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INDEX. 



Geometrical axioms, i. 199, 352 ; ii. 649, 



et seq. 



Geometry, deficiency of organisation 

 of research in England, i. 243 ; two 

 schools of, ii. 668. 

 Geophysics, ii. 363. 

 George, Duke of Saxony, reconstituted 



University of Leipzig, i. 159. 

 Gergonne, ii. 660 ; Hankel on, 666 ; 



673. 



Gerhardt, C. F., revives Prout's hypoth- 

 esis, i. 402 ; attack on electro-chemical 

 theory, 409; "type" theory, 411; 

 413; on the constitution of substances, 

 419; "types, "423; Gmelin's system 

 of equivalents, 426 ; characteristic of 

 hydrogen atoms, 430. 

 Gerhardt, C. J., on the invention of the 

 , calculus, i. 101 ; edited Leibniz, ' Phil- 



osophische Schriften,' ii. 5. 

 Germ plasma and body plasma, ii. 457, 

 458 ; plasma, diiferentiation of, 459. 

 German Association, character and de- 

 cline of, i. 238. 



German language, peculiarity of, i. 22. 

 German universities, i. 226. 

 Germany leads in the history of thought, 



i. 46. 



Gervinus on Herder, i. 51 ; connection 

 of political and literary history, 59 ; 

 ' Georg Forster's Werke,' 179 ; rela- 

 tions of philosophy and history, 206 ; 

 "theoretical politician," 311. 

 Gesner of Gottingen University, i. 165. 

 "Gewerbeschulen," i. 166. 

 Gibbon, i. 47; 'Roman Empire,' 169; 

 influence of, on German thought and 

 literature, 212 ; in German univer- 

 sities, 251. 



Gibbs, J. Willard, energetics, ii. 166, 

 171; "free energy," 173; chemical 

 equilibrium, 175, 177 ; formulae of, 

 185 ; on directional calculus. 655 ; 

 656. 

 Gibson, George A., "Fourier's series," 



i. 241. 

 Giese, vacuum-tube experiments, ii. 



190. 



Gilbert, Sir J. H., agricultural experi- 

 ments and publications of, i. 284. 

 Gilbert, Wm., Bacon's indebtedness to, 



i. 94. 



Glaciers, Helmholtz's theory of, ii. 127. 

 Glaisher, Prof., quoted on invention of 

 logarithms, i. 269 ; 321 ; law of error, 

 ii. 576. 



Glazebrook, Prof., 'Report on Optical 

 Theories,' ii. 54 ; Lord Kelvin's 

 theory of ether, 55 ; ' James Clerk- 



Maxwell and Modern Physics," 77 5 

 indefiniteness of Maxwell's electro- 

 magnetic theory, 94. 

 Gmelin, Chr., chemist, i. 188 ; hand- 

 book of chemistry, 208. 

 Gmelin, Leopold, ' Handbuch der 

 Chemie,' i. 43, ii. 158 ; system of 

 equivalents of, i. 426, 430. 

 Goebel, Prof., on biology, ii. 313. 

 Goethe quoted on history, i. 7 ; quoted 

 on the success of the few, 9 ; made 

 modern German language, 22 ; atti- 

 tude of, to national idealism of Ger- 

 many, 39 ; style of, 51 ; his work, 

 61 ; influence of, on taste, 67 ; 

 ' Faust,' 76 ; school of, 84 ; Lewes's 

 Life of, 166 ; 179 ; as a scientist, 180 ; 

 influenced by the Naturphttosophie, 

 207 ; 212 ; introduced hexameter into 

 German poetry, 213 ; quoted 251, 286, 

 ii. 3, 254, 258 ; educational signifi- 

 cance of his writings, i. 258 ; 261 ; 

 correspondence of, 279 ; on Luke 

 Howard, 286 ; introduction of the 

 term morphology, ii. 210 ; 213 ; 

 theory of metamorphosis, 223, 243, 

 267 ; influence of, 225 ; theories of, 

 246 ; influence of Linnaeus, 252 ; 253 ; 

 the genetic view, 317, 321 ; subjective 

 colour sensations, 482 ; foundations 

 of the study of language, 538. 

 Goldstein, vacuum-tube experiments, 

 ii. 190; "ether" theory of cathode 

 rays, 192. 

 Goltz, experiments on the brain, ii. 



478 ; 479. 



Goodsir, cell theory, ii. 265. 

 Gordon, Lewis, Carnot's 'Puissance 



motrice,' ii. 118. 

 Gottingen, prize essays on principles of 



dynamics, ii. 97. 

 'Gottinger Gelehrte Anzeigen' of 



Haller, i. 176. 

 Gough, John, the blind naturalist, i. 



287. 



Gourand quoted, ii. 571. 

 Graevius, recognition of Bentley, i. 169. 

 Graff, Prof. L. von, on Haeckel's 



'Stammbaume,' ii. 337. 

 Graham, Thomas, chemistry, i. 44 ; 

 salts and acids, 410 ; experimental 

 work of, ii. 161 : 164 ; discoveries of, 

 224. 



Grandi, series of, ii. 646. 

 Grant, Sir A., 'Story of the University 

 of Edinburgh,' i. 160, 232, 267, 269, 

 283 ; on David Gregory, 270 ; on 

 Bell, 293. 

 Grant, Prof., natural selection, ii. 330. 



