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INDEX 



IX 



462 ; Solar, of May 16, 1882, and August 18, 1887, 199 ; 



Total Solar, of 1883, 261; Solar, of May 28, 1900, 358; 



Eclipse Spectroscope, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 224; the 



Lunar Eclipse of August 12, 385 

 Edinburgh, Aquarium at, 533 

 Edison's Phonograph, 116 ; his Telephone, 631 ; his Inventions, 



674 ; " Edison Electric Light Company," 705 

 Edmunds' (Dr. J.), Microscopy, the Immersion Paraboloid, 278 

 Edmunds' Electrical Phonoscope, W. Ladd, 506 

 Education, "Excursional," 76 

 Educational Travel for Children, 456 

 Educational Appliances at the Paris Exhibition, 436 

 Egypt : Dr. F. Mook's Excavations in, 372 ; Egyptian Papyrus 



at the Paris Academy, 652 

 Elasmobranch Fishes, F. M. Balfour's Monograph on, Prof. E. 



Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 113 

 Elasmotherium, the, 387 

 Electric Light: Electric Lighting in Paris, 159, 182, 262, 317; 



Spectrum of Jablochkoff's, E. Walker, 384; the Electric Arc 



among the Gas Shares, 609; Dr. C. W. Siemens, F.R.S., on 



Electric Lighting, 650 ; Experiments in London Streets, 682 ; 



the Cost of, 682 ; the Edison Electric Light Company, 705 

 Electric Discharges in Gases, Drs. Warren De La Rue, F.R.S., 



and Hugo W. Miiller, F.R.S., 525, 547 

 Electricitatslehre, Gnindzuge der. Dr. von Beetz, 300 

 " Electricite," the, 206 

 Electricity, " a Fortunate Escape," 195 

 Electricity and Magnetism, Catalogue of Works on, 393 

 " Electricity and Magnetism," George Porter, 615 

 Electricity, Contact, J. Brown, 12 



Electro-Magnet, a Receiving Telephone, F. G. Lloyd, 488, 540 

 Electro Magnetic Unit, the Number of Electrostatic Units in, 



470 

 Electrometer, Thomson's Quadrant, the Determination of the 



Scale Value of, iio 

 Electro-Photometry, Experiments on, Prof. J. Dewar, F.R.S. , 



186 

 "Elements," Are the, Elementary? M. M. Pattison Muir, 592, 



625 

 Elephant Tusk found near Geneva, 683 

 Elephants, Indian, Utihsation of, 552 



Elliott (Sir W.), the Annual Increase of the Common Vole, 483 

 Ellis (Alex.J. F.R.S.), the Phonograph, 38 ; Mons. A. Cavaillc- 



CoU on Musical Pitch, the French Diapason Normal, 



Scheibler's Tuning Forks, &c., 381 

 Ellis (Tristram), Science for Artists, 66 

 Ellis (William), the Magnetic Storm of May 14, 1878, 641 ; 



Cyclones and the Winter Gales of Europe, 641 

 Elwes' " Ocean and Her Rulers," 380 

 Ely (Talfourd), Classes for Women at University College, 143 ; 



University College Jubilee, 195 

 " Enchainements du Monde Animal," Prof. Gaudry's, 537 

 Encke's Comet, Reappearance of, 104, 131, 589 

 "Encyclopaedia Britannica," Vols. 7 and 8, 691 

 ■ Endosmose of Gases through Lungs, 106 

 Endowment of Research, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., on, 



610 ; the Lancet on State Aid to Science, 629 

 Engadine, the Upper, Guide to, 601 

 Entomological Commission (U.S.) Report, 554 

 Entomological Society, 53, 55, m, 295, 374, 511, 584, 688 

 Equatorial Mounting for a Three-foot Reflector, Lord Rosse on, 



306 

 " Eribollia Mackayi" New Fossils, 477 

 Ernst (Dr. A.), Autophyllogeny, 331 ; on the Wax of Poecil- 



optera, 487 ; Spontaneous Combustion of Wasps' Nests, 487 

 Erratic Boulders, B.A. Report on, 599 

 Eskimo, the Greenland, A. Bordier, 16, 169 

 Ethnographic Congress at Paris, 318, 599 

 Ethnographical Parallels and Comparisons, Dr. R. Andree, 49 

 Ethnology of North-West America, Rev. A. H. Sayce, 165 

 Ethnological Objects from India, 478 



Etna, Mount, Proposed Observatory on, G. F. Rodwell, 587 

 Ettingshausen (Andreas von). Obituary Notice of, 197 

 Euclfd, I., II., W. H. Hudson, 641 

 Kurysaurus raincourti, 28 



Evans (Capt. F. J., C.B., F.R.S.>, Remarkable Changes in the 

 Earth's Magnetism, 80; and Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., 

 on the Tides of the Southern Hemisphere and the Mediter- 

 ranean, 670 

 Evans (John, F.R.S.), Opening Address in Section C at the 



British Association Meeting at Dublin, 415 ; on the Cost of 

 the Geological Survey Publications, 476 ; on some Fossils from 

 the Northampton Sands, 476 ; on the Cervus megaceros, 478 



Evans (M. S.), Notes on some Natal Plants, 543 



Evershead (Sydney), a Meteor, 519 



Evolution, Prof. Haeckel on, 509 



Ewing (Prof. J. A.) and Prof. Fleeming Jenkin on the Phono- 

 graph and Vowel Sounds, 340, 394, 454 



Extinct and Recent Insh Mammals, Prof. A. Leith Adams, 141 ; 

 Prof. Boyd Dawkins, 169 



Failures, Commercial, and Sun-Spot Periods, 372 



Falkland Islands, Wingless Insects of the, H. N. Moseley, 



F.R.S., 619 

 Falls of Niagara, Utilisation of, 393 

 " Familiar Wild Flowers," F. E. Hulme, u 

 Faraday Lecture of the Chemical Society, 651 

 Farmer's Weather Indicator, 621, 630 

 Farming and the Use of Sewage, 133 

 Fanning in India, 219 

 Fata Morgana at Halberstadt, 466 

 Faye (M.), his " La Meteorologie Cosmique," 126, 151 

 Payrer (Sir J., F.R.S.), the Size of the Indian Tiger, 219; a 



White Grouse, 518 

 Fendler (Augustus), Collections of Ferns from Trinidad, 466 

 Fenland, the. Past and Present, Miller and Skertchly, 514 

 Fermanagh Caves, the Exploration of, 469 

 Fermentation, Brewing in Japan, 521 

 Ferns, Prof. J. Robinson's New Work on, 555 

 Fertilisation of Flowers, 543 ; by Bees, 334 

 Fetich ism in a Terrier, 77 

 Figure and Size of the Earth, Karl Maria Friederici, 556, 577, 



602 

 Finsch (Dr. O.), Resignation of his Post and Mission to the 



Pacific, 531 

 Fish : Sea-Fish in Rivers, 681 ; United States Fish Commission, 



682, 704 

 Fisher (O. P.), Meteor, 643 

 Fisheries of British North America, Dr. W. B, Carpenter, 



F.R.S., 170, 232 

 Fisheries, Comparative Value of German, 206 

 Flames, the Temperature of, 345 

 Fleas, Freshwater, Decorative Colouring in, 226 

 Flint Factories at Port Stewart, &c., 478 

 Floating Magnets, Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., 13; Prof. 



A. M. Mayer, 258; C. S. Pierce, 381 

 Flower (Prof. W. H., F.R.S.), Opening Address in Section D 

 (Department of Zoology and Botany), at the British Associa- 

 tion Meeting at Dublin, 419 ; on the Methods and Results of 

 Measuring the Capacity of Crania, 480 

 "Flowers, Familiar Wild," F. E. Hulme, 11 

 " Flowers," J. E. Taylor, 276 



Flowers : Scent and Colour in, G. S. Boulger, 427 ; on the 



Amounts of Sugar contained in the Nectar of Various, Alex. 



S. Wilson, 474; Fertilisation of, 543; by Bees, 334; 



Different Forms of, on the same Plant, 519 



Flowers and Ferns of the United States, Thomas Meehan, 615 



Fluid Columns, the Structure of, which are affected by Sound, 



R. H. Ridout, 604 

 Fluorescence, recent Researches on, 107 

 Fly-Orchis, Dr. Hermann Miiller, 221 

 Flying- Fish, the Movements of, through the Air, 373 

 Fog Signal, the Irish Siren, 484 ; a New, Prof. P. G. Tait, 371 

 Folkestone, Excavations in Ceesar's Camp, 470 

 Food-Preserver, Gelatine as a. Prof. A. H. Church, 546 

 Fordos (M. J.), Death of, 467 

 Foreign Orders, 691 



Forel (Dr. F. A.), the Seiches of the Lake>f Geneva, ico 

 Forest Flora of British Burma, S. Kurz, 517 

 YohhWs: ■■" Eribollia Mackayi," 477; Fossils of the North- 

 Western Highlands, 470; Discovery of a new Fossil at 

 Sheppey, 554 ; a Fossil Sparrow-Like Bird, 204 ; a P'ossil 

 Plant, A. E. W. Binney, F.R.S., SS5 ; a Fossil Plant— A 

 Misquotation, Prof. J. W. Dawson, 696 

 Fossil Flora of Great Britain, Prof . W. C. Williamson, F.R.S,, 



35 , 



Fossiliferous Tertiary Rocks on the Grand Bank and George 



Bank, A. E. Verrill, 620 



Foster (P. le Neve), Proposed Testimonial to, 236 



