[Nature, Dec. iS, 1S84 



Earth Tremors, 614 



Earth's Axis of Rotation, Prof. C. Piazzi-Smyth, 29 

 Earth's Axis, Shifting of the, W. M. Flinders Petrie, 512, 561 ; 

 W. H. M. Christie, F.R.S., 536 ; Prof. C. Piazzi-Smyth, 5S2 

 Earthquake: the, of April 22, 1SS4, W. Topley, 17, 60 ; 

 Surgeon-Major Eatwell, 18; Dr. J. E. Taylor, 18, 31 ; A. 

 H. Waters, 19 ; Rev. O. Fisher, 19, 125 ; G. M. Whipple, 

 19 ; J. Edmund Clark, 19 ; C. E. De Ranee, 31, 57 ; 

 Edward Newton, 32 ; Rev. F. W. Ragg, 32 ; C. L. 

 Prince, 57; M. I. Plan-, 77; II. C. Sorby, F.R.S., IOI ; 

 Antoine d'Abbadie, 101 ; A. Shaw Page, 102 ; J. Henry 

 Kinahan, 125 ; W. F. Stanley, 125 ; R. Meldola, 145 ; Col. 

 H. H. Godwin- Austen, F.R.S., 145 ; Mrs. K. M. Bernard, 

 145; R. McLachlan, F.R.S., 170, 344, 372; Earthquake at 

 Timor, 300 ; at Agram, 300 ; in the Alban Hills, Rome, 372 ; 

 in Asia Minor, 83 ; in Lower Austria, 478 ; in Bosnia, 344 ; 

 in Ischia, 324, 614 ; in Italy, 64 ; Northern Japan, 614 ; in 

 Japan, F. Warrington Eastlake, 435 : at Kishm, 130 ; at 

 Massowah, 324, 372; in New York, 372; in Philadelphia, 

 372 ; at Reunion, 45S ; in Ontario, 518 ; at Windsor, 518 ; off 

 Reykjanes, 614 ; in Tokio, 614 ; Dr. II. J. Johnston-Lavis 

 on, 608 ; Aseismatic Tables for Mitigating Earthquake 

 Shocks, Chas. A. Stevenson, 193 ; W. Topley, 216 ; Mea- 

 suring Earthquakes, Prof. J. A. Ewing, 149, 174 

 Earthworms: Notes on, Prof. T. McKenny Hughes, F.R.S., 

 57 ; E. A. Swan, 77 ; Fatal Effects of Sea on, 83 ; a Gigantic, 

 F. E, Beddard, 570 

 Eastern Counties, Hydrodictyon in the, Rev. J. C. Saunders, 



488 

 Eastlake (F. Warrington), Earthquake in Japan, 435 

 Eatwell (Surgeon-Major), the Earthquake of April 22, 1S84, 18 

 Eclipses: Total Solar of 1816, November 19, 616; Solar, of 

 March 16, 1SS5, 643 ; Total Solar, of 1889, January I, 131 ; 

 Lunar, on October 4, 519, 548 ; Otto Boeddickeron, 589 ; E. 

 J. Lowe, F.R.S., 590; Geo. F. Burder, 590; II. Dennis 

 Taylor, 632 

 Edinburgh : Mathematical Society, 71, 187 ; Mineralogical 

 Society, 330 ; Royal Society, 120, 162, 235, 403 ; Royal 

 Physical Society, 23, 71 ; Geology at Edinburgh University, 

 i°7 

 Edkins (Dr. Joseph), Early Culture in China, 276; Stone 



Hatchets in China, 515 

 Education : What is a Liberal, ? Prof. S. Newcomb, 9 ; In- 

 spector of Geographical Education for the Royal Geographical 

 Society, 20; Digest of American Law Decisions on Details of 

 Education, 108 ; the Peabody Institute and Education in 

 America, 299 ; Education in the United States, 396 ; Recom- 

 mendations of the Royal Commission on Technical Education, 

 113 ; International Conference on, 251, 363 ; Conference on, 

 in Connection with Education Division of International Health 

 Exhibition, 152, 198, 218, 244, 343; Education in Germany 

 and England, by Oscar Browning, 517; Science in Schools, 

 517; Educational Statistics of Japan, 276, 490; in British 

 Burmah, 545 ; Science and Art Education, 349 

 Edward (Thomas), Carnivorous Wasps, 408 

 Elasticity, Moduli of, Herbert Tomlinson, 234 

 Electric Lift on French Northern Railway Company, 300 

 Electric Lighting: Principles and Practice of, Alan Campbell 

 Swinton, 144 ; Practical Treatise on Electric Lighting, J. E. 

 H. Gordon, 333 ; Electric Light in Roman Catholic Church 

 in Ayrshire, 394, 430 ; Electric Light for Lighthouses, J. 

 Munro, 406 ; Oil and Electricity as Illuminants for, 51S 

 Electric Resistance, Modifications of Wheatstone's Bridge ap- 

 plied to Measurement of, Dr. Frolich, 24 

 Electric Resistance of Bismuth, 569 

 Electrical Conference at Philadelphia, 566 

 Electrical Congress, Paris, 1884, 26 



Electrical Exhibition at Rouen, 181, 252; at Turin, 130; at 

 Philadelphia, 152, 543; Commission in Philadelphia, 431, 

 475, 494 ; Proposed Exhibition at Boston, 518 

 Electrical Induction in Metallic Conductors, F. N. Gisborne, 



227 

 Electrical Rainbow, R. S. Newall, F.R.S., 464 

 Electrical Resistance of the Human Body, Dr. W. II. Stone, 



Prof. Dolbear, 56 ; Dr. W. H. Stone, 269 

 Electrical Rules and Tables, Munro and Jamie-on's Pocket- 



Book of, A. Gray, 262, 290 

 Electricity : On the Relation between the Electrical Qualities 

 ami Chemical Composition of Glass, T. and A. Gray and J. 



J, Dobbie, 70 ; the Relation between the B.A. Unit and the 



Legal Ohm of the Paris Congress, R. T. Glazebrook, 311 ; 



Electricity and Health, W. II. Stone, 253 

 Electro-Dynamometer with extremely Light Suspended Coil, 



Dr. W. H. Stone, 635 

 Electrolysing Glass, 568 



Electromotive Forces in the Voltaic Cell, on the Scat of, 594 

 Elgar (Prof.), Training in Naval Architecture, 483 

 Elliott (R. H.), on the Preservation of Wild Birds in India, 276 

 Encke's Comet, Approaching Appearance of, 594 

 "Encyclopaedia Britannica," 405 

 Encyclopaedia of Natural Science, Trewendt's, 21 

 Engineering, Modern Steam Practice and, John G. Winton and 



W. J. Millar, 509 

 England, Chemical Research in, Dr. Perkin, 246 

 " English Flower Garden," W. Robinson, 534 

 Equatorial Condi' of Paris Observatory, Reply to Grubb on, M. 



I,o wy, 4, 53 ; Howard Grubb, F.R.S., 100, 123 

 Ericsson (Capt. J.), Temperature of the Solar Surface, 465 

 Eruption, the Krakatoa, R. D. M. Verbeek, 10 ; Prof. C. Piazzi- 

 Smyth, 511 

 Essex Earthquake, 344, 372 

 Essex Field Club, 343, 374, 51S, 615 

 Ethics, Physiology of, 180 

 Ethnographical Collections, 547 

 Ethnology : Native American Literature and, A. H. Keane, 



341"; and Geography, 569 ; of Philippine Races, 643 ; of 



Mindanao, 643 

 "Euclid," J. S. Mackay's, 311 

 "Euclid, the First Six -Books of the Elements of," John 



Casey, F.R.S., 606 

 Europe, Forests of Northern, 397 

 Eurydice, II. M.S., on the Origin and Course of the Squall that 



Capsized, Hon. R. Abercromby, 22 

 Evans (Capt. Sir Fred. J. O.), Delegate to International Prime 



Meridian Conference, 129 

 Evans (Edwin H.), a Cannibal Snake, 216 

 Ewart (Prof. Cossar), Mission in Connection with Fishery 



Board, 567 

 Ewing (Prof. J. A.), Measuring Earthquakes, 149, 174 

 Exhibitions: General Italian, 130; of India and the Colonies, 



343 ; of Inventions, International, 373 



Family Faculties, Prize Records of, F. Galton. S2 



Fauvel (M. A.), on Liquidambar, the Wood used in Chinese 



Tea Chests, 299 

 Fellow-Feeling in House-Flies and Swallows, 490 

 Ferraris, Prof., Director of International Department of Elec- 

 trical Exhibition in Italy, 130 

 Field and Garden Crops, Diseases of, Geo. Murray, 605 

 Figure of Uranus, 519 

 Finmark, Geology of, 201 

 Fire, Risk of, 346 

 Fireball : Annie E. Cocking, 269, 289 ; in Norway, 300 ; 



W. J. Millar on, 312 ; W. M. Flinders Petrie, 360 ; W. V,. 



Smith, 408 ; W. White, 464 

 Firth College, Sheffield, 153 

 First Meridian Congress at Washington, 517 

 Fish (C. F.), Handbook of Natural History, 547 

 Fish in Hue River, Catalogue of, Tirant, 21 

 Fish, the Weaver, Geo. Brook, 71 



Fisher (Rev. O.), the Earthquake of April 22. 1S84, 19, 125 

 Fishery Board, Prof. Ewart's Expedition to the United States 



567 

 Fishery Board for Scotland, 129, 3S7 ; Deputation to the Home 



Secretary for Further Funds, 198 

 Fison (Rev. Lorimer), the Deme and the Horde, 235 

 Fitzinger (Dr. Leopold), Death of, 567 

 Fixed Stars, David Gill, F.R.S., 135, 156 

 Fiat-Fish, Artificial Culture of, Prof. Mcintosh's Inquiries into 



the, 82 

 Flora, Algic, of the Arctic Seas, Veit Brecher Wittrock, 63S 

 Flora of British Fungi, Rev. John Stevenson. 1S1 

 Flora, Cretaceous, of North America, Sir J. W. Dawson, 6;i 

 Flora of the Philippines, R. A. Rolfe, 71 

 Flora (Swedish), Enrichment by Railways of, 83 

 Flow of Streams, George Higgin, 560 



