INDEX TO VOLUME VII. 



*** Names of contributors are printed in small capitals. 



Abbot's Scientific theism, reviewed, 335. 

 Abbott collection at the Peabody muse- 

 um, 4. 



Ability of the young of the human spe- 

 cies, equality in, 36, 80. 



Accidents in mines, 459. 



Acclimatization, 169. 



Actinomycosis. 348. 



Adams, C. K. Science at Cornell, 391. 



Adams, H., on removals attributed to 

 Jefferson, 430. 



Adirondacks, southern, 454. 



Admission to college, science vs. the 

 classics as a requisite for, 363. 



Aerolite. 456. 



Africa, a railroad in central, 67; South, 

 rainfall in. map, 151. 



African inland sea, North, M. de Lesseps 

 and. 112; lakes, geology of, 416. 



Agricultural bureau, distribution of 

 seeds by the, ?; conventions at St. 

 Louis, 116; experiments, 295; experi- 

 ment-station at Cornell, appropriation 

 for, 117; third report of, reviewed, 205; 

 Connecticut, annual report of, 284; 

 New Jersey, 528 ; New York, 371 ; fourth 

 annual report of, reviewed. 315; North 

 Carolina, 448 ; experiment-stations, 

 237, 349. 434: industries of Japan, 463. 



Agriculture, relation of birds to, 201. 



Air. elasticity of. at low pressure, 161. 



Alaska, explorations in, reviewed, 95; 

 history of, 292; late news from, 48; 

 new expedition to, 566; ruminants of 

 the Copper-River region, 57. 



Albatross, 99, 300. 325, 413, 435, 536. 



Aleutian Islands, winter climate of the, 

 46. 



Allan, "W., on the Pope campaign, 431. 



Allen, H. Muscles of the hind-limb of 

 Ch^iromeles torquatus, 506. 



Allen, H. T. Ruadnants of the Copper- 

 River region. Alaska, 57. 



Allen, J. A. The present wholesale de- 

 struction of bird-life in the United 

 States, 191. 



Allen, J. M. The festoon cloud, 144. 



Alphabet, legibilitv of letters of the, ill. 

 128. 



Alps, glaciers in, 569; visible summits 

 of, 164. 



Altai Mountains, a trip to the, map, 18. 



Amazon, Uape Indians of the, 301. 



Amblystoma and Gordius, 550. 



American academy of arts and sciences, 

 503; association for the advancement 

 of science, 324, 546; climatological as- 

 sociation, 453; economic association, 

 209, 213; engineers' meeting, 92; fishery 

 interests, 113; historical association, 

 429; journal of archeology, 71; mu- 

 seum of natural history to be free 

 to public on Sundays. 434; ornitholo- 

 gists' union committee on bird-pro- 

 tection, 205; public health association, 

 324; society for prevention of bird -de- 

 struction, 185; for psychical research, 

 89, 123, 145. 



Amherst students, eyesight of, 414. 



Amphibia, 395, 462. 



Amphibians and reptiles, catalogue of, 

 140. 



Anachronisms of pictures. 264, 307. 



Anatomical museums, needs and short- 

 comings of, 339 ; preparations at "Wash- 

 ington, 163. 



Anatomists, a task for, 428. 



Anatomy, recent text-books on methods 

 in microscopic, 64, 100; and compar- 



ative anatomy, distinction between, 

 328. 



Andree's Allgemeiner handatlas, 505. 

 Animal and plant habits, 100; industry, 



bureau of, 456; kingdom, distribution 



of colors in the, 557. 

 Animals, origin of fat in, 444. 

 Annisquam, Seaside laboratory at, 368; 



summer school at, 236. 

 Anrep on ptomaines. 411. 

 Anthropological and biological societies, 



course of lectures under the auspices 



of, 326. 



Antilegomena. facsimile of the, 153. 



Antiquities, the tmde in spurious Mexi- 

 can, ill. 170. 



Aplodontia, new species of, 219. 



Appalachian mountain club. 236; map 

 of the White Mountains, 516. 



Apparitions and haunted houses, 341. 



Appleton's Annual cyclopaedia, astron- 

 omy in, 534. 



Appointments, scientific, 185. 



Appropriations recommended for the 

 scientific bureaus. 568. 



Arabic inscription, ancient, in the Saha- 

 ra. 161. 



Archeology, American journal of, 71; 



Roman, 492. 

 Archives slaves de biologie, 212. 

 Arctic exploration, did Dr. Haves reach 



Cape Lieber in his, of 1861? 165. 

 Argentine Republic, trade-route between 



Bolivia and the, 299. 

 Armsby, H. P. Imitation butter, 471. 

 Armstrong. "William, donation from, to 



scientific relief fund. 139. 

 Armv and naw, a scientific corps for 



the, 142. 



Arrows, penetrating-power of, 328, 528, 

 550. 



Arsenic in wall-paper, 371, 392. 

 Artesian wells. 264. 



Ashburner, C. A , on geology and mining 

 of petroleum and natural gas, 163. 



Asia, ethnographic map of. 368; expedi- 

 tion into central, 547; railway to cen- 

 tral, 277; trip of a naturalist to cen- 

 tral. 479. 



Assyrian journal, new, 351. 



Asteroid, discovery of a new, 435. 



Asteroids, three new, 326. 



Astronomical activity. 568: notes, 49, 73, 

 161, 368, 567; work for amateurs, man- 

 ual of, 263. 



Astronomy in Appleton's Annual cyclo- 

 paedia, 534; popular, 365, 392, 484. 



Atlantic, deep-sea explorations in the, 

 570; pilot chart for April, 325; wreck 

 floating in the, 50. 



Atlas, Berghaus's, 436. 



Atlases, two historical, 51. 



Atmospheres, equatorial currents in star 

 and planetary, 13. 



Aubry, return of, to Paris, 49. 



Auchincloss on valve-gearing of steam- 

 engines, 304. 



Audubon society, organization of Smith 

 college branch of. 435. 



Aurora borealis, 139. 



Australia, production of gold in, 547. 



Ayers, Howard, appointment of, as in- 

 structor in zoology at Harvard, 569. 



Babbitt, Franc E. Some Ojibwa and 



Dakota practices, 526. 

 Bacon, Lord, science and, 143. 

 Bacteria and disease, 422; in break-bone 



fever, 139. 



Bacteriological studies, 186. 

 Bacteriology, literature of, 414. 

 Bahama Islands, collections in, bv the 



Albatross, 536. 

 Baird, S. F., award of gold medal to, 547. 

 Baku, oil-wells of, 149 

 Bald-headed men in America, 110. 

 Ball, R. S. Popular astronomy, 484. 

 Ball's Story of the heavens, reviewed, 



365. 



Baltimore tax commission, report of 

 the, 45. 



Bancroft's History of Alaska, 308; re- 

 viewed, 292. 

 Barlow's New theories of matter and 



force, reviewed, 294. 

 Barometer exposure, 484, 550, 571, 572. 

 Barometric pressure, areas of high, 



over Europe and Asia, 369. 

 Bartlett, E. J. Death-rates among 



college graduates, 124. 

 Bartlett, J. R. Deep-sea soundings in 



the Atlantic, ill. 387 ; in the South 



Pacific, ill. 252. 

 Batrachians, habits of, 220; and reptiles 



of North America, 327. 

 Bats embedded in coal, 406. 

 Battery, new form of, 53. 

 Baur. G. Habits of batrachians, 220. 

 Bavaria, death of physician of king of, 



538. 



Bayonets, worthless. 93. 



Beddoe's Races of Britain, reviewed, 84. 



Bee-hives and bee-habits, 127. 



Bell, A. G., on ancestry of the deaf, 385; 



on deaf-mutes in the United States, 



214. 



Bell's Climatology, reviewed, 316. 

 Benedict, J. E. Surface-collecting on 



the Albatross, 300. 

 Bernard, C, unveiling of statue of, 213. 

 Bert, P., departure of, for Tonquin, 212. 

 Bessels. Dr. E., burning of library of, 7. 

 Bibliography of Indian languages, 358. 

 Bilhoola. language of the, in British 



Columbia, 218. 

 Bimetallism, 534. 



Biology, losses to English, during 1885, 31. 

 Bird-destruction, American society for 



prevention of, 185. 

 Bird-laws, 202. 



Bird-life, destruction of, in the vicinity of 

 New York, 197; wholesale destruction 

 of, in the United States, 191. 



Bird-migration, 162; premiums for pa- 

 pers on. 414. 



Bird-protection, American ornitholo- 

 gists' union committee on, 205; in Eng- 

 land, 162. 



Birds, an appeal to the women of the 

 country in behalf of, 204 ; and insects, 

 relation of, 111; code and check-list of 

 North American, 374; cross-fertiliza- 

 tion of plants by, ill. 441 ; destruction 

 of, 191, 196, 197, 199, 201, 202, 204, 205, 

 241; for fashion's sake, 111; for milli- 

 nery purposes, 196; the eggs of, for 

 food, 199; relation of, to agriculture, 

 201. 



Birmingham, exhibition of local manu- 

 factures at, 138. 



Bishop's ring during solar eclipses, 239. 



Black Sea, proposed trade outlet on the, 

 424. 



Blind, sense of touch, and the teaching 



of the, 271. 

 Blindness in Russia, 291. 

 Blish, W, G. The moon's atmosphere, 



124. 



