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SCIENCE. — CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV 



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S., C. S. Alphonse Lavallee 10 



Schwatka, F- The implements of the igloo. 111. . . 81 



The Netschilluk Innuit. Ill 543 



Science calendar, 1885 584 



Sella, Quintino. Portrait 541 



Specialization in scientific study 35 



Standard time-tahle 581 



Stokes, A. C. A burrowing spider. Hi 114 



Stone, C. P. Navigation of the Nile. Map 456 



Sudan, the 530 



Sun and the planets, their comparative dimensions. III. . 582 



Sun-time and clock-time. Ill 578 



Temple, Sir Richard. The general statistics of the 



British empire. Address to the British association . . 214 

 Thomson, Sir William. Steps toward a kinetic theory 



of matter. Address to the British association. III. . 204 



Thomson, Sir William. Portrait 430 



Thomson's, Sir William, Baltimore lectures 437 



Thurston, R. H. The mission of science. Address to 



the American association 236 



The work of Octave Hallauer. Portrait 306 



Tide-table 577 



Tissandier, G. Navigation of the air. Ill 531 



Trelease, William. Blooming-times for flowers . . 573 



Trowbridge, John. Atmospheric electricity .... 164 



Thunder-storms 97 



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Trowbridge, John. What is electricity ? Address to 



the American association 232 



Two large sun-spots. Ill 460 



Tylor, E. B. How the problems of American anthro- 

 pology present themselves to the English mind . . . 545 

 Some American aspects of anthropology. Address to the 



British association 217 



University, an ideal, from an English point of view ... 95 



Upton, WinslOW. Weather forecasts 568 



Verrill, A. E. Evidences of the existence of light at 



great depths in the sea 8 



Visit of the British association 160 



Ward, L. F. Irrigation in the upper Missouri and Yel- 

 lowstone valleys 166 



Wider use for the libraries of scientific societies .... 335 

 Winchell, 1ST. H. The crystalline rocks of the north- 

 west. Address to the American association .... 238 



Work of the meridian conference 414 



Wormley, T. G. Microscopic science. Address to the 



American association 244 



Wurtz, Charles Adolph. Portrait 6 



Young", C. A. Pending problems in astronomy. Ad- 

 dress to the American association 192 



Sun-spots and the earth. Ill 564 



Ziwet, A. Euclid as a text-book of geometry .... 442 



Zoological researches of the Scottish fishery board . . . 478 



BOOK BEVIEWS. 



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Aborigines of Chile 423 



Alglave and Boulard's Electric light 463 



American coaster's nautical almanac 20 



Bergen's Development theory 311 



Burton's AB C of photography 464 



Caste in India in 1881 557 



Census report of 1880 119 



Clarke's Elements of chemistry 500 



Contemporary socialism 534 



Cotterill's Applied mechanics 406 



Coues's Key to North-American birds 86 



Eissler's Modern high explosives 278 



Exploring voyage of the Challenger. III. By 6. Brown 



Goode 116,176 



Face of the earth. Ill 535 



Fiske's Electricity 19 



Geological and natural-history survey of Canada .... 362 



Geology of south-eastern Pennsylvania 447 



Geology of the Susquehanna-river region 120 



Greene's Lessons in chemistry 500 



Heap's Report on the Paris electrical exhibition of 1881 . . 464 



History of American institutions 173 



Home rambles of an American naturalist 380 



Indian folk-lore and ethnology 499 



Indian sign-language 556 



Inhabitants of the Punjab 360 



Jagnaux's Chemical analysis 500 



Kennedy's Wonders of the railway 520 



Kolbe's Inorganic chemistry 500 



Languages of Africa. By H. H. 310 



Life of Ellen Watson 380 



MacLeod's Elementary zoology 311 



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Mammals of the Adirondacks . . ' 445 



Man's future 408 



Mental evolution in animals 16 



Merriman's Method of least squares 39 



Metallurgy of primitive nations 21 



Minor book notices 311, 463, 520 



Mosses of North America. By S. W. 446 



New-England orchids 498 



New volume of the tenth census 461 



New-York agricultural station 519 



Ohio agricultural experiment-station 279 



Origin of the Ohio mounds 151 



Palmistry 558 



Popular work on American natural history 536 



Pseudo-science 478 



Recent chemical text-books 500 



Resources of the United States 421 



Science in Manchester 555 



Scientific butter-making 407 



Sidgwick on fallacies 152 



Society for psychical research. Ill 40 



Synoptical flora of North America 300 



Tait's Heat 39 



Tait's Light 444 



Thompson's Dynamo-electric machines 520 



Turner's Samoa 378 



U. S. geological survey. Ill 62 



Value of sorghum 479 



Vidal's Photometric tables 311 



Virulence of cultivated anthrax virus 276 



Wiedemann's Electricity. By H. S. C. 87 



Wright's Adjustment of observations 520 



INTELLIGENCE FROM AMERICAN SCIENTIFIC STATIONS. 



Johns Hopkins university, 72. U. S. bureau of ethnology, 22. 



U. S. geological survey, 22, 43, 71, 184. 



RECENT PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 



Academy of natural sciences, Philadelphia, 23, 154, 185. 

 Brooklyn entomological society, 44. 

 Cincinnati society of natural history, 44, 263. 

 Engineers' club, Philadelphia, 24. 

 Minnesota academy of natural sciences, 73. 



New-York academy of sciences, 105. 

 New-York microscopical club, 25. 

 Philosophical society, Washington, 154, 186. 

 Torrey botanical club, New York, 45. 

 Trenton natural-history society, 72, 262. 



[Subsequent proceedings of some of the above societies are given in the advertising pages, Oct. 31 and later.] 



