Volume VII. No. 154 



January 15, 1886 



SCIENCE 



Comment and Criticism. — The report of ihe Baltimore tax commission. — The epidemic of typhoid in 

 Brooklyn. — Oil on troubled waters as a novelty to sailors. — A journal devoted to the scientific study 

 of criminals. — The winter climate of the Aleutian Islands. — A dangerous mosquito in the city of 

 Mexico. — Imperfect information in regard to Russian railways. — The progress of cremation . . 45 



Railroad to Merv, Bokhara, and Samarkand .... Gardiner G. Hubbard 47 



Geographical notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 



Astronomical notes .............. 49 



Notes and News. — The topographical survey of Massachusetts. — A wreck floating in the Atlantic for nine 

 months. — The climate of New Jersey shore. — Prizes of the French academy. — News from ihe Kongo. 

 — Two historical atlases. — The railway-bridges of Japan ......... 49 



Washington Letter. — Suspension of scientific activity during the holidays. — The proposed national uni- 

 versity. — International copyright. — Electrical communication between vessels at sea. — Methods of 

 military signalling. — The loss to government science of valuable workers ..... 51 



London Letter. — Government aid to the Marine biological association. — The exhibition of appliances for 

 geographical education. — The slow adoption of the electric light in England. — A rumored new form 

 of battery. — The juvenile lectures at the Royal institution. — The Liverpool course of free lectures . 53 



Letters to the Editor. 



Eskimo building-snow. — Frederick Schw&tka . 54 j Ruminants of the Copper-River region, Alaska. — 



Chinook winds. — W. M. Davis . . . -55 LL. T. Allen 57 



The claimed wheat and rye hybrid. — E. Lewis The festoon cloud. — W. M. Davis . . 57 



Sturtevant ..... 56 

 Stepniak's 'Russia under the tzars.' — C. M. Wilson 56 



Topographical models or relief-maps. — J. P. Lesley 58 

 The cherry tortrix. — A.J.Cook . . 58 



SCIENCE SUPPLEMENT. 



The eight-hour day . . . . . . . . . . JS. Y. 59 



Shell-fish in Connecticut ............ 59 



Date of vintage IV. M. D. 60 



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



Cholera mortality in Europe during 1885 ......... 62 



Burmah, present and future ............ 62 



Some recent text-books on methods in microscopic anatomy ■ ... . . 64 



Cooking and dieting . . . . . ■ . . . . . . . .66 



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