Index 



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and the production of acetylene 

 gas, 222 ; light, Edison's lamp, 

 208 ; effect on zinc, platinum 

 and aluminium, id. ; for use in 

 explosive coal-mines, 233 ; tested 

 experimentally, 240. 



Electric trains, their effect on a 

 self-recording magnetometer, 253. 



Electrical fish, studies of the, 137 ; 

 machine giving a spark 18 

 inches long, 182 ; railway and 

 its effects on a physical labora- 

 tory, 242. 



Electricity, generation and trans- 

 mission of, 206. 



Electrodes, phenomena of heating 

 by passage of a current, 155, 160. 



Electrotyping with silicon, 12- ; 

 with calcium suggested, id. 



Elephas antiquus, a tooth found 

 near Tangier, 203. 



Elgin, new evidence as to age of the 

 Reptih'ferous sandstone near, 179; 

 its geological position discussed 

 by Professor Huxley, id. 



Elk, bones of, from Nottingham 

 drift, 155. 



Elliot, Principal, on introduction of 

 small birds into America, 194. 



Embryonic characters, retention of, 

 described by Sir J. Paget, 200. 



Emerald from Colombia, its form 

 and relation to the containing 

 rock, 208. 



Emin Bey, intelligence from, 232. 



England, William the Conqueror's 

 invasion of, 146. 



Eozoon Canadense, controversy as 

 to origin of, 174, 177 ; structure 

 resembling, in a Sutherland lime- 

 stone, 218. 



Erlach's experiments with methy- 

 lene blue, 245. 



Ether used in driving a steam- 

 engine, 123. 



Ethyle and boron, new compound 

 of, 150. 



Etna, its lava streams and their 

 inclination, 142 ; its two centres 

 of eruption, id. 



Evans, Sir J., election of, and bio- 

 graphical note on, 61 ; com- 

 munications from, 210, 225, 251 ; 



on a stone presumed to be wind- 

 worn, 183 ; exhibits a palaeolith 

 from Southampton Common, 185 ; 

 description of a peculiar glass 

 bottle of Roman age, 239 ; of a 

 palaeolith from Rea Valley, 251. 



Everest, Sir G., election of, and 

 biographical note on, 57 ; death 

 of, 61. 



Ewart, Mr., researches into splenic 

 fever with Dr. Burdon-Sanderson, 

 205. 



Explosive powders, experiments to 

 measure their effects, 220. 



Explosives, the effects of different 

 kinds of, 228 ; their action on 

 shingle, 236 ; experiments with, 

 for use in cannon, 241, 242 ; rate 

 at which they part with heat, 244. 



Extinct mammals discovered in 

 Maccagnono Cave, 145 ; in Somme 

 Valley gravels, 146. 



Eye, striae and spots in field of view, 

 115 ; adaptive action of the, 123. 



Falcon, a mummy of, exhibited, 236. 



Falconer, Hugh, biography of, 9 ; 

 communications from, 100, 140, 

 141, 142, 145, 150, 162, 169 ; 

 absence from England, 30 ; re- 

 placement on list, 45 ; death of, 



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Faraday, M., biography of, 9 ; 

 engaged as an assistant by Board 

 of Managers, 161 ; communi- 

 cations from, 1 1 6, 128, 148; 

 makes alcohol from olefiant gas, 

 128 ; resignation of, 60. 



Farre, A., election of, and bio- 

 graphical note on, 53 ; placed on 

 supernumerary list, 76. 



Felis, subfossil skull of a, from 

 Buenos Aires, 124. 



Fermentation, the part of living 

 organisms in, 155. 



Fever, splenic, studies of, 205. 



Fiji Islands, \isit of Colonel Smythe 

 to, 147 ; with Dr. Seeman, 148. 



Fish, entombed in mother of pearl, 

 226. 



Fisheries Exhibition, the inter- 

 national, at South Kensington, 

 225. 



