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SCIENCE.— CONTENTS OF VOLUME V. 



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Royal society of Canada 458 



Scarcity of living organisms in the air at high altitudes . . 285 

 Science and surgery: a triumphant result of experimental 



research . . . 96 



Scott, W. B. A fossil elk or moose from the quater- 

 nary of New Jersey. Ill 420 



Semi-centennial of the Lyceum of natural history at Wil- 

 liams college 385 



Semitic languages at Harvard 405 



Siebold, Carl Theodor von. Portrait 415 



Sierra Nevada of Spain : the scene of the recent earth- 

 quakes 195 



Snow, F. H. Is the rainfall of Kansas increasing? . . 12 



Solar eclipse of March 16. Map 21o 



Steam on street-railways 135 



Sternberg, G. M. The ' comma bacillus ' of Koch. III. 109 



Stone, C. P. The climate of the Egyptian Sudan ... 268 



The route from Suakin to Berber. Map 290 



Stone age in Africa 405 



Successful extraction of a bullet from the brain. III. . . 313 



Tarr, R. S. The tile-fish. Ill 29 



Tasman glacier. Ill 10 



Technical instruction in America 276 



Ten Kate's explorations in western America 485 



Thomas, Cyrus. Palenque visited by Cortes .... 171 



Silver from a Pennsylvania mound. Ill 419 



Thurston, R. H. The efficiency of the steam-engine . 364 



Recent British locomotives 3S4 



The status of aeronautics in 1884 295 



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Todd, D. P. The British nautical almanac . . . . . 174 



Too many nautical almanacs 167 



Topography and geology of the Hudson-Bay region . . . 256 



Transportation of petroleum to the seaboard. Map . . . 504 

 Trowbridge, J. The Jefferson physical laboratory. 



III. 229 



Niagara Falls considered as a source of electrical energy, 401 



Recent advances in electrical science 45 



True, P. W. The bottle-nose dolphin, Tursiops tursio, 



as seen at Cape May, New Jersey. Ill . 338 



Typhoon in Sicily. Ill 344 



U. S. naval observatory, report of superintendent .... 57 



Vamb^ry, H. Herat's importance. Ill 465 



"W., W. C. The proposed change in the astronomical 



day . 524 



Walking and running. Ill 382 



Ward, Lester F. The ginkgo-tree. Ill 495 



A glance at the history of our knowledge of fossil plants, 93 



"White, I. C. The geology of natural gas 521 



Whitney, J. D. Lake Mistassini 8 



Wiley, H. W. American milk 130 



Butter 339 



Williams, G. H. The microscope in geology .... 190 



Winlock, W. C. Comets and asteroids of 1884 ... 31 



Woeikof , A. Recent Russian geographical explorations, 75 



Work of the signal-office under General Hazen 237 



Wright, G. F. The Niagara gorge as a chronometer. 



Map 399 



BOOK REVIEWS. 



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American commune 34 



American society of microscopists 178 



Anatomy and physiology of the brain in their relation to 



mental disorders 258 



Annals of the naval observatory 281 



Anthony and Brackett's Physics 349 



Barnard's Pyramid of Gizeh 118 



Billings's Ventilation and heating .......... 159 



Brain exhaustion 282 



Chadbourne on instinct 76 



Chemistry and physics of the sea 98 



Claus's Text-book of zoology 525 



Cope's Tertiary Vertebrata 467 



Disease-germs 158 



Electric lighting in the United States 79 



Engineering geology 260 



Fontaine's Older mesozoic flora of Virginia 280 



Forchheimer's Tunnel-building in England 100 



Forests of the United States .' ... 116 



Geology of Wisconsin. Map 427 



Goodale's Vegetable histology 157 



Hack Tuke on hypnotism 15 



Handbook of healthy and diseased meat 178 



Hartleben's library of electrical technology (elektrotech- 



nische bibliothek) 220 



Hereditary intellect and the geographical distribution of 



talents 14 



Hovey's Mind-reading 301 



Ingersoll's Country cousins 115 



Inheritance among the ancient Arabs. By J. W. Powell . 16 



Irving on the copper-bearing rocks of Lake Superior . . . 299 



Kindergarten system of chemistry 279 



Kingsley's Madam How and Lady Why 408 



Langley's work on Mount Whitney 319 



Lenape and their legends 407 



Lesquereux's Cretaceous and tertiary flora 349 



Marsh on the Dinocerata. III., map 488 



Martin's Elementary human physiology 261 



Maxwell, James Clerk 317 



Microscope in botany 470 



Minor book notices 389 



Monograph of British fossil Brachiopoda. By W. II. Dull . 409 



New geological map of Canada, with an outline sketch . . 156 



New text-books of physics 139 



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Nordenskiold's arctic investigations 430 



Paradise found 406 



Parker's Text-book of dissection 136 



Part played by the cell in living organisms 318 



Patriarchal theory. By J. W. Powell 345 



Phillips's Ore-deposits 469 



Physics of the earth 386 



Physiological anatomy of plants. By G. Macloskie ... 35 



Prehistoric America 176 



Prehistoric congress at Lisbon 218 



Principles of chemistry 180 



Pronunciation 508 



Publications of the Nautical almanac office 100 



Recent discussion of the axioms of mechanics 201 



Recent government reports - 220 



Recent physiological text-books 137 



Recent technical books 77 



Report of the U. S. entomologist for 1884 490 



Researches in stellar parallax. III. By D. P. Todd . . . 241 



Rogers's History of English labor 155 



Rolleston's life and work 486 



Romanes' Researches on primitive nervous systems . . . 388 



Russian embassy to Afghanistan 366 



Russians at the gates of Herat 369 



Saporta's Problematical organisms of the ancient seas. By 



J. S. Newberry 507 



Schellen's Dynamo-electric machines 117 



Scientific principles of agriculture 76 



Simon's Manual of chemistry . . . 139 



Snake-dance of the Moquis 202 



Some state agricultural experiment-stations 471 



Some state geological reports 529 



Study of bacteria 506 



Tenth volume of the census report 239 



Text-book of microscopical petrography 138 



Textbook of physical geology 137 



Text-books in chemistry and mineralogy 301 



Thurston's Metallic alloys 179 



Tiflis and Baku 370 



Tromholt's Under the rays of the aurora borealis. III. . . 527 



Trowbridge's Physics 37 



United States at the fisheries exhibition 386 



World-stuff 300 



Comment and criticism, 1, 21, 41, 63, 83, 103, 123, 143, 163, 185, 205, 225, 245, 265, 285, 305, 333, 373, 393, 413, 453, 473, 513. 

 Letters to the editor, 2, 23, 43, 65, 84, 104, 124, 144, 164, 188, 207, 226, 247, 266, 286, 306, 334, 355, 374, 394, 414, 434, 454, 474, 494, 514. 

 Notes and news, 18, 38, 60, 80, 101, 118, 140, 159, 181, 203, 221, 242, 261, 283, 302, 321, 350, 370, 390, 410, 432, 450, 471, 491, 509, 530. 

 Science supplement, 325. 



