INDEX. 



Abel, Professor, 102, 103, 104. 

 Abies Nigra, 191. 

 Abyssinian War, 88. 

 Academy, Albany (see Albany Aca- 

 demy). 



Academy of the Fine Arts, in N. Y. 

 city, 5. 



Accidents, generally traceable to 

 rashness, ignorance or careless 

 ness, 101. 



Acer dasycarpum, 219. 



Adam, 47. 



Adare, 122. 



Address, Annual, by Orlando Meads, 

 1-34. 



Adirondac Mountains, 184, 192. 

 Agarics, classification of, 37. 

 Agaricus, abortivus, 41. 

 Agaricus, campestris, 39. 

 Agaricus, genus, 37, 38. 

 Agassiz, Louis, 46, 132, 333. 

 Agua diente (whiskey), 164. 



Aiken, , 176. 



Airy, , 285. 



Alazarine, from madder root, 152. 

 Albanians, 225. 



Albany, 109, 126, 127, 128, 142, 220, 



221, 222, 224, 225, 226, 227. 

 Albany Academy, 19, 20, 21, 22, 27. 

 Albany Gallery of the Fine Arts, 31. 

 Albany Institute, 1, 15, 26, 32, 218. 



proposed building for, 26, 32. 



field meetings of, 38. 



origin and early importance of, 1 . 



publications of, 26. 

 Albany Lyceum of Natural History, 



14, 15, 20. 

 Albany, Munsell's Annals of, 128. 

 Albany, report on the water supply 



of the city of, 218-227. 

 Albany Young Men's Association, 31. 

 Albert, Prince, (see Prince Albert). 

 Aldgate, 118. 

 Alford, Dean, death of, 76. 

 Alison, A., 87. 

 Alloys, of mercury, 175. 

 Aluminum, 173. 



Amalgamation, direct, of steel and 

 cast iron, 181, 182. 



Amalgams, 172, 175, 178. 



America, 88, 111, 123. 



America, British, 129, 191. 



American Association for the Ad- 

 vancement of Science, 134, 136, 

 148. 



American capitalists, 160. 

 Amei'ican Chemist, The, 152, 153, 

 454. 



American Entomologist, etc., 36. 

 American Institute, Transactions of, 

 176. 



American Journal of Science and 



Art, 155. 

 American local histories, 106. 

 American road, in Tehuantepec, the, 



160. 



Among My Books, Lowell's, 83. 

 Ampere, M , 289. 

 Amphibians, 52. 

 Anabaptists, 111. 



Ancient History of the East, Le Nor- 



m ant's, 47 . 

 Anderson, Mortimer and, 110. 

 Anderson's England, 117. 

 Aniline colors, increased production 



of, 151. 



Annalen, Poggendorf s, 155. 



Annals of Albany, Munsell's, 128. 



Anne, Queen, 107. 



Anthracine, from alazarine, 152. 



Anthropology, progress of, 44. 



Apes, anthopoid, in process of ex- 

 tinction, 58 ; question of the gene- 

 sis of men from, 58. 



Arago, M., 21. 



Arcenthobium pusillum, 191. 

 Archaeology, progress of, 45. 

 Archencephala, 58. 

 Aregma, 189. 

 Argentine Republic, 88. 

 Argyll, Duke of, 46, 47, 56, 57. 

 Arian controversy, 74. 

 Aristotle, 245. 

 Armsberg, 126. 



