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[Nature, May 30, 1878 



De Vico's Comet of Short Period, 15 



Devil Fish, Drowned by a, 27, 282 



Dieii's "Celestial Atlas," 141 



Diet, A Physician's Experiment, 305 



*Diffasion Figures in Liquids, 87, 102, 124 



Diffusion of Gases, 92 



Digital Reduction, the Laws of, 128 



Digits, Hereditary Case of Six, 372 



Dimetian and Pebidian Rocks of Pembrokeshire, 155 



Dispersal, Means of, W. L. Distant, 124 



Distant (W. L.), Means of Dispersal, 124; Oriental Affinities 



in the Ett>iopian Insect Fauna, 282 

 Distillation of Organic Liquids by Means of Steam, 270 

 Dixon (Charles), Towering of Wounded Birds, 45 

 Doberck (Dr. W.), Ole Romer, 105 

 Dog-Fish, Capture of a, 251 



Dohrn (Dr. Anton), the Zoological Station, Naples, 329, 360 

 Donati's Comet of 1858, 149 



Donisthorpe (Wordsworth), Change of Habits in Toads, 242 

 Dorpat, University Intelligence, 354 

 Dorset, Earthquake in, 38 

 Double Salts with Cyanide of Gold, 151 

 Double Stars, 407 



Dowdeswell (G. F), Bacteria in Water, 323 

 Downing (A. W.), Sun-spots and Terrestrial Magnetism, 242 

 Draper (Dr. Henry), Oxygen in the Sun, 339 

 Dresden, the Polytechnic, 354 

 Drosera rotundifolia, the Nutrition of, 222 

 Drought in the Southern Hemisphere, 436, 447, 454 

 Drury's "Chronology at a Glance," 253 

 Dublin, the Royal Society, 46 

 Dumas' Lectures on Chemical Philosophy, 193 

 Duncan (Dr. P. Martin), Cassell's Natural History, 365 

 Dundee Naturalists' Society, 54 

 Dun Echt Observatory Publications, 432 

 Dust, Explosive, 283 

 Dwarfs, African, 364 

 Dyer (Prof. W. T. Thiselton), the Rain- Tree of Moyobamba, 



349 



Early Man, Traces of, in Japan, 89 



Ears, Singing in the, Xenos Clark, 342 



Earth, Age of the, W. M, Flinders Petrie, 465 



Earthquakes, 330 ; at Lisbon, 1 7 ; in Dorset, 38 ; New York, 38 ; 

 at Iquique, 90; in Canada, 90, 1 10; in Nebraska, no; the 

 " Ionia Volcano," iio; at Beachburg, 212; in Jersey, 272; 

 of January 28, 1878, 292 ; at Liesthal, 475 ; at St. Stefano, 



514 



Earthquakes and Seiches, Dr. F. A. Forel, 281 



Earthworm in Relation to the Fertility of the Ground, 18, 28, 

 62 



Earthworm, Supposed Gigantic, 325 



Earwigs, 128 



Easter, the Date of, 433 



Eastern Excavations, 397 



Eclipse Photography, the Use of the Reflection Grating in, J. 

 Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 354 



Eclipses : Solar of February 2, 1878, 36 ; Total Solar Eclipse 

 of A.D. 418, 163; the Total Solar Eclipse of July 29, 1878, 

 250, 269, 381, 452, 453 ; the Coming Total Solar Eclipse,* J. 

 Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 481, 501 



Eden (C. H.), "The Fifth Continent with the Adjacent 

 Islands," 121 



Edinburgh: University Buildings Extension Scheme, 95, 114; 

 University Intelligence, 154, 294, 517; University Statistics, 

 214; Royal Society, 216, 276, 439, 480; University Chemi- 

 cal Society, 296, 500, 526 ; New School of Medicine at, 354 ; 

 Proposed Portrait of Dr. Balfour, 393 



Edison's Phonograph, 90, 190, 291, 469 



Educational Travel, 324 



Education, Female, in Germany, 478 



Education in France, 1 70 



Education, Technical, Prof. Huxley on, 97 



Edwards (M. Milne), appointed President of the French Scien- 

 tific Association, 152 



Eggs, the Earliest Changes in Animal, 509 



Egypt, Flint Flakes, &c., from, 215 



Eidum, a Submerged Village, 232 



Eimer (Prof.), on the Nervous Systen^ of Medusa-, Geo. J. 

 Romanes, 200 



Elasmobranchs, the Fins of, Prof. St. G. Mivart, F.R.S., 355 

 Electrical Analogies with Natural Phenomena, 226, 385 ; Elec- 

 trical Experiments, 180, 282 

 Electrical Nerves, Social, 305, 346 

 Electric Battery, a New, 455 

 Electric Lighting, 156, 310, 437 

 Electricity, Gas Lighting by, 495 ; and Light, Experiment on, 



233; and Railway Collisions, 371 ; and Railway Working, 



W. E. Langdon, 461 

 Electro-Generator, Electromotive Force of, 514 

 Electro -Magnets, 20, 40, 56, 76, 96 r 



Electrometer, New Form of Absolute, 115 

 Electromotive Force, 252 

 Electrostriction, Prof. Mills, F.R.S., on, 235 

 Elliot (James), a Meteor, 425 

 Ellis (Alex. J., F.R.S.), Appunn and Koenig — Beats in Con- 



fined Air, 26 ; the Phonograph, 4, 85 

 Elton (Capt.), Death of, 383 

 Encke's Comet in 1878, 507 

 English Lake-Dwellings and Pile Structures, Prof. T. Rupert 



Jones, F.R.S., 424 

 Entomology : Entomological Society, 75, 176, 256, 395, 459 ; 



Entomology in America, 229 ; Entomological Exhibition at 



the Westminster Aquarium, 351, 391, 402 ; Entomological 



Queries, 467 

 Eocene Flora of Bournemouth, J. S. Gardner, 47 

 Erlangen, University Statistics, 214 

 Esquimaux in Paris, 54, 309 

 Ethiopian Insect Fauna, Oriental Affinities in the, W. L. 



Distant, 282 

 Ethnography, Lectures on, in Paris, 330 

 Ethnological Literature of 1876, 133 

 Ethnology of North America, 53 

 Ethylen Oxide, New Modes of Forming, 150 

 Eucalyptus : Prince Pierre Troubitzkoy, 10 ; Arthur Nicols, 



loi, 342; used for Checking Fire, 38; Dr. Calmy, 283; as 



Fuel, 392 ; the Uses of, 514 

 Euplectella Sponge?, 222 

 Euphrosyne, the Minor Planet, 36 

 Eurydice, the Meteorological Conditions Affecting the Wreck of 



the, 437, 466 

 Eva, the Minor Planet, 210 



Everett (A. H.), Volcanic Phenomena in Borneo, 200 

 Everett (Prof. J. D.), " Shorthand for General Use," 17 ; Undei-- 



ground Temperature, 476 

 Evolution, Age of the Sun in Relation to, J. I. Plummer, 303, 



360 ; Dr. James Croll, F.R.S., 321, 464 

 Evolution of Heat during Muscular Action, Prof. A. Fick, 285 

 Exner (Prof.), on the Diffusion of Gases, 92 

 Exploring Colonies, 290 

 Explosions in Mines, W. Galloway, 21 

 Explosions, A. Mackennah, 123 

 Explosive, Discovery of a New, 436 

 Explosive Dust, 283 



Eyck (Jan van), Colossal Bronze Statue of, 490 

 Eye-brows, Supplementary, W. Ainslie Hollis, 124 

 Eye-motions during Sleep, &c., 371 



Falb (Dr. Rud)., his Travels in South America, 513 



Faraday (Prof.), Bust of, 291 



Faraday's "Experimental Researches," Sylvanus P. Thompson, 

 304, 361 ; Bernard Quaritch, 342 



Faunas and Floras, the Comparative Richness of, tested Numeri- 

 cally, Alfred R. Wallace, 100 



Fay (Eva), Mr, Crookes and Dr. W. B. Carpenter, F.R.S., 81, 

 122 ; Alfred R. Wallace, loi 



Faye (A. E. A.), elected Minister of Instruction for France, 

 91 



Female Education in Germany, 478 



Ferment in Plants, 455 



Ferns and Mosses, Hofmeister's work on, 344 



Ferns, J. Smith's British and Foreign, 43 



Fertilisation in Thyme and Marjoram, 127 



Fertilisation of Glossostignia, J. F. Chesseman, 163 



Fertilisation of Plants, 221 



Fetichism in Animals, Geo. J. Romanes, 168; C. G. O'Brian, 402 



Fick (Prof. A.), on the Evolution of Heat During Muscular 

 Action, 285 



Fielden (Capt.), on the Geology of the Arctic Regions, 473 



Field-mice, or Rats, Plague of, in Smyrna, 437 



