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Cape Lieber in his arctic exploration
of 1861? 165.

SCHWATKA, F. Eskimo building-snow,
ill. 54.

Schwatka's Along Alaska's great river,
308; reviewed, 294.

Science and Lord Bacon, 143; and the
state, 155; loss of valuable workers to
government, 52.

Scorpion, Professor Thorell and the
American Silurian, 216.

Scott, A., on the American judiciary,
430.

Scott, E. B., on the lower St. Lawrence,
430.

SCOTT, W. B. Some points in the evolu-
tion of the horses, ill. 13.
Scott-White's Chemical tables, reviewed,
176.

SCUDDER, H. E. The extension of copy-
right, 134.

Scudder, S. H., on the cockroach, $69,
386.

Scudder's Fossil insects, 414; New Eng-
land butterflies, 351.

Sea-level and ocean-currents, 75, 102, 146,
187.

Seals, habits of Newfoundland, 66.

SEAMAN, W. H. Method of stating re-
sults of water-analyses, 211.

Seas, large, near Cape Hatteras, 325.
Sea-serpents, belief in, 523.
Seaweed, paper made of, 435.

Sée, M., on the surface of pulmonary
vesicles, 410.

Seeds, distribution of, by the agricultu-
ral bureau, 7.

SELIGMAN, E. R. A. Change in the tenets
of political economy with time, 375
SENNETT, G. B. Destruction of the eggs
of birds for food, 199.

Sewage, disposal of London, 349.
Sewerage and health, 335; of Liverpool,
456.

Shad, 434, 436, 456, 525.

Shakspeare, 66.

SHALER, N. S.

The swamps of the

United States, 232.
Shark, strange form of, 347.
Shaw's Mechanical integrators, re-
viewed, 316.

Shepard, C. U, collection of, and Am-
herst college, 547; death of, 504.
SHERWOOD, T. W. Eskimo building-
snow, 372.

Ships, glass as a sheathing for, 7.
SHUFELDT, R. W. A national zoological
garden, 505; a scientific corps for the
army and navy, 142; certain questions
relating to national endowment of re-
search, 284, 374; evolution and the
faith, 483; is the dodo an extinct bird?
145, 242; the distinction between auat-
omy and comparative anatomy, 328;
the English sparrow, 14.

Shufeldt, R. W., on science and the
state, 155.

Siberia, levelling of, ill. 105; the coldest
place, 457.

Sidgwick, Mrs., and the mediums, 554.
Siemens, W., gift of, to the German gov-
ernment for natural science institute,
435.

Sierra Nevada, profiles through, 414.
SIG. Corrections of thermometers for
pressure, 168.

Signal stations, necessity of foreign, 325.
Signalling diagrams, a method of, ill.
357; methods of military, 52.
Signatures, use of composite photogra-
phy for the detection of forged, 67.
Silk-culture in the United States, 369.
Silver problem, 265, 266, 268, 286; in
India, 111.

Silver-mines of the west, the great, 333.
Skeleton, a human, prepared in 1543,
74.

Slavery in Madagascar, 72.
SLEVIN, T. E. Yankee, 32.

Slung-shot, 214.

Small-pox, cost of, to Tennessee, 237.
Smell, sense of, in man, 547.

Smith college, new science hall at, 435;
dedication of, 547.

SMITH, J. B. Scent organs in some bom-
bycid moths, 505.

Smith, J. Lawrence, memorial tablet to,

524.

SMITH, S. I.

Challenger report on the

Schizopoda, 249.
Smith, S. I., on decapod crustaceans,
338.
Smithsonian and national museum re-
ports, 100: report for 1884, 371; works
in press, 214.

Snake-dance, an Indian, 349, ill. 507.
Snow, Eskimo building, ill, 54, 372, 396.
Societies, meetings of scientific, 522.
Soda and potash in the far west, 61.
Solar inquiries, data now requisite in,

386; spectrum, Professor Rowland's
photograph of the, 117.
SOLBERG, T. International copyright,

327.

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Sperm-whale, pygmy, 413.
Sphinx, disinterment of the, 214.
Spider, a trap-door, at work, 240.
Sponge spicules in pond-soils, discom-
forts arising from, 218.

Squirrel, description of a new, from
Minnesota, 351.

Stanley club dinner to Pasteur, 411.
Star and planetary atmospheres, equa-
torial currents in, 13.
Star guide, 470.

State, the, as an economic factor, 485.
Steam-engines, valve-gearing of, 304.
St. Elmo's fire, 117.

Stepniak's Russia under the tzars, 56.
STERNBERG, G. M. The malarial germ
of Laveran, ill. 297.

STEVENS, W. LeC. Double vision, 461.
St. Lawrence, lower, 430.

Stöckhardt, Dr. Julius, death of, 568.
Stokes's Lectures on light, reviewed, 338.
Stoll's Guatemala, 550.
Stomach, observations upon digestion
in the human, 290; surgical operations
upon the. 74.

STONE, G. H. Chinook winds, 242.
Stone, W. H., on the electrical conditions
of the human body, 390.

St. Petersburg, electrical exhibition at,
117.

STURTEVANT, E. L. The claimed wheat
and rye hybrid, 56.

Suicides in England and Wales, 229.
SUKSDORF, C. L. The Davenport tablets,
ill. 439.

SUMNER, W. G. How far have modern
improvements in production and trans-
portation changed the principle that
men should be left free to make their
own bargains? 225.

Sunsets, Warner prizes for essays on the
brilliant, of 1883-84, 274.

Surgical operations upon the stomach,
74.

Survey, geological, in Brazil, 523; and
natural history, of Canada, 459: topo-
graphical, of Massachusetts, 49, 235,
503.

Surveys, government, 257, 363, 427.
Suspension of scientific activity in Wash-
ington during the holidays, 51.
Swamps of the United States, 232.
Swindler abroad again, 286, 308, 418.

SYMONDS, W. S. Is the dodo an extinct
bird? 264.

Sympathetic vibrations of jets, ill. 494.

T., C. W. What was the rose of Sharon?
439.

T., D. P. Large versus small telescopes,
131.

Taconic controversy in a nutshell, 34,
78; ranges, stratigraphical sections of,
393.

Tadpoles in winter, 119, 146, 168.
Tanganyika, 416.

Tariff of 1828, 430.

TARR, R. S. Parasitism among marine
animals, 17.

Task for anatomists, 428.
Tasmania, 523.

TAUSSIG, F. W. Railroad transportation.
258; the country banker. 425; the state
as an economic factor, 488.

Taussig, F. W., on the tariff of 1828, 491,
Tax commission, report of the Balti-
more, 45. on salt in India, 73.
TAYLOR, F. M. Some devices for teach-
ing historical geography, 25.
Taylor, T., on butter tests, 524.
Teaching, elementary science, 114.
Tea-farms, government, 237.
Tea-poisoning, 349.

Telegraphing from a moving train, 116.
Telephone, use of, in Europe, 479.
Telescopes, large versus small, 131.
Temperature of Munich, 164; of the
moon, 8, 32, 79, 122; of water of
Golden Gate, 238.

Temperatures in England, low, 281.
Ten Kate, Dr., investigations of, in
Guiana, 238.

Theism, scientific, 335.

Theosophical report of English society
for psychical research, attack on, 156,
THEOSOPHIST, a. A most extraordinary
structure, 572.

Theosophists, collapse of the, 81, 102.
Thermometer exposure, 439.
Thermometers, correction of, for press-
ure, 144, 168, 190.

THOMAS, C. The Davenport tablets, 10,
189.

THOMPSON, G. Eskimo building-snow,
896.

THOMSON, W. Sir William Thomson to
the coefficients. 9.

THORNE, C. E. New York agricultural
experiment-station, 371; the agricul
tural experiment-station of New
Jersey, 528.

Thunder-squall in New England, ill. 436.
Thurston's Materials of construction, re-
viewed 95.

Tidal observations in Canada, 1.
TILLMAN, S. E. Cliff-picture in Colora-
do, ill. 80.

Time, adoption of standard, by Cana-
dian Pacific railway, 93; world, 323,
373, 385.

Tiryns, prehistoric palace of the kings
of. 37.

TODD, D. P. The coast and geodetic
survey, 2.

TODD, J. E. Quaternary volcanic de-
posits in Nebraska, 373.

Topographical knowledge in battles and
campaigns, 431.

Tornado brood in Hampshire county,
Mass., 118, 220; festoon clouds of a,
124.

Tornadoes and their prediction, 361.
TORREY, B. Association of sound and
color, 146.

Total-abstinence teaching in the schools,

115.

Touch, sense of, and the teaching of the
blind, 271.

Tourette, G., observations of, on gait
in walking, 548.

Town boundary-lines, 236.

Toy, C. H. A new English dictionary,
557.

Tracheotomy, disuse of, in diphtheria,
492.

Trade outlet on the the Black Sea, pro-
posed, 424.

Trade-route between Bolivia and the
Argentine Republic, 299.
Trade-routes, Siberian, 408.
Trephining of an Inca skull, 186.
Tripos examination, 234.

Trout, stocking of Missouri rivers with
California, 133.

TRUE, F. A means of distinguishing
the Canada lynx from the Bay lynx,
396.

TRUE, F. W. A task for anatomists, 428.
Trutat's La photographie, reviewed, 176.
Tschudi, J. J. v., obituary notice of, 316.
Tuning-forks, method of determining
the rate of standard, 74.
Tunnelling, submarine, 93.

Tunnels under the Mersey and Severn
completed, 139.

Turin, Royal academy of sciences, 525.
Turkestan, geological map of Russia,

284.

Turkomans in Russia, 409.

Tyler, M. C., on the neglect and destruc-
tion of historical materials, 430.
Tyndall fund, 163; scholarship, 186.
Typhoid-fever, deaths from, 568; in
Brooklyn, 45.
Tyrotoxicon, 238.

Uape Indians of the Amazon, 301.
Ulna and radius of the human arm,
movements of the, 326.
Unconscious self, the, 415.
Underground rivers, 329.

U. S. coast and geodetic survey, 1, 2,
236, 415, 434, 435, 436, 456, 480; assign-
ments to duty in, 524; changes in, 548,
569; charts of, 524, 569; work of, 436,
457, 504, 505, 524; and the navy, 407;
fish commission, 307, 325, 434, 456, 560;
geological survey, 140, 276, 284, 383,
405, 504; fourth annual report of, re-
viewed, 158: list of publications of,
569; work of the chemical division of,
99; museum of hygiene, 186; national
museum, 347; accessions to, 93; bul-
letin No. 28, 100; No. 30, 99; No. 31,
163: handbook to the, reviewed, 154;
herbarium of, 187; lectures at, 239;
naval observatory, 73, 231, 385; change
in the head of, 481; patchwork report
from, 273; report of the national acad-
emy on, 178; signal service, medals
awarded by, 416; reports of, 186.
Universities, free lectures at, 384; Ger-
man, 110.

University, a national, 12, 52, 121; Cor-
nell as a. 339; founding of a Hebrew,
in New York City, 237; growth of St.
Petersburg, 262; Jena, legacy be-
queathed to, 570; of London, 479;
changes at the, 138; study of engineer-
ing at, 235; teaching, for London, 30;
of New York, convocation of, 479; sci-
ence club, Kansas, 480.

UPTON, W. The distribution of rainfall
in New England, Feb. 10-14, 1886, ill.
254.

Urine, toxicity of, 410, 547.
Usselinx, 431.

V. Paris letter, 212, 302, 409, 521.

Vaccine from revaccinated children, in-
efficacy of, 74.

Vaseline, experiments with, 306.
VENABLE, F. P. Correction of thermom-
eters for pressure, 144, 190.
Vertebrates, 351.

Vessels, a novel method of lighting,
under way, 177; at sea, electrical
communication between, 52.
Veterinary medicine in New York, state
recognition of, 559.

Vibrations of jets, sympathetic, ill. 494.
Vine, diseases of the, 569.

Vines, efficacy of sulphate of copper in
destruction of mildew of, 164.
Vintage, date of, ill. 60.

Virchow on acclimatization, 169; on
mussels, 413.

VIRDEN, S. T. Discomforts arising from
sponge spicules in pond-soils, 218.
Virginia, early history of, 430.
Vision, double, 440, 461, 506,
Visual illusion, a, 548.

VITA, A. S. An open letter, 166.
Vivisection inspectors, report of, 479.
Voice, the human, 411.

Volcanic deposits in Nebraska, quater-
nary, 373; eruption in Central Amer-
ica, 116.

Volcano in the Pacific, new, 69.
Vulpian, election of, as secretary of
Academy of sciences, 410; resignation
of, 212.

W. London letter, 30, 53, 138, 184, 234,
231, 322, 389, 477, 544.

W., A. Science at Cornell, 416.
W., N. The causation of pulmonary
consumption, 86.

Waitz, George, death of, 504.
Walking, gait in, 548.

Wallace, A. R.. early visit of, to this
country, 164, 369.

Wall-paper, arsenic in, 236, 371, 392.
Walther, J., on the chalk-secreting al-
gae of the Mediterranean, 575.
Ward's Paleobotany, 263.

Warner prizes for essays on the brilliant
sunsets of 1883-84, 274.
Warner's Physical expression, reviewed,
43.

Washington, attack on, in 1814, 430;
philosophical society, growth of, 7;
proposed permanent exposition in,
186; suspension of scientific activity
in, during the holidays, 51.
Water-analyses, method of stating re-
sults of, 211.
WATERS, G. F. Oil on troubled waters,
167; the germination of pond-lily seeds,

395.

Waters in the north-western lakes, rise
and fall of, 317; purification of natural,
132.

Water-supply of London, 281.
Wa-Wah, 548.

WEAD, C. K. Errata, 484; oil on troubled
waters, 214.

Weather, a popular text-book of the,
305; at the south, cold, 90; coldest
winter yet known, 162; in England,
323, 478, 545; journal, 264.
Weber, H. A., on butter tests, 524.

Webster, J. D. See Jackman, W. T.
Wellington, A. M., on journal friction,
93.

West, great silver-mines of the, 333.
Wheat and rye hybrid, the claimed, 56,
190.

Wheat-crops, waste in, 174.

WHITE, C. H. Method of stating results
of water-analyses, 211.

WHITE, I. C. A swindler abroad again,

418.

WHITFIELD, R. P. Professor Thorell
and the American Silurian scorpion,
216.

Whitman's Methods of research in mi-
croscopical anatomy and embryology,
reviewed, 64.

Williams's Chemistry of cookery, re-
viewed, 66.

WILSON, C. M. Stepniak's Russia under
the tzars, 56.

Wilson, J. G., on Columbus, 429.

Wilson's Drainage for health, reviewed,
316.

WINCHELL, N. H. The Taconic contro-
versy in a nutshell, 34.

Winter on Mount Washington, 40.
WOEIKOF, A. The levelling of Siberia,
ill. 105.

Wöhler, Friedrich, memorial to, 283.
WOODHULL, A. A. Cliff-picture in Colo-
rado, 141.

Wood's Holl, cod-hatching at, 99.
Wood's Nature's teaching, reviewed, 154.
WOODWARD, R. S. Is the ocean surface
depressed? 570.

Wool, classification of, for tariff pur-
poses, 385.

Workmen, valuable method of seeking

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