804 
Begonia rex, 33. 
Behnke. See Brown and Behnke. 
Behren’s Microscope in botanical labora- 
tories, reviewed, 602. 
Belfield’s Relations of micro-organisms to 
disease, reviewed, 133. 
Belgium, rain in, 580. 
Brewu, A. G. Deafness in white cats, 171, 
243. 
BELL, Robert. Geology and mineralogy 
of northern Canada, 755. 
Bentula lenta, 355. 
Beriberi, baciJlus of, 331. 
Berlin chemical society, 300; medical con- 
gress in, 772. 
Bert, on anaesthetics, 369. 
Berthelot’s Explosive materials, reviewed, 
76 
Besant’s Hydromechanics, reviewed, 78. 
Bessels, on Smith Sound, 622. 
Betula alba, 25; glandulosa, 253. 
Bharat Karyalya, 609. 
Bicknell, on Carex, 636. 
BIDWELL, Shelford. An explanation of 
Hall’s phenomenon, 386. 
BIGALKE, H. Explorations in Guate- 
mala, 115. 
Billings, J.S., on measurements of cranial 
capacity, 607; on study of crania, 505. 
Biogen, 661. 
Biographies of Dufour, 800; Dumas, 750; 
Engelmann, 405; -Ercolani, 1388; Guyot, 
218; Humphreys, 476; Sella, 609; Sie- 
mens, 34; Warren, 276. 
Biological department of university of 
Pennsylvania, 141, 215, 217, 584, 617, 637, 
773; laboratory of Johns Hopkins uni- 
versity, 7//. 350; theories of an artist, 
ol. 
Birds, Alaska, 296; migration of, 158; 
stones placed in trees by, 305; Vermont, 
216, 503. 
BisHop, I. P. Inheritance of physical in- 
juries, 144. 
BisHop, 8. E. Red skies in the Pacific, 
216. 
Bishop, 8. E., on Krakatoa smoke-stream, 
80. 
Bizzozero, on new morphological element 
of blood, 46. 
‘BLAIR, H. W. The international bureau 
of weights and measures, 305. 
‘Bland, T., scientific papers of, 641. 
Blarina brevicauda, 540. 
Blind fish, 587. 
Bliss’s Classified index of maps, 555. 
Blood, morphological element of, 46. 
Bogosloff volcano, ill. 282. 
Bohemian geological survey, 611. 
Boiler-explosions, prevention of, 466. 
Bolivia, anthropology in, 296. 
Bonasa Sabinii, 223. 
Boobies, habits of, 642. 
Book notices, minor, 521, 691. 
Borden, on the geodetic survey of Massa- 
chusetts, 467. 
Born, G., on development of the thyroid 
and thymus glands and the tongue, 725. 
Bort, T. de, on the winter of 1879-80 in 
Europe, 485. 
Boston society of natural history, 387, 553, 
605; seaside laboratory of, 469; Walker 
prize of, 610; bestowal of, on Professor 
James Hall, 571. 
Botanical atlas, 232. 
Botanico-physiological station in Sweden, 
111 
Boranicus. The flora of Labrador, 402. 
Botanist, paradise of, 395. 
Botany, elements of, 460; summer course 
in, 668. 
BourvrELLE, C. O. Earthquake-waves at 
San Francisco, 114; water-waves from 
Krakatoa, 7d. 777. 
Boutroux, on insects and fermentation, 
545. 
Bowers, S. Relics in Ventura county, 
Cal., 373. 
Brachiopoda, British, 342; papers on, 325. 
Bradner, N. R., on inscribed stone found 
in Ohio mound, 334. 
Braipwoop, T. W. The Philadelphia 
biological institute, 217. 
SCIENCE.— INDEX TO VOLUME ITT. 
Brain, 686; localization in, 484. 
Brandywine shoal lighthouse, 693. 
BRANNER, J.C. The ‘ Batrachichthys,’ 
all. 376. 
Brauer, F., on the entomography of Hir- 
moneura, 488. 
Brawuns, D. The Ainos of Yezo, tll. 69. 
Brazil, cretaceous formation of, 582. 
Brazilian diamonds, id/. 649. 
Bridge-construction, improvements in, 
552; truss, economical, 606. 
Brine, conveyance of, 2. 
Brinton, D. G., 297, 342. 
Brinton’s Aboriginal American authors, 
reviewed, 732; Grammar of the Cakchi- 
quel language of Guatemala, reviewed, 
794; The Giiegiience, reviewed, 732. 
British association for the advancement 
of science, 55; circular, 396; excursion 
of, 471; meeting in Montreal, 348, 424, 
584, 637, 696; membership in, 555; 
officers of, 397. 
British fossil Brachiopoda, 342. 
Britton, W., on buffalo gnat of Tennessee, 
739. 
Brooklyn entomological society, 736. 
Brooks and Steward, on Otto gas-engine, 
497. 
Brooks’s Law of heredity, reviewed, 388. 
Brookville (Ind.) society of natural his- 
tory, 342, 523, 637, 768. 
Browne and Behnke’s Voice, song, and 
speech, reviewed, 231. 
Brussels, Royal observatory at, 465. 
Bryanthus empetriformis, 253. 
Bufalini prize, 82. 
Buffalo gnat, 739. 
Bulletin astronomique, 497, 581. 
Bulletin of the natural history of the 
state of Massachusetts, 467, 584. 
Bupleurum ranunculoides, 253. 
Burgess, T. J. W., and Macoun, J., on 
Canadian ferns, 676. 
Burk’s Garden, 493. 
BURNETT, 8. M. Congenital deafness in 
animals, 275. 
Burnett, S. M., on eyes of animals, 336. 
Busycon pyrum, 637. 
BuTLerR, A. W. Barn-owls in southern 
Ohio, 31. 
Butler, A. W., on Niagara formation in 
Indiana, 637; on ruins of San Juan 
Teotihuacan, 528. 
Butler, C., on cross-breeding of moths, 
583. 
Biitschli’s Protozoa, 340, 670. 
Butter, detection of imitation, 583. 
Butterfly, curious habit of, 496. 
Byssus, formation of, by Unio, 302, 434. 
Bythites crassus, 627. 
Cailletet’s apparatus for production of 
cold, 526. 
Caladium, 236. 
Calderwood’s Mind and brain, reviewed, 
686. 
California academy of sciences, bulletin 
of, 610; exploration of peninsula of, 55; 
flowers, popular names of, 644; geo- 
logical work in, 665; gold sands of, 797; 
north wind of, 334; plant-distribution 
in Lower, 4; quicksilver deposits of, 365. 
Callosamia angulifera, 583; Promethea, 
583. 
Calymene senaria, 279, 281. 
Cambrian fauna of the United States, 582. 
Cambridge archeological museum, work 
of, 287; entomological club, 25, 207; 
museum of comparative zodlogy, 342. 
Camera, vertical, invention of, 672. 
Camponotus pennsylvanicus, 209. 
Canada, agricultural demands in, 372; 
geological survey, 605; geology and 
mineralogy of, 755; royal society of, 
673, 755, 771; list of papers read at Ot- 
tawa meeting of, 696. 
Canadian institute, Toronto, 165, 266; rec- 
ord of natural history and geology, 370. 
Canal, Spanish, 744. 
Cannibalism in Germany, 298. 
Canned fruits, analysis of, 338. 
Cantilever bridge, 7i//. 572. 
Cape Horn, French mission to, 168. 
Capelopagus lucinedax, 396.* 
Capitalization, 59. 
Capsella bursa-pastoris, 359. 
Carbo cormoranus, 59; graculus, 59. 
Carbon, vegetable, 697. : 
Carboniferous Ammonites, 335; genus of 
sharks, 275. — 
Carcharias glaucus, 624. ; 
Cardamine hirsuta, 253; laciniata, 367; \ 
multifida, 367. 
Carex Pennsylvanica, 636; pubescens, 
637; umbellata, 637; varia, 636. ; 
CaRHART, H. S. Electric time-signals, 
all. 401. 
Cariacus virginianus, 394, 610. 
Caribbean Sea, cruise of Albatross in, 424, 
Carinaria mediterranea, 658. 
Carnifex Newberryi, 323. 
Carnivorous habits of muskrat, 457. 
Carpenter ant, 209. 
Corpenters Energy in nature, reviewed, — 
Cascade Range, geology of, 52. 
Cassidaria tyrrhena, 658. 
Cassiterite from King’s Mountain, 217. 
Cae eon: use of, in boiler-construction, 
66. ° 
Catalogue of collection of comparative 
anatomy, 139. 
Caislogucs of meteorological literature, 
269. 
Catlin’s Indian paintings, 109. 
Catopteris gracilis, 295. 
Catostomus tahoensis, 323. 
Cats, deafness in, 171, 243. 
Caudina arenata, 267. 
Caulinites, 532; fecundus, 433, 532. 
Caves of Poland, 489. : 
Cellular tissue, origin of, 337. 
Centronella Guerangeri, 325. 
Cephalopoda, evolution of, il. 122, 145. 
Cerastium arvense, 253. 
Ceratosaurus nasicornis, 543. 
Ceraurus pleurexanthemus, 279. 
Cercocarpus ledifolius, 236. 
Certhia familiaris, 296, 494. 
Cervical ribs, free, i//, 61. 
Cervus canadensis, 394. 
Cesnola trial, result of, 142. 
Chalcedony, working in, 642. 
Chalcolepidius rubripennis, 127. 
Challenger, exploring voyage of, re- 
viewed, ill. 576. 
Chalmers, R., on Grand Falls of St. John 
River, 769. 
Chamberlain’s list. of New Brunswick 
mammals, 610. 
Chamberlin, T. C., on glacial striation, 
636. 
Chandler, 8. C., jun., on variable stars, 167. 
Chapman, E. J., on mimetism, 676; on 
titaniferous iron ore, 676. L 
Chatard, T. M., on alkalies in silicates, 
583. 
Check-list of reptiles, 264. 
Cheese-making in India, 299. 
Chemical elements and music, relation of, 
607; periodic law of, 336; science in 
China, 498. 
Chemistry, elements of, 78; manual of, 
390; outlines of, 521; theoretical, 60. 
Chenopodium album, 253. 
Chicago academy of sciences, 237. 
Chile, expedition to, 137. 
Chilian languages, 550. 
China, chemical science in, 498; histor 
of medicine in, 739; method of tele- 
graphing to, 638; red skies in, 121. 
Chlamydoselachus, 345; anguineus, 116, 
346. 
Cholera bacillus, 574; causes of, 610; com- ; 
mission, German, 557, 584. 
Chonetes hardrensis, 60; tenuicostata, 325. 
Chronometer rates, 287; variation in, 272. 
Chronometers, testing, 641. 
Chrysobothris pusilla, 235. 
Chrysodomus islandicus, 657. 
Chrysomitris pinus, 216, 296. 
Cicindela dorsalis, 165; generosa, 165; 
hirticollis, 165; punctulata, 165; purpu- 
rea, 165; repanda, 165; sexguttata, 165; : 
tranquebarica, 165. " 
Cicindelidae of Staten Island, 165. 
