Volume VII. No. 156 January 29, 1886 



SCIENCE 



Comment and Criticism. — Professor Newcomb's address before the American society for psychical re- 

 search. — Massachusetts inland fisheries. — A proposed commission for testing the value of inoculation 

 in yellow-fever. — Cold weather at the south. — Financial difficulty of the Cincinnati zoological garden. 

 — The game of football. — Medical instruction for those going to the Kongo. — Cremation considered 

 by the trustees of Mount Auburn cemetery ............ 



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



The American engineers' meeting .......... 92 



Accessions to the national museum .......... 93 



Worthless bayonets . . . . . . . . . . . 93 



Farthest north .............. 94 



Thurston's materials of construction .......... 915 



Explorations in Alaska by the brothers Krause ........ 95 



Geographical notes . .... . . . . . . . . 96 



Motes and News. — The report of the annual conference of librarians. — The proposed Hudson Bay railway. 

 — Movements of the fish commission steamer Albatross. — Cod-hatching at Wood's Holl. — The en- 

 silage congress in New York. — Work of the chemical division of the U. S. geological survey. — The 

 time of issuing the Smithsonian and national museum reports ........ 



Letters to 



The festoon cloud. — H. Helm Clayton . . 100 

 Text-books on methods in microscopic anatomy. 



— Charles Sedgwick Minot; Edwa?'d L. Mark 100 

 Cost of scientific books. — J. S. Kingsley . 101 



the Editor. 



Oil on troubled waters. — C. F. Cox . . . 101 



! The collapse of the theosophists. — Elliott Coues 102 



1 Nectar-secreting plant-lice. — A.J. Cook . . 102 



Sea-level and ocean-currents. — C. A. S. . . 102 



SCIENCE SUPPLEMENT. 



Professor Ladd on the Yale curriculum . . . . . . . . . -103 



The levelling of Siberia A. Woeikof 105 



Popular psychology . . . . . . . . . . . J. J. 106 



Iron conference at St. Petersburg .......... 109 



Longevity . . - ■ . . . . . . . . . . . 109 



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