Volume VII. No. 177 



June 25, 1886 



SCIENCE 



Comment and Criticism. — New Hampshire the state of earthquakes. — The difficulties of forest-culture in 

 the British empire. — State recognition of veterinary medicine in New York. — A company to breed 

 buffaloes. — Some figures showing the value of the fish-commission work ...... 559 



Geological map of Ohio, showing the positions of oil and gas wells. 



Petroleum and natural gas as found in Ohio 

 The health of New York during May 

 A new expedition to Alaska 

 Astronomical notes .... 



Edward Or ton 560 



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 566 



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Notes and News. — The appropriations recommended for the scientific bureaus. — Deaths from typhoid- 

 fever. — The death of Stockhardt. — A congress for discussing climatology. — An exhibition for small 

 industries, — Diseases of the vine. — Changes in the coast survey. — Inoculation for yellow-fever. — 

 Sensitiveness of the ear ...... ......... 568 



Letters to the Editor. 



Is the ocean surface depressed ? — W. H. S. ; R. 



S. Woodward . . . . . -570 

 Barometer exposure. — G. A". Gilbert; H. Helm 



Clayton ....... 571 



A niOFt extraordinary structure. — A Theosophist 572 



Aspects of the economic discussion. — Wm A. 



Ingham . . . . .572 



Distribution of colors in the animal kingdom. — 



Wm. H. Ball 572 



SCIENCE SUPPLEMENT. 

 The physical laboratory in modern education . .-. • Henry A. Rowland 573 



The formation of structureless chalk by seaweeds . . 575 



Cyprus under British rule . ... 57 6 



Jevons's Letters and journal ..... - 5 77 



The railways and the republic .... • • -579 



Oppolzer's Treatise on orbits ...... • • 580 



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