Volume VII. No. 160 



February 26, 1886 



SCIENCE 



Comment and Criticism. — The study of history as it is on the continent of Europe. — A novel method of 

 lighting vessels under way. — A proposed political science quarterly. — The national academy report on 

 the naval observatory . . .177 



Crater Lake, Oregon, a proposed national reservation . . . C. E. Button 179 



The fish-cultural station at Gloucester, Mass. ........ 182 



Greely's Three years of arctic service ...... .... 182 



London Letter. — The appointment of Sir Lyon Playfair as the minister of education. — Some recent scien- 

 tific appointments. — Evidence in favor of the ribbon form of lightning conductor .... 184 



Notes and News. — The formation of an American society for the prevention of bird-destruction. — The 

 difficulties of the commission on the government scientific bureaus. — A proposed permanent exposition 

 in Washington. — Explorations of the mounds in Manitoba. — A zoological garden for Washington . 185 



Sea-level and ocean-currents. — W. Ferrel 

 The Davenport tablets. — Cyrus Thomas . . 189 

 The claimed wheat and rye hybrid. — E. S. Carman 190 



Letters to the Editor. 

 . 187 



A recent ice-storm. — W. M . Davis . . .190 

 Corrections of thermometers for pressui-e. — F. P. 



V enable ; J. W. Gore . . . .190 

 Is the dodo an extinct bird ? — R. Ridgway . 190 



SCIENCE SUPPLEMENT. 



DESTRUCTION OF OUR NATIVE BIRDS. 



The present wholesale destruction of bird-life in the United States . /. A. Allen 191 



Destruction of birds for millinery purposes 196 



Destruction of bird-life in the vicinity of New York . . . William Dutcher 197 



Destruction of the eggs of birds for food George B. Sennett 199 



The relation of birds to agriculture 201 



Bird-laws 2 ° 2 



An appeal to the women of the country in behalf of the birds . . . . .204 

 The American ornithologists' union committee on bird-protection . . .205 



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