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INDEX TO VOLUME XI. 



A. 



Aberoromby's Weather, 215. 



Academy of Sciences, National, 186, 195. 



Act ot God, 46. 



Acting, psycbology of, 99. 



Aerobioscope, a new, 197. 



Aerolites, orbits of, 198. 



Africa, Portuguese in, 193. 



African languages, 205. 



Agassiz Association, M assaehusetts Assembly of, 311 ; 

 New Jersey Assembly of, 286. 



Agnew, Coi-nelius R., deatbof, 195. 



Agricultural chemists, 311 ; Department, scientific 

 work of, 147 ; station at KnoxviUe, 193 ; survey of 

 the United States, 231 ; value ot the Mackenzie re- 

 gion, 231. 



Agriculture and late quaternary geology, 341. 



Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 172. 



Alaska, ethnographic collection from, 198. 



Alaskan rivers, 311. 



Alcohol and fevers, 104. 



Alden's Cyclopedia, 228. 



Aldis's Algebra, 107. 



Algonkin metalsmiths, 186. 



AUen, V. H. An unusual auroi-al bow, 302. 



Allen, H. Crania of Carnivora, 71. 



AUoys, formation of, 99, 100. 



Aluminium production, 286, 303. 



Amierican Association meeting, 328, 312. 



Ames, C. H. Wasp-stings, 24. 



Anderson's Medical Nursing, 285. 



Anemometers, testing of, 313. 



Animals, calls of, 70, 109. 



Antarctic regions, 68. 



Anthropologist, the American, 95. 



Ants, Interesting nests of, 286. 



Architects, French, 46. 



Architecture in the South-west, 257. 



Ai-gentine Republic, map of, 36 ; statistics, 313. 



Arkansas, 48. 



Arkansaw and Kansaw, 24. 



Arthur KUl Bridge, 313. 



Artificial arm and leg statistics, 240. 



Ashley's Early History of the English Woolen Indus- 

 try, 33. 



Ashmun, G. C. Worm in a hen's egg, 97. 



Association of American Physicians, Transactions of 

 the, 155. 



Atkinson's Study of Politics, 204. 



Atmospheric electricity, 396. 



Atomic weights, errors in, 139. 



Attention, morbid states of the, 130. 



Audubon monument, 159. 



Auroral bow, an unusual, 266, 289, 303. 



Australian Association ol^ Science, 311. 



B. 



Bacteria, thermal death-point of, 67. 



Bacteriology in medical schools, 5, 61, 133, 158. 



Bailey, B. H. S. Sense of taste, 145. 



Baird, Major Powell's address in memory of, 25. 



Balfour's Lectures on Bacteria, 84. 



Balkan Peninsula, people of, 40. 



Balloon, proposed vacuum, 360, 307. 



Ballou's Under the Southern Cross, 54. 



'Bannatyne's Republican Institutions in the United 

 States, 53. 



Barometric areas of the Atlantic, 70. 



Barrett, P. N. Economy of food, 208. 



Bartlett, Commander, retiring of, 243. 



Basque nation, 294. 



Batchelder, J. M. Temperature of the Saco River, 

 170. 



Battery, primary, magnesium in, 177; the Schan- 

 scheifc, 168 ; storage, 104 ; improvement in, 284 ; in 

 Brussels, 212 ; plates for, 154 ; tests of, 248 ; the Car- 

 ritee, 363 ; the DeBernado, 189 ; the Parbarky and 

 Sohenok, 168 ; the Gibson, 177 ; the Tudor, 307. 



Baur, G. Unusual dermal ossifications, 144. 



Beauchamp, W. M. Indian graves, 206 ; the snow- 

 snake, 36, 71, 167. 



Beer, use of, in the United States, 135. 



Belfleld's Manual Training and the Public School, 

 33. 



Bell, A. Graham, 352. 



Bell, A. M. Yolapuk, 39. 



B6rillon's Pedagogy, 316. 



Bessels, EmU, 319 ; death of, 169. 



Bicycle railway, 287. 



Bile, function of, 372. 



Binet and P6r§'s Animal Magnetism, 82. 



Birds, flight of, 9, 58. 



Bishop's Exact Phonography, 214. 



Black's Periosteum and Peridental Membrane, 216. 



Biackwell's German Prefixes, 204. 



Blizzard, the March, 287, 295 ; deaths in, due to as- 

 phyxia, 310. 



Blonde and brunette, 194, 230. 



Blood changes, 117; corpuscles, educating white, 337. 



Bloxam's Chemistry, 94. 



Boas, F. Calls for domestic animals, 109 ; explora- 

 tions in Canada, 64; psychophysic methods, 119; 

 vermin-eaters, 109. 



Boats, landing Eskimo, 134. 



Bonar's Letters of David Ricardo, 156. 



Books, disinfection of, 236 ; published in 1887, 36. 



Boyer, E. H. The common schools, 289. 



Bradley's Atlas of the World, 385. 



Braidwood, T. W. Thomas Braidwood, 12. 



Brake, an improved Prony, 212. 



Breath, the human, 141. 



Buel, R. H. Conspiracy of silence, 12. 



Buffaloes for Washington Zoological Garden, 240. 



Butler, A. W. The scientific swindler, 119. 



C. 



Canada, explorations in, 64 ; Royal Society of, 278. 



Canal, Nicaragua, 386 ; Perekop,288 ; Suez, tonnage 

 through, 289. 



Cancer, bacillus of, 44. 



Capitol, marble terrace for the, 183. 



Carnivora, crania of, 71. 



Carpet-beating in Paris, 264. 



Carr's Missouri, 274. 



Carr's Results in Pure Mathematics, 251. 



Cascade Range, geology of, 123. 



Case School of Applied Science, 81. 



Cat phenomena, 96. 



Cerebration, unconscious, 131. 



Chamberlain, A. F. Vermin-eaters, 109. 



Chamberlain's Catalogue of Canadian Birds, 142, 

 182. 



Chambers's Enoyclopajdia, 143. 



Chautauqua College, 252. 



Chemical laboratory of the Alabama Polytechnic 

 Institute, 136. 



Cheyenne, 34. 



Children, development of, 31, 50 ; growth of, 28. 



Cholera epidemic in Japan, 306 ; infantum, 313. 



Christmas customs, 218 ; in Newfoundland, 93. 



Church's Mechanics ot Materials, 193. 



Cincinnati natural history lectures, 8. 



Clayton, H. H. An unusual auroral bow, 389 ; rain- 

 fall on the Plains, 329 ; weather-predicting, 32, 56. 



Climatology, dictionary of, 169. 



Clodd's Story of Creation, 142. 



Coast and Geodetic Survey, field force of, 301 ; trans- 

 fer of, to the navy, 252. 



Cod from Iceland, 46. 



Cofl'ee, adulteration of, in Canada, 169. 



Color associations, 12 ; blindness. 39, 57. 



Comet seen April 12, 353. 



Composite portraits of the insane, 252. 



Conferences between basiness-men and working- 

 men, 171. 



Conn, H. W. Bacteriology in medical schools, 123, 

 168 ; germ theory in education, 5 ; significance of 

 variety and species, 263. 



Connecticut State Board of Health Report, 238. 



Consciousness, ante-chamber of, 123. 



Conspiracy of silence, 13, 37. 



Consumption and lung-expansion, 189 ; portaglous- 

 ness of, 201. 



Contagion in courts, 237. 



Copper, lead, and zinc, 211. 



Copyright Association, 46 ; international, 159, 305, 

 331, 365, 280. 



Corundum exhibited by G. F. Kunz, 289. 



Cones, E. Psychics, 86. 



Cox, C. F. Dr. Edward Tyson and the doctrine of 

 descent, 169. 



Criminal types, 217. 



Criminals, method of identifying, 147. 



Croton water, 310. 



Cure, the Swedish movement, 27. 



Current-registering instrument, 384, 



Curtis, G. B. Rainfall on the Plains, 194. 



Cutter's Anatomy, 191. 



Cyprus Exploration Fund, 157. 



D. 



Davidson, Dr. Thomas, memorial to, 157. 



Davis's Text^Book ot Biology, 384. 



Dawson, G. M. Geological observations of the Yukon 



expedition, 185. 

 Dawson's Geological History ot Plants, 303. 

 Day's Mineral Resources of the United States, 105 

 Death-penalty, 63, 217. 

 DeBary, Anton, death of, 85. 

 DeBary's Lectures on Bacteria, 45. 

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

 Dessoir's Bibliographie des Hypnotismus, 300. 

 Diamonds in meteorites, 118. 

 Dictionary ot Indian languages, 336. 

 Diphtheria carried by turkeys, 236; classification 



of, 108 ; in New York, 235. 

 Dixwell, J. Scarlet-fever, 194, 

 Doctors advertising, 135. 

 Dog, function of the cerebrum in, 200. 

 Dolbear, A._E. Globular lightning, 38 ; the Reis tel- 



Dolbear's Art ot Projection, 133. 



Dorsey, J. O. Arkansaw and Kansaw, 24 ; Chey- 

 enne, 34. 



Drawing, teaching of, 30. 



Drift north of Lake Ontario, 138. 



Drunkenness as a disease, 307. 



DuUes's Accidents and Emergencies, 239. 



Dynamite guns, 153. 



Dynamo, the Elckemeyer, 313 ; the Mordey alternat- 

 ing-cuiTont, 284 ; and steam turbine, 247. 



Dynamos, designing ot, 396. 



E. 



Earth, density of the, 116. 



Earthquake, report ou the Charleston, 171 ; report on 

 the Sonera, 159, 162 ; submarine, 205. 



Economic Association, 9 ; paradoxes, 172. 



Editors needed in Washington, 183. 



Education, commercial, 314; report of commissioner 

 of, 132 : report of the New York department of, 63. 



Educational Association, 70. 



Edwards's Butterflies of North America, 54, 277. 



Electric currents, heating effect of, 338 ; distribu- 

 tion, 167, 300 ; energy from carbon, 188 ; light con- 

 vention, HI ; measuring-instruments, 237 ; meter, 

 212 ; motors, 168 ; phenomena provoked l>y radia- 

 tion, 301 ; radiograph, 313 ; transformers, 141, 155. 



Electricity, chemical generators ot, 263 ; directly 

 from heat, 68 ; tor railroad-work, 200. 



Electro-motor, a new, 238. 



Electro-motors, 93 ; alternating-current, 273. 



Elliott, E. B., death of, 261. 



Emin Pacha, news from, 157. 



Emmons's Geology and Mining Industry of LeadvUle, 

 Colorado, 18. 



Energy, hypothesis of potential, 196. 



Eozoon Canadense, 146. 



Eskimo and Indian, 11 ; ring-finger, 24. 



Ethnographie, Archiv fur, 107. 



Ethnology, appropriations for Bureau ot, 365. 



Evolution in civilized man, 111, 113. 



Exhibition, the Three Americas, 303. 



Explosive gases and incandescent lamps, 284. 



Farini and Chavanne, 17. 



Farm-labor statistics, 379. 



Farnsworth, P. J. Classification ot diphtheria, 108. 



Fats, examining, 102. 



Field-parties of the national surveys, 226. 



Fish Commission, re-organization of, 337 ; work of, 



on the Pacific, 247 ; propagation, 235. 

 Fish-cultural station in Missouri, 301. 

 Fisheries of Norway, 312. 

 l?loods in New South Wales, 108. 

 Fluorine, isolation of, 19. 

 Foerste, A. F. Sections of fossils, 22. 

 Fog during May, 270. 

 Folk-Lore Society, 20 ; journal of, 240. 

 Pood, economy of, 208, 233. 

 Foot-and-mouth disease, 44. 

 Forbes's Lectures on Electricity, 156. 

 Forestry of Michigan, 35. 



Forests, influence of, upon climate of Australia, 233. 

 Fossil animal-tracks in Florida, 138. 

 Fossils, sections of, 23, 50. 

 Fungi, edible, 97. 



