# Popular Science Monthly/Volume 12/Index

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| Addresses of Eliot and Marsh | 473 |
| Air, Compressed, in Coal-Mining | 638 |
| Air and Health | 216 |
| American Biology, Progress of | 624 |
| American Contributions to Electrical Science | 744 |
| Ancient Ruins of Colorado | 120 |
| Andaman-Islanders | 120 |
| Ants, The Slaves of | 116 |
| Ants, how they stand Heat and Cold | 763 |
| Apparatus, Electrical, for Beginners | 506 |
| Arachnidan, A Formidable | 254 |
| Archer-Fishes. (Illustrated.) | 302 |
| Artificial Ice | 508 |
| Artificial Respiration | 252 |
| Bagehot, W., Sketch of. (Portrait.) | 489 |
| Bain, A., Language and Civil Service | 152 |
| Beavers in Colorado | 766 |
| Bees, Duration of Flight of | 119 |
| Belief in Hell | 627 |
| Belt, T., Man and the Glacial Period | 61 |
| Bevington, L. S., Teachings of a Day | 327 |
| Biology, American, Progress of | 624 |
| Blast-Furnace Slag | 762 |
| Blood, Local Temperatures of the | 252 |
| Books noticed: |
| "Holy Roman Empire" (Bryce) | 111 |
| "Physiology of Mind" (Maudsley) | 111 |
| "Lightning-Protection" (Spang) | 112 |
| "Lithology of the Adirondacks" (Leeds) | 112 |
| "Naturhistoricher Verein von Wisconsin" | 113 |
| "Ages of Sun and certain Fixed Stars" (Kirkwood) | 113 |
| "Locust-Plague" (Riley) | 113 |
| "Compendium of Facts" (Emery) | 113 |
| "General History of Connecticut" | 113 |
| "Weighing and Measuring" (Chisholm) | 114 |
| "Bible of Humanity" (Michelet) | 114 |
| "Lectures and Essays" (Blanchard) | 114 |
| "Fishes of Upper Georgia" (Jordan) | 114 ​ |
| Metallurgical Review | 115 |
| "Rest for Women" (Putnam-Jacobi) | 241 |
| "Fifteen-Cent Dinners" (Corson) | 244 |
| "Telegraphic Determination of Differences of Longitude" | 244 |
| "Civilization and Duration of Life" (Lewis) | 245 |
| "Physical Geography" (Geikie) | 246 |
| "Survey of Colorado" | 246 |
| "Fur-bearing Animals" (Coues) | 246 |
| "The Polaris Expedition" | 247 |
| "Methods of Ethics" (Sidgwick) | 368 |
| "Isis Unveiled" (Blavatsky) | 369 |
| "United States Entomological Commission" | 370 |
| "Outlines of Chemistry" (Wheeler) | 370 |
| "Through Rome on" (Waters) | 370 |
| "The World's Progress" (Putnam) | 371 |
| "The Ottoman Turks" (Creasy) | 371 |
| "The Hidatsa Indians" (Matthews) | 371 |
| "Survey of the Territories" | 371 |
| "New York Meteorological Observatory" | 372 |
| "Central Park Menagerie" | 372 |
| "Geyser-Basins" | 372 |
| "The Two-Ocean Water" (Comstock) | 372 |
| "American Palaeozoic Fossils" (Miller) | 373 |
| "Serpent and Siva Worship" | 373 |
| "Scientific Course of Study" (Bessey) | 373 |
| "Davenport Academy of Sciences" | 373 |
| "Boston Society of Natural History" | 373 |
| "Insects of Missouri" (Riley) | 373 |
| "Savings-Banks" (Townsend) | 374 |
| "Egypt as it is" (McCoan) | 374 |
| "Heredity" (Brush) | 374 |
| "Heredity" (Parker) | 374 |
| "Criminality" (Stevenson) | 374 |
| "Elements of Geology" (Le Conte) | 501 |
| "Deterioration and Race-Education" (Royce) | 503 |
| "Notes on Leather" (Lyle) | 503 |
| "Kansas Academy of Sciences" | 503 |
| "A, B, C, of Finance" (Newcomb) | 504 |
| "Robinson Crusoe's Money" (Wells) | 504 |
| "Steam-Engineering" (Nystrom) | 504 |
| "Public-Health Papers" | 504 |
| "Smithsonian Report" | 505 |
| "Religious Feeling" (Smyth) | 505 |
| "Sanitary Condition of Houses" (Waring) | 505 |
| "How to use the Microscope" (Phin) | 505 |
| "Anales del Museo de Mejico" | 505 |
| "Pessimism" (Sully) | 630 |
| "Ancient Life-History of the Earth" (Nicholson) | 631 |
| "An American Girl" (Sola) | 632 |
| "Money" (Walker) | 632 ​ |
| "Money and Legal Tender" (Linderman) | 633 |
| "The Positive Philosophy and Religion" | 633 |
| "Gerrit Smith" (Frothingham) | 634 |
| "Transcendentalism" (Cook) | 634 |
| "Physiography" (Huxley) | 749 |
| "Chauncey Wright's Letters" (Thayer) | 750 |
| "Freethinking and Plain Speaking" (Stephen) | 751 |
| "Source of Muscular Power" (Flint) | 751 |
| "The Kabala" (Pancoast) | 752 |
| "What was He?" (Denton) | 752 |
| "North American Ethnology" | 753 |
| "Heating and Ventilation" (Schumann) | 753 |
| "Inorganic Chemistry" (Thorpe) | 753 |
| "Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club" | 753 |
| "The Silver Country" (Anderson) | 753 |
| "Determination of Rocks" (Jannetaz) | 753 |
| "Volumetric Analysis" (Muir) | 754 |
| "Philosophic Ideas" (Wilmshurst) | 754 |
| "Peabody Museum of Archaeology" | 754 |
| "Relations of Pain to Weather" (Mitchell) | 754 |
| "Birds of Connecticut" (Merriam) | 755 |
| "The Glacial Period in the Southern Hemisphere" (Belt) | 755 |
| "Poisonous Mushrooms" (Ott) | 755 |
| "White Mountains of New Hampshire" | 755 |
| Young Scientist | 755 |
| Brain, A Low Mammalian | 124 |
| British Association Papers | 117 |
| Buckland on the Berlin Gorilla | 253 |
| Buckland, A. W., on Stimulants | 117 |
| Building-Stones of St. Lawrence County | 255 |
| Caoutchouc, Mineral | 508 |
| Carnivorous Plants | 758 |
| Castor-Oil | 511 |
| Cerebellum, Functions of the | 119 |
| Ceremonial Government, Evolution of | 385 |
| Ceremonial Government, Evolution of | 545 |
| Ceremonial Government, Evolution of | 641 |
| Chemistry of Fruit-Ripening | 460 |
| Chinese Famine, Causes of | 759 |
| Chinese Medicines | 762 |
| Chloroform | 738 |
| Clairvoyance, Wallace and | 745 |
| Coinages, Debasement of | 580 |
| Color, Distribution of, in Animals | 761 |
| Colorado, Ancient Ruins of | 120 |
| Colors, Simultaneous Contrast of | 118 |
| Comparative Stupidity of Politicians | 162 |
| Compressed Air in Coal-Mining | 638 |
| Concerning Belief in Hell | 627 |
| Congo, Stanley's Exploration of the | 635 |
| Constitution of the Nebulæ | 118 ​ |
| Continuity, The Law of | 29 |
| Cook and his "Biology" | 495 |
| Cooking | 760 |
| Corals, Living | 737 |
| Counting by the Aid of the Fingers | 430 |
| Cyclone in Bengal | 192 |
| Dallinger on Minute Animal Forms | 122 |
| Damon, W. E., Corals | 737 |
| Davis, E. W., Magnetic Observatory at Madison, Wisconsin | 455 |
| Dawkins, B., on Museums | 125 |
| Debasement of Coinages | 580 |
| Differences, The, of Things | 53 |
| Digestion, Recent Observations on | 123 |
| Dissipation of Energy | 701 |
| Doctoring Darwin | 363 |
| Doses, Size of. | 126 |
| Draper, J. W., Evolution | 175 |
| Drowning-Accidents | 510 |
| Duration of Flight of Bees | 119 |
| Dynamical Theory of Heat, I. (Illustrated.) | 206 |
| Dynamical Theory of Heat, I. (Illustrated.) | 330 |
| Earthquakes in Japan | 507 |
| Earthworms in Agriculture | 510 |
| Edison's Phonograph. (Illustrated.) | 719 |
| Edison's Phonograph | 748 |
| Education, Technical | 570 |
| Electrical Apparatus | 506 |
| Electricity in War | 382 |
| Electrical Science, American Contributions to | 744 |
| Electro-plating | 252 |
| Eliot, President, his Address | 473 |
| Embalming, New Process of | 639 |
| Energy, Dissipation of | 701 |
| Environment, Influence of | 122 |
| Epidemics and Ablution | 639 |
| Ethnological Specimens, Interesting | 377 |
| Eucalyptus, The, in the Future. (Illustrated.) | 662 |
| Evolution, History of | 175 |
| Evolution of Ceremonial Government | 385 |
| Evolution of Ceremonial Government | 545 |
| Evolution of Ceremonial Government | 641 |
| Extirpation of Injurious Insects | 123 |
| Eyesight, Effects of Study on | 74 |
| Famine, Chinese, its Causes | 759 |
| "Farewell" | 509 |
| Filters of Spongy Iron | 379 |
| Fish-Breeding, Impure Water fatal to | 637 |
| Fish-Culture, Notes on | 249 |
| Fishes, Marine, in Lake Nicaragua | 380 |
| Flammarion, C, System of Sirius | 47 ​ |
| Flight of Bees | 119 |
| Florida Lizards | 249 |
| Florida Lizards | 363 |
| Formidable Arachnidan | 254 |
| Formosa, Travels in | 761 |
| Fossil Reptiles, New | 757 |
| Fruit-Ripening, Chemistry of | 460 |
| Functions of the Cerebellum | 119 |
| Garden-Schools | 757 |
| Gas as a Fuel | 637 |
| Gas-Well, A, in Kansas | 376 |
| Gases, Liquefaction of. (Illustrated.) | 616 |
| Gases, The last of the | 635 |
| Gassiot, J. P., Death of. | 117 |
| Generation, Spontaneous | 476 |
| Germ-Theory | 743 |
| German Handicraft | 636 |
| Geysers, and how they are explained. (Illustrated.) | 407 |
| Glacial Period, Man and the. (Illustrated.) | 61 |
| Gorilla, Buckland on the | 253 |
| Government, Ceremonial | 545 |
| Gratacap, L. P., The Ice Age | 319 |
| Graves of Mound-Builders | 638 |
| Growth of the Steam-Engine. (Illustrated.) | 129 |
| Growth of the Steam-Engine. (Illustrated.) | 257 |
| Growth of the Steam-Engine. (Illustrated.) | 446 |
| Growth of the Steam-Engine. (Illustrated.) | 528 |
| Handicraft, German | 636 |
| Health-Matters in Japan | 280 |
| Heat, Dynamical Theory of. (Illustrated.) | 206 |
| Heat, Dynamical Theory of. (Illustrated.) | 330 |
| Heliotype Process | 639 |
| Hell, Belief in | 627 |
| Honey, Production of | 765 |
| Horse, The, in America | 743 |
| Human Stature | 508 |
| Huxley, T. H., Technical Education | 570 |
| Hygiene, Individual | 380 |
| Hygienic Influence of Plants | 417 |
| Ice Age | 319 |
| Ice, Artificial | 508 |
| Iles, G., Law of Continuity | 29 |
| Iles, G., Dissipation of Energy | 701 |
| Illuminating Gas, Purification of | 765 |
| Illustrations of the Logic of Science | 1 |
| Illustrations of the Logic of Science | 286 |
| Illustrations of the Logic of Science | 604 |
| Illustrations of the Logic of Science | 705 |
| Improvements in Photography | 509 |
| Impure Water fatal to Fish-Breeding | 637 |
| Inaudible Vibrations | 119 |
| Individual Hygiene | 380 |
| Influence of Environment | 122 |
| Insanity, Modern Life and | 432 |
| Insects, Injurious, Extirpation of. | 123 ​ |
| Intensity of Different-Colored Lights | 759 |
| International Scientific Service | 249 |
| Introduction and Succession of Vertebrate Life in America. (Illustrated.) | 513 |
| Introduction and Succession of Vertebrate Life in America. (Illustrated.) | 672 |
| Japan, Ancient Man in | 377 |
| Japan, Health-Matters in | 280 |
| Japanese Fruit-Tree, A New | 378 |
| Jeffreys, J. G., on Evolution | 117 |
| Kansas Gas-Well | 376 |
| Language in Education | 238 |
| Language and the Civil Service | 152 |
| Laryngoscope and Rhinoscope. (Illustrated.) | 166 |
| Law of Continuity | 29 |
| Law of Continuity | 495 |
| Law of Continuity | 623 |
| Le Conte, Prof. Joseph, Sketch of | 358 |
| Le Conte, Joseph, Geysers | 407 |
| Leland, E. R., Debasement of Coinages | 580 |
| Leverrier, Death of | 117 |
| Lightning-Rods, do they attract | 760 |
| Liquefaction of the Gases. (Illustrated.) | 616 |
| Living Corals | 737 |
| Living out-of-Doors | 509 |
| Lizards of Florida | 249 |
| Lizards of Florida | 363 |
| Local Temperatures of the Blood | 252 |
| Lockwood, S., The Eucalyptus | 662 |
| Logic of Science, Illustrations of the | 1 |
| Logic of Science, Illustrations of the | 286 |
| Logic of Science, Illustrations of the | 604 |
| Logic of Science, Illustrations of the | 705 |
| Loomis, Prof., on Rain Areas | 250 |
| McLean, W., Effects of Study on Eyesight | 74 |
| Magnetic Observatory at Madison, Wisconsin | 455 |
| Man in Japan | 377 |
| Man and the Glacial Period. (Illustrated.) | 61 |
| Man, was He preglacial? | 381 |
| Marbleized Utensils | 381 |
| Marpingen Miracles | 724 |
| Marsh, Prof., his Address | 473 |
| Marsh, O. C, Vertebrate Life in America | 513 |
| Marsh, O. C, Vertebrate Life in America | 672 |
| Mauna Loa, Eruption of | 125 |
| Mayer, A. M., Edison's Talking-Machine | 719 |
| Mechanics of Nature | 763 |
| Medicines, Chinese | 762 |
| Men of Science, Narrowness among | 108 |
| Mind-Reading | 362 |
| Mineral Caoutchouc | 508 |
| Mineral Oils, Origin of | 124 |
| Moa-Bird, The Gigantic. (Illustrated.) | 87 |
| Modern Life and Insanity | 432 |
| Modern Superstitions | 232 |
| Modern Troglodytes | 37 ​ |
| Monkey, New Species of | 507 |
| Mont Blanc, Discovery of | 506 |
| Moral Sense, Origin of | 378 |
| Morse, E. S., Health-Matters in Japan | 280 |
| Mound in Utah, Contents of a | 123 |
| Muscular Power, Source of | 729 |
| Museums of Natural History | 501 |
| Narrowness among Men of Science | 108 |
| Nebulæ, their Constitution | 118 |
| Nicaragua, Lake, Marine Fishes in | 380 |
| Niemeyer, Dr. P., Air and Health | 216 |
| Non-Poisonous Coloring for Preserved Vegetables | 638 |
| Notes | 127 |
| Notes | 255 |
| Notes | 383 |
| Notes | 511 |
| Notes | 640 |
| Notes | 767 |
| Oils, Mineral, Origin of | 124 |
| Open Air and Health | 216 |
| Open Air and Health | 494 |
| Opening of the Museum | 501 |
| Opium and its Antidote | 555 |
| Optical Experiment, A New | 122 |
| Oswald, F. L. Modern Troglodytes | 37 |
| Our Six-footed Rivals | 196 |
| Our Six-footed Rivals | 349 |
| Peirce, C. S., Logic of Science | 1 |
| Peirce, C. S., Logic of Science | 286 |
| Peirce, C. S., Logic of Science | 604 |
| Peirce, C. S., Logic of Science | 705 |
| Peppermint-Culture | 511 |
| Pettenkofer, M. von, Hygienic Influence of Plants | 417 |
| Pharmacopœia, The United States | 247 |
| Phonograph, Edison's. (Illustrated.) | 719 |
| Phonograph, Edison's | 748 |
| Phonograph, Edison's | 756 |
| Photographs, New Solar | 748 |
| Photography, Improvements in | 509 |
| Plague of Rats | 376 |
| Plants, their Hygienic Influence | 417 |
| Pneumatic Clock Regulator | 251 |
| Poinier, P., Dynamical Theory of Heat | 206 |
| Poinier, P., Dynamical Theory of Heat | 330 |
| Poisonous Leguminous Plants | 764 |
| Poisons of the Intelligence | 738 |
| Political Economy in Law-Schools | 121 |
| Prescott, A. B., Fruit-Ripening | 460 |
| Preservation of Wood | 383 |
| Preservation of Wood | 510 |
| Proctor, R. A., Star or Star-Mist | 148 |
| Pumpkins, Composition of | 376 |
| Railroad-Strike, The Great, of 1877 | 107 |
| Rankine, Prof., Sketch of. (Portrait.) | 236 |
| Rats, A Plague of | 376 |
| Reptilia, New Order of Extinct | 378 |
| Respiration, Artificial | 252 |
| Rest for Woman | 492 |
| Rheumatism, Salicylic Acid in | 248 |
| Richet, C., Opium and its Antidote | 555 ​ |
| Richet, C, Chloroform | 738 |
| Ring Nebula," To the | 90 |
| Rivals, Our Six-footed | 196 |
| Rivals, Our Six-footed | 349 |
| Salicylic Acid in Rheumatism | 248 |
| Sauvage, E., Archer-Fishes | 302 |
| Savings-Banks and State Control | 238 |
| Saxon, J. W., The Differences of Things | 53 |
| Schneider, E., The Tides | 226 |
| Science, Denationalizing | 126 |
| Science, Logic of | 1 |
| Science, Logic of | 286 |
| Science, Logic of | 604 |
| Science, Logic of | 705 |
| Seasons, Alternation of, and Tree-Growth | 382 |
| Secchi, Prof., Sketch of. (Portrait.) | 742 |
| Seeger, Dr. S., Laryngoscope and Rhinoscope. (Illustrated.) | 166 |
| Servetus, Michael, Sketch of. (Portrait.) | 91 |
| Shaw, G. M., Telephone | 559 |
| Simultaneous Contrast of Colors | 118 |
| Singing-Flames and Inaudible Vibrations | 119 |
| Sirius, The System of. (Illustrated.) | 47 |
| Six-footed Rivals, Our | 196 |
| Six-footed Rivals, Our | 349 |
| Slag, Utilization of | 762 |
| Slaves of Ants | 116 |
| Smell, Extraordinary Development of Sense of | 125 |
| Society, The Science of | 367 |
| Solar Photographs | 748 |
| Source of Muscular Power | 729 |
| Spencer, H., Ceremonial Government | 385 |
| Spencer, H., Ceremonial Government | 545 |
| Spencer, H., Ceremonial Government | 641 |
| Spiders, how they spin | 766 |
| Spongy Iron Filters | 379 |
| Spontaneous Generation | 476 |
| Spontaneous Generation | 591 |
| Stagnation of Trade, The Present | 106 |
| Stanley's Trip down the Congo | 635 |
| Star, or Star-Mist | 148 |
| Stature, Human | 508 |
| Steam-Engine, Growth of the. (Illustrated.) | 15 |
| Steam-Engine, Growth of the. (Illustrated.) | 129 |
| Steam-Engine, Growth of the. (Illustrated.) | 257 |
| Steam-Engine, Growth of the. (Illustrated.) | 446 |
| Steam-Engine, Growth of the. (Illustrated.) | 528 |
| Steam-Engine, A New Type of | 115 |
| Stoddard, J. L., To the "Ring Nebula" | 90 |
| Study, Effects of, on the Eyesight | 74 |
| Stupidity, Comparative, of Politicians | 162 |
| Style | 340 |
| Sugar-Manufacture, New Process of | 759 |
| Sun-Spots and their Effects | 365 |
| Superstitions, Modern | 232 |
| Talking-Machine, Edison's. (Illustrated.) | 719 |
| Taste-Perceptions | 250 |
| Teachings of a Day | 327 |
| Teasel, Common, Sensitiveness of its Leaves | 637 |
| Technical Education | 570 |
| Telephone, The, and how it works. (Illustrated.) | 559 ​ |
| The Telephone anticipated | 116 |
| The Telephone, Teachings of | 625 |
| Temperaments | 306 |
| Theine, Proportions of, in Different Kinds of Tea | 760 |
| Thurston, E. H., Growth of the Steam-Engine | 15 |
| Thurston, E. H., Growth of the Steam-Engine | 129 |
| Thurston, E. H., Growth of the Steam-Engine | 257 |
| Thurston, E. H., Growth of the Steam-Engine | 446 |
| Thurston, E. H., Growth of the Steam-Engine | 528 |
| Tides | 105 |
| Tides | 226 |
| Tides | 491 |
| Tissandier, G., Liquefaction of the Gases | 616 |
| Topographical Surveys and Health | 253 |
| Torpedo, Invention of the | 507 |
| Travels in Formosa | 761 |
| Tree-Growth, Alternation of Seasons and | 382 |
| Trees and Health | 758 |
| Troglodytes, Modern | 37 |
| Trowbridge, J., Counting by the Aid of the Fingers | 430 |
| Tuke, D. H, Modern Life and Insanity | 432 |
| Tyndall, J., Spontaneous Generation | 476 |
| Tyndall, J., Spontaneous Generation | 591 |
| Underground Clock-Regulator | 251 |
| United States Pharmacœpia | 247 |
| Van de Warker, E., Temperaments | 306 |
| Vegetables, Preserved, Non-Poisonous Coloring for | 638 |
| Vertebrate Life in America | 513 |
| Vertebrate Life in America | 672 |
| Vibrations, Inaudible, and Singing-Flames | 119 |
| Wakefulness, Remedy for | 121 |
| Wallace and Clairvoyance | 745 |
| War, Electricity in | 382 |
| Waste of Wire-Works | 379 |
| Waters, A. W., on the Shifting of the Earth's Axis | 118 |
| Weasel, The Wicked | 697 |
| Weather-Observations, Value of | 764 |
| Weights and Measures | 375 |
| Whitney Glacier | 636 |
| Wood, Preservation of | 383 |
| Wood, Preservation of | 510 |
| Wright, T. H., Style | 340 |
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