Volume VII. No. 157 



February 5, 1886 



SCIENCE 



Comment and Criticism. — The international copyright hearing. — The silver question in India. — The de- 

 struction of birds for fashion's sake. — The relation of birds and insects as studied by the agricultural 

 department. — M. de Lesseps and the North African inland sea. — Localization of functions in the brain. 

 — The new house for the Cosmos club, Washington . . . . . . . . . in 



American fishery interests 

 Elementary science-teaching 

 Total-abstinence teaching in the schools 



• 113 



Joseph Jastrow 114 

 . D. 115 



Notes and News. — Agricultural conventions at St. Louis this week. — Volcanic eruption in Central America. 

 — Telegraphing from a moving train. — Earthquake record for 1884. — Electric motors for street-rail- 

 ways. — The Franklin institute experiment on electric light. — Professor Rowland's photograph of the 

 solar spectrum . . . . . . . . . \. . . . . 



Letters to 



The competition of convict labor. — E. Langer- 



feld; A T ic ho las Murray Butler . . .117 

 A tornado brood in Hampshire county, Mass. — 



H. W. Parker 118 



Tadpoles in winter. — H.M.Hill . . .119 

 A monument to de Saussure. — J. Rayner Ed- 



mands . . . . . . .119 



The Davenport tablets. — Charles E. Putnam . 119 

 Topographical models or relief-maps. — F. H. 



King . . . . . • . 120 



A national university. — John W. Hoyt . . 121 



the Editor. 



Temperature of the moon. — Wm. Ferret . . 122 

 Professor Newcomb's address before the American 



society for psychical research. — William 



James ........ 123 



Death of Father Gaetano Chierici. — Henry W. 



Haynes ....... 123 



The moon's atmosphere. — W . G. Blish ; James 



Freeman Clarke . . . . . .124 



Festoon clouds of a tornado. — H. W. P. . 124 

 Death-rates among college graduates. — Edwin J. 



Bartlett 124 



SCIENCE SUPPLEMENT. 

 Fish and famine in India . . ...... Ernest Ingersoll 125 



The mouse-plague of Brazil ........... 126 



Bee-hives and bee-habits .......... A. J. Cook 127 



Legibility of letters of the alphabet . . . . . . . . . .128 



Blondes and brunettes in Germany . . . . . . . . . .129 



Deformities of bones among the ancient Peruvians ....... 130 



Large versus small telescopes . . . . . . . . . D. P. T. 131 



Making a new Merv oasis . ........... 132 



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