SCIENCE

AN ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL

PUBLISHED WEEKLY

VOLUME XII

JULY-DECEMBER 1888

NEW YORK

N. D. C. HODGES

1888

A.

Abbott, C. C. Antiquity of man, 103.
Adulteration of condiments, 185.
Africa, affairs in Central, 193; Mohammedanism in,

325, 328.

Agassiz Association, 13; Iowa Assembly of, 179;
Seaside Assembly, 160.

Agassiz's Three Cruises of the "Blake," 95.
Agricultural experiments in Connecticut, 26.
Alaska explorations, 59; Muir glacier in, 192.
Alcoholism, 259.

Altruism considered economically, 93.
Aluminium process, the Heroult, 234.

America, culture of North-West, 194; name of, 12.
American Association, 98; meeting, 87; officers, 95;
Institute fair, 249; race, Mongolian affinities of,
121, 227, 239.

Americanists, Congress of, 58, 74, 180.
Anemometer constants, 251.

Antarctic regions exploration, 36.

Antiseptic ammunition, 111.

Ants transplanting the scale-bug, 204.

Ape, mental powers of, 245.

archæological remains in Costa Cuca, 156.

Archæology in New York, 278.

Arkansas, mining districts of, 109.

Armor-plates and projectiles, 33.

Association by contrast, 174.

Atomic weights, 309.

Aurora, the, 32.

Australasian Association of Science, 226.

Dialect, negro, 23.

Diphtheria carried by turkeys, 186; spread by cats, Hall and Stevens's Text-Book of Euclid's Elements,

E.

Ear affections, tuning-fork for, 68.

Earle's Handbook to the Land-Charters, 212.
Eclipse, solar, 289.

Education in the magazines, 241.
Egypt, discovery in, 140.

Headache, the sightseer's, 260.

Health Association, 253; of United States Army, 214;
resorts, depressed areas as, 210.

Heart, human, as an electrical battery, 197.

Heat-centres in man, 147.

Heilprin's Animal Life on our Sea-Shore, 32.

Hemenway Expedition, 39.

Hewes's Citizen's Atlas of American Politics, 1789-

1888, 165.

Hinman's Eclectic Physical Geography, 142.

History, American, 1, 24; of a doctrine, 74.

Hoagland Laboratory, 189.

Hoffmann's Froebel's Kindergarten Gifts, 189.
Homing instinct, the, 288.
Hudson Bay route, 157.

Teaching, 189.

Hughes's How to keep Order, 189.
Humbuggery, 277.
Huntington's Unconscious
Hurricanes, study of, 109.
Hurricane, Cuban, 169.

Electrical absorption in dielectrics, 187; action on
steam, 269; alternating current, danger of, 111;
death from, 72; motor, 141; arc, 7: battery, light
weight primary, 112: primary, 21; storage, 209,
269 289, 309; boat, 6; commission on traction in
Italy, 289; condensers, 269; conductors for alter-Huxley's Practical Biology, 8.
nating currents, 201; conduit system of railways, Hydrographic Office work, 290.
302; conduits, 309; currents, 29; new method of Hypnotism and crime, 174; and magnet, 152; in
Washington, 309; notes on, 222.
producing, 224; deposition of copper, 235; diffu-
sion, rate of, 23; distribution by storage-batteries,
I.
164; dynamo, Eickemeyer, 270; dynamometer, 112;
Edison light for houses, 284; system, 270; employ-
ment of mica in condensers, 174; energy absorbed
by different lights, 153; incandescent lamp phe-
nomena, 224; insulator, 142; Investments, 290;
lamp experiments, 21; lamps for mines, 187;
launch, an, 247; light convention, 128; in the fu-
ture, 153; wires, 22; vs. gas in France. 201; light-
ing, 270; in America, 186; in mines, 30; station,
an immense, 234; locomotive at Birmingham, 270;
meter, 153; microphone, 7; motor, Sprague, 210;
plating, 30; potential variation, 66; power-dis-
tribution, 282; propulsion, 281; radiophone, 7;
Railway, the Hauss, 301; rapid transit, 45; resist
ance of copper, 21; of mercury, 142; road,
Sprague, in Boston, 324; standards of resistance,
56; street-railways, 246; sun-lamp, 201; surface
road in New York, 270; tempering of steel, 210;
testing bureau, 35, 67; tests of secondary batteries,
223; theory of light, 163; traction, 7; tramways in
salt mines, 142: transtormers, 56; treatment of
zinc, 66; Tudor accumulator, 173; underground
cables, 141; roads in London, 56.
Electricity, advances in, in 1888. 328.
Elementary Classics, 214.

Energy, radiant, 119.

English language, claims of, 291.

Eskimo measuring, 306.

Etymology, Mississagua, 132.

Ice movement, 34.
Identification, personal, 37.
Illness of eminent men, 181.
Illuminatio, measurement of, 141.
Illusions of drawing and paintlug, 288.
Imagination, power of, 151.
Immigration, prize for essay on, 179.
India, sanitation in, 106.
Indians, Canadian, 82.
Insects under ground, study of, 198.
Intellect in Great Britain, 200.
Iowa Association of Science, 116.
Iron, protection of, from corrosion, 82; and steel,
protection of, by electrolysis, 261.
Irrigation of arid lands, 61, 169, 203.
J.

Jadeite discussion, 168, 192.
Japanese koji, 55.

Johns Hopkins University, 205; annual report, 291;
scientific work of, 329.

Jones's Examples in Physics, 225.

Jordan's Vertebrate Animals of the Northern United
States, 235.

Jukes-Browne's Building of the British Isles, 176.
Jutland, discoveries in, 271.

Evans's Hand-Book of Historical and Geographical Kassai, the, 131.
Phthisiology, 294.

Canal across Italy, 116; from the Obi to the Yenisel, Evolution, a notable, 120, 180.
250.

Canals, Nicaragua and Panama, 322.

Cancer, 67.

Cannan's Political Economy, 175.

Carboniferous rocks, 309.

Carrington's Patriotic Reader, 295.

Census, eleventh, 25; maps of the United States, 61.

Centenarians in France, 205.

Execution by electricity, 261.
Exercise among Celestials, 172.

F.

Feather ornament, a Mexican, 246.
Fellows's Loisette exposed, 31.
Filter, a simple, 68.

Kay's Memory, 31, 315.

King devil, 198.

Knee-jerk, 9.

Kongo Free State, 131.

K.

Krakatoa, eruption of, 217.
Kunz's collection, 309.

L.

Labor department, 38.
Laboratory at Wood's Holl, 37.

Fish of the Alleghany region, 82; Commission, Uni- Lacing, 229.
ted States, 217; work of, 219.

Fisher's Essentials of Geography, 164.

Fiske's Critical Period of American History, 273.
Flint implements at Southall, 212.
Floods in the Mississippi, 167.

Folk-lore, Ojibwa, 333; Teton, 333.
Food-preservatives, 150.

Forestry Association, 272; congress, 250.

Forests and rainfall, 241, 242; care of, 233; in South
Africa, 109.

Fowler's Tales of the Birds, 235.

Frederick III., Case of Emperor, 316.
Frost, date of first killing, 190.
Fruit-plants in California, 209.
Fuel, burning pulverized, 321.

G.

Galloupe's Index to Engineering Periodicals, 107.
Game, a queer, among the Navajo, 268.

Garbage cremation, 139, 211, 265; disposal in Buffalo,
139.

Gardner's Town and Country School Bulldings, 249.
Geiser, loss of, 109.

Consumption among Indians, 148; In New Hamp- Geodetic signals, 299.
shire, 259.

Cook, G. H. Geological congress, 92.
Copyright in works of art, 49.

Geographic magazine, 225.

Geographical Congress, 70; nomenclature of Can-
ada, 263.

Lanciani's Ancient Rome, 263.
Langley, S. P. History of a doctrine, 74.
Language, origin of, 145.

Lees and Clutterbuck's B. C. 1887, 263.
Leprosy, contagiousness of, 151.

LeRow's The Young Idea, 294.

Lesley's report, 309.

Lewis, H. C., death of, 37.

Library, Congressional, 205.

Light, standards of, 210; surfaces feebly sensitive

to, 196; velocity of, as affected by electric current,
173; waves, a plea for, 80.

Lightning flashes, 7; photographs of, 11; protection,
17; shock, 171.

Livy, 248.

Lobsters for California, 27.

Log raft, 73.

Lubbock's Senses, Instincts, and Intelligence of
Animals, 261.

M.

M'Kendrick's Physiology, 106.
Mackenzle basin, resources of, 310, 314.
Macmillan's Greek Course, 214.

Magnetic declination in California, 155; disturb-
ances in the sun, 179; polarity of earth, 116; sur-
vey, Japan, 127.