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CONTENTS OF VOLUME IX. 



SPECIAL AETICLES, 



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Abbe, C. William Babcock Hazen 331 



Adanis,'j. F. A. Is botany a suitable study for 



young men ? 116 



Agriculture in England in 1886 249 



American oriental association . . . . . • 479 

 American society for psychical research .... 50 

 Armsby, H. P. Enrichment of the soil by cultiva- 

 tion of ' enriching crops ' 37 



Arrow-smith, R. Schools in Egypt . . . .276 



Asymmetry 620 



Bain on ultimate questions of philosophy . . . 620 

 Ballard, H. H. History of the Agassiz association . 93 

 Belfield H H. Manual training and public educa- 

 tion 372 



Bishop, S. E. The recent eruption of Mauna Loa . 205 

 Boas, F. Poetry and music of some North American 



tribes 383 



The study of geography 137 



Bowen, H. C The training of the faculties of judg- 

 ment and reasoning 68, 164 



British centenarians 98 



British commission on the depression of trade . . 197 

 Browning, O. The university extension movement 



at Cambridge 61 



Humanism 161, S74 



Realism 561 



Carpenter, "W. H. The study of language . . 572 



Carr, G. S. Competitive examinations . . . 466 



Channing, E. Aims of geographical education . 48 



Chapman, Evelyn. Siojd 269 



Clark, A. H. The American whale-flshery, 1877 - 86 . 321 



Coast tribes of British Columbia 288 



Color-blindness among railway-employe es . . .41 



Commissioner Hadley's second annual report . . 41 



Conditional liberation of prisoners 135 



Conn, H. W. Modem biology as a branch of educa^ 



tion 168 



Consanguinity and mental unsoundness .... 118 



Contagious diseases 17 



Co-operation on the continent of Europe .... 395 



Criticism of Pasteur 96 



Cruelty of old customs 310 



Currents in the Bosphorus 301 



Davis, W. M. Advances in meteorology . . . 539 

 Dessoir, M. Hypnotism in France . . . .541 



Discussion on arsenic-poisoning 219 



Distillery-milk report 548, 579, 602 



Dodge, D. K. Scandinavian studies in the United 



States 476 



Does education diminish industry 7 277 



Dutton, C. E. The submerged trees of the Columbia 



River 82 



Dutton, C. E., and Hayden, E. Abstract of the 

 results of the investigation of the Charleston earth- 

 quake 489 



Education in Uruguay 621 



Electric railroads in this country 431 



Exploration of the antarctic regions 453 



Exploration of the Welle 835 



Explosions in coal-mines 439 



Florida geological survey 446 



French lyc6e 170 



Gardner, H. B. Comparative taxation . . . 318 



Gatschet's ethnological maps of the Gulf states . . 404 



Government scientific work 51 



Greek element in English 173 



Health of New York during December .... 84 



Health of New York during January .... 237 



Hitchcock, C. H. The late eruption from Kilauea . 180 



Huffcut, E. W. English in the preparatory schools . 474 



Ice and icebergs 324 



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Imperial university of Japan 279 



Indiana earthquake 203 



Industrial education association 553 



International statistical institute 507 



Is beer-drinking injurious? 34 



Italian medical psychology 141 



J. J. Some miscalled cases of thought-transf errence 115 

 Laurie S. S. The respective functions in education, 



of primary, secondary, and university schools . 367, 463 



Lef t-handedness. — A hint for educators .... 148 



London College of preceptors 471 



Ludwig Wiese 73 



Magnetic and tidal work of the Greely arctic expedi- 

 tion 315 



Mason, O. T. A hairy human family .... 16 



Indian cradles and head-flattening .... 617 



Synechdochical magic 17 



The aboriginal miller 25 



The Hupa Indians: an ethnographic sketch . . 149 

 Meeting of the Economic aid Historical associations 507, 527 

 Mendenhall, T. C. The characteristic curves of 



composition 337 



Mindeleff, V. Origin of pueblo architecture . . 593 

 Mitchell, H. Circulation of the sea through New 



York harbor 304 



Natural gas 39,350 



Naturalists' meeting at Philadelphia .... 8 

 Parker, F. W., Henry, N.B., and Giffin, W. M. 



Training of teachers 564 



People of Central Africa 533 



Peter's attack on Pasteur 106 



Physical geography of Central Africa .... 531 



Political education 370 



Political geography of Central Africa . . . .517 



Position of Emin Pasha 505 



Prisoners of the Soudan 4 



Prohibition 105 



Prussian minister of instruction on female education . 370 

 Public instruction in New York state in 1886 . . .163 



Purity of ice 40 



Real-gymnasium 375 



Richet, C. General psychology, its definition, limits, 



and method 256 



Riviera earthquake 207 



Romanes on the higher education of women . . . 473 



Ruby-mines of Burmah 97 



Scientific phrenology 299 



Searsickness 525 



Sewall, H Biology and sociology 193 



Sexton, S. Effects of explosions on the ear . . 343 

 Shirreff Emily- Infant-schools and the kindergar- 

 ten . . 472 



Significance of geographical names 72 



Standard time and measures 7 



Stern, S. M. The natural method of teaching lan- 

 guages 68 



System of orthography for native names of places . 421 

 Taxation of personal property in France, Germany, 



and the United States 15 



Teaching of algebra 569 



Tendency of contemporary German thought . . 117 

 Thomas, S. industrial training in the public schools 



of Germany 567 



Tidal observations of the Greely expedition . . . 246 



Training of teachers . . 71 



Vegetation of Central Africa 523 



Walker, F. A., Ham, C. H-, and Love, S- G- 

 What industry, if any, can profitably be intro- 

 duced into country schools ? 365 



"Wey, H- D- Physical culture for criminals . . 578 

 When should the study of Greek be begun ? . . .172 

 White, J- S. The America! school of classical studies 



at Athens 354 



Youthfulness in science 104 



