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INDEX TO VOLUME XI.*

A

Abbe, C., Stone's star catalogue, 75.
Academy, National, April meeting, 505.
Accademia dei Lincei, 502.

Acid, division of among several bases, 219.
new, isomeric with alizarin, 218.
Acids and salts, constitution of, 218.
Acoustic attractions, 488.
Acoustics, Mayer, 324.

Agassiz, A., Hæckel's Entwickelungsgeschichte, 74.

Hæckel on Geryonida and Æginidæ, 420.

exploration of L. Titicaca, 492.

coral reef, elevated in Peru, 499. Agassiz, L., Geological Sketches. 232. Alcohol, decomposition of by aluminum and its iodide, 484. diacetone, 54.

secondary hexyl, 216. Alizarin, formation of, 143. Allard, transparency of flame, 146. Allen, J. A., extinct wolf and deer, 47. Anatomy and Physiol., Journal of, 421. Aronheim, chlorinating hydrocarbons,

142.

Arsenic and aromatic compounds, 54. Astronomical drawings, Harvard, 241. Atlantic, elevations in North, 162.

B

Bacteria, formation of nitrates by, 53. Barker, G. F., chemical abstracts, 51, 142, 214, 318, 483.

Barrett, S. T., new trilobite, 153, 200. Becquerel, magnetism and electric spark,

57.

Berthelot, chemical dynamics, 214.

constitution of acids and salts, 218. division of an acid among several bases, 219.

Berthoud, ice in rocks of Colorado, 108. Betaine, synthesis of, 218.

BOTANY

Dendrology, Koch's lectures, 69.
Erodium, twisting of carpels, 158.
Flora Brasiliensis, 239.
Grasses, leaves of, 237.
Guadalupe I., fauna of, 325.
Gymocladus in China, 239.

Heredity and variability, Naudin, 153.
Insectivorous Plants, Darwin, 96, 240.
Mildew, grape-vine, 414.
Nimphoea flava, 416.
Nostochineæ, 239.

Parasites, vegetative organs of, 239.
Respiration of plants, 238.
Seeds that float in water, 157.
Vegetative organs of parasites, 239.
See further under GEOLOGY.
Bouvé, T. T., origin of porphyry, 495.
Bradley, F. H., geol. map, noticed, 68.
Broadhead, G. C., gold in Missouri, 150.
Brongniart, A., coal plants of China, 66.
Brooks, T. B., Huronian south of Lake
Superior, and age of copper-bearing
series, 206.

Brontotherida, characters of, 335.
Brush, G. J., durangite, 474.
Bussey Institution, Bulletin, 246, 414.
C

Caldwell, G. C., Chemical Practice, 225.
Canada, Meteorological Report of, 76.
Carbon compounds in meteorites, Smith,
388, 433.

dioxide in mineral cavities, 484. disulphide, purification, 319. monoxide and ozone, 136. Caspian Sea, zoology of, 500. Cerium, atomic weight of, 142. Chapman, glacial striæ in Canada, 150. Chemical dynamics, 214.

Chevreul, on petrefaction, noticed, 150. Chile, Meteorological Report of, 248. Chittenden, R. H., oxidation product of glycogen, 395.

Billings, E., on Obolella chromatica, 176. Climate and Time, Croll's, Newcomb, 263.

Bolide, see Meteor.

Botanical necrology, 326.

BOTANY

Agave, notes on, 235.

Black knot, 415.

tains in, Berthoud, 108.

Coast Survey report, noticed, 332.

Coleman, gaseous products of distillation

of carbonaceous shales, 51.

Colorado, ice in rocks, and limits of vegetation, 108.

Colorado, limits of vegetation on moun- Coninck, O. de, secondary hexyl alcohol,

216.

The Index contains the general heads BOTANY, GEOLOGY, MINERALOGY, ZOOLOGY, and under each the titles of Articles referring thereto are collected.

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samarskite from N. Carolina, 201.
staurolite and pyrrhotite, 384.
new Tertiary lake basin, 126.
Dana, J. D., chlorite formation on bor-
der of New Haven region, 119.

Green Mountains, 151.

damming of streams by ice during
melting of great glacier, 178.

errata to Manual of Geology, 235.
plants as registers of geological age,
407, 497.

Darwin, C., Insectivorous Plants, 69.

Climbing Plants, 73, 240.
Dawson, J. W., Dawn of Life, 67.
De Candolle on plants as registers of
geological age, Dana, 407, 497.
Deville and Debray, density of platinum,
iridium and their alloys, 142.

decomposition of water by platinum,

318.

Diacetone-alcohol, 54.

Didymium absorption-spectrum, 142.
Dinocerata, characters of, 163.
Diplometer, 403.

Dixon, E. M., nitric acid from air, 222.
Draper, J. D., power of solution of qui-
nine to rotate polarized light, 42.
Douval-Jouve, J., on leaves of grasses,
noticed, 237.

Duclaux, separation of mixed liquids, 144.
Dvorak, acoustic attractions, 488.
Dynamics, chemical, 214.

E

Earthquakes, Perrey on, noticed, 233.
Earth's orbit, curve of eccentricity of,
Mc Farland, 456.

Edison, etheric force of, 146.

Edlund, dependence of electrical resist-
ance on motion of conductor, 321.
Electrical conductivity of saline solu-
tions, 225.

of stretched silver wire, 224.

Electrical Society, Journal, noticed, 162.
Electric conductors, change of volume
of, 486.

spark, action of magnetism on, 57.
with large batteries, 322.

Electricity and light, 55.

Leyden jar regulator, 221.
velocity of, Lovering, 211.

Electro-magnets, thin plates as arma-
tures for, and new induction coil, 361.
Engelmann, G., on Agave, noticed, 235.
Engineers, report of chief of, 243.
Ethyl succinate, Remsen, 129.

Exner, change of volume of electric con.
ductors, 490.

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Galvanometer, lantern, Nipher, 111.
Gases, conductivity of, 320.

in meteorites, Wright, 253.
specific heat of, 403.

Gastaldi, Paleozoic serpentine, 491.
Gautier, determination of arsenic, 52.
Geological Record, noticed, 411.
Geological Reports or Surveys, noticed-
Alabama, 410; 40th, Parallel (King's),
161, 501; Georgia, 229; Illinois, 68,
231; New Jersey, 498; North Caro-
lina, 61; Ohio, 409; Pennsylvania,
62; Territories (Hayden's), 147, 160,
231, 245, 332, 422, 496; Victoria, 232;
West of 100th Meridian (Wheeler's),
244, 412; Wisconsin, 233.

Map of U. States, Bradley, 68.
Charts, C. King, 161.

Geological Survey of Brazil, Hartt, 466.
GEOLOGY-

Botryopteris Forensis, 238.
Brontotheridæ, Marsh, 335.
California, horizontal

crushing in

Coast range, Le Conte, 297.
Carboniferous articulates, 494.
Champlain period, ice-floes, 225.
Chloritic formation of New Haven
region, Dana, 119.

rocks of, Hawes, 122.

Clidastes, Marsh and Cope on, 65.
Climate and Time, Croll's, Newcomb,
263.

GEOLOGY

Conglomerates of West Virginia, Fon-
taine, 276, 374.
Copper-bearing series, Brooks, 206.
Corals, recent, elevated, in Peru, 499.
Coryphodon, Marsh, 425.

Dana's Manual, errata, 235.

Deer, extinct species, Allen, 47,

Gladstone, decomposition of alcohol by
aluminum and its iodide, 484.
Glyceric acid, Sadtler, 114.
Glycogen, oxidation product of, Chitten-
den, 395.

Goodale, G. L., botanical notice, 414.
Graebe and Caro, rosolic acid, 217.
Grafen, phanerogamic parasites, 239.

Dinocerata, characters of, Marsh, 163. Gray, A., botanical notices, 69, 153, 235,

Owen, 401.

Drift and gold in Missouri, 150.
Drift of Virginia, flint implements in,

195.

Eocene bird, Cope, 493.

corals of, in Italy, 498.
Eozoon not organic, 492.
Fishes, Devonian, in Russia, 234.
Fruits or seeds, fossil, 238.
Fucoid from Water-lime group, 150
Huronian south of L. Superior, Brooks,
206; Irving, 493.

Ice-floes, in the Champlain, 225.
Glacial phenomena in Jefferson Co.,
N. Y., 495.

in Pensylvania, 233.

striæ in Western Canada, 150. Glacier, damming of streams by ice during the melting of the great, Dana, 178.

Great Salt Lake, outlet of, 149, 228.
Green Mountains, 151.

Lignitic beds, age of, 147.

325, 414.

Naudin on the heredity and variability of plants, 153.

Botanical Contrib., noticed, 325.
Griess, synthesis of betaine, 218.
Grimm, O., zoology of Caspian, 500.
Grinnell, G. B., Tertiary lake basin, 126.
Grote, fucoid from water-lime, 150.
Groth, P., Physical Crystallography, 499.
Grove, correlation of forces, 489.
Guthrie, stationary liquid waves, 144.

H

Hæckel, E., Entwickelungsgeschichte, noticed, 74.

on Geryonida and Æginidæ, 420. Hahn, O., Eozoon not organic, 492. Hall, C. E., glacial phenomena in Pennsylvania, 233.

Harger, O., new Isopod, 304.

Harrington, B. J., Sir W. E. Logan, 81. pyrrhotite, 387.

Hartley, W. N., Air and Life, 332.

Mammals, Tertiary, Marsh, 163, 249, Hartley, carbon dioxide in mineral cavi

335, 425.

Moa in New Zealand, 330.
New Caledonia, 151.

Obolella chromatica, Billings, 176.
Odontornithes, new, Marsh, 509.
Paleozoic fossils with serpentine, 491.
Paleozoic on 40th parallel, King, 475.
Plants as registers of geological age,
Dana, 407, 497.

referred to Cretaceous, age of,497.
coal, of China, 66.

new species from Virginia, 66.
Porphyry of Marblehead, 495.
Primordial fossils, Ford, 369.
Pteranodontia, Marsh, 507.

ties, 484.

Hartt, C. F., geol. survey of Brazil, 466.
Hawes, G. W., on metadiabase, etc., 122.
lithiferous biotite, 431.

Hay, analyses of, 247.
Hayden, F. V., see Geol. Reports.
Height of Mt. St. Elias, 77, 242.
Heintz, diacetone-alcohol, 54.
Herschel, C., memoirs of, 505.
Hesperornis, new species of, 431.
Holden, E. S., changes in nebula, 341.
Houston, Edison's etheric force, 146.
Human remains in drift of Virginia, 195.
in Settle Caves, 331.
Huxley's Biology, noticed, 326.

Reptiles, Triassic, with features of Hyatt, A., geological notice, 413.

mammals, 330.

Richmond infusorial stratum, 493.
Tertiary lake basin, new, Grinnell and
Dana, 126.

Tillodontia, Marsh, 249.
Trilobite at Trenton Falls, 494.

new, Barrett, 153, 200.
Uinta and Wahsatch ranges, King, 494.
Wolf, extinct species, Allen, 47.
Gilbert, outlet of Great Salt Lake, 228.
Gillmore, Q. A., on Building Stones, 160.
Girard, A., hydrocellulose, 483.
Glacial, see under Geology.

Hydrocarbonic acid, hydrate, 318.
Hydrocarbon, new, 54.
Hydrocarbons, chlorinating, 142.

producing condensed, 485.
Hydrocellulose, 483.
Hydro-oxy-benzoic acid, 488.
I

Ice in rocks, in Colorada, Berthoud, 108.
Ichthyornis, new species of, 511.
Interference fringes, 57.
Iridium, density of, 142.

Irving, R., Huronian rocks, 493.

J

Jackson's Catalogue of photographs, 245.
Jacobsen, trimethylbenzols, 487.
Jenkins, E. H., effect of silicic acid on
estimation of phosphoric acid, 204.
Johnston, stearic acid, 484.
Jupiter, observations on, 422.

K

Kerr, J., electricity and light, 55.
Kerr, W. C., Geol. Rep., noticed, 61.
Kimball, A. S., sliding friction on an in-
clined plane, 181.

King, Paleozoic of the 40th parallel, 475.
Uinta and Wahsatch ranges, 494.
geol. map, noticed, 161.
Klein, C., Crystallography, 68, 413.
Koch, K., Dendrology, noticed, 69.
Koenigsberger, Repertory of Mathemat-
ics, 422.

L

Lammel, E., Nature of Light, 224.
Landolf, diplometer, 403.

Lea, M. C., sensitiveness of silver bro-
mide, 459.

Le Conte, J., crushing in Coast Range of
California, 297.

Lemberg, J., serpentine of Zöblitz, 234.
Lesley, J. P., Geol. Rep., noticed, 62.
Lesquereux, L., on lignitic beds, 147.
Lestornis, new genus of Cretaceous birds,
509.

Leyden jar regulator, 221.

Light, action on silver bromide, 215.
Lighthouse Board, Report, noticed, 423.
Light, polarized, power of solution of
quinine to rotate, Draper, 42.

relation between, and electricity, 55.
Liquids, separation of mixed, 144.

thermal properties of, 321.
Little, G., Geol. Rep., noticed, 229.
Lloyd, T. J. B., glacial phenomena in
Jefferson Co., N. Y., 495.

Loomis, E., results from examination of
weather maps, 1.

Lovering J., velocity of electricity, 211.

M

Mac Gregor, J. G., conductivity of
stretched silver wire, 224.

of saline solutions, 225.
Macmillan, H., First Forms in Vegeta-
tion, 156.

Magnetic distribution, Rowland, 17, 103.
Magnetism, and electric spark, 57.

thermal equivalent of, 221.
Magneto-electric machine, gram, 405.
Mallett, J. W., achrematite, 152.

formulæ of urea, etc., 185, 291.

Manganese, boride, and iron, 485.
Marey, waves in elastic tubes, 145.
Marks, W. D., native zinc, 234.
Marsh, O. C., characters of the Dinoce-
rata, 163.

of the Tillodontia, 249.

of the Brontotheridæ, 335.
of the Coryphodon, 425.
on new Pterodactyles, 507.
on new Odontornithes, 509.
Mayer, A. M., acoustics, 324.
Mayer, respiration of plants, 238.
McFarland, R. W., curve of eccentricity
of earth's orbit, 456.

McLeod, Leyden jar regulator, 221.
Meek, fossil plants from Virginia, 66.
Metadoleryte, metadiabase, etc., 119,122.
Mercury, waves on, 56.

Meteorite of Waconda, Shepard, 473.
Meteorites, gases in, Wright, 253.

carbon compounds in, Smith,388,433.
Meteor of Jan. 31st, Smith, 458.
Meteorology, contributions to, Loomis, 1.
Metric, meter-diagram, 423.

Meusel, nitrates from bacteria, 53.
Michaelis, aromatic compounds contain-
ing arsenic, 54.

Milne-Edwards, Crustacea of Mexico,329.
MINERALS, ETC.-

Achrematite, Mallet, 252.
Biotite, lithiferous, 431.
Brookite, 234.

Chondrodite, E. S. Dana, 139.
Chromic iron, 152.

Durangite, Brush, 464.
Garnierite, 235.

Hermannolite, 140.
Noumeite, 235.

Orthoclase, tourmaline with envel-
oped, Williams, 273.

Phacolite and seebachite 152.
Pyrrhotite, twin of, E. S. Dana, 386.
composition, etc., Harrington,387.
Samarskite, E. S. Dana, 201.
Schraufite, 152.

Selwynite, 235.

Serpentine, 234, 491.

Staurolite, new twins, E. S. Dana, 384.
Troilite, 68.

Zinc, native, Marks, 234.
Mojsisovics, E., work by, noticed, 412.

N

Naudin, heredity in plants, Gray, 153.
Nebula-photometer, Pickering, 482.
Nebula, changes in, Holden, 341.
Newberry, J. S., Geol. Report, 409.
Newcomb, S., Croll's Climate and Time,
263.

Uranian and Neptunian systems, 159.

Mandenhall, temperature and index of New York, Museum of Nat. Hist., 247.

refraction, 406.

Nipher, F. E., lantern galvanometer, 111.

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