SCIENCE. — CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI. 



Ambricak association numbbb, 201. 



AsTRONOMiCAi. NOTES, 95. 310, 333, 358, 381, 405, 427, 448, 473, 489, 516, 556. 



Calendar of societies, 410. (See also advertising pages.) 



Comment and criticism, 1, 41, 61, 81, 141, 261, 301, 325, 349, 373, 397, 419, 441, 463, 485, 507, 529, 551. 



Geographical notes, 50, 71, 134, 311, 356, 380, 426, 448, 488, 515, 554. 



Letters to the editor, 2, 42, 63, 82, 103, 123, 142, 162, 183, 242, 262, 283, 316, 335, 362, 384, 407, 431, 453, 478, 495, 517, 5.38, .558. 



Meteorological notes, 556. 



New books, 356, 426. 



Notes ant) news, 18, 40, 58, 78, 98, 116, 139, 157, 180, 199, 238, 258,278, 300, 312, 333, 348, 359, 371, 382, 406, 418, 428. 449, 459, 462. 474, 



484, 490, 517, 535, 550, 557, 572. 

 Publications received at editor's office, 388. (See also advertising pages.) 

 Recent proceedings of societies, 387. 409. (See also advertising pages.) 

 Science supplement, 317, 341, 365, 389, 411. 433, 455, 479, 499, 521, 543, 565. 

 Special correspondence: Boston Letter, 384, 476 ; London Letter, 334, 429, 493, 537 ; -S"^. Petersburg Letter, 430, 492: Washington 



Letter, 314, 361, 383, 453, 491, 536. 



LIST OF ILLUSTEATIOI>rS. 



PAGE 



Afghan tribes, some types of 70 



Alabama state signal service, five flags of the 200 



American association for the advancement of science, 



composite portrait of officers of the 167 



Andromeda, spectrum of the great nebula in 262 



Bala Mnrghab, gateway of 69 



Ben Nevis meteorological observatory 460 



Bernard, Claude, statue of 117 



Boat, Nordenf elt submarine, trial of the, at Landskrona, 



Sweden 394 



Bridge, Arizona natural 67 



Caffre, Natal 115 



China, western, map showing routes into interior of, 12 ; 



medical missionary work in 570 



Color associations with the months (2 figs.), 142, 143 ; and 



other associations (4 figs.) 243, 337, 338 



Comets II and in of 1884 (5 figs.) 47, 48, 49 



Darwin, Charles, portrait and signature of 11 



Doctor of the old school, a French 40 



Dome at Nice, section of floating (2 figs.) 80 



Edison, Thomas A., portrait and signature of 146 



Eye, development of the (3 figs.) 194, 195 



Ferret, the American 550 



Forge, an African 347 



France, map of, showing average height of inhabitants . 523 



Glacier, Rhone, map showing recession of 56 



Gray, Asa, vase presented to, on his seventy-fifth birthday, 465 



Heads, average measurements of three classes of ... . 73 

 Indo-China, map showing proposed railways in, 107; Pillar 



Rock in the Meh Ping, 107; Shan house at Kiang Hsen, 



108 ; ruins at Kiang Hsen, 109 ; map of, showing 



river-sources 400 



Java, behind the scenes at a puppet-show in 251 



Jews, composite photograph showing racial characteristics 



of (5 figs.) 323 



Krakatoa eruption, results of the (3 figs.) 292, 293 



Land-slide on Owl's Head, the recent 86 



Lick observatory, the (5 figs.) .... 187, 188, 189, 190, 191 

 Luxor, excavations going on in the court yard of the 



temple of 371 



Micronesia, map of 388 



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Micropterus salmoides (Lac.) Gill, malformed 243 



Mola rotunda 104 



Monument of the first duke of Sutherland at Lilleshall, Eng. 238 



Mortality,diagram exhibiting comparative, in Rhode Island, 512 



Mounds, effigy, in Iowa 454 



Museum, Agassiz, at Cambridge, plan of, 423 ; of natural 



history, the new British, on Cromwell Road, main 



fa9ade of 129 



Newton, Prof. Hubert Anson, portrait of 161 



Oxygen, Cailletet's apparatus for the liquefaction of . . 51 



Pitcher-plant, leaves of the (4 figs.) 296, 297 



Prices from 1873 to 1874 366 



Puritan, the yacht (2 figs.) 168, 169 



Railway, the electric, in New York (2 figs.), 148, 149 ; an 



electric, between Frankfort and Offenbach 240 



Rudbeckia, an abnormal 103 



Scorpion, an American Silurian 88, 183 



Stanley, Henry M., portrait of 179 



Sulu maiden 115 



Tablet, the Davenport 564 



Telephone, use of, for military purposes 239 



Telephones, map of Paris, showing the distribution of . . Ill 



Telpherage (4 figs.) 513,514 



Thought-transferrence, reduced facsimile of drawings 



showing some evidence of so-called 8 



Turkish territory, sketch map to illustrate changes in, by 



the treaties of San Stefano and Berlin ...... 304 



Universities, German, map showing the distribution of . 245 

 Zunian conceptions of animal forms as shown in pottery 



(4 figs.) 267, 268 



Africa, central, map of, based on Stanley's map of the 



Kongo Free State opposite 163 



Agassiz, L., portrait and signature of .... opposite 344 

 Bulgaria, map showing regions affected by the recent 



revolution in opposite 303 



India, further, map of, showing regions involved by the 



troubles in upper Burmah opposite 399 



Ship-railway, Tehuantepec, map and illustrations of. opp. 33 



Washington, three new portraits of opposite 507 



ERRATA. 



Page 140, col. 1, 34th line from top, for ' Aucon ' read ' An- 

 con.' 

 " 322, " 1, 9th line from bottom, for ' wild ' read ' mixed.' 

 " 322, " 2, 7th line from top, for ' 2 ^ ' read ' 0.2 %.' 

 " 323, " 1, 16th line from bottom, for ' Moyars ' read 



' Magyars.' 

 " 324, " 1, 23d line from top, for ^Cobanim'' read ' Coha- 



nim.'' 

 " 330, " 1, 20th line from top, for ' important ' read ' im- 

 potent.' 

 " 331, " 1, 19th line from top, for ' Braun ' read , Bronn.' 



for ' plead ' read 

 Catherina ' read 



Page 419, col. 3, 14th line from bottom, 

 ' pleaded.' 

 " 427, " 1, 1st line from top, for 



' Catharina.' 

 " 441, " 2, 22d line from bottom, after 'collections ' insert 



' of illSGCtS ' 



" 473, " 2, 23d line from top, after ' M. Gully' insert 



'(Ciel et terre, Oct. 1, 1885. p. 355).' 

 " 566, " 1, 24th line Irom bottom, for ' Crossing. Since 



then,' etc., read ' Crossing, since there,' 



etc. 



