Nature Jjtne 7, i5 



INDEX 



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Ikholm (Dr.), Remarkable Auroral Phenomenon in Sweden, 

 186 



ilasmotherium, the, Albert Gaudry, 72, 575 



lastic Solids, a Treatise on the Mathematical Theory of Per- 

 fectly, W. J. Ibbetson, 97 



llectricity : Electrical Inertia, 8 ; Condition of the Medium 

 near a Circuit, 8 ; Energy of the Current, 9 ; Phenomena 

 peculiar to a Starting, or Stopping, or Varying Current, 9 ; 

 Voltaic Battery, 11 ; Thermo-electric Pile, 11 ; Passage of 

 Electricity through a Gas, 12 ; a Current regarded as a Moving 

 Charge, 12 ; Modern Views of. Dr. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., 

 8, 105, 322, 344, 366 ; Electrical Condition of the Peak of 

 Teneriffe, Hon. Ralph Abercromby, 31 ; Electric Balloon 

 Signalling Experiments, 34 ; Storage of Electrical Energy, 

 Gaston Plante, Prof. John Perry, F.R.S., 50 ; Experiments on 

 the Transmission of Electrical Energy, 382 ; Electric Railway 

 for the Dinner-table, 65 ; Loss of Electricity by Conductors in 

 Damp Air, Guglielmo, 88, 382 ; Determination of Electrical 

 Resistance of Tubes of Mercury, Dr. Weinstein, 167 ; Develop- 

 ment of Feeble Currents, Dr. C. R. Alder Wright, F.R.S., 

 and C. Thompson, 213 ; Electricity for Public Schools and 

 Colleges, W. Larden, 217; Electrification of the Air, C. 

 Michie Smith, 274; Electrical Notes, 303, 382, 570; Im- 

 possibility of separating Elements of Alloys by means of 

 Electric Currents, Prof. Roberts- Austen, 303 ; Prof. J. J. 

 Thomson's Discovery that Sparks in Tubes dissociate Iodine, 

 Bromine, and Chlorine, 303 ; on the Heating of Metallic 

 Points when discharging their Electricity, Prof. Eugenio 

 Semmola, 308 ; Explosion of a Mixture of Hydrogen and ' 

 Oxygen obtained by Electrolysis, Prof. Oettingen, 311 ; 

 Electrical Column, 331, 354, 447, 497 ; Welding Metal by 

 Electricity, 331 ; Fusing Wires by Currents, 331 ; Improve- 

 ments in Platinum Batteries, 354 ; Sir William Thomson, 

 Electrical Measuring Instruments, 355 ; Hertz's Experiments 

 on Influence of Ultra- Violet Rays on Passage of Sparks, 355 ; 

 Magnetic Qualities of Metals under Heat, 355 ; Treatment 

 by Electricity of Sewage, 355 ; Iron for Lightning Con- 

 ductors, 355 ; Electro-deposition of Aluminium, 355 : Cause 

 of Emission of Solid Particles by Platinum under Electric 

 Current, Dr. A. Berliner, 378 ; Electric Lamps, Subaqueous, 



382 ; the Distribution of Electricity for Lighting Purposes 

 by means of Secondary Generators, 382 ; Transition- Re- 

 sistance and Polarization at Platinum Surfaces, W. Peddle, 



383 ; the Change in Thermo electric Properties of Tin at its 

 Melting-point, Albert Campbell, 384 ; Interference of Elec- 

 trical Vibrations produced by the Electrical Oscillations dis- 

 covered by Feddersen during the Spark Discharge, Prof. 

 Oettingen, 408 ; Electro-dynamics, Recalculation of Clausius's 

 Fundamental Law of. Dr. Budde, 408 ; Electrical Instrument- 

 Making for Amateurs, by S. R. Bottone, 412 ; on the 

 Optical Demonstration of Electrical Stress, Prof. A. W. 

 Riicker, F.R.S., and C. V. Boys, 407; Electrical Rules 

 and Tables, Munro and Jamieson, 443 ; Calibration of an 

 Electrometer, D. W. Shea, 5chd ; Electro-dynamometer and 

 Harmonic Currents of Electricity, T. H. Blakesley, 502 ; 

 Researches into the Oscillations of Electrical Force in 

 Electrolytes, by A. Sokoloff, 525 ; Researches on the In- 

 fluence of Magnetism and Temperature on Electric Resistance 

 of Bismuth and its Alloys with Lead and Tin, Ed. van Aubel, 

 525 ; on New Determinations of the Electric Resistance of 

 Liquids, W. Peddie, 527 ; Passage of Electric Current through 

 Sulphur, E. Duter, 528 ; Voltaic Electricity, T. P. Treglohan, 

 533 ; the Influence of Rays of High Refrangibility on Electrical 

 Discharges, 570 ; Experiments on Questions of Counter 

 Electromotive Force of Arc Lamps, Lecher, 570 ; Experiments 

 on Wire-Temperature under varying Air-Pressure, Bottomley 

 and Cailletet, 570 ; Measurements of Various Constituents of 

 Voltaic Cells, 570 ; Influence of Magnetism on Electric Resist- 

 ance of Solid Conductors, Dr. Fae, 573 ; Various Related 

 Forms of Electromotors, C. R. A. Wright, F.R.S., and C. 

 Thompson, 573 ; Electromotive Properties of the Electrical 

 Organ of Torpedo marmorata, Francis Gotch, 623 ; Electro- 

 motive Force of Magnetization, 623 ; on a Regulator of Electric 

 Light, 624 



Elements and Meta-Elements, 540 



lephant Islands of the Mergui Archipelago, Alfred Carpenter, 

 ,348 



.lephant and Mastodon, Were the. Contemporary in Europe ?, 

 H. P. Malet, 488 



Eliseeff's (M. A.) Ethnological Results of Journeys in Asia 

 Minor since 1881, 38 



Elk shot in Galicia, 301 



Ellison (Allan), Autumnal Migration of Birds in Ireland, 232 



Elson (S. R.), the Sailor's Sky Interpreter, 5 



Elwes (H. J.), Catalogue of the Moths of India, E. C. Cotes, 

 and Colonel C. Swinhoe, 386 



Embryology, a Text-book of, by Prof. Oscar Hertwig, 506 



Emin Pasha in Central Africa, R. W. Felkin, 436 



Emin (Dr., Pasha) : Injuries caused by Lightning in Africa, 

 582 ; Letter from, 595 



Encyclopaedia, Chambers's, 604 



Encyclopaedic Dictionary, Vol. VI., 30 



Engineering now and Fifty Years since, G. B. Bruce, 119 



England, Foreign Fruits available for Acclimatization in, F. T. 

 Mott, 35 



England : Earthquakes in, 138, 186, 350 ; Worthington G. 

 Smith, 127; H. George Fordham, 151 



England and Wales, Bill to provide for Technical Education in, 

 614 



English Culture, Goschen and Huxley on, 337 



Enock's Autocopyist Sketches of Insects, 187 



Ensilage, Experiments upon, 212 



Entomology : Introduction of the Hessian Fly into Great 

 Britain, 23; Entomological Society, 23, 95, 191,310,431, 

 503* 575 ; ^11 Account of New Zealand Scale Insects, W. M, 

 Maskell, 125 ; Enock's Autocopyist Sketches of Insects, 187 ; 

 the Post-embryonic Development of jfulus terrestris, H. G. 

 Heathcote, 190; Giant Lepidopterous Larvae in Australia, 

 Sidney Olliff, 232 ; Post-Glacial Insects, Alfred Bell, 232 ; a 

 Year's Insect-Hunting at Gibraltar, J. J. Walker, 300 ; Un- 

 timely Insect Development, John Morison, 321 ; Butterflies 

 from Central China, J. H. Leech, 503 



Eocene Strata in the Tertiary Basins of England, Belgium, and 

 North of France, Prof. Joseph Prestwich, F. R. S., 287 



Eolipyle, a New, M. Paquelin, 504 



Equations : Linear Differential, Invariants, Covariants, and 

 Quotient Derivatives associated with, A. R. Forsyth, F.R.S., 

 309 ; Immediate Solution of, by Electricity, Felix Lucas, 479 



Equatorial Coude and Equatorials in general, M. Loewy and P. 

 Puiseux, 504, 527 



Espin (Rev. T. E.), Probable New Class of Variable Stars, 158 



Etard (A.), on the Decreasing Solubility of the Sulphates, 504 



Ether, 142 ; on the Relative Motion of the Earth and Lumini- 

 ferous Ether, 162 



Ethical Import of Darwinism, Jacob Gould, Prof. Geo. J. 

 Romanes, F.R. S., 290 



Ethnography : Internationales Archiv fiir Ethnographic, 398 



Ethnology : Results of M. A. Eliseeff"'s Journeys in Asia Minor 

 since 1 88 1, 38 ; Ethnology of Canary Islands, Dr. Verneau, 

 90 ; Gospel Ethnology, S. R. Pattison, • 293 ; Ethnology of 

 the Ainos, Rev. J. Bachelor, 380 ; Ethnological Objects, 

 Baron von Schwerin's Collection, 442 ; W. H. Holmes, on 

 the Use of Metals among the Ancient Inhabitants of Darien, 

 568 ; Mound Exploration, Cyrus Thomas, 615 



Ethylamine in Water, Compressibility of the Solution of, F. 

 Isambert, 192 



Euclid, the Harpur, E. M. Langley and W. S. Phillips, 271 



Europe, Northern, Highest Peaks in, 37 



Evans (Arthur J.), Baltic Amber Coast in Prehistoric Times, 

 Dr. A. Lissauer, 531 



Evershed (John), the. Chromosphere, 79 



Ewing(Prof.), Illimitability of Magnetization of Iron, 303 



Excursions et Reconnaissances of Saigon, 16 



Explanation Explained, an. Prof. John W. Judd, F.R.S., 363 



Eye, the Photography of the Pupil when in Darkness, Dr. C. 

 du Bois-Reymond, 576 



Fachner (Dr. Gustav Theodor), Death of, III 



Fae (Dr.), Influence of Magnetism on Electric Resistance of 



Solid Conductors, 573 

 Fairy Rings, 61 ; J. Sargeant, 151 

 Farm, Tenants of an Old, Henry C. McCook, 363 

 Farmer's Friends and Foes, Theodore Wood, 388 

 Farre (Dr. Arthur), Death of, 186 

 Favenc (M. Ernest), and Exploration in Australia, 493 

 Favorsky (A.), Isomery, 525 

 Fawcett (W.), the Shadow of a Mist, 224 



