Nature, May 22, 1879] 



INDEX 



V41 



IMucation in Germany and France, Statistics of, 25.7 



I'.ducational Exhibition in Dresden, 591 



Edward's Butterflies of North America, 257 



Kel, the Reproduction of the, Prof. A. S. Packard, Jan., 174 



l.gg- Hatching in Egypt, 582 



Kichler (Dr. A. W.), " Bliiihendiagramme," 70 



l^ichwald (Prof.), his Palaeontological Collection, 231 



ILighty-Ton Gun, the last Experiments with, 148 



Elasmotherium, the, 448 



Electric Currents, Dr. C. W. Siemens on Measuring and Emu- 

 lating, 330, 427 



Electric Light : the Werdermann, 16, 37, 44, 491 ; Edbon's 

 Invention, 44, 60, 130, 517, 532 ; the Electro -Djmamic 

 Light Company's Method, 44 ; ^Villiam Trant on the Divisi- 

 bility of the, 52 ; at Liverpool, 60, 107, 232 ; Divisi- 

 bility of the, John Bridge, 73 ; Henry Wilde on Im- 

 proved Methods of Producing and Regulating the, 78, 152; 

 Edison's Invention for Measuring the Electric Current, 107 ; 

 and Dynamic Electricity, 131 ; in Pari-, 130; and Measuring 

 the Height of Clouds, 148; on the Holbom Viaduct, 159, 

 492 ; J. Hopkinson on the, 174 ; Experiments at Ha\Te, 181 ; 

 Mr. Louis Schwendler's Experiments on, 230; W. H. Preece 

 on, 242 ; at Liverpool Street Station, 255 ; on German River 

 Steamboats, 256 ; Gas versus Electricity, 261 ; Report of the 

 Paris Municipal Council, 280 ; Early Experiments in, Thos. 

 Stevenson, 302, H. J. NicoU on, 340; at San Francisco, 351 ; 

 Mr. Shoolbred on, 379 ; at the British Museum, 395, 423 ; 

 the Select Committee of the House of Commons on, 491 ; for 

 War Purposes, 544 ; at the Albert Hall, 560 



Electric Spark Pen, a New, 60 



Electrical Observations at Montsouris Observatory, 207 



Electrical Phenomenon on Sheldon Bridge, 182 ; on Mount Rosa, 

 220 ; Dr. Marshall Hall, 315 



Electricity: Thermal Phenomena Produced by the Passage of, 

 through Rarefied Gases, Naccari and Bellati, 21 ; Dr. Mac- 

 farlane on the Disruptive Discharge of, 184; Atmospheric, 

 G. M. Whipple, 220; of the Torpedo, Dr. Fran9ois Francis, 

 295, 320 ; Early Experiments in, Thos. Stevenson, 302 ; a 

 New Relation between Electricity and Li^ht, J. E. H.. Gor- 

 don, 402; and Water-Drops, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 486; 

 Animal, Dr. L. Hermann on, 561 



Electromagnetic Rotation of the Plane of Polarisation in a 

 Vapour, 519 



Electromagnetic Theory of the Reflection and Refraction of 

 Light, G. F. Fit^erald, 282 



Electrometer, Thomson, 560 



Elements, on the Compound Natiure of the, J. Norman Lockyer, 

 F.R.S., 157, 197, 225 



Elephant : Indian, Anatomy of the, L, C. Miall and F. Green- 

 wood, 383 ; Intelligence in an, 385 



Elephant, African, the Utilisation of the, 99, 516; Sir J. 

 Fayrer, 54 



Ellis (Alex. J.), the Ancient Pitch of Organs, 171 



Encyclopaedia of Natural Science, New German, 376 



EadowTnents, Medical, at Oxford, 20 



luiergy and Force, 315 ; Robert H. Smith, 194, 217, 249 



Lngelmann (Wilhelm), Sketch of, 473 



1-iigineering Research, 324 



Lagraving by an Electric Spark Pen, 60 



i:ntomological Society, 90, 235, 307, 403, 476, 595 



l.atomology in America, 309 



liquations, Petersen's " Theorie der algebraischen Gleich- 

 ungen," 3 



Equine Sagacity, M. Carey-Hobson, 147 



]>ck (Dr.), New Bichromate of Potash Battery, 331 



Lrlangen : Degrees of the University of. Dr. E. Lommel, 267 ; 

 Sitzungsberichte der physikalisch-medicinischen Societal zu, 

 570 



Mount, the Eruption of Mud from, 300 ; G. F. Rodwell, 

 .480, 557 

 Everett's Cave-Research in Borneo, 352 



Everett (Prof. J. D.), Tides in the Bay of Fundy, 458 



Exhibition, Industrial Science, at Paris, 18 



Eyes, concerning the Colour of, 340 



" Fairy-Land of Science," Arabella Buckley, 265 



Farming in Japan, 86 



i araday Lecture, Prof. Wurtz's, 62 



1 arler (Rev. J. P.), on Usambara, 76 



Favre (Prof. Alphonse), on the Formation of Mountains, \o\ 



Fawsitt (Chas. A.), Strange Properties of Matter, 98 



Faye's Comet, 469 



Fayrer (Sir J., F.R.S.), the Size of the Tiger, 9; the Utilisa- 

 tion of the African Elephant, 54 



Female University Education, 353 



Ferlo, Senegambia, Proposed Exploration of, 491 



Fertilisation of Flowers, Gevaert's Work on, 506 



Fiji Islands, 492 



Finck (Henry T.), Intellect in Brutes, 340 



Finsch (Dr.), Expedition to the Polynesian Seas, 44, 373 



Fire- Damp, Royal Commission on, 375 



Firth of Clyde, Mollusca of, Alfred Broun, 217 



Fisher (Rev. O.), the Formation of Mountains, 172, 266, 339 



Fisheries of the United States, 429, 460 



Fishes : Singular Fatality to, 86 ; Prof. E. Perceval Wright on 



^ Fishes' Heads, 149 ; Intelligence of, 160 ; New Asiatic, 245, 

 389; the Food of, S. A. Forbes, 319; U.S. Fish Commission 

 on, 390 



Fitzgerald (G. F.), Electromagnetic Theory of the Reflection 

 and Refraction of Light, 282 



Flame, the Bunsen, a Sensitive Flame, W. W. Plaldare Gee, 

 122 



Flanunarion (M.) on the Lunar Observation, 181 ; on Double 

 Stars, 216 



Flint Implement Wcffkshop, Discovery of a Prehistoric, 351 



Florence, the Expedition of the, 15, 43, 123 



Flower (Prof. W. H., F.R.S.) elected President of the Zoolo- 

 gical Society, 349 ; his Lectures at the College of Surgeons, 



395 



"Flowers and their Unbidden Guests," Kemer's, A. W. Ben- 

 nett, 214 



Flowers, Hulme's Familiar Wild, 94 



Flowers in the Carboniferous Epoch, R. McLachlan, F.R.S. , 

 554 ; A. R. Wallace, 582 



Fluorescing Substances, 493 



Fly River, D'Albertis's Expedition up, 43 



Fonvielle (Wilfrid de), "Comment le font las Miracles en 

 dehors de I'Eglise," 287 



Forbes (Henry O.), Termites kept in Captivity by Ants, 4 



Forbes (S. A.), the Food of Fi>he?, 319 



Forbes (W. A.), the Glacial Period and Geographical Distribu- 

 tion, 363 



Force and Energy, 315 ; Robert H. Smith, 194, 217, 242 



Force, Sense of, and Sense of Temperature, 554 



Forest Geography, Prof. Asa Gray on, 327 



Forest Meteorological Stations of Germany, Report of, 419 



Forest^, Fossil, in Yellowstone Park, U.S., 257; and SiUcified 

 Trunks, Dr. Otto Kuntze, 314 



Formosa, Affairs in, 301 ; Cultivation of Camphor in, 351 



Forster (Prof., of Bern), Report on Weather Warning?, 232 



Fossil Floras of the Arctic Regions, are they Eocene or Mio- 

 cene ? and the Causes which enabled them to exist in High 

 Latitude-, J. Starkie Gardner, 124 



Fossil Forests: in Yellowstone Park, U.S., 257; and Silicified 

 Trunks, Dr. Otto Kuntze, 314 



Fossil Plants of the Coal Measures, the Organisation of. Prof. 

 C. Williamson, F.R.S., 521 



Fossils, Handbill of an Old (1775) Lecture on, 208 



Foster (Dr. M., F.R.S.) and the Study of Physiology at Cam- 

 bridge, 66 ; Studies from the Cambridge Physiological Labo- 

 ratory, Part III., 145 



Foster (P. le Neve), Ooituary Notice of, 385 



Fowler (Prof. T.), " Bacon's Novum Organum," G. F. Rodwell, 

 262 



France: Education in, 66; Agriculture in, 160; Grant to the 

 Bureau of Meteorology, 206 ; Severe Weather in, 256 ; Tele- 

 graph Lines broken by Sleet, 301 ; French Geographical 

 Exploratioas, 490 ; Societes Savantes, AnnuaL Meeting, 590 ; 

 French Physical Society, 591 ; see also Paris, &c. 



Franck (Dr. Fran^ob), the Electricity of the Torpedo, 295, 

 320 



Franklin Institute, Journal of, 67, 234, 306, 354, 594 



Freezing of Lakes, J. Y. Buchanan, 380, 412, 433 



French Guiana, Dr. Jules Crevaux's Exploration of, 298, 395, 



515 

 Friedlander's Catalogues, 325 



Frog ha%'ing Eggs on its Back, Fritz Miiller on, 462 

 Fuel, I. Lowthian Bell, F.R.S., on the Cojibusiion of Dif- 

 ferent Kinds of, 175, J. A. Church, 339 



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