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INDEX 



\Naturey Nov. 28, 1889 



De La Rue (Warren, F. R. S. ), Obituary Notice of, 26 



Delambre's Analogies, R. Chartres, 644 



Delcommune (A. ), Return of, 308 



Demography and Hygiene, Congress on, at Paris, 252 



Denmark, Earthquakes in, 229 



Denning (W. F.) : Remarkable Meteors, 150; the Fireball of 



May 29, 1889, 174: Fine Slow-moving Meteor, 594 

 Denny (Prof. Alfred), Abnormality in Tropseolum, 125 

 D'Entrecasteaux and Louisiade Islands, Basil H. Thomson on, 



256 

 Denza (Prof P. F.), Sand Showers, 286 

 Derwentwater, the Floating Island in, 290 

 Deschamps (M.), Expedition to Laccadive Islands, 305 

 Determination of Masses in Astronomy, on the, R. A. Gregory, 



80 

 Detroit, the Latitude of. Dr. Ludovic Estes, 109 

 Devonian Rocks of Britain, Mr. Ussher on the, 608 

 Dewar (Prof., F.R. S.), the Absorption Spectra of Oxygen, 211, 



212 

 Di- and Bi-, the Use of the Prefixes, 370 

 Diagrams, Physiological, G. Davies, 317 

 Dibdin (W. J.), Practical Photometry, a Guide to the Study 



of the Measurement of Light, 572 

 Dickson (W. G. ), Gleanings from Japan, 76 

 Dictionary of Chemistry, Watts's, Sir H. E. Roscoe, F.R.S., 



640 

 Dictionary of Explosives, Major J. P. Cundill, 341 

 Dieterici (Dr.), Determination of Specific Volume of Saturated 



Aqueous Vapour at o°C., 168 

 Dimidium : an Attempt to Represent the Chemical Elements 



by Physical Forms, Dr. Isaac Ashe, 588 

 Dines (W. H. ), Experiments on Connection between Pressure 



and Velocity of Wind, ('4 

 Dinklage (Herr), ISIeasurement of Baltic Currents, 351 

 Dinosaur, the Entire Skeleton of an English, 324 

 Dinshaw (Framjee) Petit Laboratory, Laying the Foundation 



Stone, 133 

 Diphtheria, the Virus of, C. H. II. Spronck, 407 

 Disafforestation in Servia, 445 



Divisibility, Test of, by any Prime, Robert W^. D. Christie, 247 

 Dixon (Prof. H. B. , F.R. S.), on the Explosion of a Mixture of 



Hydrogen, Chlorine, and Oxygen, 587 

 Dogs and Fire, Prof. Marcus M. Hartog, 299 

 Dolbear (Prof. A. E.), the Organization of Atoms and Molecules, 



419 

 Double Stars, New, S. W. Burnham, 424 

 Douglass (Sir James, F.R.S.), Beacon Lights and Fog Signals, 



87, no 

 Douls (M. Camille), Death and Obituary Notice of, 353 

 Draper (Henry) Memorial, 17 



Dried Plants, a Method of Mounting, Dr. John Wilson, 438 

 Drummond (A. T.), Some Lake Ontario Temperatures, 416 

 Dubois (Raphael), Mechanism of Photodermatc and Photogenic 



Functions in Siphon of Pholas dadylus, 384! 

 Duckling, Inclusion of the Foot in the Abdominal Cavity of a, 



E. Waymouth Reid, 54 

 Dudley (Prof. William J.), Vice- Presidential Address in the 



Sectionof Chemistry at the Meeting of the American Associa- 

 tion, 558 

 Dufour (C), Cyclone of Jougne (July 13, 1889), 540 

 Dugong, the Placentation of the, SirW. Turner, F.R.S. on, 611 

 Duhem (P.), Impossibility of Existence of Diamagnetic Bodies, 



118 

 Duhousset (Colonel), Scientific Anthropometry and Artistic 



Proportions, 582 

 Dumas (J. B.), Statue to, 627 



Dumont (M.), Sociology of Rural Communes in France, 402 

 Duncan (Prof. M.), Dimorphism of Tentacles of Cidaris 



papillata, 237 

 Dundee University College, proposed Chair of Physiology at, 



252 

 Dunedin, Acclimatization of Salmon, 282 

 Dunstable, Palaeolithic Implements from the Hills near, Worth- 



ington G. Smith, 151 

 Dupuis (N. F.), Elementaiy and Synthetic Geometry of the 



Point, Line, and Circle in the Plane, ico 

 Durham (E. Burton), a Brilliant Rainbow, 367 

 Diising (Dr.), the Progress of Biology, 402 

 Dust-f^ogs of the Cape de Verd Islands, 327 



Dusl-Particles in AtmoFphtre at Pen Nevis Cbtervatory, the, 



John Aitken, 350 

 Dust- Whirl, Stationary, J. Lovel, 174 

 Duthie (J. F. ): on Botany in India, 13; Use of Flowers of 



Calligonum polygonoides as Food in North West India, 537 

 Duthiers (M. de Lacaze), State of Zoology a Hundred Years 



ago, 395 

 Dyke (Sir W. H.), the Withdrawal of the New Education 



Code, 350 

 Dynamics, an Elementary Treatise on, Benjamin Williamson, 



F.R.S., and Francis A. Tarleton, 437 



Earthquakes : at Agram, 45 ; at Accra, 61 ; in Turkestan, 61, 

 327 ; at Costa Rica, 84 ; Plevlje (Bosnia), Schwyz, Schaff- 

 hausen, and Wilchingen, 84; Earthquake in Norway, 133; 

 over the English Channel, 140 ; the Recent Earthquakes in 

 Japan, 162, 327, 461 ; Seismological Work in Japan, 656 ; 

 J'rof. Milne's Ninth Report on the Earthquake and Volcanic 

 Phenomena of Japan, 608 ; Earthquakes at Brest, in Massa- 

 chusetts, 162; Remarkable Earthquake at Tokio, 162; Dr. 

 E. von Rebeur-Paschwitz on, 294 ; Fifteen Years' Earthquakes 

 in Tokio, 480 ; Earthquakes in Denmark, 229 ; in Guernsey, 

 253 ; Earthquakes at Tashkend and Charleston, 283 ; Effect 

 of the Tashkend Earthquake in Germany, 283 ; an Earth- 

 quake at Lyme Regis, A. R. Sharpe, 294. ; Earthquakes at 

 Memphis, U.S.A., 305 ; the Earlier Eruptions of Krakatab, 

 Prof. John W. Judd, F.R. S., 365 ; Earthquake at Poitiers, 

 373 ; the supposed Connection between Distant Earthquake- 

 shocks, William White, 393 ; Earthquake in Bosnia, 401 ; in 

 Greece, 421 ; in Cornwall, 576; at Mytilene, 653 



Eclectic Physical Geography, Kmsell Hinman, 149 



Eclipses : the Reports of the Eclipse Expedition of 1886, 626 ; 

 Eclipses and Transits in Future Years, Rev. S. J. Johnson, 

 307 ; the United States Expedition to Angola, 462 ; Obser- 

 vations of Twilight and Zodiacal Light during the Total 

 Eclipse of the Sun, December 21, 1889, Prof. Cleveland 

 Abbe, 519 



Economic Science : Food Moulds the Race, N. S. Kedzie, 

 558 ; Sociology of Protection and Free Trade, F. L. Ward, 

 558 ; Forest Conservation, B. E. Fernow, 558 



Economic Science and Statistics, Prof. F. Y, Edgeworth's 

 Opening Address in Section F at the British Association, 

 496 



Edgevvorth (Prof. F. Y.) : Opening Address m Section F 

 (Economic Science and Statistics) at the British Association, 

 496 ; Report to the British Association on the Variations in 

 the Value of Monetary Standards, 553 



Edinburgh : Reports from the Laboratory of the Royal College 

 of Physicians, Edinburgh, 411 ; Physical Laboratory fitted 

 up at Fettes College, 627 ; Proposed Inventions Exhibition 

 in, 653 ; Royal Society of, 95, 143, 167, 335 ; Edinburgh 

 University Extension Summer Vacation Course, 447 



Education : the Proposed Teaching University for London, 60; 

 Intermediate Education in Wales, 97 ; the Vices of our 

 Scientific Education, Pi of. Minchin, 126 ; Proposed National 

 Home-reading Circle Union, 133 ; Industrial Education, Sir 

 Philip Magnus, 245 ; the Industrial Agricultural Education 

 ];il], 254; the Welsh Intermediate Education Bill, 304 ; the 

 Ntw Education Code, Sir W. Hart-DyKe on the Withdrawal 

 of, 350 ; Education in Hong Kong, Dr. Eitei, 352 ; Indian 

 Education Statistics, 402 ; an Italian's View of English Agri- 

 cultural Education, Prof. John Wrightson, 428 ; the Technical 

 Instruction Act, 457 ; the New Welsh Intermediate Education 

 Act, 480; Guide to Technical and Commercial Education, 

 538 ; the Congress on Education, 548 ; Report to the British 

 Association of the Committee on the Teaching of Science in 

 Elementary Schools, Prof. Armstrong, 554 ; Proposed Train- 

 ing Schools for Surveyors in Straits Settlements, 595 ; a Bill 

 to Provide Technical Education in England and V\ ales, 73, 

 91 ; the Government and Technical Education, 304 ; School 

 of Technical Education at Frankfort-on Maine, 350 ; Report 

 of the National Association for the Promotion of Technical 

 Education, 350 ; Technical Education in Japan, 479 ; Foreign 

 Students at the Genran Technical Schools, 547 ; the Man- 

 chester School of Technical Education, 445, 577 ; Technical 

 Education in Central India, 595 ; Technical Education, Right 

 Hon. Sir Lyon Playfair, F.R.S., on, 639 



Eel, the River, Emile Blanchard, 383 



