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INDEX. 



[Vol. XI. 



Railways in South America, 20 ; transcontinental, 

 73 ; electric, 141 ; in Great Britain, 176. 



Railway-trains and the earth's rotation, 62, 110. 



Rainfall as influenced by forests, 3, 50 ; on the Plains, 

 99, 101, 158, 194, 218, 239, 240. 



Rain-gauge, self-recordiug, 97. 



Ration, a new military, 299. 



Re-action time for temperature, 250. 



Reed's Photography applied to Surveying, 190. 



Reformatory, annual report of the New York, 147. 



Retina, visual units in the, 18. 



Reversion, physiological, 79. 



Rhode Island geology, 99 ; survey of, 169. 



Richter's Inorganic Chemistry, 94. 



Ricketts and Russell's Skeleton Notes upon Inor- 

 ganic Chemistry, 215. 



Rio Doce in Brazil, 133. 



Robinson's Principles of Morality, 204. 



Rocks, cabinets of typical American, 282. 



Roofs as health-resorts, 207, 214. 



Roumania, Meterological Institute of, 277. 



Royal Society election, 312 ; foreign members of, 301. 



Rubies, artificial, 193. 



Sachs's Physiology of Plants, 190. 



Safford, F. Wasp-stiugs, 38. 



St. Bris' The Name of America, 264. 



St. Petersburg letter, 209. 



Sallis's Hypnotism. 216. 



Salmon ova shipped to Argentine Republic. 288. 



Salomons's Management of Accumulators, 70. 



Sauveur College of Languages, 252. 



Scarlet-fever epidemic at Heudon, 67; in London, 



36 ; report, 3, 14, 29, 117, 179, 194. 

 Scheele, Charles William, monument to, 36. 

 School statistics in the United States, 311. 

 Schoolhouses, sanitary supervision of, 51. 

 Schools, efSciency of engineering, 292 ; New York, 



243,255, 267, 278, 279; science-teaching in, 13, 75; 



the common, 289. 

 School-work exhibition, 147. 

 Sciences, the endowment of the new. 39. 

 Scientific meetings, eating and smoking at, 13. 

 Sea, peculiar colorings of, 251. 

 Seaman, W. H. Microscopes, 120. 

 Sea-siokness, 272. 

 Seidel's Industrial Instruction, 33. 

 Selwyn, A. R. C. Eozoon Canadense, 146. 

 Sergi's La Psychologie Physiologique, 34. 

 Serpentine, specimens of, 282 ; the MontviUe, 302. 

 Sewage, electrical treatment of, 141. 

 Seward, T. P. New York schools, 278. 

 Sex, eignlflcance of, 229 ; and consumption, 53. 

 Shad-hatching, 246. 

 Shaler, N. S. Mountain-building, 280. 

 Sheep, tape-worm among, 137, 261. 

 Shufeldt, R. W. New text-book on zoology, 58. 

 Silkworms, breeding wild, 35. 

 Silver, remonetization of, 286. 

 Skating, prehistoric, 33. 

 Slade, D. D. Osteological notes, 218. 

 Slang dictionary, 286. 

 Slater's Sewage Treatment, 155. 

 Smith, Chauncey, on education, 287. 

 Smith, T. Germ theory in education, 61. 

 Smith's Algebra, 191. 

 Smokers' vertigo, 272. 

 Snow, P. H. Rainfall on the Plains, 158 ; venomous 



lizard, 50. 



Snow-snake, 36, 46, 71, 109, 157. 



Solids, flow of, 153. 



Spain, prehistoric researches in, 32. 



Spectrum analysis theory, 234 ; photography and the 

 spectrum of carbon, 198. 



Speech, reflex, 349, 290. 



Spencer, J. W. History of Lake Ontario, 49. 



Sprague, C. E. Volapiik, 182. 



Sprague's Hand-Book of Volapiik, 69. 



Squier and Davis's Ancient Monuments, 95. 



Stanley, expedition of, 67 ; (ate of, 301 ; movements 

 of, 95 ; news from, 219, 243. 



Star of Bethlehem, 86. 



Stars, scintillations of, 277. 



Steele's Fourteen Weeks in Zoology, 58 ; Popular 

 Physics, 274. 



Stephen Island, natives of, 36. 



Stevens, W. LeC. Disparate vision, 241 ; the scien- 

 tific swindler, 86. 



Stewart and Gee's Physics for Schools, 142. 



Stleler's Hand-Atlas, 251. 



Stirling's Physiology, 205. 



Stockley, W. F., 218. 



Stone, G. H. Microscopical objectives, 157. 



Sturtevant, E. L. Vermin-eaters, 134. 



Sugar consistencies, 101. 



Swedenborg's The Soul, or Rational Psychology, 106. 



Swindler, the scientific, 86, 119, 144. 



Tanner's Memoranda on Poisons, 338. 



Target-shooting, 138. 



Taste, sense of, 145. 



Teeth, implanting of, 133. 



Telegraph-receiver, an ancient, .301. 



Telepathic theory, suggestion for the, 300. 



Telephone, the Reis, 37 ; lines, long-dtstance, 363 ; 



transmitter, the water-jet, 273. 

 Temperature of the Saco River, 170 ; re-action time 



for, 17. 

 Texas Geological Survey, 238. 

 Thermometer, new form of, 107, 

 Thomas, C. Ohio mounds, 254, 314 ; Squier and Da/. 



vis's Ancient Monuments, 95. 

 Tibet and Nepaul, 91. 

 Trance, alcoholic, 298. 

 Transvaal, 17. 

 Tree temperatures, 62. 

 Trelease, W. Hybrid diseases, 57. 

 Trinity formation of the South-west, 21. 

 Trowbridge, W. P. Flight of birds, 10. 

 Tuberculosis, bovine, IM. 

 Turkeys, roup among, 302. 

 Typhoid bacillus, 249 ; destroyed by boiling water, 



310 ; infection, 140 ; inoculation, 226. 

 Tyson, Dr. Edward, and the doctrine of descent, 169. 



U. 



Underwood's Native Ferns, 274. 

 University, a proposed American, 267. 



V. 



Vaccination statistics, 117. 

 Vacuum, conductivity of, 308. 

 Vancouver Island, 105. 



Van Dyck, F. C. Floating drops, 86 ; globular light- 

 ning, 110. 



Van Dyke's Literary Piracy, 94. 

 Variety and species, significance of, 253. 

 Vermin-eaters, 109, 134. 

 Vertebrate fauna of the Puerco series, 198. 

 Vescelius-Sheldon's Yankee Girls in Zulu Land, 203. 

 Vision, experiments in, 59, 71, 119, 317, 341, 353. 

 Visual area, 260. 

 Volapuk, 39, 182. 



W. 



Walker's Political Economy, 69. 



Ward, H. L. Is there a venomous lizard ? 31. 



Ward & Howell. Fayette County meteorite, 266; 



meteorite from Texas, 55. 

 Warner's The Children, 45. 

 Washington scientific societies, 267. 

 Washington's letters, 74. 

 Wasp-stings, 24, 38, 50, 63, 132, 243. 

 Watches, magnetization of, 308. 

 Water, drops of, 38, 63, 74, 86 ; (or Vienna, 326. 

 Water-spouts, 150 ; of April, 247. 

 Waters's Digest of Fawcett's Political Economy, 106. 

 Weather Bureau, control of, 291 ; predictions, 22, 49, 



56, 71, 267 ; prognostications, 280. 

 Welding, electrical, 273. 



WeUe, exploration of the, 234 ; source of the, 182. 

 West's Childhood, 106. 

 Wey's Training o( Criminals, 276. 

 What Shall We Talk about 7 107. 

 Wheat cultivation, 305 ; supply o( England, 85. 

 White Mountains, re(uge-hut in, 219. 

 White's European Schools of History and PoUticB, 



214. 

 Wilde's Ancient Legends o( Ireland, 337. 

 Wilder, W. L. Wasp-stings, 242. 

 Willis, B. Geology o( the Cascade Range, 123. 

 Will-power, 65. 



Wirick, C. M. Drops o( water, 62. 

 Wood, G. G. Washington's letters, 74. 

 Wood-expansion, 86. 

 Woodite, 312. 



Woodward's The Manual-Training School, 33. 

 Wooster, L. C. Jackson medals, 110. 

 Word-dea(ness, 350. 

 World-English, 286. 

 Worm in a hen's egg, 97, 108. 

 Worthen, A. H., death of, 240. 

 Wounds, grafts on, 140 ; of the abdomen, 299. 

 Wright, Carroll D., on labor statistics, 135. 

 Wright, R. R. Worm in a hen's egg, 108. 

 Wrist-guards, Indian, 121. 

 Wyckofl, WUliam C, death o(, 219. 



Y6llow-(ev6r, 283 ; in Florida, 283 ; InooiUation, 207, 



211. 

 Yellowstone National Park, 255. 

 Yeo's Physiology, 204. 

 Yukon expedition, 1887, 184 ; geological observations 



o( the, 185. 



Zanzibar, 17. 



Zoological garden In Boston, 87, 183 ; In Washington, 



27, 205 ; station at Ostend, 288. 

 Zuni mythology and religion, 136. 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



PAGE 



Audubon monument ........ 159 



Case School o{ Applied Science (2 flgs.) ..... 32 



Chemical laboratory of the Alabama Polytechnic lastitute (2 figs.) . 126 



Composite portraits of the insane (3 flgs.) ..... 253 



Electro-motors, alternating-current (2 figs.) ..... 93 



Greenland, sketch-map of west coast of .... . 259 



Keller, Helen ......... 160 



Kilima Ndjaro, sketch-map of the ...... 8 



Labrador (2 flgs.) . . . . . . . . .78,79 



Meteorite, Fayette County ....... 266 



Meter, direction-current ........ 281 



Obangi-Welle, map showing basin of the ..... 234 



Osteological notes (4 flgs.) . . . . , . . .218 



Plane-table sheets, distortion in ...... 166 



Pressure on ice, effect of ....... 134 



Rainfall at Lawrence, Kan., 1868-87 ...... 158 



Rain-gauge, relf-recording ....... 98 



PAGE 

 Rubles, artificial (2 flgs.) ........ 194 



Saco River, temperature of ...... . 170 



School of Mechanic Arts, Alabama Polytechnic Institute, plan of work- 

 shops at ........ . 173 



Snow-soake .......... 37 



Sprague streel^car electric motor ...... 68 



Squier and Davis's Ancient Monuments ..... 96 



Vision, experiments in (9 flgs.) .... 59, 60, 73, 217, 341 



Water-spouts off the Atlantic coast ...... 151 



Case School of Applied Science . 

 Ethnological map of south-eastern Europe 

 State Chemical laboratory. Auburn, Ala. 

 Yellowstone Park, map of 

 Yukon River, map o( the upper 



opposite 

 opposite 

 opposite 

 opposite 

 opposite 



EREATA. 



J 57, col. 1, 21st line from bottom, for ' tliallophytes ' read ' protophytes.' 

 67, " 1, 35tti line from top, for ^Herndon' read ' Heudou,' as also 



throughout the paragraph. 

 69, " 2, 27th line from bottom, for ' 12 ' read ' $1.' 



, col. 1, last line, for ' 108 ' read ' 118.' 



, " 1, 5th line from bottom, for ' homogen eous ' read ' homonymous,* 

 for * image ' read ' images,' and for ' it ' read * they.' 



