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SOIENOR— INDEX 10 VOLUME VI. 



Portugal, cartographic work in, 59. 



Portuguese children, songs of, 311. 



Potash fertilizers, 260; method of estimat- 

 ing, 249. 



Potassic hydrate and alum, reaction be- 

 tween, 211. 



PoTEAT, W. L. Untimely death of a 

 chipping-sparrow, 63. 



Powell, E. P. Color and other associa- 

 tions, 338; science in common schools, 

 336. 



Prehistoric remains in Switzerland, 20. 



Prescott, A. B., on laboratory practice, 

 211. 



President, message of, 507; and Professor 

 Agassiz, 302. 



Pressure-motor, universal form of, 214. 



Prices from 1873 to 1884, 365. 



Prize of Berlin society for advancement 

 of manufacture, 119; mathematical, 259; 

 in photography, 476. 



Prizes, Lomh, 534. 



Proceedings of societies, 339, 363, 387, 409. 



Productiveness, 479. 



Prony-brake, 216. 



Psychical research, western society for, 

 78. 



Psychological studies, 308. 



Psychology, advances in French, 398 ; in- 

 fant, 435; Italian, 413. 



Psychrometers, 387. 



Publications, new, 340, 364, 388. 



PuMPKLLY, K. Soils and health, 30. 



Puppet-shows in Java, ill. 251. 



Puritan, yacht, ill. 168. 



Putnam, F. W. Man and the mastodon, 

 375. 



Putorius nigripes, ill. 549. 



(Quarantines, 23. 



Quartz grains in sandstones, 140. 



Quaternary deposits of Illinois, 221. 



R., C. Recent progress in political econ- 

 omy, 411. 



R., R. An archeologist in trouble, 386. 



Radiations, invisible, 206. 



Railways in Burmah, 552 ; electric, 180, 

 ill. 240; in New York, ill. 148; English 

 and American, 14 ; incandescent lamps 

 on, 153. 



Rainfall, relation of, to cholera, 532. 



Randolph, L. S., on stay-bolts in boilers, 

 214. 



Rathbun, R. a crab invasion, 135. 



Rauch, J. H. Chicago-River pollution, 

 27. 



Rayleigh on civilization and eyesight, 

 195. 



Reaction time, 387, 458. 



Reed, Sir E. J. The forms of ships, 52, 

 569. 



Reemelin, C, on city government, 236. 



Refraction, terrestrial, 333. 



Reifsnyder, Eliz^ibeth, medical work of, 

 in China, ill. .570. 



Reilly, F. W. How to deal with yellow- 

 fever, 25. 



Remsen, Ira. City wells, 32. 



Remsen's Organic chemistry, reviewed, 76. 



Renal capsules, morphology of, 226. 



Respiration in turtles, 225, 283. 



Rheumatism, acute articular, 396. 



Rhode Island, consumption in, 512. 



Richards's explorations in East Af rica,311. 



Richards, Ellen H. Science in common 

 schools, 289. 



RiLET, C. V. Periodical cicada in Massa- 

 chusetts, 4 ; premature appearance of 

 the periodical cicada, 3; the song-notes 

 of the periodical cicada, 264. 



Riley, C. V., gift of, to the national mu- 

 seum, 441; on injury by locusts, 236 ; 

 silk-culture in the United States, 236; 

 song-notes of periodical cicada, 225. 



River nomenclature, 321. 



Rivers, lost, 265. 



Rock-salt surfaces, 207. 



Rockwell, C. H., on almucantar observa- 

 tions, 206. 



Rodrigues, J. C, on the Panama canal, 

 503. 



Rogers, W. A., on standards of measure- 

 ment, 215. 



Rogers's Geology of the Virginias, re- 

 viewed, 17. 

 Robe's Hygiene, reviewed, 278. 

 Rome, international sanitary conference 



at, 101. 

 Rougerie"s apparatus for artificial winds, 



462. 

 Royal society of London, entrance to, 351, 



407, 486; officers of, 537; presidency of, 



442. 

 Rudbeckia, abnormal, ill. 103. 

 RuHEiT, C. Color associations with the 



months, ill. 142. 

 Russell, I. C. North Carolina coal-fields, 



548. 

 Russell, I. C, reconnoissancQ of, in the 



Great-Basin region, 58. 

 Russia, geographical society of, 430; iron 



industry of, 452; terrestrial magnetism 



in, 134; weather in, 430. 

 Ryder, J. A. A new system of oyster- 

 culture, 465 ; the swimming habits of 



the sunfish, ill. 103. 

 Ryder, J. A., on development of limbs, 



409. 



S., C. A. The magnetic declination in 

 1728, 244. 



S., M. A. Doctors and their work, 571 ; 

 fourth congress of German physicians, 

 395. 



S., O. T. The spectrum of y Cassiopeiae, 

 386 ; spectrum of the great nebula in 

 Andromeda, ill. 262, 336. 



St. Petersburg society of naturalists, 492. 



Salisbury, R. D. The swindling geolo- 

 gist, 408. 



Salmon, D. E., on virus of hog cholera, 532. 



Salmon, D. E., and Smith, T., on new 

 chromogenous bacillus, 226. 



Sampson, F. A. A mad stone, 123. 



San Juan Teotihuacan, remains at, 231. 



Sanborn, J. W., on customs of Senecas, 

 233. 



Sanitary condition of the Lea and Thames, 

 334; conference, 101; nomenclature, 512. 



Sanitation, household, 57; and science, 21. 



Saurian, brain and auditory organs of, 224. 



Sawyer, E. F. A new variable, 498. 



ScHiMPFP, R. D. The Biela meteors, 519. 



Schley and Soley's Rescue of Greely, re- 

 viewed, 278. 



Schmitz's Consumptive period, reviewed, 

 35. 



School of botany, 21; for electrical engi- 

 neering, 150. 



Schools, science in, 336. 



Schiibeler on origin of cereals, 73. 



Schuyler, E., on materials for American 

 history in foreign archives, 250. 



Schwatka's Nimrod in the north, reviewed, 

 554. 



Science in common schools, 289, 336 ; 

 and the state, 325. 



Science, removal of, to New York, 384. 



Scientific articles in the general maga- 

 zines, 490; bureaus, congressional com- 

 mittee on, 536 ; and the government, 

 530; culture, 114; titles, 464. 



Scorpion, American Silurian, ill. 87, Ul. 

 183, 184. 



Scums, bisexuality of, 224. 



Sea, temperature of, 118. 



Sea-level, oscillations of, 120. 



Sears, J. H. Crystals in maple sirup, 520. 



Sediment and velocity, 2. 



Seismology, 453; in the United States, 491. 



Selenium, its sensitiveness to light, 359. 



Senecas, customs of, 233. 



Settlement, effect of, on wild animals, 416. 



Shad propagation on Atlantic coast, 433, 

 520. 



Shaler, N. S. Humanism in the study 

 of nature, 64. 



Sharp, B., on development of the eye, iJ,l. 

 194. 



Shaw school of botany, 475. 



Ship-railway, Tehuantepec, UL, map, 33. 



Ships, forms of, 52, 569. 



Shrinkage of earth's crust, 220. 



Shupbldt, R. W. The Mexican axolotl 

 and its susceptibility to transforma- 

 tions, 263; probable period of gestation 

 in the homed toad, 185; Zunian concep- 



tions of animal forms as shown in pot- 

 tery, ill. 266. 

 Siberian industries, 348; interest in geo- 



fraphical explorations, 516; railway, 516. 

 iriakoff 's journey in Siberia, 157. 



Siemens, F., on toughened glass, 293. 



Siletz agency, 230. 



Silk-culture, 194; in the United States, 236. 



Silurian fossils from New York, 220; at 

 Canaan, N.Y., 283; scorpion, ill. 87, Ul. 

 183, 184. 



Silver question, 237. 



Sioux, in camp among, 233, 285. 



Skulls of assassins and men of note, ill. 

 72. 



Sky, color of, 316; spectrum of, 207. 



Slack, F. M. Color and other associa- 

 tions, 186. 



Slave trade, 441. 



Sleep, activity of mind during, 344 ; of 

 fishes, 506. 



Slides in the White Mountains, Ul. 84, 306. 



Small pox in Canada, 533; as a Canadian 

 disease, 373. 



Smith, B., 140. 



Smith, T. Woodhead and Hare's Patho- 

 logical mycology, 316. 



Smith, T. See Salmon and Smith. 



Smithsonian price-list of publications, 535. 



Smoke-burning device, 215. 



Societies, calendar of, 340, 364, 410 ; 

 learned, use and abuse of, 351 ; pro- 

 ceedings of, 339, 363, 387, 409; scientific, 

 of America, 536. 



Society for promotion of agricultural 

 science, 2, 78, 193. 



Soil, freezing of, 314. 



Soils and health, 30. 



Solar ring, 159. 



Sorghum, extraction of sugar from, 524. 



South Kensington chair of natural his- 

 tory, 382. 



SouTHwicK, E. B. The ginkgo-tree, 243. 



Spanish earthquakes, 393. 



Sparrow, English, 416, 478, 497, 520, 541, 

 563; untimely death of, 63. 



Spaulding. R. The scenery of Arizona, 

 44. 



Spectral analysis of atmospheric ele- 

 ments, 448. 



Spectro - photometer and ophthalmo- 

 spectroscope, 208. 



Spectrum of y Cassiopeiae, 386; of nebula 

 in Andromeda, Ul. 262, 333, 336; of sky, 

 207. 



Sprinklers, automatic, 215. 



Squall, singular, 450. 



Squirrel, habits of, 338. 



Stalactites, 348. 



Stallybrass. See Hehn and Stallybrass. 



Standards for surveyors' chains, 215. 



Stanley's Kongo, reviewed, ill. 177. 



Star catalogues, 408; new, in Orion, 556,558. 



Stars, comparison, 427, 474; in rapid mo- 

 tion, 483. 



State aid to science, 325; science and, 325. 



Staten Island natural science associa- 

 tion, 409. 



Statistical analysis, 237. 



Statistics of negroes, 237 ; vital, tables 

 for, 531. 



Stellar magnitudes, 427; photography, 443. 



Steinen's explorations of the Xingu, 1S3. 



Steiner's Physiology of the brain, re- 

 viewed, 521. 



Stepniak's Russia under the tzars, re- 

 viewed, 355, 478. 



Sternberg, G. M. Disinfection, 328, 564; 

 the international sanitary conference at 

 Rome, 101. 



Stevens, W. LeC. Voss-Holtz electrical 

 machine, 363. 



Stewart and Gee's Elementary physics, re- 

 viewed, 96. 



Stone, G. H. The inscription rocks on 

 the island of Monhegan, 124. 



Stone, W. E. The ginkgo-tree, 44. 



Stone implements in Egypt, 119. 



Storer, F. H. a mad stone, 163. 



Stratigraphy, comparative, 220. 



Strong, E. E. The Caroline Islands, 

 map, 287. 



Struve, O., on object glass made by Clark, 

 306. 



