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SCIEXCR — CONTENTS OF VOL TIME VII. 



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Peale. A. C. Method of stating results of water- 

 analyses 211 



Pickering. E. C. Accurate mountain heights . . 423 

 Photographic study of stellar spectra . . . .278 



Plympton. G. W. Flooding the Sahara. Maps . 542 



Poisonous mussels from impure waters .... 175 



Population of London 173 



Prejevalsky's explorations in Mongolia .... 157 



Professor Hughes on self induction 442 



Programme of the International philomathic con- 

 gress 455 



Progress in India 156 



Proposed new trade outlet on the Black Sea . . .424 



Public health improvement in England .... 272 



Railway to central Asia 277 



Rainfall in South Africa. Map 151 



Ratio of increase of height to increase of bulk in the 



child 150 



Regulation of contracts 221 



Relation of birds to agriculture 201 



Remarkable powers of memory in the humble-bee . 831 



Royal geographical society 519 



Rowland. H. A. The physical laboratory in modern 



education 573 



Russell, I. C. Soda and potash in the far west . . 61 

 Ryder, J. A. Hatching, rearing, and transplanting 



lobsters 517 



Success in hatching the eggs ot the cod. III. . . 26 



S. Recent changes in Cornell university ... 4 



Scientific commission report 516 



Scudder, H. E. The extension of copyright . . 134 

 Seaman, W. H. Method of stating results of water- 



aualyses 211 



Seligman, E. R. A. Change in the tenets of political 



economy with time 375 



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Abbot's Scientific theism. By J. Royce .... 335 



Ball's Story of the heavens 365 



Bancroft's History of Alasfca 292 



Barlow's New theories of matter and force . . .294 



Beddoe's Races of Britain. By H. W. H. ... 84 



Bell's Climatology 316 



Bolton's Preservation of timber 176 



Browne's Water-meters 176 



Cazin's Phenomena and laws of heat .... 176 



Challenger report on the Lamellibranchiata . . . 250 



Challenger report on the Schizopoda. By 8. J. Smith 249 



Church's Statics and dynamics 316 



Clark and Sadler's Star-guide 470 



Compayre's History of pedagogy 469 



Cornell university experiment station, third report of . 205 



Cotterill's Suggested reforms in public schools . . 44 



Croll's Climate and cosmology. By W. M. Davis . . 491 



DeLanoye's Rameses the Great 176 



Fisher's Outlines of universal history .... 246 



Froude's Oceana 292 



Gilbert's Topographic features of lake shores . 263 



Ureely's Three years of arctic service. III. . . . 182 



Griscom's Farmer's view of a protective tariff . . 176 



Hadley's Railroad transportation. By F. W. Taussig. 258 



Ham's Manual training 492 



Handley's First lessons in philosophy .... 5 



Hartmann's Philosophical questions. By J. Royce . 426 



Henderson's Diet for the sick «6 



Holzapfel's Roman chronology 261 



Household economy 154 



Hudson's Railways and the republic 579 



Hudson's Rotifera. By C. S. Minot 402 



Hull's Geology of Arabia and Palestine .... 535 



Hussak's Rock-forming minerals 294 



Jevons, W. Stanley, letters and journal of . . . 577 



Ketteler's Theoretical optics 401 



Kleinpaiil's Proper names 403 



Kobe ft 'h Algeria and Tunis ^'i0 



Kukenthal's Die mikroskopische technik im zoolo- 



gischen praktikum 64 



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Sennett, G. B. Destruction of the eggs of birds for 



food ... 199 



Sense of touch, and the teaching of the blind . . . 271 



Shaler, N. S. The swamps of the United States . 232 



Shell-fish in Connecticut . .... 59 

 Some recent text-books on methods in microscopic 



anatomy 64 



Some work of the government surveys .... 257 

 Sternberg. G M. The malarial germ of Laveran 



111 S 297 



Study of geometry 15 



Sumner, W. Gr. How far have modern improve- 

 ments in production and transportation changed 

 the principle that men should be left free to make 



their own bargains? 221 



Sympathetic vibrations of jets. Ill 494 



T., D. P. Large versus small telescopes . . .131 

 Tarr, R. S. Parasitism among marine animals . . 17 

 Taussig, F. "W. The state as an economic factor . 488 

 Todd, D. P. The coast and geodetic survey . s 2 

 Topographical maps of the United States . . . 425 

 Trade-route between Bolivia and the Argentine Repub- 

 lic 299 



True, F. "W. A task for anatomists .... 428 

 Upton, W. The distribution of rainfall in New Eng- 

 land, Feb. 10-14, 1886. Ill 254 



U. S. geological survey 158, 276 



Virchow on acclimatization 169 



W., N. The causation of pulmonary consumption . 86 



Waste in wheat-crops 174 



White, C. H. Method of stating results of water- 

 analyses 211 



Woeikof, A. The levelling of Siberia. III. . . 105 



Worthless bayonets 93 



Y„ E. The eight-hour day 59 



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Krause's Explorations in Alaska 95 



Lanman's Farthest north 94 



Laugblin's Bimetallism 534 



Lee's Microtomist's vade-mecum 65 



Menault's Intelligence of animals 176 



Meynert's Psychiatry. By M. A. S 359 



Morse's Japanese homes and their surroundings . . 42 



Muir's Thermal chemistry 314 



Murray's New English dictionary. By C. H Toy . . 557 

 New York agricultural experiment-station, fourth an- 

 nual report of 315 



Oppolzer's Treatise on orbits 580 



Patten's Political economy . 446 



Pilling's Bibliography of the languages of the North 



American Indians 358 



Poliakoff's Journey in Sakhalin 234 



Powell's Fourth annual report of U. S. geological survey 158 

 Rae's Country banker. By F. W. Taussig . . .425 



Redard's Disinfection of cattle-cars 316 



Remsen's Introduction to the study of chemistry . . 468 



Richards's Food-materials 154 



Richter's Inorganic chemistry 261 



Roscoe's Spectrum analysis . 261 



Russell's Recent glaciers of the United States . . 264 



Schliemann's Prehistoric palace of the kings of Tiryns 37 



Schwatka's Along Alaska's great river .... 294 



Scott-White's Chemical tables 176 



Shaw's Mechanical integrators 316 



Stokes's Lectures on light 338 



Thurston's Materials of construction . . . .95 



Trutat's La photographie 176 



U. S. national museum, handbook to the .... 154 



Ward's Paleobotany . . 263 



Warner's Physical expression. By M. A. S. ... 43 

 Whitman's Methods of research in microscopical anat- 

 omy and embryology 64 



Williams's Chemistry of cookery 66 



Wilson's Drainage for health 316 



Wood's Nature's teaching 154 



Wyse's Panama canal. Map 279 



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