GENERAL INDEX 



VOLUMES I-X OF THE FOURTH SERIES. 



jy In the references, heavy-faced type is used for the numbers of the volumes. 



Note.— The names of minerals are iuscrted under the head of Minerals; all obituary 

 notices are referred to under Obituary. Under the heads Botany and Botan. "Works, 

 Chemistry and Cheji. Works, Geology, Kocks, the references to the topics in these depart- 

 ments are grouped together ; in many cases the same references appear also elsewhere. 



Abbot, C. G., longitudinal aberra- 

 tion of prisms, 2, 255. 



— observations at the Washington 

 Astropkysical Observatory, 9, 214 ; 

 10, 470. 



Abney, W. de W., color sensations 

 in terms of luminosity, 1, 464. 



Absorption of gases by glass powder, 

 Miilfarth, 10, 482. 



— infra-red waves by rock salt, etc., 

 Rubens and Trowbridge, 5, 33. 



— of light in a magnetic field, Ehigi. 

 7, 239. 



Academy of Sciences, National, 

 meeting at Boston, 1897, 4, 479 ; 

 New Haven, 1898, 6, 512; New 

 York, 1896, 2, 462 ; 1899, 8, 474 ; 

 Providence, 1900, 10, 478; Wash- 

 ington, 1896, r, 493 ; 1897, 3, 426 ; 

 1898, 5, 396 ; 1899, 7, 401 ; 1900, 9, 

 393. 



Report for 1897, 5, 397. 



— Washington, Proceedings, 9, 394. 

 Acetylene, see CHEMISTRY. 

 Acoustics, researches in, Mayer, i, 



81. 



— See Sound. 



Actinometers, electro-chemical, use 

 of, Rigollot, 5, 228. 



Action at a distance, Drude, 4, 390. 



Activity, Optica], and Chemical Com- 

 position, Landolt, 10, 76. 



Adams, F. D.,new alkali hornblende 

 and titaniferous andradite, Ontario, 

 1, 210. 



— Grenville and Hastings series of 

 Canadian Laurentian, 3, 173. 



— flow of marble under pressure, 10, 

 401. 



Adams, G. I., extinct Felicias of North 

 America, 1, 419 ; 4, 145. 



Adams, J. S., Law of Mines and Min- 

 ing in the TJ. S., 6, 436. 



Aerolite, see Meteorite. 



Africa, Origin of Culture in, Frobe- 

 nius, 7, 80. 



Agassiz, A., Great Barrier Reef of 

 Australia, 2, 240. 



— coral reefs of the Fiji group, 5, 

 113 ; 8, 80. 



— explorations of the "Albatross" 

 in the Pacific, 9, 33, 109, 193, 369. 



— Tertiary limestone reefs of Fiji, 6, 

 165. 



Agricultural Experiment Stations of 

 the Univ. of California, report, 1, 

 158. 



Air, composition of expired, Billings, 

 Mitchell and Bergey, 1, 154. 



— diffusion through water, Barus, 9, 

 397. ' 



— liquid, density, Ladenburg and 

 Krugel, 9, 64. 



— stratified brush discharges in, 

 Toepler, 7, 67. 



— See CHEMISTRY. 

 Air-thermometer bulb, measure- 

 ment, Cady, 2, 341. 



Air-waves, observation of, Emden, 

 5,70. 



Alabama, Geological Survey, publi- 

 cations, 4, 393 ; 9, 69. 



— iron-making in, Phillips, 7, 398. 

 — : report of the valley regions, Mc- 



Calley, 3, 350. 

 Alaska, Klondike gold fields, 5, 305; 

 Cape Nome gold region, 9, 455 ; ex- 

 plorations in, 10, 398. 



— Carices in, Holm, 10, 266. 



