Volume VII. No. 158 



February 12, 1886 



SCIENCE 



Comment and Criticism. — Satisfactory stocking of Missouri rivers with California trout. — The attitude 

 of the U. S. hydrographic office towards the use of oil on troubled waters. — The recent discussion on 

 religion in the colleges ......... ...... 133 



Map of the Shan states showing Mr. Halletfs surveys for a railway 



to south-western China. 



The extension of copyright 



International copyright 



A new route to south-western China 



. Horace E. Scudder 134 

 Gardiner G. Hubbard 135 

 Edward Channing 137 



Londo7i Letter. — An exhibition of local manufactures at Birmingham. — The investigation of the working 

 of the elementary education act of 1869. — Some shortcomings of the present educational system. — 

 Changes at the University of London. — Tunnels under the Mersey and Severn completed. — The 

 donation from Sir William Armstrong to the scientific relief fund . . . . • . .138 



Notes and Nezvs. — Destruction of fish by the cold weather in Florida. — An English acknowledgment of 

 the merit of Lieutenant Lockwood's explorations. — A new map of the Kongo. — A journal of psychical 

 research. — Early attempts at an international copyright law. — Annual report of the national 

 academy. — The present field-work of the U. S. geological survey. — Contributors to Science . . 139 



Letters to the Editor. 



International geological congress at Berlin. — Per- 



sifor Frazer ....... 141 



Cliff-picture in Colorado. — Alfred A. Wood- 

 hull .141 



A scientific corps for the army and navy. — A. W. 



Shufeldt . . . . .. ■ . . 142 



Science and Lord Bacon. — Asaph Hall . . 143 



The competition of convict labor. — E. Langer- 



feld; Nicholas Murray Butler . . .143 



The festoon cloud. — J. M. Allen . . . 144 



Correction of thermometers for pressure. — F. P. 



V enable; J. W. Gore . . . . .144 

 Is the dodo an extinct bird? — R. W. Shufeldt 145 

 Evidences of glacial action on the shores of Lake 



Superior. — A. A. Crozier .... 145 

 Professor Newcomb's address before the American 



society for psychical research. — S. i\ r ezvco??ib 145 

 Sea-level and ocean-currents. — W. M. Davis . 146 

 Association of sound and color. — Bradford Torrey 146 

 Tadpoles in winter. — S. H. Gage; Wm. F. Ford 146 



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SCIENCE SUPPLEMENT. 



Primitive marriage ... . . ■ . . . . 



The oil-wells of Baku . . . . . . . 



Ratio of increase of height to increase of bulk in the child 

 Different physiological senses for heat and cold ..... 



Rainfall in South Africa . . . . . . . . . . . . -iS 1 



Facsimile of the Antilegomena ........ J. 153 



Educational books and reports . . . . . . . . . . - 153 



New books . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 



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