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INDEX 



[Nahcre, Dec. i, i{ 



England and Wales, Geology of, Horace B. Woodward, 218 

 Engler(A. ) : the Aponogetonacese, 117 ; Botanischejahrbiicher, 



117; and K. Prandl, Die Natlirlichen Pflanzenfamilien, 123 

 English (Major Thomas), Initial Condensation in a Steam 



Cylinder, 551 

 English and Foreign Technical Education, Prof. Silvanus 



Thompson, 614 

 English Tobacco Culture, 124 

 Enright (J.), Electricity of Contact of Gases with Liquids, 365, 



460 

 Entomology : Lord Walsingham's Collection of Lepidoptera 



at the British Museum, 62 ; Ravages of May-bugs in Denmark, 



63; Entomological Society, 71, 215, 311, 382, 527 

 Eozoon canadense, New Facts relating to, Sir J. William Daw- 

 son, F.R.S., 574 

 Equator, Upper Wind Currents near the, and the Diffusion of 



Krakatab Dust, Hon. Ralph Abercromby, 85 ; E. Douglas 



Archibald, 152 

 Equatorial Regions of the Atlantic, Upper Cloud Movements 



in the, Capt. David Wilson-Barker, 197 ; Hon. Ralph Aber- 

 cromby, 222 

 Equivalents, Dispersion, and Constitutional Formulae, Dr. J. H. 



Gladstone, 570 

 Errera, Maistrian, and Claustrian (MM.), on Alkaloids in Plants, 



116 

 Error, Law of, J. Venn, 411 ; F. Y. Edgeworth, 482 ; T. W. 



Backhouse, 531 

 Essays and Addresses, Rev. Jas. IVL Wilson, 195 

 Ether, Luminiferous, on the Vortex-Theory of. Prof Sir W. 



Thomson, F. R. S., 550 

 Ether, Acetic Velocity of Formation of. Prof. Menschutkin, 



569 

 Ethnographic Map of American Indian Dialects, A. S. Gatschet, 



112 

 Ethnography : Juridical Customs of the Mordovians, Mainoff, 



400 

 Ethnology of the Ogoway and Lower Congo Basins, Cav. A. 



Pecile, 377 

 Etiology of Scarlet Fever, Dr. E. Klein, F.R.S., 126 

 Ettingshausen (Von) and Nernst, the Hall Effect manifested in 



Different Metals, 185 

 Eucharis, the Orbit of the Minor Planet, Dr. L. de Ball, 16 ; 



Dr. W. Valentiner, 77 

 Europe, the Climate of. Dr. Supan, 257 

 Europe and America, the Problem of the Hop Plant Louse 



[Phorodon humtili, Schrank) in. Prof. C. V. Riley, 566 

 European Coasts, Time-Signalling on. Prof Foerster, 307 

 Evans (Dr. John, F.R.S.), Pre-History of the North, J. J. A, 



Worsaae, 97 

 Evolution, what American Zoologists have done for, Prof. Morse. 



398 

 Evolution, Factors of Organic, Dr. Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 



401 

 Evolution, Essays on, Origin of the Fittest, E. D, Cope, Dr, 



Geo, J. Romanes, F.R.S., 505 

 Ewald (Prof.), Behaviour of Salol in Stomach, 287 

 Ewart (Prof j. C), on the Presence of Bacteria in the Lymph, 



&c., of Living Fish and other Vertebrates, 251 

 Ewing (Prof. J. A., F.R.S ) : a Recent Japanese Earthquake, 



107 ; and W. Low, on the Magnetization of Iron in Strong 



Fields, 546 ; Magnetization of Hadfield's Manganese Steel in 



Strong Fields, 548 ; on the Influence of a Plane of Transverse 

 •Section on the Magnetic Permeability of an Iron Bar, 548 

 Excursions et Reconnaissances of Saigon, 501 

 Exhibition at Glasgow, Proposed International, 137 

 Exhibition, Philippine, 231 

 Exhibition (1888), the Brussels, 282 



Explosions in Mines, Relation of Coal-Dust to, Arthur Watts 



221 ' 



Explosions, Colliery, and Atmospheric Pressure, Hy. Harries 



437 

 Eye, Parietal, in Fishes, J. Beard, 246, 340 

 Eye, Photography of Interior of, Dr. Rosebrugh, no 



Fabre_(Ch.) : on the Alums formed by Selenic Acid, 287 ; Ilhs- 

 trations of the Law of Isomorphism, 307 ; Heat of Formation 

 of Crystallized Tellurides, 360 



Factors of Organic Evolution, Dr. Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S. , 



401 

 Fauna of Liverpool Bay and the Neighbouring Seas, First Report 



on the, 149 

 Fauna of Kirghiz Steppe, Nazaroff, 476 



Fauna, Permian, of Bohemia, on the. Prof. Anton Fritsch, 591 

 Fanrie (M. G. A.), on the Reduction of Alumina, 528 

 Faye (H. ) : on the Analogy between Whirlwinds and Water- 

 spouts, and Cyclones and Tornadoes, 23; the Nice Obsei-vatory, 



282; Tornadoes in U.S., 456; the Recent Waterspout in 



Lake Geneva, 552 

 Fearnley (W.), a Course of Elementary Practical Histology, 481 

 Featherman (A.), Social Plistory of the Races of Mankind, 



Prof. A. H. Keane, 147 

 Ferguson (W.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 430 

 Fermenti e Microbi, Prof Giglioli, Dr. E. Klein, F.R.S., 316 

 Fernando Po, Dr. Oscar Baumann on the Island of, 617 

 Ferns, the Mucilage-Cells of, Tokutaro Ito and Walter Gardiner, 



214 

 Ferrini (Prof.), Effects of a Thunderbolt, 116 

 Fertilization of the Coffee Plant, T. F. Bourdillon, 580 

 Fever, Scarlet, Etiology of. Dr. E. Klein, F.R.S , 126 

 Fewkes (J. Walter), a Hydroid Parasitic on a Fish, 660 

 Fifty Years' Progress in Clocks and Watches, Henry Dent 



Gardner, 392, 484 

 Finistere, Geological Structure of, 212 

 Finsbury Technical College, 256, 282 



Fire, Sun and. Symbolism, Mrs. J. C. Murray- Aynsley, 364 

 Firth of Forth, Bridging the, B. Baker, 79 

 Fischer and Pengoldt (Drs.), Experiments on the Sensitiveness 



of the Sense of Smell, 90 

 Fish landed in Scotland during Four Months ended April 



1887, 63, 160, 256 

 Fish-Culture at Dulverton, 89 ; the Rainbow Trout, 209 ; 



National Fish-Culture Association, 564 

 Fish, Temperature in Relation to, 213 

 Fish, Dying, F. T. Mott, 222 

 Fish, Living, and other Vertebrates, on the Presence of 



Bacteria in the Lymph, &c., of. Prof J. C. Ewart, 251 

 Fish and Fisheries, G. Brown Goode appointed U.S. Commis- 

 sioner of, 475 

 Fish, Destruction of Young, Capt. David Wilson-Barker, 557 

 Fish, a Hydroid Parasitic on a, J.Walter Fewkes, 604 

 Fishes, Fossil, of Mount Lebanon, 132 

 Fishes, Parietal Eye in, J. Beard, 246, 340 

 Fishes, Poisonous, 350 

 Fishes, on the Degeneration of the Olfactory Organ of certain, 



Prof. Wiedersheim, 592 

 Fittest, Origin of the, Essays on Evolution, E. D. Cope, Dr. 



Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 505 

 Fitzgerald (Prof., F.R.S.) and F. Trouton, on the Accuracy of 



Ohm's Law in Electrolysis, 547 

 Fitzpatrick (J. C), on the Action of the Solvent in Electrolytic 



Conduction, 547 

 Fizeau (H.), on Sound-Mirage, 95 

 Flamsteed's Stars " Observed but not Existing," Prof. C. H. F. 



Peters, 542 

 Flash and Explosion, a Meteor's, Dr. John William Moore, 



508 

 Fletcher (A. E.), Present Position of the Alkali Trade, 569 

 Fletcher (L.), Cubic Crystals of Graphitic Carbon, 304 

 Flight (Dr. Walter, F.R.S.) Memorial of, 348 

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

 Flora of the Philippine Island?:, 14 

 Flora of Christmas Island, W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.R.S., 



78 .. 

 Flora, British, Illustrations of the, 171 

 Flora of the Altai, A. Krasnoff, 325 

 Flora and Fauna of the Cameroons Mountain, Report of the 



B.A. Committee appointed for the Purpose of investigating 



the, 517 

 Flora of China, Report of the B.A. Committee appointed for 



the Purpose of continuing the Preparation of a Report on our 



Present Knowledge of the, 518 

 Flora of North Patagonia, John Ball, F.R.S., 539 

 Florida, Notes on the Geology of, William H. Dall, 575 

 Flower (Prof., F.R.S.), Jubilee Address at the Zoological 



Society of London, 186 

 Flowers, Alpine, the Preservation of, III 



