SCIENCE. — INDEX TO VOLUME V. 



537 



bill regulating medical practice, 186, 

 513; topographical survey, 246. 



Massaga, memoirs of, 122. 



Mather, F., on smelt-hatching, 424. 



Mather, W., on technical instruction in 

 America, 276. 



Matthews, W., on measuring cubic capaci- 

 ty of skulls, ill. 499. 



Maxwell, J. C, life of, 317. 



Meat, healthy and diseased, 178. 



Mechanics, axioms of, 201. 



Medal of French Academie des sciences, 

 412. 



Medical practice, regulation of, 186, 513. 



Mediterranean coral fishery, 511. 



Medusa, new, 257. 



Megaphone, use of, 243. 



Melville, G-. W. Mr. Melville's plan of 

 reaching the north pole, 286. See also 

 247. 



Menges on the Somal country, 19. 



Mental capacity of infants, 306; disorders, 

 relation of anatomy and physiology of 

 brain to, 258. 



Meriden scientific association transac- 

 tions, 411. 



Merriam, C. H. A tropical American 

 turtle on Anticosti, 474. 



Merrill, G-. P. Supposed crude jade 

 from Alaska, 209; volcanic dust from 

 south-western Nebraska, 335. 



Mesozoic flora, 280. 



Metal-work exhibition at Nuremberg, 222. 



Meteorological congress, 450; notes, 97, 

 ill. 365; observatory on Blue Hill, ill. 

 440; state service, 163; tables, 162. 



Meteorology, balloon in, 91; elements of, 

 20. 



Metric system in America, 61. 



Mexico, archeological tour in, ill. 58. 



Meyer, O. The classification and pa- 

 leontology of the U.S. tertiary deposits, 

 516. 



Meyer's Konversations lexikon, 350. 



Meynert's Psychiatry, reviewed, 258. 



Microbes, cultivation of, ill. 500; effect 

 of, on germination of plants, 121 ; rela- 

 tions of, to life, 268. 



Micronesia, prehistoric structures in, 284. 



Micro-organisms, formation of poisons 

 by, 158. 



Microscope, in botany, 470; electric light 

 for, ill. 142 ; in geology, 190. 



Microscopical anatomy, 510; petrography, 

 138; sections of Abietineae, 81. 



Microscopists, 164, 205, 209. 



Migration of birds, 322. 



Milk, American, 130. 



Mind, in nature, 264; reading, 301. 



Mineral record, 301. 



Mineralogy, text-books in, 301. 



Mining laboratory, ill. 417. 



Minnesota, geology of, 529. 



Minot, C. S. The effects of cold on 

 living organisms, 522. 



Mississippi River commission, 473; old 

 river lakes along, map, 391; tempera- 

 ture of mouth of, 351. 



Mistassini, Lake, 8, ill. 65. 



M'Nab's Island, geology of, 458. 



Modern language association, 20. 



Moffett, S. E. Rainfall and crops, 85. 



Monster, parasitic, 452. 



Montana, Devonian strata in, 249. 



Monterey pine and cypress, 433. 



Montreal botanic garden, 205, 513. 



Moon, size of, when near the horizon, 222. 



Moqui snake-dance, 202. 



Morocco, insurrection in, 390. 



Mortality experience of insurance com- 

 panies, 435; Connecticut mutual life- 

 insurance company, 379. 



Mortillet's conclusions regarding early 

 man in Europe, 136. 



Mound, silver from, ill. 419, 515. 



Mound-building tribes, 267, 515. 



Mounds, effigy, ill. 131. 



Mount Whitney, Langley's work on, 

 319. 



Mountain investigation, 531. 



Movement of earth's crust, 514. 



M'tesa, death of, 423. 



Miiller's census of Australian plants, 511. 



Muir's Principles of chemistry, reviewed, 

 180. 



Museums, entomological, care of, 25. 

 Muskrat, carnivorous habits of, 65, 144, 

 155. 



Nadaillac's Prehistoric America, re- 

 viewed, 176, 208. 



Nantucket museum, ill. 108. 



Naples zoological station, preservation of 

 jelly-fishes at, 227. 



National academy of sciences, April meet- 

 ing, 261, 353; list of papers read at, 370 

 composite portraits of members of, ill 

 378; recommendations of, for re-organi 

 zation of government scientific bureaus 

 41; report of committee on co-ordina 

 tion of government scientific bureaus 

 47; textile microscopical association 

 472. 



Nautical almanac, 167; British, 174; Pa 

 cific coaster's, 141; publications of U.S 

 office, 100. 



Naval architecture, 384. 



Navigation, inland, of Europe, 426. 



Nebraska, volcanic dust from, 335. 



Nectar secretion, 82. 



Neptune, size of, 350; variability of light 

 of, 121. 



Nervous systems, primitive, 388. 



New England meteorological society, 

 map, 18, 411; thunder-storm observa- 

 tions in, 411. 



New Guinea, journey in, 411. 



New Haven, Peabody museum at, ill. 67. 



New Jersey agricultural experiment-sta- 

 tion, report for 1884, reviewed, 471; 

 land, changes in, 372. 



New Orleans academy of sciences, 411. 



New South Wales, Linnean society's 

 prize, 392; Royal society prizes, 322. 



New York microscopical society's jour- 

 nal, 162: state survey, 217. 



Newberry, J. S. Saporta's Problem- 

 atical organisms of the ancient seas, re- 

 viewed, 507. 



Newcomb, S. The Georgia wonder-girl 

 and her lessons, 106; mortality experi- 

 ence of the Connecticut mutual life- 

 insurance company, 379. 



Newfoundland, expedition to, 492. 



Newton, Hampden's designation of, 355. 



Niagara Falls as a source of electrical 

 energy, 401; geological museum at, 333; 

 preservation of, 398; gorge as a chro- 

 nometer, ill., map, 399. 



Nicholson, H. H. The voice of ser- 

 pents, 188. 



Nitric oxide, liquefaction of, 492. 



Nitrogen, excretion of, by animals, 172. 



Noble on erosion of guns, 392. 



jSlordenskiold's arctic investigations, re- 

 viewed, 430. 



North-American fish fauna, 425; salmon 

 and trout, 424. 



North pole, plan of reaching, 247, 286. 



Nowacki on soils, 531. 



Number, science of, 243. 



Numeration, art of, 39. 



Nutritive value of cellulose, 306. 



Obrecht's solar parallax measurements, 

 412. 



Observatories, tidal, 223. 



O'Bvrne, M. C. Mr. Hampden's desig- 

 nation of Sir Isaac Newton, 355. 



Ocean-currents, theory of, 372. 



Ohio agricultural experiment-station, re- 

 port for 1884, reviewed, 471; gas-wells, 

 474; valley, vegetation in, 414. 



Ohm, values of, 354. 



Oil for stopping breakers, 56, 392. 



Oils of Italy, 323. 



O'Niell's foot-journeys, 19. 



Oppolzer on proposed change in astro- 

 nomical day, 524. 



Orcutt, C. R. American pearls, 44; 

 aquatic plants of San Diego, 441. 



Ordnance survey, 510. 



Ore-deposits, 469. 



Organisms in the air, scarcity of, 235. 



Ormerod's work on injurious insects, 

 452. 



Ornithologist and oologist, 39. 



Ornithorhynchus, eggs of, ill. 257. 



Orsolle's Le Caucase et la Perse, reviewed, 

 370. 



Orton, E. The natural gas-wells of 



north-western Ohio, 474. 

 Osborn, H. F. Dr. Haacke's discovery 



of the eggs of Echidna, 3. 

 Ottawa field-naturalists' club, 140. 

 Oxford, vivisection at, 283, 315. 

 Oyster-beds of New York, 425. 

 Oyster-fishery in Connecticut, 234. 



Pacific coaster's nautical almanac, 141. 



Palategraph, 183. 



Palenque visited by Cortes, 171, 248. 



Paradise found, 406. 



Parallax, 283; solar, 412; stellar, ill. 241. 



Parasitic copepod, 161; leech, ill. 434; 

 monster, 452. 



Paris electrical exhibition, 160; elevated 

 railway, 532; geographical society, 142; 

 industrial exhibition for 1885, 304; 

 sewers, 323. 



Parker, H. W.~ Footprints in the rocks 

 of Colorado, ill. 312. 



Parker memorial science class, 531. 



Parker's Zootomy, reviewed, 136. 



Parson, R. C, on steam on street-rail- 

 ways, 135. 



Pasteur's system of vaccination for an- 

 thrax, 304. 



Patagonia, journeys in, 224. 



Patriarchal theory, 345. 



Paul, H. M. The electric light for light- 

 houses and search-lights, 150; the most 

 economical size of electric-lighting con- 

 ductors, 23; seismological notes, 199. 



Peabody museum, New Haven, ill. 67. 



Peale, A. C. Devonian strata in Mon- 

 tana, 249. 



Pearls, American, 44. 



Peckham's Petroleum and its products, 

 reviewed, 239. 



Pendulum control, 182. 



Pennsylvania geological survey, 121 ; 

 mound, silver from, ill. 419. 



Percheron on hydrophobia, 40. 



Peridotite, dikes of, in Kentucky, 65. 



Peripatetic teaching, 288. 



Personality, variations of, 532. 



Perthes' atlas, 530. 



Petermann's Mittheilungen, 204. 



Petrography, microscopical, 138. 



Petroleum and its products, 239; trans- 

 portation of, map, 504. 



Pettit's Modern reproductive graphic 

 processes, reviewed, 389. 



Pftiiger's Archiv fur physiologie, 413, 432. 



Phenomenon at sea, 242. 



Philadelphia academy of natural sciences, 

 bureau of scientific information, 143; 

 lectures, 119. 



Phillips, W. A. Chopping-stones, 144. 



Phillips's Ore-deposits, reviewed, 469. 



Philological expedition, 119. 



Phosphates in Alabama, 376. 



Phosphatic rocks of Florida, 395. 



Photograph of larynx, 224; of tornadoes, 

 instantaneous, 208; ill. 160. 



Photographing the corona, 266, 307, 397, 

 436. 



Photography, apparatus to avoid glare of 

 artificial light in, 224; composite, 373: 

 precautions in, 513; in production of 

 stellar maps, 351. 



Phthisis, causes of, 480. 



Phylogeny of placental mammalia, 354. 



Physical tables, 162 ; technics, 139 ; train- 

 ing at Amherst, ill. 95. 



Physics, 37, 349; of the earth, 3S6; prob- 

 lems of, 139; in schools, 233; of the sea, 

 98 ; text-books of, 139. 



Physiological anatomy of plants, 35; re- 

 search, 453; text-books, 137. 



Physiology, 137, 261, 389: literature of, 

 413. 



Pickering, W. H. An attempt to photo- 

 graph the corona, 266, 307, 436. 



Pinabel on Tonkin mountaineers, 237. 



Pine, Monterey, 433. 



Placenta in lower vertebrata, 257. 



Planet, new, 224. 



Plants, anatomy of, 35; aquatic, 441; 

 census of, 511: knowledge of fossil, 93. 



Piatt, I. H., on acclimatization, 481. 



Pneumatic cabinet, 4S0. 



Poisons, formation of, by micro-organ- 

 isms, 158. 



