LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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Adenobdella oricola 435 



Africa, outline map of, showing the portions of the coast 



claimed by European nations 7 



Age statistics in the United States (2 figs.) 462 



Amherst gymnasium, the new 95 



Asia, central, and India, map to show the relation of, to 



Europe 357 



Auroral ring, supposed 527 



Bacilli found in pneumonic sputum Ill 



Bacillus, comma (Koch) Ill 



Bogosloff Island and Ship Rock 32 



Bossekop, Norwegian circumpolar station at 527 



Brain, extraction of a bullet from the (2 figs.) . . . 313, 314 



Brazil, outline of a physical map of 274 



Caroline Island, general view of the astronomical station at, 



270; the beach of the lagoon at 272 



Catana, a view near, after the typhoon of October, 1884, 344; 

 effects of the typhoon of October, 1884, in an olive-gar- 

 den near 344 



Cervalces, skeleton of, 421; head of 422 



Cholera, epidemic in Paris and in Yport of (2 figs.) , 33 ; sec- 

 tion of intestine in, showing Koch's bacilli in the super- 

 ficial layers, 454; culture of Koch's comma bacillus of, 

 455; nostras, culture of Finkler and Prior's comma ba- 

 cillus of 455 



Cholula, the great mound at 59 



Cincinnati group, beaches in the 231 



Clouds seen at Meurthe-et-Moselle 366 



Coffins of the seventh century 236 



Cordoba, Dr. Gould's observatory at, 60; view of, from Dr. 



Gould's observatory 60 



Cozumel, map of the island of, 290; Indian village on, 291; 



ruins of a temple on 292 



Cuba with Hayti, diagram of ridge connecting 90 



Deneholes, the Essex (2 figs.) 113, 114 



Earthquake of Jan. 2, 1885, map of, 130; view in a street of 

 Alhama after, 192; map showing region affected by 

 Spanish, 193; map of region suffering most severely, 

 193; street in Alhama ruined by, 194; convent in Albu- 

 fiuelas destroyed by, 194 ; chalet at St. Catherine, show- 

 ing roof shattered by, 204; the crevasse on the road 

 from Loja to Alhama due to, 351 ; crevasse near Gueve- 

 jar due to, 352; at Tokio, Oct. 15, 1884, diagram of . . 483 



Eclipse, annular solar, of March 16, 1885 211 



Emmons, Ebenezer, portrait and signature of 457 



Entomological collections, block for mounting 167 



Fish-hook, prehistoric 415 



Fog, device for preventing collisions with icebergs in a . . 460 

 Footprints in the rocks of Colorado (2 figs.) .... 312, 313 



Ginkgo, phylogeny of the genus 496 



Gray, Dr. Asa, portrait of 437 



Greely party at Lady Franklin Bay, the station of the . . 310 

 Grinnell Land and Ellesmere Land, map showing .... 171 



Haldemana primaeva 395 



Halo seen at Orleans, France 324 



Harvard college, the new physical laboratory of, 229; plans 



of (4 figs.) 230 



Hochstetter, the top of Mount 11 



Hudson-Bay expedition, section of observers' hut, 213; ob- 

 servers' station at Stupart's Bay 214 



Johns Hopkins chemical laboratory, north end of the, facing 

 the street, 26 ; first floor, 27; second floor, 27; research 



room in, 28; third floor, 29; basement 29 



Kongo, map of Central Africa, with the course of the . . 6 

 Korea, lotus-pond at the New Palace in Soul, 252; the Red 



arrow gate in 439 



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Kowak River, Alaska, the new surveys of the 92 



Massachusetts institute of technology mining laboratory, 



milling-room in, 417; furnace-room in, 418; plan of . . 419 



Meteorological observatory on Blue Hill 440 



Microbes, cultivation of (10 figs.) 501, 502, 503 



Microscope, an electric light for use with (3 figs.) .... 142 



Mississippi River, map of old river lakes along 391 



Mistassini Lake, map of . 66 



Mounds, effigy (4 figs.) 132 



Nantucket museum 109 



New England, rainfall and range of temperature in south- 

 ern, for November, 1884 18 



New-Zealand Alps as seen from the middle moraine of the 



Tasman glacier 10 



Niagara River, section of the strata along the, 399 ; map of, 400 



Ornithorhynchus, egg of 257 



Palaeophonus nuncius 97 



Parallax in declination of 61 (B) Cygni 241 



Peabody museum (New Haven) as it will appear when com- 

 pleted, 69 ; stands for mounting specimens in (7 



figs.) 69, 70, 71 



Pipe-lines of the National transit company, map showing . 505 



Pituophis Sayi bellona (2 figs.) 267 



Running and walking (5 figs.) 382, 383, 384 



Sacrifice, human. Bas-relief at Santa Lucia Cosumalwhuapa, 523 



Sciurus Aberti, head of 475 



Siebold, Carl Theodor von, portrait of 416 



Silver from a Pennsylvania mound (2 figs.) 420 



Skulls in composite photography, elevating-table for adjust- 

 ing, 500; composite photograph of six adult male Cali- 



fornians 499 



Snow, plastic 189 



Solar energy at sea-level and at various altitudes, distribu- 

 tion of 448 



Stanley, Le, section of the steamer 364 



Suakin to Berber, map of road from . 255 



Telephone, Ochorowicz's loud-speaking 244 



Tile-fish 30 



Tinoceras ingens Marsh, restoration of 490 



Tornado, Kansas, in April, 1884, 160; from an instantaneous 



photograph of a Dakota 161 



Tromholt's auroral station at Koutokaeino 528 



Tursiops tursio 339 



Vessels, an Austrian plan for watching the movements of . 264 

 Washington monument, effect of lightning on capstone, 



518; plans of (3 figs.) 147 



Wisconsin, geological map of 428 



AVyoming, map of south-western 489 



ZolfikarPass 466 



Asia, map of central, on the basis of the surveys made by 

 British and Russian officers up to 1881 . . . opposite 

 Caribbean Sea, chart of the basin of the . . . opposite 

 Composite portraits of American scientific men . opposite 

 Greely expedition, map of the polar regions, showing par- 

 ticularly the explorations of the opposite 



Hudson-Bay expedition, 1884, chart showing the track of the 



steamship Neptune opposite 



Kongo, map of the district about the Lower . . opposite 

 Niagara Falls, map showing the extent of the state reserva- 

 tion at opposite 



Saskatchewan region, map of, showing points held by the 



rebel half-breeds and Indians opposite 



Suakin to Berber, facsimile of General Gordon's map of the 

 route from opposite 



90 



214 



340 

 289 



ERRATA 



Page 31, col. 2, 13th line from bottom, for * Sept. 26' read ' Nov. 

 17.' 



" 32, " 1,8th line from top, for '.Hypatia' read ' Coeles- 

 tina.' 



" 32, " 1, 9th line from top, for « (238) ' read ' (238) Hypa- 

 tia.' 



" 74, " 1, 6th line from bottom, read " 337 tons of coal per 

 day, which gives combustion at the rate 

 of over 1,500 pounds of coal for each mile 

 traversed." 



" 97, " 1, 22d line from top, and under cut, for • Palaeo- 

 phoneus ' read ' Palaeophonus.' 



" 97, " 1,14th line from bottom, insert 'then' between 

 ' the ' and ' earliest-known.' 



" 248, " 2, in several places, for ' Cortez ' read ' Cortes.' 



" 248, " 2, 13th line from top, for ' Titacat ' read ' Teutiaca.' 



Page 311, col. 1, 26th line from bottom, for ' Bosukop ' read * Bos- 

 sekop.' 

 " 311, " 2, 2d line from bottom, for ' Leebi ' read ' Lieber.' 

 " 312, " 1, 2d line from top, for ' Robesen ' read ' Robeson. 

 " 361, " 2, 28th line from bottom, for 'northern' read 



' southern." 

 " 361, " 2, 13th line from bottom, for 'to the south' read 



' to the north.' 

 " 362, " 2, 2d line from bottom, for 'In 1883' read 'In 1881.' 

 " 472, " 1,18th line from bottom, for 'culture-medicine' 



read ' culture-medium.' 

 " 492, " 2, 6th line from bottom, for ' acid ' read ' oxide.' 

 " 514, " 1, 5th line from bottom, for 'Byron' read *By- 



rom.' 

 " 514, " 1, 28th line from top and under cut, for 'Brasen- 

 ice ' read ' Brasenia.' 



