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INDEX 



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Milne, 500 ; Earthquakes, and How to Measure Them, Prof. 

 J. A. Ewing, F.R.S., 299; Earthquake-Intensity in San 

 Francisco, Edward S. Holden, 189 

 Earthworms : the Nephridia of, Prof. W. Baldwin Spencer, 

 197 ; Frank E. Beddard, 221 ; British Earthworms, Dr. Wm. 



B. Benham, 319 

 Earwigs, Plague of, 277 



Eclectic Physical Geography, Russell Hinmah, 615 

 Eclipse, Partial, of August 7, A. C. Crommelin, 364 

 Kclipse, Solar, of August 28-29, 1886, on the Determination of 

 the Photometric Intensity of the Coronal Light during the, 

 Captain W. de W. Abney, F.R.S., and T. E. Thorpe, 

 407 

 Eclipse of the Sun of August 19, 1887, Prof. Egoroff's Report 

 on the Observations made in Russia and Siberia during the. 

 625 

 Eclipse, Total Lunar, of January 28, 553 

 Edinburgh Royal Society, 47, 118, 263, 311, 383 

 Edinburgh : Heriot-Watt College Calendar, 327 ; Iron and 



Steel Institute, Autumnal Meeting. 395 

 Education : Technical, 573 ; Lord Hartington on, 40 ; the 

 National Association for the Promotion of, 63, 255 ; the 

 Advancement of Higher Education in London, 41 ; London 

 Chamber of Commerce Scheme for Improvement of Com- 

 mercial Education, 158 ; Agricultural Education in Northern 

 Italy and in Prussia, 138 ; Education in India, 277 ; M. 

 Blanchet's Speech at the Sorbonne on Education, 325 ; M. 

 Lockroy's Speech at the Sorbonne on. 325 ; Science Teaching 

 in Elementary Schools in England and Wales, 576 

 Edwards-Moss (J. E.), a Season in Sutherland, 220 

 Egg, Study of the Albuminoid Substances in the White of an, 



164 

 Egg-Masses on Hydrobia ulvte, Prof. W. A. Herdman, 197 

 Egoroff (Prof. ), Report on the Observations made in Russia 

 and Siberia during the Eclipse of the Sun of August 19, 1887, 

 625 

 Egypt : Ethnographic Types from the Monuments of, Rev. H. 

 G. Tomkins, 214 ; Preservation of Ancient Monuments in, 

 H. H. Howorth, M. P., and Sir T. Fergusson, M.P. , 326 

 Eider-fowl caught in Fishermen's Nets on Swedish Coast, 304; 



Eider-fowl Preservation in Sweden, 527 

 Eimer (Dr.), on the Origin o f Species, 123 

 Elastic Solid Bodies, on a General Property of, Maurice Levy, 



431 

 Elastic Solids, ^Eolotropic, C. Chree, 165 

 Elburz, Mount, Ascent of, by Baron Ungern Sternberg, 501 

 Elder (Harry M.), Density and Specific Gravity, 55 

 Electricity : Electrical Column, 19, 161 ; Effects of Magnetism 

 and Heat on the Electric Resistance of Bismuth, 19 ; C. 

 Vernon Boys' Radio-micrometer, 19 ; Dynamical Action of 

 the Current of Electrodes, 19 ; the Electric Organ of Rata 

 bitis, Prof. J. C. Ewart, 70 ; on the Heating Effects of 

 Electric Currents, W. H. Preece, F. R.S., 93; on the 

 Structure of the Electric Organ of the Raiacircularis, Prof. J. 



C. Ewart, 94 ; C. V. Burton on Electromotive Force by Con- 

 tact, 94; the Electric Light in Marine Biology, 112; Prof. 

 W. A. Herdman on, 130 ; Incident in Patent Electric Light- 

 ing Case, Edison and Swan Electric Lighting Company v. 

 Holland, 114; Measurements of Sparking Distance in Air 

 of Alternate Currents used in, E G. Acheson, 305 ; 

 Electric Light at St. Catherine's Point Lighthouse, 501 ; 

 Measurements in Electricity and Magnetism, Prof. A. Gray, 

 113 ; Electricity and Magnetism, Thomas Dunman, 125 ; a 

 Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, E. Mascart and J. 

 Joubert, 241 ; Effect of Chlorine on Electromotive Force of 

 Voltaic Couple, Dr. G. Gore, F.R.S., 117; Electromotive 

 Properties of the Leaf of Diotura in the Excited and 

 Unexcited States, J. Burdon- Sanderson, F.R.S., 140; Elec- 

 tric Fishes in the River Uruguay, Dr. P. L. Sclater, 

 F.R.S., 148; Riicker and Boys' Dieletric, 161 ; Blondlot's 

 Experiments, 162 ; Cowles's Process for the Production of 

 Aluminium, 162 ; Magnetic and Electric Experiments with 

 Soap Bubbles, C. Vernon Boys, 162 ; Electro chemical 

 Radiophony, MM. G. Chaperon and E. Mercadier, 168 ; 

 Note on the Governing of Electromotors, Profs. W. E. 

 Ayrton and J. Perry, 190 ; Electric Mountain Railway near 

 Lucerne, 453 ; Effect of Electric Current on Saturated Solu- 

 tions, C. Chree, 215; Lectures at the City and Guilds of 

 London Institute on Electricity, 228 ; Electrical Notes, 231, 



305, 555, 577 ; Meteorological Society's Report on Thunder- 

 storms, 238 ; Electro-chemical Effects on Magnetizing Iron, 

 II., Thos. Andrews, 262 ; Cloud Electric Potential, E. 

 Douglas Archibald, 269; Prof. J. D. Everett, F.R.S., 

 343 ; Changes of Potential of Voltaic Couple, Dr. G. 

 Gore, F.R.S., 285; Note on Continuous Current Trans- 

 formers, Prof. S. P. Thompson, 286 ; Undulatory Move- 

 ment accompanying the Electric Spark, 287 ; Electro- 

 chemical Radiophony, Chaperon and Mercadier, 305 ; 

 Proportionality between Velocity of Light, Conduction of 

 Heat, and Electric Conductivity in Metals, Kundt, 305 ; In- 

 fluence Machines, J. Wimshurst, 307 ; Electric Organ of 

 Skate, Prof. J. C. Ewart, 310 ; on the Induction of Electric 

 Currents in Conducting Shells of Small Thickness, S. H. 

 Burbury, 333 ; on the Electric Conductibility of Mixtures of 

 Salts in Solution, MM. E. Bouty and L. Poincare, 384 ; Elec- 

 tricity and Thermo-dynamics, the Storage of, M. Gouy, 384 ; 

 Modern Views of Electricity, Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., 

 389, 416, 590 ; Sir Wm. Thomson on Clerk-Maxwell's 

 Theory of Electro-magnetic Induction for Incomplete Circuits, 

 500: Electric Transmission of Power, Prof. Ayrton, F. R. S., 

 508, 533 ; Electric Fishes, W. II. Corfield, F.K.S., 515 ; In- 

 troduction of Electricity into Paris Omnibus Service, 527 ; 

 Diffusion of Rapidly-alternating Currents in Substance of 

 Homogeneous Conductor-, Sir \V. Thomson, 555 ; Applied 

 Electricity in United States, 555 ; the Decomposition of 

 Water by Alternate Currents of Electricity, 555 ; Influence of 

 Plane of Transverse Section on Magnetic Permeability of Iron 

 Bar, Prof. Ewing, 555 ; the Volta Prize, 555 ; Lord Rayleigh's 

 Experiments as to Variation of Velocity of Light by Electric 

 Current through Electrolyte, 555 ; Electro-Magnetic In- 

 duction of Incomplete Circuits, a Simple Hypothesis for, 

 with Consequent Equations of Electric Motion in Fixed 

 Homogeneous or Heterogeneous Solid Matter, Sir William 

 Thomson, 569 ; on the Transference of Electricity within 

 a Homogeneous Solid Conductor, Sir William Thom- 

 son, 571 ; Five Applications of Fourier's Law of Diffusion 

 Illustrated by a Diagram of Curves with Absolute Nu- 

 merical Values, Sir William Thomson, 571 : Homogeneous 

 Solid Conductor, on the Transference of Electricity within a, 

 Sir William Thomson, 571 ; Hertz's Experiments on the 

 Electric Ether, 577 ; Static Electricity, a Vortex Analogue of, 

 Prof. Hicks, 577 ; the Transmission of Electric Currents 

 through Air with Flames as Electrodes, Dr. Borgman, 577 ; 

 Lenard and Howard's Flat Bismuth Spiral for Measuring 

 Intensity of Magnetic Field, 577 ; Acheson 's Inquiry into 

 Influence of Disruptive Discharges of Powerful Alternating 

 Currents, 577 ; the Oscillatory Character of the Leyden Jar 

 Discharge, 578 ; Experiments on Electrolysis, W. W. Haldane 

 Gee and H. Holder, 190 ; on Mechanism by Alternative 

 Current Process of Chappuis and Maneuvrier, 263 ; Electro- 

 lytic Decomposition of Proteids, Dr. G. N. Stewart, 422 ; 

 Electromotive Variations, on the, which accompany the 

 Beat of the Human Heart, Dr. Augustus D. Waller, 619 

 Elements, Equivalents of the Simple Bodies, 96 

 Elephant, African, Possibility of utilizing the, J. Menges, 529 

 Elephas primigenius, Discovery of, Associated with Flint 



Implements at Southall, J. Allen Brown, 283 

 Elimination, Natural Selection and, Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan, 



370 



Ellington (E.B.), Hydraulic Power in London, 17 



Elongated Projectiles, Calculation of Ranges, &c, of, Rev. F. 

 Bashforth, 468 



Emin Pasha : Letter from, 238 ; the German Plan for rescuing, 

 Herr Gerhard Rohlfs, 486, 529 



Emmon's (Lieut.) Ethnographical Collection from Alaska. 64 



Empiricism versus Science, 609 



Encke's Comet, 350 ; J'mn Tebbutt on, 423 



Energy, Work and, Rev. Edward Geoghegan, 77 



Engel (M.), Neutral Chloride of Platinum, 396 



Engineering Schools, Prof. George Francis Fitzgerald, F. R.S., 

 322 



Engler's Jahrbiicher, 583 



Entomology : the Insect Pests of India, 17 ; the Pyralidina of 

 the Hawaiian Islands, 95 ; Entomological Society, 95, I9'» 

 287, 383, 560, 607 ; R. Mcl.achlan on Cold Winters in relation 

 to Insects, 228 ; the Recent Plague of Caterpillars, 277 ; Indian 

 Museum Notes on Economic, 278 ; Entomologist's Monthly 

 Magazine, August, 327 ; Scent Organs of Male Moth Her- 



