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SCIENCE. — INDEX TO VOLUME V. 



Polar expeditions, 19, 121. 



Pollen, action of, on seed-coats and peri- 

 carps, 67. 



Pollution, river, 72. 



Polydactylism in horses, 102. 



Population of China, 263. 



Porcelain, new, 161. 



Porpoise fishery, 424. 



Powell, J. W. The administration of 

 the scientific work of the general gov- 

 ernment, 51 ; the Indians the mound- 

 huilders, 267; inheritance among the 

 ancient Arabs, 16 ; the patriarchal 

 theory, 345. 



Powell, J. W., on government scientific 

 bureaus, 42; organization of tribe, 355. 



Pratt, W . H. The muskrat carnivorous, 

 105. 



Pratt gymnasium, ill. 95. 



Predictions, earthquake, 185. 



Prehistoric America, 176; congress at 

 Lisbon, reviewed, 218; dentistry, 223; 

 fishing, ill. 415; Portuguese skulls, 102; 

 remains, 181; sculptures, ill. 523; struc- 

 tures in Micronesia, 284. 



Prerau, prehistoric remains at, 181. 



Primitive races, aesthetic faculty in, 459. 



Prize, Bordin, 450; Breant, 304; De Can- 

 dolle, 410; of Linnean society of New 

 South Wales, 392; for scientific author 

 or inventor, 141 ; of Societe d'encour- 

 agement pour l'industrie nationale, 412. 



Prizes for discovery, 103 ; of French 

 academy, 242; geographical society of 

 Paris, 142 ; London geographical soci- 

 ety, 372; geological society, 243; Royal 

 society of New South Wales, 322 ; War- 

 ner, 118. 



Prjevalski's explorations in Thibet, 39. 



Projectile, new compound, 224. 



Pronunciation, 508. 



Prout, H. G. An estimate of General 

 Gordon's scientific characteristics, 289. 



Providence sewerage system, 40. 



Psychiatry, 258. 



Psychical research, American society for, 

 13, 44, 55, 491. 



Psychology, 389. 



Ptomaines, 62. 



Pumice from Krakatoa, 120. 



Pumpelly, R. Composite portraits of 

 members of the National academy, ill. 

 378. 



Pyramid of Gizeh, 118. 



Qualitative analysis, 301. 

 Quarry-industry statistics, 239. 

 Quaternary, fossil elk from, ill. 420. 

 Quimby, E. T. Was it imagination? 4. 



Rails, creeping, 344. 



Railway, elevated, in Paris, 532; guide, 

 geological, 510. 



Rainfall, 85; of Kansas, 12. 



Reade, I. M., on denudation of America, 

 82. 



Reclus's New universal geography, 351. 



Red arrow gate of Korea, ill. 438. 



Reis, memorial bust of, 81. 



Reka River, 40. 



Remsen, L, on magnetic influence in 

 chemical action, 354. 



Richarz. See Konig and Richarz. 



Richet on mental suggestion, 132. 



Riley, C. V. On the care of entomo- 

 logical museums, 25; the collection of 

 insects in the National museum, 188 ; the 

 periodical cicada, 518. 



Rio de Janeiro geographical society, 410. 



Rissmiiller. See Zoller and Rissmtiller. 



River-pollution, 72. 



Rivers, flood-discharge in, 451. 



Robinson, B., on antiseptic inhalations, 

 480. 



Rockwood, C. G., jun. Earthquake of 

 Jan. 2, 1885, map, 129; the Spanish 

 earthquakes, ill. 191. 



Rocky-Mountain region, Jurasso-creta- 

 ceous flora of, 531; mesozoic floras of, 

 458. 



Rodentia, carnivorous habits of, 144, 286. 



Rogers's History of English labor, re- 

 viewed, 155. 



Rolleston's Scientific addresses and pa- 

 pers, reviewed, 486. 



Romance, mathematical, 181. 



Romanes' Researches on primitive ner- 

 vous systems, reviewed, 388. 



Roots, relation of form to time of matu- 

 rity in, 124. 



Roraima, ascent of, 224. 



Rowland, H. A., on values of the ohm, 

 354. 



Royal astronomical society of London, 

 317; medal, 121; meteorological society, 

 224; society of Canada, 458; society of 

 northern antiquaries, 405. 



Running, ill. 382. 



Russian base of operations against India, 

 map, 356 ; embassy to Afghanistan, 366 ; 

 expeditions, 182; geographical explora- 

 tions, 75; society, 39, 75, 141, 263; med- 

 als, 160; rivers, flood-discharge in, 451. 



Russians at Herat, 368. 



Ryder, J. A., on flukes of whales, 355; 

 protective contrivances for eggs of 

 fishes, 425. 



%. Colored stars, 248. 



St. Elmo lights, 40, 372. 



Salem East India marine society, 182. 



Salisbury, R. D. Columnar structure 

 in sub-aqueous clay, 287. 



Salmon, North-American, 424. 



Salvin and Godman's collections, 284. 



San Diego aquatic plants, 441; meteoro- 

 logical summary for February, 322; 

 society of natural history, lectures, 224. 



Sands, product from waste, 141. 



Sanitaria, 480. 



Saporta's Problematical organisms of the 

 ancient seas, reviewed, 507. 



Sargent's Report on the forests of North 

 America, reviewed, 116. 



Saskatchewan country, map, 340. 



Saussure, statue to, 512. 



Schellen's Dynamo-electric machines, re- 

 viewed, 117. 



Schmidt-Miilheim's Handbook of healthy 

 and diseased meat, reviewed, 178. 



School books in Chinese, 510; statistics of 

 Germany, 61. 



Schools, geographical instruction in, 393. 



Schulze, Aurel, return of, 412. 



Schwatka, F. The north magnetic pole, 

 164. 



Science, commercial, 225; decadence of, 

 about Boston, 86, 144, 207; at the south, 

 revival of, 246; and surgery, 96. 



Scientific associations of Boston, 125; 

 bureaus, government, appropriations 

 for, 206; co-ordination of, 47; re-organi- 

 zation of, 41 ; transfer of, to navy depart- 

 ment, 123; legislation, reformation of, 

 325; results of the Greely expedition, 

 163; of the Lady Franklin Bay expedi- 

 tion, ill. 309; work, government, 336; 

 administration of, 51. 



Scott, W. B. A fossil elk or moose from 

 the quaternary of New Jersey, ill. 420. 



Scottish Highlands, geology of, 87. 



Scudder, S. IL, on geological develop- 

 ment of winged insects, 355. 



Sea, chemistry and physics of, 98. 



Seasons in Japan, 203. 



Sedative drug, 222. 



Sediment, 478. 



Seismological notes, 199. 



Seismologist, amateur, 454. 



Seismoscope, 199. 



Sekiya, K., on recent Japanese earth- 

 quake, ill. 483. 



Selenium cell, 244. 



Selwyn, A. R. C. Lake Mistassini, ill. 

 65. 



Selwyn and Dawson's geological map of 

 Canada, reviewed, 156. 



Semitic languages, 405. 



Sense-organs, abnormality of, 266. 



Senses, correlation between defects of, 

 127 ; of spiders, 261. 



Seppilli. See Tamburini and Seppilli. 



Serpents, voice of, 85, 188, ill. 267. 



Sewage, disposal of, 40, 183. 



Sewers, Parisian, 323. 



Sharples, S. P. The use of slips in 

 scientific correspondence, 144. 



Shaw's Icaria, reviewed, 34. 



Sheffield scientific school lectures to 

 mechanics, 183. 



Shepard's Systematic mineral record, 

 reviewed, 301. 



Sherman's Pronunciation, reviewed, 508. 



Ships, dimensions of, 134. 



Shufeldt, R. W. Abert's squirrel, ill. 

 474; the carnivorous habits of the Ro- 

 dentia, 286; a complete fibula in an 

 adult living carinate-bird, ill. 516; the 

 Georgia wonder-girl and her lessons, 

 189 ; the voice of serpents, ill. 267. 



Siam, opening of, 39. 



Siberia, exploration of, 324; sulphur of, . 

 222. 



Sicily, typhoon in, ill. 344. 



Siebold, Carl Theodor von, portrait, 415. 



Sierra Nevada of Spain, 195. 



Signals, telegraphic, 324. 



Silicates, classification of, 354, 459. 



Silk in mixed fabrics, amount of, 459. 



Silurian insects, discovery of, ill. 97. 



Silver from mounds, ill. 419, 515. 



Simon's Manual of chemistry, reviewed, 

 139. 



Skinner, A. N. Total eclipse of the sun 

 in August, 1886, 165. 



Skulls, composite photographs of, 355, 

 449; cubic capacity of, ill. 499; prehis- 

 toric, 102. 



Sleep-walking, 15. 



Slips, use of, in scientific correspondence, 

 44, 86, 144. 



Smelt-hatching, 424. 



Smith, Angus, on river-pollution in Eng- 

 land, 72. 



Smith, Erminnie A. Artificial wam- 

 pum, 3. 



Smith, Eugene A. Phosphatic rocks of 

 Florida, 395; tertiary phosphates in 

 Alabama, 376. 



Smoke question, 263; testing drains by, 

 283 



Snake bites, 38; dance, 202. 



Snow, F. H. Is the rainfall of Kansas 

 increasing? 12. 



Snow, plastic, ill. 189; slide, 434. 



Societe d'encouragement pour l'industrie 

 nationale, prize of, 412. 



Society for psychical research, journal of, 

 62; publications, catalogue of, 159. 



Soils, study of, 531. 



Solar eclipse of March 16, 1885, map, 210, 

 226; in September, 1885, 161, 324; in 

 1886, 165; parallax, 412. 



Somal country, 19. 



South America, determinations of longi- 

 tude in, 151. 



South Kensington inventions exhibition, 

 243, 322. 



Spain, earthquake in, ill. 191, ill. 351; 

 Dec. 25, 203; Sierra Nevada of, 195. 



Spencer's Elevations in the Dominion of 

 Canada, 19. 



Spiders, senses of, 264. 



Sponges, digestion of, 257. 



Squirrel, Abert's> ill. 474, 515. 



Stadia surveying, 77. 



Standard cell, new, 494. 



Stanley on the Kongo, 62. 



Stars, colored, 248; measuring distances 

 of, 225; motions of, 511. 



Statistics, age, peculiarities in, ill. 461. 



Steam on street-railways, 135. 



Steam-engine, efficiency of, 364 ; indicator, 

 77. 



Stearns, R. E. C, on giant clams, 423. 



Steel for boilers, 322. 



Steinmann's journeys in Patagonia, 224. 



Stellar maps, 351; parallax, ill. 241. 



Sternberg, G. M. The comma bacillus 

 of Koch, ill. 109, 144. 



Stoddard's Lecture-notes on general chem- 

 istry, reviewed, 301; Qualitative analy- 

 sis for beginners, reviewed, 301. 



Stolz on the science of number, 243. 



Stone, C. P. The climate of the Egyp- 

 tian Sudan, 268; the route from Suakin 

 to Berber, map, 290. 



Stone, G. H. A novel snow-slide, 434; 

 the recent Chicago storm and the sun- 

 glow, 476; the ruddy glow around the 

 sun, 415. 



Stone age in Africa, 405; man in, 3, 43. 



Storm-charts, 20. 



Street-railways, steam on, 135. 



Strong, E. A. Silver in mounds, 515. 



