CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI. 



SPECIAL AETICLES. 



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Abbottj O. C. Aestivation of mammals ; what is it ? . 405i 



Action of cold on microphytes 393 



Activity of the mind during sleep 344 



Advance in flsh-cultnre 353 



African smithy. Ill .'347 



Agricultural convention at Washington 68 



Agassiz, A. The coast survey and 'political scientists,' 253 



Agassiz, Life of. Portrait 330 



Agassiz museum at Cambridge. Ill 421 



Alert expedition .350 



American association at Ann Arbor 201 



American association. —Proceedings of the section of an- 

 thropology 230 



American association. — Proceedings of the section of 



astronomy and mathematics 204 



American association. — Proceedings of the section of biol- 

 ogy 224 



American association. — Proceedings of the section of 



chemistry 210 



American association. — Proceedmgs of the section of 



economic science and statistics 235 



American association. —Proceedings of the section of 



geology and geography 219 



American association. — Proceedings of the section of his- 

 tology and microscopy 227 



American association. — Proceedings of the section of 



mechanical science 214 



American association. — Proceedings of the section of 



physics 206 



American engineers at Deer Park I3 



Angrell, J. B. A need for a careful study of the history 



of China 479 



Answer to charges affecting the geological survey . . . 424 



Artificial winds 462 



Association of official agriculttiral chemists 248 



Astronomical progress in 1884 71 



Atkinson, E. The application of science to the produc- 

 tion and consumption of food 234 



Bacilli of cholera asiatica and cholera nostras 252 



Ben Nevis astronomical observatory. lU 459 



Bertillon, J. Height in France. Ill 523 



Blackfoot tribes 456 



Bland, Thomas 44O 



Bolton H. C. Chemical nomenclature 368 



Bone-caves in Wales 53 



Brooks, "W. K. Artificial propagation and cultivation 



of oysters in floats 437 



Bunker, F. S. Anti-cholera inoculation ! 439 



Carbolic acid as a disinfectant 566 



Cailletet, L. The liquefaction of oxygen. 111. . . ! 51 

 Chandler, S. C, jun. The change in the great nebula 



in Andromeda 247 



Channingr, E. Bulgaria andBulgarians. Map ... 303 



The Barman dispute. Maps 399 



Cheyne"s observations on the cholera microbe . ... 193 



Chloroform as an anaesthetic I54 



Cholera prospects for England 437 



Civilization and eyesight ! 195 



Committee reports of tbe American association .... 202 

 Comparison of the skulls of assassins and men of note. III. 72 

 Composite portrait of the officers of the American asso- 

 ciation. Portrait 167 



Composition of the wheat grain 415 



Conn, H. W. A suggestion from modern embryologyi 481 



Consumptive period 34 



Corthell, E. L. The ship-railway between the Atlantic 



and Pacific. Ill 33 



D., W.M. The recent tornadoes 252 



Dall, W. H. The native tribes of Alaska 228 



Deaths from wild beasts and snakes in India 344 



Development of the eye. Ill I94 



Dewey, J. Education and the health of women . . . 341 



Drought and weathercocks 528 



Button, C. E. The latest volcanic eruption in the 



United States 46 



E,, S. Hypnotism ! 504 



Edible clam introduced on the Atlantic coast 53 



Edison, Thomas Alva. Portrait 145 



Effect of the settlement of North America upon its wild 



animals; 416 



Elective studies at Harvard 499 



Ensilage in England . 500 



Entomology in the national mu.seum 445 



Excavation of the temple of Luxor. lU 370 



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Extraction of sugar from sorghum and sugar-cane . . . 524 

 Fletcher, Alice C. An average day in camp among 



the iSioux 285 



An evening in camp among the Omahas 88 



Flood Kock explosion felt at Harvard college 353 



Forms of ships for war and for peace 569 



Franklin, Christine L. Science in common schools, 289 



French academy in its origin 105 



Gagre, S. H. The limitations and value of histological 



investigation . 226 



Gagrem, C. von. The ascent of Popocatapetl .... 390 



Galton, F. Types and their inheritance 268 



Gardiner, F., jun. An Arizona natural bridge. III. . 67 



Geology of Japan 13 



German universities from a new point of view. Map . . 244 



Government and its scientific bureaus 5,30 



Gray, Asa; his seventy-fifth birthday. Ill 465 



Growth of the French academy, 1635-1885 190 



Hagrue, A. The decay of the obelisk 510 



Hallett, H. S. Exploration in Indo-China. 111. . . 106 

 Harrington, M. W. Lost rivers ........ 265 



Hig-g-inson, T. W. American flash language again . 283 



Historical association at Saratoga 249 



Hitchcock, C. H. The latest slides in the White 



mountains 3O6 



The recent land-slide in the White Mountains. III. . . 84 



Honor to American opticians ,306 



Howe, H. M. The Clapp-Griffiths Bessemer plant . 342 



Hubbard, G.G. The Kongo Free State 163 



Huxley on Darwin. Portrait 10 



Incandescent lamps on railways 153 



Industries of Siberia 343 



Ingersoll, E. Canadian plains 565 



The plains of British America 468 



International geological congress at Berlin 376 



J. J, Illustrations of recent Italian psychology .... 413 



Productiveness 479 



Racial characteristics of Jews. Ill 322 



Some reaction-time studies 458 



Jacques, "W". W. Underground wires 6 



James, E. J. Recent land legislation in England . . 455 



Jastrow, J. Composite portraiture 165 



K. Physics at Johns Hopkins . 547 



Kobelt, W. Colonization in Algeria 317 



Last cruise of the Albatross no 



Late news from Alaska 95 



Laws of temperature in the Austrian Alps 459 



Leaves of the pitcber-plant. Ill 296 



LeConte, Joseph, immortality in modem thought . 126 



Legal ohm standards 436 



Lesley, J. P. The president's address before the Ameri- 

 can association 168 



Lick observatory. Ill I86 



Lumsden, Sir Peter, on the tribes upon the Afghan bound- 

 ary. Ill 69 



M. Laying a cable 545 



M., A. The mind-cure 543 



M., C. S. Has man a tail ? 92 



McBride, T. H. Vegetable morphology a century ago. 



— Goethe . 130 



Mcintosh, W. C. Phosphorescence of marine animals, 295 



Massachusetts labor statistics 389 



Medical missionary work in China. Ill 570 



Meeting of the American public health association . 511. 531 

 Mendenhall, T. C. The explosion at Flood Rock . 326 

 Mexican axolotl, and ts susceptibility to transformations, 90 

 Minot, C. S. The formative force of organisms ... 4 



A new endowment for research ..." 144 



Mode of admission into the Royal society 486 



Mosquitoes vs. trout 197 



National university 509 



New theory of cohesion 274 



Newton, H. A., Biographical sketch of. Portrait ... 161 

 Nichols, W". R. Chemistry in the service of public 



health 208 



Nipon central educational association 370 



Nordenfelt submarine boat. Ill 394 



November meeting of the National academy of sciences . 443 

 Official scrutiny of the U. S. coast survey. ... . . 121 



Origin of the cereals 73 



Orton, E. Problems in the study of coal, with a sketch 



of recent progress in geology. . . / 216 



Osborn, H. L. Mimicry among marine Mollusca . . 9 

 Panama canal 503 



