iv Contents. 
Microscopy at the International Exhibition.............. R. H. Ward 725 
- Mimicry = deca ea ed by Natural Selection F. Müller 584 
Missing Link betw the Vertebrates and the Inverte- : 
brates, G. T. Brettany 598 
gonds in Faa Cockroaches and Earwigs fold their Wings, 
Samuel H. Scudder 521 
jan by Fission in Stentor Miiller ren 275 
Museums, The History of the oe and Husain of.. i A 80, 185 
Naturalist, A Neglected....... H. E. Copeland 469 
New Zealand Flax J. C. Russell 18 
m ao in the United States during the Last Cen- 
tury, Progress of. J. A. Allen 536 
Phyllotaxis, A Popular Explanation ell be ag un- 
derstand Botan: ) of tk Chauncy Wrig: 326 
Polar Regions, On the Former Climate at E. Nordenskidld 852 
sips “iia Ancient, of Colorado, ou: cua. peti 
New Edwin A. Barber 449 
Plain, “ae and Forest J. D. Whitney 577, 656 
Primiti ive Man T. Wyman 278 
Remarkable oe History and its Meaning, A............. Ky Brooks iai “Fy A deca. 641 
ply to den d Ai perata y “ Availability of certain Bar- 
tram: ames in Ornith Elliott Coues 98 
Rock famaotpteols of eee “Anco a ” of Colo- 
rado, Utah, New Mexico, and Ari f .. Edwin A. Barber 716 
Song $ e Proper Specific Nan of thas: ves. David min 17 
Spontaneous ‘Geheration, Professor Eann Experi 
ments on, and Dr. Bastian’s Positio . <... W. H. Dallinger 415 
Summer Birds of the White Weniaiir Region, The. RN H. D. Minot 75 
—e Ants, The Probable Danger from...............00- . Hagen 401 
White Egrets, The Occurrence of, at pidaia, New Jersey ..C. E Abbott 478 
Recent Li 
A fe vy cients ns on Tree-Planting, 295 ; Anderson’s nem! to Momien, 861; Anderson’s 
Norse Mythology, 229 ; Appalachia, 622 ; Archives of the National Museum of Brasil, 623 ; Baird’s 
nnual Record of Science for 1875 9 rong peasant 296 ; Brinton’s Myths of mn 
New ; 2 er in N Cook’s Manual of the , 621; Cope 
orway, 39; 
Check-List of North American Batrachians oa Reptiles, ao Porina Movements and hats 
739 ; Dichog- 
of Climbing Plants, 171; Davies’ Preparation and Mou nting 
amy in Plants, (Di Pflanzenwelt Pr egens, 295; Bawa mi Butterflies ‘of North Anaoa, 
108; Fritsch’s Birds of Europe, 485 ; Hassard’s Flora 1 Decorations, 298 ; Hayden’s Report on the 
Béblogy of Solorado, £ 428;  Hentz’s Siders of the United fisia 170; Huxley and Martin’s Biol- 
739 ; 
ogy, 228, y 362; Jordan’s Manual of 
United States, 739 ; Kidder’s N l History of Kerguelen Island, 105; Kneeland’s American in 
celand, 296 ; Manton’s oath 623; hall's a aes tae PAPER 169; Morse’s First 
Natural History of Selborne, 229 ; Wilson’s Prehistorie n, 682; Wyman’s pasihan 
Mounds of the St. John’s River, Hei, 165. 
L Nores. 
Doto iia of the Fuchsia, 110; Alfred W. = = on the Growth of the Flower- 
Stalk of the ple evra 683; Alpine Plants of the tains, 745; Anthers in Tril 
White lium 
Fai $ Apie tran with Coral-li ke Root, 870; Arbeiten des a Institut in Würzburg, 301: 
; As tan- 
al Paper In event Pasi 40, 113, 174, 235, 300, 971,428,492, 555 = beet phd dk et 
I, 024; vulgaris, the Ling or Heather, re- 
discovered in Massachusetts, 489 ; mas eed Ala thera 445 Dichogamy in Epi lobium um angus- 
44; E 
ical Prizes, 174; Botany of California, V: 
tifolium, 43; em g in Cl 
lants 
Denir a ni id 
aytonia, 
n Francisco Bay, 110 ; Fungi heaped up in Pines by PAP e. ‘ 
f Light and Heat orf T ion in Plants, 623; — 
