CONTENTS OF VOLUME Y. 



SPECIAL ARTICLES. 



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American climatologieal association 480 



American fisheries society 423 



American society lor psychical research 13, 55 



Anderson, W. P. The Hudson-Bay expedition of 1884. 



III., chart 213 



Annisquam seaside laboratory 211 



Anthropometric laboratory 294 



Argentine zone catalogue." Ill 59 



Armsby, H. P. The digestibility of cellulose .... 11 



Do animals excrete free nitrogen? 172 



Errors in digestion experiments 292 



Ashburner, C. A. The Natural Bridge of Virginia . 13 



Balloon in meteorology 91 



Bandelier's archeological tour in Mexico. Ill 58 



Bartlett, J. R. The basin of the Caribbean. Chart . 89 



Some recent experiments with oil in stopping breakers . 56 

 Bell, A. Graham. Is there a correlation between de- 

 fects of the senses? 127 



Preventing collisions with icebergs in a fog. III. . . . 460 

 Billing's, J. S. Measuring the cubic capacity of skulls. 



Ill 499 



Binet, A., and F£re, C. Hallucinations 233 



Biological notes. Ill 257 



Boas, F. The configuration of Grinnell Land and Elles- 



mere Land. Map 170 



Bronze medallion portrait of Dr. Asa Gray. Ill 436 



Caroline Island eclipse expedition. Ill 271 



Channing 1 , E. The races of central Asia 362 



Roads from India to central Asia. Map 360 



Chemical laboratory of the Johns Hopkins university. III. 25 



Chinese iron-foundries and rice-pan casting 278 



Cholera epidemic in Paris and in Yport. Ill 33 



Cholera inoculation 464 



Civil and astronomical time 308 



Coal question in England 175 



Coffins of the seventh century. Ill 236 



Consolidation of the government scientific work .... 336 



Contagious diseases of domestic animals 174 



Cook, A. J. Bark-louse secretion 73 



Co-ordination of the scientific bureaus of the government . 47 



Creeping of rails 344 



Curved bacilli in air and water 481 



D., W. M. The meteorological observatory on Blue Hill. 



Ill 440 



Dall, W. H. Further notes on Bogosloff Island. III. . 32 



John Gwyn Jeffreys 145 



Davis, W. M. The work of the Swiss earthquake com- 

 mission 196 



Dawson, G. M. The Saskatchewan country. Map . . 340 



Debate on vivisection at Oxford 315 



Decadence of science about Boston 86 



Derby, O. A. The drainage system of Brazil . . . . 296 



The physical features of Brazil. Map 273 



Discovery of Silurian insects. Ill 97 



Dr. Gould's work at the Cordoba observatory 403 



Doings of astronomers 154 



Economy of fuel '. . . . 74 



Electric lighting on shipboard 484 



Emmerich on the cholera bacillus 75 



Essex deneholes. Ill 113 



Ewing, J. A. A recent Japanese earthquake. III. . . 483 



Explosives and armor-plate 74 



Finding a bore-hole 295 



Fishing-interests in Hudson Bay 296 



Flower, W. H. The natives of America 525 



Fol, H. The cultivation of microbes. Ill 500 



Fouque\ F. The causes of earthquakes 198 



Franklin, Christine L. Richet on mental suggestion, 132 



From Suakin to Berber. Map 254 



Fteley, A. The new Croton aqueduct 497 



G., A. How to reach the Grand Canon 516 



Gatschet, A. S. The Yuchi tribe of Indians, and its 



language 253 



Geographical news 216, 422 



Glacial period in Australia 485 



Glow-lamp 342 



Gray, Asa. The Monterey pine and cypress .... 433 



Great antiquity of the American races 278 



Greely, A. W. The geographical work of the Greely 



expedition. Map 168 



The scientific results of the Lady Franklin Bay expedi- 

 tion. Ill 309 



Greene, C. E. The Washington national monument. 



Ill 146 



Harrod, B. M. Velocity and sediment 478 



Hartley, C. A. Inland navigation of Europe .... 426 



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Hauling a steamer through Africa. Ill 364 



Hig'g'inson, T. W. American flash language in 1798 . 380 



Hubbard, G. G. The Kongo. Map 5 



The Russian base of operations against India. Map . . 356 



Hudson- Bay Eskimo 233 



Hunt, T. S. The geology of the Scottish Highlands . . 87 



Hypodermic injection of cultures of curved bacilli . . . 482 

 Ing"ersoll, Ernest. The Peabody museum at New 



Haven. Ill 67 



Island of Cozumel. Ill 290 



James, J. F. Evidences of beaches in the Cincinnati 



group. Ill 231 



Jastrow, Joseph. Some peculiarities in the age statis- 

 tics of the United States. Ill 461 



Jervis, John Bloomfield 250 



Joint commission and the signal-service 228 



Joule, J. P. The dimensions of ships 134 



Kilimanjaro expedition 152 



Kowak River. Map 93 



Langley, S. P. Sunlight and the earth's atmosphere. 



Ill 441 



Last cruise of the Albatross in the Gulf of Mexico . . . 275 



Legal language of India 363 



Lewis, T. H. Notice of some recently discovered effigy 



mounds. Ill 131 



Lick observatory 493 



Lighthouse illuminants Ill 



Lowell, Percival. The Hong sal mun, or the Red ar- 

 row gate. Ill 438 



The New Palace at Soul, Korea. Ill 251 



M. The Washington monument, and the lightning stroke 



of June 5. Ill 517 



McBride, T. H. Vegetable morphology a century ago. 



— Linne and Wolff 477 



Managers to the readers 4 



MarcOU, Jules. Ebenezer Emmons. Portrait . . . 456 



Meteorological notes 97, ill. 365 



Mining laboratory of the Massachusetts institute of technol- 

 ogy. Ill 417 



Minot, C. S. The effects of cold on living organisms . 522 



Mortillet's conclusions regarding early man in Europe . . 136 



Mountaineers of Tonkin 237 



Nantucket museum. Ill 108 



National academy of sciences, April meeting 353 



Naval architecture in England 384 



New plan for the scientific associations of Boston .... 125 



New York state survey 217 



Newcomb, S. The Georgia wonder-girl and her lessons, 106 

 Mortality experience of the Connecticut mutual life-insur- 

 ance company 379 



Orcutt, C. R. Aquatic plants of San Diego 441 



Oyster-fishery in Connecticut 234 



Parker, H. W. Footprints in the rocks of Colorado. 



Ill 312 



Paul, H. M. The electric light for lighthouses and 



search -lights 150 



Seismological notes 199 



Peripatetic science teaching 288 



Physical training at Amherst. Ill 95 



Physics in the schools 233 



Powell, J- W. The administration of the scientific work 



of the general government 51 



Prehistoric American sculptures. Ill 523 



Preservation of Niagara 398 



Progress of the Lick observatory 377 



Proposed explorations in Alaska 154 



Proposed new method of measuring the density of the earth, 217 



Prospects of the new psychical society 44 



Prout, H. G. An estimate of General Gordon's scientific 



characteristics 289 



Pumpelly, R. Composite portraits of members of the 



National academy of sciences. Ill 37S 



Recent cholera conference in Berlin 485 



Receni determinations of longitude on the west coast of 



South America 151 



Recent investigations upon cholera '-53 



Recent progress in engineering 235 



Recent travels in Arabia 134 



Relations of microbes to life 268 



Report of the superintendent of the U. S. naval observatory, 57 



Riley, C. V. The periodical cicada 518 



River-pollution in England 72 



Rockwood, C G., jun. Earthquake of Jan. 2, 1SS5. 



Map 129 



The Spanish earthquakes. Ill 191 



Royal astronomical society of London 317 



