Contents. 
cal Properties of Minerals, 1092; Petrographical News, 42, 274, 
yan 1008 ; Mineralogical News, 43, 276, 384, 903, 1006; New Min- 
erals, 45, 566, 900; Miscellaneous, 387, 903 
Botany. —A New Edition Wolle’s Desmids, 47 ; Botanical Definitions, og 
ngler 
Timely Words o the Nomenclature Question, 48; 
Prantl’s Waiuitichea Pa anil. 49; An International Sisk 
Congress, 279; N orth American shai Century, , 474; New 
York Fungi, 474; Seymour and Earle’s Economic Fungi, 475; H 
sted’s Weed. Seeds, 475 ; Morong’s earki e he Canadian Mosses 
and Lichens, 476; Caeoma nitens, 569; Our Naids, 569; Hough’s 
American Woods, 570; Allen’s Characeae of Pai 570; The 
Plants of the Bahamas, Jamaica, and Grand Cayman, 664; “The e Sapro- 
legniaceae of the United States, 665; The Coming Botanical Meetings 
at Madison, 738 ; ae Algae, 739; Check-List of New North 
American ta, 821; Shall we Decapitalize Specific Names? 821; 
The Use of Personal imi in Designating Species, 822; Botany at 
the Madison Meetings, 823; Kuntze’s Revisio Generum Plantarum, 
0 ws 
n 
Zoology.—Locomotion of Limpets, 51; Tunicate Studies, 51; Skeleton and 
Teeth of the Australian Dugong, 51; On the Cephalohumeral Muscle 
and the So-Called Clavicle of mers 52; A New Synaptomys from 
New Jersey, 53; A New Evotomys from Southern New Jersey, 54; 
The Cercaria Stage of Aiia, 151; Fecinidioi of the Eggs of 
phiuma, 154; On a New Spade-Foot from Texas, 155; The Pedal 
Skeleton ofthe Dorking Fowl,156; Allen’s Faunal hi of North Amer- 
ica, 282; The Madagascar Fauna, 282; The Nephridia of Amphioxus, 
283; The Position of the Marsipobranchs, 284; Degeneration of the 
Clitoris, 284; Sed German Zoological Society, 388; Eyes of sont 
tes, 389; Arachnida, 389; The Fishes of the Pacific Coast of Am 
North of Cerros ae 390 ; On the Mechanical Genesis of the Sais 
of Fishes, 391; Systematic Position of the Kiwi, 392; Mammals from 
the Galapagos Islands, 394; The New England Species of Balanoglos- 
sus, 477 ; Marsipobranchs, 477; Lateral Line of Siluroids, 477; Pro- 
dromus of a New System of the Non-venomous Snakes, 477; A Medusa 
from Lake Tanganyika, 571 ; The Air-Bladder and Weberian Ossicles 
in the Siluroid Fishes, 571; Age Modifications of the Mucous Lining 
of the Stomach of Ruminants, 572; A Deformity Inherited, 667; Pre- 
liminary Note on the ae of the Species Usually United under 
the Generic Name Sebastodes, 668 ; Batrachians of British India, 671; 
Washington and British soar Ornithology, 671; Notes on the 
Classification of the Cryptodira, 672; Two New Species of North 
American Testudinata, 675; Zoology of the Lower Saskatchewan River, 
741; Classification of the Actiniae, 829; Maioid Crabs in the National 
Museum, 830; A New Lancelet 830; Descriptions of Four New Ro- 
dents from California, 831; How Young Flickers are Fed, 1014; For- 
syth Major and Rése on the Theory of Dental Evolution, 1014; Effects 
Vil 
1008 
