# Popular Science Monthly/Volume 17/Index

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| Adipose, The Impediment of | 60 |
| Affection, Animal | 406 |
| Africa, Prehistoric | 287 |
| African Tribe, A New | 862 |
| Albro, W. P., Letter from | 121 |
| Algæ, Relation of, to the Phanerogams | 714 |
| Algebras, Spaces, Logics | 516 |
| Algerian Sahara, Fertilization of the | 138 |
| Allen, Professor Grant | 495 |
| Allen, Professor Grant | 650 |
| Amherst College and Evolution | 120 |
| Amherst College, Evolution in | 405 |
| Anaesthetic, A New | 424 |
| Ancient Race, Relics of, in Eastern New York | 286 |
| Animal Development, The Rate of | 254 |
| Animals, and the Faculty of Direction | 692 |
| Animals, Legal Prosecutions of | 619 |
| Anthony, Professor W. A. | 831 |
| Ant, The Cutting | 717 |
| Ants, Slave-making | 424 |
| Artesian Wells on our Western Plains | 428 |
| Asphalt and Amber in the Mud of New Jersey | 718 |
| Association, American Scientific | 693 |
| Automatism in Portrait-Painting | 140 |
| Bacteria, Diffusion of | 860 |
| Barker, George F., Modern Aspects of the Life-Question | 750 |
| Barnard, W. S., Zoölogical Education | 666 |
| Bee, Lessons from the Tongue of the | 422 |
| Bell, Alexander Graham | 813 |
| Beer, About | 280 |
| Bellesme, M. J. de, How Insects direct their Flight | 114 |
| Berghaus, Dr. A., The Medicinal Leech | 478 |
| Birds, Æsthetic Feeling in | 650 |
| Birds, Notes on a Few of our | 386 |
| Blake, E. Vale, The Impediment of Adipose | 60 |
| Bolas, Thomas | 802 |
| Bookbinding, Deterioration of, by Illuminating Gas | 143 |
| Books noticed: | |
| "England: Her People, Polity, and Pursuits" (Escott) | 126 |
| "The Interoceanic Canal and the Monroe Doctrine" | 127 ​ |
| "Free Ships" (Codman) | 127 |
| "Labor-Making Machinery" (Powers) | 127 |
| "Action of the United States Tariff" (Tylor) | 127 |
| "Report of the Department of Public Works of the City of New-York" | 129 |
| "The Theosophist" | 130 |
| "Report of Harvard College Observatory" | 131 |
| "History of the English Language" (Lounsbury) | 131 |
| "The Mound-Builders" (McLean) | 131 |
| "Insect Lives" (Ballard) | 131 |
| "Eyesight" (Carter) | 132 |
| "Perception of Space and Matter" (Walter) | 132 |
| "The Metaphysics of the School" (Harper) | 132 |
| "Vocal Physiology and Hygiene" (Holmes) | 133 |
| "Electric Induction" (Gordon) | 133 |
| "Therapeutics and Materia Medica" (Semple) | 133 |
| "Forensic Medicine and Toxicology" (Hemming) | 133 |
| "Aids to Anatomy" (Brown) | 133 |
| "Report of the New York Meteorological Observatory for 1878" (Draper) | 133 |
| "Water-Color Painting" (Penley) | 134 |
| "Protection of Forests a Necessity" (Dorien) | 134 |
| "Experiments on Rainfall" (Stockbridge) | 134 |
| "Improved Dwellings for the Laboring Classes" | 134 |
| "Report on Magnetic Determinations in Missouri in 1879" (Nipher) | 134 |
| "Chemical Exercises in Qualitative Analysis" (Rains) | 272 |
| "Henry's Contribution to the Electro-Magnetic Telegraph" (Taylor) | 272 |
| "History of Political Economy in Europe" (Blanqui) | 273 |
| "Nervous Exhaustion" (Beard) | 275 |
| "Science Primers: Introductory" (Huxley) | 275 |
| "Health and Health Resorts" (Wilson) | 276 |
| "Instruction in the Mechanic Arts" (Atkinson) | 276 |
| "The Cotton-Worm" (Riley) | 276 |
| "Index to the Publications of the United States Naval Observatory" (Holden) | 276 |
| "Report on Lands of Arid Region of the United States" (Powell) | 276 |
| "Studies in Fermentation" (Pasteur) | 277 |
| "Text-book of Physiology" (Foster) | 277 |
| "A Forbidden Land" (Oppert) | 277 |
| "Geological Survey of Colorado" (Hayden) | 278 |
| "Sunshine and Storm in the East" (Brassey) | 278 |
| "Preadamites" (Winchell) | 410 |
| "Life and Writings of Buckle" (Huth) | 412 |
| "Fundamental Concepts of Modern Thought" (Eucken) | 413 |
| "Chemistry" (Bloxam) | 413 |
| "Pharmacographia" (Fliickiger) | 414 |
| "Philosophy of Religion" (Caird) | 414 |
| "Watering-Places of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland" (Gutmann) | 415 |
| "Life: Its True Genesis" (Wright) | 415 |
| "Handbook of Hygiene and Sanitary Science" (Wilson) | 416 |
| "Handbook of Double Stars" (Crossley, Gledhill, and Wilson) | 416 ​ |
| "Pay Hospitals (Burdett) | 416 |
| "Key to Ghostism" (Mitchell) | 417 |
| "Common Mind-Troubles" (Mortimer-Granville) | 417 |
| "Sanitary Dwelling-Houses" (Oorfield) | 417 |
| "Our Homes" (Hartshorne) | 417 |
| "Education" (Spencer) | 560 |
| "New Departure in Collegiate Control and Culture" (Mills) | 563 |
| "The Morals of Evolution" (Savage) | 564 |
| "Brain and Mind" (Drayton) | 564 |
| "Sea-Sickness" (Beard) | 564 |
| "The Throat and its Functions" (Elsberg) | 565 |
| "Alva Vine" (Gordon) | 565 |
| "Study of Some of the Starches" (Stowell) | 565 |
| "Management of Children" (Hale) | 565 |
| "Prevention of Disease" (Weist) | 565 |
| "Problems of Insanity ,1 (Beard) | 565 |
| "New Characters of Mosasauroid Reptiles" (Marsh) | 566 |
| "Bulletins of the United States Survey of the Territories" | 566 |
| "Guide to Modern English History" (Cory) | 566 |
| "Introduction to Study of Sign-Languages among North American Indians" (Mallery) | 566 |
| "Camps and Tramps in the Adirondacks" (Northrop) | 566 |
| "Report of Wisconsin Geological Survey for 1879" (Chamberlin) | 567 |
| "Deutsch-Amerikanische Apotheker-Zeitung" | 567 |
| "Silver in Relation to Industry and Trade" (Brown) | 567 |
| "Naturhistorische Verein filr Wisconsin | 567 |
| "Early Man in Britain" (Dawkins) | 697 |
| "Reports of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology" | 698 |
| "Taxidermist's Manual" (Brown) | 699 |
| "Fugitive Spectra" (Trouvelot) | 700 |
| "Proceedings of Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences" | 700 |
| "Health and Healthy Homes" (Wilson) | 701 |
| "Water Analysis" (Frankland) | 701 |
| "Health" (Corfield) | 702 |
| "Child's Catechism of Common Things" (Champlin) | 702 |
| "Free Land and Free Ships" (Cox) | 702 |
| "Sea-Air and Sea-Bathing" (Packard) | 702 |
| "Radical Mechanics of Animal Locomotion" (Wainwright) | 702 |
| "The Microscope in Medicine" (Beale) | 703 |
| "The Field Engineer" (Shunk) | 703 |
| "Hygienic and Therapeutic Relations of House-Plants" (Anders) | 703 |
| "Fabulous Gods denounced in the Bible" (Hauser) | 703 |
| "Practical Keramics" (Janvier) | 704 |
| "Tin in Burmah, Siam, and Malacca" (Reyer) | 704 |
| "Schiller's Complete Works" (Hempel) | 704 |
| "Landsberg's Illustrated Weekly" | 704 |
| "Tromso Museums Aarshefter" | 704 |
| "The Brain as an Organ of Mind" (Bastian) | 846 |
| "Degeneration" (Lankester) | 848 |
| "The Obelisk and Freemasonry" (Weisse) | 849 ​ |
| "Surveys of Northwestern Lakes" (Comstock) | 849 |
| "The Microscopist's Annual" | 850 |
| "North American Entomologist" | 850 |
| "Haveenoid" (Mott) | 850 |
| "The Oriental and Biblical Journal" | 850 |
| "The Thousand Islands" (Hough) | 850 |
| "Coal-Trade of Pennsylvania" (Sheafer) | 851 |
| "American Health Primers" | 851 |
| "Memoirs of the Science Department of Tokyo University" | 851 |
| "American Journal of Philology" | 851 |
| "Report of the Department of Statistics and Geology of Indiana" | 852 |
| Boole, George, Sketch of. (Portrait.) | 840 |
| Botel Tobago, The Aborigines of | 718 |
| Breath, Temperature of the | 855 |
| Buchan, J. M., Climate and Complexion | 1 |
| Buchan, J. M., Climate and Complexion | 279 |
| Buffalo, The, and his Pate | 40 |
| Butter-making in Denmark and Sweden | 859 |
| Criminal Law, Origin of | 121 |
| Carbon Button, The. (Illustrated.) | 10 |
| Carlisle, the Lord Bishop of, God and Nature | 27 |
| Carpenters, About | 233 |
| Carpet-Beetle, The | 287 |
| Catskill Mountains, The | 568 |
| "Ceremonial Institutions," The London" Times "on | 125 |
| Chemical Exercises for Ordinary Schools | 522 |
| Chemistry, Industrial Application of Cold in | 858 |
| Chemistry, The New, a Development of the Old | 393 |
| Child, A. L., Letter from | 692 |
| Children, New-born, Hygiene of | 715 |
| Children, The Infectious and Contagious Diseases of | 249 |
| Chimborazo and its Climbers | 714 |
| Chinese Civilization, Origin of | 856 |
| Cinchona-Forests, The, of South America | 507 |
| Circulation, Changes in the, during Cerebral Activity | 303 |
| Clarke, Professor F. W., My Fire | 321 |
| Classics, The, that educate us | 145 |
| Climate and Character, American | 705 |
| Climate and Complexion | 1 |
| Climate and Complexion | 279 |
| Crayfish for Study | 405 |
| Crayfish, The, Where to find | 135 |
| Coloring of the Waters in Seas and Lakes | 706 |
| Comets of 1843 and 1880, The | 714 |
| Coöperation in England | 742 |
| Copyright, International, Wilkie Collins on | 554 |
| Copyright, Matthew Arnold on | 121 |
| Cotton-Worm, Investigation of the | |
| Criticisms corrected | 795 |
| Correction, A | 692 |
| Correspondence | 120 |
| Correspondence | 405 |
| Correspondence | 552 |
| Correspondence | 692 |
| Cumings, Elizabeth | 823 ​ |
| Currents, Atmospheric, and Carbonic Acid | 421 |
| Daly, Chief Justice, Recent Geographical Exploration | 171 |
| Dampness and Diphtheria | 281 |
| Damposcope, The | 282 |
| Darwin, Francis, Climbing Plants | 635 |
| Deformity, Fashion in. (Illustrated.) | 721 |
| Delpech, Dr., the Infectious and Contagious Diseases of Children | 249 |
| Desert, Central Arabian, Features of the | 281 |
| Diamonds, Artificial | 259 |
| Diamonds, Artificial, Production of | 861 |
| Disease, Water in | 854 |
| Distribution of Plants, On the Modes of | 365 |
| Diving-Process, Mr. Fleuss's New | 575 |
| Dogs, Domestic, Origin of | 420 |
| Dog, Thread-Worm of the | 860 |
| Dress, in Relation to Health | 182 |
| Dust, A Shower of | 553 |
| Dust, Atmospheric | 344 |
| Earth, The Interior of the | 289 |
| Earth, The Interior of the | 453 |
| Earthquakes, A Systematic Investigation of | 429 |
| Echoes in Buildings | 141 |
| Editor's Table | 121 |
| Editor's Table | 265 |
| Editor's Table | 406 |
| Editor's Table | 554 |
| Editor's Table | 693 |
| Editor's Table | 843 |
| Education as an Aid to the Health to Women | 823 |
| Electrical Experiment, An, of the Eighteenth Century | 422 |
| Electric Light, The, and Vegetation | 283 |
| Electric Light, The Jablochkoff, in London | 706 |
| Electricity and Agriculture | 664 |
| England, Coöperation in | 742 |
| Engler, E. A., the Carbon Button | 10 |
| Energy, The Availability of | 244 |
| Enigma, A Zoölogical | 359 |
| Epidemics | 425 |
| Equatorial Temperatures | 715 |
| Ethics, Scientific, A Vindication of | 324 |
| Europe, The Winter in | 136 |
| "Evolution admitted, what then?" | 409 |
| Explanation, An | 571 |
| Exploration, Recent Geographical | 171 |
| Explosion, A Remarkable Coal-Mine | 429 |
| Eyesight of Readers, The | 711 |
| Fairchild, Herman L. | 224 |
| Fairchild, Herman L. | 600 |
| Farbenlehre, Goethe's | 215 |
| Farbenlehre, Goethe's | 312 |
| Fashion in Deformity | 721 |
| Feet of Chinese Women, Compression of | 712 |
| Ferment, A Fossil | 138 |
| Fetich-Worship and Witchcraft, African | 428 |
| Fison, Lorimer, Views of Primitive Marriage | 203 |
| Flower, William Henry, Fashion in Deformity | 721 ​ |
| Forests, Silicified, of the Yellowstone Park | 570 |
| Fossil Man, The | 350 |
| Glass, to pierce, with the Electric Spark | 285 |
| Geology and History | 495 |
| Geology, Studies in Experimental | 200 |
| George, Henry, the Kearney Agitation in California | 433 |
| Germs, Destruction of Infectious | 828 |
| Goatman, E. A., Letter from | 405 |
| Goethe and the Artistic Study of Nature | 406 |
| God and Nature | 27 |
| Green, Traill, Letter from | 552 |
| Griffin, La Eoy F., Animals and the Faculty of Direction | 692 |
| Halstead, George B., Algebras, Spaces, Logics | 516 |
| Harvard Medical Course, The | 716 |
| Harvard, Recent Original Work at | 482 |
| Haynes, Henry W., the Fossil Man | 350 |
| Health-Cure, The, as a Remedy for Adversity | 574 |
| Heat-Engines, Possible Efficiency of | 831 |
| Heliograph, Messages by | 716 |
| Herbert, Hon. Auberon, State Education: a Help or Hindrance? | 585 |
| Hicks, J. D., Letter from | 552 |
| Higgs, Dr. Paget, Electricity and Agriculture | 664 |
| Hitchcock, J. R. W., Recent Original Work at Harvard | 482 |
| Hoffmann, Frederick, Sketch of Friedrich Mohr | 402 |
| Horses, Managing, by Electricity | 139 |
| How Animals digest. (Illustrated.) | 600 |
| How Animals eat | 224 |
| Human Race, The Crossing of the | 166 |
| Huxley, Professor T. H. | 337 |
| Huxley, Professor T. H. | 467 |
| Hybrids, Fertility of | 858 |
| Hygieopolis, A Chinese | 287 |
| Hysteria and Demonism | 86 |
| Hysteria and Demonism | 155 |
| Hysteria and Demonism | 376 |
| Iceland | 710 |
| Iles, George, Coöperation in England | 742 |
| Illusions and Apparitions | 571 |
| India-Rubber Industries | 802 |
| Ingersoll, Ernest, the Buffalo and his Fate | 40 |
| Intelligence, Animal | 287 |
| Insects, Bacteria as Destroyers of | 93 |
| Insects, How they direct their Flight | 114 |
| Insects in Libraries | 286 |
| Insect-Powders as Remedies for Flies and the Aphis | 282 |
| Ivins, William M., Comparative Jurisprudence | 577 |
| James, Joseph F., on the Modes of Distribution of Plants | 365 |
| Japanese, Stature of the | 142 |
| Jones, William, Legal Prosecutions of Animals | 619 |
| Joy, Professor Charles A., Biographical Sketch of Frederick Wöhler | 539 |
| Jurisprudence, Comparative | 577 | ​ | ​ |
| Kearney Agitation, The, in California | 433 |
| Kirkwood, Daniel, Letter from | 553 |
| Lake Bonneville, Ancient Outlet of | 855 |
| Lankester, E. Ray, F. R. S., Bacteria as Destroyers of Insects | 93 |
| Law of Mutual Help, The | 709 |
| Lee, Professor William, M. D., the Extreme Rarity of Premature Burials | 526 |
| Leech, The Medicinal | 478 |
| Leidy, Joseph, Sketch of. (With Portrait.) | 684 |
| Le Sueur, M. D., a Vindication of Scientific Ethics | 324 |
| Life-Question, Modern Aspects of the | 750 |
| Light, Production of Sound by | 813 |
| Lightning-Conductors, Efficiency of | 421 |
| Lights, Rhythmic and Colored, for Lighthouses | 427 |
| Literary Notices | 126 |
| Literary Notices | 272 |
| Literary Notices | 410 |
| Literary Notices | 560 |
| Literary Notices | 697 |
| Literary Notices | 846 |
| Literature, Sham Admiration in | 48 |
| Lord, W. W., Letter from | 120 |
| Man in America | 571 |
| Marsh-Odors, The Source of | 138 |
| Mauris, Maurice, About Carpenters | 233 |
| Maxwell, James Clerk, Sketch of | 116 |
| Meat, Diseased, Effects of | 572 |
| Medusa, A Fresh-Water | 856 |
| Meridian, Carrying a French, into Africa | 575 |
| Merrill, Harry | 386 |
| Merrill, Harry | 692 |
| Metallic Compound, A New | 282 |
| Metals, Precious, Production of, in Colorado | 287 |
| Meunier, Stanislas, Studies in Experimental Geology. (Illustrated.) | 200 |
| Miller, W. D., the Availability of Energy | 244 |
| Minot, C. S., Changes of the Circulation during Cerebral Activity | 303 |
| Mohr, Friedrich, Sketch of | 402 |
| Mollusks, The, Capture among | 111 |
| Morphia, Danger of the Hypodermic Use of | 425 |
| Mountains, The Highest, of the Earth | 859 |
| Muir, M. M. Pattison, the New Chemistry a Development of the Old | 393 |
| Murder, Curious Discovery of a | 857 |
| My Fire (Poem) | 321 |
| Natural Vegetation at San Francisco, Changes in | 853 |
| Nature, Mysterious Sounds of | 772 |
| Newcomb, Professor Simon, Sketch of Otto Wilhelm Struve | 263 |
| Newton, The English Precursors of | 669 |
| Newton, The English Precursors of | 777 |
| Night-Schools in New York and Paris | 681 |
| Nile, Ancient Channels of the | 861 |
| Nolan, Edward J | 684 |
| Notes | 143 |
| Notes | 288 |
| Notes | 431 |
| Notes | 576 |
| Notes | 719 |
| Notes | 863 |
| Nubian Race, Types of the. (Illustrated.) | 512 |
| Olfactory Nerves, Abnormal Action of | 692 |
| Origin of Species, The Coming of Age of the | 337 ​ |
| Ornithorhynchus, The Australian | 769 |
| Oswald, Felix L., a Zological Enigma | 359 |
| Osteophone, The | 142 |
| Paint, Luminous | 707 |
| Payn, James, Sham Admiration in Literature | 48 |
| Photophone, The New | 845 |
| Plants, Climbing. (Illustrated.) | 635 |
| Politics against Political Science | 557 |
| Polyscope, The Electrical | 110 |
| Popular Miscellany | 135 |
| Popular Miscellany | 279 |
| Popular Miscellany | 419 |
| Popular Miscellany | 568 |
| Popular Miscellany | 705 |
| Popular Miscellany | 853 |
| Precocity a Sign of Inferiority | 430 |
| Premature Burials, The Extreme Rarity of | 526 |
| Preyer, W., Psychogenesis in the Human Infant | 625 |
| Primitive Marriage, Views of | 203 |
| Psychogenesis in the Human Infant | 625 |
| Publications Received | 134 |
| Publications Received | 278 |
| Publications Received | 418 |
| Publications Received | 567 |
| Publications Received | 704 |
| Publications Received | 852 |
| Quatrefages, A. De, the Crossing of the Human Races | 166 |
| Radau, R., The Interior of the Earth | 289 |
| Radau, R., The Interior of the Earth | 453 |
| Radiation, Freezing of a Lake by | 572 |
| Railway, An Electrical | 285 |
| Richardson, Dr. Benjamin W., Dress in Relation to Health | 182 |
| Richet, Charles, Hysteria and Demonism | 86 |
| Richet, Charles, Hysteria and Demonism | 155 |
| Richet, Charles, Hysteria and Demonism | 376 |
| Rhine, Alice H., Night-Schools in New York and Paris | 681 |
| Root-Growth, A Singular | 427 |
| Sanitary Problems, The, of New York City | 419 |
| Santorin and its Eruptions (M. Fouque's) | 534 |
| Saurians, Development of the Limbs of | 284 |
| School-Life, Hygienic Conditions of | 863 |
| Science not atheistic | 124 |
| Science Primers, Misuse of the | 269 |
| Science, The Martyrdom of | 71 |
| Scientific Meeting, The Boston | 843 |
| Sea, The Milky | 573 |
| Sewage in College Education | 693 |
| Shipman, Paul R., The Classics that educate us | 145 |
| Silkworms, Rearing, in England | 280 |
| Slater, J. W. | 71 |
| Slater, J. W. | 254 |
| Snakes and Snake-Poison | 284 |
| Sociology and Theology at Yale College | 265 |
| Soils as Filters | 572 |
| Solar System and its Neighbors, The | 612 |
| South America rising or sinking? | 708 |
| Sparrow, Observation of the English | 552 |
| Spencer, Herbert | 795 |
| Springer, Robert | 772 |
| Squirrels, Sports in the Colors of | 862 |
| State Education: a Help or Hindrance? | 585 ​ |
| St. Gothard Tunnel, The | 530 |
| Struve, Otto Wilhelm, Sketch of. (With Portrait.) | 263 |
| Suicide, A Consideration of | 120 |
| Sully, James, the Pleasure of Visual Form | 77 |
| Summer Schools of Natural History | 279 |
| Tea and Coffee, Physiological Effects of | 853 |
| Temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans | 716 |
| Thompson, Daniel G., Letters from | 120 |
| Thompson, Daniel G., Letters from | 405 |
| Tissandier, Gaston, Atmospheric Dust | 344 |
| Tyndall, Professor John, F.R.S., Goethe's Farbenlehre | 215 |
| Tyndall, Professor John, F.R.S., Goethe's Farbenlehre | 312 |
| Violin, The, its Construction and Perfection | 423 |
| Visual Form, Pleasure of | 77 |
| Vivisection, What it has done for Man | 711 |
| Vocal Cords, Stammering of the | 141 |
| Volcano rising from a Lake | 713 |
| Volcanic Eruptions and Earthquakes in 1879 | 713 |
| Warring, C. B., the Solar System and its Neighbors | 612 |
| Watches, A Test for | 283 |
| Water, Germs of Disease in | 570 |
| Watering-Places, Sanitary Perils at | 426 |
| Wellcome, H. S., the Cinchona-Forests of South America | 507 |
| Wernich, Dr. A. | 828 |
| Wild Silks | 137 |
| Wilson, Dr. Andrew, Some Facts and Fictions of Zoölogy | 96 |
| Wöhler, Frederick, Biographical Sketch of | 539 |
| Youmans, Eliza A., Chemical Exercises for Ordinary Schools | 522 |
| Zadig, On the Method of | 467 |
| Zanzibar, Climate and Meteorology of | 857 |
| Zoölogical Education | 666 |
| Zoölogy, Some Facts and Fictions of | 96 |
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