INDEX TO VOLUME IV. 



(r** Names of contributors are, printed in small capitals. 



Abbe, C, on atmospheric electricity and 



earth-currents, 314. 

 Abbott, C. C. Color-sense in fishes, ill. 

 336 ; hibernation of the lower verte- 

 brates, ill. 36. 

 Abbott, C. C, on hermit toad, 72; Nat- 

 uralist's rambles about home, reviewed, 

 380; Scaphiopus solitarius, 262. 



Abbott, Edward. Swarming insects, ill. 

 79. 



Aboriginal American languages, 522. 



Academic distinctions to Americans, 47, 

 78. 



Acadian basin in American geology, 258. 



Acids, complex inorganic, 254. 



Adams,F.,onapatitbringerin Canada, 258. 



Adams, J. C, on moon's latitude, 294; 

 Newton's theory of atmospheric refrac- 

 tion, 295; obliquity of ecliptic, 295. 



Adirondack^, mammals of, 445. 



Aeronautics, discovery in, 464. 



Afghanistan, oil-bearing strata in, 266. ' 



Africa, archeology of, 438 ; expedition to, 

 449 ; languages of, 310. 



African race in United States, 222. 



Agassiz, Alexander. Phosphorescence 

 in the deep sea, 270. 



Agassiz association, 487. 



Agricultural chemists, association of, 312; 

 convention of, 30; experiment-stations, 

 scope of, 508 ; work of, 333 ; station, New- 

 York, 519; statistics, 575. 



Ainos, graves of, 503. 



Air, navigation of, ill. 531 ; velocity of, 253. 



Alabama, cretaceous phosphates in, 78; 

 weather-signals, 464. 



Alaska coast-pilot, ill. 561 ; new river in, 

 539. 



Albatross, winter expedition of, 481. 



Alcohols, production of, 30. 



Alden, G-. I., on training for mechanical 

 engineers, 323. 



Algerian coal, 267. 



Alglave and Boulard's Electric light, re- 

 viewed, 463. 



Algonquin legends, 499. 



Allen', A. H., on valence, 321. 



Allen, J. A., on faunal areas, 375. 



Almanacs, history of, ill. 492. 



Almucantar, 293. 



Alps, flora of, 475. 



Altitudes, dictionary of, 481. 



Aluminium, soldering, 332. 



Amazon, pororoco of, ill. 488. 



America, geological maps of, 382; psychi- 

 cal research in, 359, 369. 



American anthropology, aspects of, 217; 

 problems of, 545; appliances for deep- 

 sea investigation, ill. 146, 224, 400; as- 

 sociation for the advancement of science, 

 endowment of research by, 221; meeting 

 of, 1886, in London, 298; meeting of, in 

 Philadelphia, 2, 189, 192, 229; addresses 

 to, 229; botanical club of, 358; chemical 

 section, 76, 107; circular, 107; committee 

 reports of, 357; delegates from foreign 

 societies to, 140; economic science and 

 statistics section, 121; eminent visitors 

 to, 139; mechanical science section, 187; 

 reports of proceedings of, 291, 320, 339; 

 success of, 269; members of, 141; offi- 

 cers of, for 1885, 298; organization of, 

 221 ; coaster's nautical almanac for 1884, 

 reviewed, 20; contributions to memorials 

 of European scientific men, 483; explo- 

 rations, 110; geological railway-guide, 

 396; historical association, 75, 301, 312; 

 initiative in methods of deep-sea dredg- 

 ing, 54; institutions, history of, 173; 



languages, 522; classification of, 317; 

 natural history, 536; naturalist, rambles 

 of an, 380; oriental society, 443; ornithol- 

 ogists' union, 374; pearls, 368, 470; per- 

 manent railway, 288; public health asso- 

 ciation, 440; science, discrediting, 303; 

 scientific work, credit to, 301 ; society of 

 civil engineers, meeting of, at Buffalo, 

 11; students, interests of, 141; tribes, 

 396. 



Americans, foreign academic distinctions 

 to, 78. 



Amia, serrated appendages of throat of, 

 511. 



Amphibian brain, 340, 343. 



Anaesthetic, new, 468; new administration 

 of, 411. 



Andesite from New Bogosloff volcano, 

 524. 



Andree's Metallurgy of primitive nations, 

 reviewed, 21. 



Andrews, Horace. The prime meridian, 

 368. 



Animal intelligence, 16. 



Animals, marine, recognition of time by, 

 429; mental evolution in, 16. 



Annelid jaws, fossd, 263. 



Anthracite-bm-ning locomotive, 290. 



Anthrax virus, virulence of cultivated, 276. 



Anthropological discoveries in Canada, 

 318; section of British association, 46. 



Anthropology, American, 545; aspects of, 

 217. 



Antiquities from Cyprus, 364. 



Apatitbringer in Canada, 258. 



Apes, anthropoid, 339. 



Apprenticeship question, 347. 



Archean rocks, 259. 



Archeology, African, 438; prehistoric, 469. 



Archibald, I)., on Krakatoa committee, 

 253; on velocity of air, 253. 



Arctic expeditions, 409; exploration, 77, 

 93; literature, 366. 



Arizona, topographical maps of, 188. 



Armsby, H. P. Special manures for par- 

 ticular crops, 57. 



Art in shell, 26. 



Artesian borings, 268. 



Arthur, J. C, on nature of gumming, 359. 



Asiatic exploration, 328. 



Asserson, P. C. on Teredo navalis, 12. 



Association of official agricultural chemists 

 of the United States, 312. 



Associations, comparative study of Brit- 

 ish and American, 271. 



Asteroid, new, 382; ring, 292. 



Astronomy, pending problems in, 192. 



Atkinson, E., on rate of wages, 283. 



Atlantic currents, 561 ; Ocean, level of, 326. 



Atmosphere, obscurity of, 94. 



Atmospheric electricity, 164. 



Atomic weights, 523. 



Atwater, W. O., on assimilation of nitrogen 

 by plants, 322; chemistry of fish, 321; 

 nutrients in foods, 347. 



Auchincloss, W. S., on balancing-machine, 

 293. 



Auroras, artificial, 465. 



Australasian association for the advance- 

 ment of science, 522. 



Authorship, recognition of, in publications 

 of signal-service, 467. 



Automatic sprinkler system, 291. 



Axes, 344. 



Babbitt, Franc E. North-eastern and 

 north-western Indian implements, 33; 

 some implements of the Minnesota 

 Ojibwas, ill. 527. 



Babirussa tusks from Indian grave, 34. 

 Bacterium, comma-shaped ; 92. 

 Bad seeing, 94. 



Bailey, on Acadian basin in American ge- 

 ology, 258. 

 Baird, S. F., bibliography of, 45. 

 Baker, B., on Forth Bridge, 287. 

 Balancing-machine, 293. 

 Baldwin, Henry. Abnormal form of 



Trillium grandiflorum, 352. 

 Baldwin's Orchids of New England, re- 

 viewed, 498. 

 Balloon ascensions, map, 299. 

 Baltimore, map of vicinity of, 518. 

 Barnes, C. R., on fibro-vascular bundles in 



Pinus sylvestris, 358. 

 Barnett, J. D., on anthracite-burning loco- 

 motive, 290. 

 Barrande, memorial tablet to, ill. 139. 

 Bartlett, J. H., on steam-heating, 290. 

 Bassalian fauna, 223. 



Bassnett's True theory of the sun, re- 

 viewed, 478. 

 Batchelder, J. M. The lamprey as a 



builder, 469. 

 Bate, C. S., on distribution of Crustacea, 



260. 

 Beal, W. J., on torsion of leaves, 340. 

 Beatricea, 341. 



Bell, A. Gf., on deaf-mutes, 346; possible 

 method of communication between ships 

 at sea, 296. 

 Bell, A. Melville. Book-postage in the 



United States, 351. 

 Bell, Louis. Temperature of the sphe- 

 roidal state, 5. 

 Bennett, W. Z. A wider use for scien- 

 tific libraries, 368. 

 Bentham, George, portrait, 352. 

 Bergen's Development theory, reviewed, 



311. 

 Bering Sea, new volcano of, map, 432. 

 Berlin academy of sciences, 465. 

 Bessey, C. E., on Desmodium sessilifoli- 



um, 358. 

 Beyer, H. Gh, on Lingula, 343; oxygenated 



and unoxygenated blood, 339. 

 Bianchi, unfavorable reports from, 366. 

 Bibliographical work in scientific fields, 



31. 

 Bibliography of meteorology, 449 ; of 



physical and historical writings, 450. 

 Biological problems, 339. 

 Bird's Higher education in Germany and 



England, 502. 

 Bird-collection of U. S. national museum, 



496. 

 Birds, coming of, 571; migration of, 374; 

 nomenclature of, 265; North- American, 

 86. 

 Bismarck family, 425. 

 Blake, W. P. The Carson-Citv ichno- 



lites, ill. 273. 

 Blanford, W. T. The correlation of 



geological formations, 208. 

 Blood, oxygenated and unoxygenated, 339. 

 Blooming-time for flowers, 573. 

 Bogosloff volcano, 13S; andesite from, 



524. 

 Bolton, H. C. See Julien, A., and Bolton, 



H. C. 

 Book notices, minor, 311, 463, 520. 

 Borneo, natives of, 332. 

 Borum, C. The zero meridian of longi- 

 tude, 32. 

 Botanical club of American association. 



358. 

 Botanists, value of time of, 301. 

 Bot-flies in a turtle, 511. 



