Volume VII. No. 167 



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April 16, 1886 



SCIENCE 



Comment and Criticism. — An additional argument for the preservation of the levees of the lower Missis- 

 sippi. — The needs and shortcomings of anatomical museums. — Cornell as a university . . . 339 



Settlement of labor differences Nicholas Murray Butler 339 



Apparitions and haunted houses ........... 341 



Food-consumption ............. 342 



Electric lighting in England ............ 343 



The proposed fisheries board of Great Britain .... T. H. Huxley 344 



Explosions in coal-mines ........... M. 346 



Notes and News. — A new fungoid disease. — A supposed Chinese phonograph. — Gambetta's brain. — 

 The dance of the Moquis. — An honor to Mr. Alvan Clark. — Botanic gardens. — Some new books 

 published or announced .............. . 347 



Letters to the Editor. 



Preliminary description of a new squirrel from f Science at Cornell. H. N. 



Minnesota. — C. Hart Merriam . . .351 

 Names of the Canadian Rocky Mountain peaks. 



— George M. Dawson . . . . 351 



• 352 



A convenient way of indicating localities upon 



labels. — J. Henry Corns tock . . . 352 



SCIENCE SUPPLEMENT. 



Inventory of philosophy taught in American colleges .... John Detvey 353 



Insectivorous plants ............. 355 



A method of signalling diagrams . . . . . . • -35 7 



Bibliography of Indian languages . . . . . . - • . • 35 ^ 



Diseases of the fore-brain M. A. S. 359 



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