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Index 



[Siippletneftt to Nature, 

 June 2, 1892 



Distant (W. L.), Warning Colours, 174 



Distribution of Energy in Stellar Spectra, Prof. Pickering, 159 



Dittmar (William), Obituary Notice of, 493 



Dixon (Edward T.), the Implications of Science, 125, 272, 

 391 



Dixon (J. E.), Curious Death of a Ring-tailed Opossum, 88 



Dixon (Mr.), the Logical Foundations of Applied Mathema- 

 tical Sciences, 407 



Dobbie (J. J.), Corydaline, 383 



Dobbin (Leonard), Arithmetical Exercises in Chemistry, 76 



Dog, the Anatomy of the, 16 



Dog, the Tubercular Vaccination of the, Hericourt and Richet, 

 576 



Dog working in a Treadmill, Assimilation of Diet investigated 

 on a. Dr. Rosenberg, 599 



Dogs, Intelligence of, 177 



Dorp (W. A. van). Action of Aqueous Solution of Ammonia 

 on Phthalic Chloride, 72 



Double Orange, Gerald B. Francis, 607 



Downing (F. S.), Death of, 85 



Draper Catalogue of Stellar Spectra, A. Fowler, 427 



Dredging Operations in the Eastern Pacific, Prof. Alexander 

 Agassiz, 281 



Drouin (R.), Fixation of Nitrogen by Arable Soils, 192 



Du Bois-Reymond (Prof. E., F.R.S.), on the Relation of 

 Natural Science to Art, 200, 224 



Dublin Royal Society, 166, 28.7, 407, 455 



Dublin, Trinity College, Tercentenary Celebration of, 378 



Dufour (M.), Influence on Electro- Magnetic Resonance of Un- 

 symmetrical Arrangement of Propagation Circuit, 408 



Dundas (Capt.), Expedition to Mount Kenia in East Africa, 

 Ernest Gedge, 566 



Dunn (Matthias), Pilchards, 511 



Dunstan (W. R.), the Aconite Alkaloids, ii. atid iii., 525; 

 Conditions of Combination between Cyanides of Zinc and 

 Mercury, 551 



Duppa-Crotch (W.), Migration of the Lemming, 199, 294 



Durham (H. E.), Wandering Cells in Echinoderms, &c., 450 



Durrant (Reginald G.), a Lecture Experiment on Sound, 415 



Dust Particles, on the Number of, in the Atmosphere of Various 

 Places in Great Britain and on the Continent, with Remarks 

 on the Relation between the Amount of Dust and Meteoro- 

 logical Phenomena, John Aitken, F.R.S., 299 



Dust Counting on Ben Nevis, Angus Rankin, 582 



Dutch Academy of Sciences, Haarlem, Prize Subjects proposed 

 by, 37 



Dwarfs of Mount Atlas, the, R. G. Haliburton, 66 



Dwarfs and Dwarf Worship, Harold Crichton- Browne, 269 



Dyer (J. M.), Elementary Trigonometry, 174 



Dyer (W. T. Thiselton, F.R.S.), Botany of the Emin Relief 

 Expedition, 8 ; Instruction in Horticulture, 402 



Dymond (T. S.), Mydatic Alkaloid Hyoscyamine in Lettuce, 

 214 



Dynamic Action and Ponderosity of Matter, by " Waterdale," 

 100 



Dynamics and Statics, Rev. J. B. Lock, loi 



Eagle, Spotted, Capture near Colchester of, 158 



Earth Vibrations, on. Dr. Emil Oddone, 510 



Earth's Shadow, Increase of the, during Lunar Eclipses, Dr. 

 Hartmann, 498 



Earthquakes : in Japan, 286 ; Effects of Earthquake in Japan, 

 38 ; Seismometry and Engineering in relation to the recent 

 Earthquake in Japan, Prof. John Milne, F.R.S., 127; the 

 recent Earthquake in Japan, Prof. F. A. Forel, 199 ; Earth- 

 quake-observing Stations in Japan, 471 ; Earthquake at Pan- 

 telleria, 120 ; at Corleone, 184; in Jamaica, 207; in Italy, 

 Greece, and New York State, 259 ; in Rome (Province) and 

 France, 304; in California, 471, 614; in Nicaragua, 471; 

 Effect of Earthquakes on Vegetation, Signor Goiran, 520 ; 

 Earthquake at Portland, Oregon, 586 {see also Seismology) 



Earthworm, a Rare British, Rev. Hilderic Friend, 365 



Echinoderms collected during the Fishing Survey on the West 

 Coast of Ireland, Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell, 598 



Eckert (J. P.), some Peculiar Changes in Colour of Flowers of 

 Sivainsotiia p7-ocumbens, 185 



Eclipse, Total Lunar, of November 15, 42 



Eclipse of the Moon, Robert C. Leslie, 53 



Eclipses, Lunar, Increase of the Earth's Shadow during. Dr. 

 Hartmann, 498 



Economic Congress at Antwerp, Proposed International, 586 



Economic Doctrine, the Relativity of. Rev. Prof. W. Cunning- 

 ham, 519 

 Economists, Austrian, William Smart, 268 

 Economy, Political : the Relativity of Economic Doctrine, 



Rev. Prof. W. Cunningham, 519 

 Edinburgh Royal Society, 239, 311, 431, 454, 527, 623 

 Edinburgh University Darwinian Society, 19, 53, 104 

 Edmunds (Walter), a Treatise on the Ligation of the Great 

 Arteries in Continuity with Observations on the Nature, Pro- 

 gress, and Treatment of Aneurism, Dr. M. Armand Ruffer, 

 530 . 

 Education : the Speaker of the House of Commons on Technical 

 Education, 19 ; Report on 1891 Technological Examina- 

 tions of City and Guilds of London Institute, 38 ; the Place 

 due to Horticulture in Technical Education, W. Wilks, 38 ; 

 True Relation of Technical Education to the Study of Pure 

 Science, Dr. Sorby, 38 ; Record of Technical and Secondary 

 Education, 65 ; Scientific and Technical Education in New 

 South Wales, 88 ; Technical Education in Essex, 155, 234 ; 

 in Scotland, 377 ; in London, 403 ; the New London County 

 Council and Technical Education, 566 ; Examinations in 

 Science, 85 ; Lord Cranbrook and the University Extension 

 Movement, 155; Education in the United States, 156; the 

 English Language in Japanese Schools, 303 ; the Registration 

 of Teachers, 324 ; Free Education in Ireland, 403 ; Dr. 

 Thomas Muir appointed Superintendent-General of Education 

 for Cape Colony, 443 ; the Government and Scientific Educa- 

 tion, 470 ; the Government and the proposed Teaching Univer- 

 sity for London, 470 ; Royal Commission to investigate the 

 Question of a Teaching University for London, 612; Ter- 

 centenary of the Birth of J. A. Comenius, 495 ; Report of 

 Committee on Grants to University Colleges in Great 

 Britain, 544 

 Edwards (Amelia B.), Death of, 586 ; Chair of Egyptology 



endowed by, 613 

 Edwards (E. P.), Burning Oils for Lighthouses, 379 

 Egg of the Extinct Gigantic Bird of Madagascar, ^pyornis 



niaximus, 586 

 Egypt under the Pharaohs, H. Brugsch-Bey, 363 

 Egypt Exploration Fund, the, 470 

 Egypt, Prehistory of, W. M. Flinders Petrie, 580 

 Egyptian Antiquities, proposed Grant on behalf of, 113 

 Egyptian Astronomy, on some Points in Ancient, J. Norman 



Lockyer, F. R.S., 296, 373 

 Egyptology, Chair of, endowed by Amelia B. Edwards, 613 

 Elder (H. M. ), Thermodynamical View of Action of Light on 



Silver Chloride, 524 

 Electricity : Electricity and Magnetism, translated from the 

 French of Amedee Guillemin, Prof. A. Gray, i ; Proposed 

 International Electrical Congress at Chicago, 19, 64, 85, 278; 

 Electric Snow-sweeper, 39 ; Experiments on the Production 

 of Ozone by Electric Silent Discharge, Siemens and Halske, 

 39 ; an Experiment of Sir Humphry Davy's, G. F. C. Searle, 

 47 ; some Notes on Clark's Cells, Glazebrook and Skinner, 

 47 ; some Notes on the Fra ikfort International Electrical 

 Exhibition, 54, 105 ; Electricity in Relation to Science, Prof. 

 W. Crookes, F.R.S., 63; Electrical Exhibition at the Crystal 

 Palace, 64, 113, 261, 356; Experimental Determination of 

 Velocity of Propagation of Electro-magnetic Waves, R. B. 

 Blondlot, 72 ; Electro-magnet and Electro-magnetic Mechan- 

 ism, S. P. Thompson, F.R.S., Prof. A. Gray, 73 ; Electrolysis 

 of Potassium Acetate Solutions, Dr. T. S. Murray, 93 ; the 

 Dielectric Power, Julien Lefebvre, 95 ; the Specification of 

 Insulated Conductors for Electric Lighting, W. H. Preece, 

 F.R.S., 15s ; the Thermal Emissivity of Thin Wires in Air, 

 Ayrton and Kilgour, 162 ; the Self-induction of two Parallel 

 Conductors, H. M. Macdonald, 166 ; Electricity in relation 

 to Mining, Ernest Scott, 184 ; Rotary Currents, Prof. W. E. 

 Ayrton, F.K.S., 191; a Thermo-Electric Standard of Electro- 

 motive Force, H. Bagard, 192 ; Electrical Engineering at 

 School of Mines, Columbia College, New York, 207 ; 

 Repulsion and Rotation produced by alternating Electric 

 Currents, G. T. Walker, 213 ; Study of Light and Heat 

 Phenomena accompanying Electrolysis, Lagrange and Hoho, 

 216 ; Interference with Alternating Currents, M. H. Kilgour, 

 238 ; a First Book of Electricity and Magnetism, W. 

 Perren Maycock, 248 ; Electricity on the Stage, 259 ; 

 Influence of Electric Discharge during Thunderstorms on 

 Apparatus registering Terrestrial Magnetism, Em. Marchand, 

 264 ; Electro-capillary Phenomena and Differences of Poten- 

 tial produced by Contact, Gouy, 264 ; Electrical Exhibition 



