CONTENTS OF VOLUME IV. 



SPECIAL ARTICLES 



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Abbott, C. C. The color-sense in fishes. Ill 336 



Hibernation of the lower vertebrates. Ill 36 



Agassiz association 487 



American association for the advancement of science. Pro- 

 ceedings of the section of mathematics and astronomy, 

 291; of physics, 296; of chemistry, 320; of mechanical 

 science, 322 ; of geology and geography, 325 ; of biology, 

 339 ; of histology and microscopy, 342 ; of anthropology, 



343; of economic science and statistics 346 



American association meeting in Philadelphia 189 



American historical association 312 



American oriental society 443 



American ornithologists' union 374 



American public health association 440 



Armsby, H. P. Special manures for particular crops . 57 

 Association of official agricultural chemists of the United 



States 312 



Babbitt, Franc E. Some implements of the Minnesota 



Ojibwas III 527 



Blake, W. P. The Carson-City ichnolites. III. ... 273 

 Blanford, W. T. The con-elation of geological forma- 

 tions. Address to the British association " 208 



Botanical club of the American association 358 



Branrwell, Sir F. J. The relation of mechanical science 



to other sciences. Address to the British association . 215 

 Branner, J. C. The pororoca, or bore, of the Amazon. 



Ill 488 



British association for the advancement of science. Pro- 

 ceedings of the section of mathematical and physical 

 science, 248; of chemical science, 254; of geology, 257; 

 of biology, 260; of geography, 279; of economic science 

 and statistics, 283 ; of mechanical science, 287; of an- 

 thropology 316 



British association, some distinctive features of the . . . 203 



Brooks, "W. K. A new law of organic evolution . . . 532 

 Carpenter, W. L. Education at the international health 



exhibition 353 



Cholera bacillus. Koch's reply to his critics 554 



Christmas greeting 563 



Civil engineers, meeting of, at Buffalo 11 



Committee reports of the American association 357 



Comparative study of the two associations . 271 



Cope, E. D. Catagenesis, or creation by retrograde 

 metamorphosis of energy. Address to the American 



association 240 



Dall, W. H. A Mussiilman propaganda 457 



Dana, C. L. A scientific study of lawn-tennis .... 473 



Danish international polar station. Ill 476 



Davis, W. M. Drumlins. Ill 418 



Temperature and its changes in the United States. III. . 569 



Tornadoes, and how to escape them. Ill 572 



Eaton, John. Scientific methods and scientific knowl- 

 edge in common affairs 246 



Eclipses, 1885. 10. ... : 578 



Eddy, H. T. College mathematics. Address to the 



American association 230 



Electrical conference, notes on the 313 



Electrical testing establishments 224 



Epidemic cholera and infectious diseases 144 



Excursion map of the vicinity of Baltimore 518 



Exploration of the Kowak River. Ill 551 



Exploration of Putnam [Kowak] River, Alaska .... 496 



Filhol,H. The echinoderms dredged by the Talisman. III. 102 



The lower forms of life dredged by the Talisman. III. . 171 



Flora of the high Alps 475 



Fol, H. The changes which fermentation produces in 



milk 405 



G., A. George Bentham. Portrait 352 



Greene, C. E. Shaft-sinking by freezing 443 



Greenwich observatory 61 



Hagen, H. A. Lawsuits against grubs and grasshoppers, 168 



Harvard physiological laboratory. Ill 128 



Higher education and the masses 53 



History of almanacs. Ill 492 



Hochstetter, Ferdinand von. Portrait 470 



Holmes, W. H. Burial-masks of the ancient Peruvians. 



Ill 10 



Hotel des Neuchatelois, and what became of it. III. . . . 360 



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How far a light may be seen under water 421 



Hubbard, G. G. Canal routes between the Atlantic and 



the Pacific. Map X'.'A 



Importance of chemistry in biology and medicine .... 454 



Indian languages of South America 138 



International polar stations. Map 370 



Johnson, A. B. North-Atlantic currents. Ill 415 



Kaiiristan 404 



Koch's work upon tuberculosis, and the present condition 



of the question ' . . . 59 



Kunz, G. F. Korean curios. Ill 172 



Langley, J. W. Chemical affinity. Address to the 



American association 234 



Late news from the north-west 474 



Lefroy, Sir J. H. Recent geographical discovery. Ad- 

 dress to the British association 211 



Lesley, J. Peter. Portrait 190 



Limitations of submai-ine telegraphy. Ill 438 



Lyon, D. G. Semitic notes 378 



Macfarlane, James. The formation of caiions and 



precipices 99 



Madison educational convention 112 



Map of the solar system. Ill 583 



Meridian conference . . . . • 376, 406, 421 



Merriam, C. H. The coming of the robin and other 



early birds 571 



The ' hood ' of the hooded seal, Cystophora cristata. HI. 514 



Minot, C. S. Death and individuality 398 



The organization of an international scientific association, 80 



Morning and evening stars, 1885 577 



Morse, E. S. Man in the tertiaries. Address to the 



American association 244 



Moseley, H. N. The physiology of deep-sea life. Ad- 

 dress to the British association 209 



Munroe, C. E. Recent observations on explosive agents, 13 



National conference of electricians 127 



New Bogosluff volcano 138 



New maps of the heavens. Maps 5S0 



New volcano of the Bering Sea. Ill 432 



Newcomb, Simon. Can ghosts be investigated? . . 525 



Psychic force 372 



North-African archeology 438 



Notices of ethnologic publications 15 



October meeting of the National academy of sciences . . 396 



Over-pressure in schools 497 



Overwork in German schools 136 



Paul, H. M. Edison's three-wire system of distribution. 



Ill 477 



The equatorial coude. Ill 101 



Krakatoa 135 



Measuring earthquakes. Ill 516 



A proposed new departure in hygrometry 137 



Radiant matter in an Edison lamp 374 



Peirce, C. S. The ' old stone mill' at Newport. III. . -312 



Philadelphia meeting of the American association .... 229 



Powell, J. W. Certain principles of primitive law . . 436 



Marriage law in savagery 471 



Psychical research in America 359, 369 



Railway-signals at the electrical exhibition 356 



Rathbun, R. American appliances for deep-sea inves- 

 tigation. — The dredges. Ill 146 



The same. — Trawls and tangles. Ill 225 



The same. — Miscellaneous, "ill 400 



The American initiative in deep-sea dredging 54 



Rayleigh, Lord. Recent progress in physics. Address 



to the British association . 179 



Rayleigh, Lord, president of the British association. Por- 

 trait 161 



Ridgway, Robert. The bird-collection in the U. S. 



national museum 496 



Riley, C. V. The insects of the year 565 



Roberts, I. P. Important agricultural statistics . . . 575 



A few pertinent hints to farmers. HI 576 



Rockwood, C. G., jun. Earthquakes in the United 



States and Canada 569 



Roscoe, H. E. Progress of chemistry since 1S48. Ad- 

 dress to the British association 206 



Ruby-hill mines, Eureka, Nev 459 



