598 



SCIENCE. — INDEX TO VOLUME IV. 



Bottomly, J. T., on loss of heat by radia- 

 tion, 250. 



Boulard. See Alglave and Boulard. 



Bourdi lion's Report of the census of Ben- 

 gal, 1881, reviewed, 557. 



Bourne, 8., on interdependence of portions 

 of British empire, 286. 



Bramwell, Sir F. J. On the relation of 

 mechanical science to other sciences, 

 215. 



Branner, J. C. The pororoca, or boi*e, 

 of the Amazon, ill. 488. 



Brashear, J. A., on production of optical 

 surfaces, 323. 



Brass-plating, 465. 



Brazilian port, 268. 



Brewster, W., on ptarmigan, 375. 



Brinton, D. G. Indian languages in South 

 America, 159. 



Brinton, D. G., on aboriginal American 

 languages, 522 ; North- African arche- 

 ology, 438. 



British association for the advancement of 

 science, distinctive features of, 203; hon- 

 orary membership of, 155; meeting of, 

 at Montreal, addresses at, 203; anthro- 

 pological section, 46; appropriations by, 

 263; aspects of, 157; delegates to, 188; 

 effect of, on Canadian science, 221 ; emi- 

 nent men at, 139, 186; geological section, 

 73; Lord Rayleigh's address before, 179; 

 prominent mathematicians at, 121; re- 

 port of proceedings of, 248, 279, 316 ; visit 

 of, to America, 160; Empire, interde- 

 pendence of portions of, 286; in North 

 America and Australia, 285 ; statistics 

 of, 214. 



Britton, N. L., on New-Jersey flora, 358. 



Brook, G., jun., on teleostean eggs, 340. 



Brooks, W. K. A new law of organic 

 evolution, 532; the recognition, by ma- 

 rine animals, of the hour of the day, 429. 



Buchanan, A. II. Time without instru- 

 ments, ill. 51. 



Buckland's Record of Ellen Watson, re- 

 viewed, 380. 



Building-stone collection of U. S. national 



museum, 505. 

 Bureau of physical standards, 314 ; of 



scientific information, 108. 

 Buruess, Edward. A wider use of scien- 

 tific libraries, 396. 

 Burton's A B C of modern photography, 



reviewed, 464. 

 Business depression, cause of, 348. 

 Butterflies' wings, preparation of, for al- 

 bums, 26. 

 Butter-making, scientific, 407. 



C, H. S. Wiedemann's Electricity, re- 

 viewed, 87. 



Calendar, floral, 574; Science, 1885, 584. 



Calorific power of sun's rays, 30. 



Camera, vertical, in photography, 5. 



Canada, anthropological discoveries in, 

 318; earthquakes in, 569; geological and 

 natural-h^tory survey of, 362; light- 

 house system,' 290. 



Canadian' finances, 285; Pacific railway, 

 289; science, stimulus to, 221. 



Canal, Corinth, 268 ; routes between Atlan- 

 tic and Pacific, map, 434. 



Canons, formation of, 99. 



Carbon filaments, elasticity of, 410. 



Carbonic acid, solid, density of, 322. 



Carhart, H. S. Edison's three-wire sys- 

 tem of distribution, 524. 



Carpenter, P. II. The bassalian fauna; 

 Pentacrinus asteriscus, 223; the initia- 

 tion of deep-sea dredging, 222. 



Carpenter, W. Lant. Education at the 

 international health exhibition, 353. 



Carpenter, W. L., and Stewart, B., on con- 

 nection of sun-spots with terrestrial 

 phenomena, 253. 



Carpmael, on new induction inclinometer, 

 253. 



Carr's Mounds of the Mississippi valley, 

 reviewed, 151. 



Carson-City ichnolites, ill. 273. 



Casey's revision of the Stenini, 561. 



Caste in India in 1881, 557. 



Catagenesis, 240. 



Caucasian petroleum, 365. 



Census of Bengal, 1881, report of, re- 

 viewed, 557; of India, 280; report of 

 United States, 1880, reviewed, 119; 

 seventh volume of, reviewed. 421 ; eighth 

 volume of, reviewed, 461. 



Cerebellum, 341. 



Chadwick, E., on preparation for cholera, 

 299. 



Challenger, exploring voyage of, reviewed, 

 ill. 116, 176. 



Chamberlin, T. C, on glacier, 154. 



Chandler, S. C, jun., on almucantar, 293; 

 colors of variable stars, 293. 



Channing, E., on settlers of North-Ameri- 

 can colonies, 313; town and county gov- 

 ernment, 329. 



Chaumont, de, on cholera disinfectants, 

 299. 



Cheepach, 448. 



Chemical affinity, 234; analyses, 500; 

 changes in relation to micro-organisms, 

 257; elements, report to American asso- 

 ciation of committee on indexes of lit- 

 erature of, 320; section of American 

 association, 76, 107; textbooks, 500. 



Chemistry, elements of, 500; of fish, 321; 

 importance of, in biology and medicine, 

 454; inorganic, 500; lessons in, 500; prog- 

 ress of, since 1848, 206; of roller-milling, 

 320. 



Chemists, association of, 312. 



Chemung group, 327. 



Chesapeake zoological laboratory, 122, 

 423. 



Chester, F. D., on Delaware geological 

 survey, 325. 



Chickering, J. W.,jun., and Gordon, J. 

 C, on deaf-mute instruction, 347. 



Child-life among the Omahas, 343. 



Chile, aborigines of, 423. 



Chippewa Indians, bird nomenclature of, 

 265. 



Chlamydoselachus, 340. 



Chlorine gas, solubility of, 256. 



Cholera, 144; bacillus, 554; disinfectants, 

 299 ; preparation for, 299. 



Christie, on the Greenwich observatory, 

 61. 



Christmas greeting, 563. 



Chronological cycles, 1885, 577. 



Chronology of Japan, 508. 



Clark, E. W., on exploration of the Kowak 

 River, ill. 551. 



Clark's Indian sign-language, reviewed, 

 556. 



Clarke, F. W., on valence, 321; Elements 

 of chemistry, reviewed, 500. 



Claypole, E. W. Fish-remains in the 

 North-American Silurian rocks, 34; 

 fish-remains in North-American rocks, 

 270. 



Claypole, E. W., on fish-remains in Silu- 

 rian rocks, 326; section across Pennsyl- 

 vania, 258; transition of beds, 327. 



Climates of two hemispheres, 282. 



Clocks of precision, 121. 



Clock-time and sun-time, ill. 578. 



Coal in Algeria, 267; German, 300. 



Coal-field, Langrin, 504; Pennsylvania, 

 522; measures of Kentucky, 325 ; mine, 

 photographs of interior of, 223. 



Coast-pilot of Alaska, ill. 561; signals, 

 improvements in, 290. 



Cold-wave flags, 382, 559. 



Collections, care of, in museums, 539. 



College mathematics, 230. 



Collier's Sorghum, reviewed, 479. 



Collimator, new, 74. 



Colonies, American, government of, 329; 

 settlers of, 313. 



Colony, oldest, in America, 283. 



Color of the eye, change in, 452, 511. 



Colorado, rocks of, 521. 



Colors of stars, 291; of variable stars, 293. 



Color-sense in fishes, ill. 336. 



Combustion of mixtures of carbon monox- 

 ide, hydrogen and oxygen, 254. 



Comet, new, 92; new periodical, 381; 

 Wolf, 332. 



Comma, use of, in scientific writing, 1. 



Commercial relations of United States, 

 348. 



Communication between ships at sea, 296. 



Compass, magnetic, 250. 



Congress as affecting scientific interests, 

 507; laws of, nullified by executive de- 

 partments, 302. 



Conocephalus dissimilis, 448. 



Conocoryphean, primitive, 301. 



Contributors, word to, 270. 



Cook, A. J. Ergot nectar, 512. 



Cook, G. H., on geological survey of New 

 Jersey, 326. 



Cooke's Bird nomenclature of the Chip- 

 pewa Indians, 265. 



Co-operation an element in development 

 of science, 411; in scientific work, 125. 



Cope, E. D. Catagenesis, or creation by 

 retrograde metamorphosis of energy, 

 240. 



Cope, E. D., on affinities of saurians, 340; 

 phylogeny of Mammalia, 339. 



Cornell university summer school of en- 

 tomology, 111. 



Correlation of geological formations, 208. 



Corthell, E. L., on South Pass jetties, 13. 



Cotterill's Applied mechanics, reviewed, 

 406. 



Coues's Key to North- American birds, 

 reviewed, 86. 



Crabs, strength of muscles of, ill. 521. 



Craigie, P. G., on supply of meat, 286. 



Crane, T. M., on mediaeval history, 313. 



Credit of United States, 347. 



Creek Indians, migration legend of, 499. 



Cretaceous phosphates in Alabama, 78. 



Crichton-Browne, on over-pressure in 

 schools, 497. 



Croes, J. J. R., on water-rates, 13. 



Crystalline rocks, 327; of north-west, 238; 

 schists, 327; specimens illustrating ori- 

 gin of, 511. 



Crystallization, effect of, on sediment, ill. 

 484. 



Culture periods, 345. 



Cuneiform inscriptions, 443. 



Currents, Atlantic, 561; North-Atlantic, 

 ill. 415. 



Curtis, J. S., on Ruby-hill mines, 459. 



Curtis's Effect of wind-currents on rain- 

 fall, 409. 



Cushing, F. H., on art among the Zufiis, 

 319. 



Cust's Languages of Africa, reviewed, 310. 



Cyclone, use of word, 468. 



Cyclones, 381 ; study of, 363. 



Cyprus, antiquities from, 364. 



Cystophora cristata, hood of, ill. 514. 



Dall, W. H. Classification of the Mol- 

 lusca, 143, 351; a Mussulman propagan- 

 da, 457; a remarkable new type of mol- 

 lusks, 50. 



Dall, W. H., on glaciers, 154; labrets, 345. 



Dallinger, on chemical changes in relation 

 to micro-organisms, 257. 



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

 tennis, 473. 



Dana, J. D., on synclinal in Taconic 

 range, 259. 



Danish international polar station, ill. 476. 



Davis, on Conocephalus dissimilis, 448. 



Davis, W. M. Drumlins, ill. 418; light 

 in the deep sea, 94; temperature and 

 its changes in the United States, ill. 569 ; 

 tornadoes, and how to escape them, ill. 

 572. 



Davis, W. M., on geographical classifica- 

 tion, 328. 



Dawkins, W. Boyd, on connection of 

 North America with Greenland, 283; 

 range of Eskimo, 316. 



Dawson. See Tolmie and Dawson. 



Deaf-mute instruction, 347. 



Deaf-mutes, race of, 346. 



Death, 342, 398. 



Deaths, recent, 76, 123, 331, 409, 503. 



Debts of nations, 285. 



Deep-sea dredging, initiation of, 222 ; meth- 

 ods of, 54; investigation, appliances for, 

 ill. 146, 224, 400 ; life, physiology of, 209 ; 

 light in, 8, 94; phosphorescence in, 270. 



Deflection of streams, 28. 



Delaware estuary, 329, 368; geological sur- 

 vey, 325. 



