596 



INDEX. 



Herschel, 169, 179, 195, 204 

 Hertz, 509, 529-47 

 Hill, 585 

 Hittorf, 175 

 Holmes, 449 

 Holtz, 449 



Honolulu, astronomical expe- 

 dition, 523-4 

 Hooker, Sir William, 277 

 Hopkins, 251, 306, 308 

 Horatius Codes, 572, 574-7, 



583-5 



Huggins, 180-182, 189, 195 

 Hutton, 75, 76, 122, 130, 131, 



479 

 Huxley, 73-113, 117, 199 



Ice experiment, Davy's, 421 

 Internal condition of earth, 299 



-3i8 

 temperature of earth, 238- 



243 



Isoperimetrical problems, 571- 

 92 



J 



Johnston, 132 



Jones, I). E., 529 



Joule, 19, 122, 131, 158, 162, 



223-225, 420 428, 448, 450, 



462-468, 558-70 

 Jupiter, 48 



new satellite of, 527 9 



K 



Kant, 32, 37 footnote, 65, 75, 



76, 121 



53 



Krw < >bsrrvat<>]-y, 141 

 Kinetic theory of gases, 162- 

 168, 553 



Kirchoff, 49, 174, 175 

 Koenig, 408, 409, 416 

 Kolrausch, 498 



Laboratoiies, 144-148, 480 506 

 Lagrange, 1 6, 576, 581-8 

 Lamb, 514 

 Laplace, 15, 16, 18, 36, 37 /,W- 



wtf* 38, 39, 41. 65, 123, 138, 



270 

 Latitude, variation of, 264-270, 



523-27 



Least action, 149, 588 

 Leverrier, 129, 187 

 Liebig, 469, 486-487, 497 

 Life in the earth, origin of, 197 



-205 



Light, prismatic analysis of, 168 

 transformation of work into, 



430 



Lodge, 543-4 

 Loschmidt, 166 

 Lockyer, 175-177, 182, 184 

 Lucretius, 162, 165 

 Lunar tides, 17-20 

 Lyell, 106, 131, 280, 292, 296, 



479 



M 



Magnetic storms, 220, 221, 227, 



508-23 

 Marcuse, 524 

 Marloye, 408, 409 

 Mathematics, 102, 103, 138 

 M;ui])crtuis, 149, 588 

 Maxwell, 147, 157, 162, 164, 



180, 262, 263, 266, 498, 525, 



542, 545-8 



Mayer,32, 128, 185, 186, iSS,.j K> 

 MrKmdrick, 408 

 McLintock, 277 

 Mr I,mv, ('apt., 274 

 Median), Lieut., 275 

 Mechanical equivalent of heal, 



423, .424, 504 7 



