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SOIENGR — INDEX 10 VOLUME VI. 



Brazil, mangrove mud in, 120. 



Breon and Korthals on results of Kraka- 

 toa eruption, ill. 291. 



Breslau water-supply, 34. 



Brewer, W. H. The ginkgo-tree, 103. 



Bridge, natural, ill. 67. 



Bridges, railroad, 14. 



Brinton, D. G. The sculptures of Cozu- 

 malhuapa, 42. 



British America, plains of, 468; museum 

 of natural history, ill. 127. 



Brooks, W. K. Artificial propagation 

 and cultivation of oysters in floats, 437. 



Brooks comet, 381. 



Brugmann's Philology, reviewed, 366. 



Bryce, P. H., on small-pox in Canada, 533. 



Buckton, G. B., on civilization and eye- 

 sight, 195. 



Building-stones, decay of, 14. 



Bulgaria and Bulgarians, 303. 



Bulletin astronomique, 142. 



Bunker, F. S. Anti-cholera inocula- 

 tion, 439 ; carbolic acid as a disinfec- 

 tant, 566. 



Burgess, E., 384, 477. 



Burial customs, 233. 



Burmah, 158 ; fate of, settled, 552 ; rail- 

 ways in, 552. 



Burman dispute, maps, 399. 



Burrill, T. J., on silk-culture, 194. 



Busk on the Challenger Polyzoa, 527. 



Butler, A. W., on remains at San Juan 

 Teotihuacau, 231. 



Butler, N. M. The study of logic in the 

 scientific schools, 242. 



Butterflies of North America, 307. 



Cable, laying a, 545. 



Cailletet, L. The liquefaction of oxy- 

 gen, ill. 51. 



Caird's Social philosophy and religion of 

 Comte, reviewed, ,354. 



Calendar, reform in, 324, 408. 



California, archeological discovery in, 19. 



Cameroons district, West Africa, 555. 



Campanula americana. cross-fertilization 

 in, 225. 



Camphor, trade in, 451. 



Canada, geological survey, 521; small-pox 

 and vaccination in, 533. 



Canadian plains, 565. 



Cantwell's exploration of the Kowak 

 River, 380. 



Capello and Ivens m Central Africa, 489. 



Capron, J. R., on civilization and eye- 

 sight, 195. 



Carbolic acid as a disinfectant, 566. 



Caroline Islands, map, 287. 



Carpenter's Report on Crinoidea of the 

 Challenger, reviewed, 138. 



Carpenter, W. B., 493. 



Carter, R. B., on civilization and eye- 

 sight, 195. 



Cartographic work in Portugal, 59. 



Cassino's Standard natural history, re- 

 viewed, 74. 



Cassiopeiae (y), spectrum of, 386. 



Caucasus, explorations in, 492; petroleum 

 in, 313. 



Cereals, origin of, 73. 



Chaffaujon's expedition on the Orinoco, 

 135, 157, 356. 



Challenger expedition, work of, reviewed, 

 15, 54, 137, 138, 526. 



Champlain valley, stone axe in, 233. 



Chance's Report on North Carolina coal- 

 fields, reviewed, 548. 



Chancellor, C. W., on causes of pulmo- 

 nary consumption, 533. 



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

 great nebula in Andromeda, 247. 



Channing, E. Bulgaria and Bulgarians, 

 maps, 303; the Burman dispute, maps, 

 399. 



Chappel, J. E. Crystals in maple sirup, 

 539. 



Charcoal burning, utilization of by-prod- 

 ucts in, 506. 



Chauvin, Marie von, on Mexican axolotl, 

 90. 



Chazal, P. E., on determination of nitro- 

 gen, 249. 



Chemical laboratory, national, suggested, 

 536; nomenclature, 368. 



Chemism, 311. 



Chemistry, organic, 76 ; and public health, 

 208 ; section of American association, 

 210. 



Chemists, agricultural, meeting of, 248; 

 standing of, 538. 



Chesapeake zoological laboratory, work 

 at, 139. 



Chevreul, a centenarian, 258. 



Cheyne's observations on cholera microbe, 

 196. 



Chicago-River pollution, 27. 



Child, A. L. The English sparrow, 478. 



China, medical missionary work in, ill. 

 570 ; need to study its history, 479 ; 

 routes into, map, 12. 



Chipman, K. a. Color associations, 125. 



Chloroform as an anaesthetic, 154. 



Cholera, bacilli of, 252 ; inoculation, 439 ; 

 microbe, 154, 196 ; prospects for Eng- 

 land, 437; relation of rainfall and water- 

 supply to, 532. 



Christiani on localization of functions in 

 brain, 379. 



Chronograph, improvements in, 205. 



Cicada, periodical, in Massachusetts, 4 ; 

 premature appearance of, 3; song-notes 

 of, 225, 264. 



Cincinnati scientific lectures, 359. 



Circumnavigation of the globe, 311. 



Civilization and eyesight, 195. 



Clam, edible, introduced on Atlantic 

 coast, 53. 



Clapp-Grifiiths Bessemer plant, 342. 



Claypole, E. W., on paleozoic sediments 

 of Pennsylvania, 221. 



Clayton, H. H., on weather-changes of 

 long periods, 208. 



Clowes's Practical chemistry, 117. 



Coal-beds in Africa, 59 ; of North Caro- 

 lina, 548; problems in study of, 217. 



Coca, 119. 



Cocaine, influence of, on circulation, 224. 



Cocos Islands, poisonous waters in, 369. 



Cohesion, new theory of, 274. 



Cold, action of, on microphytes, 393 ; 

 waves, 557. 



Coleoptera of America, 382, 454. 



Colman on adulteration of food, 248. 



Colonial possessions of European coun- 

 tries, 313. 



Colonization in Algeria, 317. 



Color and other associations, 82, 125, ill. 

 142, 186, ill. 242, 337 ; of the sky, 316. 



Colorado, blunder in maps of, 485. 



Colquhoun's Burmah, 1.58. 



Columbia college philosophical society, 

 360. 



Combustion, effect of heating air upon, 

 100. 



Comets II and III of 1884, ill. 47 ; 1885 

 II (Barnard), 310 ; Biela's, .333; Brooks, 

 381; discovery of, during solar eclipse, 

 313 ; observations at Greenwich, 405 ; 

 Tuttle's, 139, 159; two new, 517. 



Competition and co-operation, 237. 



Composite photography, ill. 507 ; portrait 

 of officers of American association, ill. 

 167; portraiture, 165, 283. 



Comte's philosophy, .354. 



Congdon on a spider covered with fun- 

 goid growth, 409. 



Congress, American forestry, 181 ; of 

 Americanists, 240 ; international geo- 

 logical, 158; medical, 61. 



Congressional committee on scientific 

 bureaus. 536. 



Conn, H. W. A suggestion from modern 

 embryology, 481. 



Connecticut, height of land in, 4 ; legisla- 

 tion as to standard time, 62. 



Consumption, causes of, 533 ; in Rhode 

 Island, 512. 



Consumptive period, .35. 



Cooke's Scientific culture, reviewed, 114. 



Cooley, M. E., on new smoke-burning 

 device, 215 ; testing indicator-springs, 

 215. 



Cooley system of creaming milk, 194. 



Co-ordinates, polar, 206. 



Cope, E. D., on brain and auditory organs 

 of Peruvian saurian, 224. 



Cordoba observatory, 427. 



Cornell university, mechanical engineer- 

 ing at, 406. 



Cornil and Babee's Bacteria, reviewed, 77. 



Corona, photographing solar, 131, 362, 387. 



Corpulence, 395. 



CoRTHELL, E. L. The ship-railway be- 

 tween the Atlantic and Pacific, ill., map, 

 33. 



Corwin, cruise of, 425. 



Coulter, J. M., on relation of ovary and 

 perianth in development of dicotyle- 

 dons, 226. 



Cowles, E. H. and A. H., and Mabery, C. 

 F., on aluminum alloys, 210. 



Cozumalhuapa sculptures, 42. 



Crab invasion, 135. 



Cremation, 463, 534. 



Cretinism, 484. 



Crinoids, stalked, 138. 



Cross, C. R. Electric measuring appara- 

 tus, 283. 



Crystals in maple sirup, 520, 539. 



Currents, equatorial, in solar and planet- 

 ary atmospheres, 516; ocean, 140. 



Cuscuta glomerata, inflorescence of, 225. 



Cyclops, 452. 



Cylinder condensation, 216. 



D., W. M. The recent tornadoes, 252. 

 Dagincourt's Annuaire geologique, 159, 



185. 

 Dakota group in Nebraska, 221 ; mounds, 



232. 

 Dall, W. H. The arms of the octopus, 



432; miocene deposits in Florida,* 82 ; 



the native tribes of Alaska, 228. 

 Dana, J. D. Lower Silurian fossils at 



Canaan, N.Y., 283. 

 Dana, J. D., on Silurian fossils from New 



York, 220. 

 Danais Archippus, 409. 

 Dandelion, 193. 



Danish expedition to east coast of Green- 

 land, 448. 

 Darwin, Charles, portrait, 10; biography 



of, 276; statue to, 18. 

 Darwinism, public sentiment toward, 



61. 

 Davenport tablet, ill. 564. 

 Davidson, G. Recent volcanic activity 



in the United States ; eruptions of Mount 



Baker, 262. 

 Davidson, Thomas, 359, 429. 

 Davis, W. T., on Danais Archippus, 409. 

 Deaf-mutes, normal school for instruct- 

 ors, 361. 

 Death, 226. 



Death-rates of blacks and whites, 491. 

 Deaths, recent, 20, 157, 158, 260, 359, 429. 

 Deep sea, light in, 19. 

 Denifle's Origin of mediaeval universities, 



reviewed, 460. 

 Development of limbs, 409. 

 Dewalque, G. International geological 



congress at Berlin, 520. 

 Dewey, J. Education and the health of 



women, 341. 

 Dinocerata, 454. 

 Dinosaurs and birds, 295. 

 Diseases, animal, 38 ; infectious, 299 ; of 



plants, 156. 

 Disinfectants, 485, 540 ; carbolic acid as, 



566. 

 Disinfection, 328, 564, 

 Displacement of solar lines, 358. 

 Doctors, eminent, 571. 

 DoUejr's Technology of bacteria investi- 

 gation, reviewed, 97. 

 Dolphin, rare, 44. 

 Dome, floating, ill. 80. 

 Don, connecting, with Volga, 515. 

 Doolittle, C. L. a bright meteor, 497. 

 Doolittle's Practical astronomy, reviewed, 



404. 

 Dorsey, E. B., on English and American 



railroads, 14. 

 DoPSEY, J. O. Linguistic studies at the 



Siletz agency, 262. 

 Dorsey, J. O., on Siletz agency, 230. 

 Drainage, 39. 



Draper, D., on effect of ozone, 302. 

 Drought and weathercocks, 528. 

 Dry-rot, 160. 

 Dunnington, F. P., on laboratory practice, 



211. 

 DuTTON, C. E. The latest volcanic ernp- 



tion in the United States, 46; the theory 



of volcanoes, 255. 



