nal ayrg ate ea oS - So stones arth eee ee ee sleiiner ee cteaamprrerN eras) ieee nae rar wir ei ne pees penn tcna— eet ores ett aN SCIENCE AI WOH Y OW iN Ads DEVOTED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE. EprIToRIAL CommirreE: S. NEwcoms, Mathematics; R. S. WoopwARD, Mechanics; E. C. PICKERING, Astronomy; T. C. MENDENHALL, Physics; R. H. THuRston, Engineering; IRA REMSEN, Chemistry; J. LE ContE, Geology; W. M. DAvis, Physiography; O. C. MARsH, Paleontology; W.K. Brooks, C. HART MERRIAM, Zoology; S. H. ScuDDER, Entomology; N. L. BrITron, Botany; HENRY F. OsBoRN, General Biology; H. P. Bowpircu, Physiology; J. 8. BInLines, Hygiene ; J. MCKEEN CATTELL, Psychology ; DANIEL G. BRINTON, J. W. POWELL, Anthropology ; G. BROWN GOODE, Scientific Organization. NEW SERIES. VOLUME IIL JANUARY -JUNE, 1896. Geos INS Fi Tur SS ae Wwe NEW YORK. ‘ WaTionaL. © Son THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. 1896 THE NEW ERA PRINTING HOUSE, 41 NORTH QUEEN STREET, LANCASTER, Pa. CONTENTS AND INDEX. N.S. VOL. WI—JANUARY TO JUNE, 1896. The Names of Contributors are Printed in Small Capitals. Abel, J. J., Chemical Properties of the Pigment of the Negro’s Skin, 110 Absolute and the Relative, J. W. POWELL, 743 Acetylene, and its Effect on the Animal System, 198, Gas, 200 ; A Lecture upon, J. M. CRAFTS, 377 Achelis, Thomas, Moderne VOlkerkunde, deren Ent- wicklung und Aufgaben, D. G. BRINTON, 482 ADAMS, FRANK D., The Embankments of the River Po, 759 Adams, G. I., Extinct Felidze, 817 Adirondack, Mountains and Valleys, 659, Preserve, 702 Aerodrome, A Successful Trial of the, S. P. LANGLEY, A. GRAHAM BELL, 753 sop in Aztec, 129 Agassiz, Louis, Life, Letters and Works of, Jules Marcou, 745 Agricultural Appropriation Bill, 352 Agriculture, A permanent Scientific Head for the U. S. Department of, 278, 350; and Horticulture, Notes on, Byron D. HALSTED, 398, 588, 698, 767, 834; First Principles of, 589; in Great Brit- ain, 897 Alabama Industrial and Scientific Society, KUGENE A. SMITH, 852 Alaska as it was and is, 1865-1895, W. H. DALL, 37, 87 Alcohol, Study of, in Schools, 281 ALDRICH, T. B., Fluid Secreted by Anal Glands of Mephitis Mephitica, 111 ALLEN, J. A., Vertebrata of the Land (Birds and Mammals) in the Antarctic Regions, 317; Amer- ican Shrews, C. Hart Merriam, Gerrit S. Miller, 411; ‘Progress in American Ornithology, 1886-— 95,’ 777, 841 Allen, J. A., Alleged Changes of Color in the Feathers of Birds without Molting, 557; on Gitke’s Heli- goland as an Ornithological Observatory, 638 Amber-producing Tree, an American, F. H. KNowL- TON, 582 American, Association for the Advancement of Sci- ence, 701, 838, 893; Journal of Science, 32, 174, 370, 527, 673, 816 ‘ Americanists, Society of, at Paris, 349 Anatomical, Material, Report of the Committee on the Collection and Preservation of, J. EwIne Mears, J. D. BRYANT, THOMAS DWIGHT, 77; Law of the State of Pennsylvania, 84 Anatomists, Report of the Eighth Annual Meeting of American, D. 8S. Lams, 73 Anatomy, Points in Practical, 587 Ancient Illyrians, 587 Angell, Prof., and Dr. Moore, Reaction-time Exper- iments, 712 Anomalies, The Significance of, THomAs DWIGHT, 776 Antarctic, Exploration, 63, 132, 352; and Adjacent Regions, The Origin and Relations of the Floras and Faunas of the, ANGELO HEILPRIN, W. B. Scott, N. L. Brirron, A. S. PACKARD, THEO. GILL, J. A. ALLEN, 305 Anthropological, Society of Washington, 35; GEORGE k. Stetson, 141; J. H. McCormick, 531, 642; Officers of, 165; Woman’s, A. CARMEN, 376, 487; Club of New York, 402; Institute of Great Britain, 733; Section of New York Academy of Sciences, LIVINGSTON FARRAND, 750 Anthropologic Study of Personality, 663 Anthropologist, The American, 65 Anthropology, Current Notes on, DANIEL G. BRIN- TON, 19, 62, 94, 128, 277, 349, 397, 509, 552, 586, 624, 663, 699, 733, 767, 833, 861, 895; of Woman, 19; Fourth Congress of Criminal, 772 Anthropometry of the American Indians, 278 Antiquarian Society, American, 701 Ants, Honey, L. O. H., 923 Ape-man from the Tertiary of Java, O. C. Marsa, 789 Arboretum of Puget Sound University, 436 Archeology, Researches in American, 624. Arctic, Exploration, 593, 804, 897; Chart, 804 Argon, Prizes for Discovery of, 237 Arnold, Carl, Repetitorium der Chemie, S., 815 Asiatic Elements of the Tribes of Southern Mexico, 803 Astor Library, 774 Astronomical and Physical Section of the New York Academy of Sciences, W. HaLLocKk, 142, 454, 787; J. F. Kemp, 643 “ Astronomers of the Twentieth Century, Some Prob- lems about to Confront the, J. K. REEs, 717 Astronomy, H. J., 21, 63, 95, 129, 164, 197, 279, 320, 351, 401, 433, 475, 553, 896, 922; American Judgments of American Astronomy, S. NEw- CoMB, 284; at the Berlin Exposition, 629; at the Cape of Good Hope, 840 Astrophysical Journal, 175, 450, 748 Atwater, W. O., Chemistry of Nutrition, 489 Auk, The, 638; Eggs of the Great, 701 B., F., Seventh Annual Meeting of the American " Folk-lore Society, 86 B., W.8., Grundriss der Krystallographie, Gottlob Linck, 902 Bacteria in the Dairy, 399 Bacteriosis of Carnations, '767 BAILey, L. H., Line Drawings of Blue Print, 67; The Untechnical Terminology of the Sex-Rela- tion of Plants, 825 BAILEY, VERNON, Occurrence of the Native Wood Rat at Washington, 628 iv SCIENCE. Bailey, Vernon, Tamarack Swamps as Boreal Islands, — 250 Baker, C. F., Neolarra, 108 BALDWIN, J. MARK, Heredity 559; Instinct, 669 Balloons and Kites, in Cloud Observations, 801 Baltic Sea, 660 Bancroft, W. D., The Chemical Potential of the Metals, 176 d Bangs, Outram, The Terrapin, 455; A Review of the Weasels of Eastern North America, C. H. M., 525 BARNES, C. R., The Application of Sex Terms to Plants, ‘928. Barus, Carl, The Curl Aneroid, 175 Bascom, F., Pre-Tertiary Nepheline-Bearing Rock, 568 BastEepDO, W. A., The Torrey Botanical Club, 571, 716, 751, 852, 935 Batrachians and Crustaceans from the Subterranean Waters of Texas, 734 Baur, G., Grundziige der Marinen Tiergeographie, Arnold E. Ortmann, 359 Bay, J. CHRISTIAN, Hansen’s Studies in Fermenta- tion, 600 BEAL, F. E. L., Food of the European Rook, 918 Beal, F. E. L., Food of the Cowhbird, 604; Food of the Bluejay, 417 Beard, to Prevent the Growth of, L. O. HowARD, 813 Becker, Geo. F., Gold Deposits in Alaska, 31 Beecher, C. E., Morphology of Triarthrus, 528; An- tenn of Tribolites, 749 Behrens, H., Anleitung zur Mikrochemischen An- alyse der wichigsten organischen Verbindungen, IRA REMSEN BELL, A. GRAHAM, S. P. LANGLEY, Trial of the Aerodrome, 753 Bell, Robert, Rising of Land around Hudson Bay, 53 Benjamin, Marcus, Smithsonian Institution’s Contri- butions to Chemistry from 1846 to 1896, 178; Josiah P. Cooke, 249 Benjamin, Park, The Intellectual Rise in Electricity, 104 Bergen, Fanny, Current Superstitions collected from the Oral Tradition of the English Speaking Folk, .D. G. BRINTON, 850, Beyer, H. G., Influence of Exercise on Growth, 118 Bibliographicum, Concilium, 96 Bibliographical Classification, 133 Bibliographie, Institut International de, 166 BIGELOW, F. H., International Cloud Observations, 653 Bigelow’s, Papers on Meteorology and Solar Physics, A Review of, W. 8. FRANKLIN, 807; Solar Mag- netic Work, M., 860 BiGNEY, A. J., Indiana Academy of Science, 216 Billings, John §., Elected Librarian of Consolidated N. Y. Libraries, 98 Biological, Society of Washington, Election of Offi- cers, 23; F. A. Lucas, 34, 139, 231, 249, 417, 486, 603, 677, 713, 821, 878, 934; Section, N. Y. Academy, BASHFORD DEAN, 33; C. L. BRISTOL, 213, 454, 529; Station, English Marine, 283; of the Bahamas, 591; at Las Cruces, 773 Biology, Sham, The Disappearance of, from America, Conway MACMILLAN, 634 Birchmore, Prof., Absorption Spectra, 679 Bird lice, 630 Birds, Extinct, 355; Preservation of, 925 BisHop, SERENO E., Temperature of the Earth’s Crust, 409 and Instinct, 438, A Successful CONTENTS AND INDEX. Bison, Discovery of Extinct Species of, 321 Blackboard, Improved, BEN K. EMERSON, 168 Blarina Brevicauda, Three Subcutaneous Glandular Areas of, ELLIOTT COUES, 779 Blindness in Scandinavia, 22 Blount, Bertram, and A. G. Bloxam, Chemistry for Engineers and Manufacturers, FRANK H. THORP, 566 Boas, FRANZ, The Child and Childhood in Folk Thought, 741; Antropometria Militare, Ridolfo Livi, 929 Boas, Franz, Indianische Sagen von der Nordpaci- fischen Ktiste Amerikas, A. 8. G., 413 ; Correla- tions of Anthropometric. Measurements, 751 Bolton, F. E., Accuracy of Recollection, 713 Bolton, H. Carrington, Berthelot’s Cone tinenons to the History of ( Chemistry, 821 Bonney, T. G., Charles Lyell and Modern Recons. BAILEY WILLIS, 68 Boston Society of Natural History, SAMUEL HEN- SHAW, 179, 212, 295, 373, 455, 536, 607 Bostw. IcK, ARTHUR E., The Theor ‘y of Probabilities, 66 Botanical, Explorations in Nicaragua and Africa, 165; Club, Torrey, H. H. Ruspy, 179, 295, 372; W. A. BASTEDO, 571, 716, 751, 852, 935; Department of, at Cornell University, 438; Gazette, 554; So- ciety of America, 735; Gardens of New York, 404, 772, 773, 924; Missouri, 896, 923 Bourne, G. C., The Cell Theory, 926 Bows and Arrows of Central Brazil, O. T. MAson, 868 Brain and Spinal Cord in Man, The Relation of, 94 Brewster, William, Natural History of Trinidad, 295 BRINTON, DANIEL G., Current Notes on Anthropol- ogy, 19, 62, 94, 128, 277, 349, 397, 509, 552, 586, 624, 663, 699, 733, 767, 833, 861, 895; The Re- ligions of India, Edward W. Hopkins, 173; The Teaching of the Vedas; Maurice Phillips, 173; Scientific Materialism, 324; Ethnology, A. H. Keane, 449, 811; Moderne Volkerkunde deren Entwicklung und Aufeaben, Thomas