SCIENCE.— INDEX 10 VOLUME VL 



575 



E., O. St. Petersburg letter, 430, 492. 



E., S. Hypnotism, 504. 



Earth, shrinkage of crust of, 220. 



Earthquake shocks, 540. 



Earthquakes in Bengal, 159 ; Iceland, 51 ; 

 New Guinea, 117; at sea, 140, 180; 

 Spanish, 393; in Switzerland, 59; in 

 Victoria, B.C., 558. 



Eaton, H. W. Voss-Holtz electrical 

 machine, 338. 



Ebbinghaus's Experiments in memory, 

 reviewed, 198. 



Ebstein on corpulence, 395. 



Eclipse, solar, of Sept. 9, 449. 



Economic association, 239; essays, 111; 

 science and statistics, section of Ameri- 

 can association, 78, 235. 



Edelweiss, cultivation of, 80; protection 

 of, 120. 



Edingeron anatomy of nervous system, 

 407. 



Edison, Thomas Alva, portrait, 145. 



Edlefsen on acute articular rheumatism, 

 396. 



Education and health of women, 341. 



Educational association of Nipon, 370; 

 meeting in Boston, 351. 



Edwards's Butterflies of North America, 

 reviewed, 307. 



Effigy mounds in Iowa, ill. 453. 



Egleston, T., on decay of building-stones, 

 14. 



Egypt, stone implements in, 119. 



Election excitement verstis brains, 551. 



Elective studies at Harvard, 499. 



Electrical engineering school in Boston, 

 150; fire, ball of, 338; light industry, 

 government interference with, in Eng- 

 land, 537; lighting, 238; machine, 338, 

 363; measuring apparatus, 151.283; rail- 

 way, 180; at Frankfort, ill. 240 ; in New 

 York. Ul. 148; wires underground, 373. 



Electrotechnical handbook, 447. 



Elevation of earth's surface, causes of, 387. 



Elizabeth Thompson fund, 141, 144, 421. 



Elkm's work at Yale college observatory, 



go 



Elliott, E. B., on electric lighting, 238; 



the silver question, 237. 

 Ellis's West African Islands, reviewed, 



306. 

 Elting, I., on Dutch village-communities 



of tbe Hudson, 250. 

 Embryology, suggestion from, 481. 

 Encken on unity of mental life, 452. 

 Encyclopaedia Bntannica on Greely's ex- 

 plorations, 463. 

 Endowment for research, 144. 

 Engelhardt on Admiral von Wrangell, 417. 

 Engineers, American society of civil, 13. 

 England, geographical instruction in, 78. 

 Ensilage in England, 500. 

 Entomology, economic, in Illinois, 261; in 



the national museum, 445. 

 Equatorial currents in solar and planetary 



atmospheres, 516. 

 Eskimo compared with languages of 



northern Asia, 300. 

 Ethical theory, types of, 136. 

 Ethnography of antarctic America, 92. 

 Ethnology, Mexican, 405. 

 Europe, geological map of, 377. 

 Evolution through attack and defence, 339. 

 Exploration in Indo-China, Ul. 106. 

 Explosions as a means of propulsion, 374; 



mine, 117. 

 Eye, development of, ill. 194, 

 Eyesight and civilization, 195. 



Factory hours in England, 40. 



Fanning's water-supply for New York, 72. 



Farnsworth, p. J. The English spar- 

 row, ,541. 



Faroe Islands, 555. 



Ferrel, W. The temperature of the 

 moon, .541. 



Ferret, American, ill. 549. 



Fertilization, cross, in Campanula ameri- 

 cana, 22.5. 



Fever, means of combating, 395. 



Finland, 515. 



Fiords, formation of, 280. 



Fish, mortality of, 373; sleep of, 506. 



Fish-culture, advance in, 3.53: stations in 

 Switzerland, 160. 



Fisher, C. H., on statistics of consumption 

 in Rhode Island, 512. 



Flash language, American, 283. 



Fletcher, Alice C. An average day in 

 camp among the Sioux, 285; an evening 

 in camp among the Omahas, 88. 



Fletcher, A. C, on a Sioux camp, 233; war 

 customs of Omahas, 231. 



Flexure of transit instruments, 205, 387. 



Flood Rock explosion, 315, 325, 326, 335, 

 353, 431. 



Flora of Nantucket and Martha's Vine- 

 yard, 363. 



Florida, miocene deposits in, 82. 



Fol, H., on evidence of tail in man, 92. 



Food, application of science to production 

 and consumption of, 234. 



Food-fishes, co-operation in preserving, 

 420. 



Foods, human, 235. 



Forbes on poisonous waters in Keeling 

 Islands, 369. 



Forestry congress, 181, 312. 



Formative force of organisms, 4. 



Formosa, 280. 



France, height in, ill. 523. 



Franklin, Christine L. Science in com- 

 mon schools, 289. 



Franklin, F. Newcomb's Political econ- 

 omy, 495, 538. 



Frazer, p. International geological con- 

 gress at Berlin, 540. 



French academy in its origin, 105; growth 

 of, 1635-1885, 190; use of, 281; associa- 

 tion for the advancement of science, 99; 

 expeditions, 259. 



Freud's Coca. 119. 



Friction and lost work, 275, 



Fright, effect of, 550. 



Fritsch's Permian reptiles of Bohemia, 

 reviewed, 97. 



Fruit, influence of locality upon, 193. 



Fungi, 277. 



Fungoid growth on spider, 409. 



G. An unreliable treatise on disinfec- 

 tants, 540. 



G., A. Insular floras, 297. 



Gage, S. H. The limitations and value of 

 histological investigation, 226. 



Gage, S. H. and S. P. Aquatic respiration 

 of soft-shelled turtles, 283. 



Gage, S. H. and S. P., on aquatic respira- 

 tion of turtles, 225. 



Gagem on the ascent of Popocatapetl, 390. 



Galton, F. Types and their inheritance. 

 268. 



Galveston, deep water at, 215. 



Gannett, H. The magnetic declination 

 in 1728, 283. 



Gardiner, F., jun. An Arizona natural 

 bridge, ill. 67. 



Gas, natural, geology of, 42, 184; in Illi- 

 nois, 520; wells, 441; of Ohio, 220. 



Gastric juice injected in blood of animals, 

 409. 



Gee. See Stewart and Gee. 



Geikie's Geology, reviewed, 298. 



Geographical education in England, 78, 

 5,38; news, 157; notes, 50, 71, 134, 311, 

 356, 380, 426, 448, 488, 515, 554; orthog- 

 raphy, reform in, 110 ; society of 

 Russia, 430. 



Geographies, new series of, .557. 



Geography, some works on, 298; study of, 

 349. 



Geological annual, 159, 185; changes in 

 New South Wales, 320; congress at Ber- 

 lin, 158, 333, 376, 520, 540; history, con- 

 tradictions in, 41; map of Europe, 377; 

 survey of Canada, 521. 



Geology and geography section of Ameri- 

 can association, 219; of Japan, 13; Ohio, 

 257; natural gas, 42, 184; recent progress 

 in, 217; some works on, 298; of the Vir- 

 ginias, 17. 



German physicians, fourth congress of, 

 395; possessions in Africa, 40; univer- 

 sities, map, 244. 



Germination studies, 224. 



Germs, effect of sunlight on, 475. 



Gestation in homed toad, 185. 



Gilbert, G. K., on old shore-line of Lake 

 Ontario, 222. 



Gilchrist trust, lectures under, 383. 



Gill, T. Man's ancestry, 162. 



Gillman, H., on burial customs, 2.33. 



Ginkgo, etymology of, 84. 



Ginkgo-tree, 4, 44, 103, 243. 



Girard on composition of wheat grain, 415. 



Glacial action in Canada, ,388: pendulum 

 in Switzerland, 42; region, Norwegian, 

 135. 



Glaciation of Lackawanna valley. 221. 



Glaciers, ill. ,56; Swiss, 42. ,59. 



Glass, explosion of, 452; toughened, 293. 



Goethe and vegetable morphology, 1-30. 



Gold in Borneo, 119: near Constantinople, 

 572. 



Goodale's Physiological botany, reviewed, 

 471. 



GooDE, G. B. The care of pamphlets, 337 ; 

 recent Challenger monographs, 526. 



Gottsche's travels, 119. 



Government, city, 236; science, 536; and 

 the scientific bureaus, 5-30. 



Grandidier on gigantic bird of Madagas- 

 car, 418. 



Gravity determinations in and near Japan, 

 319. 



Gray, Dr. Asa, 160; his seventy-fifth birth- 

 day, ill. 465, 477. 



Gray's Explorations of east coast of 

 Greenland, 448. 



Gray, E. P. Calendar reform, 408. 



Great Basin region, reconnoissance in, 58. 



Greely, A.W., arctic explorations of, 463; 

 rescue of, 278. 



Greenland, east coast of, visited, 448 ; ex- 

 ploration of, 558; native iron in, 280. 



Guatemala, pre-Columbian history of, 514. 



Giinther's Geophysik, reviewed, 299. 



Gutta-percha, substitute for, 160. 



Hagen, H. a. An old work on political 

 economy, 562. 



Hague, A. The decay of the obelisk, 510. 



Haight, S. S, on accurate standards for 

 surveyors' chains, 215. 



Hale, H. Ethnography of antarctic Amer- 

 ica, 92. 



Hale, H., on the Blackfoot tribes, 456. 



Hall, A. Height of land in Connecticut, 4; 

 Reineke Fuchs in political economy, 563. 



Hallett, H. S. Exploration in Indo- 

 China, ill. 106. 



Hamy's Mexican ethnology, reviewed, 405. 



Hann, J., on the laws of temperature in 

 the Austrian Alps, 459. 



Hanno's voyage, 488. 



Hare. See Woodhead and Hare. 



Harkness, W., on flexure of transit in- 

 struments, 205, 387; the silver question, 

 237. 



Harrington, M. W. Lost rivers, 205. 



Harrison, Sir J. P., on the great toe, 452. 



Hartwell, E. M., on physical training in 

 Germany, 534. 



Harvard college observatory, 556;* bequest 

 to, 1, 384; elective studies at, 499. 



Hayward, S. Color and other associa- 

 tions, ill. 338. 



Hazen, H. A., on hygrometers and psy- 

 chrometers, 387. 



Health, public, 38; chemistry in the ser- 

 vice of, 208; maxims of, 75. 



Heat, obscure, 443. 



Hehn and Stallybrass's Wanderings of 

 plants and animals, reviewed, 426. 



Height in France, ill. 523. 



Heilprin, Angelo. The classification 

 and paleontology of the U. S. tertiary 

 deposits, 83. 



Helm's Glaciers, reviewed, 56. 



Helix cantiana, 418. 



Hemsley's Botany of the Challenger, re- 

 viewed, 297. 



Henning, G. C. The English sparrow, 498. 



Henshaw, S. Coleoptera of America, 454. 



Henshaw's List of American Coleoptera, 

 382. 



Herrick, F. H. An abnormal black bass, 

 ill. 243 ; carnivorous habits of the 

 striped squirrel. 338. 



Hicks, H., on bone-caves in Wales. 53. 



Hicks, L. E., on Dakota group in Nebras- 

 ka, 221. 



Higginson, T. W. American flash lan- 

 guage again, 283. 



HiLGARD, E. W. Absorption of mercurial 



