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INDEX. 



Ehrenberg, 371, 427. 



Kichler, 524. 



Bidder's Bluthendiagramme, 511. 



Eieenlobr, 167. 



Eisig, Dr., 413. 



Ekdemite, 281. 



Eklon, Lieutenant, 340. 



Eldridge, Dr., 393. 



Electric disturbance by tides, 111. 



lighting, 5SG, 5SS. 



lights in Paris, 254. 



spark and light, 253.. 

 Electrical measurements, 250, 5S5. 

 Electrically observing melting-points, 227. 

 Electricity, 244. 



and light, 243. 



atmospheric, 184. 



influence of atmospheric, upon 



vegetation, 201. 

 influence of atmospheric, on 



plant-growth, 521). 

 for engraving on glass, 254. 

 Electromoter, Thomson's absolute, 251. 

 Electromotors, 240. 

 Eliot, of Calcutta, 143. 

 Ellery at Melbourne, 134. 

 Elliott, D. G., 477, 483. 

 Elliott's investigations, 137. 

 Ellipticity of the earth, 346, 347. 

 Ellis, J. B., 221, 224, 500, 507. 

 Elton, Captain, 343, 022. 

 Elwes, H. J., 511. 

 Embryologv, general, 422. 

 Emerton, J~ H., 451, 504. 

 Emery, Carlo, 45S. 

 Emm Effeudi, Dr., 343. 

 Emission of heat, 533. 

 Emissive power of heat, 150. 

 Emmons, 292, 295. 

 Encke's comet, 37. 

 Engelmann, Dr. George, 175, 367, 390, 503, 



505. 

 Engineering, 571. 

 Engler, E. A., 74, 511, 524. 

 English hydrographers, work of the, 318. 



observatories, 82. 

 Engraving on glass, 254. 

 Ensilage, 506. 

 Eosphorite, 2S1. 

 Ephemeris, annual, changes in the form 



of, proposed, 45. 

 Eppstein's (Dr.) Observatory (Germany), 



85. 

 Erbium, 270. 



Erfurt, meteorological observations at, 141. 

 Ericsson, Johu, 167, 168, 5S3. 

 Erman, Prof., 173. 

 Ernst, Dr., 513, 519. 

 Eruptive rocks, 300. 

 Krvthrinines, 462. 

 Eskimo of Norton Sound, the, 393. 

 Esmark, 282. 

 Espada, 476. 

 Ethnography, 3S0, 393. 

 Ethnology, 379, 390. 

 Ettingsha'usen, Baron von, G22. 

 Etudes Phycologiques, 515. 

 Eucraeite, 232. 

 Euphrates valley, 348. 

 Europe, archaeology of, 385. 



ethnography of, 395. 

 European observatories, 70. 

 Evans, Captain P. J., 106, 109, 118. 

 Evaporation and precipitation, 174. 



Evaporation from the soil, 536, 53S. 

 Everett, Prof. A. II., 92, 96, 131, 1S4, 210. 

 Evolution, the hypothesis of, 416. 

 Ewing, 225. 



Examining, preserving, and photograph- 

 ing bacteria, 305. 

 Experiment in corn-growing, 556. 



stations, 527. 

 Experiments on nitrification, 547, 54S. 

 Explosions in flour-mills, 270. 

 Explosives, new, 602. 



Fabitins, Dr., 204. 



Fairfieldite, 2S2. 

 Fallow-ant, the, 450. 

 Family, the, 403. 

 Faraday, 24S, 376. 



cage, 528. 

 Farlow, Prof. W. G., 501, 506. 

 Farm experiments, 500. 

 Farm-yard manure, application of, 559. 

 Farre, 129. 



Favre, Alphonse, 310, 5S0. 

 Faxon, Walter, 452. 

 Faye, 105, ISO, 194. 

 Fayrer, Sir Joseph, 492. 

 Fearnley, Dr., 7. 



Feeding capacities of plants, 552. 

 experiments, 504. 

 values, estimation of, 554. 

 Feil, 596. 



Felsobanya, Hungary, 2S1. 

 Fendler, August, 505. 

 Ferand, Dr., 396. 

 Fergola, 77. 

 Ferguson, 200. 



Ferments, nitrification by organized, 547. 

 Ferns of North America, 504. 

 Ferrari, Prof. P. G. S., 36, 78, 131. 



R. P., 142. 

 Ferrel, 173, 174, ISO. 

 Ferrel's treatise, 162. 

 Fertility of volcanic soils, 545. 

 Fertilizers, effect on corn, 502. 



experiments with, 560. 

 for root crops, 55S. 

 Fetichism in animals, 410. 

 Fibrolite, 278. 

 Fick, 504. 



Ficklin, Prof. Joseph, 56. 

 Fielden, 300. 

 Field experiments, 527. 



observations of Engineer Battalion, 



76. 

 Fiji Islands, meteorology of, 143. 



survey of, 319. 

 Filariae, 429. 

 Fines, Dr., 141. 

 Finger, 108. 

 Finsch, O., 479. 

 Fire-flies, 440. 

 Firs, American, 503. 

 Fischer, Dr. George, 3SS, 622. 

 Fish Commission of the United States, 



204, 303. 

 Fisheries affected by meteorological phe- 

 nomena, 204. 

 Fishes, 458. 



annual, 460. 

 Fitch, W. II., 511. 

 Fitz, Geo. W.,69. 

 Fitzgerald, M., 184. 

 Flagella of bacterium termo, 366. 



