SCIENCE. — INDEX TO VOLUME V. 



539 



Strondley on British locomotives, 384. 



Struve on proposed change in astronomi- 

 cal day, 524. 



Sturtevant, E. L. Digestion experi- 

 ments, 335. 



Suakin to Berher, map, 254; map, 290. 



Sudan, climate of, 268. 



Suez Canal lighted by electricity, 391. 



Sulphur deposits of Siberia, 222. 



Sun, 412; glow, 415, 476; hydrogenic pro- 

 tuberances of, 512; ring around, 455; 

 thermometer during eclipse of March 

 16, 1885, 266. 



Sunlight, ill. 441. 



Sunsets, red, 452. 



Sun-spot period, 81. 



Sun-spots, 24. 



Surgery, 96, 306. 



Surveying, stadia, 77. 



Surveys, public, 20. 



Swiss earthquake commission, 196. 



Symbolic algebra, 77. 



Symonds, W. S. Mammalia in inter- 

 glacial deposits, 248. 



Tamburini and Seppilli on hypnotism, 303. 



Tanner's report of the cruise of the Alba- 

 tross, 275. 



Tappeiner on digestibility- of cellulose, 

 11. 



Tarapaca nitrate, 181. 



Tarr, R. S. Carnivorous habits of the 

 muskrat, 144; the tile-fish, ill. 29. 



Tasman glacier, ill. 10. 



Tasmania, earthquakes in, 392. 



Tea cultivation in Italy, 412. 



Teachers, itinerant, 85. 



Teaching, antiquated methods of, 124; 

 peripatetic, 288. 



Teak for shuttles, 451. 



Teas, Chinese, 410. 



Technical books, recent, 77; instruction, 

 276. 



Technics, physical, 139. 



Telegraph, chemical, 322; signals, 324; 

 wires as foretellers of storms, 396. 



Telegraphy, autographic system of, 321. 



Telephone, loud-speaking, ill. 244. 



Telephoning, long-distance, 160. 



Telescopes, value of large, 432. 



Temperature, chart of zones of, 38; effect 

 of, on strength of iron, 243; influence 

 of forests on, 352; of Mississippi River, 

 451 ; variation of, at Sagastyr, 222. 



Ten Kate's explorations, 485. 



Tertiary Vertebrata, 467. 



Testing-machines, 77. 



Thibet gold, 412; lakes, 39. 



Thomas, Cyrus. Mound-building tribes, 

 515; Palenque visited by Cortes, 171; 

 silver from a Pennsylvania mound, ill. 

 419. 



Thomas, Sidney G., 221. 



Thompson, Silvanus P., 351. 



Thomson, Sir W. Sir William Thom- 

 son's Molecular dynamics, 307. 



Thomson's lectures at Johns Hopkins 

 university, 62 ; Molecular dynamics, 307. 



Thought-transference, 204. 



Thunder-storms, knowledge of, 143; of 

 May, 1884, 511 ; observations of, 411. 



Thurston, R. H. The efficiency of the 

 steam-engine, 364; recent British loco- 

 motives, 384; the status of aeronautics 

 in 1884, 295. 



Thurston's Materials of engineering, re- 

 viewed, 179. 



Tidal observatories, 223. 



Tiflis, 370. 



Tile-fish, ill. 29. 



Time, distribution of, in the United States, 

 120; standard, 333. 



Tobacco-smoke, effects of, 122. 



Todd, D. P. Astronomical domes 

 mounted on cannon-balls, 125; the Brit- 

 ish nautical almanac, 174; researches 

 in stellar parallax, ill. 241; solar eclipse 

 of March 16, 226. 



Todhunter's history of elasticity, 222. 



Tonkin, mountaineers of, 237. 



Topographical survey of Massachusetts, 

 246. 



Topography of Hudson-Bay region, 256. 



Tornado, formation of, 492; photograph 

 of, ill. 160, 208. 



Torpedo device, ill. 264. 



Torpedoes, effect of, on vessels, 243. 



Torrey, B., on winter birds about Boston, 

 119. 



Tracy's Anatomy, physiology, and hy- 

 giene, reviewed, 137. 



Trenton, fire in capitol at, 324. 



Tribe, organization of, 355. 



Trombolt's Under the rays of the aurora 

 borealis, reviewed, ill. 527. 



Trout, North-American, 424. 



Trowbridge, John. The Jefferson phys- 

 ical laboratory, 229; Niagara Falls con- 

 sidered as a source of electrical energy, 

 401 ; recent advances in electrical sci- 

 ence, 45. 



Trowbridge's Physics, reviewed, 37, 84. 



True, F. W. The bottle-nose dolphin, 

 Tursiops tursio, as seen at Cape May, 

 ill. 338; military cetology, 2. 



True, F. W., on porpoise, fishery, 424. 



Tunnel-building, 100. 



Turkestan, annuaire de, 509. 



Tursiops tursio, ill. 338. 



Turtle, tropical, at Anticosti, 474. 



Typhoon in Sicily, ill. 344. 



United-States age statistics, peculiarities 

 in,ill. 461; building-stones, 239; census, 

 vols. ix. and x., 61; vol. x., reviewed, 

 239; department of agriculture, 103; 

 distribution of time in, 120; electric 

 lighting in, 79 ; entomologist's report for 

 1884, reviewed, 490; fish commission, 

 bulletin, vof. iii., reviewed, 220; report, 

 part x., reviewed, 220; at the fisheries 

 exhibition, 386; forests, 116; geological 

 survey, bulletin No. 6,19; conduct of, 

 226; monograph, vol. v., reviewed, 299; 

 vol. x., reviewed, map, ill. 488; of the 

 territories, vol. iii., reviewed, 467; vol. 

 viii., reviewed, 348; government re- 

 ports, 220; scientific bureaus, appro- 

 priations for, 206; co-ordination of, 47; 

 re-organization of, 41; transfer of, to 

 navy department, 123; national museum, 

 20; collection of insects in, 188; future 

 of, 187; proceedings, vol. vi., reviewed, 

 220 ; naval observatory annals, reviewed, 

 281; change in administration of, 286; 

 observations for latitude at, 60; pub- 

 lications, 265, 307; report of superin- 

 tendent, 57 ; time-ball, 472 ; navy depart- 

 ment, transfer of scientific bureaus to, 

 123; public printing-office, administra- 

 tion of, 414; quarry industry for 1880, 

 statistics, 239; signal-office, work of, 

 under General Hazen, 237; signal-ser- 

 vice and the joint commission, 228 ; note 

 xv., 40; professional paper, xiv., 20; 

 xv., 319; time of observations, 120; ter- 

 tiary deposits, 475, 516. 



University of Nebraska chemical labora- 

 tory, 432; of Virginia, Leander McCor- 

 mick observatory of, 321 ; of Wisconsin, 

 321. 



Vaccination for anthrax, 304. 

 Valentine's Study of German, 119. 

 Vambery, H. Herat's importance, ill. 



465. 

 Van Dyck, F. C. A new standard cell, 



494. 

 Vaseline for alimentary purposes, 412. 

 Vegetable morphology a century ago, 477. 

 Vegetation in the Ohio valley, 414. 

 Velocities, list of, 122. 

 Velocity and sediment, 478. 

 Ventilation, 159. 



Venus, transit of, report of Royal obser- 

 vatory of Brussels, 82. 

 Vermont weather-signals, 181. 

 Vesque's Botany, 532. 

 Virginia, mesozoic flora, 280; Natural 



Bridge, 13; university, publications of 



observatory, 80. 

 Vivisection in Germany, 262; in Holland, 



471; moral aspects of, 283; at Oxford, 



283, 315. 

 Voice of serpents, 85, 188, ill. 267. 

 Volcanic dust from Nebraska, 335. 



W. Trowbridge's Physics, 84. 



W., J. R. Itinerant science-teachers, 85. 



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

 astronomical day, 524. 



Wagner's Engineering geology, reviewed, 

 260. 



Walking, ill. 382. 



Wampum, artificial, 3. 



Ward, L. F. The Ginkgo-tree, ill. 495; 

 a glance at the history of our knowl- 

 edge of fossil plants, 93; premature ap- 

 pearance of the periodical cicada, 476; 

 why is water considered ghost-proof? 

 2. 



Warner comet prizes, 118. 



Warren's Paradise found, reviewed, 406. 



Washington anthropological society, 62; 

 anthropological and biological societies, 

 Saturday lectures of, 140 ; national mon- 

 ument, ill. 146; effect of lightning-stroke 

 on, ill. 517; Saturday scientific lectures, 

 284. 



Water impassable to ghosts, 2. 



Water-gas, 303. 



Water-spout at sea, 391, 472; miniature, 

 323. 



Weather of February and March, 1885, 

 308; observations, time of, 120; signals, 

 local, 163; in Vermont, 181. 



Webb's Sun, 412. 



Weeks's Manufacture of coke, reviewed, 

 239. 



Wesley, W. H. Professor Hastings's 

 theory of the corona, 474. 



Wetmore, E. W. Centrifugal force, and 

 the supposed polar ice-cap, 334. 



Whale, white, 451. 



Whales, flukes of, 355. 



White, I. C. The geology of natural 

 gas, 521. 



Whitney, J. D. Lake Mistassini, 8. 



Wilder. B. G. The use of slips in scien- 

 tific correspondence, 44. 



Wiley, H. W. American milk, 130; but- 

 ter, 339. 



Wilken's Das matriarchat, reviewed, 16. 



Williams, E. H., jun. Plastic snow, ill. 

 189. 



Williams, G. H. The microscope in 

 geology, 190. 



Williams, H. F., pneumatic cabinet of, 480. 



Williams college lyceum of natural his- 

 tory, semi-centennial of, 302, 385. 



Willis, Bailey. Economy of fuel, 227. 



Wilson, D., on aesthetic faculty in primi- 

 tive races, 459. 



Wilson, J. C , on climate of Florida, 481. 



Winchell's Geology of Minnesota, re- 

 viewed, 529; World-life, reviewed, 300. 



Wing, second phalanx in third digit of a 

 carinate-bird's, 355. 



Winlock, W. C. Comets and asteroids 

 of 1884, 31; the earthquake of Jan. 2, 

 44. 



Winslow's Stadia surveying, reviewed, 77. 



Wires, underground, 204. 



Wisconsin academy of sciences, 60; bill 

 with regard to deaf-mutes, 375 ; geology, 

 map, 427. 



Woeikof, A. Recent Russian geograph- 

 ical explorations, 75. 



Woeikof's work on climatology, 365. 



World-stuff, 300. 



Wrioht, G. F. The Niagara gorge as a 

 chronometer, ill., map, 399. 



Yakutsk, trade in children in, 283. 

 Yale-college graduates, death-rate among, 



530. 

 Yellowstone Park as a bison preserve, 64, 



105. 

 Young, C. A. An attempt to photograph 



the corona, 307. 

 Young, C. A., on Jupiter, 353. 

 Yuchi Indians, 253. 

 Yukon River, 224. 



Zinck, L., on stone age in Africa, 405. 

 Zoller and Rissmiiller on growth of 



leaves, 82. 

 Zone catalogue, ill. 59. 

 Zoology, 389; text-book of, 525. 

 Zootoniv, 136. 



