INDEX TO VOLUME I. 



Absorbent Qualities of Sea-Weed Charcoal 466 



Academy of Science of Kansas, 1877 450, 509 



Academy of Science of Kansas City, 



252, 317, 445, 509, 574, 638, 702, 766 



Academy of Science of Leavenworth, Kas., 640 



Academy of Science of St. Louis 624, 694 



Adulteration of Food 374 



Advice for Keeping Cool 297 



Aerolite, an Immeuse one in Calilornia 52 



Age of the Sun 630 



Agricultural College at Manhattan, Kansas 702 



Agriculture and Horticulture 53 



Agriculture, Bearings of Meteorology upon 241 



Alchemy, history of. 466 



Alcohol as an Article of Diet 182 



Alkaline and Boracic Lakes of California 225 



Almond Powder for the Hands 677 



American Archseological Congress 509 



American Exhibits at the Paris Exhibition, 1878... 761 



American luventive Progress 249 



American Hcieuce Association 318, 446, 509 



Ammonia, action of upon flowers 627 



Analogy of Sound and Light 98 



Analy.sis of Sweet Springs Water 186 



Anatomy and Physiology 500 



Ancient Cookery 614 



Ancient Earth-Works in Indiana 80 



Ancient Perfumery 569 



Anodyne Enema 499 



Antiquities of the United States 203 



Antlers of Deer, mode of development of 628 



Ants, the Honey-Making, of Texas and N. Mexico, 365 



Ants, Sir John Lubboikupon Ill 



Apparatus for Burninst Petroleum in Locomotives... 39 



Apparatus for Becording ths Earth's Motion 497 



Appearance of the Earth from the Other Planets... 669 



Archeology 2, 65 193, 531, 656 



Architectural Science Teaching 410 



Arctic, plan for the exploration of the 743 



Arizona, distinctive flora of 380 



Argentiferous Mud 270 



Around the World 701 



Arsenical Antidotes 676 



Asbestos 442 



Asbestos, a new use for 252 



Asphaltum, Bitumen, Petroleum, &c 209 



Assimilation of Silica by Plants 61 



Asteroids 235 



Astronomical Notes lor January, 1878 698 



Astronomical Notes — Mars 759 



Astronomy 101, 235, 407, 491, 513, 629, 663, 705 



Astronomy, Photography applied to 495 



Atmosphere in its Eelations to Vegetation 162 



Atmosphere, Geological relations of 605 



Atmospherfi and its Phenomena 710 



Auroral Display in Colorado 50 



Baldwin's Prehistoric Nations 370 



Bathing in Summer, hints about 296 



Bee Culture 54 



Bengal, Storm Wave in 47 



Berlin Pneumatic Dispatch 441 



Berthoud, Prof. E. L. — Engineering in the Pvoeky 



Mountains 253 



Berthoud, Prof. E. L.— A New Method for Illumi- 

 nating a Town 753 



Bismuth, Purification of. 466 



Bitumen, Asphaltum, Petroleum, &c 209 



Blue Lamp Chimneys 61 



Blue Glass Photography 250 



Blue Glass Question, both sides of the. 91 



Book Eeviews, 62, 128, 190, 256, 318, 370, 382, 447, 510, 



570, 632, 700, 764 



Boracic and Alkaline Lakes of Calilornia 225 



Bowel CoDjplaints and High Temperature 360 



Boyle, C. B., Cosmoscope 103 



Brain, eflTect of cutting off the Blood from 537 



Brass; directions for polishing 460 



Brazilian Meteoric Iron 628 



Broadhead, Prof. G. C, on Bitumen, Asphaltum, Ac 209 

 " " " Baldwin's Prehistoric Na- 

 tions 370 



" " " Meteorites and Shooting 



Stars 724 



" " " Thickness of Missouri 



Coal Seams 392 



" " " Missouri Iron Ores of the 



Carboniferous age 650 



" " " Growth of minerals 693 



Briish and Comb of the Hymenoptera 367 



Bryant's Popular History of the United States 764 



California, Earthquakes in fo 



" immense Aerolite in 52 



Canal, Isthmian, tor Ships 89 



Carbonized wood from Oregon, Mo 509 



Case, T. S., account of the Meteor of Dec 21, 1876.. .39 



" " notes on the Sea Serpent question 106 



" " " Stormsof June & July. '77 272 



" " " . Hot Springs of Arkansas... 254 



'• " gome objections to the Evolution theory 577 

 " " the Prevention and Extinguishment of 



Conflagrations 147 



" " the Mineral Regions of Southern Mis- 

 souri and Kansas , 385 



Catarrh, cause and treatment of. 347 



Causes of Explosions in Candy Factory in N. Y 703 



" " Mines 686 



Cement for Knives and Forks 570 



Central African Habitations 248 



Chemical Prizes 187 



Chemistry 60, 91, 147, 337, 429, 4.56, 749 



of Glass 463 



Chilblains, Vance's Cream for 677 



Children, Nearsightedness in 30, 593 



Chili, the Mineral Waters and Baths of 271 



Chlorate of Potash in Diphtheria 499 



Chloride of Calcium in watering streets 189 



Citric Acid in Diphtheria 499, 767 



Cleopatra's Needle 311, 509, 622, 767 



Closing remarks upon the First Volume of the Ee- 



viEw 766 



Cloud bursts in Nevada 51 



Coal Cargoes, spontaneous combustion in 56 



Cold Baths in Typhoid Fever 126 



Colognes for the sick room 178 



Colorado, Auroral Display in 50 



Coloring of Metals 612 



Condiments, value of 33 



Conflagrations, prevention and extinguishment of, 147 



Connection between Storms and Sun spots 393 



Consumption a disease of indoor life 498 



