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Index 



[Stipplement to Nature, 

 December i. 1892 



tive Poles of Vacuum Tubes, Prof. E. Goldstein, 594 ; Len- 

 ard's Phosphoroscope for Use with the Electric Spark, 618 ; 

 the Age-coating in Incandescent Lamps, E. L. Nichols, 627 

 Element, the New, Masrium, A. E. Tutton, 79 

 Elements, the Line Spectra of the, Prof. C. Kunge, lOO, 200, 



247 ; Dr. G.Johnstone Stoney, F.R.S., 29, 126, 222, 268 

 Elkin (Dr.), Yale College Observatory Report, 280 

 Ellis (William), Magnetic Variations, 67; Mean Daily Tem- 

 peratures at Greenwich on Average of Fifty Years (1841-1890), 

 191 

 Elwes (H. J.), Supplementary Appendix to Travels amongst 



the Great Andes of the Equator, Edward Whymper, 147 

 Embletotv (Dr.), John Hancock, 255 

 Embryogeny of Gnetum, Herr Karsten, 260 

 Emin Pasha's Return Expedition to the Equatorial Lakes, Dr. 



Stuhlmann, no 

 Emin Pasha's Expedition, Additional Particulars of, Dr. Stuhl- 

 mann, 302 

 Encyclopaedia, Chambers's, 221 

 Encyclopedie Scientifique des Aide-Memoire, 221 

 Energy, Maxwell's Law of Distribution of, Rev. H. W. Watson, 



F.H.S., and S. H. Burbury, F.R.S., 100 

 Engano, Dr. Modigliani's Recent Explorations in Central Su- \ 



matra and. Prof Henry H. Giglioli, 565 

 England, Note on the Occurrence of a Freshwater Nemertine j 



in, W. Blaxland Benbam, 611 

 English Channel, Physical Condition of the Waters of the, 



H. V. Dickson, 384 

 Enock (F.), the Mustard Beetle, 238 



Engineering : Recent Developments of Engineering, W. Caw- 

 thorne Unwin, F.R.S., 355; Launch of the Cunard s.s. | 

 Campania, 472; Death of Dr. Jas. Thomson, F.R.S., 38 ; j 

 Institution of Civil Engineers, 131 ; Institution of Electrical 

 Engineers, the Salomons Scholarship, 131 ;_the_^rogosedLJ 

 F1>.ptriral Fjn£Jn^f;rine T abnratnry at University College. 227^ 

 Electrical Engineering as a Profession and How to Enter It, 

 A. D. Southam, 608 ; Institute of Marine Engineers, Lord 

 Kelvin's Inaugural Addres=, 132 ; Ordinary General Meeting 

 of Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 41 ; Inaugural Address 

 of President, Dr. W, Anderson, F.R.S., 42; Report of 

 Marine Engine Trials Research Committee of Institution of 

 Mechanical Engineers, 43 ; Institution of Mechanical En- 

 gineers, 276, 593 ; Institution of Mechanical Engineers, 

 Summer Meeting, 298, 337 ; on Shipbuilding in Portsmouth 

 Dockyard, W. H. White, F.R.S., 337 ; Electricity in Navy, 

 H. E. Deadman, 337 ; Mr. Crompton, 338 ; Lifting and Haul- 

 ing Appliances in Portsmouth Dockyard, J. T. Corner, 338 ; 

 Federated Institution of Mining Engineers, 131 

 Entomology : Ants in Ceylon, W. F. Liesching, 15 ; Entomo- 

 logical Society, 24, 70, i66, 603 ; Protective Resemblance, 

 Rev. Canon Fowler, W. L. Distant, 24 ; Insects taken by 

 Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences Expedition to 

 Greenland in 1891, 40 ; Annual Exhibition of South London 

 Entomological and Natural History Society, 46 ; Experi- 

 ments on Effect of Temperature on Pupas of certain Species 

 in Causing Variation, F. Merrifield, 46 ; Locusts in India, 

 86 ; Peripatus from St. Vincent, R. J. Pocock, 100 ; Ap- 

 pearance of the Diamond-back Moth in Yorkshire and North- 

 umberland, 108 ; Mr. Arthur Nash's Sale, High Prices 

 fetched by Specimens of Extinct British Lepidoptera, 109 ; 

 Effect of the Weather (during April 1892) upon Insect Life 

 in Dorsetshire, C. W. Dale, 109 ; the Process of Oviposition 

 as observed in Cattle Tick, R. T. Lewis, 165 ; Mode of 

 Walking of the Arthropoda, H. H. Dixon, 167 ; Carnivorous 

 Caterpillars, R. McLachlan, F.R.S., 151 ; Are the Solpu- 

 gidae Poisonous? Henry Bernard, 223 ; W. L. Distant, 247 ; 

 A Colias edusa Butterfly in London, H. Rowland-Brown, 

 228 ; the Mustard Beetle, 238 ; Fossil of Nova Scotia, Sir J. 

 W. Dawson, F.R. S., 236; the Tertiary Rhynchophora of 

 North America, S. H. Scudder, 256 ; Locusts in America, 

 C. V. Riley, 256 ; Directions for Collecting and Preserving 

 Insects, C, V. Riley, 416 ; Abundance of Moth {Deiopeia 

 pulchella) in Malta, A. C. Gatto, 474 ; a Sydney 

 Bird-catching Spider, Mr. Rainbow, 474; Sugar -Cane 

 Borers in the West Indies, 531 ; Sketches of British 

 Insects, Rev. W. Houghton, 540 ; a Text-book of Agri- 

 cultural Entomology, Eleanor A. Ormerod, 561 ; Ants 

 and Saccharine, H. Devaux, 573 ; the Alleged " Aggressive 

 Mimicry " of the Volucellce, William Bateson, 585 ; Habits 

 of Parasol Ants, J. E. Tanner, 595 ; Some Victorian Lepi- 



doptera, Ernest Anderson, 595 ; a Wave of Wasp Life, G. W. 



Peckham, 611 ; the Late Dr. C. A. Dohrn's Collections, 616 



Eocene, Palaeonictis in the American Lower, Henry F. 



Osborn, 30 

 Epidemics, a History of, in Great Britain, from a.d. 664 to thc- 



Extinction of Plague, Dr. Charles Creighton, 148 

 Epidemics, Plagues, and Fevers : their Causes and Prevention, 



Hon. RoUo Russell, 413 

 Epilepsy, Physiology of, M. Brown- Sequard, 507 

 Epochs, Prehistoric, Edmond Bordage, 418 

 Equations, an Elementary Course in Theory of, C. H. Chap- 

 man, 199 

 Errera (Prof. L.), on the Cause of Physiological Action at a 



Distance, 555 

 Eruption of Etna, 254, 276, 299, 331, 361, 371, 398 ; the 



Recent, 450, 460 ; Gaetano Platania, 542 

 Eruption at Sangir, the, 287 ; George Ormsby, 457 

 Eruption of Vulcano (August 3, 1888, to March 22, 1890), G. 



W. Butler, 117 

 Eskimo, the Ulu or Woman's Knife of the, O. T. Mason, 550 

 Espin(T. E.), a New Variable, 17 ; Nova Aurigse, 476 

 Essays and Criticisms, Dr. St. George Mivart, 265 

 Essex Field Club, the, 132 

 Ether, Motion of the, near the Earth, Dr. Oliver J. Lodge, 



F.R.S., 497 

 Ether and Matter, Historical Summary of our Knowledge of the 



Connection between. Prof. O. J. Lodge, F.R.S., 164 

 Etheridge (R., jun.), a Peculiar Form of Womerah, 86 ; Re- 

 markable Specimen of Belonostomus from Queensland, 256 

 Ethiopians, the God of the, W. Hammond Tooke, 78 

 Ethnography : an Ethnographical Survey of the United King- 

 dom, 615 

 Ethnology : Ethnology of Egypt, Prof. Nicolucci on the 

 Origin of the Ancient Egyptians, 162 ; Non-Chinese Dialects 

 of Hainan, Mr. Parker, 179; an Ethnological Enquiry into 

 the Basis of our Musical System, Dr. Wallaschek, 238 ; 

 Omalius d'Halloy the Author of the Theory of the European 

 I Origin of the Aryan Race, Dr. Brinton, 278 ; the Ainos of 

 Japan, R. Hitchcock, 421 ; Summer Ceremonials at Tusayan 

 ! Pueblos, F. W. Fewkes, 421 ; the Value of Art in Ethnology 

 j Prof. A. C. Haddon, 432; a Maid of Wolpai, Dr. Shufeldt, 

 I 451 ; Evolution of House Building among the Navajo Indians, 

 j Dr. Shufeldt, 451 ; Ethnology at the Chicago E.xhibition, the 

 i Native American Section, Prof. F. W. Putnam, 454 ; Found- 

 ing of a Robinson Commemorative Association for Study of 

 Hausa Language and People, 572 ; Ancient Chinese Coins 

 1 Discovered in an Alaskan Grave, Lieut. Dix Bolles, 574 

 ' Etienne's ( Dr. ) Meteorological Observations at Banana, Africa, 



255 

 I Etna (Mt.), Eruption of, 254,276, 299, 331, 361, 371, 398; 

 j Fresh Eruption of, 450 ; the Present Eruption of, M. Wal- 

 j lerant, 460 ; Gaetano Platania, 542 



I Euclid, an Obvious Demonstration of the 47th Proposition of, 

 { A. J. Bickerton, 315 

 Europe, the Glacial Succession in. Prof. James Geikie, 143 

 Europe, Time Standards of. Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, 174 

 Europe, Statistics of the Vineyards of, 450 

 Ewart (Prof. J. C), on the Cranial Ganglia, 405 ; Sea Fisheries, 



405 

 Ewing (Prof. J. A., F.R.S.), a Magnetic Curve Tracer, 385 ; 



Magnetic Induction, 552 

 Execution by Electricity in New York State, Dr. C. F. Mac- 



donald, 256 

 Exhibition at the Crystal Palace, the National Electrical, 176 

 Exhibition, Chicago, Mining at the, 178 ; Solid Gold Brick 

 ! Exhibit at, 256 

 I Exhibition, the Columbus ; Juan de la Cosa's, the First Chart 



of America, 453 

 Expedition, the Relief of the Peary Greenland, 476 ; Sailing 



of the Dundee Antarctic Whaling Expedition, 477 

 Expression, Facial, Relations of the Motor Muscles of the Eyes 



to. Dr. G. T. Stevens, 86 

 Eyes, Relations to Facial Expression of the Motor Muscles of 



the, Dr. G. T. Stevens, 86 



Fabre (Charles), Trait e Encyclopedique de Photographic, 464 

 Facial Characters of the Ancient Egyptians, on Some, Prof. A. 



Macalister, 433 

 Famintzin (A.), a New Bacterium, Nevskia ramosa, 68 

 Farmer (J. B.), the Embryology of Angiopteris evecta, 92 



