# Popular Science Monthly/Volume 15/Index

Layout 4
I N D E X.
| | PAGE |
| Abstraction in Science, The Results of | 825 |
| Aconite, its Physiological Action | 281 |
| Adulteration of Food and Drugs | 286 |
| Africa, Central, Explorations in | 283 |
| Africa, Southern, Pinto's Trip across | 286 |
| African Civilization, A Specimen of | 863 |
| Age of Cave-Dwellers in America | 488 |
| Age of Ice | 833 |
| Age of the World | 137 |
| Agnosticism as developed in Huxley's "Hume" | 478 |
| Allen, G., "Pleased with a Feather" | 366 |
| Allen, C, A Problem in Human Evolution | 250 |
| Allman, G. J., Protoplasm and Life | 721 |
| Alum in Baking-Powders | 285 |
| American and European Archeology | 712 |
| American Association, its Saratoga Meeting | 853 |
| America's Place in History | 560 |
| Ant-Intelligence | 860 |
| Argan-Tree of Southwestern Marocco | 569 |
| Armsby, H. P.; The Source of Muscular Power | 812 |
| Arsenic, its Physiological Effects | 139 |
| Asphaltum and Amber in New Jersey | 719 |
| Atlantis not a Myth | 759 |
| Audiometer, The | 571 |
| Bachelor, O. E., Observations on the Chameleon | 178 |
| Bain, A., Growth of the Will | 10 |
| Bain, A., John Stuart Mill | 327 |
| Bain, A., John Stuart Mill | 750 |
| Bain, A., The Classical Controversy | 631 |
| Barker, G. F., Sketch of. (Portrait.) | 693 |
| Barnard, W. S., Micro-Organisms | 764 |
| Baths, Cold-Water | 567 |
| Bathybius, Huxley on | 862 |
| Bats, their Geographical Distribution | 574 |
| Beard, G. M., A Remarkable Coincidence | 628 |
| Bennett's Expedition to the North Pole | 557 |
| Bergh, Mr., Letter from | 409 |
| Bergh, Mr., and the Sparrows | 412 |
| Birth, Life, and Death of a Storm | 684 |
| Black, J. E., Removal of Inherited Tendencies to Disease | 433 ​ |
| Blake, E. Vale, Spontaneous and Imitative Crime | 656 |
| Bodily Conditions as related to Mental States | 40 |
| Bodily Injuries from Falling Meteorites | 566 |
| Books noticed: | |
| "Cooley's Cyclopaedia of Practical Receipts" | 129 |
| "Health, and how to promote it" (McSherry) | 130 |
| "After Death, what?" (Piatt) | 130 |
| "The Reign of God not the Reign of Law" (Bacon) | 131 |
| "Health Primers" | 132 |
| "Scientific Memoirs" (Draper) | 132 |
| "Habit and Intelligence" (Murphy) | 134 |
| "National Dispensatory" (Stillé and Maisch) | 135 |
| "Modern Chromatics" (Rood) | 271 |
| "American Chemical Journal" | 273 |
| "Journal of the American Chemical Society" | 273 |
| "Testing of Water-Wheels" (Emerson) | 274 |
| "Outline of General' Geology" (Comstock) | 274 |
| "Sewer-Gases" (Varona) | 274 |
| "Reading as a Fine Art" (Legouvé) | 274 |
| "Ocean Wonders" (Damon) | 275 |
| "Life of Baroness Bunsen" (Hare) | 275 |
| "American Plant-Book" | 275 |
| "Chemical Physiology" (Vaughan) | 275 |
| "Color-Sense" (Allen) | 276 |
| "Physical Exercise and Consumption" (Davy) | 276 |
| "Native Flowers and Ferns of the United States" (Meehan) | 276 |
| "Coal" (Thorpe) | 277 |
| "Comparative Anatomy" (Gegenbaur) | 277 |
| "Materia Medica" (Dunham) | 277 |
| "Fasting Girls" (Hammond) | 278 |
| "Political Economy" (Roscher) | 278 |
| "Index Medicus" | 278 |
| "The Teacher" (Blakiston) | 278 |
| "Mixed Essays" (Arnold) | 279 |
| "Evolution of Man" (Haeckel) | 415 |
| "Moore's Rural Life" | 417 |
| "Life-saving Apparatus" (Lyle) | 417 |
| "Treatise on Chemistry" (Roscoe and Schorlemmer) | 417 |
| "Art of Questioning" (Fitch) | 417 |
| "Political Economy" (Allen) | 418 |
| "Notes of a Naturalist" (Moseley) | 418 |
| "Problems of Life and Mind" (Lewes) | 419 |
| "Sewer-Air" (Nichols)" | 419 |
| "Physics" (Guthrie) | 420 |
| "Hearing" (Burnett) | 420 |
| "Art of Singing" (Sieber) | 420 |
| "The Currency Question" (Hughes) | 420 |
| "The Schools of Ontario" | 421 |
| "Word and Work" (Robert) | 421 |
| "Wisconsin Tornadoes" (Daniells) | 421 |
| "Dictionary of the English Language" (Skeat) | 421 ​ |
| "Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms" | 421 |
| "Bulletin of the United States National Museum" | 422 |
| "American Statistical Review" | 422 |
| "The Human Species" (Quatrefages) | 560 |
| "Combustion of Coal" (Barr) | 562 |
| "Man's Moral Nature" (Bucke) | 563 |
| "Reign of the Stoics" (Holland) | 563 |
| "The Temperaments" (Jacques) | 564 |
| "Color-Blindness" (Jeffries) | 564 |
| "Money, Trade, and Industry" (Walker) | 564 |
| "Birds of the Colorado Valley" (Coues) | 565 |
| "Aids to Family Government" (Mayer) | 565 |
| "Beneficial Influence of Plants" (Anders) | 565 |
| "The Data of Ethics" (Spencer) | 705 |
| "The Sportsman's Gazetteer" (Hallock) | 708 |
| "Journal of Physiology" | 709 |
| "Souvenirs of Madame Vigée Le Brun" | 709 |
| "Outlines of Field Geology" (Geikie) | 710 |
| "Cultivation of the Senses" | 710 |
| "Peabody Museum" | 710 |
| "United States Entomological Commission" | 711 |
| "Insects of Illinois" | 711 |
| "Progressive Japan" (Le Gendre) | 711 |
| "Sketch of Dickinson College" (Himes) | 845 |
| "Entwicklung des Menschengeschlectes" (Steinach) | 846 |
| "Philosophy of Music" (Pole) | 847 |
| "Laboratory Teaching" (Bloxam) | 848 |
| "Analysis of Urine" (Hofmann) | 849 |
| "Dictionary of Music" (Grove) | 849 |
| "Commercial Organic Analysis" (Allen) | 850 |
| "Mind and Brain" (Calderwood) | 850 |
| "The Round Trip" (Codman) | 851 |
| "History of England" (Guest) | 851 |
| "Scientific English Grammar" (Colegrove) | 851 |
| "Free Religious Association" | 851 |
| "Life and Work of J. Henry" (Pope) | 852 |
| "National Education" (Bennett) | 852 |
| "Roman Catholicism in the United States" | 852 |
| Botanical Usurper, A | 283 |
| Brackett, W., Modern Science in its Relation to Literature | 166 |
| Brain, Living, Experiments on | 855 |
| Brightness and Distribution of the Fixed Stars | 503 |
| Brooks, W. K., Condition of Women from a Zoological Point of View | 145 |
| Brooks, W. K., Condition of Women from a Zoological Point of View | 347 |
| Browning, W., A Question of Eating | 345 |
| Bunbury, C, Visit to the New Zealand Geysers | 356 |
| Cave, A Remarkable, discovered in Algeria | 717 |
| Chameleon, Observations on the | 178 |
| Chemistry in its Relations to Medicine | 214 |
| Chloral and other Narcotics | 491 |
| Chloral and other Narcotics | 646 |
| Cinchona-Cultivation in California | 861 ​ |
| Clarke, Professor, on Lockyer's Researches | 138 |
| Classical Controversy, The | 631 |
| Classification of Words | 714 |
| Clews in Natural History. (Illustrated.) | 14 |
| Clifford, Professor, Sketch of. (Portrait.) | 258 |
| Climate at Great Altitudes | 426 |
| Clough, J., A Correction | 265 |
| Coal, The, of the Future: | 856 |
| Cold-Water Baths | 567 |
| Color-Sense in Savages | 715 |
| Combe, George, his Autobiography | 109 |
| Complaint, A, about the Monthly | 698 |
| Conder, F. P., Explosions in Coal Mines | 200 |
| Condition of Women from a Zoölogical Point of View | 145 |
| Condition of Women from a Zoölogical Point of View | 347 |
| Constitution of the Sun | 855 |
| Continent, Growth of a | 280 |
| Cooley, L. R. C, The Molecular Theory | 462 |
| Copyright, International, the London "Times" on | 265 |
| Cortambert, E., Selecting a First Meridian | 156 |
| Crime, Spontaneous and Imitative | 656 |
| Curiosities, Dietetic. II | 30 |
| Curiosities of Nervousness | 282 |
| Curious Survivals of Savagism | 268 |
| Dangers of Darwinism | 68 |
| Death, On the Fear of | 123 |
| Descartes on the Invention of the Telescope | 430 |
| Development of the House-Fly. (Illustrated.) | 618 |
| Diaphragm, Improved, for Phonograph | 423 |
| Dietetic Curiosities. II | 30 |
| Disease, Removal of Inherited Tendencies to | 433 |
| Disease of the Body as a Mental Stimulant | 71 |
| Diseased Condition of the Faculty of Wonder | 196 |
| Distinction between Man and Animals | 138 |
| Division and Distribution of the Electric Light | 712 |
| Dog's Affection, A | 572 |
| Draper's Researches on Oxygen in the Sun | 716 |
| Drilling Rocks by Electricity | 573 |
| Drugs, Adulteration of | 575 |
| Dry-Rot in Timber | 525 |
| Earth, Shape of the | 857 |
| Earthquake of November 18, 1878 | 139 |
| Earthworms | 124 |
| Eating, A Question of | 345 |
| Edison's Electro-Chemical Telephone | 854 |
| Electric Light, how to make it steady | 857 |
| Electric Light, its Division and Distribution | 712 |
| Electric Pen, A New | 285 |
| Electrical Fishes | 427 |
| Elliott, E. T., The Age of Cave-Dwellers in America | 488 ​ |
| Esquimau Skull, Dimensions of the | 859 |
| Evolution, Geographical | 548 |
| Explanations that do not explain | 410 |
| Explorations in Central Africa | 283 |
| Explosions in Coal Mines, are they preventable? | 200 |
| Eye, The, its Sensibility to Light | 142 |
| Famines in Ancient and Modern Times | 137 |
| Farquhar, H., Brightness and Distribution of the Fixed Stars | 503 |
| Fear of Death | 123 |
| Fixed Stars, Brightness and Distribution of the | 503 |
| Fodder-Tree | 717 |
| Food and Drugs, Adulteration of | 286 |
| Food and Feeding | 377 |
| Food and Feeding | 514 |
| Food and Feeding | 620 |
| Forces, Wasted | 289 |
| Fortieth Parallel, Geological Survey of the | 302 |
| Fossil Rhinoceros in Siberia | 573 |
| Fossils, New and Interesting | 713 |
| Frankland, Professor, Sketch of. (Portrait.) | 838 |
| Furniss, J. J., Home-made Spectroscope. (Illustrated.) | 808 |
| Gairdner, Professor, Diseased Condition of the Faculty of Wonder | 196 |
| Games, The History of | 225 |
| Galton, F., Generic Images | 532 |
| Geikie, A., Geographical Evolution | 548 |
| Geikie, A., Geographical Evolution | 593 |
| Generic Images | 532 |
| Geographical Evolution | 593 |
| Geography, Modern, what it includes | 569 |
| Geological Survey of the Fortieth Parallel | 302 |
| Geysers of New Zealand, A Visit to the | 356 |
| Gladstone on Natural History | 573 |
| Globe, Terrestrial, A Large | 424 |
| "Goat-Suckers," why so called | 574 |
| Goose, A Carnivorous | 430 |
| Government Aid to Artisan Schools | 140 |
| Grief in a Chimpanzee | 142 |
| Growth of a Continent | 280 |
| Growth of the Will | 10 |
| Harris on Social Science | 702 |
| Haviland, C. T., The Results of Abstraction in Science | 825 |
| Heat and Light | 428 |
| Heliograph, The Mance | 429 |
| History of Games | 225 |
| Horse, A, with a Load in his Stomach | 428 |
| House-Fly, Development of the. (Illustrated.) | 618 |
| How the Humming-Bird feeds | 141 |
| Human Evolution, A Problem in | 250 |
| Humming-Bird, how it feeds | 141 |
| Huxley on Bathybius | 862 |
| Huxley, T. H., Sensation and the Sensiferous Organs | 86 |
| Indian Problem, The | 304 |
| Insanity in Russia | 425 |
| Insect-Destruction of Evergreen-Trees | 855 |
| Insects, Neuter | 470 |
| Iron Surfaces, New Process for the Protection of | 429 |
| Ironless Civilization, An | 715 |
| Japanese Archæology | 141 |
| "Jumping Frenchmen" | 428 |
| Kiddle, Mr., Letter from | 408 |
| King-Vulture | 431 |
| Life-saving Service of the United States. (Illustrated.) | 182 |
| Lightning-Rods, The Size of | 431 |
| Lightning-Stroke, Remarkable | 409 |
| Listening to the Pulse | 571 |
| Locomotion, A Study in. (Illustrated.) | 317 |
| London "Times" on International Copyright | 265 |
| Long Island Drift, its Easterly Extension | 861 |
| Luminous Phenomenon, Remarkable | 859 |
| Lyman, O. E., Novelty in Patents | 612 |
| McCosh, J., Agnosticism as developed in Huxley's "Hume." | 478 |
| Man and Animals, The Distinction between | 138 |
| Marey, E. J., A Study in Locomotion | 317 |
| Marey on Electrical Fishes | 427 |
| Maudsley, H., Materialism and its Lessons | 667 |
| Mayer, J. E., Sketch of. (Portrait.) | 397 |
| Mental States, Bodily Conditions as related to | 40 |
| Meridian, Selecting a First. (Illustrated.) | 156 |
| Metal, Another New | 718 |
| Meteorological | 568 |
| Meteors, Falling, Injuries from | 566 |
| Meteors, Flight and Fall of | 718 |
| Meteors, November, Story of the. (Illustrated.) | 445 |
| Micro-Organisms and their Effects in Nature | 764 |
| Mill, J. S. | 327 |
| Mill, J. S. | 750 |
| Mogador, its Climate | 859 |
| Molecular Theory | 462 |
| Mound-Formations of California, Origin of | 856 |
| Monarchy and its Drawbacks | 545 |
| Morality and Evolution | 124 |
| Muir, P., Residual Phenomena | 101 |
| Muscular Power, The Source of | 812 |
| Music, why it is pleasurable | 568 |
| Mythologic Philosophy | 795 |
| National Academy of Sciences | 280 |
| Natural Well | 718 |
| Nervousness, Curiosities of | 282 ​ |
| Neuralgia, Storms and | 281 |
| Neuter Insects | 470 |
| New and Interesting Fossils | 713 |
| New Guinea and its Inhabitants. II | 57 |
| Newberry, J. S., Geological Survey of the Fortieth Parallel | 302 |
| Norton, H. B., Age of Ice | 833 |
| Notes | 143 |
| Notes | 288 |
| Notes | 431 |
| Notes | 576 |
| Notes | 719 |
| Notes | 863 |
| Novelty in Patents | 612 |
| Observations on the Chameleon | 178 |
| O'Connor, W. D., United States Life-saving Service | 182 |
| "Oil on the Troubled Waters" | 143 |
| Opium-eating and Intemperance | 858 |
| Opium-Smoking | 429 |
| Orang-outang, The, at Home | 854 |
| Origin of Worlds | 1 |
| Oswald, F. L., Dietetic Curiosities. II | 30 |
| Oswald, F. L., Serpent-Charm | 606 |
| "Outing," The Annual | 284 |
| Oxygen in the Sun | 716 |
| Patents, Novelty in | 612 |
| Phrenology | 265 |
| Physics, The Study of, in the Secondary Schools | 159 |
| Physiological Action of Aconite | 281 |
| Physiological Effects of Arsenic | 139 |
| Pinto's Trip across Southern Africa | 286 |
| "Pleased with a Feather" | 366 |
| Poison, What is a? | 284 |
| Poison-Proof Animals | 858 |
| Poisson, J., The Vanilla-Plant | 642 |
| Population Statistics | 858 |
| Pottery, Ancient American | 575 |
| Powell, J. W., Mythologic Philosophy | 795 |
| Prince Imperial, The | 559 |
| Problem, A, in Human Evolution | 250 |
| Protoplasm and Life | 721 |
| Pythagoras on Beans | 410 |
| Question, A, of Eating | 345 |
| Reading, what the Eyes see in | 570 |
| Recreation, Science and Philosophy of | 772 |
| Reëducation of the Adult Brain | 455 |
| Remarkable Coincidence | 628 |
| Removal of Inherited Tendencies to Disease | 433 |
| Remsen, I., Chemistry in its Relation to Medicine | 214 |
| Residual Phenomena | 101 |
| Results of Abstraction in Science | 825 |
| Richardson, B. W., Chloral and other Narcotics | 491 |
| Richardson, B. W., Chloral and other Narcotics | 646 |
| Robson, M. H., Development of the House-Fly | 618 ​ |
| Romanes, G. J., Science and Philosophy of Recreation | 772 |
| Savagism, Curious Survivals of | 268 |
| Science and Philosophy of Recreation | 772 |
| Science, Modern, in its Relation to Literature | 166 |
| Scientific Associations, The | 842 |
| Scott, R. H., Birth, Life, and Death of a Storm | 684 |
| Seeds of Disease | 426 |
| Selecting a First Meridian. (Illustrated.) | 156 |
| Sensation and the Sensiferous Organs | 86 |
| Sensibility of the Eye to Light | 142 |
| Serpent-Charm | 606 |
| "Serpent-Charm" | 841 |
| Sharpey, "W., Reëducation of the Adult Brain | 455 |
| Snake, A Two-Headed | 715 |
| Social Relations of the Future | 568 |
| Social Science, Harris on | 702 |
| Source of Muscular Power | 812 |
| Sovereign, An Imported | 860 |
| Specimen of African Civilization | 863 |
| Spectroscope, A Home-made. (Illustrated.) | 808 |
| Spiritualism again | 700 |
| Spiritualism as a Scientific Question | 577 |
| Spontaneous and Imitative Crime | 656 |
| Stars, Variable | 427 |
| Statistics of Population | 858 |
| Steadiness of the Electric Light | 857 |
| Steel, Hard and Soft, Strength of | 287 |
| Stoney, G. J., Story of the November Meteors | 445 |
| Storm, Birth, Life, and Death of a | 684 |
| Storms and Neuralgia | 281 |
| Story of the November Meteors. (Illustrated.) | 445 |
| Study of Physics in the Secondary Schools | 159 |
| Sun, Constitution of the | 855 |
| Superstitious Beliefs, Survival of | 425 |
| Sympathy in an Ants' Nest | 572 |
| Taylor, C. F., Bodily Conditions as related to Mental States | 40 |
| Telegraphers and Consumption | 716 |
| Thompson, E. H., Atlantis not a Myth | 759 |
| Thompson, H., Food and Feeding | 377 |
| Thompson, H., Food and Feeding | 514 |
| Thompson, H., Food and Feeding | 620 |
| Trowbridge, J., Study of Physics | 159 |
| Two-headed Snake | 715 |
| Tylor, E. B., The History of Games | 225 |
| Typhoid Fever and Well-Water | 423 |
| Uniformity System, The, is it an American Idea? | 424 |
| United States Life-saving Service. (Illustrated.) | 182 |
| Vanilla-Plant, The | 642 |
| Variable Stars | 427 ​ |
| Vaughan, D., Origin of Worlds | 1 |
| Vaughan, D. (Editorial.) | 127 |
| Vaughan, D., Sketch of. (Portrait.) | 556 |
| Vaughan, D., On the Origin of Asteroids | 570 |
| Visit to the New Zealand Geysers | 356 |
| Wahl, W. H., Wasted Forces | 289 |
| Wallace, A. R., New Guinea and its Inhabitants. II | 57 |
| Wasted Forces | 289 |
| Wasted Forces | 698 |
| Well, A Natural | 718 |
| Well-Water and Typhoid Fever | 423 |
| Whales and their Neighbors | 237 |
| What is a Poison? | 284 |
| What shall we eat? | 140 |
| What the Eyes see in reading | 570 |
| Whitney, W. D., Sketch of. (Portrait.) | 121 |
| Will, Growth of the | 10 |
| Wilson, A., Clews in Natural History | 14 |
| Wilson, A., Whales and their Neighbors | 237 |
| Wines as Intoxicants | 142 |
| Women, their Condition from a Zoölogical Point of View | 145 |
| Women, their Condition from a Zoölogical Point of View | 347 |
| Wonder, Diseased Condition of the Faculty of | 196 |
| Wonderful Phenomenon, A, accounted for | 699 |
| Woolf, P., Neuter Insects | 470 |
| Words, Classification of, by Ideas | 714 |
| Worlds, Origin of | 1 |
| Wundt, W., Spiritualism | 577 |
| Youmans, E. A., Autobiography of George Combe | 109 |
END OF VOL. XV.