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INDEX 



XV 



Dymond (T. S.) and Prof. Dunstan, the Reduction- Products of 



the Nitro-Paraffins and Alkyl Nitrates, 570 

 Dynamical Units, Robert H. Smith, 53 

 Dynamics for Beginners, Rev. J. B. Lock, 75 

 Dynamics : Note on Beams fixed at Ends, Profs. Ayrton and 



Perry, 191 

 Dynamite, New Way of utilizing, M. Bonnetond, 564 



Early Perseids, W. Y. Denning, 318 



Earthquakes : in the Western Riviera, Prof. Henry H. 

 Giglioli, 4; J. E. H. Peyton, 151 ; M. Albert Offret, 23; 

 Earthquakes and the Suspended Magnet, Dr. M. A. Veeder, 

 102 ; a Recent Japanese Earthquake, Prof. J. A. Ewing, 107 ; 

 Prof. S. Sekiya, 379 ; Earthquakes in Switzerland, Mexico 

 and Arizona, and Santa Lucia, &c., 1 10 ; in Central America, 

 136 ; in Mexico and Turkestan, 159, 431, Prof. J. P. O'Reilly, 

 151; in North Atlantic Ocean, 183; in Siberia, 210; at 

 Vemoje, M. Wilkins, 230 ; Abstract of the Results of the 

 Charleston Earthquake, C. E. Dutton and Everett Hayden, 

 269, 297 ; Earthquakes in Hungary, Italy, and Greek Archi- 

 pelago, 307 ; Earthquake of June 9, 1887, in Central Asia, 

 Venukoff, 312 ; Earthquakes observed at Shetland Light- 

 houses, R. H. Scott, F.R.S., 325 ; Note on the Earthquake 

 of February 23, 1887, at Nice, Bouquet de la Grye, 336 ; 

 Effect of Earthquakes upon Lower Animals, Prof. Milne, 350 ; 

 Earthquake in Algeria, 350 ; in Bavaria, 376 ; in Ecuador, 

 376 ; in United States, 376 ; at Bonn, 452 ; Protection of 

 Buildings from Earthquake Shocks, 475 ; Earthquake in 

 Greece, 541 ; the Sonora Earthquake of May 3, 1887, Dr. T. 

 Sterry Hunt, F. R. S., and J as. Douglas, 572; Earthquakes in 

 Constantinople, on the Greek Mainland, in the Ionian Islands, 

 the Cyclades, the Peloponnese, South-East of Hungary, Island 

 of Navassa, 587 



Earths, Chemistry of the Rare, A. E. Tutton, 357 



Earths, Rare, Absorption- Spectra of. Dr. G. H. Bailey, 570 



Earthworms, Recent Researches on, W. B, Benham, 593 



Eaton (H. S.), Globular Lightning, 215 



Ebbels (Arthur), Thought without Words, 173 



Ecker (Dr. Alexander), Death of, 137 



Eclipses : Lunar, of August 3, 367 ; G. Rayet, 383 ; H. P. Malet, 

 413; of August 3, 1887, E. Lescarbault, 432 ; Total Solar of 

 1886, W\ H. Pickering, 308 ; Total Solar of August 19, 1887, 

 60, 398 ; the Total Solar, Prof. Cacciatore, 45 ; Dr. A. 

 Woeikof, 77 ; Arrangements for the Observation of, 373 ; 

 Janssen, 432 ; H. G. Madan, 437 ; M. Niesten, 455 ; in 

 Japan, Prof. David P. Todd, 609 ; the Eclipse in Siberia, 

 430 ; Princeton Eclipse Expedition, Prof. C. A. Young, 54.7 ; 

 Effect of Eclipses upon Lower Animals, 398 ; Meteorological 

 Observations during Eclipses of the Sun, Prof. Upton, 24 



Ecuador, Earthquake in, 376 



Economics, the Elements of, Henry Dunning Macleod, 27 



Edgeworth (F. Y.), the Law of Error, 482 



Edinburgh: Royal Society, 95, 118, 287, 335, 382; Vacation 

 Natural Science Courses in, 230 



Education : Report of the Select Committee on Endowed 

 Schools, 21 ; State of Education in Italy, Prof. A. Amati, 45 ; 

 Education in America, W. Odell, 295 ; Education Estimates, 

 374 ; Education in Germany, Samuel Smith, 567 ; Technical 

 Education, 87, 135, 279 ; the Clothworkers Company and, 

 42 ; National Association for Formation of, 229 ; City and 

 Guilds of London Institute for Advancement of Technical 

 Education, Sir P. Magnus's Report, 349 ; Technical Education 

 Bill, 283, 305, 309, 323, 347 ; Abandonment of, 398 ; the 

 Scotch Technical Education Bill, 347, 430, 475 



Edward (Thos. ) Memorial, the Proposed, 42 



Edwards (Aubrey), Swifts, 605 



Egbert (H. V.), Brooks's Comet, 454 



Egger's (Baron) Botany of San Domingo, W. T. Thiselton Dyer, 

 F.R.S., 367 



Eggs, Floating, Edward E. Prince, 294 ; W. S. Green, 319 



Egypt, Prof. Paul Ascherson's Botanical Researches in, 254 



Egypt, Account of a Recent Visit to the Ancient Porphyry 

 Quarries of, W. Brindley, 595 



Egyptian Photographs Committee, Report of the B.A. Com- 

 mittee, 520 



Ekholm (Dr. Nils), Measurements of the Heights and Motions of 

 Clouds in Spitzbergen, 459 



Electricity : on Variations of Intensity in the Dry Pile, Prof- 

 Luigi Palmier], 45 ; on a Modification of Maxwell's Method 

 of measuring the Coefficient of Self-induction, E. C. Reming- 

 ton, 94 : on Transformers for Electric Distribution, Dr. S. 

 P. Thompson, 142 ; Zigang's Electric Trumpet, 160 ; Elec- 

 tricity at Oxford, 154 ; Names for Electric Units of Self- 

 induction and Conductivity, Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, F. R. S., 

 174; Note on Vaschy and Touanne's Method of comparing 

 Mutual Induction with Capacity, Prof. G. C. Foster, 191 ; 

 Electromotive Properties of Torpedo marmorata, Francis 

 Gotch, 262 ; a Century of Electricity, T. C. Mendenhall, 

 266 ; Electricity and Hygiene, Sambuc, 280 ; Nahrwold's 

 Experiments on Atmospheric Electricity, 280 ; Experiments 

 on Discharge of Electricity through Gases, Prof. A. Schuster, 

 F.R.S., 285, 522 ; What takes place during Decompoition of 

 Water in an Electrolyzing Cell, Dr. Richarz, 288 ; Proposed 

 Electrical Exhibition in New York, 306 ; Wild Geese killed 

 by Lightning, 307 ; the Jubilee of the Electric Telegraph, 

 313, 326 ; Novel Series of Voltaic Combinations, Dr. 

 A. Wright and C. Thompson, 349 ; Electricity of Contact 

 of Gases wiih Liquids, J. Enright, 365, 460 ; Prof. Oliver 

 J. Lodge, F.R.S., 412; Electric Excitement of Liver, 

 Grehant and Mislawsky, 408 ; Electro- Calorimetry, a Null 

 Method in, Dr. William Stroud, 483 ; Electro-Calori- 

 metry, a Null Method in. Prof. Stroud and W. W. Hal- 

 dane Gee, 523 ; Report of the B.A. Electrical Committee, 

 498 ; Report of the B.A. Electrolysis Committee, Dr. Oliver 

 Lodge, 520 ; New Electric Balances, Sir William Thomson, 

 F.R.S., 522; on the Theory of Electrical Endosmose and 

 Allied Phenomena, and on the Existence of a Sliding 

 Coefficient for a Fluid in Contact with a Solid, Prof. Lamb, 

 F.R. S., 523; on the Action of an Electric Current in 

 hastening the Formation of Lagging Compounds, Dr. Glad- 

 stone, F. R. S. , 424 ; Modem Views of Electricity, Dr. Oliver 

 J. Lodge, F.R. S., 532, 559, 582 ; Modification of Cowper's 

 Writing Telegraph, J. H. Robertson, 540; an Electric 

 Chronometer, 541 ; some Points in Electrolysis and Electric 

 Conduction, Prof. G. Wiedemann, 546 ; Further Researches 

 concerning the Electrolysis of Water, Prof von Helmholtz, 

 547 ; on the Electro-deposition of Alloys, Prof. S. P. 

 Thompson, 547 ; Experiments on the Possible Electrolytic 

 Decomposition of Alloys, Prof Roberts- Austen, F.R.S., 547 ; 

 on the Action of the Solvent in Electrolytic Conduction, T. 

 C. Fitzpatrick, 547 ; on the Accuracy of Ohm's Law in 

 Electrolysis, Prof. Fitzgerald, F.R.S., and F. Trouton, 547 ; 

 Final Value of the B.A. Unit of Electrical Resistance, as 

 determined by the American Committee, Prof. H. A. Row- 

 land, 549 ; Observations of Atmospheric Electricity, Prof. L. 

 Weber, 548 ; Experiments in Electrolysis and Electrolytic 

 Polarization, W. W. Haldane Gee, Henry Holden, and 

 Chas. H. Lees, 550 ; on the Formulas of Dimensions in 

 Electricity, M. G. Lippman, 624 



Elements, New Chemical, Discovery of, Profs. Kriiss and Nilson, 

 324 



Eleven- Year Periodical Fluctuation of the Carnatic Rainfall, 

 Henry F. Blanford, F.R.S., 227 



Elkin (Dr. W. L.), Relative Positions of the Principal Stars in 

 the Pleiades, 232 



Elliott's (D. G.) Ornithological Collections, 279 



Ellis (William), on the Constant P in Observations of Terres- 

 trial Magnetism, 436 



Elloughton in the Humber Valley, Mammaliferous Gravel at, 

 G. W. Lamplugh, 153 



Embryology, an Introduction to the Study of, A. C. Haddon, 

 601 



Emin Pasha, 41 ; Explorations of Lake Albert Nyanza, i6i ; 

 Collection of Specimens received from, at the Natural History 

 Museum, 539 



Emotions, Expression of the, 294 



Encyclopaedia Britannica, the. Vol. XXII., Sib-Szo, 577 



Endowed Schools, Report of the Select Committee on, 21 



Engeland Kiener(MM.) Toluylendiamine, 504 



Engineering Education at University College of Bristol, 499 



England, Bird Life in, Edwin Lester Arnold, Prof. R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, 435 



England, Central, on some Important Extra- Morainic Lakes in. 

 Prof H. Carvill Lewis, 573 



England, Eastern, on the Extension of the Scandinavian Ice to, 

 in the Glacial Period, Prof. Otto Torell, 573 



