INDEX. 



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Ecole des Fonts et Chaussees, i. 107. 



Ecole normale supe"rieure, i. 112. 113, 

 ,237. 



Ecole polytechnique of Paris, i. 112 ; 

 used as model for German poly- 

 , technic schools, 166. 



Ecole veterinaire d'Alfort, i. 107. 



Ecoles de Sante, i. 113 ; founded at 

 Paris, Strasbourg, and Montpellier, 

 142. 



Economics and biology, ii. 415. 



Edgeworth, Prof., "The Law of Error," 

 ii. 576. 



' Edinburgh Magazine and Review ' 

 issued, i. 273. 



' Edinburgh Review,' literary criticism 

 of, i. 84 ; 233 ; quoted, 234, 235, 236 ; 

 on English universities, 254 ; 270 ; 

 first issued, 273 ; Brougham's attack 

 on Young, ii. 19. 



Edison, phonograph, ii. 490. 



Education, and instruction, i. 258 ; 

 liberal, ideal of, 255. 



Educational conflict on discipline, i. 

 133. 



Educational efforts in different countries, 

 i. 252 et seq. ; in Scotland, 253 ; liter- 

 ature of Switzerland, ib. 



Educational institutions, French, i. 112. 



Educational organisations in England, 

 i. 262. 



Edward, Thomas, shoemaker and zool- 

 ogist, i. 287. 



Edwards, George, ' History of Birds,' i. 

 287. 



Edwards, Milne, ' History of Inverte- 

 brates,' ii. 239; Lamarck, 310; Hux- 

 ley on, 322 ; " physiological division 

 of labour," 396. 



Ehrenberg, 'Uebcr Leibnitzens Meth- 

 ode,' ii. 280. 



Eighteenth century, one of revolution, 

 i. 77. 



Eisenstein, and theory of numbers, ii. 

 684. 



Elasticity, theory of, ii. 30, 40 ; 31 ; 

 foundation of theory of, 41. 



Electrical and magnetic action, i. 344. 



Electricity, and magnetism, ii. 64 et seq. ; 

 velocities of light and, compared, 84 ; 

 modern researches, 189 ; electric dis- 

 charges, 195; animal, 475. 



Electro-dynamics, Wilhelm Weber's law 

 of, i. 196 ; ii. 149. 



Electro-magnetic theory, ii. 64 ; in- 

 definiteness of, 93 ; 153. 



Electro-magnetism, discovery of, i. 92. 



Electrolysis, ii. 154 et seq. 



Electron, the term, ii. 193. 



" Electrotonic " state of matter, ii. 68, 



81. 



Elizabeth, England under, i. 67. 

 Elliptic functions, history of, ii. 648 



Ellis, Alex. T. , on terminology of sound, 

 ii. 489. 



Ellis, Robert Leslie, on Bacon, i. 94, 

 96 ; his report, ii. 649. 



Elphinstone, Bishop, started Aberdeen 

 University, i. 268. 



Elster and Geitel, vacuum tube ex- 

 periments, ii. 190. 



Emanations, law of, i. 344. 



Embryology, ii. 296. 



Empedocles, relation to Galileo and 

 Newton, i. 313 ; attraction and repul- 

 sion, 385 ; recurrent cycles, ii. 287. 



Encke, "calculus of probabilities," i. 

 325. 



' Encyclopadie der Mathematischen 

 Wissenschaften,' ii. 73. 



Encyclopadie, lectures on, i. 37. 



'Encyclopaedia Britannica,' article on 

 Napier, i. 269 ; first published, 273 ; 

 article on "Agriculture" quoted, 

 284; article on F. Mohr, ii. 106; 

 article on Sainte Claire Deville, 163 ; 

 232, 279, 569. 



'Encyclopaedia Metropolitana,' i. 236. 



Encyclopaedia of Ersch and Gruber, i. 

 35. 



Encyclopaedias, origin of, i. 40. 



Encyclopaedic treatment of learning, 

 age of, i. 34, 215 ; view necessary in 

 philosophy and history, 203 : treat- 

 ment of scientific subjects, 214. 



Encyclopaedists followed Newton, i. 96 ; 

 constructive work of school of, 110 ; 

 educational influence of. 112. 



Energetics, science of, ii. 141 ; 166 : 

 kinetics and, 180. 



Energy, conservation of, i. 199, 201 ; 

 theory of, ii. 87, 96 ; works deal- 

 ing with, 97 ; dissipation of, 97, 364 j 

 the term first used by Young, 98 ; 

 notion of, contained 'in Newton's 

 ' Principia,' 99 ; the term introduced 

 by Thomson, 115; and "Force," 

 115 ; availability and dissipation of, 

 119; doctrine of, 124; revolutions 

 brought about by idea of, 137 ; 

 " potential " and "actual," 139, 398; 

 influence of doctrine of, 399 ; circu- 

 lation of, 420 ; 465 ; availability of, 

 594. 



Engel, F., on taste in mathematics, ii. 

 632 ; on genesis of Lie's ideas, fi92. 



England, science and philosophy in, 



