INDEX. 



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Ecole des Fonts et Chaussees, i. 107. 



Ecole normale superieure, i. 112, 113, 

 ,237. 



Ecole polytechnique of Paris, i. 112 ; 

 used as model for German poly- 

 technic schools, 166. 



Ecole veterinaire d'Alfort, i. 107. 



Ecoles de Sante, i. 113 ; founded at 

 Paris, Strasbourg, and Montpellier, 

 142. 



Economics and biology, ii. 415. 



Edgeworth, Prof., " The Law of Error," 

 ii. 576. 



' Edinburgh Magazine and Review ' 

 issued, i. 273. 



' Edinburgh Review,' literary criticism 

 of, i. 84 ; 233 ; quoted, 234, 235, 236; 

 on English universities, 254 ; 270 ; 

 first issued, 273; Brougham's attack 

 on Young, ii. 19. 



Edison, phonograph, ii. 490. 



Education, and instruction, i. 258 ; 

 liberal, ideal of, 255. 



Educational conflict on discipline, i. 

 133. 



Educational efforts indifferent countries, 

 i. 252 et seq.; in Scotland, 253 ; liter- 

 ature of Switzerland, ib. 



Educational institutions, French, i. 112. 



Educational organisations in England, 

 i. 262. 



Edward, Thomas, shoemaker and zool- 

 ogist, i. 287. 



Edwards, George, 'History of Birds,' i. 

 287. 



Edwards, Milne, ' History of Inverte- 

 brates,' ii. 239 ; Lamarck, 310 ; Hux- 

 ley on, 322 ; " physiological division 

 of labour," 396. 



Ehrenberg, ' Ueber Leibnitzens Meth- 

 od e,' ii. 280. 



Eighteenth century, one of revolution, 

 i. 77. 



Eisenstein, and theory of numbers, ii. 

 684. 



Elasticity, theory of, ii. 30, 40 ; 31 ; 

 foundation of theory of, 41. 



Electrical and magnetic action, i. 344. 



Electricity, and magnetism, ii. 64 et seq.; 

 velocities of light and, compared, 84 ; 

 modern researches, 189 ; electric dis- 

 charges, 195 ; animal, 475. 



Electro-dynamics, Wilhelm Weber's law 

 of, i. 196 ; ii. 149. 



Electro-magnetic theory, ii. 64 ; in- 

 definiteness of, 93 ; 153. 



Electro-magnetism, discovery of, i. 92. 



Electrolysis, ii. 154 et seq. 



Electron, the term, ii. 193. 



" Electrotonic " state of matter, ii. 68, 

 81. 



Elizabeth, England under, i. 67. 



Elliptic functions, history of, ii. 648 

 et seq. 



Ellis, Alex. T., on terminology of sound, 

 ii. 489. 



Ellis, Robert Leslie, on Bacon, i. 94, 

 96 ; his report, ii. 649. 



Elphinstone, Bishop, started Aberdeen 

 University, i. 268. 



Elster and Geitel, vacuum tube ex- 

 periments, ii. 190. 



Emanations, law of, i. 344. 



Embryology, ii. 296. 



Empedocles, relation to Galileo and 

 Newton, i. 313 ; attraction and repul- 

 sion, 385 ; recurrent cycles, ii. 287. 



Encke, "calculus of probabilities," i. 

 325. 



' Encyclopadie der Mathematischen 

 Wissenschaften,' ii. 73. 



Encyclopadie, lectures on, i. 37. 



'Encyclopaedia Britannica,' article on 

 Napier, i. 269 ; first published, 273 ; 

 article on "Agriculture" quoted, 

 284; article on F. Mohr, ii. 106; 

 article on Sainte Claire Deville, 163 ; 

 232, 279, 569. 



' Encyclopaedia Metropolitana,' i. 236. 



Encyclopedia of Ersch and Gruber, i. 

 35. 



Encyclopaedias, origin of, i. 40. 



Encyclopaedic treatment of learning, 

 age of, i. 34, 215 ; view necessary in 

 philosophy and history, 203 ; treat- 

 ment of scientific subjects, 214. 



Encyclopaedists followed Newton, i. 96 ; 

 constructive work of school of, 110 ; 

 educational influence of, 112. 



Energetics, science of, ii. 141 ; 166 ; 

 kinetics and, 180. 



Energy, conservation of, i. 199, 201 ; 

 theory of, ii. 87, 96 ; works deal- 

 ing with, 97 ; dissipation of, 97, 364 ; 

 the term first used by Young, 98 ; 

 notion of, contained in Newton's 

 'Principia,' 99 ; the term introduced 

 by Thomson, 115; and "Force," 

 115 ; availability and dissipation of, 

 119; doctrine of, 124; revolutions 

 brought about by idea of, 137 ; 

 " potential " and " actual," 139, 398 ; 

 influence of doctrine of, 399 ; circu- 

 lation of, 420 ; 465 ; availability of, 

 594. 



Engel, F., on taste in mathematics, ii. 

 632 ; on genesis of Lie's ideas, 692. 



England, science and philosophy in, 



