Volume VII. No. 175 



June 11, 1886 



SCIENCE 



Comment and Criticism. — Successful cultivation of the hydrophobia virus at Johns Hopkins university. — 



The development of the University of Tokyo. — A strange theory of our climate . . . -515 



The scientific commission report . . . . . . . . . . .516 



Hatching, rearing, and transplanting lobsters ..... John A. Ryder 517 



Royal geographical society . . . . . . . . . . -519 



A final buffalo-hunt . . . ~ . . . . . . . . .520 



Paris Letter. — Centennial of the introduction of the potato into F ranee. — An ovation to Pasteur. — 

 Epidemics in Paris during 18S4. — A dispute in the Academy of medicine over Pasteur's work. — 

 Statistics concerning rabies. — Hypnotism and the action of drugs at a distance. — Some recent meet- 

 ings of scientific societies. — The prosperity of French zoological stations . . . . . 521 



Notes and News. — The extension of the geological survey in Brazil. — The belief in sea-serpents. — The 

 development of Tasmania. — A memorial tablet to J. Lawrence Smith. — Charts of the coast survey. — 

 Test fo'r the purity of butter. — Assignments to duty in the coast survey ...... 523 



Letters to the Editor. 



Some devices for teaching historical geography. — 1 The agricultural experiment - station of New 



F. M. Taylor . . . . . . 525 Jersey. — C. E. Thome .... 52S 



Some Ojibwa and Dakota practices. — Franc E. Penetrating-power of arrows. — Oliver Marcy . 52S 



Babbitt . . . . . . . 526 Spectrum of comet c. iS36. — O. T. S. . . 52S 



SCIENCE SUPPLEMENT. 



Ethics and economics . . . . . . . . . . R. T. Ely 529 



Dr. Hughlings- Jackson on epilepsy . . . . . . . . J. J. 533 



Astronomy in Appleton's ' Annual cyclopaedia ' ... ... 534 



Bimetallism in the United States ........... 534 



Geology of Arabia and Palestine . . . . . . ■ • • 535 



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