INDEX, 
613 
Page. 
Eastman, J. R.: Progress of meteoric astron¬ 
omy in America. 275, 553 
— Some peculiarities in personal equa¬ 
tion. 515 
Eclipse expedition to Africa. C. Abbe. 555 
Eclipse photography and eclipse apparatus. 
F. H. Bigelow. 555 
-in Japan. Romyn Hitchcock. 502 
— Solar, January 1,1889. D. P. Todd. 533 
Edes, R. T., elected member. 502 
— The Sphygmograph. 517 
Eimbeck, W.: New method of determining 
astronomical differences of longitude.... 553 
Eldridge, G. H.: Peculiar structural features 
in the foot-hill region of the Rocky 
mountains near Denver, Col. 247, 543 
Electrostatics, Maxwell’s theory of. R. S. 
Woodward. 571 
Elements, Chemical, Relative abundance of 
the. F. W. Clarke. 131 
Elliott, E. B.: Notation in physics and elec¬ 
tricity .'.. 590 
— Death of... 516 
— Bibliography of. M. Baker. 608 
— Obituary notice of, by W. Harkness. 470 
— Resolutions upon the death of. 597 
Engineering, Beginnings of. J. E. Watkins.. 556 
Entomological matters of international con¬ 
cern. C. V. Riley... 511 
Equations, Remarkable transcendental. C. 
E. Dutton. 607 
Equatorial telescope, Denver, Drawings of. 
G-. N. Saegmuller. 607 
Evolution of serials published by scientific 
societies. W J McGee. 221 
Explorations, Recent geographical and geo¬ 
logical, in the southwest. R. T. Hill. 569 
Farquhar, H.: Commercial growth and im¬ 
port duties of the United States. 567 
— Systematic differences of proper motions • 
in declination catalogues. 593 
Fassig, O. L., elected member. 541 
Fault hades. Bailey Willis...'... 500 
Fault, Mechanism of the overthrust. Bailey 
Willis. 529 
Fernow, B. E.: Artificial production of rain¬ 
fall. 557 
— Influence of forests upon quantity and 
frequency of rains. 520 
— Relation of forests to water supplies. 552 
Ferrel, W., Death of. 569 
Fischer, E. G., elected member*. 553 
— Standard screws and threads. 556 
Flat Rock channel. G. K. Gilbert. 502 
Fletcher, R.: Treasurer’s report, 1888. 525 
-1889.....;.. 546 
-1890.. 559 
Page. 
Flint, A. S.: Brief control for general solu¬ 
tions of normal equations. 604 
Food consumption, American and European, 
compared. W. O. Atwater. 530 
Force, What is. A. Hall. 583 
-H. H. Bates. 587 
-M. H. Doolittle. 589 
Forests, Relation of, to water supplies. B. 
E. Fernow. 552 
Gallaudet, E. M.: Values in the education of 
the deaf. 570 
Galvanometer, New form of. D. C. Chap¬ 
man. 540 
Gannett, H.: Do forests influence rainfall?.,. 520 
Gem localities of Maine. F. W. Clarke. 570 
Geodesy, Scope and character of a bibliogra¬ 
phy of. J. H. Gore. 604 
Geodetic azimuths. C. O. Boutelle. 513 
— operations in Russia. J. H. Gore. 567 
Geology, Physical, Some of the greater prob¬ 
lems of. C. E. Dutton.. 51, 536 
-G. K. Gilbert. 536 
-R. S. Woodward. 537 
— Study in structural. C. D. Walcott. 551 
Gihon, A. L., elected member. 569 
Gilbert, G. K.: Estimation of skill in mak¬ 
ing predictions...-.. 582 
— Flat Rock channel. 502 
— Geometry of shrinkage cracks. 606 
— Soaring of birds. . 522 
— Some of the greater problems of physical 
geology. 536 
Goode, G. B.: Origin of our national scientific 
institutions. 551 
Goodfellow, E.: Obituary notice of. C. O. 
Boutelle. 566 
Gordon, J. C.: Discovery and development 
of hearing in certain deaf-mutes. 539 
— New departure at Kendall Green. 571 
Gore, J. H.: Decimal system of the 17th 
century. 556 
— Geodetic operations in Russia. 567 
— Scope and character of a bibliography of 
geodesy. 604 
Great Smokies, Rocks of the, and their age. 
A. Keith. 540 
Greely, A. W.: Do forests influence rainfall ? 520 
— Trans-Mississippi rainfall. 505 
Hagen, J. G., elected member. 531 
Hall, A.: Note on £ Cancri..... 565 
— Problem in probabilities. 605 
-spherical astronomy.;. 601 
— Problem-solving... 598 
— Resisting medium in space. 606 
— Saturn and its ring. 542 
— What is force ?. 583 
Hall, G. S.: Experiments in hypnotism. 516 
