INDEX TO VOL. V. 



Ship-Railway, The Isthmian .... 400, 605 

 Signal Service, Extending the Utility of . 357 

 Smith, Prof. H. S. S. — Solar Theories . . 499 

 Smith, Prof. T. B.— Birth of a Chrysalis . 710 



Sniabar 23 



Snow, Prof. F. H. — Friendly Insects . .171 

 Snydtr,.^Dr. J. F.— Who Were the Mound- 

 Builders? 661 



Solar Theories 499 



Stanley's Illness in Africa 426 



Steel, Varieties of 43 



Sternberg, Chas. H. — The Miocene Fauna 



of Oregon 416 



Sternberg, Chas H. — The Pliocene Form- 

 ation of Southern OrCf^on 491 



Sternberg, Chas. H. — The Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology at Harvard Col- 

 lege 492 



Sternberg, Chas. H. — The Niobrara Group i 

 Sternberg, Chas. H. — The Fossil Flora of 



the Dakota Group 243 



Sternberg, Chas. H. — Floating Stones. . 528 

 Stevens, Mrs. Flora Ellice — Colorado Sci- 

 entists 708 



Stone, Prof. Ormond — Peculiarities of the 



Comet of 1881 239 



Storms of June 9th to 12th, 1.881 . . . .158 

 Stout, Dr. Arthur B. — Contribution to the 



History of the Aleutian Isles 193 



Summer Drinks 294 



Sun, Interesting Facts Concerning the . . 28 



Sun, How to Weigh the . 689 



Surgery, Electricity in 61 



Tay Bridge, The New 543 



Templin, Rev. L. J.— Some^ Large Mem- 

 bers of the Wasp Family .' 494 



Tenure of Life 377 



Timber Line of High Mountains .... 565 



Tin, History of 83 



Tornadoes, Something About 99 



Transportation of the World's Wheat . . 57 

 Transportation, Railroad and Canal . . , 299 



Travel, Incidents of Early, in Missouri . 19 

 Tree Culture on Waste Lands .... 356 



Treeless Prairies of the West 207 



Trees, Absence of, on the Great Plains . 698 

 Trowbridge, Prof. S. H.- — Science Teach- 

 ing 367 



Trowbridge, Prof. S.H. — Prayer for Physi- 

 cal Healing 538 



Trowbridge, Prof. S. H.— A Plea for Nat- 

 ural History Museums 643 



Underground-Cables 543 



Uses of Saw-Dust 125 



VanHorn, R. T. — Influence of Altitude 



upon Character 15 



Varieties of Steel 43 



Varieties of the Electric Light 777 



Virus, Attenuation of 374 



Volcanoes, What They are Not 451 



Voyage of the Proteus to Lady Franklin 

 Bay 421 



Ward, Lester F., A. M. — Cause of the 

 Absence of Trees upon the Great Plains.697 



Wasp Family, Some Large Members of 

 the 494 



Water Gas 



340 



Weather Map and the Official Weather 



Indications 245 



Weather Prophet Farce, The 350 



West, Judge E. P. — Archaeological Ex- 

 ploration of the Missouri River .... 529 



Western Artists 572 



Wheat, Transportation of the World's . . 57 

 White Lead Works at Joplin City, Mo . 391 

 Whooping-Cough, Gas in Treatment of. 509 



Wind, Pressure of . . 170 



Winds, The, that Bring our Rains . . . 503 



Zoology 31, 492 



Zoology, Museum of Comparative, at Har- 

 vard College 492 



