Asparagus, effects on urine, ix, 274-5; green food, 27; origin, xiii, 222; stem of, 30 Asps, xii, 230 Assam Earthquake, iii, 98, xiv, 334 Asses, xii, 308 Association of Ideas, ix, 150-1, xi, 197-207; in language, ix, 151-2; memory and, 149-50; in imagination, xi, 219-20, 209, 212, 216-17; necessary to attention, 232-3, 234; normal and abnormal complexes, x, 355 Assyria, civilization conditions, xv, 127; art of, 301; cuneiform writing, 175 (fig.); history and civilization, xvi, 51-3; skin rafts of, xv, 264; sun-worship and astrology, ii, 20-1 Assyrian Language, xv, 162 Asteroids, discovery, ii, 254-7; in solar system, 163-4; life on, 248; origin, 258, 371, 373, 374; photographic study, 131-2; size, shapes, and orbits, 162, 257-8 Asthma, bronchial, ix, 162, x, 223; from adenoids, 342 Astigmatism, ix, 113-14, xi, 85 Astonishment, and fear, xi, 131 Astraphobia, i, 330-66 Astrolabes, ii, 11, 29, 34, 46-7, 93 Astrology, astronomy and, ii, 9, 20; history in various countries, ii, 20-1, 23, 37, xvi, 58; medical progress and, x, 14 Astronomical Instruments, Bessel on, ii, 93; development of, 10, 11, 12-13, 13-14, 16, 161 Astronomical Photography, ii, 125-38; in corona studies, 221-2, 225; in parallax work, 314; in nebular studies, 358; telescopes used in, iv, 372-3 Astronomy, daily interest of, xvi, 12; defined, 37; exact science, x, 368; history of, ii, 9-92, iv, 19, xvi, 56-8, 61, 69, 70, 81-2, 90-1, 100, 101, 102, 103, 124-5; mathematical and descriptive, ii, 15, 16; meteorology and, i, 7; new and old, ii, 113-14; personal measurements in, xi, 155-6; spherical, ii, 29 Astronomy Today, Volume ii Athletes, "form" in, ix, 159 Athletic Contests, value to spectators, xi, 139-40 Atlantic Cables, laying of first, vi, 24; Telegraph Plateau and, xiv, 288 Atlantic Coast, shoal-water belt, xiv, 25, 285 Atlantic Coastal Plain, xiv, 213-14; artesian wells in, iii, 119; forests, xiii, 371, xiv, 372-3; geological history, iii, 212-13, 216, 221, 231; soils and agriculture of, xiv, 218-19 Atlantic Drainage System, xiv, 189-90 Atlantic Ocean, airship flights across, iv, 107, v, 228-30, 233; birds of, xii, 251, 252, 253; climates on opposite coasts, xiv, 345, 346-7; clipper's time across, v, 188; conformation of floor, xiv, 288-90; coral reefs in, 264; depths, iii, 51; extent of, xiv, 22; first steamship, v, 192-3, 378; herring fisheries, xii, 156; oceanic islands of, xiv, 277; salt in, viii, 139; temperature of water, xiv, 14, 297; trade winds, i, 127, 130; tree corals of, xii, 43; unchanged for ages, iii, 55; weather charts, i, 276; wireless weather reports, 280 (see also North Atlantic) Atlantic Seaboard, rainfall, i, 112; super-electric zone, vi, 384