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vill CONTENTS. 
NUMBER CLVI. 
Art. XLVIII.—Some points in Botanical Nomenclature ; 
view of “ Nouvelles Remarques sur la Nomenc clature 
ponaeh par M. Alph. de Candolle,” Geneva, 1883 ; 
SA 
aed —Pre-Carboniferous Strata in the Grand Cafion of the 
Colorado, Arizona; by C. D, Waxcorr 
Fx Conwibutians to Meteorology; by Kuss Loose. With 
‘lates, I, SAARI UN ei ay ing oer arg gree ae 
LL—A Brief Study of Vesta; by M. W. Harrineron,. ---- 461 
LIL—New Form of Bienineé Cell, and some Electrical dis- 
coveries made by its use; by C. E. Frirts, --....----- 465 
ene "ola Ischian Harthquake of July 28, 1883 ; by C. G. 
RWG, A, So es we ee ee 473 
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SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
Chemistry and Physics.—A method a heat radiation from the luminous 
and actinic radiations, VAN AsscHE, 476.—Telluric oxygen lines, EGOROFF: 
A new capillary electrometer, yrs Hall’s phenomenon, Rieu, 477.—Note 
on the rises theory, J. CRoLL, 478. 
Geology and Ss History.—Geology of the Comstock Lode and the Washoe 
District, G. EOKER, 479.—U. S. Geological Survey: Field Work in the 
Great Basin, 492. —Vol. VII of the Geology and Paleontology of Illinois: 
, C: 
otes on — sare Topaz locality, R. T. Cross, 484 34.—Jeremejeffite and Tichwaldite, 
485.—Mineralogical Notes, EH. CLAASSEN: Phytogeogenesis, O. Kunze, 486.— 
on ee of t ey Phzenogamous and Vascular Cryptogamous Plants of Worcester 
Massachusetts, J. Jackson, 487. 
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Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence—Ice of Greenland and the antarctic, J. 
CROLL, <i —National Academy of Sciences, 489,—Signal Service Professional 
Papers, 49 
Obituary.—JouN LAWRENCE LeCon1E, LeonakD D. GALE, 490. 
INDEX TO VOLUME XXVI, 491. 
