Volume VII. No. 165 



April 2, 1886 



SCIENCE 



Comment and Criticism. — The interpretation of agricultural experiments. — The significance of the 

 term ' fishes.' — The disastrous variability of the rainfall in portions of New South Wales. — The in- 

 stability of ornithological nomenclature 295 



Pasteur and hydrophobia . . . . . . 



The malarial germ of Laveran ..... 



A trade-route between Bolivia and the Argentine Republic 



Surface-collecting on the Albatross . 



Earthquake observations ...... 



Geographical notes ....... 



296 



George M. Sternberg 297 



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James E. Be?iedict 300 

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Paris Letter. — A plea for the investigation of the possible cause of consumption. — The handwriting of 

 hypnotized persons. — The surface of the ocean as affected by the attractions of continents. — Pasteur's 

 paper before the academy, March I. — Death of a devoted investigator of cholera. — Poisons in the 

 living body. — Additions to the faculty of medicine ...... .... 302 



Notes and JVezvs. — The sixtieth anniversary of the wedding of Alvan Clark. — A well-banked fire. — 

 Forest-culture in southern Kansas. — The congress of hydrology. — The next volume of the Encyclo- 

 paedia Britannica. — A handbook of classical philology and archeology. — A popular text-book of the 

 weather. — Announcements of scientific books ........... 303 



Letters to the Editor 



Phylloxera. — A. M. D. 



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Certain questions relating to national endowment 



of research in this country. — W. S . N. 307 



The anachronisms of pictures. — Xopal . . 307 



Schwatka's Along Alaska's great river. — Wm. H. 



Dall ........ 30S 



A swindler abroad again. — Erasmus Haworth . 30S 

 Bancroft's History of Alaska.— H, IV. Elliott ; 



The Reviewer ...... 30S 



Names of the Canadian Rocky Mountain peaks. — 



Ernest Ingersoll ...... 30S 



SCIENCE SUPPLEMENT. 

 Induced somnambulism ............. 309 



The nature of so-called double consciousness and triple consciousness Chas. L. Dana 311 

 Food-accessories: their influence on digestion . . . . . . .312 



Death-rate and sanitation in Russia . . . . . . . -314 



Muir's Thermal chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . .314 



New York agricultural experiment-station ......... 315 



Minor book notices ............. 



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