# Popular Science Monthly/Volume 16/Index

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| About Snakes | 571 |
| Africa, Population of | 426 |
| Algeria, Cost of the Proposed Lake in | 139 |
| Ancient Methods of Filtration | 495 |
| Ancient Uses of Cork | 429 |
| Animal Mounds in the Pyrenees | 135 |
| Animal Transformations, New Views of. (Illustrated.) | 625 |
| Anthropometric Observation | 431 |
| Anthropology, Recent | 145 |
| Antiquity of Man | 572 |
| Arago's Statue, The Inauguration of | 114 |
| Archæopteryx, Carl Vogt on the | 136 |
| Arithmetic, Early Methods in | 204 |
| Arsenic in Kindergartens | 694 |
| Arsenic in the Household and School | 715 |
| Artesian Wells and the Great Sahara | 530 |
| Association of Ideas. (Illustrated.) | 577 |
| Astronomical Discoveries, Announcement of | 715 |
| Athletics in Schools | 677 |
| Atlantis, On | 266 |
| Authorship, Intellectual Straining in | 93 |
| Bain, Alexander, On John Stuart Mill | 25 |
| Bain, Alexander, On John Stuart Mill | 311 |
| Bain, Alexander, On John Stuart Mill | 501 |
| Bain on the "Data of Ethics" | 210 |
| Bennett, A. Hughes | 519 |
| Billson, William W., on the Origin of Criminal Law | 433 |
| Bird-Reasoning | 139 |
| Bolton, Professor H. Carrington | 495 |
| Books noticed: | |
| "Ethics of Science and Duty" (Bascora) | 125 |
| "Freedom in Science and Teaching" (Haeckel) | 127 |
| "Geological Survey of Ohio," Vol. III | 129 |
| "Distribution of Heat in the Spectra of Various Sources of Radiation" (Jaynes) | 130 |
| "A Defense of Philosophic Doubt" (Balfour) | 130 |
| "The Science of the Bible" (Woolley) | 131 |
| "Nests and Eggs of American Birds" (Ingersoll) | 131 |
| "The Evidence of the Senses" (Stevenson) | 131 |
| "Haeckel's Genesis of Man" (Ward) | 132 |
| "Easy Lessons in Popular Science" (Monteith) | 133 ​ |
| "Hints toward a National Culture" (Boyce) | 133 |
| "Scientific Lectures" (Lubbock) | 133 |
| "Science Lectures at South Kensington" | 133 |
| "Zoology of Invertebrate Animals" (Macalister) | 133 |
| "Gray's Botanical Text-Book" (Gray) | 277 |
| "Hygiene and Public Health" (Buck) | 279 |
| "First Lines of Therapeutics" (Harvey) | 281 |
| "Neurility" (Clevenger) | 282 |
| "Is Life worth Living?" (Mallock) | 417 |
| "Naval Hygiene" (Wilson) | 418 |
| "Silk Goods of America" (Wykoff) | 419 |
| "Geology of the Lower Amazonas" (Derby) | 421 |
| "Primitive Manners and Customs" (Parrer) | 421 |
| "Papers read before the Pi Eta Scientific Society of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute" | 422 |
| "American Ornithology" (Wilson and Bonaparte) | 422 |
| "The Rosicrucians" (Jennings) | 423 |
| "Antiquities and Platycnemism of the Mound-Builders of Wisconsin" (De Hart) | 423 |
| "The Silkworm" (Riley) | 423 |
| "Geology of the Diamantiferous Regions of the Province of Parana, Brazil" (Derby) | 423 |
| "First Step in Chemical Principles" (Leffman) | 424 |
| "Young Folks' Cyclopædia of Common Things" (Champlin) | 424 |
| "Inorganic Chemistry" (Valentin) | 424 |
| "The Value of Life" (Anonymous) | 424 |
| "Octavius Perinchief" (Lanman) | 561 |
| "Arctic Voyages of Nordenskjöld" | 563 |
| "Illustrated Dictionary of Scientific Terms" (Rossiter) | 564 |
| "The English Language and its Early Literature" (Gilmore) | 565 |
| "Darwinism and other Essays" (Fiske) | 565 |
| "Shell Mounds of Omari" (Morse) | 566 |
| "Fuel, its Combustion and Economy" (Clark) | 566 |
| "Units and Physical Constants" (Everett) | 566 |
| "Solar Light and Heat" (Allen) | 567 |
| "First Book of Qualitative Chemistry" (Prescott) | 567 |
| "Electro-Metallurgy" (Watt) | 567 |
| "Ceremonial Institutions" (Spencer) | 698 |
| "Theory of Political Economy" (Jevons) | 699 |
| "The Chemistry of Common Life" (Johnston) | 701 |
| "Astronomy for Schools and Colleges" (Newcomb and Holden) | 702 |
| "Progress and Poverty" (George) | 702 |
| "Lectures and Essays" (Clifford) | 703 |
| "An Essay on the Bible Narrative of Creation" (Grote) | 705 |
| "Triassic Formation of New Jersey" (Russell) | 707 |
| "Erasmus Darwin" (Krause) | 707 |
| "Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Annual Reports of the Geological Survey of Indiana" (Cox) | 708 |
| "Modern Meteorology" | 708 |
| "The Great Fur Land" (Robinson) | 708 ​ |
| "The Berea Sandstone of Ohio" (Orton) | 709 |
| "The Crayfish" (Huxley) | 850 |
| "The Refutation of Darwinism" (O'Neill) | 851 |
| "Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota" (Winchell) | 851 |
| "The Kansas Review" | 851 |
| "The Californian" | 851 |
| "Zoölogy for Students and General Readers" (Packard) | 852 |
| "Problems of Life and Mind" (Lewes) | 852 |
| "The Younger Edda" (Anderson) | 852 |
| "Elementary Lessons on Sound" (Stone) | 852 |
| "Dictionary of German Terms used in Medicine" (Cotter) | 853 |
| "Theology and Mythology" (O'Donoghue) | 853 |
| "Popular Romances of the Middle Ages" (Cox and Jones) | 853 |
| "The American Entomologist" (Riley and Fuller) | 853 |
| "American Monthly Microscopical Journal" (Hitchcock) | 853 |
| "Economics of Industry" (Marshall) | 853 |
| "On the Native Iron of Greenland" (Smith) | 854 |
| "The Development of the Human Race" (Steinach) | 854 |
| "Beer, and its Manufacture formerly and now" (Planitz) | 854 |
| "The Berkeley Quarterly" | 855 |
| "The Workshop Companion" | 855 |
| "Blowpipe Analysis" (Landauer) | 855 |
| "United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries" | 855 |
| "Guides for Science-Teaching" | 855 |
| Literary Notes | 850 |
| Bigelow, W. S., Letter from | 842 |
| Bleaching Preparation, New | 861 |
| Brain-Cells, Education of | 200 |
| Brain, Size of, and Size of Body | 827 |
| Brain-Texture and Mental Make-up | 143 |
| Buckland, Frank | 318 |
| Buell, Charles J., Letter from | 842 |
| Burials, Premature | 389 |
| Butter-making, Improvements in | 571 |
| Canal Routes, Interoceanic | 380 |
| Cannibals, South African | 286 |
| Carpenter, Professor William B | 614 |
| Casualties, Railroad | 413 |
| Cattle, The Wild, of Great Britain | 138 |
| Celluloid, Composition and Uses of | 859 |
| Century-Plant, A Precocious | 575 |
| Chandler, Dr. Charles F., Sketch of. (Portrait.) | 833 |
| Chesapeake Laboratory, Work at the | 570 |
| Chinese, Morality among the | 270 |
| Chromatics, Rood's—A Misleading Criticism | 274 |
| Circulating Libraries and Contagious Disease | 138 |
| Colorado, Southern, Prehistoric Ruins in | 666 |
| Coloring Matters, New | 575 |
| Color-Sense, Education of the | 425 ​ |
| Commerce, Removing the Barriers of | 416 |
| Conant on International Copyright | 697 |
| Conant, William C | 653 |
| Cork, Ancient Uses of | 429 |
| Correspondence | 266 |
| Correspondence | 408 |
| Correspondence | 554 |
| Correspondence | 693 |
| Correspondence | 842 |
| Crayfish, The. (Illustrated.) | 789 |
| Criminal Law, Origin of | 433 |
| Criminal Law, The Origin of | 842 |
| Croll's "Climate and Time" | 810 |
| Crookes, William | 13 |
| Crookes, William | 157 |
| Curious Ways of getting Food. (Illustrated.) | 770 |
| Dalby, W. B | 197 |
| Daly, Charles P. | 478 |
| Data of Ethics, Reception of the | 408 |
| Daylight in the Schoolroom | 517 |
| Death of Professor B. F. Mudge | 569 |
| Detective, A Scientific | 141 |
| Diamonds, Artificial | 716 |
| Diseases of Wild Animals | 11 |
| Diving, Improved Method of | 711 |
| Dolmens in Japan. (Illustrated.) | 593 |
| Dove, Heinrich Wilhelm, Sketch of. (Portrait.) | 261 |
| Eastern City, A Fabled | 427 |
| Eddy, William A. The Evolution of a New Sense | 66 |
| Editor's Table | 121 |
| Editor's Table | 267 |
| Editor's Table | 408 |
| Editor's Table | 555 |
| Editor's Table | 695 |
| Editor's Table | 842 |
| Educational Reform, Conditions of | 849 |
| Education for Guidance | 559 |
| Education of the Color-Sense | 425 |
| Education, Higher, of Women, Hygiene in the | 519 |
| Electricity and Vegetation | 712 |
| Electric Light, Distribution of the | 284 |
| Electric Light, Progress of the | 570 |
| Electrification, Expansion of Bodies by | 574 |
| Emergencies, Common Sense in | 719 |
| Enjoyment, The Duty of | 640 |
| Epidemics, Two Remarkable | 286 |
| Evolution, Fallacies of, A Reply to | 101 |
| Expansion of Bodies by Electrification | 574 |
| Experimental Legislation | 754 |
| Experiments in Punishment | 431 |
| Fairchild, Herman L. | 770 |
| Far West, The Geology of the | 568 |
| Filtration, Ancient Methods of | 495 |
| Fish, A New Food | 711 |
| Fish, Animal Heat of | 861 |
| Fishes, Voice in | 574 |
| Fitch, Dr. Asa, Sketch of. (Portrait.) | 116 ​ |
| Food, Curious Ways of getting. (Illustrated.) | 770 |
| Forces, Wasted | 408 |
| Form, the Pleasure of Visual | 780 |
| Fourcy, Charles de | 380 |
| France, Apprentice-Schools in | 285 |
| Free Schools of America, The Early | 663 |
| Free-Will, Scientific Aspects of | 745 |
| Frost-Phenomena | 842 |
| Fuel, Water as | 653 |
| Gannett, Henry | 666 |
| Gas and the Electric Light | 859 |
| Geographical Science, The Beginnings of. (Illustrated.) | 236 |
| Geology of the Far West | 568 |
| George, Henry, On the Study of Political Economy | 601 |
| Glaciers, Experimental | 860 |
| Granville, J. Mortimer | 200 |
| Great Britain, The Wild Cattle of | 138 |
| Green Mountains, Age of the | 858 |
| Green, Nelson W. | 71 |
| Grote, A. E., Letter from | 266 |
| Gypsies, Origin of the | 540 |
| Hanoverian Village Life | 467 |
| Harmony, Modern, Imperfections of | 508 |
| Hay, Dr. George, Letter from | 694 |
| Hemp-Plant, Intoxicating Properties of the | 719 |
| Herrings | 427 |
| Hoffmann, Frederick, Sketch of Dove | 261 |
| Honeycomb, a Living | 824 |
| Honey-making in the United States | 142 |
| Hopkins, J. H. | 798 |
| Horses, Many-toed. (Illustrated.) | 258 |
| Household Pet, A Roguish. (Illustrated.) | 318 |
| Hygiene in the Higher Education of Women | 519 |
| Ice, Age of | 554 |
| Ice, Age of | 693 |
| Ideas, The Association of. (Illustrated.) | 577 |
| Imperfections of Modern Harmony | 508 |
| Improvements in Butter-making | 571 |
| Intellectual Straining in Authorship | 93 |
| Intemperance in Study | 645 |
| International Copyright, Conant on | 697 |
| Interoceanic Canal Question, Some Features of the | 842 |
| Iron-making, Petroleum in | 287 |
| Iron, Passivity of | 719 |
| International Weather-Service, The. (Illustrated.) | 289 |
| Interoceanic Canal Routes. (Illustrated.) | 380 |
| Jackson, George A. | 236 |
| James, William | 577 ​ |
| Japan, Dolmens in. (Illustrated.) | 593 |
| Javal, M., On Daylight in the Schoolroom | 517 |
| Jevons, Professor W, Stanley | 754 |
| Jupiter, What is He doing? (Illustrated.) | 737 |
| Kindergartens, Arsenic in | 694 |
| Knowledge, First-hand and Second-hand | 197 |
| Langley, S. P., Recent Progress of Solar Physics | 1 |
| Lankester, Professor E. Ray | 789 |
| Learning to write | 795 |
| Le Conte, John, Mars and his Moons | 82 |
| Le Conte, Joseph, The Genesis of Sex | 167 |
| Leffingwell, Dr. A. J. | 745 |
| Legislation, Experimental | 754 |
| Leidy, Professor Joseph | 612 |
| "Let well enough alone" | 695 |
| Libraries, Circulating, and Contagious Disease | 138 |
| Lightning-Rod, Investigating the | 863 |
| Lindsay, W. Lauder | 346 |
| Literary Notices | 125 |
| Literary Notices | 277 |
| Literary Notices | 417 |
| Literary Notices | 561 |
| Literary Notices | 698 |
| Literary Notices | 850 |
| Lubbock, On Science in the Primary Schools | 429 |
| Luminous Power, Distribution of, in the Sun's Rays | 137 |
| Lungren, C. M., Progress and Poverty | 721 |
| Lyford, M., Letter from | 693 |
| Lyons, Lieutenant T. A. | 35 |
| Lyons, Lieutenant T. A. | 179 |
| Mackay, G. Eric | 389 |
| Maclagan, Dr. T. J., On Typhoid Fever | 460 |
| Man, On the Antiquity of | 140 |
| Man, On the Antiquity of | 572 |
| Many-toed Horses. (Illustrated.) | 258 |
| Maps and Map-making before Mercator. (Illustrated.) | 478 |
| Mars and his Moons | 82 |
| Marsh, O. C. | 219 |
| Marsh, O. C. | 363 |
| Mason, R. O. | 330 |
| Matamata, The. (Illustrated.) | 684 |
| Matter, Radiant. (Illustrated.) | 13 |
| Matter, Radiant. (Illustrated.) | 157 |
| Maury, Professor T. B., International Weather-Service. (Illustrated.) | 289 |
| McGee, W. J. | 810 |
| Meteoric Display, An Expected | 247 |
| Meteorology, Ocean. (Illustrated.) | 35 |
| Meteorology, Ocean. (Illustrated.) | 179 |
| Mill, John Stuart | 25 |
| Mill, John Stuart | 311 |
| Mill, John Stuart | 501 |
| Minerals, Action of Organic Acids on | 710 |
| Monkey, Intelligence of a Pet | 714 |
| Moral Sense in the Lower Animals | 346 |
| Morals, Goldwin Smith on | 267 |
| Morse, Professor E. S. | 593 |
| Mudge, B. F., Death of | 569 |
| Nature, The Force behind | 614 |
| Neison, E. | 337 ​ |
| Niger, Source of the | 860 |
| Nordenskjöld, What He has done | 137 |
| Nordhoff, Walter | 467 |
| Norton, H. B., Letter from | 554 |
| Notes | 143 |
| Notes | 287 |
| Notes | 432 |
| Notes | 576 |
| Notes | 720 |
| Notes | 864 |
| Observations, Anthropometric | 431 |
| Ocean Meteorology. (Illustrated.) | 35 |
| Ocean Meteorology. (Illustrated.) | 179 |
| Oregon, Salmon Industries of | 573 |
| Origin of Criminal Law | 433 |
| Origin of the Gypsies | 540 |
| Paleontological Discovery, History and Methods of | 219 |
| Paleontological Discovery, History and Methods of | 219 |
| Pasture, Sheep poisoned at | 575 |
| Pearce, S. Austen | 508 |
| Perrier, Edmond | 625 |
| Petroleum in Iron-making | 287 |
| Petroleum for Steam-making | 136 |
| Phenomenon, Interesting Luminous | 554 |
| Philosophy, Mythologic | 56 |
| Phosphorescence, Vegetable | 804 |
| Phylloxera, Applications for | 718 |
| Physiology, The Study of | 43 |
| Plants, Agency of, in Earth-building | 713 |
| Plants, Assimilative Power of | 142 |
| Plants, The Textile, of the World | 831 |
| Platinum, Experiments with | 134 |
| Political Economy, Study of | 601 |
| Popular Miscellany | 134 |
| Popular Miscellany | 283 |
| Popular Miscellany | 425 |
| Popular Miscellany | 568 |
| Popular Miscellany | 710 |
| Popular Miscellany | 858 |
| Population of Africa | 426 |
| Powell, J. W., Mythologic Philosophy | 56 |
| Precocity, Cases of Remarkable | 428 |
| Prehistoric Ruins in Southern Colorado | 666 |
| Premature Burials | 389 |
| Prescott, Ellen | 804 |
| Preservative Process, A New | 717 |
| Proctor, Richard A., Expected Meteoric Display | 247 |
| Progress and Poverty | 721 |
| Progress of the Electric Light | 570 |
| Publications Received | 133 |
| Publications Received | 282 |
| Publications Received | 425 |
| Publications Received | 567 |
| Publications Received | 709 |
| Publications Received | 856 |
| Punishment, Experiments in | 431 |
| Punishment, Vengeance in | 555 |
| Pye-Smith, P. H., The Study of Physiology | 43 |
| Rabies, Transmissibility of Human | 712 |
| Radiant Matter | 13 |
| Radiant Matter | 157 |
| Railroad Casualties | 413 |
| Rhine, Alice H | 663 |
| Records, Prehistoric | 545 |
| Respecting Rubbish | 97 ​ |
| Ritter, Carl, Sketch of. (Portrait.) | 689 |
| River-Beds, The Old, of Middle California | 858 |
| Romanes, George J | 101 |
| Salmon Industries of Oregon | 573 |
| Saporta's World of Plants before the Appearance of Man. (Illustrated.) | 446 |
| Sargassum, Does it vegetate in the Open Sea? | 573 |
| Sauvage, E | 684 |
| Schools, Athletics in | 677 |
| Schroeder, Lieutenant Seaton | 530 |
| Science in the Primary Schools | 429 |
| Scientific Teaching in the Colleges | 556 |
| Scorpion, Suicide of the | 712 |
| Seamen, Color-Blindness of | 285 |
| Searle, Arthur | 673 |
| Seely, G. B., Letter from | 554 |
| Sense, A New, The Evolution of | 66 |
| Sex, The Genesis of | 167 |
| Sheep, poisoned at Pasture | 575 |
| Silliman, Benjamin, Sketch of. (Portrait.) | 550 |
| Skinner, Joseph J. | 397 |
| Slack, H. J. | 737 |
| Snakes, How they shed their Skins | 710 |
| Social Distinctions, Traditional Origin of | 430 |
| Solar Appendages | 121 |
| Solar Physics, Recent Progress of | 1 |
| Sounds, Discrimination and Memory of | 428 |
| Spies, Concerning Honors to | 122 |
| Spiritualism, Middle-Age | 354 |
| Springs and Wells, Overflow of. (Illustrated.) | 71 |
| Springs and Wells, Overflow of. (Illustrated.) | 266 |
| Springs and Wells, Overflow of. (Illustrated.) | 397 |
| Stammering and its Causes | 863 |
| Stars, The Immensity of the | 140 |
| Stoves, Ventilating | 124 |
| Study, Intemperance in | 645 |
| Suicide, A Consideration of | 798 |
| Sully, James | 780 |
| Sun-Spots and Rainfall | 861 |
| Tea-drinking, Effects of Excessive | 862 |
| Teeth, Effects of Tobacco on the | 137 |
| Telescope, Most Powerful in Existence | 337 |
| Theologian, A Young, Letter from | 693 |
| Thresher-Shark, Habits of the | 139 |
| Tobacco-Pipe, Antiquity of the | 862 |
| Tobacco-Smoking, Parkes on | 718 |
| Traditional Origin of Social Distinctions | 430 |
| Trowbridge, J. T., Letter from | 266 |
| Tuke, D. Hack | 645 |
| Tylor, E. B., Recent Anthropology | 145 |
| Typhoid Fever, how conveyed | 460 |
| Upper Air, Proportion of Oxygen in | 575 |
| Vaccination in New York | 330 |
| Vaile, E. O., Early Methods in Arithmetic | 204 |
| Vaughan, Professor Daniel, The Works of | 125 |
| Vegetable Phosphorescence | 804 |
| Vengeance in Punishment | 555 |
| Vessels, Raising Sunken | 287 |
| Vilain, Jean | 11 |
| Village Life, Hanoverian | 467 |
| Voice in Fishes | 574 |
| Wahl, William H. | 408 |
| Ward's Natural Science Establishment | 612 |
| Water as Fuel | 653 |
| Waves, Stilling the, with Oil | 136 |
| Weather-Service, The International. (Illustrated.) | 289 |
| What is Jupiter doing? (Illustrated.) | 737 |
| Wild Animals, Diseases of | 11 |
| Windows, Stained | 141 |
| World of Plants before the Appearance of Man | 446 |
| Zoölogical Work at the Chesapeake Laboratory | 570 |
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