Volume VII. No. i 



April 9, 1886 



SCIENCE 



Comment and Criticism. — The rise and fall of the waters in the north-western lakes. — An outline-map of 

 the United States as an aid to teachers. — The present state of the work of the government commission 

 on the scientific bureaus ............... 317 



Electric railways W. D. Marks 318 



Cartwright lectures on physiology . . . . . . . . . . -320 



London Letter. — Medical education at Oxford. — Death of an old-school naturalist. — A memorial to Dr. 

 Thomas Davidson. — An English fish commission. — The cold weather. — Pasteur. — Domestic elec- 

 tric lighting. — 'World time' .............. 322 



Notes and News. — The Toronto meeting of the American public health association. — Section D (mechan- 

 ical science and engineering) of the American association. — Movements of the Albatross. — White- 

 fish for the Great Lakes. — The 'Atlantic pilot chart ' for April. — The criticism of Mr. C. S. Peirce. — 

 The steamship lines and oil for troubled waters ........... 324 



Letters to the Editor. 



International copyright. — Thorvald Solberg. . 327 Note on the nocturnal cooling of bodies. — Wm. 

 The distinction between anatomy and comparative Ferret ........ 329 



anatomy. — R. W. Shufeldt . . . 328 \ Maori poetry. — C. F. Holder .... 330 



Penetrating-power of arrows. — 0. T. Mason . 328 Names of the Canadian Rocky Mountain peaks. 

 Underground rivers. — E. A. Fuertes. . . 329 — A. G. . . . . . . . 330 



SCIENCE SUPPLEMENT. 



Remarkable powers of memory in the humble-bee . . . . . . . . 331 



Lighthouse illuminants ............ 332 



Metal-work of the Burmese ............ 333 



The great silver-mines of the west .......... 333 



Sewerage and health . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 



Abbot's Scientific theism Josiah Royce 335 



Stokes's Lectures on light ............ 338 



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