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INDEX TO VOLUME V. 



*** Names of contributors are printed in small capitals. 



Abbott's Testing-machines, 77. 

 'Abert's squirrel, ill. 474, 515. 



Abietineae, microscopic sections of, 81. 



Acclimatization, 481. 



Adrianoff on Asian tribes, 39. 



Aeronautic exhibition, 532. 



Aeronautics in 1884, 295. 



Aesthetic faculty in primitive races, 459. 



Afghan boundary, 40. 



Afghanistan, map of, 451; Russian em- 

 bassy to, 366. 



Africa, climate of, 530; expedition into, 

 323; exploration of, 114; foot-journeys 

 in, 19; hauling a steamer through, 364; 

 inland sea in, 323 ; maps of, 422 ; political 

 map of, 370; stone age in, 405; strange 

 tribe in, 351. 



Agassiz, A., resignation of, from corpo- 

 ration of Harvard college, 140. 



Agassiz, Louis, tablet to, 472. 



Age statistics, peculiarities in, ill. 461. 



Agricultural experiments, 143; experi- 

 ment-stations, 471; functions of, 21, 23. 



Agriculture, functions of commissioner 

 of, 393; new commissioner of, 285, 394; 

 scientific principles of, 76. 



Air, analyses of, 223; scarcity of living 

 organisms in, 235. 



Alabama phosphates, 376. 



Alaska, explorations in, 154; jade from, 

 209. 



Alaskan ethnographical collections, 19. 



Albatross, cruise of, in the Gulf of 

 Mexico, 275. 



Algebra, symbolic, 77. 



Allen, Dr. Harrison, 206. 



Allen, J. A., 283. 



Allen's palatograph , 183. 



Alloy, new, 412. 



Alloys, metallic, 179. 



Almanac, British nautical, 174. 



Almanacs, nautical, 167. 



Altitudes in the alps, list of, 531. 



Aluminum, large block of, 263. 



Amber insects, Helm's collection of, 323. 



Ambulance classes, 160. 



America, denudation of, 82; natives of, 

 525; in pre-Columbian times, iron in, 

 530; prehistoric, 176; technical instruc- 

 tion in, 276. 



American association for the advance- 

 ment of science, meeting of 1885, 283; 

 local committee of, 509; membership of, 

 285; climatological association, 480; 

 commune, 34; fisheries society, 423; 

 flash language, 380: journal of archae- 

 ology, 81, 302; journal of mathematics, 

 141 ; metrological society, 450 ; milk, 130 ; 

 pearls, 44; philosophical society, 119; 

 races, antiquity of, 278 ; sculptures, pre- 

 historic, ill. 523; society of microsco- 

 pists, proceedings, reviewed, 178; soci- 

 ety for psychical research, 13, 44, 55, 491. 



Americanisms, 454, 494. 



Ames, C. H. The incandescent light on 

 steamers, 144. 



Amherst, physical training at, ill. 95; 

 summer school of languages, 321. 



Analyses of air, 223. 



Anatomy, physiology, and hygiene, 137. 



Anderson, W. P. The Hudson-Bay ex- 

 pedition of 1884, ill., chart, 213. 



Animals, excretion of nitrogen by, 172. 



Annealing iron castings, 222. 



Annisquam seaside laboratory, 211. 



Anthony and Brackett's Physics, re- 

 viewed, 349. 



Anthrax, vaccination for, 304. 



Anthropometric laboratory, 294. 



Anthropometry, 19. 



Anthropos and anthropopithecus, 104. 



Anticosti, tropical turtle on, 474. 

 Antiquities, Egyptian, 80. 

 Antiquity of American races, 278. 

 Antiseptic inhalations, 480. 

 Antivivisectionists, methods of, 245. 

 Antwerp botanical congress, 432. 

 Aphides, nectar secretion from, 82. 

 Aquatic plants of San Diego, 441. 

 Aqueduct, Croton, 497. 

 Arabia, travels in, 134. 

 Arabs, inheritance among, 16. 

 Archeological tour in Mexico, ill. 58. 

 Arctic investigations, 430. 

 Argentine zone catalogue, ill. 59. 

 Armor-plate, 74. 



Armsby, H. P. The digestibility of cel- 

 lulose, 11; digestion experiments, 375; 



do animals excrete free nitrogen? 172; 



errors in digestion experiments, 292; 



nutritive value of cellulose, 307. 

 Arthur, J. C. Hollyhock-disease and 



the cotton-plant, 2. 

 Ashburner, C. A. The Natural Bridge 



of_ Virginia, 13. 

 Asia, races of, 362; travels in, 39. 

 Asteroids of 1884, 31 ; new, 243. 

 Astronomers, doings of, 154. 

 Astronomical day, proposed change in, 



524; domes mounted on cannon-balls, 



125; notes, 141; observatory, electric 



light in, 184; time, 308. 

 Atlantic Ocean, earthquake in, 141. 

 Atlas, Perthes', 530. 

 Atmosphere of earth, ill. 441. 

 Audition of school-children, 354. 

 Aurora borealis, under the rays of, ill. 527. 

 Auroras, 394; effect of, 4; at Sagastyr, 



222; as seen at Willet's Point, 411. 

 Australia, glacial period in, 485; gold in, 



181. 

 Australian geographic conference, 183; 



plants, census of, 511. 

 Autographic system of telegraphy, 321. 



Babcock, "W. H. Do telegraph-wires 

 foretell storms? 396. 



Bacilli, curved, 481 ; hypodermic injection 

 of cultures of curved, 482; pure cul- 

 tures of, 472. 



Bacillus, cholera, 63, 75, ill. 454; comma, 

 ill. 109, 144. 



Bacteria, 392; study of, 506; transfer of, 

 from soil to atmosphere, 181. 



Baku, 370. 



Baldamus's collection of birds' eggs, 304. 



Balloon, Jeffries's voyage across English 

 Channel, 38, 221; in meteorology, 91; 

 method of ascending and descending in, 

 452. 



Ball's Astronomical observations at Dun- 

 sink, reviewed, 241. 



Baltic, level of, 102. 



Bandelier's archeological tour in Mexico, 

 ill., 58. 



Bark-louse secretion, 73. 



Barnard's Pyramid of Gizeh, reviewed, 

 118. 



Bartlett, J. R. The basin of the Carib- 

 bean, chart, 89; some recent experi- 

 ments with oil in stopping breakers, 56. 



Bass, hibernation of, 423. 



Baur, G. A complete fibula in an adult 

 living carinate-bird, 375; a second 

 phalanx in the third digit of a carinate- 

 bird's wing, 355. 



Bayne, H. A., on determination of amount 

 of silk in mixed fabrics, 459. 



Beaches, evidences of, in Cincinnati 

 group, ill. 231. 



Bean, T.H., on North-American salmon 

 and trout, 424. 



Beauchamp, W. M. The muskrat car- 

 nivorous, 65; prehistoric fishing, ill. 

 415. 



Beecher, C. E. Carnivorous habits of 

 the muskrat, 144. 



Behrens's Microscopical investigation of 

 vegetable substances, reviewed, 470. 



Belgian government, quinquennial prize 

 of, 80. 



Bell, A. G. Is there a correlation be-' 

 tween defects of the senses? 127; pre- 

 venting collisions with icebergs in a fog, 

 ill. 460; the Wisconsin bill relating to 

 the instruction of deaf-mutes, 375. 



Bell, A. G., on audition of school-chil- 

 dren, 354; detection at sea of proxim- 

 ity of objects by echoes, 354. 



Beni M'zab, 141. 



Bentham's will, 122. 



Berlin geographical society, 19; univer- 

 sity, 204. 



Berliner astronomisches jahrbuch, 141. 



Bernard, Claude, statue of, 20. 



Bibliographical needs, 104. 



Bibliographies, 119. 



Bigelow, H. R. The cholera bacillus, 

 ill. 454. 



Billings, J. S. Measuring the cubic 

 capacity of skulls, ill. 499. 



Billings, J. S., on composite photo- 

 graphs of skulls, 355; Ventilation and 

 heating, reviewed, 159. 



Binet, A., and Fere, C. Hallucinations, 

 233. 



Biological notes, 257. 



Birds, about Boston, 119; migration of, 

 322. 



Bison, preservation of, 64; preserve, 64, 

 1J5. 



Blackford, E. S., on New-York oyster- 

 beds, 425. 



Black's Formation of poisons by micro- 

 organisms, reviewed, 158. 



Bliss's index to map literature, 140. 



Blowpipe reactions, 459. 



Blue-Hill meteorological observatory, ill. 

 440. 



Boas, Franz. The configuration of Grin- 

 nell Land and Ellesmere Land, map, 

 170; Mr. Melville's plan of reaching the 

 north pole, 247. 



Bochefontaine on hypodermic injection of 

 cultures of curved bacilli, 482. 



Bogosloff Island, ill. 32; lava from, 66. 



Boiler, new, 532. 



Boilers, steel for, 322. 



Book notices, minor, 389; printing, de- 

 parture in, 452. 



Bordin prize, 450. 



Bore, 61. 



Bore-hole, finding, 295. 



Boston, decadence of science about, 86, 

 144, 207; scientific associations, 125. 



Bosworth, F. H., on hay-fever, 481. 



Botanic garden at Montreal, 205, 513. 



Botanical congress, 432. 



Botany, microscope in, 470; treatise on, 

 532 



Bottles, floating, 321, 531. 



Bourke's Snake-dance of the Moquis, re- 

 viewed, 202. 



Brachiopoda, British, 409 ; Devonian, 224. 



Brackett. See Anthony and Brackett. 



Brain, 306; anatomy and physiology of, 

 in relation to mental disorders, 258; 

 exhaustion, 282; extraction of bullet 

 from, ill. 313. 



Bramwell, F., on recent progress in en- 

 gineering, 235. 



Brasenia antiqua, ill. 514. 



Brazil, drainage system, 296; German 



