Aborigines of China, 438; of Tasmania, 367.
Absinthe, 260.

Academy of Sciences, National, 351.
Accumulators, 325.

Adams's The Continuous Creation, 356
Adhesion, peculiar case of, 427.

Adulteration legislation, 308.

Aeronauts, minute, 138.

Africa, Cameroons district of, 211.

Agricultural experiment station, Indiana, work of,
181; experiment stations, 96, 132; research on the
Pacific coast, 415.

Air in Edinburgh theatres, 178.

Air-compressor, 431.

Aka Expedition, 403.

Alcohol, effect of, upon longevity, 254; for scientific Cologne tippling, 147.
purposes, 192.

Allen's Force and Energy, 63.

Alloy, new soft, 298.

Allsop's Practical Electric Bell Fitting, 318.

Aluminum manufacture, 366, 438; price of, 366.

Ammeter, a new, 294.

Anatomy, ancient treatise on, 148.

Andrews's Institutes of Economics, 222.
Angola, 405.

Anti-friction bearing, 361.

Antipyrine habit, 435.

Ants, 60; intelligence of, 394.

Arab scholars, 438.

Arabia, ancient, 406.

Archæological Society of Wisconsin, 350.

Arsenites, spraying with, 211.

Artesian wells in Africa, 148.

Aryans, home of the, 38.

Color of eyes in Norway, 74.
Colorado, climate of, 384.
Color-blindness, 267.

Columbia, a new president of, 252.
Combustion, spontaneous, of the human body, 94.
Confectioners' disease, 347.

Consumption at high altitudes, 401; contagion, 30;
hot air inhalations in, 232; in armies, 111; open-air
travel as a cure for, 230; Paris commission on, 176.
Cook, G. H., death of, 217.
Cooling by spray, 384.

Coppering iron, 178.
Copyright, 75.

Cornea, transplanting of a, 264.
Cotton in Texas, 196.

Cousins's Strength of Beams and Girders, 31.
Cows in winter, 330.

Craig's Linear Differential Equations, 391.

Asia, Grum-Grimaïlo's Journeys in, 216; improve- Cremation, 95, 401; in France, 111.

ments in central, 75.

Asphalt pavements near gas, 250.

Asphalte, 74.

Association for the Advancement of Science, 76.

Astronomy at Johns Hopkins, 57.

Atlantic Pilot Chart, 8.

Aurora, height of, 333.

Crematories, 385.

Criminality statistics, 215.

Criminals, ingenuity of, 232; senses of, 297.
Croll's Stellar Evolution, 155.
Crows in England, 131.

Cuckoo eggs, hatching of, 25.
Cucumber-beetle, 297.
Cuttlefish trade, 386.

Fibre of banana, 199.

Fire-pails, 216.
Fish bait, 112.

Fisheries of France, 26.
Fish-hatcheries, 405.

Flamingoes, affinities of, 224.
Floating gardens, 283.

Flora of Japan, 149.

Fluorine, preparation of, 419.

Fogs, London, 421.

Fog-signals, 113.

Food for infants, 384.

Foods of different peoples, 264.

Foote's Economic Value of Electric Light and Power,

15.

Forestry Congress, 235.

Forests, destruction of, in Servia, 197.
France, great chart of, 195.
Freezing in mining operations, 142.
Froebel, Friedrich, Autobiography of, 84.
Fruit-candying in Leghorn, 62.

Fruits and vegetables condensed, 276.
Game-forest, Corbin's, 402.

Garbage cremation, 432; utilization, 111.

Gas battery, new form of, 31; engine, 379; inflam-
mable, near plants, 77: supply of natural, 282.
Geography-teaching, 408.

Habitations, history of, 2.
Hallucinations, 287: cocaine, 332.
Harvard of to-day, 185.

Health Association, 196, 217, 236, 284, 292: congress,

147; of French Army, 203; of London, 178; of New
York and London, 317; officer, pay of, 232; regula-
tions in Berlin, 95; studies at University of Pennsyl-
vania, 405.

Heights, measuring of, 224.
Hearing of school-children, 347.

Heilprin's The Bermuda Islands, 376.

Heliometer work at Yale, 130.

Heredity of acquired characteristics, 365; pathologi-
cal bearings of, 263.

Hessian-fly in England, 197.

Highway improvements, 418, 421.

Hindoo houses, 315.

Hints to Travellers, Scientific and General, 302.
Hiorns's Iron and Steel Manufacture, 238.

Dynamo, new Brush alternating-current, 51; and Hippopotamus, birth of, 421.
projector, 397; the Wenstrom, 159.

Historical Association, 439.
Hoagland Laboratory, 131.

Education in China, 130; in South Carolina, 77; tech- Hog-cholera, 314, 416.
nical, 265; technical, in Japan, 216.
Educational lectures, 403

Egyptian funeral wreaths, 27; surgical subjecte, 280.
Eiffel Tower, 43, 58: effect of cannon-firing on, 281;
lightning and, 222.

Electric balance, 295; battery, novel, 174; cell, Clark
improved, 159; convention, 73; devices of the Mu-
tual Electric Company, 87; eccentricities, 305; ef-
fects on a mirror, 178; executions, 60. 194; exhibi-
tion at St. John, 9; five-lead system, 348; hoist, 175;
injuries, 316; lamp, 147; lamp filaments, 55; light
on vessels, 439; light plant, a remarkable, 275;
lighting, 194; lighting by the Knowles system, 67;
lighting in Berlin, 388; lighting in France, 196; 10-
comotive, 195; meter, Aron's, 123; production, Mr.
Edison on, 178; radiation meter, 349; railway in
Cincinnati, 209; railway-lamps. 56; railways, Cin-
cinnati, 141; rapid transit, 222; screens, 295; sig-
nalling from ships, 194; sunstroke, 383; system,
Julien, 157; tanning, 194; traction, 414; transfer-
table, 173; wiring of ships, 84.
Electric Light Association, 110.
Electrical Society, New York, 385.
Electricity, atmospheric, 147.

Horn-fly, 335.

Horses with toes, fossils of, 266.
Horseshoe, a nailless, 166.
Houston's Dictionary of Electrical Words, Terms
and Phrases, 287.
Hurricanes, report on, 236.
Hydrographer, annual report of, 300.
Hydrographic Office change, 300.
Hydrophobia, 30, 47.

Hygiene and Sunday, 436: professors of, 30.
Hypnotism exhibitions, 235; resolutions on, 216.
Icebergs in the Atlantic, 10.
Iceland, ventilation in, 214.
Ice-mining, 198.

Ideas, association of, 214.
Inca, The Lost, 440.

Incandescent lamp slide rule, 131.
India, early history of, 217.
Indiana Academy of Science, 436.
Indians, American, 21.
Indicator, Arnold's retardation,
Inductive capacity, 382.

Electrification from contact of gases and liquids, 349, Inheritance of injuries, 93.

383.

Elephant, a possible, 103; death of an old, 265.

Elephants, wild, 73.

Energy, transmission of, by compressed air, 29.

Engine, high-speed, 413; improved air, 107; Jonson
compound, 191.

Engineer, a lawyer as a marine, 422.

Engineering progress, 4.

Engineers, American. in France, 8.

Entomological Club, 75.

Entomologists, working, 85.

Ericsson and ulton monuments, 282.

Etruscans, the ancient, 310.

Exhibition, electrical, 233; of agriculture, 129.

Explorations, French, 217; in French Indo-China,
130.

55.

Industrial college in Philadelphia, 148.

Inherited qualitles, 195.

Insanity following surgical operations, 332.
Insect pests, 234, 381.

Insomnia, treatment for, 254.

Insulating compound, 414; material, 263.
Insurance, life, 37.

Iron industry of New York, 25; or steel, Bookwalter
process for making, 113; permeability of, 56; pro-
tecting, against corrosion, 432; rust, 74.

Irrigation in Egypt, 179.