INDEX, 



597 



Metamorphism, 104-107 

 Meteoric dust, 70, 71, 96 



theory of sun's heat, 127- 



131 . 



Meteorological changes and 



earth's axis, 266 

 Meteors and earth, 203 



sun's heat, 50, 127- 



131, 187, 188 

 falling on earth, 70? 71 

 Metric system, 438 

 Military engineering, 208, 209 

 Miller, 169, 180, 181 

 Moigno, Abbe, 172 

 Moon as a timekeeper, 41, 42 

 effect of tides on, 33 

 tidal friction of mass of, 34, 



Motive power, origin and trans- 

 formation of, 418, 432 

 Murchison, Sir R., 104-107 



N 



Nebular hypothesis, 184-189 

 New astronomical clock, 387- 



394 

 Newcomb, 263-266, 271, 272, 



5 2 5 



Newcomen, 460 

 Newton, 15, 16, 18, 41, 114, 

 131, 157, 158, 1 68, 457, 



530-540 



Professor, 191-195 

 Niagara, 448, 451-452 

 Nicholson, 449 

 Norman, 217-218 

 Norrie, 17 



Note, definition of, 398 

 Nysen, 264 



O 



Oppolzer, 191 

 Origin and transformation of 



motive power, 418-432 

 of life on earth, 

 Osborne Reynolds, 561 

 Overtones, 398 



VOL. II 



Pappus, 577-8, 586 



Parallel roads of Glen Roy, 252 



Parry, Capt, 276 



Pasteur, 199 



Peclet, 8 



Peltier, 230 



Pendulum, mercury compen- 

 sating, 388 



Periodicity in dynamics, 136, 

 137 



Perpetual motion, 456, 457 



Peters, 193, 194, 262, 263, 266. 



525 



Phillips, 58, 85, 86, 133, 153 

 Picard, 158 

 Pirn, Lieut, 276 

 Plana, 41 

 Playfair, 11-13, 42, 45, 46, 49, 



53, 54 



Pliicker, 175 



Plutonic energy, 114-127 



Poincare, 585 



Polar displacement, 293-296 

 ice, 90-95 

 Mediterranean sea, 281-284 



Pouchet, 199 



Precession and nutation, 244- 

 247, 253, 293, 316 



Princifia, Newton's, publica- 

 tion of, 530-4 



Radiometer, 553, 556 

 Rain power, 444 

 Rayleigh, 399, 498/591 

 Replenisher, 450 

 Resistance a velocity, 159 



frictional, 13, 16, 19 



unit of, 213 

 Reversible cycle, 424-5, 469- 



475 



Rigaud, 533 



Rigidity of earth, 119, 255, 316 

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