810 
New-England fish and game laws, 169; 
manufacturers’ institute, catalogue of, 
263; society for observation and study 
of meteorology, 743. 
New Hebrides, 270; voyage among, 112. 
New Idria district, geology of, 665. 
New-Jersey cities, water-supply of, 700; 
geological survey, é//. 525; mollusks, 
267; plant-life, 395; state agricultural 
experiment-stations, report of, for 1883, 
aeons 492; topographical map of, 
00. 
New Mexico, explorations in, 670. 
New South Wales, antimony ores in, 639; 
coal-measures of, 425; prize of Lin- 
naean society of, 638; prize of Royal 
society of, 470. 
New-York academy of sciences, 165, 640, 
642; legislature, attitude of, toward ar- 
tificial dairy-products, 499; microscopi- 
cal society, 797; paleontology of, 421; 
rainfall of, 421; silver deposits of, 737; 
state survey, 421. 
Niagara Falis, cantilever-bridge at, é/J. 
Niagara formation in Indiana, 637; gorge 
as a chronometer, 556. 
Niger expedition, 742. 
Nitre, formation of, 467. 
Nitrogen, loss of, from arable soils, 17. 
Nomenclature, zo6logical, 241. 
North-American ornithology, 294. 
North Atlantic, meteorological charts of, 
all. 654, 
North-Carolina mica-mines, 208; olivine 
rocks of, 486; phosphates in, 31; to- 
pography of, 391. 
North-west passage, 747; territory, Cana- 
dian, 647. 
North wind of California, 334. 
ey eern transcontinental survey, 114, 
Nourst£, J. E. The Greely search, 533. 
Nourse’s American exploration in the 
ice-zones, 766. 
Novaia Zemlia, crossing of, 16; 
station at, 468. 
NucGent, E. Synchronism of geological 
formations, 33. 
Will- 
Nummulites from Florida, 607; 
coxii, 736. 
Nummulitic formation in Florida, 607. 
Nuphar pumilum, 768. 
Nyctea scandiaca, 294. 
Nye, Harold B. Remains ofa prehistoric 
tree, id. 347. 
polar 
O., E. Ropes of ice, 375. 
Observations, doubtful, 26. 
Observatory, Cincinnati, publications of, 
498; at Herény, Hungary, report of, re- 
viewed, 664; at Marseilles, 697; Paris, 
report of, 641; royal, at Brussels, 465. 
Ocean-currents, 336; study of, 343. 
Oceanic oscillations, 341. 
Odlum, E., on level of upper Ottawa, 107. 
Ohio, barn-owls in, 31; floods, 214, 227, 
371; cause of, 528; difficulty of pre- 
venting, 385; meteorological bureau, 
801; mounds, exploration of, 774, 799; 
valley, drift-margin in, map, 464. 
Ohm, determination of, 10, 56; standard 
value of, 669. 
Oil, action of, on water, 638. 
Old Providence Island, 669. 
Oleomargarine, 613. 
Olivella biplicata, 374. 
Outver, J. E. A singular optical phe- 
nomenon, 474, 563. 
Olivine rocks of North Carolina, 486. 
Ondatra zibethicus, 294. 
Onoclea sensibilis, 433, 532. 
Onopordon acanthium, 395. 
Ophibolus doliatus, 255. 
Oporornis agilis, 216. 
Optical phenomenon, 275, 404, 474, 501, 
563, 644, 704; telegraph, 468. 
Orb-weavers, 396. 
Orbitoides ephippium, 736. 
Orcutt, C. R. 
Lower California, 4; popular names of 
: California flowers, 644; stones placed 
in pine-trees by birds, 305. : 
Plant-distribution in’ 
SCIENCH.— INDEX TO VOLUME III. 
Orcynus thynnus, 749. 
Oregon, fulgurite from, 735. 
Organisms of air, 518. 
Ornithological congress, 398; of Vienna, 
670. - 
Ornithologists’ union, American, 241. 
Ornithology, North-American, 294. 
Orthis impressa, 374; Tioga, 375; tul- 
- liensis, 374. : 
Orthoceras elegans, 126; pleurotomum, 
127; unguis, 126. 
Orthoceratites truncatus, 124. 
Osar, origin of, 404. 
OsBorn, H. F. Illusive memory, 274, 
310. 
OsBorRN, Henry L. The Johns Hopkins 
marine laboratory, 7/7. 7; the water- 
pores of the lamellibranch foot, 130. 
Osborne, J. G., on the Pocahontas mine 
disaster, 552. 
Ostrich, domestication of, 112; farming, 
670. ; 
Ottawa field-naturalists’ club, 26, 107, 164, 
235, 337, 394, 528; transactions of, 466. 
Ottawa, level of, 107; microscopical so- 
ciety, 25; vailey, deer of, 394. 
Otto gas-engine, 497. 
Ovibos moschatus, 468. 
Owen, Richard, 211. 
Owls, barn, in Ohio, 31. 
Oxalic acid, effect of, on blotting-paper, 
466. 
Oxidizability of iron and steel, 470. 
Oxus, channel of, 296, 468. 
Oyster beds, Connecticut, 720; crop, 
threatened failure of, 215; enemies 
and parasites of, 618; industry, 720. 
Pachydesma crassatelloides, 373. 
Pacific, red skies in, 216. 
Packard’s Briefer zodlogy, reviewed, 50. 
Paleozoic high tides, 473. 
Palms, 629. 
Panjab, legends of, 28. 
Panjabis, proper names of, 111. 
Panther-Creek coal-basin, 690. 
Papilio, 212, 298. 
Paradoxides acadicus, 
676. 
Parafiine shale deposits of Servia, 771. 
Parallax measurements, 640; determina- 
tion of stellar, 456, 612. 
Parasitic worms, 367. 
Paris geographical society, 426; observa- 
tory, report of, 641. 
Parker’s botanical collection, 425. 
Parker, W. K., lectures on mammalian 
descent by, 297. ; 
Parnassia fimbriata, 253; palustris, 253. 
Parrish, E., on effect of sea-water on iron, 
693. 
Parry, C..C., on Pinus Torreyana, 24. 
Parus atricapillus, 552. 
Passer domesticus, 494. 
Passerculus princeps, 294. 
Pasteur, Louis, reviewed, é//. 546; on hy- 
drophobia, 744. 
Patents on inventions, 522. 
Patula asteriscus, 235. 
PauL, H. M. Atmospheric waves from 
Krakatoa, 531; the unit of time con- 
troversy, 430. 
Paul, H. M., on Krakatoa atmospheric 
Waves, 504. 
Paving, wood-blocks for, 556. 
PEABODY, F. G. Janet’s Theory of mor- 
als, 360. 
Peabody academy of science, Salem, 393, 
464. 
676; lamellatus, 
Peabody museum of American archaeol- 
ogy, call for funds for, 774; meeting of 
trustees of, 799; sixteenth and seven- 
teenth annual reports of, 668; work of, 
287. 
Pearce, R. See Hillebrand, W. F., and 
Pearce, R 
Pearson. F. M., ‘on Tennessee mineral 
springs, 493; on Tennessee timber, 234. 
Pecten pes-felis, 658; septemradiatus, 657 ; 
vitreus, 657. 
Pedicularis flammea, 253. 
Pelecanus carbo, 404. 
Pelvis, morphology of, z//. 324. - 
ants 
Pendulum, freely oscillating, 424; gyration _ 
of vibrating, 2d. 775. 
PENHALLOW, D. P. Some peculiarities 
of plant-growth, @/. 354. i 
Penhallow’s Vegetable 
histology, re- 
viewed, 602. 
Pennock, H. W. A clock for sending 
out electric signals once an hour or 
oftener, il. 243. 
Pennsylvania anthracite, 310. 
Pennsylvania university, annual course of 
lectures at, 211; biological department 
of, 141, 215, 217, 584, 617, 637, 773. 
PENROSE, C. B. The critical state of 
gases, 98. 
Pentacheles crucifer, 714. 
Pentastomum proboscideum, 667. 
Pentstemon confertus, 253; glaucus, 253. 
Peptone in solution, determination of, 554. 
Perea americana, 532. 
Perekop Isthmus, 270, 
Periodic law of chemical elements, 336. 
Personal notes, 111. 
Petermann’s Geographische mittheilung- 
en, 555; for 1883, 415. 
Petroleum industry of Baku, 369; origin 
of, 526; vapors, action of, 466. 
Peucedanum ambiguum, 286. 
Phalacrocorax carbo, 216. — 
Phallus impudicus, 545. 
Philadelphia academy of natural sciences, 
209, 236, 267, 294, 334, 367, 396, 423, 553, 
606, 637, 666, 694, 736; lectures at, 465; 
engineers’ club, 295, 367, 494, 552, 606, 
693; Franklin institute, 51, 108, 266; 
numismatic and antiquarian society, 
524, 606. 
PuHituies, W.A. Arrow-points at Evans- 
ton, Tll., 222. 278- 
Philological society, new dictionary of, 
527. 
Phoca concolor, 423; foetida, 479. 
Pholadomya arata, 658. 
Phosphate deposits, 337; in Alabama, 
586; in North Carolina, 31. 
Phosphorescent fluorite, 640; limestone, 
267. 
Photography, application of, in producing 
natural-history figures, 7//. 443; astro- 
nomical, 167; figuring fossil leaves by, 
769; spectrum, 699, 726; vertical camera 
in, 672. 
Photometric work, 612. 
Phylloxera in Hungary, 697. 
Phymatodes thoracicus, 236, 
Physical constants, 373. 
Physics, principles of, 631. 
Physiology, elementary, 49. 
Pickering, E. C., on measuring colors, 
738; photometric work of, 612. 
PICKERING, W New photographic 
laboratory of Massachusetts institute of 
technology, 2d. 80. 
Picoides arcticus, 216. 
Picus pubescens, 494. 
Pig, half-starved, 564. 
Pilot-charts, 343; of North Atlantic Ocean 
for February, 212; for April, 496. 
Pinches, on Babylonian art, 111, 
Pinus Jeffreysi, 305; Lambertiana, 236; 
lophosperma, 24; sylvestris, phenol in,. 
526; Torreyana, 24. 
Pisidium pusillum, 425; ultramontanum, 
323. 
‘Planets, discovery of, 370; small, names 
of, 470. 
Planorbis aequiumbilicatus, 145; corneus, 
425; nautileus, 425. 
Plant analyses, 425; distribution, 4; 
growth, peculiarities of, iid. 354; life in 
Montana and Dakota, 495; of Minne- 
sota, 495; protection of, 699, 712; rare, 
768; thawing ice, 554. ; 
Planté’s Researches on electricity, re- 
viewed, 549. 
Platyceras, 325; minutissima, 137. 
Plectropomus crassiceps, 628. 
Pleuracanthus, 645; laevissimus, 429. 
Plotus anhinga, 475. 
Pocahontas mine disaster, 552. 
Pogge, Paul, death of, 670. 
Point Barrow, meteorological station at, 
all. 478. 
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