General Index. 
643 
Public business: differences from 
private business, 324; necessity 
of “red tape,” 332; private busi¬ 
ness as a training field for, 333; 
disadvantages, 334; reform can¬ 
didates in, reasons for failure, 
335. 
Public life, American, necessity of 
the politician in, 336. 
Public officials,influence of criticism 
on, 332; peculiar qualifications 
needed in, 331. 
Railroad Land Grants in the United 
States, John B. Sanborn, 306. 
Railroads: court decisions concern¬ 
ing, 374; property in Wisconsin, 
legal status of, for taxation, 384; 
legislation concerning, 337. 
Railroads, early American: Boston 
and Lowell railroad, peculiar 
construction of, 321; historical 
note on, 317; locomotive engi¬ 
neers, peculiar experience of, 
322; state ownership of, debate, 
318. 
Railroads, early, in Wisconsin: as¬ 
sessments, special, legal status 
of, 382. 
competition versus public control, 
372. 
consolidation, 364; act for, 366; 
court decisions concerning, 374; 
public meeting in Milwaukee 
concerning, 368; arguments for 
and against, summary, 370. 
land, expropriation of, 386. 
legislation, general, 337, 342; lax 
methods in, 343; peculiar meth¬ 
ods of promoting, 360; special, 
387; Potter law, 337. 
mileage, table of, 373. 
property, legal status of, for tax¬ 
ation, 384, 
public aid to, amount of, 361; ex¬ 
amination of Supreme court de¬ 
cisions concerning, 345; excess¬ 
ive, Watertown, an illustrative 
case, 362; legal controversies 
caused by, 363. 
taxation of, 378. 
state treasury, contributions to, 
385. 
Rau, on theory of fees, 50. 
Reform Bill, Chartism and the, 
513. 
Reinke, on fusion of spores, 488. 
The Relation of Motives to Free¬ 
dom, by Edward H. Merrell, 
389. 
Revenues, public, classification of, 
50. 
Resolutions regulative of the pro¬ 
ceedings of the academy, 586. 
Rome, ancient, fees in, 69-71. 
Roscher, on theory of fees, 51. 
Saeeord, Truman H., Combina¬ 
tions of Pythagorean triangles 
as giving exercises in computa¬ 
tion, 505. 
Salaries and fees, 148. 
Salts of metals, dehydration of, 
399. 
Sanborn, John Bell, Railroad land 
grants, 306. 
Schall, on theory of fees, 51. 
Schaeeple, on theory of fees, 52, 
53. 
School attendance: in Chicago and 
Milwaukee, duration of, 257. 
compulsory, need of, 280. 
estimates by Supts. White and 
Lane, 277. 
in high schools according to age, 
276. 
lack in, cause of, chiefly econ¬ 
omic, 279. 
methods of determining, by Dr. 
W. T. Harris, 275, 277. 
parochial schools to, relation of, 
272. 
private schools to, relation of, 
272. 
statistics for, London, 275; Ohio, 
274; St. Louis, 273; various 
countries, 273. 
summary of results, 280. 
tables of, 282-305. 
Secretary of the Academy, report of 
the, 617-632. 
Sentence, terms and adjuncts in 
the, 6. 
Silver, poisonous effect upon plants, 
467. 
Slides for smut cultures, “stip¬ 
pling, ” 480. 
Smart, Supt. C. T. on school sta¬ 
tistics of Ohio, 274. 
Smith, Adam, on theory of fees, 
49. 
Smith, Erastus G., title of lecture 
before the Academy, 618. 
Smuts, nuclear phenomena in cer¬ 
tain stages in the development 
of, 475; cell fusion, summary 
of, observed process of, 485, 
487. 
Smut cultures: preparation of slides 
for, 479. 
Solutions, aqueous, growth of 
plants in, 454; non-aqueous, 
electrical conductivity of, 395. 
