CO^TTEJSTTS OF VOLUME VII. 



SPECIAL AETICLES. 



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Abbott collection at the Peabody museum ... 4 



Abbott's report on the Flood Rock explosion . . 25 



Accessions to the national museum 93 



Agricultural industries of Japan 483 



Allen, J. A. Present wholesale destruction of bird- 

 life in the United States 191 



American climatological association .... 453 



American engineers 1 meeting 92 



American fishery interests 113 



American journal of archeology 71 



American ornithologists' union committee on bird-pro- 

 tection 205 



Apparitions and haunted houses 341 



Appeal to the women of the country in behalf of the birds 204 



April meeting of the National academy of sciences . 384 



Armsby, H. P. Imitation butter 471 



Article ' Psychology ' in the Encyclopaedia Britannica 514 



Astronomy in Appleton's Annual cyclopaedia . . 534 



Bacteria and disease 422 



Bartlett. J. R. Deep-sea soundings in the Atlantic. 



Ill 387 



Deep-sea soundings in the South Pacific. 111. . . 252 



Benedict, J. E. Surface-collecting on the Albatross 300 



Bird-laws 202 



Blindness in Russia 291 



Blondes and brunettes in Germany 129 



Book-manufactory in ancient Rome 467 



Botanical instruction in this country .... 251 



Burmah, present and future 62 



Butler, W. M. Educational tendencies in Japan and 



in America 287 



Settlement of labor differences 339 



The collapse of the theosophists 81 



The competition of convict labor 68 



The convict-labor problem 28 



Cartwright lectures on physiology 320 



Cerebral excitability after death 16 



Channing, E. A new route to south-western China. 



Map . . 137 



Characters of children as evidenced by their powers of 



observation 288 



Cholera mortality in Europe during 1885 . . . . 62 



Coast survey and the navy 407 



Comparative distribution of Jewish ability . . . 247 

 Cook. A. J. Bee-hives and bee-habits . . . .127 



Cross -fertilization of plants by birds. III. . . . 441 



Cyprus under British rule 576 



D. Total abstinence teaching in the schools . . 115 



D., W. M. Date of vintage. Ill 60 



The recent cold wave. Ill 70 



Winter on Mount Washington . . . . ! 40 

 Dana, C. L. The nature of so-called double con- 

 sciousness and triple consciousness .... 311 

 Davis, W. M. Currents of the North Sea . . .22 

 Death-rate and sanitation in Russia . ... 314 

 Deformities of hones among the ancient Peruvians . 130 

 Destruction of birds for millinery purposes . . . 196 

 Dewey, J. Inventory of philosophy taught in Ameri- 

 can colleges 353 



Different physiological senses for heat and cold . . 151 



Distribution of colors in the animal kingdom . . 557 

 Dutcher, W. Destruction of bird-life in the vicinity 



of New York 196 



Dutton, C. E. Crater Lake, Oregon, a proposed na- 

 tional reservation 179 



Earthquake observations 301 



East Greenland Eskimo .172 



Educational books and reports 153 



Electric lighting in England ...... 343 



Ely, R. T. Ethics and economics . . . . ! 529 



England's colonies 475 



Facsimile of the Antilegomena 153 

 Faye, H. Is the ocean surface depressed? . . .421 



Final buffalo-hunt 520 



Fish-cultural station at Gloucester, Mass'. '. '. ! 182 

 Fletcher, Alice C. Composite portraits of Ameri- 

 can Indians. Ill 408 



Food-accessories : their influence on digestion . . 312 



Food consumption 342 



Formation of structureless chalk by seaweeds '. '. 575 



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Geography-teaching in Germany 209 



Giants and dwarfs . 82 



Government surveys 363 



Great silver-mines*of the west 333 



H., H. W. Primitive marriage 147 



Hadley, A. T. How far have modern improvements 

 in production and transportation changed the prin- 

 ciple that men should be left free to make their 



own bargains ? . 221 



Hale, H. Race and language 399 



Health of New York during April. Ill 493 



Health of New York during February. III. . . .258 



Health of New York during March. Ill 363 



Health of New York during May. Ill 564 



Heating-power of gas 467 



Historical association 429 



Holmes, "W. H. The trade in spurious Mexican an- 

 tiquities 170 



How to teach geography 551 



Hubbard, G. G. International copyright . . .135 



Railroad to Merv, Bokhara, and Samarkand . . 47 



The European colonies and their trade .... 275 



Hudson Bay route to Europe 278 



Huxley, T. H. The proposed fisheries board of 



Great Britain 344 



Induced somnambulism 309 



Ingersoll, E. Fish and famine in India . . . 125 



The Rocky Mountains as seen from the Canadian 



Pacific railway 243 



Insectivorous plants 355 



Iron conference at St. Petersburg 109 



J M J. Dr. Hugblings-Jackson on epilepsy . . . 533 



Popular psychology 106 



James, E. J. The silver problem 266 



The state as an economic factor .... 485, 490 

 Jastrow, J. Elementary science-teaching . . . 114 



The evolution of language 555 



Kennan, G. A trip to the Altai Mountains. Map . 18 



King of the Belgians' prize 404 



Kunz, G. F. Some remarkable gems. III. . . .399 



Ladd on the Yale curriculum 103 



Lankester, R. Proposed English fishery board . 431 

 Lapparent, A. de. Is the ocean surface de- 

 pressed ? 419 



Lauglllin, J. L. The silver problem . . . .268 

 Legibility of letters of the alphabet. III. . . . 128 



Lighthouse illuminants 332 



Lockyer, J. N. The data now requisite in solar in- 

 quiries 386 



Longevity 109 



M. Explosions in coal-mines 346 



Making a new Merv oasis 132 



Marks, W. D. Electric railways 318 



Mendelieff, Kosmos. An Indian snake-dance. III. 507 



Metal work of the Burmese 333 



Meteorological conference 210 



Method of signalling diagrams. Ill 357 



Mitsukuri, K. The intellectual movement in Japan 450 



Mouse-plague of Brazil 126 



Mrs. Sidgwick and the mediums 554 



Multiple personality 397 



Naval observatory 231 



New expedition to Alaska 566 



New volcano in the Pacific 69 



Newcomb, S. Aspects of the economic discussion . 538 



The silver problem 265 



Observations upon digestion in the human stomach . 290 



Occupations of the British people 552 



Oil-wells of Baku 149 



Origin of fat in animals 444 



Origin of human races and types 245 



Orton, E. Petroleum and natural gas as found in 



Ohio. Map 560 



P., V. Recent psychical researches .... 91 

 Palace of the kings of Tiryns ....... 37 



Panama canal. Map 279 



Pasteur and hydrophobia 296 



Paul, H. M. Close approach of Saturn and ^ Geml- 



norum. Ill 28 



