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x*x Names of contributors are printed in small capitals. 
Apsot, H. L. Andrew Atkinson Hum- 
phreys, portrait, 476; Gouverneur Kem- 
ble Warren, portrait, 276. 
Apgort, A.V. Improvements in testing- 
machines, 7//. 312. 
Agpgott, C. C. Hibernating mammals, 
673; the intelligence of batrachians, 66; 
the intelligence of snakes, 253; north- 
eastern and north-western Indian im- 
plemenis, 701; notes on hibernating 
- mammals, i/. 538. 
Abbott, C. C., on field-mice, 768. 
Abies Douglassii, 236. 
Aboriginal literature of America, 732; 
monuments, preservation of, 271. 
Academies, life of, 614. 
Acantephyra pellucida, 716. 
Achillea millefolium, 253. 
Aconitum Napellus, 253. 
Apams, J. C. The definition of mean 
solar time, 323. 
Africa, cireumnavigation of, 800; explo- 
ration in, 413, 609. 
After-images, 321. 
Agalena naevia, 685. 
Agaricus campestris, 164. 
Agate, working in, 642. 
Agricultural demands in Canada, 372; ex- 
periment-stations, 170, 492; report, gov- 
ernment, reviewed, 689; science, society 
for promotion of, 798. 
Agrilus granulatus, 234. 
Ailanthus glandulosus, 276. 
Ainos of Yezo, ill. 69. 
Air analyses, 463; organisms of, 518. 
Alabama, geological survey of, 418; phos- 
phates in, 586; state weather service, 
527; tertiary in, 32. 
Alaska, birds of, 296; military reconnois- 
sance of 1883, z/l. 220, 246; minerals of, 
297; mosses of, 296; new volcano island 
in, ill. 89. 
Alaus oculatus, 127. 
Albany institute, 666. 
Albatross, cruise of, from Curacoa to 
Aspinwall, 590; in Caribbean Sea, 239, 
424, 608. 
Albrecht’s Logarithmic - trigonometric 
tables, reviewed, 691. 
Alce americanus, 394. 
Alepocephalus rostratus, 625. 
Aleposomus Copei, 628. 
Alkalies in silicates, 583. 
Alle nigricans, 216, 294. 
ALLEN, J.A. Italics for scientific names, 
87. 
ALLEN,W.F. Primitive communities, 786. 
Alnus serrulata, 359; viridis, 253. 
Alosa sapidissima, 721. 
Alpine plants, protection of, 712. 
Aluminium, cheap, 57. 
Amalia carinata, 770. 
Amanita muscaria, 165. 
Amazon basin, exploration of, 611. 
Amblyopsis spelaeus, 5. 
Amblystoma jeffersonianum platineum, 
264. 
Amelanchier alnifolia, 236, 253. 
America, aboriginal literature of, 732; 
archaeological institute of, 670. 
American archeology, collections of, 55; 
association for the advancement of sci- 
ence, 797; Philadelphia meeting of, 57; 
exploration, 766; fish-cultural associa- 
tion, 719; food-fishes, 722; forestry con- 
gress, 368; institute of electrical engi- 
neers, 668; of mining engineers, 326; 
medical association in Washington, 684; 
meteorological journal, 398; reviewed, 
734; museum of natural history, addi- 
tions to, 610; oriental society, 608; orni- 
thologists’ union, 241; on English spar- 
row, 239; philosophical society, 79; pro- 
ceedings of, 79; public health associa- 
tion, 802; society of civil engineers, 463, 
523; of microscopists, proceedings of, 
reviewed, 460. 
Amherst college scientific association, 340; 
rainfall at, 431. 
Ami, H. M., on Monticuliporidae, 25. 
Amiurus catus, 165; osteology of, 266. 
Ammonites, carboniferous, 335; Wool- 
gari, 676. 
Ampelis garrulus, 216. 
Anaesthetics, effects of, 369. 
Analyses of rocks, 693. 
Anchor-ice, formation of, 3038. 
Andree’s Primitive metallurgy, 639. 
Anemone multifida, 253; parviflora, 253. 
Ant, thatching, 4238. 
Antennaria alpina, 253; dioica, 236. 
Antennarius marmoratus, 624. 
Anthracite, Pennsylvania, 310. 
Anthracomartus, 207. 
Anthrenus scrophulariae, 127; varius, 127. 
Anthropological papers in Petermann’s 
mittheilungen, 415. 
Anthropology in Bolivia, 296; of South-, 
Sea Islands, 470; study of, 801. 
Antimony ores in New South Wales, 639. 
Antwerp exhibition for 1885, 697. 
Apgar, A.C., on Fulgur caniliculata, 494; 
on rare plants, 768. 
Aphaerium dentalum, 323. 
Apocynum cannabinum, 335. 
Appalachian mountain club, Boston, 366, 
593; mountains, topography of, 265, 604. 
Apple-tree bearing two kinds of fruit, 168. 
Apsilus bipera, 295, 396; lentiformis, 295, 
396. 
Aquilegia formosa, 253; truncata, 4. 
Arabis petraea, 253. 
Arable soils, loss of nitrogen from, 17. 
Archaeological institute of America, fifth 
report of, 670; museum, Cambridge, 287 ; 
Cambridge, Eng., 697. 
Archeology, collections of, 55. 
Archibuteo lagopus Sancti-Johannis, 367. 
Arctic seas, observations in, 642; vessel, 
all. 505; wintering in, 77d. 566. 
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, 253. 
Arenaria fontana, 253; lateriflora, 253. 
Arithmetic, electric-light, 692. 
Arizona, explorations in, 670. 
Armand on Crevaux expedition, 387. 
ARmMsBy, H. P. Loss of nitrogen from 
arable soils, 17; the Woburn rotation 
experiments, 716. ® 
Arnica alpina, 253; Chamissonis, 253; 
latifolia, 253. 
Arrow-points, 7/7. 273. 
Arsenic in wines, 338. 
Art catalogue of New-England manufac- 
turers’ institute, reviewed, 263. 
Arts, instruction in England in, 269. 
Artemisia tridentata, 236; vulgaris, 253. 
Artesian wells in Montana, 297. 
Arvicola riparia, 67, 768. 
Asaphus megistos, 280. 
ASHBURNER, C. A. 
thracite, 310. 
Ashburner’s Panther-Creek coal-basin, 
reviewed, 690. 
Ashes from Cotopaxi, 340. 
Assay, apparatus for, 675. 
Assos, explorations at, 670. 
Aster Sibiricus, 253. 
Asteroid, discovery of, 556. 
Pennsylvania an- 
‘“BaBBiTtT, F. E. 
Astragalinus tristis, 552. 
Astragalus Sonorae, 4. 
Astrapotherium patagonicum, 56. 
Astronomical journal, new, 581; labors of 
Mr. Common, 544; photography, 167; 
society, royal, 397, 770; spectrum-pho- 
tography, 726. 
Astronomy, amateur work in, 529. 
Asturias, geology of, 727. 
Atalapha novaeboracensis, 538. 
Atlantic, North, wind-charts of, i//. 593. 
Atlantic (south) district, geologic work 
in, 205. 
Atmospheric waves from Krakatoa, 401, 
504, 27. 531, 701. 
Atna River, head waters of, 779. 
Attacus cecropia, 25. 
Attagenus pellio, 24. 
Atwater, W. O., on American food-fishes, 
722. 
Augustine Island, volcano on, 798. 
Auk, the, 56, 110. 
Aurora borealis, records of, 665. 
Australian aborigines, ceremonies of, 526. 
Austrian geological institute, 611. 
Austro-Hungarian monarchy in word and 
view, 698. 
Indian implements of 
the north-west, zl. 589. 
Babylonian art, 111. 
Bacillus anthracis, 156; of beriberi, 331; 
cholera, 5743; suis, 156; tuberculosis, 423. 
Backlund, O., on Encke’s comet, 660. 
Bacteria, 133, 362. 
BaILEy, E.H.S. New chemical labora- 
tory of university of Kansas, J. 53. 
Bailey, E. W., on erosion in New Bruns- 
wick, 676. 
Baku, petroleum industry of, 369. 
Balfour, John H., 368. 
Balloon, electric, zl/. 152, 195. 
Bandelier’s explorations in New Mexico 
and Arizona, 670. 
Barbarea vulgaris, 253. 
Barn-owls in Missouri, 116. 
Barometric waves from Krakatoa, 338. 
Barrande, memorial tablet for, 584. 
Barrois’s Geology of the Asturias and 
Galicia, reviewed, 727. 
Barrus, G. H., on comparison of indica- 
tors, 725. 
Barrus’s Tabor steam-engine indicator, re- 
viewed, 601. 
Barton, G. H. Notes on the lava-flow 
of 1880-81, from Mauna Loa, id/. 410. 
Bascanion constrictor, 254. 
Bassalian fauna, 7//. 620. 
Bassler’s Weather, reviewed, 262. 
Bastian’s Ethnological psychology, re- 
viewed, 204. 
Batchelder, J. M., on iridium on engraved 
copper plates, 796. 
Bathophis ferox, 627. 
Batostoma ottawaense, 25. 
Batrachians, intelligence of, 66. 
Batrachichthys, i//. 376. 
Batrachoseps attenuatus, 264. 
Batteries, secondary, 51. 
Battery, Skrivanow pocket, 743. 
BEAN, T. H. The deep-sea fish Mala- 
costeus, 747. 
Bean, T. H., on white-fishes of North 
America, 739. 
Becker’s Geology of the Comstock lode, 
reviewed, 48; examination of California 
quicksilver deposits, 365; work in di- 
vision of the Pacific, 522; in New Idria 
district, 665. 
