SCIENCE. — INDEX 10 VOLUME VI 



Mathematical prize, 259; research, com- 

 parative activity of different nations in, 

 181. 

 Mathematics and astronomy section of 



American association, 204. 

 Matter, properties of, 96. 

 Maxwell's demons, 83. 

 Measurements, standards of, 215. 

 Mechanical engineering at Cornell, 406; 

 methods of teaching, 216; section of 

 American association, 78, 214. 

 Mediaeval universities, 460. 

 Medicine in the middle ages, ill. 40. 

 Mees, C. L., on laboratory practice, 212. 

 Meigs, M. C. Ball of electric fire, 338; 

 the Washington monument and the 

 lightninsr stroke of June 5, 63. 

 Melon's From Palermo to Tunis, re- 

 viewer!. 447.- 

 Memory. experiments in, 198. 

 Mexdenhall. T. C. The explosion at 



Mood Kock. 326. 

 3Iendenhall. T. C, on reaction time, 387; 



voltmeters, 387. 

 Mental life, mnity of. 452; suggestion, 



451. 

 Mercurial vapor, absorption of, by soils, 



497. 

 Metallurgy, progress in, 525. 

 Meteoric iron from West Virginia, 563. 

 Meteorites, false report of, 325, 336; in 



India, 3:^3. 

 Meteorological notes, 556; observations, 

 curious. 279; observatory on Ben Nevis, 

 ill. 459: observatory, floating, 117; rec- 

 ords, telemetric aid to, 194; station in 

 Xew Guinea. 159. 

 Meteorology in New England, 557. 

 Meteors abundant Aug. 10, 142; Biela, 

 489. 496, 519. .556; bright, 497; fall of, at 

 sea, 59; November, 279, 428. 

 Mexican ethnology, 405. 

 Meter, O. The classification and pale- 

 ontology of the U. S. tertiary deposits, 

 14.3. 

 MiCHELS, J. The English sparrow, 541. 

 Michie's Life of Gen. Upton, reviewed, 



404. 

 Michigan university, biology in, 3.59. 

 Micro-biology, recent contributions to 



literature of, 124. 

 Microbe, cholera. 154, 196. 

 Microphytes, action of cold on, 393. 

 Micropterus salmoides, ill. 243. 

 MiLLEK, G. S. Color and other associa- 

 tions, 243. 

 Mimicry among Mollusca, 9. 

 Mind-cure, 543. 

 Mineral products of United States, 99; 



resources of Askabad, 3.59. 

 Minerals from new localities. 222. 

 Mines, earthquake shocks in, 540; loss of 



life in, .5-38. 

 MixoT. C. S. Color associations with the 

 months. 82; the formative force of or- 

 ganisms, 4; a new endowment for re- 

 search, 144; physiology of the brain, .521. 

 Minot, C.S., on death, 226; morphology 

 of supra-renal capsules, 226; number- 

 habit, 233. 

 Miocene deposits, 82. 

 MItchella repens, 409. 

 Mirage on Lake Wettern. 1.58. 

 Molecular physics and theoretical chem- 

 istry, 212. 

 Mollusca, mimicry among, 9. 

 Monhegan, inscription rocks on, 124. 

 Monk Island, .555. 

 Moon's surface, temperature of, 412, 443, 



.541. 

 Morphology, vegetable, 1.30. 

 Morris. C, on e'volution through attack 



and defence, 339. 

 Mosquitoes vs. trout, 197. 

 Mounds in Dakota, 232; effigy, in Iowa, 



ill. 453. 

 Mount Baker, eruptions of, 262. 

 Mountain structure, trend and crustal 



surplusage in. 220. 

 Mountains^in Lapland, height of, .515. 

 Mourning, forms of, 407. 

 Murray on mosquitoes vs. trout, 197. 

 Museum economy, 82; educational, of 



vertebrates, 222. 

 MvEP.s, D. Meteoric activity, Aug. 10, 142. 



Nantucket, cable to, 545; flora of, 363. 



National academy of sciences, 419, 443, 

 449; chemical laboratory suggested, .536; 

 university, .509, .539. 



Natural history, standard, 74. 



Nautical almanacs, amalgamation of, 160. 



Navigation, aerial, 20. 



Nebula in Andromeda, new star in, 247, 

 310,359,473; spectrum of, ill. 262.333, 

 336. 



Negroes, statistics of, 237. 



Nervous system, anatomy of, 407. 



Neumann and Partsch's Physical geog- 

 raphy of Greece, reviewed, 299. 



NewEngland meteorological society, 490; 

 meteorology in, 557. 



New Grenada, resources of, 314. 



New Guinea, earthquakes in, 117; Ger- 

 man-English boundaries in, 60. 



New Princeton review, the, 551 . 



New South Wales, geological changes in, 

 320; irrigation of the interior of, 551. 



New York, convocation of university of, 

 61; electric railway in, ill. 148; micro- 

 scopical society, 410; water-supply, 72. 



Newcomb, S. Newcomb's Political econ- 

 omy, 495. 



Newcomb, S., on the astronomical day, 

 444; Political economy, 470, 495, 517, 

 538. 



Newton, Hubert A., portrait, 161; effect 

 of small bodies passing near a planet 

 on planet's velocity, 204. 



Nice, astronomical workat, 350; observa- 

 tory, floating dome of, ill. 80. 



Nichols, E. L., on spectrum of unclouded 

 sky, 207. 



Nichols, W. R. Chemistry in the ser- 

 vice of public health, 208. 



Nipon central educational association, 

 370. 



Nitrogen, determination of, 249. 



Nomenclature, chemical, 368; river, 321; 

 sanitary, 512. 



Nordenfelt submarine boat, ill. 394. 



North Carolina coal-fields, 548. 



Norway, northern, 515. 



Norwegian fiords, 280; glacial region, 

 1.35. 



November meteors, 279, 428. 



Number-habit, 233. 



Nuremberg, exhibition of metal -work at, 

 158. 



O., E. The swindling geologist, 453. 



Obelisk, the decay of the, 510. 



Observatory, floating, meteorological, 117. 



Octopus, arms of, 432. 



Ohio geology, 257. 



Ohm standards, 436. 



Oil-wells of Ohio, 220. 



Omahas, evening in camp among, 88 ; 



relationship among, 232 ; war customs 



of, 231. 

 Ontario, Lake, old shore-line of, 222. 

 Orinoco, expedition on, 135 ; travels on, 



356. 

 Orion, new star in, .556, .558. 

 Ornithology, economic, 78, 259. 

 Orthography, geographical, 110. 

 Orton, E. Problems in the study of coal, 



with a sketch of recent progressive 



geology, 217. 

 Orton, E., on Ohio gas and oil wells, 220 ; 



Report on Ohio geology, reviewed, 257. 

 OsBORN, H. L. Mimicry among marine 



Mollusca, 9. 

 Ovary of dicotyledons, 226. 

 Oxidation processes in animal tissues, 



508. 

 Oxus, old bed of, 516. 

 Oxygen, liquefaction of, ill. 51 ; manu- 

 facture of, 99. 

 Oysters, culture of, 465 ; natural enemies 



of, 392; propagation and cultivation of, 



4.37. 

 Ozone in the atmosphere, 302. 



Paine bequest, 1, 384. 

 Paint-cup, Indian, 3. 

 Palmer, G. H., on elective studies at 



Harvard, 499. 

 Palmer's Edible and poisonous fungi, 



reviewed, 277. 

 Palpi of insects, 475. 



Pamphlets, care of, .337, 386, 407, 432. 

 Panama canal, 421. .503. 

 Paneth, J., on irritability of cerebral cor- 

 tex, .521. 

 Paper blocks for masonry. 484. 

 Parallax of 40 o^ Eridani, .3.58. 

 Paris exhibition of industry, 1.58 : tele- 

 phone in, map, 110. 

 Pasteur and hydrophobia, 312, 398, 467 ; 



Newark mad dog, .508. 

 Patagonia, Argentine expeditions into, 



157. 

 Patent law, Japanese, 79. 

 Patriot. The Kongo Free State, 244. 

 Paul, H. M. The Biela comet meteor- 

 stream, 519; Flood Rock explosion, 431; 

 recent gravity determinations m and 

 near Japan, 319; reform in our calendar, 

 .324; stars in rapid motion, 483: tempera- 

 ture of the moon's surface, 412; timing 

 the Flood Rock explosion, 325. 

 Peabodt, F. G. Types of ethical theorj^ 



136. 

 Pear-blight, 225. 

 Peirce, C. S., and U. S. coast survey, 



158. 

 Pennsylvania geological survey, 41, 100 ; 



paleozoic sediments of, 221. 

 Peptone, absorption and assimilation of, 



116. 

 Perez on infant psychology, 435. 

 Perkins, G. H.. on stone axe in Champlain 



valley, 233. 

 Personal equation, 449. 

 Perthes' services to geography, ,398. 

 Peruvian reptiles, 97. 

 Petrifled eyes, 410. 

 Petroleum in Caucasus, 313. 

 Philadelphia academy of natural sciences, 



339, 363, 387, 409, 5.57. 

 Philology, the new, .366. 

 Philosophy, the new, 474. 

 Phosphorescence of marine animals, 295. 

 Phosphoric acid, method of estimating, 



248. 

 Photographing solar corona, 131, 362, 



387. 

 Photography, books on, 426 ; composite, 



ill. 507; prize in, 476; stellar, 443. 

 Photometers, 473. 

 Phrynosoma, gestation in, 185. 

 Physical science, lectures on, 96 : text- 

 books, 96; training in Germany, 534. 

 Physicians, fourth congress of German, 



395. 

 Physics, elementary, 96 ; at Johns Hop- 

 kins, 547; section of American associa- 

 tion. 206. 

 Pickering, E. C, on stellar photography, 



443. 

 Pickering, W. H. An attempt to photo- 

 graph the solar corona without an 

 eclipse, 131, 362, 387 : the color of the 

 sky, 316; a method for determining the 

 unit of light, 183. 

 PicKERNELL, F. A. The electric railway 



in New York, ill. 148. 

 Pitcher-plant, leaves of, 296. 

 Pilot chart, improvements in, 279. 

 Plains of British America, 468; Canadian, 



565. 

 Planet, velocity of, 204. 

 Plants, diseases of, 156, 203; hybridization 



of, 224. 

 Playfair, Sir L., on state aid to science, 



325. 

 Plunkett's Women, plumbers, and doc- 

 tors, reviewed, 57. 

 PoHLMAN, J. An American Silurian scor- 

 pion, ill. 183. 

 Point Barrow station, 446. 

 Poisonous meat, 419. 

 Polar station on the Lena, 492. 

 Poleck on dry-rot, 160. 

 Polejaeff on the Challenger sponges, 527. 

 Political economy, method of teaching, 

 534; Newcomb's, 470, 495, 517. 538 ; old 

 work on, 562; recent progress in, 411 : 

 Reineke Fuchs in, .563 : science in 

 France, 482 ; ' scientists,' 253. 

 Pollution, river, 27. 

 Polygonum, hyljridity in, 180. 

 Popocatapetl, ascent of, 390. 

 Portolano, Italian, of the sixteenth cen- 

 tury, 250. 



