 407, 495, 705 



Saturn, remarkable spots upon 240 



Saturn's Dark Ring 105 



Sawdust in Rough Casting 188 



Scarlet Fever, treatment of. 34, 180 



