Volume VII. No. 170 



May 7, 1886 



SCIENCE 



Comment and Criticism. — Mr. Allison's scientific commission and its incomplete report. — Names and 



things. — Some popular science .............. 405 



The coast survey and the navy ........... 407 



Composite portraits of American Indians ...... Alice C. Fletcher 408 



Geographical notes ... . . . . ... . . . . . . 408 



Paris Letter. — The deaths of Pasteur's Russian patients. — The election of Professor Vulpian as permanent 

 secretary of the Academy of sciences. — A valuable method of seeking for buried workmen. — The 

 Gheel colony of lunatics. — Modifications of the human voice by inhalations. — Poisonous fish. — Pro- 

 fessor Gautier's experiments on ptomaines. — The Stanley club dinner to Pasteur .... 409 



Notes and News. — A rat-plague in New York. — Variation in the level of Lake Ontario. — Prussian 

 legislation relating to rabid animals. — The off-shore seal-fisheries of Newfoundland. — Poisonous 

 mussels. — The new microscope objectives. — The eyesight of Amherst students. — The summer 

 course of zoology at Cornell. — Robinson Crusoe's island. — The successful introduction of salmon into 

 the Potomac. — A proposed national military naval museum in Washington ..... 412 



Letters to the Editor. 



Science at Cornell. — A. W. . . . . 416 Poison rings. — A.M.D.; The Editor . . 418 



Phylloxera. — F. W.Morse .... 417 . „ , , . T _ „_,., _ 



A swindler abroad again. — I. C. White . . 418 



Topographical models or relief -maps. — Henry 



Brooks 418 Pompous prolixity of the French. — A. G. . 41S 



SCIENCE SUPPLEMENT. 

 Is the ocean surface depressed ? A. de Lapparent j H. Faye 419 



Bacteria and disease . . . . ... • • • • • ... 422 



Accurate mountain heights E. C. Pickering 423 



Proposed new trade outlet on the Black Sea 4 2 4 



Topographical maps of i;he United States 4 2< 5 



The country banker 4 • . F. W. Taussig 425 



Philosophical questions of the day Josiah Royce 426 



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