SCIENCE. — INDEX 10 VOLUME VI 



579 



Sturtevant, E. L., on dandelion, 193; ger- 

 mination, 224; hybridizatioxi of plants, 

 224; influence of locality on fruit, 193; 

 lettuce, 193. 



Submarine boat, ill. 394. 



Sugar, extraction of. 524; industry, 453. 



Sumatra, petroleum in, 40. 



Sumner's Economic essays, reviewed, 111. 



Sunfish, swimming habits of, ill. 103. 



Sunlight, effect of, on germs, 475. 



Surveys, hydrographic, 118. 



SvENONius, F. Annuaire geologique uni- 

 versel, 185. 



Swindling geologist, 408, 453. 



Swiss fisli cultural stations, 160; glaciers, 

 growth of, 59. 



Switzerland, earthquakes in, 59 ; glacial 

 pendulum in, 42 ; prehistoric remains 

 in, 20. 



Tail in man, evidence of, 81, 92. 



Tait's Lectures on physical science, re- 

 viewed, 96 ; Properties of matter, re- 

 viewed, 96. 



Tamias striatus, 338. 



Tarr, K. S. The English sparrow, 416, 

 520, 563; natural enemies of oysters, 392. 



Tauri (a), occupations of, 489. 



Taussig, F. W. Prices from 1873 to 

 1884, 365. 



Taylor, W. B., on shrinkage of earth's 

 crust, 220. 



Teachers' association, 450 ; school of 

 science in Boston, 477. 



Teaching as a profession, 529. 



Tehuantepec ship-railway, ill.., map, 33. 



Telegraph, use of, in England, 537. 



Telephone in Paris, map, 110; use of, for 

 militarj^ purposes, ill. 239. 



Telephonic vibrations, 476. 



Telescopes, small versus large, 381. 



Telpher line, 429. 



Telpherage, ill. 513. 



Temperature in Austrian Alps, 459 ; of 

 moon's surface, 412, 443, 541 ; propo- 

 sition for wholesale change of, in the 

 Atlantic states, 428. 



Tertiary deposits, classification and pale- 

 ontology of, 44, 8:3, 143. 



Thames, sanitary condition of, 335. 



Theosophical society's censorship of the 

 American society for psychical re- 

 search, 81. 



Theosophist in Washington, 453. 



Thermodynamics, second law of, 212. 



Thibet, journey in, 18. 



Thomas, C. The Davenport tablet, ill. 

 564. 



Thomas, J. J., on influence of locality on 

 fruit, 193. 



Thompson fund, 141, 144, 421. 



Thoroddson's explorations in Iceland, 357. 



Thought-transferrence, ill. 8. 



Thurston, Prof. R. H., 79; on cylinder con- 

 densation, 216; Friction and lost work, 

 reviewed, 275 ; on Pronj'-brake, 216 ; 

 on teaching mechanical engineering, 216. 



Timber, preservation of, 14. 



Time, change to civil, 80; legislation as to 

 standard, 62. 



Titcomb's Mind-cure, reviewed, 543. 



Titles, scientific, 4fi4. 



Todd, D. P. The future of the Lick 

 observatory, 181. 



Todd, D. P., on pressure-motor, 214. 



Toe, the great, in different nations, 452. 



Tornado at Aden, 58; an unusual, 556. 



Tornadoes, prediction of, 557; recent, 252. 



Toy, C. H. The new philology, 366. 



Transcaspian railway, 360. 



Transit instruments, flexure of, 387. 



Trout and mosquitoes, 197. 



True, F. W. The American ferret, ill. 

 549; the British museum of natural 

 history, ill. 127; a rare dolphin, 44. 



Turner on human crania, 526. 



Turtles, aquatic respiration in, 225, 283. 



Tuttle'8 comet, 1-39, 159. 



Tyndall fellowships, 45. 



Types and their inheritance, 268. 



Typhoid-fever in autumn, 374. 



Underground wires, 2, 6, 373. 

 Unit of circular measure, 381. 



U. S. coast survey, 158, 349, 491 ; official 

 scrutiny of, 121 ; and ' political scien- 

 tists,' 253; resolutions of American as- 

 sociation concerning, 204 ; system of 

 longitudes, 474 ; what has it done for 

 science ? 558 ; who should be superin- 

 tendent, 241 ; department of agriculture, 

 4.53 ; entomological commission, 315 ; 

 executive departments, re-organization 

 of, 237; fish commission, 301; geological 

 survey, answer to charges against, 419, 

 424 ; unfounded report of irregularities 

 in, 261 ; mineral products, 99 ; national 

 museum, entomology in, 445 ; naval ob- 

 servatory, curious observations at, 279 ; 

 naval museum of hygiene, 491 ; recent 

 volcanic eruption in, 46 ; signal office, 

 advisability of making it a civil bureau, 

 397; hygrometry in, 536; trouble with 

 students, 397 ; silk-culture in, 236 ; 

 tertiary deposits, classification and pale- 

 ontology of, 44, 83, 143. 



Universities, German, map, 244 ; mediae- 

 val, 460. 



University of Michigan, biology in, 359; 

 a national, 509, 539 ; of New York, con- 

 vocation of, 61. 



Upton, Gen. E., Life of, reviewed, 404. 



Vaccination in Canada, 533. 



Van Ermengem on cholera microbe, re- 

 viewed, 154. 



Van Hise. See Irving and Van Hise. 



Vanderpoel, S. O. Quarantines and 

 their scientific value, 23. 



Variable, a new, 498. 



Vegetable morphology a century ago, 130. 



Velain's Theory of volcanoes, reviewed, 

 255. 



Velocity and sediment, 2. 



Vertebrates, educational museums of j 222. 



Vessel, attempt to propel, by explosions, 

 374. 



Vetter, B., on relationships between dino- 

 saurs and birds, 295. 



Victoria, B.C., earthquake in, 558. 



Village communities, Dutch, of the Hud- 

 son, 250. 



Vines. See Bower and Vines. 



Virginias, geology of, 17. 



Vital statistics, tables for, 531. 



Vivisection at Oxford, 429. 



Volcanic activity in the United States, 262; 

 dust east of the Rocky Mountains, 63; 

 eruption, recent, in the United States, 

 46. 



Volcanoes, theory of, 255. 



Volga, connecting, with Don, 515. 



Voltmeters, 387. 



Voss-Holtz electrical machine, 338, 363. 



W. London letter, 334, 382, 429, 493, 537. 



Wadsworth, M. E. Volcanic dust east 

 of the Rocky Mountains, 63. 



Wadsworth, M. E., 59. 



Wallace's Bad times, reviewed, 553. 



Ward, L. F. A convenient system of 

 river nomenclature, 321 ; a national uni- 

 versity, 539. 



Warder, R. B., on laboratory practice, 211. 



Waring's How to drain a house, reviewed, 

 39. 



Washburn university publications, re- 

 viewed, 461. 



Washington, agricultural convention at, 

 68; monum.ent and lightning stroke of 

 June 5, 63 ; monument protected from 

 lightning, 383 ; philosophical society, 

 387. 



Washington, portraits of, 300. 



Water-supply of Breslau, 34 ; for New 

 York, 72 ; relation of, to cholera, 532. 



Wead, C. K., on combined spectro-pho- 

 tometer and ophthalmospectroscope, 

 208. 



Weather changes of long period, 208; in 

 Russia, 430; signals, ill. 181. 



Weathercocks and drought, 528. 



Webb, J. B. The second law of ther- 

 modynamics, 212. 



Webb, J. B., on lathe as instrument of 

 precision, 215; polar co-ordinates, 206; 

 teaching mechanical engineering, 216. 



Wells, city, 32. 



West Virginia, new meteoric iron from, 

 563. 



Western society for psychical research, 78. 



Whaling catch, Alaskan, 2.59. 



Wheat grain, composition of, 415. 



Whirlwinds in Beloochistan, 118. 



White, I. C. The geology of natural 

 gas, 42. 



Wnite ants in Boston. 477. 



White Mountain land-slides, ill. 84, .300. 



Whitfikld, R. p. An American Silurian 

 scorpion, ill. 87, 184; the ginkgo-tree, 4. 



Whiting, Harold. Maxwell's demons, 83. 



Whiting, H., on new theory of cohesion, 

 274. 



Wight's Maxims of public health, re- 

 viewed, 75. 



Wild animals, effect of settlement of 

 America on, 416. 



Wilder, B. G. Educational museums of 

 vertebrates, 222. 



Wilder, B. G., on serrated appendages of 

 Amia, 226. 



Wiley, H. W., on adulteration of honey, 

 210; extraction of sugar from sorghum 

 and sugar-cane, .524 ; laboratory prac- 

 tice. 211; method of estimating potash, 

 249.' 



Wilkinson, C. S. Geological changes in 

 New South Wales, .320. 



Will-power, experimental study of, 260. 



Willcox, J., on glacial action in Canada, 

 388. 



Willet's Point, change of latitude of, 118. 



Williams, H. S., on comparative stratig- 

 raphy, 220. 



Wilson, J. M., on railroad-bridges, 14. 



Winchell, Alexander, on trend and crustal 

 surplusage in mountain structure, 220. 



Winchell, N. H.,on alloy of copper and 

 silver, 231. 



Windmill as a prime mover, 258. 



Winds, artificial, 462. 



WiNLOCK, W. C. Comets II and III of 

 1884, ill. 47. 



WiNSLow, Arthur. Color and other as- 

 sociations, ill. 243. 



Winsor, J., on an Italian portolano of 

 sixteenth century, 250. 



Wires, underground, 2, 6. 



WoEiKOF, A. Stepniak's Russia under 

 the czars, 478. 



Wolff's Windmill as a prime mover, re- 

 viewed, 258. 



Women, education and health of, .341. 



Wood, H. C, on injecting gastric juice in 

 blood, 409. 



Woodbury, C. J. H., on automatic sprin- 

 klers, 215. 



Woodhead and Hare's Pathological mj-- 

 cology, 316. 



Woolfe exploration of arctic coast of 

 Alaska, 381. 



Worthen, A. H., on quaternary deposits 

 of Illinois, 221. 



Wrangell, F. von, 417. 



Wright, A. W. Electrical measuring in- 

 struments, 151. 



Wuelker's History of Anglo-Saxon, re- 

 viewed, 487. 



Xingu, explorations of, 133. 



Y. Boston letter, 384, 476. 



Yale college observatory, work at. 98. 



Yellow-fever, 25 ; inoculation for, 535. 



Yellowstone Park, game in, 406. 



Young, A. V. E., on reaction between po- 



tassic hydrate and alum, 211. 

 Young, C. A. The Biela meteors, 496 ; 



Flood Rock explosion observed at 



Princeton, N.J., 335. 

 Young, C. A., on astronomical day, 444. 

 Yucca angustifolia, chemical study of, 



210. 



Z. Washington letter, 314, 361, 383, 453, 

 491, 536. 



Zimmermann's Atlas of plant-diseases, re- 

 viewed, 156. 



Zoological gardens in America, 420; jour- 

 nal, new, 486, 



Zufiian conceptions of animal forms, ill. 

 266. 



