SCIENCE. — INDEX TO VOLUME IV. 



599 



De Morgan memorial medal, 123. 



Desmodium sessilifolium, 358. 



Development theory, 311. 



Dewar, J., on chemical changes in relation 

 to micro-organisms, 257; constitution of 

 elements, 255; density of solid carbonic 

 acid, 322; radiation, 250; storage-batter- 

 ies, 392; valence, 321. See also Liveing 

 and Dewar. 



Diller, J. S., on Krakatoa dust, 71; Ore- 

 gon rocks, 71; Unalashka sands, 44; 

 volcanic sand, 154. 



Dinosaurian reptiles, 261. 



Disinfection by gas, 503. 



Dissociation, 256. 



Distribution of Crustacea, 260; three-wire 

 system of, ill. 477, 524. 



Dixon, H. B., on incomplete combustion 

 of mixtures of carbon monoxide, hydro- 

 gen and oxygen, 254. 



Dobell, on destruction of germs, 299. 



Dobson, G. E., on the geographical dis- 

 tribution of animals, 261. 



Douglass, A. E., on Florida mounds, 344. 



Douglass, J., on coast-signals, 290. 



Douglass, W. A., on savings institutions, 

 284. 



Dredges, ill. 146. 



Dredging, deep-sea, 54, ill. 146, 222. 



Drift, remains of, 73. 



Drumlins, ill. 418. 



Dudley, P. H., on track-inspection car, 

 348; wood-sections, 45. 



Dudley, W. L. Effect of crystallization 

 on sediment, ill. 484. 



Diising, on organic evolution, 532. 



Dumas, bust of, 481. 



Dun, "VT. A., on Ohio floods, 44. 



Dury, C, on Micropterus, 263. 



Dutton, 0. E., on glaciers, 154. 



Duveyrier, H., on Mussulman propaganda, 

 457. 



Dwarf race of men, 410. 



Dyke, trap, 328. 



Dynamo-electric machines, 314; recent 

 progress in, 520; government of, 298. 



Earth, face of, ill. 535; and sun-spots, ill. 

 564; currents, 314. 



Earthquake of Aug. 10,140, 144, 158; of 

 Sept. 19, 332; of 1881, in India, 27; ob- 

 servation in United States, 520; syste- 

 matic, 352, 368; Ohio, 302; phenomena, 

 observation of, 334. 



Earthquakes in the United States and Can- 

 ada, 569 ; measurement of, ill. 516. 



Earthworm, gigantic, 426. 



Eaton, John. Scientific methods and 

 scientific knowledge in common affairs, 

 246. 



Echinoderms, 261; dredged by the Talis- 

 man, ill. 102. 



Eclipses, 1885, charts, 578. 



Ecliptic, obliquity of, 295. 



Economic science and statistics section of 

 American association, 121. 



Eddy, H. T. College mathematics, 230; 

 radiant heat, ill. 3. 



Edison lamp, radiant matter in, 374. 



Edison's three-wire system of distribution, 

 ill. 477, 524. 



Education and the masses, 53; in geog- 

 raphy, 281; higher, in Germany, 502; 

 industrial, 537; at international health 

 exhibition, 353; technical, 425; workshop 

 in, 395. 



Educational convention, 112; methods in 

 laboratory practice, 322. 



Egg-cocoons of Lycosa, 24. 



Eissler's Modern high explosives, re- 

 viewed, 278. 



Electric candle, 267; isolation, 350; light, 

 463; circuits, ill. 123; economy of, 324; 

 incandescent, for vessels, 561; tramway, 

 Portrush, 324. 



Electrical commission, national, in Phila- 

 delphia, 140 ; members of, 107 ; confer- 

 ence, 313, 367, 383; questions for, 219; 

 Paris, 126; exhibition, Philadelphia, 78, 

 122, 356; testing establishments, 224; 

 transmission of energy, 315. 



Electricians, national conference of, 127. 



Electricity, 19, 87, 232; atmospheric, 164, 



314; discharge of, 252 ; generation of, by 

 water-power, 12; international exhibi- 

 tion of, 464. 



Electrolysis of glass, 464. 



Electromotive forces in voltaic cell, 251. 



Elementary schools and manual training, 

 523. 



Elements, constitution of, 255. 



Elliott, E. B., on credit of United States, 

 347. 



Emblematic mounds, 343. 



Embryology, some facts in, 49. 



Emigration, Irish, 285. 



Emmons, S. F., on glacier, 154. 



Endowment of research, 221. 



Energy, transmission of, 315. 



Engineers, training for, 323. 



Engraving-tool, ill. 105. 



Entomology, summer school of, 111. 



Eozoon canadense, 327. 



Equatorial coude, ill. 101. 



Ergot nectar, 512. 



Erie Canal, enlargement of, 13. 



Errors, magnitude of, 293. 



Eskimo of Point Barrow, 319 ; range of, 

 316. 



Ethnography, Fuegian, 27; Punjab, 360, 

 557. 



Ethnologic publications, 15. 



Euclid as a text-book of geometry, 442. 



Europeans, form of face in, 522. 



Eurypteridae, discovery of, 327. 



Evaporation, 256. 



Evolution, law of organic, 532. 



Ewing's earthquake measurement, ill. 516. 



Exchange, media of, 285. 



Exhibition of goldsmiths' work, 188. 



Experiment-stations, agricultural, 508. 



Explorations, American, 110; south-west- 

 ern, 366. 



Explosive agents, 13; modern high, 278. 



Expositions, advantages of, 348. 



Eye, change in color of, 452, 511. 



Eyes, blue, gradual disappearance of, 367. 



F., L. S. A possible danger to mariners, 

 413. 



Face, form of, 522. 



Factory acts, 286. 



Fallacies, 152. 



Farmers, hints to, ill. 576. 



Farnsworth, P. J. Forgotten conclu- 

 sions of science, 469; too big to swallow, 

 53. 



Farquhar, Henry. Verification of pre- 

 dictions, 540. 



Fasting pig, 335. 



Faunal areas, 375. 



Faunas, ancient, 326. 



Fermentation, changes produced by, in 

 milk, 405; without combined nitrogen, 

 322. 



Ferrel, W. The gyration of a vibrating 

 pendulum, 53. 



Festivals of the church, fixed and movable, 

 of 1885, 577. 



Fibro-vascular bundles, 358. 



Fielde, Adele M. The meng-leng, 159. 



Filhol, H. The echinoderms dredged 

 by the Talisman, ill. 102 ; the lower 

 forms of life dredged by the Talisman,- 

 ill. 171. 



Firedamp, detection of, 425. 



Fish, chemistry of, 321; culture, 348; re- 

 i mains, 159; in Silurian rocks, 34, 270, 

 326; swallowing a turtle, 53. 



Fisheries exhibition catalogue, 142. 



Fishery board, Scottish, 478. 



Fishes, color-sense in, ill. 336; tail of, 341. 



Fiske's Destiny of man, reviewed, 408. 



Fiske's Electricity, reviewed, 19. 



Fletcher, Alice C, on child-life among the 

 Omahas, 343; lands in severalty to Indi- 

 ans, 347; pipes of friendship, 345. 



Flexner, S. Crystallization of glucose 

 in honey, 32. 



Flies walking on glass, ill. 219. 



Floods, Ohio, 44. 



Flora, fossil, 340; of high Alps, 475; of 

 New Jersey, 358; of North America, 

 308. 



Floral calendar, 574. 



Florida mounds, 344. 



Flower, W. H., on size of teeth as race 

 character, 538. 



Flowers, blooming-time for, 573. 



Fly, liver of, 72. 



Flying-machine, ill. 330, 482. 



Fog-horn, new, 155. 



Fol, H. The changes which fermentation 

 produces in milk, 405. 



Folk-lore, Indian, 499. 



Foods, nutrients in, 347. 



Foraminifera from Ghilf of Mexico, 24. 



Forbes, G-., on velocity of light, 254. 



Forecasts, weather, 568. 



Forest-trees, Russian, 155. 



Forth Bridge, 287. 



Fossil flora of globe, 340. 



Foster's Monthly reference-lists, 450. 



Foxwell, H. S., on rate of wages, 284. 



France, lightning-strokes in, 264; wine- 

 production in, 264. 



Francis, J. B., on efficiency of turbine 

 water-wheel, 12. 



Frankland, E., on chemical changes in 

 relation to micro-organisms, 257. 



Frazer's Oeology of south-eastern Penn- 

 sylvania, reviewed, 447. 



Freezing, shaft-sinking by, 443. 



French association for the advancement of 

 science, 121 ; flying-machine, ill. 482; 

 scientific missions, 505. 



Fresh- water faunas, 260. 



Fuegian ethnography, 27. 



G-. Tornado predictions, 126. 



G., A. G-eorge Bentham, portrait, 352. 



Gaffky. See Koch, R., Oaffky, and Loeff- 

 ler. 



Gage, S. H. The inventor of the vertical 

 camera in photography, 5. 



Galvanometer of twenty wires, 252. 



Gannett's Dictionary of altitudes, 481. 



Garman, S. The oldest living type of 

 vertebrates, 484. 



Garman, S., on Chlamydoselachus, 340. 



Gas, disinfection by, 503; evaporation of, 

 425/ 



Gases, absorption of, by steel, 331. 



Gatschet's Migration legend of the Creek 

 Indians, reviewed, 499. 



Geographical classification, 328 ; discovery, 

 recent, 211; distribution of animals, 261; 

 work, Russian, 503. 



Geography of the Baltic Sea, 450 ; educa- 

 tion in, 281; of Europe, 124; medical, 

 220; of Palestine, 328; Ptolemy's, 331. 



Geological and natural-history survey of 

 Canada, 362; formations, correlation of, 

 208; maps of America, 382; railway- 

 guide, 396; section of British associa- 

 tion, 73. 



Geology of Europe, 124; of south-eastern 

 Pennsylvania, 447 ; of Susquehanna- 

 river region, reviewed, 120. 



Geometry, Euclid as a text-book of, 442. 



German and Austrian alpenverein, 409; 

 coal, 300; engineers' society, 331; expe- 

 dition to Cape Town, 156; schools, over 

 work in, 136. 



Germany, higher education in, 502. 



Germinating plants, rotation experiments 

 on, ill. 51. 



Germs, 440 ; destruction of, 299. 



Ghosts, investigation of, 525. 



Giants' Causeway, 324. 



Gibbs, W., on complex inorganic acids, 

 254; constitution of elements. 255; elec- 

 tromotive forces in voltaic cell, 251. 



Gilbert, G. K., on deflection of streams, 28. 



Gilbert. See Lawes, J., and Gilbert. 



Gill, D., on parallax of fixed stars, 75. 



Gill, T. Classification of the Mollusca, 

 334; the eggs of Ornithorhynchus, 452; 

 the oldest living type of vertebrates, 524. 



Gilpin, on Nova-Scotian coal-field, 25S. 



Giraud, news from, 264. 



Glacial action, 258; period in Xew Zea- 

 land, 426 ; pot-hole, ill. 560 ; submer - 

 gence, depth of, 160. 



Glacier, what is a, 154. 



Glaisher, J., on Palestine exploration fund 

 281. 



Glucose, crystallization of, 32. 



Gneiss, Vermont, 327. 



