582 



SCIENCE. — INDEX TO VOLUME VII. 



Bloch, A. , on Gambetta's brain, 348. 



Blondes and brunettes in Germany, 129. 



Blood, new method to prevent coagula- 

 tion of, 283. 



Blue Hill meteorological observatory, 

 observations made at, 306. 



Boas, F. The language of the Bilhoola 

 in British Columbia, 218. 



Boeddicker, Dr., observations of , 73. 



Bolivia, trade-route between, and the 

 Argentine Republic, 299. 



Bolton's Preservation of timber, re- 

 viewed, 176. 



Bones, deformities of, among the ancient 

 Peruvians, 130. 



Book-making, thoughtless, 362. 



Book-manufactory in ancient Rome, 467. 



Books, number of, published in the 

 United States, 186: scientific, 305, 505; 

 cost of. 101. 



Bordeaux. Philomathical society of, 416. 



Borneo, condition of, 96. 



Boroughs, Pennsylvania, 455. 



Boston, female medical students in, 456. 



Botanic garden, Montreal, 350. 



Botanical gazette for January, 100 ; in- 

 struction in this country, 251. 



Botany. Coulter's Rocky Mountain, 74; 

 course of lessons in, 370. 



Bottle found near Colon, 325; picked up 

 on Palmyra Island, 457. 



Bouchard, C, on the toxicity of urine, 

 410, 547. 



Boutelle, CO. On a geodetic survey 

 of the United States, 460. 



Bowers, S. Relics from an Indian 

 grave, ill. 34. 



Bradshaw, Henry, death of, 234. 



Brain, localization of functions in the, 

 112; of Gambetta, 348. 



Brazil, geological survey in, 523; mouse- 

 plague of, 126. 



Bressa prize, 525. 



Britain, races of, 84; weather in, 545. 



British association, 478; museum, ethno- 

 logical collections of, 436; people, oc- 

 cupations of the, 552. 



British India, statistics concerning, 457. 



Brooklyn, typhoid in. 45. 



Brooks. H. Topographical models or 

 relief-maps, 418. 



Brown, A., on the early history of Vir- 

 ginia, 430. 



Browne's Water-meters, reviewed, 176. 



Bruen, E. F., on the southern Adiron- 

 dacks. 454. 



Buffaloes, company to breed, 559; search 

 for, 549. 



Buffalo-hunt, a final, 520. 



Bugs, check-list of North American, 238. 



Building-stone, decay of, 93. 



Bullard, W. N., on tea-poisoning, 349. 



Bureau of animal industry, 456; of pub- 

 lic works, engineers' recommendation 

 of a civil, 1. 



Bureaus of government, appropriations 

 recommended for the scientific, 568; 

 consolidation of, 100, 238; joint com- 

 mittee of congress on, 7. 



Burial-casket, metallic, 186. 



Burial-place, an ancient, near Paris, 74. 



Buried workmen, valuable method of 

 seeking for, 410. 



Burmah, present and future, 62. 



Burmese, metal-work of, 333. 



Butler, A. W. The destruction of birds, 

 241. 



Butler, N. M. Educational tendencies 

 in Japan and in America, 287; settle- 

 ment of labor differences, 339; the col- 

 lapse of the theosophists, 81 ; the com- 

 petition of convict labor, 68, 117, 143, 

 220; the convict-labor problem, 28. 



Butter, imitation, 471; substitutes, re- 

 port on, at Berlin, 537; test for purity 

 of, 524. 



Butterfly larva, a carnivorous, 394. 



C, H. An old-time salt-storm, 440. 

 C, V. Vienna letter, 282. 

 Cabot, John, landfall of. 430. 

 Caldwell, W. H., on marsupials, 546. 



Cambridge, Eng., engineering tripos at, 

 ■282. 



Canada, tidal observations in, 1. 



Canal, a proposed, between the Sea of 

 Azov and the Caspian Sea, 237; be- 

 tween the White and Baltic seas, 457. 



Carman, E. S. The claimed wheat and 

 rye hybrid, 190. 



Carnegie's Triumphant democracy, 350. 



Carnelley's Melting and boiling point 

 tables, 326, 549. 



Cartwright lectures on physiology, 320. 



Catalogue of amphibians and reptiles, 

 140; prepared by Professor Douglas, 6. 



Catalogues, great cost of library. 156. 



Cazin's Phenomena and laws of heat, 

 reviewed, 176. 



Cell-nucleus, amoeboid movement of 

 the, 35. 



Census, German quinquennial, 176,415; 



of the Great Lake fisheries, 163. 

 Central America, volcanic eruption in, 



116. 



Centurus. 536. 



Cerebral excitability after death, 16. 

 Chalk, formation of structureless, by 



seaweeds, 575. 

 Challenger report on the Lamellibran- 



chiata, reviewed, 250; volumes, 390. 

 Chamberlain, M., on public documents, 



430. 



Chamberlin on artesian wells, 264. 



Channing, E. A new route to south- 

 western China, map, 137. 



Channing, E., on the social condition of 

 New England, 430. 



Charities and correction, international 

 record of, 306. 



Cheiromeles torquatus, 506. 



Chemical tables, 176. 



Chemicals and fish. 458. 



Chemistry, inorganic, 261; introduction 

 to study of, 468; of cookery, 66; study 

 of, 468; summer course in, at Harvard, 

 283; thermal, 314. 



Cherry tortrix, 58. 



Chesapeake zoological laboratory, 456. 



Chevreul. old age of, 213. 



Chierici, Father Gaetano, death of, 123. 



Children, characters of, as evidenced by 

 their powers of observation, 288; hap- 

 piness of, 449. 



Cbimbo, earthquake in, 117. 



China, a new route to south-western, 

 map, 137. 



Chinook winds, 33, ill. 55, 242. 



Cholera, 303; in Europe, 435; in Spain, 68, 

 230; mortality in Europe during 1885, 

 62. 



Church's Statics and dynamics, re- 

 viewed, 316. 

 Cinchona-trees, 371. 



Cincinnati weather journal, 306; zoologi- 

 cal garden, financial difficulty of the, 



90. 



Clark, Alvan, an honor to, 350; sixtieth 

 anniversary of the wedding of, 303. 



Clark and Sadler's Star-guide, reviewed, 

 470. 



Clarke, E. C, on cement tests, 93. 

 Clarke, J. F. The moon's atmosphere, 

 31, 124. 



Clayton, H. H. Barometer exposure, 

 484, 572; the festoon cloud, 100; ther- 

 mometer exposure and the contour of 

 the earth's surface, 439. 



Cliff -picture in Colorado, ill. 80, 141. 



Climate and cosmology, 491 ; Montana, 

 167; of New Jersey shore, 50; strange 

 theory of our, 515. 



Climatology, congress for discussing, 

 569 



Cloud, the festoon, 57, 100, 144. 

 Clouds of a tornado, festoon, 124. 

 Coal, statistics concerning, 349, 435. 

 Coal-consumption, 458. 

 Coal-mine explosions, 389. 

 Coal-mines, explosions in, 346; Japanese, 



319; means of preventing explosions 



in, 99. 



Cobra, venom of the Indian. 88. 



Cockroach, 360, 886. 



Cod, success in hatching the eggs of the, 

 ill. 26. 



Cod-hatching at Wood's Holl, 99. 



Cold wave, the recent, ill. 70; weather 

 at the south, 90; in England, 323. 



Coldest place on earth, 457. 



Collections of naturalists, 413. 



College, science vs. the classics as a 

 requisite for admission to, 383. 



Colleges, religion in, 133. 



Colonies, European, and their trade, 275; 

 of England, 475. 



Color, association of sound and, 146. 



Color-blindness among employees of 

 French railroads, 548. 



Colorado, cliff -picture in, ill. 80, 141; 

 new system of irrigation in, 307. 



Colors in the animal kingdom, distribu- 

 tion of, 557, 572. 



Color-sense of the Fijians, 72. 



Columbus, 429; precursors of, 234. 



Comet, a new, discovered by W. R. 

 Brooks, 6, 481; Barnard, 161; Biela, 

 369; Brooks, 49; c. 1886, spectrum of, 

 528. 



Comets, two, 368; two bright, 207; two 

 disappointing, 493. 



Commission on government surveys, 

 427; on the scientific bureaus, work of 

 the government, 318; report, the sci- 

 entific, 516. 



Compayre's History of pedagogy, re- 

 viewed, 469. 



Composite portraits of American In- 

 dians, ill. 408. 



Comstock, J. H. A convenient way of 

 indicating localities upon labels, 352. 



Connecticut, shell-fish in, 59. 



Construction, materials of, 95. 



Consumption, a plea for the investiga- 

 tion of the possible cause of, 302; cau- 

 sation of pulmonary, 86. 



Contagious diseases, method of pro- 

 ducing immunity from, 238. 



Contract, freedom of, 221, 225. 



Contracts, regulation of, 221. 



Contributors to Science, 140. 



Convict labor, competition of, 68. 117, 

 143, 168, 220; problem, the, 28. 



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

 127; nectar-secreting plant-lice, 102; 

 the cherry tortrix, 58. 



Cooking and dieting, 66. 



Coolidge, T. J., jun., on municipal gov- 

 ernment in Massachusetts, 430. 



Cooling of bodies, nocturnal, 329. 



Cope, E. D., on the phylogeny of the 

 Batrachia and placental mammalia, 

 369. 



Copper, effects of, on dogs and rabbits, 

 348. 



Copyright, extension of, 134; interna- 

 tional, 52, 111, 135, 140, 219, 327. 



Cornell, appropriation for experiment- 

 station at, 117; as a university, 339; 

 experiment-station, third report of, 

 reviewed, 205; recent changes in, 4; 

 remarkable growth of, 251 ; Sage pro- 

 fessorship of ethics and philosophy at, 

 74; science at, 352, 391, 416; summer 

 course in entomology at, 415. 



Corpus callosum, 549. 



Corydalus cornutus, 525. 



Cosmogony, 305. 



Cosmos club of Washington, 163; new 



house for the, 112. 

 Cotterill's Suggested reforms in public 



schools, reviewed, 44. 

 Coues, E. Is the dodo an extinct bird? 



168; the collapse of the theosophists, 



102. 



Coulter's Rocky Mountain botany, 74. 

 Country banker, 425. 

 Cox, C. F. Oil on troubled waters, 77, 

 101. 



Crater Lake, Oregon, a proposed na- 

 tional reservation, 179. 



Crawford, H. D. A swindler abroad 

 again, 286. 



Cremation considered by the trustees of 

 Mount Auburn cemetery, 91 ; progress 

 of, 46. 



