Siippletnent to NatnrCy~\ 

 November yi^ 1893 J 



Index 



XVII 



Encyclopaedia of Technical Education, an, 388 

 Energetics, the Third Principle of, H. Le Chatelier, 632 ; W. 

 Meyerhoffer, 456 



Energy, the Decomposition of, into Two Factors, W. Meyer- 

 hofler, 523 



Engel (Dr.), the Development of Blood Corpuscles, 47 



Engel (M. R.), Relation between the Precipitation of Chlorides 

 by Hydrochloric Acid and the Lowering of the Boiling Point, 

 608 



Engine, Steam, a Handbook on the, Herman Haeder, N. J. 

 Lockyer, 314 



Engineering : the Interdependence of Abstract Science and En- 

 gineering, Dr. William Anderson, F. R S., 65 ; Death of 

 E. A. Cooper, 78 ; Opening of New Engineering and 

 Electrical Laboratories at University College, 107 ; Institution 

 of Civil Engineers, 131 ; Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 

 356; Civil Engineering, Death and Obituary Notice of 

 Thomas Hawksley, 522 ; Pocket-Book of Useful Formulas 

 and Memoranda for Civil and Mechanical Engineers, Sir 

 Guilford L. Molesworlh and Robert Bridges Molesworth, 

 6io 



England, the Archaeological Survey of, 272 



English Lagoons, on, P. H. Emerson, 515 



Entomology : Swarms of Amphipods, Prof. W. A. Herdman, 

 F.R.S., 28 ; the Use of Ants to Aphides and Coccidse, Dr. 

 Geo. J. Romanes, F. R.S., Alfred O. Walker, 54 ; the Sound 

 Producing Organs of Ants, Dr. D. Sharp, F.R.S., 65 ; the 

 Digestive Processes in the Acarina, A. D. Michael, 71 ; 

 What becomes of the Aphis in the Winter? T. A. Sharpe, 

 77 ; Locust Swarms in South Africa, 95 ; Locust Plagues, 

 Col. Swinhoe, 95 ; Entomological Society, 95, 191, 607 ; 

 Notes from the Habits of some Living Scorpions, R. I. 

 Pocock, 104 ; Singular Swarms of Flies, Prof. F. Jeffrey 

 Bell, 127; Henry Cecil, 127; R. E. Froude, 103, 176; 

 Baron C. R. Oesten Sacken, 176; Shower of Ants and 

 Flies in Cambridgeshire, 351 ; M. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., 

 appointed Hope Professor at Oxford, 154 ; Examples of 

 Mimicry in Insects, 160 ; the Stainton Collection of Lepi- 

 doptera, Lord Walsingham, 322 ; Plague of Wasps in 

 Southern Counties, 351 ; the Ox Bot-fly in the United States, 

 Prof. C. V. Riley, 378 : Numerous Insects washed up by the 

 Sea, Sophie Kropoikin, 370 ; Oswald H. Latter, 392 ; the 

 Fungus Gardens of Certain South American Ants, John C. 

 Willis, 392 ; a Few Remarks on Insect Prevalence during the 

 Summer of 1893, Eleanor A. Ormerod, 394; Insects at- 

 tracted by Solanum, Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, 438 ; the 

 Hessian Fly in Norway, 618 ; a New Enemy of the Vine, 

 Blanyidus guttulaliis, M. Fontaine, 632 



Ephemeris of the New Comet, Prof. E. Lamp, 276 



Equatorial Mounting, a Simple, 401 



Equilibre des Liqueurs, Recit de la Grande Experience de 1', 

 Blaise Pascal, 436 



Error, a Remarkable Source of, 401 



Error in Drawing, Compulsory Laws of, Arthur L. Haddon, 

 402, 416 



Eruptive Bosses, on Structures in, which resemble those of An- 

 cient Gneisses, Sir Archibald Geikie, F.R.S., 531 



Eruptive Rocks and Gneiss, Augen-Structure in Relation to the 

 Origin of, J. G. Goodchild, 532 



Eruptive Rocks of Gran (Christiana Region), on the Genetic 

 Relations of the Basic, Prof. W. C. Brogger, 531 



Esker Systems of Ireland, the, Prof. Sollas, 533 



Espin (T. E.), Stars with Remarkable Spectra, 233 



Ether, the Luminiferous, Sir G. G. Stokes, 306 



Ether and Matter, on the Connection between the, Prof. O. 

 Lodge, 527, 528 



Ethnographic Aspect of Dancing, Mrs. Lilly Grove, 557 



Ethnographical Notes on the Congo Tribes, Herbert Ward, 

 558 



Ethnology : Seventh Annual Report ofthe Bureau of Ethnology 

 to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-86, J. 

 W. Powell, 3 ; the Gilbert Islands, Dr. O. Finsch, 92 ; 

 Life with Trans-Sinerian Savages, E. Douglas Howard, 339 



Etna, Rise of Lava in Crater of. Dr. Johnston-Lavis, 179 



Eudiometer, the Word, Philip J. Hartog, 127 



European Laboratories of Marine Biology, 404 



Eustis, Florida, Subtropical Botanical Laboratory established 

 at, 545 



Evans (Sir John, Treas. R.S.), Society of Chemical Industry, 

 279 



Evershed (].), the Corona Spectrum, 268 



Evolution and Classification, Prof. C. E. Bessey, 534 ■ 



Evolution of Colour in the Genus Megascops, 559 



Ewart (J. C), the Electric Organ of the Skaie, 93 



Ewing (Prof. J. A., F.R.S.), Magnetic Curve Tracers, 64; 



Magnetic Qualities of Iron, 335 

 Exhibition, Antwerp, "Castle m the Air" for forthcoming, 569 

 Exhibition of Fruit Culture, Projected Russian International, 



376 

 Exhibition at Munich, the Deutsche Mathematiker-Vereinigung, 



619 

 Exhibition at San Frarci.^co, Projected International, 445 

 Exner (K.), Polarising Effects o( Refraction of Light, 260 

 Expansions, Apparatus for Measuring, 461 

 Experts, the Position of Scientific, 381, 423 



Faber (H.), the Linear Transformations between Two 



Quadrics, 95 

 Falkenhorst (G.), Hygroscopic Plants, 253 

 Fauna and Flora of Chile and Argentinia, Dr. Philippi, 619 

 Fauna, a Vertebrate, of Argyll and the Inner Hebrides, J. A. 



Harvie- Brown and T. E. Buckley, 123 

 Faye (H.), the "Serpent d'Eau" of the Rhone at Geneva, 584 

 Fellahin of Palestine, Astronomy of the, 601 

 Fenton (H. J. H.), Oxidation of Tartaric Acid in Presence of 



Iron, 94 

 Fernbach (M.), Greater Efficiency of Disinfectants at High 



Temperatures and with Moistures, 377 

 Festing (Major-General), Photometry, 190 

 Fidler (T. Claxton), a Practical Treatise on Bridge Construction, 



6l2 



Field Voles, the Plague of, 282 ' 



Films, the Thickness and Electrical Conductivity of Thin 



Liquid, A. W. Reinold, F.R.S., 624 

 Finger-Prints, Supplementary Chapter to Mr. Francis Galton's 



Book on, 182 

 Finger-Prints in the Indian Army, Francis Galton, F.R.S., 595 

 f'inkelnberg (Herr), the Cholera Bacillus, 207 

 Finlay's Comet (l886, vii.). 61, 81, 112, 135, 158, 184, 



208, 276, 300, 326, 355 ; M. Schulhol, 233, 254 ; Comet Finlay 



and the Praesepe, 512 

 Finley (J. P.), Certain Climatic Features of the Two Dakotas, 



599 

 Finsch (Dr. O.), the Gilbert Islands, 92 

 Fire-Alarm, New Electric, MM. Delahaye and Boutille, 423 

 Fireball of January 13, 1893, Prof. H. A. Newton, 524 

 Fish Culture ; the Projected Stocking of Yellowstone Park 



Waters, 424 

 Fishes, on the EflTect of the Stimulation of the Vagus on Dis- 

 engagement of Gases in the Swim-bladder of. Dr. Christian 



Bohr, 575 

 Fishes, the Lateral Canal System of, W. E. Collinge, 576 

 Fisher (Dr. A. K.), Hawks and Owls the Farmer's Friends, 



133 



Fisher (Osmond), Rigidity not to be relied upon in Estimat- 

 ing Earth's Age, 187 



Fisher (Prof. W. R.), the Use of Scientific Terms, 590 



Fit2gerald (Prof. G. F.) on the Period of Vibration of Dis- 

 turbances of Electrification of the Earth, 526 



Fitzgerald (Prof. Maurice), the Viscosity of Liquids, 45 



Filzpatrlck (T. C), on Our Present Knowledge of Electrolysis 

 and Electro-chemistry, 527 



Fizeau and others (MM.), Report on a Memoir, by M. 

 Deffbrges, on the Distribution of Intensity of Gravity at 

 Surface of Globe, 484 



Flames, Experiments to Demonstrate Structure of. Prof. 

 Smithells, 64 



Flashing Lights for Marine Purposes, O. T. Olson, 557 



Fleck (Dr.), the Organo-Metallic Compounds of Magnesium, 

 424 



Fletcher (G.), the Principles of Agriculture, 73 



Fletcher (L., F. R.S.), the Williams Collection of Minerals, 



357 



Fletcher (W. H. B. ), Hybrids between Cymatophera ocularis 

 and Cymatophera or, 607 



Fletcher, Russell and Co.'s New Enamel for Protecting, Cast- 

 iron, 57t 



Flie.s Singular Swarms of : R. E. Froude, 103, 176; Prof. F. 

 Jeffrey Bell, 127 ; Henry Cecil, 127 ; Baron Oesten Sacken, 

 176 



Flies, Clouds of, in Michigan, C. D. McLouth, 545 



Flint Industry at Brandon, the, Edward Lovett, 180 



