Volume VII. No. 17 



May 14, 1886 



SCIENCE 



Comment and Criticism. — The report of the joint congressional commission on the government surveys. — 

 Moral and religous instruction at Harvard. — English and German commissions to investigate Pasteur's 

 claims. — The bill for the investigation of yellow-fever inoculation ....... 427 



A task for anatomists .......... F. W. True 428 



The Historical association ............ 429 



Proposed English fishery board ........ Ray Lankester 431 



Notes and News. — The purchase of a 36-inch crown disk for the Lick observatory. — Shad propagation 

 by the U. S. fish commission. — Appropriation to the American museum of natural history for Sunday 

 opening. — U. S. coast-survey charts of the New York harbor. — French international maritime exhi- 

 bition.— Industrial education in Saxony. — Discovery of a new asteroid. — The new science hall at 

 Smith college. — Cholera in Europe. — Pressense's 'Study of origins ' 434 



A thunder-squall in New England 



Davis . . . . . . 436 



The Davenport tablets. — Charles E. Putnam; J. 



Gassy Carl L. Suksdorf; Wm. Kiepe . -437 

 What M as the rose of Sharon ? — C. W. T. . 439 



Letters to the Editor. 

 W. M. 



Thermometer exposure and the contour of the 



earth's surface. — H. Helm Clayton . . 439 

 Double vision. — Geo. Keller .... 440 

 Partition of Patagonia. — Russell Hinman . . 440 

 An old time salt-storm. — H. C. . . . . 440 



SCIENCE SUPPLEMENT. 



Cross-fertilization of plants by birds .......... 441 



Professor Hughes on self-induction .......... 442 



Origin of fat in animals ............ 444 



A daring economist ........ ..... 446 



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