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INDEX OF CONTENTS. 



DEGUERRY, Abbe GASPARD. Birth, assassination, 246; 

 career, 246, 247. 



DB LA TOUR D'AuvERGNE, Prince. Obituary of, 590. 



DELAVAN, EDWARD C. Birth, death, career, 247. 



Delaware. Meeting of Legislature, 247; inaugural ad- 

 dress of Governor, 247; election of United States 

 Senator, 247; legislative acts, 247, 248; property of 

 married women, 248; schools, 248; repeal of charter 

 of Normal University, 248; resolutions of students, 

 248; railroads and canals, 248, 249; tax on passengers, 

 249; decision of Court of Errors, 249; census statis- 

 tics, 249; Wilmington, 249, 250; its manufactures, 

 250; taxation and debt, 250; ship-building at Wilming- 

 ton, 250; peach-crop, 250. 



DELESCLUZE, Louis CHARLES. Obituary of, 597. 



DE MORGAN, AUGUSTUS. Birth, death, 250; mathemati- 

 cian, 250; career, 250, 251. 



DENIO, HIRAM. Birth, death, judicial career, 251. 



DENISON, Sir WILLIAM T. Geographer, 333; obituary 

 of, 594. 



Denmark; Royal family, 251; Cabinet, 251; area, 251; 

 population, religion, 251; finances, army, navy, 251; 

 commerce, 252; emigration, 252; railroads and tele- 

 graphs, 252; sentiments toward Germany, 252; Inter- 

 national Society, 252. 



DESCHAMPS, EMILE. Obituary of, 594. 



Diamonds. Discovery of, in xanthophyllite, 252; analy- 

 sis of, 253; how formed, 253; in South Africa, 253. 



DILKE, Sir CHARLES. Advocate of working-men, 374; 

 career, 376. 



DIMICK, General AUSTIN. Birth, death, career, 253. 



Diplomatic Correspondence and Foreign Relations. Great 

 Britain proposes a joint commission, 253; reply of 

 Secretary Fish, 254; "Alabama Claims" included, 

 254; United States Commissioners, 254; British Com- 

 missioners, 254, 255; letter of Secretary Fish to com- 

 missioners, 255; meeting of commission, 255; full 

 power given by President to commissioners, 255, 256; 

 protocol and articles, 256-262; exchange of ratifica- 

 tions, 263; note to Emperor of Brazil, 263; appoint- 

 ment of arbitrators, 263; Charles Francis Adams, 

 263,264. 



Disciples of Christ. Second Annual Missionary Conven- 

 tion, 265; work accomplished, 265; conference with 

 Baptists in Ohio, 265; creed, 265. 



Disease, Germ-Theory (/.Cholera, 265; labors of Mr. 

 Lewis, 266; Dr. Bastian opposes theory, 266, 267; 

 table of parasitic diseases, 267. 



DISRAELI, BENJAMIN. Life and career, 375, fs76. 



District of Columbia (see Territories}. Territorial gov- 

 ernment for, 18. 



DIVAL, IRA. Obituary of, 576. 



D5LLINGER, Dr. von. Opposes papal infallibility, 687; 

 excommunicated, 688. 



DOMBROWSKI, JAROSLAS. Obituary of, 597. 



Dominion of Canada. Annexation of British Columbia, 

 267, 268; railroads, 268; revenue, 268; banks, 268; 

 population, 268; immigration, 268; opening of Parlia- 

 ment, 268; acts of, 269; feeling on Treaty of Washing, 

 ton, 269; opening of European & North American 

 Railway, 269; Joseph Papineau, 269, 270. 



DONELSON, A. J., LL.D. Birth, death, career, 270. 



DUMONT, EBENEZBR. Obituary of, 573. 



DUNN, Lieutenant-Governor OSCAR J. Obituary of, 590. 



DURAND, Sir HENRY. Obituary of, 593. 



Earthquakes. In Hawaiian islands, 270; in England, 270, 

 271; in California, 271; Philippine Islands, 271; in 

 China, 271, 272. 



Eastern Churches. Spirit of reform in Russian Church, 

 272; statistics, 272; sectarianism, 272; Corean con- 

 verts, 272; Bulgarian Church, 722; opposition of Pa- 

 triarch of Constantinople to establishment of separate 

 church, 273; attempts to unite Church with Roman 

 Catholics, 273; Greek Church, 273, 274; theological 

 schools, 274; union of Eastern with Anglican Church, 

 274; reply of Russian Church to American Episcopa. 

 lians, 274, 275; response of Episcopal Convention, 

 275; visit of Russian bishop to Alaska, 275; Greek 

 Church in New York City, 275. 



Eastern Question. Conference at London, 275, 276; po- 

 sition of Turkey on neutralization of Black Sea, 275, 

 276 ; situation of France, 276; new treaty, 276, 277. 



Ecuador (see page 18). 



EDMUNDS, GEORGE F. Senator from Vermont, 132; on 

 the San Domingo resolution, 155-157; on the bill to 

 enforce the fifteenth amendment, 207, 213. 



Educational Appropriations. Amendment of the Consti- 

 tution relative to, proposed, 230. 



Egypt. Relations of Khedive with Sultan, 1; royal family, 

 area, population, 277; finances, 277; commerce, 277; 

 railroads and mail, 277; Suez Canal, 277; relations 

 with Turkey, 277, 278; session of Chambers, 278. 



ELDRIDGE, CHARLES A. Representative from Wisconsin, 

 132; on the bill to enforce the fifteenth amendment, 

 144. 



Electricity. Duration of electric spark, 278; magnetic 

 experiments, 279; dynamic-electric lights, 279; elec- 

 tric railway-signals, 279, 280; thermo-electric action 

 of metals in liquids, 280, 281 ; resistance and tempera- 

 ture, 281; magnetic spectra, 281, 282; electric clocks, 

 282; improved telegraph-cables, 282; electric torpe- 

 does, 282; electric signals in mines, 282, 283; electric 

 time-guns, 283; nature of the luminous arch, 283, 284; 

 platinum plates, 284; iron electrotypes, 284; electro- 

 typed imitations of leather, 284; dynamic condensers, 

 284; operating a railroad by telegraph, 284, 285; im- 

 proved exciting liquid, 285; the Hooper core and 

 Wheatstone apparatus, 285; electric novelties, 285, 

 286; nickel-plating by electrolysis, 286; cold galvani- 

 zation of iron, 286; electrical properties of aluminium 

 and magnesium, 286, 287; electro-deposition of alu- 

 minium, 287; the electrical shadow, 287; subterranean 

 electrical disturbances, 287; coloring to electrical 

 spark, 287, 288. 



ELLENBOROUGH, EDWARD LAW, Earl of. Birth, death, 

 career, 288. 



ELLERY, Commodore FRANK. Obituary of, 572. 



ELLIOT, GEORGE T., M. D. Obituary of, 569. 



ELLIOTT, CHARLOTTE. Obituary of, 601. 



ELZEY, ARNOLD. Obituary of, 571. 



Emancipation, in Brazil, 84, 85. 



England (see Great Britain). Alarm at Russian approach 

 to India, 43, 103; influence in Afghanistan, 100. 



E6tv6s, Baron JOZSEP. Birth, death, 288; career, 

 289. 



ERRAZARIZ, FEDERIGO. President of Chili, 115, 116. 



Europe. France, 289; Germany, 289, 290; Russia and 

 Turkey, 290; internationalism, 290; Austria, 290; 

 England, 290; Italy, 290; Spain, 290; Switzerland, 

 290; Norway, 290; Denmark, 290; area and popula- 

 tion of different states, 290; religion, 291; nationali- 

 ties, 291; colonies, 291. 



EUSTIS, FREDERICK A. Obituary of, 577. 



Evangelical Association. Statistics, 291; General Con- 

 ference, 291; delegates from Methodists, 291; actior 

 of Conference on union with them, 291, 292; on secre* 

 societies, 292; German Conference, 292; missions 

 292. 



