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8GIEN0K — CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI. 



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Pasteur and hydrophobia 398, 467 



Paul, H. M. Recent gravity determinations in and near 



Japan 319 



Reform in our calendar 324 



Stars in rapid motion 483 



Timing the Flood Rock explosion 325 



Pickering", W. H. An attempt to photograph the 



solar corona without an eclipse 131 



Pickernell, F. A. The electric railway in New York. 



Ill 148 



Poisonous waters in the Cocos or Keeling Islands . . . 369 

 Preliminary report of the commission on Spanish earth- 

 quakes 393 



Presidency of the Royal society of London 442 



President and Professor Agassiz 302 



Progress in metallurgy 525 



Pumpelly, R. Soils and health 30 



Puppet-shows in Java. Ill 251 



Putnam, F. W. Man and the mastodon 375 



R., C. Recent progress in political economy 479 



Railways in Bnrmah 552 



Rathbun, R. A crab invasion 135 



Rauch, J. H. Chicago-River pollution 27 



Recent euucational meeting in Boston 351 



Reed, Sir E. The forms of ships 52 



Reform in geographical orthography 110 



Reilly, F. "W". How to deal with yellow-fever .... 25 



Relationships between dinosaurs and birds 295 



Remsen, Ira. City wells 32 



Resolutions of the American association concerning the 



coast survey 204 



Results of the Krakatoa eruption. Ill 291 



Results of shad propagation on the Atlantic coast . . . 433 



Richards, Ellen H. Science in common schools . . 289 



Riley, C. V- The song-notes of the periodical cicada . 264 



Routes into the interior of western China. Map .... 12 



Ryder, J. S. A new system of oyster-culture .... 465 



Sanitation and science 21 



School for electrical engineering in Boston 150 



Science and the state 325 



Search for the gigantic bird of Madagascar 418 



Shaler, N. S. Humanism in the study of nature ... 64 



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Shufeldt,'R. W. Zufiian conceptions of animal forms 



as shown in pottery. Ill 266 



Society for the promotion of agricultural science .... 193 



Steinen's explorations of the Xingu 133 



Sternberg-, G. M. Disinfection 328 



The international sanitary conference at Rome . . . 101 



Strong-, E. E. The Caroline Islands. Map .... 287 



Tarr, R. S. The English sparrow 416 



Natural enemies of oysters 392 



Taussig, F, W. Prices from 1873 to 1884. III. ... 365 



Telephone in Paris. Ill 110 



Telpherage. Ill 513 



Thonght-transferrence in Boston. Ill 8 



Todd, D. P. The future of the Lick observatory . . 181 



Toughened glass 293 



Toy, O. H. The new philology 366 



True, F. W. The American ferret. Ill 549 



The British museum of natural history. Ill 127 



Tyndall fellowships 45 



Typhoid-fever and its prevalence in autumn 374 



Use and abuse of learned societies 351 



Use of the French academy 281 



Utilization of by-products in charcoal burning 506 



Vanderpoel, S. O. Quarantines and their scientific 



value . 23 



Ward, L. F. A convenient system of river nomencla- 

 ture 321 



Water-supply of Breslau 34 



Water-supply for New York 72 



Webb, J. B. The second law of thermodynamics . . 212 



Western school of botany 21 



Whitfield, R. P. An American Silurian scorpion. 



III. . 87 



Who should be superintendent of the U. S. coast survey . 241 



Wilder, B. G. Educational museums of vertebrates . 222 

 Wilkinson, C. S. Geological changes in New South 



Wales 320 



Winlock, W. C. Comets II and III of 1884. ///. . . 47 



Wrangell, Admiral Baron P. von 417 



Wrig-ht, A. W. Electrical measuring instruments . . 151 



Yacht Puritan. Ill 168 



BOOK REVIEWS 



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American society for psychical research, First report 



of 155 



Berlin exhibition of hygiene in 1882-83 36 



Billings's Animal diseases and public health 38 



Bolton's Catalogue of scientific serials 256 



Caird's Social philosophy and religion of Comte .... 354 



Cassino's Standard natural history 74 



Challenger report on the stalked criuoids 138 



Comfort and longevity 37 



Congress, Fourth, of German physicians. By M. A. S. . . 395 



Cooke's Scientific culture 114 



Cornil and Babes's Bacteria 77 



Cruise of the Corwin 425 



Darwin's biography 276 



Doctors and their work. 'By M. A. S. 571 



Doolittle's Practical astronomy 404 



Edible and poisonous fungi 277 



Edwards's Butterflies of North America 307 



Ellis's West African islands 307 



Ermengem on the cholera microbe 154 



Experiments in memory. By W. J. 198 



Fifth volume of Ohio geology 257 



Geological survey of Canada 521 



Geology of the Virginias 17 



Glaciers and their role in nature. Ill 56 



Goodale's Text-book of botany 471 



Hornaday's Travels in Borneo 472 



Horse-breeding 447 



Infant psychology. By J. Jastrow 435 



Infectious diseases 299 



Insular floras. By^. G^ 297 



Jagnaux's Traite de mineralogie 16 



Joest's Around Africa. Ill 115 



Johnson's Surveying 356 



Kittler's Electro technical handbook 447 



Kratter's Alpine cretinism 484 



Langley's Temperature of the moon's surface. By H. M. 



Paul 412 



Last year's meeting of the American association .... 197 



Lipps'8 Psychological 't.tudies. By W. J 308 



Localization of functions in the brain 379 



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Lucy-Fossarieu's Ethnography of antarctic America. By 



H.Hale 92 



Malthus and his work 567 



Martineau's Types of ethical theory. By F. G. Peabody . 137 



Melon's From Palermo to Tunis 447 



Methods of bacteria culture 97 



Methods of teaching political economy 534 



Mexican ethnology 405 



Newcomb's Political economy. By E. J. James . . . 470 



North Carolina coal-fields. By I. C. Eussell 548 



Origin of mediaeval universities 460 



Permian reptiles of Bohemia 97 



Physiology of the brain. By C. S. Minot 521 



Plunkett's Household sanitation 57 



Political science in France 482 



Practical botany 98 



Pre-Columbian history of Guatemala 514 



Recent Challenger monographs. By G. B. Goode ... 526 



Remsen's Organic chemistry 76 



Report of the Point Barrow station 446 



Rescue of Greely 278 



Robe's Hygiene 278 



Russia under the tzars 355 



Schwatka's Nimrod in the north 554 



Some works on geology and geography 298 



Stanley's Kongo. Portrait, map 177 



Sumner's Economic essays Ill 



Theory of volcanoes. By G. E. Button 255 



Three physical text-books 96 



Thurston's Friction and lost work 275 



Upton, Gen. Emory, Life of 404 



Wallace's Bad times 553 



Waring' 8 House-drainage 39 



Washburn observatory 461 



Wight's Maxims of public health 75 



Windmill as a prime mover 258 



Work of the Challenger expedition : I. General and phys- 

 ical, 15 ; II. From a zoological stand-point, 54 ; HI. 



Geologically viewed 137 



Wuelker's History of Anglo-Saxon 487 



Zimmermann's Atlas of plant-diseases 156 



