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INDEX TO VOLUME X. 



A. 



Abbott, C. C. American caves, 180. 



Academy of Sciences, National, 334 ; list of papers 

 read at, ai9; meeting, 241. 



Act of God, 341, 364, 376, 299. 



Adams, H. C. Dodd's Republic of the Put\ire, 92. 



Adams's Public Debts, 154; Study of History in Amer- 

 ican Colleges, 283. 



Afghan life in Afghan sougs, 195. 



Africa, Central, 43 ; Junlter's travels in, 54 ; Kerr's 

 journey across, 331; map of, 81, 306 ; travels in, 231 ; 

 Wissmanu's expedition across, 270. 



Agricultural chemists, 113 ; experiment station, 

 Pennsylvania, 307 ; Science Society, 31. 



Alaska boundary-line, survey of, 191 ; letter, 114 ; 

 natural history notes on, 364. 



Alaskan Society of Sitka, 380. 



AUen's Common Sense Science, 20. 



Alsace-Lorraine, population of, 9. 



Alvord, H. E. Economy in management of soil, 'i"i. 



American Association meeting, 85 ; ofQcers, 94 ; Sec- 

 tion A, 85 ; Section B, 86 ; Section C, 98 ; Section D, 

 87 ; Section E, 87 ; Section F, 88 ; Section H, 88 ; 

 Section I, 99. 



Amery, 0. F. Nitrogen in manures, 34. 



Anderson, W. Some Western mummies, 146. 



Anderson, W. W. Tornado force, 333. 



Anderson's Conversion of Heat Into Work, 190. 



Andrews's Brief Institutes of General His;oiT, 190. 



Animals, Ideas of number in, 316. 



Antarctic region exploration, 193. 



Anthony and Brackett's Physics, 235. 



Anthropological treatises, 57. 



Anthropology in the American and British Associa^ 

 tions, 231. 



Ants, bees, and wasps, habits of, 330. 



Apparitions and haunted houses, 289. 



Arctic, notes from the, 333. 



Arctic America, 3. 



Aristotelian Society of London, 273. 



Arkansas, pronunciation of, 107, 130. 



Armor for land-defences, 134. 



Ashe, W. A. Freezing-point of sea^water, 36 ; gla- 

 cier-like movement in snow, 180 ; height and tem- 

 perature of Eskimo, 57 ; Hudson Bay route, 47 ; ice 

 and sea^water volumes, 24; sea-water ice, 95. 



Asia, Prejevalsky's journeys in, 62. 



Atkinson, E. The American physique, 239, 276. 



Atkinson's Margin of Profits, 127. 



Attention, mechanism of, 369, 293. 



Audubon's grave, 68, 108, 805, 877. 



Ayres, W. O., death of, 34. 



B. 



Baird, Spencer F., 97. 



Baldwin's Psychology and Education, 363. 



BaUlet, T. M. Examinations, 113.1 



Ballooning, 45. 



Banana, cocoanut, and India^rubbei*, 36. 



Barrows's Facts and Fictions of Mental Healing, 93. 



Bartley, E. H. DistUlery-milk, 59. 



Base-ball players, 65. 



Basques, the, 346. 



Bastian's Die Welt in ihren Splegelungen uuter dem 



Wandel des Volkergedankens, 384. 

 Bastin's Elements of Botany, 140. 

 Bausch, E. Microscopes, 310. 

 Beauchamp, W. M. Changes in Indian languages, 



851, 2&1. 

 Beer-trade statistics, 192. 

 Bell, R. Bock specimens from Cumberland Sound, 



287. 

 Bell's Principles of Elocution, 223. 

 BeU's Selkirk Settlement, 320. 

 Birds, flight of, 399, 321 ; sleeping on the wing, 388. 

 Bitumen in coal, 388. 

 Boas, F. Eskimo and Indian, 273 ; Nicai-agua Canal, 



188 ; sea-water ice, 118. 

 Bohon's Bau und VeiTichtuugen des Gehirns, 223. 

 Bones, ash in human, 179. 

 Botanical Club, 21. 

 Botany, Annals of, 238. 

 BotocudoSj 116. 



Bottomley's Mathematical Tables, 139. 

 Bowdltch, statue of, 33. 

 Bowditch, H. I. Cause of consumption, 71. 

 Bowen, H. C. British universities, 210. 

 Bower and Vinos's Insti'uction in Botany, 175. 

 Bowne's Philosophy of Theism, 215. 



Boyhood, savagery of, 173, 203. 



Bradwiu, G. Act of God, 299. 



Brain-growth and body-growth, 173. 



Brain- wounds, .30. 



Brashear, J. A., exhibition by, 319. 



Brazil, 3)3. 



Breathing, types of, 65. 



Brewer, W. H. Distillery-milk, 60. 



Bridgeman, Laura, 319. 



Brigham's Guatemala, 323. 



Brinton, D. G. Chronology of America, 76 ; Eskimo 

 and Iroquois, 300 ; rate of change in American lan- 

 guages, 274. 



Brintou's Ancient NaUuatl Poetry, 233. 



British Columbia, 231, 334. 



Browning, O. Aspects of education, 306, 353. 



Bruehl's Culturvolker Alt-Amerika's, 174. 



Bryozoa, study of, 325. 



Buel, R. H. Conspiracy of silence, 298. 



Bumstead, S. J. Study of logic, 256. 



Butler, N. M. Manual training in Norway, 355. 



Butler's Effect of the War of 1813, 30. 



Buzzards, sense of smell in, 319. 



Cabanne, C. Distillery-milk, 73. 



Canal between Bordeaux and Narbonne, 334. 



Carnelley's Melting and Boiling Point Tables, 103. 



Carpenter, W. L. University of New Zealand, 13. 



Caspian Sea, elevation of, 33. 



Catalogues, 104. 



Catamaran, a steam, 373. 



Caterpillar-cocoons, 32. 



Cato Major et LbbHus, 385. 



Cattle-plague, 321. 



Caves, American, 180. 



Cetti's fast, 100. 



Challenger Report, 44. 



Chamberlain, A. F. Eskimo and the Indian, 120, 



273, 323 ; Volapuk, 24. 

 Chamberlin and Salisbury's Drittless Area of the 



Upper Mississippi, 306. 

 Charuay's Ancient Cities of the New World, 200. 

 Chemistry, University Press publications in, 191. 

 Cheyruue, 339, 364. 



Children, false testimony of, 215 ; of New York, 197. 

 Children's miuds, contents of, .304. 

 Chinese folk-lore, 202 ; wall, 387, 323. 

 Chloroforming while asleep, 114. 214. 

 Cholera and cold weather, 246; and yellow-fever, 



181 ; at quarantine, 220, 230 ; bacillus, test for, 198; 



Calcutta outbreaks of, 203 ; precautions against, 



188. 

 Chrome as a poison, 58, 104. 

 Chronology of America, 76. 

 Clark, Alvau, 97. 



Classen's Analysis by Electrolysis, 191. 

 Climatologist, The, 139. 

 Cloud-heights, 46. 

 Coal-mines, statistics of, 45. 

 Coast Survey vessels, 57, 68. 

 Cohen's Practical Organic Chemistry, 138. 

 Coin-sales, 196. ' 



College, original research in, 109. 

 Colleges and schools. New England association of, 



202 ; of Ohio, Association of, 298. 

 Color-blind laws, 157. 

 Color-blindness, 121, 179. 



Columbia College, progress of, 353 ; report, 169. 

 Conn, H. W. Original research in college, 109; Ro- 

 mantic Love, 143. 

 Conspiracy of silence, 265, 298, 308. 

 Constance, Lake of, soundings in, 320. 

 Consumption, 30; and chest-expansion, 173: and 



evergreens, 93 ; cause of, 34, 71 ; cure of, 38, 99 ; 



grinder's, 197 ; treatment of, 114. 

 Contagion, flies as carriers of, 214. 

 Cook's voyages, relics of, 176. 

 Cooper's Animal Life, 198. 



Co-operation in England, 1 ; in Europe, 121, 161. 

 Copyright with England, 35. • 

 Corals, sections of, 252. 

 Corfleld's Treatment of Sewage, 116. 

 Cornell, electrical engineei'ing at, 208. 

 Corset, the, 2«1. 

 Coues, E. Flight of birds, 331. 

 Craig's Azimuth, 201. 

 Crampton, C. A. Sorghum-sugar, 327. 

 Cumming's Electricity treated Experimentally, 93. 



D. 



Darby's Nineteenth-Century Sense, 31. 



Davis, W. M. Classification of lakes, 143 ; study of 



geography, 131. 

 Deaths and the tide, 34. 

 De Bary's Comparative Morphology and Biology of 



Fungi, 175. 

 Decimal system in England, 13. 

 DeGarmo, C. German normal schools, .303 

 Delagoa Bay, 189. 

 Density of the earth, 104. 

 Dentition, mammalian, .300. 

 Derelict vessels, danger to commerce from, 365 

 Dialects, Romanic, 174. 

 Diamond, a North Carolina, 168. 

 Diamond-fleld in Kentucky, 140. 

 Diamonds, four large South African, 69. 

 Diller, J. S. Diamond-field in Kentucky, 140. 

 Diphtheria carried by the cook, 65. 

 Disinfectants, Report on, 55. 

 Dodd's Republic of the Future, 93. 

 Dolbear, A. E. Tornado force, 60. 

 Donaldson, F. Cause of consumption, 34. 

 Drake's Making of the Great West, 175. 

 Dreams, investigation of, 239. 

 Drought of 1887, 331. 

 Duck's brain, 126. 

 Dutch Literary Review, 303. 

 Dutton, C. E. Charleston earthquake, 10, 35. 

 Dutton's Mount Taylor and the Zufli Plateau, 317. 

 Dwarfish races, 173, 3,32. 

 Dynamite gun, 151. 



B. 



Ear-boxing, 35. 



Earthquake of Central Asia, 140; Charleston, 10, 35 ; 

 Sonera, 81 ; submarine, 177. 



Earthquakes, depth of, 33. 



Eclipse, total solar, of 1886, 9. 



Education, a rational, 13 ; aspects of, 206, 253; meth- 

 od applied to, 18 ; soientiflc, in England, 350 ; tech- 

 Educational Association, National, 37; indorsement 

 of Blair bill, 61, 132; council, a novel, 313. 



Edwards's Butterflies, 165. 



Electric light in mines, 317. 



Electrical exhibition in Ne* York, 8. 



Electricity in the earth, 72, 96 : loss of, 151, 308. 



Electroplating natural objects, 203. 



Ely, R. T. Adams's Public Debts, 164. 



Emin Pat*a, 68. 



Emminghaus'sDie psychischen Storuugen des Kin- 

 desalters, 199. 



English science, 193. 



Entomological Club, 20. 



Error, natural history of, 41. 



Eskimo, 150 ; and Indian, 120, 273, 287, 332 ; and Iro- 

 quois, 300 ; height and temperature of, 57 ; origin 

 of, 116 ; tribes, 371, 388. 



Ethnographical museums, 345. 



Ethnographic, Internationales Archlv fur, 339. 



European literature in America, 309. 



Evolution, what American zoologists have done for 

 73. 



Examinations, school, 109, 112. 



Explosion record, 320. 



Explosives, modem, 305. 



Eyesight of children, testing of, 364. 



Factory, German, statistics, .330. 



Fechner, Gustav Theodor, death of, 301. 



Ferrel, W. Theoretical meteorology, 48. 



Fibre industry of Burma, 202. 



Filth-diseases, 36. 



Finck's Romantic Love, 100. 



Fish, distribution of, 56; frozen, 308; propagation, 



Fish Commission steamer Albatross, movements of 

 264. 



Foerste, A. F. Bryozoa, 225. 



Polk-Lore Society, 319. 



Foods and Food Adulterants, 138 ; in winter, 173. 



Fossils, chalcedonizefl, 156 : sections of, 180. 



Fourth of July casualties, 85. 



Fowler and Wilson's Principles of Morals, 31. 



Frazer, P. Geological questions, 35; Geologists' Con- 

 gress, 119. 



