# Popular Science Monthly/Volume 27/Index

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| Abbott, Charles | 308 |
| Aërial Navigation | 696 |
| Aërial Navigation, Recent Progress in | 296 |
| Africanized, are We to Become? | 145 |
| Aged, Hygiene of the | 389 |
| Air-Breathers, The Oldest | 395 |
| Allen, J. Antisell | 117 |
| Alloys, Coinage | 137 |
| American Air, Alleged Nerve-Exciting Properties of | 141 |
| Animals, Arctic, Color of | 423 |
| Ant, The White | 735 |
| Antipathies | 137 |
| Archæological Frauds | 308 |
| Arctic Exploration and its Object | 78 |
| Aryan Origins | 138 |
| Association, The American | 423 |
| Association, The British | 423 |
| Astronomers, Some Self-Made | 340 |
| Banking, National, The Future of | 491 |
| Bark Dresses | 566 |
| Barnard, Dr. W. T. | 577 |
| Barnard, Dr. W. T. | 768 |
| Barr, James, M.D. | 503 |
| Barre, M. L. | 544 |
| Bathing, The Objects of | 431 |
| Beecher on Evolution | 412 |
| Beet-Sugar, Sorghum And, in the United States | 425 |
| Behrens, Dr. W. J. | 595 |
| Benedict, W. R. | 66 |
| Benedict, W. R. | 15 |
| Berthelot, Pierre E. | 113 |
| Biology, Recent Progress in | 664 |
| Birds' Nests, The Edible, Structure of | 431 |
| Blondes and Brunettes | 861 |
| Boaz, Dr. Franz | 78 |
| Book, Concerning the Suppressed | 433 |
| Book Notices: | |
| "American Political Ideas" (Fiske) | 122 |
| "The Nature and Reality of Religion" (Spencer, Harrison, and D'Alviella) | 123 |
| "Land-Laws of Mining Districts" (Shinn) | 124 ​ |
| "Mining-Camps" (Shinn) | 124 |
| "The Jukes" (Dugdale) | 124 |
| "A Popular Exposition of Electricity" (Brennan) | 124 |
| "The Care of Infants" (Jex-Blake) | 125 |
| "Climatic Maps of the United States" (Denison) | 125 |
| "Controlling Sex in Generation" (Terry) | 125 |
| "The National Dispensatory" (Stille and Maisch) | 125 |
| "Occult Science in India" (Jacoliot) | 126 |
| "The Sanitary Engineer" (Meyer) | 126 |
| "Johns-Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science" | 127 |
| "One Hundred Years of Publishing" | 127 |
| "The Mentor" (Ayres) | 127 |
| "The Next Step of Progress" (Keyser) | 127 |
| "School-Keeping" (Orcut) | 127 |
| "Diluvium; Or, The End of the World" (Pidgeon) | 127 |
| "Ingglish Az She Iz Spelt" (Federheld) | 128 |
| "Practical Work in the School-Room" | 128 |
| "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking-Glass" (Carroll) | 128 |
| "Serapis" (Ebers) | 128 |
| "The Wane of An Ideal" (Colombi) | 128 |
| "The Canadian Record of Science" | 128 |
| "Shadows" (Wetherbee) | 129 |
| "Maryland's Influence Upon Land Cessions to the United States" (Adams) | 129 |
| "Egypt and Babylon" (Rawlinson) | 129 |
| "Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine" | 129 |
| "Proposed Plan for a Sewerage System" (Gray) | 130 |
| "Tables, Meteorological and Physical" (Guyot) | 130 |
| "The Ornithologist and Oologist" | 130 |
| "Our Bodies; Or, How We Live" (Blaisdell) | 131 |
| "Stories by American Authors" | 131 |
| "Jelly-Fish, Star-Fish, and Sea-Urchins" (Romanes) | 272 |
| "Geology and the Deluge" (Argyll) | 273 |
| "The Rescue of Greely" (Schley and Soley) | 273 |
| "In the Lena Delta" (Melville) | 273 |
| "Mind-Reading and Beyond" (Hovey) | 274 |
| "The Patriarchal Theory" (McLlennan) | 275 |
| "United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries," Report, 1882 | 275 |
| "United States Life-Saving Service," Report, 1883 | 276 |
| "Researches on Solar Heat," Etc. (Langley) | 276 |
| "The Stars and Constellations" (Hill) | 276 |
| "The 'Quincy Methods' Illustrated" (Partridge) | 277 |
| "Mortality Experience, Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company" | 277 |
| "Vertebrata of The Tertiary Formations" (Cope) | 277 |
| "The Ten Laws of Health" (Black) | 278 |
| "Observatorio Nacional Argentino, Resultados" (Gould) | 279 |
| "Distribution of Products" (Atkinson) | 280 |
| "Paradise Found" (Warren) | 280 |
| "The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences" (Clifford) | 415 ​ |
| "Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College" (Pickering) | 415 |
| "The Chemistry of Cookery" (Williams) | 417 |
| "The Text-Book of Hygiene" (Robe) | 417 |
| "The Microtomist's Vade-Mecum" (Lee) | 417 |
| "The Diamond Lens" (O'Brien) | 418 |
| "The Life of Society" (Brown) | 418 |
| "The Limits of Stability of Nebulous Planets" (Kirkwood) | 418 |
| "Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station," Report, 1884 (Lazenby) | 418 |
| "Introduction to the Study of the Compounds of Carbon" (Remsen) | 419 |
| "Geology of the Virginias" (Rogers) | 419 |
| "Introduction to Practical Chemistry" (Bowman) | 419 |
| "Fallacy of the Present Theory of Sound" (Mott) | 420 |
| "School Bulletin Year-Book" (Bardeen) | 420 |
| "Obiter Dicta" | 420 |
| "The Sun and His Phenomena" (Webb) | 420 |
| "A Catalogue of Chemical Periodicals" (Bolton) | 421 |
| "Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington" | 421 |
| "How Should I Pronounce?" (Phyfe) | 421 |
| "The Lenapé Stone" (Mercer) | 421 |
| "Transactions of the New York State Medical Association," 1884 (Flint) | 556 |
| "Representative American Orators" (Johnston) | 557 |
| "Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute" (Rodenbough) | 557 |
| "An Inglorious Columbus" (Vining) | 558 |
| "Assyriology" (Brown) | 558 |
| "Local Institutions in Virginia" (Ingle) | 559 |
| "Geology of the Comstock Lode and the Washoe District" (Becker) | 559 |
| "Comstock Mining and Miners" (Lord) | 559 |
| "Contributions to the Fossil Flora of the Western Territories" (Lesquereux) | 560 |
| "Madam How and Lady Why" (Kingsley) | 560 |
| "Photo-Micrography" (Malley) | 561 |
| "The Occult World" (Sinnett) | 561 |
| "Russia Under the Tzars" (Stepniak) | 561 |
| "Report of the United States Geological Survey," 1881, 1882 (Powell) | 561 |
| "Tables to Facilitate Chemical Calculations" (Ditmar) | 562 |
| "Contributions to North American Ethnology" | 562 |
| "The Lenapé and Their Legends" (Brinton) | 563 |
| "Humboldt's Philosophic Grammar of American Languages" (Brinton) | 563 |
| "The Protestant Faith" (Olmstead) | 563 |
| "Man's Birthright" (Clark) | 564 |
| "Hegel's Æsthetics" (Kedney) | 564 |
| "The Invalid's Tea-Tray" (Brown) | 564 |
| "Materials for German Prose Composition" (Buchheim) | 564 |
| "On Oxygen as a Remedial Agent" (Wallian) | 565 |
| "Scientific Culture and Other Essays" (Cooke) | 701 |
| "The Religious Aspect of Philosophy" (Royce) | 702 |
| "The French Revolution" (Taine) | 704 |
| "The Morals of Christ" (Bierbower) | 704 ​ |
| "The History of the Present Tariff" (Taussig) | 704 |
| "The History of the Surplus Revenue of 1837" (Bourne) | 705 |
| "Proceedings of the Colorado Scientific Society for 1883 and 1884" | 705 |
| "The Museum" | 705 |
| "Symbolism and Science" (Smith) | 705 |
| "Lessons in Hygiene" (Cutter) | 705 |
| "Christian Thought" (Deems) | 706 |
| "Account of the Progress in Zoölogy in 1883" (Gill) | 706 |
| "Archæological Institute of America," Report, 1884, 1885 | 706 |
| "Proceedings of the Modern Language Association of America," 1884 | 706 |
| "Notes on the Literature of Explosives" (Munroe) | 706 |
| "Elephant Pipes" (Putnam) | 707 |
| "Mushrooms of America" (Palmer) | 707 |
| "A Course of Practical Instruction in Botany" (Bower and Vines) | 707 |
| "The Basic Pathology and Specific Treatment of Diphtheria," Etc. (Ziegler) | 707 |
| "Theory and Practice of Topographical Surveying" (Johnston) | 707 |
| "Lineal Measures of Semi-Civilized Nations" (Brinton) | 708 |
| "Magnetism of Iron and Steel Ships" (Lyons) | 708 |
| "The Religion of Philosophy" (Perrin) | 708 |
| "Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 1882 to 1884" | 709 |
| "Sanitary Suggestions on Disinfection" (Palmer) | 709 |
| "The Filth Power" (Olcott) | 709 |
| "Mind in Nature" | 709 |
| "Remarks Upon Chipped Stone Implements" (Putnam) | 709 |
| "Contagiousness of Tuberculosis" (Webb) | 709 |
| "Foul Brood" (Jones) | 710 |
| "Bulletins of the United States Geological Survey" | 710 |
| "Ethical Culture" (Weston) | 710 |
| "The Sanitary Monitor" (Winn) | 710 |
| "Architectural Studies" | 710 |
| "The Abdominal Brain" (Bedell) | 711 |
| "A New Philological Theory" (Mogyorosi) | 711 |
| "Collected Essays on Political and Social Science" (Sumner) | 847 |
| "The Microscope in Botany" (Behrens) | 848 |
| "The Treatment of Opium-Addiction" (Mattison) | 849 |
| "The Field of Disease: Preventive Medicine" (Richardson) | 849 |
| "The Windmill as a Prime Mover" (Wolff) | 849 |
| "Proceedings of the United States National Museum," 1884 | 850 |
| "Local Institutions of Maryland" (Wilhelm) | 850 |
| "United States Life-Saving Service," Report, 1884 | 850 |
| "Catalogue of Scientific and Technical Periodicals" (Bolton) | 851 |
| "Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota" (Winchell) | 852 |
| "Life of Frank Buckland" (Bompas) | 852 |
| "Forests and Forestry in Poland," Etc. (Brown) | 852 |
| "Magneto- and Dynamo-Electric Machines" (De Cew) | 852 |
| "Lectures on The Science and Art of Education" (Payne) | 853 |
| "Lectures on Teaching" (Fitch) | 853 |
| "Talks Afield" (Bailey) | 853 |
| "Lessons in Elementary Practical Physics" (Stewart) | 853 ​ |
| "The Nature of Mind" (Prince) | 854 |
| "Outlines of Psychology" (Lotze) | 854 |
| "On Teaching" (Calderwood) | 854 |
| "Properties of Matter" (Tait) | 854 |
| "Theory and Practice of Teaching" (Thring) | 855 |
| "Bureau of Labor Statistics, Illinois," Report, 1884 | 855 |
| Brazilian Oranges | 429 |
| Brehm, Dr. Alfred E. | 234 |
| Brehm, Dr. Alfred E. | 263 |
| Brehm, Dr. Alfred E. | 625 |
| Bronzes, Modern | 536 |
| Brooks, Professor W. K. | 15 |
| Building and Ornamental Stones of the United States | 520 |
| Butcher's Meat and Headaches | 428 |
| Canada, The Mediterranean of | 222 |
| Cardinal Pitri on Scientific Studies | 283 |
| Carpets, Persian | 428 |
| Chaldean, The, Lunar Cycle | 143 |
| Champagne, Making | 137 |
| Chemistry, The, of Cookery | 81 |
| Chemistry, The, of Cookery | 259 |
| Chevreul, M., Sketch of | 548 |
| Cholera, Prevention of | 25 |
| Climate and Vegetation | 430 |
| Clothes Question, The, Another Side To | 428 |
| Coal-Dust and Mine-Explosions | 858 |
| Coal-Dust in Fire-Damp Explosions | 714 |
| Coal, The, Question, A Scientific View of | 63 |
| Coinage Alloys | 137 |
| Colonies, Lost, of America | 40 |
| Color and Flavor, Relation of, in Fruits and Vegetables | 140 |
| Color of Arctic Animals | 423 |
| Colors, Photographing | 430 |
| Colors, The Physiology of | 683 |
| Conductors, Do Insulated, Attract Lightning? | 574 |
| Continents, Denudation of the | 430 |
| Cookery, The Chemistry of | 81 |
| Cookery, The Chemistry of | 259 |
| Cope, Professor Edward D. | 605 |
| Cope, Professor Edward D. | 789 |
| Coral Islands, Life on | 860 |
| Corn, Hulled, and Samp | 118 |
| Corona, on the Solar | 755 |
| Correction | 566 |
| Correspondence | 117 |
| Correspondence | 696 |
| Corrupt Legislation | 425 |
| Crickets and "Hair-Snakes" | 136 |
| Crime, Madness and | 425 |
| Currency of the Cannibal Islands | 137 |
| Curtis, H. H. | 96 |
| Darwin, The, Memorial | 532 |
| Daubrée, M. A. | 819 |
| De Laveleye, A Rejoinder to M. | 188 ​ |
| De Laveleye, Emile | 165 |
| Denudation of the Continents | 430 |
| Development Theory, The, Ethics and | 368 |
| Diet in Relation to Age and Activity | 322 |
| Diet in Relation to Age and Activity | 509 |
| Disease, Tissue-Selection in the Genesis of | 836 |
| Disinfectants, Comparative Value of | 285 |
| Disinfectants, Sulphurous, Use of | 218 |
| Dogs' Tongues, Medical Virtues of | 715 |
| Drummond, Professor Henry | 735 |
| Duk-Duk, The | 572 |
| Dusts, Industrial, Dangers from | 570 |
| Dust, was it Volcanic or Cosmic? | 575 |
| Earthquake Phenomena | 356 |
| Earthquakes, A Study of Recent | 819 |
| Earthquakes, Effect of, on Buildings | 134 |
| Edible Birds' Nests, The Structure of | 431 |
| Editor's Table | 118 |
| Editor's Table | 268 |
| Editor's Table | 410 |
| Editor's Table | 553 |
| Editor's Table | 696 |
| Editor's Table | 844 |
| Education, an Experiment in Primary | 468 |
| Education, an Experiment in Primary | 614 |
| Education, Liberty In | 268 |
| Education, Officialism In | 554 |
| Eels, The Mystery of | 569 |
| Electricity, Atmospheric, Source of | 134 |
| Emigration from the Old World | 569 |
| Energy, The, of Life Evolution | 789 |
| Epilepsy, A Chinese View of | 862 |
| Eskimos in Ancient New Jersey | 567 |
| Essex Institute, Fifty Years of the | 132 |
| Ethical Science, Training In | 96 |
| Ethics and the Development Theory | 368 |
| Eucalyptus, Malaria and the | 856 |
| Evolution, Beecher on | 412 |
| Experiment, An, in Primary Education | 468 |
| Experiment, An, in Primary Education | 614 |
| Facts, The Study of | 699 |
| Fallacies About Mines | 566 |
| Fauna, The, of the Sea-Shore | 623 |
| Felts, Why Wool | 133 |
| Fernald, F. A. | 360 |
| Fernald, F. A. | 638 |
| Fig, Fructification of the | 117 |
| Fire, How Yakuts Make a | 427 |
| Floras, How, are Changing | 423 |
| Flour, "Whole Wheat," Food-Value of | 718 |
| Flowers, Insect Fertilization of | 595 |
| Flower, W. H., F.R.S. | 195 |
| Frankland, Professor Edward, M.D. | 289 |
| Franklin, Selim M. | 661 |
| Frauds, Archæological | 308 |
| Frazer, James G. | 668 |
| Fruit, Value of, as Food | 715 |
| Fuel, The, of the Future | 207 |
| Gambling at Monte Carlo | 571 |
| Gannett, Henry | 145 |
| Gas-Wells, Natural, The Pittsburg | 712 |
| Genius and Insanity | 447 |
| Germ-Life, Pasteur's Researches In | 86 |
| Ghost, The Primitive, and his Relations | 668 |
| Gitzycki, Georg Von | 368 |
| Glacial Period, The, Temperature of | 573 |
| Gore, G. | 63 |
| Grote, Augustus E., A.M. | 246 |
| Grote, Augustus E., A.M. | 377 |
| Gutter-Stones, The Vegetation of | 717 |
| Hair, Changes in the Color of the | 138 |
| "Hair-Snakes," Crickets and | 136 |
| Haliburton, R. G. | 40 |
| Hanging, The Mechanics of | 503 |
| Harp-Seal, The, in the St. Lawrence River | 140 |
| Hatch, Mrs. E. D. W. | 831 |
| Headaches, Butcher's-Meat and | 428 |
| Health, The Weather and | 141 |
| Hens and Eggs, British | 426 |
| Herbs, Poisonous and Medicinal, in India | 718 |
| Herzog, Herr C. | 311 |
| Highway, A, in the Himalayas | 139 |
| Holden, Edward S. | 401 |
| Huggins, William | 755 |
| Hutton, R. H. | 800 |
| Huxley, Professor | 532 |
| Hygiene of the Aged | 389 |
| Iles, George | 51 |
| Illiteracy As A Source of National Danger | 118 |
| India, Poisonous and Medicinal Herbs In | 718 |
| Industrial Education in Common Schools | 712 |
| Inebriety, Religion and | 427 |
| Insanity, Genius and | 447 |
| Insect Fertilization of Flowers | 595 |
| Iridium, The Manufacture and Applications of | 142 |
| Iron-Ore Bed, How An, was Formed | 135 |
| Jacobi, Dr. Mary Putnam | 468 |
| Jacobi, Dr. Mary Putnam | 614 |
| Jules Verne As A Scientific Authority | 135 |
| Keen, William W., M.D. | 1 |
| Kerosene, Concerning | 252 |
| Kesteven, W. Henry | 836 |
| King Country, The, and the Maoris | 567 |
| Kinley, Isaac | 117 |
| Lagrange, E. | 340 |
| Lancaster, I. | 696 ​ |
| Langley, Professor S. P. | 401 |
| Langley, Professor S. P. | 643 |
| Lankester, E. Ray | 664 |
| Laughlin, J. Laurence, Ph.D. | 31 |
| Laveleye, A Rejoinder to M. De | 188 |
| Laveleye, Emile De | 165 |
| Leaves, on | 344 |
| Leaves, on | 479 |
| Legislation, Corrupt | 425 |
| Leland, E. R. | 491 |
| Liberty in Education | 268 |
| Life Evolution, The Energy of | 789 |
| Life, Restoration of | 861 |
| Literary Notices | 122 |
| Literary Notices | 272 |
| Literary Notices | 415 |
| Literary Notices | 556 |
| Literary Notices | 701 |
| Literary Notices | 847 |
| Locust, How The, Lays its Eggs | 696 |
| Lubbock, Sir John | 344 |
| Lubbock, Sir John | 479 |
| Lubricants, Theory of | 139 |
| Madness and Crime | 425 |
| Malaria and the Eucalyptus | 856 |
| Malarious Countries, Tommasi-Crudeli On | 785 |
| Man and the Other Vertebrates, Origin of | 605 |
| Man, Can He Be Modified by Selection? | 15 |
| Maple-Sugar, Early Mention of | 287 |
| Masai Land, Social Life In | 857 |
| Mascart, M. E. | 683 |
| Master, A Very Old | 103 |
| Medical Education, The Present Aspect of | 589 |
| Medico-Legal, The, Society | 282 |
| Mediterranean, The, of Canada | 222 |
| Memorial, The Darwin | 532 |
| Merrill, George P. | 520 |
| "Metaphysical, The, Society" | 800 |
| Mine-Explosions, Coal-Dust and | 858 |
| Mines, Fallacies About | 566 |
| Mole, The, A Friend to Man | 284 |
| Monkeys, The Ways of | 234 |
| Morality, The Science of | 661 |
| Morton, S. T. | 334 |
| Moseley, Professor H. N. | 623 |
| Moths and Moth-Catchers | 246 |
| Moths and Moth-Catchers | 377 |
| Mussulman Industries, Decline of | 138 |
| Mystery, A, of the Growth of Trees Explained | 424 |
| Nachtigal, Dr. Gustav, Sketch of | 691 |
| Navigation, Aërial | 696 |
| Navigation, Aërial, Recent Progress In | 296 |
| Nervous System, The, and Consciousness | 66 |
| Nervous System, The, and Consciousness | 150 |
| New Guinea, Arts and Customs In | 573 |
| New Jersey, Ancient, Eskimos In | 567 |
| Newton, Professor H. A., Sketch of | 840 |
| Niagara Falls, Changes At | 857 ​ |
| Notes | 143 |
| Notes | 287 |
| Notes | 432 |
| Notes | 575 |
| Notes | 719 |
| Notes | 863 |
| Nursey, Perry F. C. E. | 536 |
| Obesity | 284 |
| Official Science at Washington | 844 |
| Officialism in Education | 554 |
| One Hundred Years, How to Live | 574 |
| Opium, an Experience with | 334 |
| Oranges, Brazilian | 429 |
| Oranges in Palestine | 575 |
| Origin of Man and the Other Vertebrates | 605 |
| Origins, Aryan | 138 |
| Oxley, J. MacDonald | 222 |
| Pacific Coast Panthers | 286 |
| Paint, "Anti-Fouling," for Ships | 571 |
| Palestine, Oranges In | 575 |
| Palmer, Charles B. | 696 |
| Panthers, Pacific Coast | 286 |
| Pasteur's Researches in Germ-Life | 86 |
| Peat, Formation of | 716 |
| Peat-Smoke as an Antiseptic | 861 |
| Peckham, Professor S. F. | 252 |
| Pettenkofer, Max Von | 25 |
| Persian Carpets | 429 |
| Philosophy, A Test of | 121 |
| Photographing Colors | 430 |
| Pigments, Spectro-Photometric Study of | 142 |
| Pitri, Cardinal, on Scientific Studies | 283 |
| Plants, The Early Study of | 750 |
| Plant-Tissues, Contraction of, by Cold | 862 |
| Poisoning, Deaths by | 140 |
| Political Economy, Methods of Teaching | 31 |
| Political Tendency, A Pernicious | 410 |
| Pompeii, Interesting Finds In | 860 |
| Popular Miscellany | 132 |
| Popular Miscellany | 282 |
| Popular Miscellany | 423 |
| Popular Miscellany | 566 |
| Popular Miscellany | 712 |
| Popular Miscellany | 856 |
| Races, American, The Identity of | 568 |
| Races, Evolution of Warlike and of Peaceful | 283 |
| Railroads, Telegraphs, and Civilization | 311 |
| Railway Managers and Employés, The Relations of | 577 |
| Railway Managers and Employés, The Relations of | 768 |
| Rats, A Story of Two | 713 |
| Rat, The Trading | 831 |
| Recess, The Value of | 285 |
| Refuse, Household and City, Cremation of | 286 |
| Religion and Inebriety | 427 |
| Religion Without Dogma | 51 |
| Research, Private Encouragement of | 567 |
| Richardson, Dr. B. W. | 541 |
| Sahara, Observations in the | 715 |
| Samp and Hulled Corn | 118 |
| Sanitarium, A Great Winter | 289 |
| Scholarships, The New Tyndall | 553 |
| School-Keeping, Suggestions On | 134 |
| Schools of Fifty Years Ago and of To-Day | 282 |
| Science, English Board-School | 713 |
| Science, New Chapters in the Warfare of | 721 |
| Science, Official, at Washington | 844 |
| Science versus Immorality | 696 |
| Scientific, A, Commonplace Book | 716 |
| Sea-Shore, The Fauna of the | 623 |
| Selection, Can Man Be Modified By? | 15 |
| Sewage, Water Purification of | 568 |
| Sharp-Shooting, Savage | 569 |
| Ships, "Anti-Fouling" Paint for | 571 |
| Siberia and the Exiles | 625 |
| Sirup, Water-Melon | 424 |
| Sleep, How To, Well | 431 |
| Smoking, Toxic Effects of | 136 |
| Socialism, de Laveleye On | 270 |
| "Society, The Metaphysical" | 800 |
| Soil-Ferment, The | 283 |
| Sorghum and Beet Sugar in the United States | 425 |
| Spelling, How, Damages the Mind | 638 |
| Spencer, Herbert | 188 |
| Star-Fish Life, Curiosities of | 360 |
| Spreading it Too Thin | 413 |
| State, The, versus the Man | 165 |
| Stevens, Professor W. Le Conte | 296 |
| Stones, Building and Ornamental, of the United States | 520 |
| Sully, James | 447 |
| Sun and Moon, Enlargement of The, at the Horizon | 717 |
| Sunlight and the Earth's Atmosphere | 643 |
| Superstitions, Celtic | 862 |
| Tarr, Ralph S. | 356 |
| Teak-Tree, The, and its Timber | 572 |
| Teeth, Mutilations of the | 858 |
| Telephony, Underground, Difficulties of | 717 |
| Temperature of the Glacial Period | 573 |
| Thompson, Sir H. | 322 |
| Thompson, Sir H. | 509 |
| Thompson, William Gilman, M.D. | 589 |
| Time-Reckoning, Curiosities of | 544 |
| Tissandier, G. | 218 |
| Tissue-Selection in the Genesis of Disease | 836 |
| Toads, Spade-Foot | 133 |
| Tommasi-Crudeli on Malarious Countries, and their Reclamation | 785 |
| Trees, A Mystery of the Growth of, Explained | 424 |
| Tunnels, Increase of Temperature In | 859 ​ |
| Tyndall, John | 86 |
| Vegetation, Climate and | 430 |
| Vegetation, The, of Gutter-Stones | 717 |
| Vital Tenacity, Measures of | 541 |
| Vivisection, our Recent Debts To | 1 |
| Von Pettenkofer, Max | 25 |
| Wales, The Prince of | 532 |
| War, Curious Excuses for | 555 |
| Wardman, George | 207 |
| Water-Melon Sirup | 424 |
| Water-Purification of Sewage | 568 |
| Watson, L. H., M.D. | 389 |
| Weather, The, and Health | 141 |
| Whales, Past and Present | 195 |
| White, Andrew D. | 721 |
| Williams, W. Mattieu | 81 |
| Williams, W. Mattieu | 259 |
| Winter Sanitarium, A Great | 289 |
| Wires, Underground, and Atmospheric Electricity | 857 |
| Wool, Why it Felts | 133 |
| Yakuts, How, Make A Fire | 427 |
| Youmans, Edward L. | 433 |
| Youmans, Eliza A. | 750 |
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