INDEX TO VOLUME VI. 



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



Abbott, C. C. Aestivation of mammals; 

 what is it ? 402. 



Abbott, Miss H. C. D., on Yucca angusti- 

 folia, 210. 



Abert's squirrel. 82. 



Abnormal black bass, ill. 243. 



Actinometer, self-recording, 313. 



Adelaide observatory, 350. 



Aden, tornado at, 58. 



Adulteration of honey, 210. 



Aepyornis, 418. 



Aerial navigation, 20. 



Aerostatic school, 300. 



Aestivation of mammals. 402. 



Afghan boundary, tribes upon, ill. 69. 



Africa, around, ill. 114; coal-beds in, 59 ; 

 cultivation in, 160: East, explorations in, 

 311: German possessions in, 40; West, 

 Cameroons district, 555. 



African expedition. 60; islands, 306; slave 

 trade. 441 ; smithy, ill. 347. 



Agassiz. A. The coast survey and 'po- 

 litical scientists,' 253. 



Agassiz, A., 302. 



Agassiz'6 Life of L. Agassiz, review^ed, 

 portrait, 330. 



Agassiz, L., on the activity of the mind 

 during sleep. 344; influence on scientific 

 activity, 384; life of, ^07'^rai^, 330;. me- 

 morial of, 258. 



Agassiz museum, ill. 421. 



Agricultural chemists, meeting of, 248; 

 convention, 68: science, society for pro- 

 motion of, 2, 193. 



Agriculture, demands of, on botany, 193; 

 university courses in, 240. 



Alabama weather-signals, ill. 181. 



Alaska, exploration of, 278. 3.57, 380, 448; 

 industries of, 357, 427: late news from, 

 95; native tribes of, 228; whaling catch 

 in, 2.59. 



Alasoniere's Horse breeding,reviewed,447. 



Albatross, last cruise of, 110. 



Alert expedition. .3.50. 



Algeria, colonization in, 317. 



Allen's exploration of the Atnah River, 

 .357, 380. 



Allen's Organic analysis, reviewed, 356. 



Alloys, aluminum, 210 ; copper and sil- 

 ver, 231. 



Almucantar, 406; observations, 206, 239. 



Alpme cretinism. 484. 



Alps, Austrian, temperature in, 459. 



Aluminum alloys, 210. 



Alvord, H. E., on human foods, 235; tele- 

 metric aid to meteorological records, 

 194. 



America, ethnography of antarctic, 92. 



American association for the advance- 

 ment of science. 197, 201; committee re- 

 ports. 202; composite portrait of officers 

 of, ill. 167; local committee, 116; officers 

 elect. 2:38: proceedings of sections, 204, 

 206, 210, 214, 219, 224, 227, 2:30, 235; reso- 

 lutions concerning coast-survey, 204; 

 publications of, 141 : astronomical so- 

 ciety. 312: contribution to museum 

 economy. 82: economic association, 239, 

 464 ; flash languaee, 283; forestry con- 

 gress, 181, 312; historical association, 

 249; history, materials for, in foreign 

 archives, 2.50; opticians, honor to, ,306; 

 public health association, 428, 441, 449, 

 453, .511, 531; Silurian scorpion, ill. 87, 

 ill. IHS, 184; society of civil engineers 

 at Deer Park, 13; for psychical research, 

 censorship of, 81 ; first report of, re- 

 viewed, 1.55. 



Americanists, international congress of, 

 24* J. 



Araherpt college science association, 100. 



Amia, serrated appendages of, 226. 



Amphipleura pellucida, photographs of, 

 228. 



Anaesthetic, chloroform as, 154. 



Analysis, statistical, 237. 



Andromeda, new star in nebula of, 247, 

 310, 359, 473; spectrum of, ill. 262, 333, 

 336. 



Angell, J. B. A need for a careful study 

 of the history of China, 479. 



Anglo-Saxon, history of, 487. 



Ann Arbor, American association at, 197, 

 201: undergraduate study at, 428. 



Annisquam zoological station, 259. 



Anthrax inoculation, 120. 



Anthropological school of Paris, 476; sec- 

 tion of American association, 230. 



Anthropologists, congress of German, 475. 



Anthropology, criminal, 238. 



Anthropometric apparatus, 361; instruc- 

 tions, 476. 



Antisell, T., on laboratory practice, 211. 



Appalachian mountain club, 428. 



Archeological discovery, 19. 



Archeologist in trouble, 386. 



Archaeopteryx, 116. 



Arctic coast of Alaska, 381. 



Arctic exploration, 349. 



Arethusa, cruise of, 384. 



Argentine republiCj boundary of, 426 ; 

 colonization in, 555 ; trade routes with 

 Bolivia, 555. 



Arizona natural bridge, ill. 67; scenery, 44. 



Armsby, H. P., on Cooley system of 

 creaming milk, 194. 



Arthur, J. C, on pear-blight, 225. 



AsHBURNER, C. A. The geology of natu- 

 ral gas, 42, 184. 



Asia, central, explorations in, 554; maps 

 of, 451. 



Askabad, mineral resources of, 359. 



Association of ofticial agricultural chem- 

 ists, 248. 



Associations, color, 82, 125, ill. 142, 186, 

 ill. 242, 337. 



Asteroid, new, 333, 406, 449. 



Asthma, 396. 



Astronomical day, 18, 358, 444; notes, 95, 

 310, 333, .358, 381, 40.5, 427, 448, 473, 489, 

 516, 556 ; progress in 1884, 71 ; report, 

 singular, .350; society of Brooklyn, 312; 

 work at Nice, 350. 



Astronomy, practical, 404. 



Atkinson, E. The application of science 

 to the production and consumption of 

 food, 234. 



Atkinson, E., on competition and co- 

 operation, 237; fire insurance, 236; silk- 

 cultnre in United States, 236. 



Atnah River. 357. 380. 



Atropine, infiuence of, on circulation, 224. 



Audubon collection of birds, 140. 



Austrian expedition to the Kongo, 79. 



Axe, stone, in Champlain valley, 233. 



Axolotl, Mexican, 90 ; susceptibility to 

 transformations, 263. 



Aztec hieroglyphic writing, 260. 



Babes. See Cornil and Babes. 

 Bacilli of cholera, 2.52. 

 Bacillus, chromogenous, 226. 

 Bacteria, 77; culture, methods of, 97. 

 Bailey, S. C. H. A new meteoric iron 



from West Virginia, 563. 

 Bajenoff, N., on skulls of assassins and 



men of note, ill. 72. 

 Baker, H. B., on relation of rainfall and 



water-supply to cholera, 5:32. 

 Baker, I. O. Natural gas in Illinois, 520. 

 Barnes, C. R., on cross-fertilization in 



Campanula americana, 225. 



Bashore, H, B. An Indian paint-cup, 3. 



Battery, secondary, 60. 



Beauchamp, W. M., on Iroquois clans. 

 231. 



Bell, A. G., on astronomical day, 444. 



Beloit college observatory, 200, 302. 



Beloochistan, whirlwinds in, 118. 



Ben Nevis meteorological observatorv, ill. 

 459. 



Bengal, earthquakes in, 159. 



Berger, H. G., on infiuence of cocaine and 

 atropine on circulation, 224. 



Bergh, R., on the Challenger nudibranchs, 

 526. 



Berlin exhibition of hygiene in 1882-83, 

 reviewed, 36. 



Bernard, Claude, statue to, ill. 117. 



Berry, G. A., on civilization and eyesight, 

 195. 



Bert, P., on chloroform as an anaesthetic. 

 154. 



Berthoud, E. L. Abert's squirrel, 82. 



Bertillon, J. Height in France, ill. 523. 



Bessemer plant, 342. 



Bessey, C. E., on bisexuality of pond- 

 scums, 224; demands of agriculture on 

 botany, 193; inflorescence of Cuscuta 

 glomerata, 225. 



Bettany's Eminent doctors, reviewed, 

 571. 



Biela's comet, 333; meteor stream, 489, 

 496, 519, 556. 



BiGELOw, H. R. Recent contributions to 

 the literature of micro-biology, 124. 



Billings, F. S. Relation of animal dis- 

 eases to public health, reviewed, 38. 



Billings, J. S., on tables for vital statistics, 

 531. 



Biological laboratory, marine, in England, 

 382; section of American association, 

 224. 



Birds, Audubon collection of, 140; gigan- 

 tic, of Madatfascar, 418; origin of, 116; 

 relationship with dinosaurs, 295. 



Blackfoot tribes, 456. 



Bland, T., 440. 



Bohemia, Peruvian reptiles of, 97. 



Bolivia, trade routes with Argentine re- 

 public, 555. 



Bolton, H. C. Chemical nomenclature, 

 368. 



Bolton's Catalogue of scientific serials, 

 reviewed, 256. 



Bolts in boilers. 214. 



Boltz, A., on the Cyclops, 452. 



Bonar's Malthus and his work, reviewed, 

 567. 



Bone-caves in Wales, 53. 



Bones, 289. 



Bordeaux observatory, 427, 449. 



Bore-hole, deep, 118. 



Borneo, gold in, 119; travels in, 472. 



Boston school for electrical engineering, 

 150. 



Botanical club at Ann Arbor. 99. 



Botany, physiological, Goodale's, 471 ; 

 practical, 98; Shaw school of. 21, 475. 



BouTELLE, C. O. What has the coast sur- 

 vey done for science? 558. 



Bower and Vines's Practical botany, re- 

 viewed, 98. 



Brady, G. S., on the Challenger Entomos- 

 traca, 527. 



Brady, H. B., on the Challenger Forami- 

 nifera, 527. 



Brain oi extinct vertebrates, 360; locali- 

 zation of functions in, 379; physiology 

 of, 521. 



Branner, J. C, on glaciation of Lacka- 

 wanna valley, 221. 



Brashear, J. A., on rock-salt surfaces. 207. 



