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4. The embryology an.d metamorphosis of the Macroura. W. K. Brooks and F. H- 
Herrick. Plates 1-57. Pp. 319-576. 
5. On the application of interferenfce methods to astronomical measurements. A. A. 
MicHELSON. 7 Plates. Pp. 577-590. 
Volume VI. 1893 
On the capture of comets by planets, especially their capture by Jupiter. H. A. New- 
ton. Pp. 5-23. 
A study on the relation of atmospheric electricity, magnetic storms, and weather ele- 
ments to a case of traumatic neuralgia. Robert Catlin. 7 Plates. Pp. 25-33. 
On certain new methods and results in optics. Charles S. Hastings. Pp. 35-47. 
The proteids or albuminoids of the oat kernel. Thomas B. Osborne. Presented 
November 13, 1890, and November 10, 1891. Pp. 49-87. 
A comparison of antipodal faunas. Theodore Gill. Read November, 1887. Pp. 
89-124. 
Families and sub-families of fishes. Theodore Gill. Pp. 125-138. 
Human bones of the Hemenway Collection in the United States Army Medical Museum 
Dr. Washington Matthews. With observations on the Hyoid bones of this collec- 
tion. Dr. J. L. WoRTMAN. Reports presented to the National Academy of Sciences, 
with approval of the Surgeon-General of the United States Army. Dr. J. S. 
Billings. Plates 1-59. Pp. 139-286. 
Further studies on the brain of Limulus Polyphemus, with notes on its embryology. 
Alpheus S. Packard. Plates 1-36. Pp. 287-331. 
Volume VII. 1895 
1. Monograph of the Bombycine moths of America, north of Mexico, including their 
transformations and origin of the larval markings and armature. Part 1. Family 
I. Notodontiadas. Alpheus S. Packard. Plates 1-49, Maps 1-10. 1&95. 
Pp. 3-390. 
2. On reaction-times and the velocity of the nervous impulse. J. McKeen Cattell and 
Charles S. Dolley. Presented at Albany meeting, 1893. Pp. 391-415. 
3. The bacteria of river waters. John S. Billings. Including a paper on the bacteria 
of the Schuykill River, by J. H. Wright, and Appendix by Dr. Olmstead. Plates 
1-5, Diagrams 1-5. Pp. 417-484. 
Volume VIII. 1902 
1. Notes on the bacteriological examination of the soil of Philadelphia. Mazyck P. 
Ravenel. 4 Plates. 1896. Pp. 1-41. 
2. A contribution to the study of the effect of the venom of Crotalus Adamanteus upon 
the blood of man and animals. S. Weir Mitchell and Alonzo H. Stewart. 
Plates 1-6. 1898. Pp. 43-56. 
3. General perturbations of Minerva (93), by Jupiter, including terms only of the first 
order with respect to the mass, together with a correction of elements. W. S. Eichel- 
berger. 1899. Pp. 57-77. 
4. Ophiura Brevispina. W. K. Brooks a,nd Caswell Grave. Plates 1-3. 1899. 
Pp. 79-100. 
5. Anatomy of Nautilus Pompilius. Lawrence Edmonds Griffin. Plates 1-17. 1900. 
Pp. 101-230. 
6. An experimental inquiry regarding the nutritive value of alcohol. W. O. Atwater 
and F. G. Benedict. 1902. Pp. 231-397. 
7. West Indian Madreporarian Polyps. J. E. Duerden. Plates 1-25. 1902. Pp. 
399-648. 
