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OF
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
FOR THE
ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE,
THIRTY-SIXTH MEETING,
HELD AT
NEW YORK,
AUGUST, 1887.
SALEM:
PUBLISHED BY THE PERMANENT SECRETARY.
MARCH, 1888.
EDITED BY
FREDERICK W. PUTNAM, Permanent Secretary.
PRINTED AT
THE SALEM PRESS,
SALEM, MASS.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Officers of the New York Meeting
Council of the New York Meeting
Local Committee of the New York Meeting
Special Committees of the Association
Meetings and Officers of the Association of American Geologists and Nat-
ADDRESS OF THE RETIRING PRESIDENT, E. S. MORSE,
Report of the committee on indexing chemical literature,
Appendix to the report of committee on indexing chemical literature
Report of the committee on anatomical nomenclature, with special reference
to the brain
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On a method of computing the secular contraction of the earth.
WOODWARD.
By R. S.
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A completed nomenclature for the principal roulettes. By F. N. WILLSON
Standard dimensions in astronomical and physical instruments. By J. A.
The phenomena of solar-vortices. By FRANK H. BIGELOW The geometric meaning of singular solutions of differential equations of the second and higher orders. By HENRY B. FINE
On the visibility of objects as conditioned by their magnitude and brightness,
with applications to the theory of telescopes. By WM. HARKNESS
Photometric observations of asteroids. By HENRY M. PARKHURST
Moment of inertia. By J. BURKITT Webb.
On the eccentricities of guessing. By T. C. MENDENHALL
On the orbit of Hyperion. By ORMOND STONE (Title)
On the horizontal flexure of a meridian circle. By J. M. SCHAEBERLE (Title)
Variation of personal equation: a criticism. By HENRY FARQUHAR
The effect of some peculiarities of personal equation. By J. R. EASTMAN
(Title)
A list of stars with large proper motions. By LEWIS Boss (Title)
The logical theorems required in elementary geometry. By A. MACFARLANE
(Title).
The logical form of geometrical theorems. By A. MACFARLANE (Title)
A new form of "comet seeker." By J. A. BRASHEAR (Title).
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Method of preventing breakage in the polarizing helioscope. By J. A. BRA
SHEAR (Title)
Coefficients of collimation and flexure of transit instruments with broken
tubes. By JEFFERSON E. KERSHNER (Title) .
SECTION B. PHYSICS.
Officers of Section B
ADDRESS OF VICE PRESIDENT W. A. ANTHONY
Measurements of surface tension of liquids. By W. F. MAGIE
Determination of the invariability of the coefficients of expansion of Baily's
metal, of Jessup's steel, and of Chance and Sons' glass, between the
limits of -3° and +93° Fahrenheit. By WM. A. ROGERS
Determination of the coefficients of expansion of the glass plates used for stel-
lar photography at Cordova in the years 1872 to 1875 and 1879 to 1883.
By WM. A. ROGERS
A study of thirty-two mercurial thermometers under variations of temperature
between the limits-29° and +95° Fahrenheit. By WM. A. ROGERS
A method of comparing galvanometer coils. By JOSEPH J. SKINNER
On the electromotive force of magnetization. By EDWARD L. NICHOLS and
WILLIAM S. FRANKLIN
A method of telephonic communication between ships at sea. By L. I. BLAKE
Experimental determination of minimum velocity of wind in the Washington,
Ohio, tornado. By C. LEO MEES
Certain phenomena produced by the explosion of gun cotton on metallic
plates. By CHARLES E. MUNROE
The simultaneous measurement of the speed of an engine and dynamo by
electricity. By H. S. CARHART
A new dynamometer with working model. By J. BURKITT WEBB
The electrical condition of the atmosphere in fair weather and during a
thunder storm. By T. C. MENDENHALL and A. S. MCRAE
On a magnetic bridge or balance for measuring magnetic conductivity. By
THOMAS A. EDISON
On the pyromagnetic dynamo; a machine for producing electricity directly
from fuel. BY THOMAS A. EDISON
A classification of the winds. By WM. M. DAVIS (Title)
Description of a combined chronograph and weight motor. By Wм. A.
ROGERS (Title) .
Time of explosive and mass considered as functions of the rate of saturation
of heat in the case of mercury and water. By WM. A. ROGERS (Title)
On the definition of the ohm by the equation R= Kg. By Wм. A. ROGERS
A method of obtaining the constant of gravity from the comparison of mu
sical notes. By WM. A. ROGERS (Title) .
Notation for physical units. By A. MACFARLANE (Title)
Color blindness of railway employes. By WILLIAM THOMSON (Title)
On a relation between the quantities of heat combination in aqueous solution.
By C. F. de LANDERO (Title)
The electric current as a means of increasing the tractive adhesion of rail-
way motors and other rolling contacts. By ELIAS E. RIES (Title)
A peculiar form of undulatory current united to telegraphing or telephone
circuits. By P. H. VAN DER WEYDE (Title)
Gravitation ether. By DE VOLSON WOOD (Title).
Second law of thermodynamics. By DE VOLSON WOOD (Title)
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A method of examining magnetic double circular refraction. By DE WITT B.
BRACE (Title)
On the transparency of the ether and its possible viscosity. By DE WITT
B. BRACE
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The mutual action of the elements of an electric current. By E. B. ELLIOTT
Experimental determination of the reaction of a liquid jet. By J. BURKITT WEBB (Title)
A new viscosimeter. By J. BURKITT WEBB (Title)
Notes on standard cells. By H. S. CARHART (Title).
Is terrestrial magnetism concerned in atmospheric movements? By W. A.
VEEDER (Title)
Influence of topography upon rainfall. By HENRY E. ALVORD
The signal service bibliography of meteorology.
On the relative velocity of the earth and the luminiferous ether. By ALBERT
A. MICHELSON and EDW. W. MORLEY (Title)
On a method for making the wave length of sodium the actual and practical
standard of length. By ALBERT A. MICHELSON and EDW. W. MORLEY
(Title) [Printed in Amer. Journ. Sci.]
The difficulty of determining the direction of the source of sound of fog-sig-
nals at sea. By A. B. JOHNSON (Title)
ADDRESS OF VICE PRESIDENT A. B. PRESCOTT
On the constituents of wild cherry bark (Prunus serotina, Ehrhart). By
FREDERICK B. POWER and HENRY WEIMAR
On the fatty acids of the drying oils. By L. M. NORTON
Percentage of ash in human bones of different ages. By WILLIAM P. MASON
Amount of moisture left in a gas after drying by phosphorus pentoxide. By
EDWARD W. MORLEY
Improvement in stand for electrolysis. By WILLIAM HALE HERRICK
Causes, progress and cure of the epidemic of typhoid fever at Mt. Holly, N. J.
June, 1887. By ALBERT R. LEEDS.
A new method for the preparation of anhydrous aluminum chloride. By C.
F. MABERY
The action of aromatic amines upon certain substituted unsaturated acids.
By C. F. MABERY.
Constitution of the sulphur compounds in crude petroleum oils. (Preliminary
notice.) By C. F. MABERY
Positive and negative units of valence. By ALBERT R. PRESCOTT
Analysis of two manganese waters. By FRED. G. NOVY
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Some higher homologues of cocaine. By F. G. Novy
A new apparatus for fractional distillation. By T. H. NORTON
On the occurrence in nature of a copper antimonide. By T. H. NORTON
On the salts of benzene-sulphonic acid with the amines. By T. H. NORTON
Some new metallic salts of benzene sulphonic acid. By T. H. NORTON
On the amine salts of para-toluene-sulphonic acid. By T. H. NORTON
On the action of silicon fluoride of acetone. By T. H. NORTON
On the limits of the direct bromination of acetone and on the action between
ammonium sulphocyanide and monobromacetone. By T. H. NORTON
On the action of chlorine on acenaphthene. By T. H. NORTON
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On the uranates of ammonium and the amines of the fatty series. By T. H.
NORTON
Some new nitro-prussides. By T. H. NORTON
Composition of Lockport sandstone. By H. W. WELD
On the determination of nitrogen by soda-lime. By W. O. ATWATER
On chemical changes accompanying osmose in living organisms, illustrated
by the oyster. By W. O. ATWATER
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On the processes of soil formation from the northwestern basalts. By E. W.
HILGARD
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