Volume VII. No. 153 January 8, 1886 



SCIENCE 



Comment and Criticism. — The opium habit. — Topographical models or relief-maps. — The want of free 

 discussion at scientific meetings. — President Gilman's annual report. — The needs of the Philadelphia 

 academy. — An early prediction of the decay of the obelisk. — The modern psychology . . 23 



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



Success in hatching the eggs of the cod ...... John A. Ryder 26 



Close approach of Saturn and p Geminorum ...... H. M. Paul 28 



The convict-labor problem . . . . Nicholas Murray Butler 2S 



Notes and News. — Science in the general magazines. — Evidence that the dog which bit Kaufmann was 



mad. — Coal-mine explosions .............. 29 



London Letter. — The teaching university for London. — Losses to English biology during 1SS5. — The 



modernizing of Oxford. — Science in English public schools ........ 30 



Letters to the Editor. 



The moon's atmosphere. — James Freeman Clarke 



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Relics -from an Indian grave. — Stephen Bowers . 



34 



Demand for good maps. — C. H. Leete 



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New find of fossil diatoms. — K. M. Cunningham 



35 



The temperature of the moon. — William Ferret 



32 



Amoeboid movement of the cell-nucleus. — S. H. 





Yankee. — T. E. Slevin 



32 



and S. P. Gage ...... 



35 



Chinook winds. — George M. Dawson . 



33 



English sparrows. — C. I.j J. D. Hicks . 



35 



The Taconic controversy in a nutshell. — N. H. 





Equality in ability of the young of the human 





Winchell . 



34 



species. — W. K. . 



36 



SCIENCE 



SUPPLEMENT. 











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Winter on Mount Washington 





. W. M. D. 



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Physical expression .... 





V. A. S. 



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Reforms in English public schools . 







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