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Anthropology at Dorpat in 1863 and 1864.
His princijal work is "Die Grundziige der
wissenschaftlichen Botanik " ("The Prin-
ciples of Scientific Botany ").

M. Pasteur has reported the complete
success of the experiments which he has
been carrying on on a large scale at a farm
near Melun, France, in vaccination against
carbonaceous diseases ; and he believes that
he has obtained a process by means of which
sheep and cattle can be made wholly secure
against this most dangerous and destructive
class of maladies.

The report of Professor Abel on col-
liery explosions confirms the theory that
coal-dust is an important factor in them.
A mixture of coal-dust and air is not explo-
sive, but if a quantity of fire-damp, which,
mixed merely with air, would be harmless,
is also present, a highly explosive atmos-
phere is produced. "Professor Abel's ex-
periments show that any kind of dust mixed
with air, containing a small quantity of fire-
damp, converts the mixture into an explo-
sive compound.



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Abbott, Benjamin Vaughan 372

Aborigines, Tlie Australian 680

Academy of Sciences, Minnesota 131

Accidents, Industrial, etc 285

African Races, Movements and Mixtures of. 568

Agnosticism at Harvard 266

Air-Engine, The M6karski 429

Air, Impure, and Disease 283

Alcohol, Natural Production of 238

American Association at Cincinnati, The 859

American Association, the, Meeting of 422

American Continent, The Primeval 229

Animal Heat, Refrigeration and 278

Animals, the Larger, Gradual Disappearance of 280

Another World down here 43

Anthropology, German 132

Anthropology in Russia 284

Anti-vivisectionists, A Case for the 409

Ants, Cutting and Slave-making 129

Ants, Intelligence of. 495, 81 6

Arrow-Poison of the South-Sea Islands 714

Arsenical Poisoning, Physiology of 134

Asphalt, Origin and Uses of 539

Atwater, Professor \V. 261

Behring Strait, Geological Features of 130

Bell, Alexander Graham 186, 324

Biblical Criticism, The Science of 408

Blood, The, and its Circulation 460, 644

Books noticed :

" Studies from the Biological Laboratory of Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity " ." 116

" The Irish Land Question " (George) 119

" Medical Hints on tlie Production and Management of the Singing

Voice" (Browne) 119

" Report of the Commissioner of Education for 1878 " 120

" Photometric Researches " (Pickering) 120

" Studies of the Food of Birds, Insects, and Fishes " 120

" United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries," Report for 1878. . 121

" Natural Theology " (Bascom) 121

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866 INDEX.

Books noticed : page

"Drainage for Health" (Wilson) 121

" The Care and Culture of Ohildrea " (Sozinskey) 122

" Baldwin Locomotive Works' Catalogue " 122

" ' Change ' as a Mental Eestorative " (Mortimer-Granville) 122

" Pueblo Pottery " (Putnam) 122

" Adam Smith " (Farrer) 122

" The Devonian Insects of New Brunswick " (Scudder) 123

" Orange Insects " (Ashmead) '. 123

" Pvural School Architecture " (Clark) 123

" English Kural Schools" (Ilulbert) 123

" Electric Lighting by Incandescence " (Sawyer) 124

" The Cause of Color among Races " (Sharpe) 124

" The Boy-Engineers " (Lukin) 125

" American Sanitary Engineering " (Philbrick) 125

" The Food of Fishes " (Forbes) 125

" Extracts from Chordal's Letters " 126

" Tide-Tables for 1881 " 126

" Report on the Marine Isopoda of New England " (Harger) 126

" A Syllabus of Anglo-Saxon Literature " (Hart) 126

" Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Colorado ". . . 126

" Papilio " 126

'' Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects " (Ilelraholtz) 269

" The Human Body " (Martin) 270

" Victor Hugo : his Life and Works " (Barbou) 271

" The Telescope " (Nolan) 271

" Sight ; Monocular and Binocular Vision " (Le Conte) 272

" Sketches and Reminiscences of the Radical Club " (Sargent) 272

" Our Native Ferns " (Underwood) 273

" Drugs that enslave " (Kane) • • 273

" Reminiscences of Dr. Spurzheim and George Combe " (Capen) 273

*' History of the Free-Trade Movement in England " (Mongredieu) . . . 273

" Is Consumption contagious ? " (Clapp) 274

" The Spirit of Education " (B6esau) 274

" Electricity in Relation to Medicine and Surgery " (Rockwell) 274

" The Logic of Christian Evidences " (Wright) 274

" First German Book" (Worman) 274

" General Physiology of Muscles and Nerves " (Rosenthal) 412

" The Old Testament in the Jewish Church " (Smith) 413

" Trance and Trancoidal States in the Lower Animals " (Beard) 416

" Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia " 417

" United States Entomological Commission Report on Rocky Moun-
tain Locust " 417

" Cooperation as a Business " (Barnard) 417

" Contributions to the Anatomy of the Milk-weed Butterfly " (Bur-
gess) 418

" Locke's Conduct of the Understanding " (Fowler) 418

" Middletown Scientific Association. Occasional Papers " (Gardner). 418

" Railroads and Telegraphs " (Giddings) 418

" The Diet-Cure " (Nichols) 418

" Modern Architectural Details " (Bicknell and Comstock) 418



INDEX. 867

Books noticed : pack

" The Magazine of Art " ; 418

" How to tell the Parts of Speech " (Abbott and McElroy) 419

'' A Fourth State of Matter " (Outerbridge) 419

" Observatory of the University of Michigan, Report of the Director" 419
" United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, Meteorological Researches "

(Ferrel) 419

" Our Trees in Winter " (Robinson) 419

" Cruise of the United States Revenue Steamer Corwin " (Hooper). . . 419

" Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration " (Weeks) 420

" Observations on Jupiter " (Trouvelot) 420

" Working Drawings and how to use Them " (Eaupt) 420

" Imaginary Quantities " (xVrgand) 420

" The Endowment of Scientitic Research " (Davidson) 420

" Anthropological Society of Washington, D. C, Abstract of Transac-
tions " 421

" Thoughts on Agricultural Education " (Sturtevant) 421

" The Nature of Vibration in Extended Media " (Robinson) 421

" History of the Christian Religion to the Year 200 " (Waite) 421

" A Practical Treatise on Nervous Exhaustion " (Beard) 421

" Anthropology " (Tylor) 557

" Illusions " (Sully) 559

" Literary Style and other Essays " (Mathews) 560

" The Bolometer and Radiant Energy " (Langley) 561

" Second German Book " (Worman) 561

" Report on Foreign Life-saving Apparatus " (Lyle) 561

" Geological Survey of Alabama " (Smith) 561

" American Nervousness, its Causes and Consequences" (Beard) 562

" The Library " (Lang) 562

" The Microscope, and its Relation to Medicine and Pharmacy "

(Stowell) 562

" Principal Characters of American Jurassic Dinosaurs " (Marsli) 562

" The Climate, Soils, Timbers, etc., of Kentucky " (Procter) 562

" Inductive Metrology " (McGee) 563

" Nostrums in tlieir Relation to the Public Health " (Prescott) 563

" On Philadelphite " (Lewis) 563

" On the Geographical Distribution of the Indigenous Plants of Eu-
rope and the Northeast United States " (James) 563

" United States Life-saving Service, Annual Report of Operations " . . 563

" The School of Life " (Alger) 563

" Rapid Breathing as a Pain-Obtunder " (Bonwill) 564

" Gill-Nets in the Codfishery " (Collins) 564

" Philadelphia Water Department, Annual Report of Chief -Engineer " 564

" Anti(iuities of New Mexico and Arizona " (Hoffman) 564

"Political Eloquence in Greece— Demosthenes" (Br6dif and MacMa-

hon) 564

" The Bacteria " (Magnin) 706

" Life of Voltaire " (Parton) 707

' Marino Algae of New England and Adjacent Coast " (Farlow) 709

" Hand-Book of Chemical Physiology and Pathology " (Vaughan) 709

" English Pliilosophers — David Hartley and James Mill " (Bower) . . . 709



868 INDEX.

Books noticed : page

" Text-Book of Experimental Organic Chemistry " (Jones) 710

" The Botanical Collector's Hand-Book " (Bailey) 710

" The Sun " (Young) • 8o2

" Chinese Immigration in its Social and Economical Aspects " (Seward) 853

" Discovery of Palaeolithic Flint Irhplements in Upper Egypt " (Ilaynes) 855

" A Memorial of Joseph Henry " 855

" Anniversary Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History ". . 856
"Indigestion, Biliousness, and Gout in its Protean Aspects." Part I.

(Milner) 857

" Eanthorpe " (Lewes) 857

" Sewer-Gas and its Dangers " (Brown) 858

" The Wilderness-Cure " (Cook) 858

" A Text-Book of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene " (Scovell) 858

Bryant, Charles S 635

Buchanan, J. G 59

Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm, Sketch of 550

Campos, Life and Xature in the 133

Cattle-Raising in South America 835

Cave-Temples, The, of India 713

Cemeteries, Are, unhealthy ? 657

Chesapeake Zoological Laboratory 276

Cleve, M. J 830

Climate and Health 567

Cohn, Professor Herman 54

Color-Blindness 91

Color-Bliudness, and Education of tbe Color-Sense 567

Color-Blindness, Hereditary 423

Colored Men in China 843

Color in Flowers, Conditions of 717

Color-Sense, The, among Uncivilized Peoples 138

Colton, G. II 554

Comets, About 790

Cope, E. D., Sketcli of 110

Copper-Mines, Ancient, of Isle Royale 601

Correspondence 554, 697, 843

Couty, M 835

" Craters," Lunar 713

Cremation, Progress of. 277

Cynicism, opposed to Progress 78

Darwin, Charles, F. R. S 663

Deaf, The Horace Mann School for the 84

Death, The Phenomena of. 394

Deep-Sea Investigation 59

Degeneration 218, 382

Digestive Agent, A Vegetable 574

Diphtheria, Origin of 284

Diseases and the Weather 275

Disinfectant, A New 138



INDEX. 869



Draper, TI. N 'J-t

Drowned, the, Burial of the Souls of 573

Drowning, Uow to prevent 369

Duckworth, Djc3, M. D 491

Dunbar, CM 101

Dust, the IS'iicleus of Fog 142

Dyeing, Intluence of Physical Structure on Processes of .' 570

Dyer, T. F. Thistleton 67

Dynamite, The Safe Manufacture of 280

Earth-Beds, Frost-formed 572

Earth, How the, is weighed 743

Earthquakes in England 282

Earthquakes, Tlie Mental Effect of 257

Earth's Crust, The Secular Changes of Level in the 715

Eddy, William A 78

Editor's Table 1 14, 265, 408, 555, 698, 846

Education, Physical 7, 145, 334, 450, 595, 721

Educational Progress, Another Step in 267

Education, Self-Government in 555

Education, State 703

Egleston, N. H 176, 311

Electricity, Storage of. 5C6

Electricity, The Modern Developnaent of Faradny's Conception of 242

Electric Lighting, Recent Advances in 378

Electric Lights for the French Coasts 1-12

Electric Measurement, Units of 131

Electric Motor, Improved 130

Energy, The Electric Storage of 546

Eucalyptus, The, in the Roman Carapagna 94

Explosions, Some Facts about 281

Eyes and School-Books 54

Fairbairn, Dr., and the Synthetic Philosophy 846

Fairchild, Herman L 460, 644

Faraday Lecture, Helmholtz's 268

Fayrer, Dr. J., F. R. S 171

Field Club, The Buffalo 265

Filtering Apparatus, An Improved 283

Fish, C. F 24

Food-Animals, Slaughter of, among the Jews 139

Forestry, European Schools of 311'

Forestry in India 137

Forest-Culture in Alpine Ravines 830

Forests, our. The Value of 176

Forest-Trees, Undergrowth and 426

Fortress, A, of the Polislied-Stone Age 718

Fossil, The Human, of Schipka Cave 571

French Association at Algiers 423

Fruits and Seeds, On 156, 354



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Fryatt, F. E 511

Fungi as Insecticides 136

Galton, Francis, F. R. S 519

Geological Action, Efficiency of Present Causes in 430

Germs, Examination of, in the Air 136

Glucose and Grape-Sugar 251

Gratacap, L. P 229

Great Primitive European Sea 863

Halsted, Byron D 643

Harvest-Mites or Jiggers 845

Health and Material Prosperity 127

Ilelmholtz, Professor 11 242

Herring, The 433

Higgins, Dr. P. J 531

Hitchcock, Rorayn 652

Huntington, A. K 808

Hurt, Alden B 400

Huxley, Professor T. H., F. R. S 433, 795

Hypnotic Phenomena, The Reality of 279

Ice-Sheet, The Glacial, in the Interior States 425

Information wanted 698

Inheritance ; 663

Intellectual Property, Recent Advance in the Law of 372

Irrigation, Allialine Deposits from Waters of. 573

Jackson, Dr. Charles T., Sketch of. 404

Johnston-Lavis, H. J., F. G. S 49

Jordan, Professor David S 1

Koehler, S. R 91

" Ladies' Deposit," the Boston, Lessons of 698

Length, About Measures of 652

Life Insurance, Modern Basis of 625

Life Insurance, Origin and History of 482

Life Insurance, Practical Business of. 732

Lighthouse, The New Eddystone 574

Literary Notices 116, 269, 412, 557, 706, 852

Lizard, Habits of the Green 286

Lubbock, Sir John 156, 354

Lunar Lore and Portraiture 511

MacCorraac, Henry 369

Malo, Leon, C. E 539

Mankind, The Races of 289

Manley, Dean V. R 698

Afflrrpl. Gabriel 680



INDEX. 871

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Matter, Gaseous, Action of Radiant Heat on 33

Medical Science, The Cultivation of. 774

Medicine, Connection of the Biological Sciences with 795

Milk, The Insufficient Use of. 491

Minnesota Academy of Sciences 131

Molecule? What is a 688

Morrison, M. G 84

Mortality, in Different Pursuits 716

Mound-Builders, The 128

" Mountain-Sickness," Mr. Whymper's Experiments with 569

New Guinea, Stone-Age Civilization in 429

Newton, Sir Isaac, An Unpublished Letter of 572

Notes 143, 287, 431, 575, 719, 864

Opium, Persian 716

Oswald, F. L., M. D 7, 145, 334, 450, 595, 721

Paget, Sir James 774

Parasites in Food and Drink 712

Patterson, J. Stahl 665, 784

Petting, Effects of, on Animals 135

Phteodaria, The 285

Photophone, The, in Research 114

Physiological Effects of, Compressed Air 861

Physiology, Book, abroad • 114

Pisciculture, The Origin and Progress of 140

Plant-Life, The Unit in 543

Plant-Migrations 430

Political Institutions, The Development of 197, 342, 577, 750

Politics, Science in 711

Popular Miscellany 127, 275, 422, 565, 711, 859

Population, the Colored, Increase and Movement of. 605, 784

Post and Telegraph, Influence of the, on International Relations 101

Prairies, Why are. Treeless ? 424

Preece, W. H 378

Publications Received 127. 274, 421. 5G4, 710, 859

Radiant Energy, Production of Sound by 186, 324

Radiant Heat, Action of, on Gaseous Matter 33

Refrigeration and Animal Heat 278

Research, The Endowment of 572

Robinet, M. G 657

Romanes, George J 495, 816

Roses, The Otto of 135

Sahara, Tiie, M. Soleillet on 571

Saliva, The, and the Gastric Juice 129

Salmon on the Pacific Coast 565

Salmon, Story of a 1

Sanitary Protection Associations 141



872 INDEX.

PAGE

Saratoga, Mineral Springs of 24

School-Books, Eyes and 54

School-Eoom Ventilation 531

Schuster, Dr. Arthur, F. R. S 468

Science-Teaching, Progress of Higher 676

Self-Government in Colleges 697

Sewage-Farming 285

Skinner, A. N 790

Skull -Worship 276

Somnambulism 711

Sound, Production of, by Radiant Energy 186, 324

Sound-Signals 428

Spectroscopy, Modern, The Teachings of 468

Spencer, Herbert 197, 342, 577, 750

Spencer, Thomas D., M. D 'T. 394

Spouting Springs, The Phenomena of 654

State Education : A Necessity 635

Steel, Progress in the Manufacture of 808

Stevens, W. Le Conte 697

Stockhardt, Sketch of Julius Adolph 261

Stone, W. H 676

Study of Anthropology, The 862

Sulphur Formation in the Soil of Paris 574

Sunstroke and some of its Sequela) 171

Taylor, George H., M. D " 554

Telegraph and Postal Service, Union of the 400

Telescope, Tlie Great Vienna 712

Tin in Australia and other Countries 425

Tissandier, Gaston 238

Touch, Structure of the Organs of 570

Trees and Lightning 277

Tylor, E. B., F. R. S 289

Tyndall, Professor John, F. R. S 33

Tyndall Trust Fund, The 116

V6nukoff, M 684

Vessels, Some Prehistoric 80

Vibrations, Mechanical, as a Remedy in Neuralgia 280

Vibrations, Mechanical, Control of Pain by 554

Visions, The, of Sane Persons 519

Vivisection, Darwin's Views on 424

Vogt, Carl 620

Volcanic Cones, Origin and Structure of 49

Watterhofer, Dr; Otto 743

Watson, James Craig, Sketch of. 693

Weather, The, and Summer Diarrlnuas 426

Wehle, Theodore ^ . . 482, 625, 732

Wiley, Professor Harvey W 251

Williams, W. Mattieu .". 43



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Will-o'-the-Wisp, The, and its Folk-Lore 67

Wilson, Dr. Andrew 218, 382

Winchell, Alexander, LL. D 693

Winehell, Professor X. H 601

Woman as a Sanitary Reformer 427

Women, Papuan, imd Feasts 427

World, the Old, Unexplored Parts of. 684

Writing, physiologically considered 620

Yellowstone Valley, Glacial Action in the 278

Young, Professor C. A., Biographical Notice of 840



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