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1 mrham University Intelligence, 1 14 

 I last, Makt's Incidents in the Biography of, 139 

 1 'ler (Prof. Thiselton), Greening of Oysters, 397ji 

 I MLimometer, Mr. Froude's New, 272 



] irJley-Wilmot (Maj.-Gen., F.R.S.), death of, 529 

 iarth : Life-History of the. Prof. H. Alleyne Nicholson, 39 ; 

 International Congress for Measuring the Figure of the, 29S ; 



The Earth's Rotation, 390 ; Shifting of the Axis of the 

 Earth, 406 ; Earth and Moon, Richard A. Procter, 227 ; 

 Earth and Sun, Suspected Relations between the. Prof. 

 Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., 9, 26, 45 ; E. D. Archibald, 339, 



559 ; Dr. Wm. Hunter, 359 

 Earthquakes : at Marano Marchesato, 54 \ '" Peru, 54 ; in 



Scotland, 73; and Tidal Wave in South America, 174; in 



France, 175 ; at Geneva, 513 

 Eaton (H. S.), Greenwich as a Meteorological Station, 7 

 Eclipses: Total Solar Eclipse of 1SS9, 124; Total Solar 



Eclipse of 1605, 255 ; Total Eclipse of the Moon August 



23, 1877, 2S7; Meteorological Effects of, J. J. Wild, 419 

 Ecuador, Volcanic Eruption at, Cotopaxi, 297, 335 

 Edelweiss, the Wild-llower, 298, '329 

 Edgeworth (M. P.), Pollen, 499 

 Edinburgh : University Intelligence, 34, 94, 298 ; Royal 



Society, 135 ; Rainfall of, 352, 3S9 

 Education : Sir John Lubbock on the Teaching of Science, 216 ; 



University, 4S6 ; Mr. Forstcron, 512 

 Electricity : in War, H. Baden Pritchard, 2S1 ; Sense Per- 

 ception of, Henry Cecil, 549 

 Electric Currents of High Tension, M. Plante on, 516 

 Electric Eel, Dr. S-'ach's Researches on the, 296 

 Electric Light, 197; M. Jahlochkoff 's Apparatus, 32, 91, 113, 



131, 152; Experiments in Paris, 113 ; Experiments on, at St. 



Petersburg, 132 ; at Lyons Station, 297 ; New, 422, 459, 



502 ; for Lighthouses, 552 ; Experiments on, 530 

 Electric Spark, Spectrum of the, 531 

 "Electro-Metallurgy," Dr. Gore, F.R.S., 263 

 Elliot (James), The Araucaria, 43 

 Ellis (Alex. J., F.R.S.), Konig's Tuning-Forks and the French 



Diapason Normal, 85 ; Konig's Tuning-Forks, 227 

 Elsden (J. Vincent), Strange Dream Phenomenon, 329 

 F.mbidic, the Nymph Form of, 154 

 Embryology, Prof Macalister on, 406 

 Endowment of Research, 117 

 Energy, Potential, 439, 457, 500, 520, 547 

 Engineering Education in Japan, 44 

 English Dictionary, Latham's, } 



English Names of Wild Flowers and Plants, 385, 439 

 Entomological Society, 20, 75, 155, 219, 391, 496, 567 

 Equivalents and Atoms, 293 

 Eridani, 40 o-, the System of, 330 

 Erman (Prof. Adolph), Death of, 256 

 Esmeraldas, the Province of, 447 

 Ethnographical Map of France, 467 



Eucalyflus globulus, 153, 443, 558 ; in the United States, 28S 

 Europe, Prehistoric Steppes of Central, 195 ; Climate of, 467 

 European Plants in Buenos Ayres and Patagonia, 264 

 Everett (Prof J. D.), " Elementary Text-Book of Physics," 5 iS 

 Everett (A. H.), Fertilisation of Flowers by Birds, 476 

 Evolution : the Progress of, 44 ; Evolution of Nerves and Nervo- 



Systems, G. J. Romanes, 231, 269, 2S9 ; Evolution by Leaps, 



288, 361 ; the Present Position of the Evolution Theory, 



Prof. Haeckel, 492 

 Ewing and MacGregor on the Volumes of Solutions, 376 

 Excrementitious Deposits in the Rocky Mountains, 235 

 Explosives and the Loss of the Great Queensland, 256 

 Eye, Chromatic Aberration of the, S. P. Thompson, 84 

 Eyes, Prof. Virchow's Researches on the Colour of, 530 



Famines and Droughts in Southern India, 14 



Famines and Shipwrecks, Prof. Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., 461 



Famines in India and the Monsoons, 465 



Far'i, Notes on the Weather of, 89 



Fayrer (Sir J., F.R.S.), the Towering of Wounded Birds, 550 



Fertilisation of Flowers : Oscar Hertwig, 147 ; Thomas Meehan, 



364 ; by Birds, A. H. Everett, 476 ; by Insects, Dr. Hermann 



Miiller, 265, 507 

 Fertilisation of Orchids, Henry O. Forbes, 102 

 Figee (S.), Barlow and Laslett's Determination of the Strength 



of Timber, 61 

 Figure of the parth, International Congress for Me^uring, 298 



Filters : Spongy Iron, 48 ; Major Crease's New, 4S6 



Fingers, the Rekative Length of the Index and " Ring," 444 



Fire, Does Sunshine Extinguish ? see Combustion 



Fish Commensals of MeduSc-e, Prof Theo. Gill, 362 



Fish and Fisheries, United States Commission on, 395, 487 



Fishes: the Vertebrated, of Spain, 140; of Lake Nicaragua, 



505 ; Fish-eating Birds, 399 

 Fisher (A. T.), " The Book of Algebra," 437 

 Fisher (Rev. O.), Antiquity of Man, 182 

 Flames, Resistance of, and the Galvanic Current, 448 

 Flamingo, the, 30 



Flammarion (M. ), Investigation of Double Stars, 15 

 Flax, Cultivation of New Zealand, 92 

 Fleischer's " Volumetric Analysis," 497 

 Floating Cast Iron, W. J. Mdlar, 23 



Florida : Casts of Indians confined in, 335 ; the Crow Black- 

 birds of, 399 

 Flowers, Fertilisation of, s,e Fertilisation 

 Fluor Spar, Photo-electricity of, M. Hankel on, 558 

 Foehn, Greenland, 294 ; J. J. Murphy, 340; W. Hoffmeyer, 361 

 Fonvielle (M. W. de). Balloon Ascent, 557 

 Forbes (Henry O. ), Fertilisation of Orchids, 103 ; Meteorologi- 

 cal Notes from Lisbon, 265 

 Forel (Dr. F. A.), Natural Selection and the Diseases of Silk- 

 worms and Phylloxera, 488 

 Forestry : the Schools of, in Europe, Dr. J. Croumbie Brown, 



41 ; a New Journal of Forestry, 153 

 Forests of Pegu, Sulpice Kurz, 58 



Form of Bodies, the Influence of the, on their Attraction, 4S8 

 Forster (Right Hon. W. E.), on Education, 512, 556 

 Fossil Floras and Glacial Periods, J. W. Dawson, 67 

 Fossils brought Home by the Late Arctic Expedition, Dr. J. 



Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., 378 

 Foster's Text-Book of Physiology, E. A. Schiifer, 79 

 Foster (Prof G. Carey, F. R.S.), Opening Address in Section A 

 at the Meeting of the British Association at Plymouth, 311 ; 

 the Radiometer and its L-swns, 546 

 " Fowne's Inorganic Chemistry," edited by Watts, 6 

 Fox (Col. Lane, F. R. S.), Excavations into Mount Caburn, 429 

 Fox (Robert Were, F.R.S.), Death of, 296 

 France : French Transit Medal, 1 1 ; Meteorology in, 51 ; French 

 Physical Society, 92 ; Progress of Industry in, 92 ; Zoological 

 Society of, 112; Carboniferous Flora of Central, 13S; Origin 

 of the Trees and .Shrubs in the South of, 14S ; Rainfall Obser- 

 vations in the East of, from 1763 to 1870, 16S ; the Inter- 

 national Exhibition, 217, 237, 351 ; French Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, Meeting at Havre, 236, 279, 351, 

 383, 409 ; Defective Vision in the French Army, 279 ; Meteoro- 

 logical Institute for, 334 ; Agricultural Meteorological Service, 

 334 ; Ethnographical Map of, 467 ; French Geological Society 

 and the International Geological Congress, 513 ; Frencti 

 Societe d'Hygicne, 529 

 Frankland (Prof, F.R.S.), his New Work on Chemistry, 130 

 Franklin Expedition, Relics of the, 488 

 Freeden (W. von), Vellow Crocuses, 43 

 Free- Will, on the (Question of, 549 

 Friswell (R. J.), liiggins' Treatise on the Pollution of Rivers, 



225 

 Frogs, Respiration in, 30 



Froude (Wm., F.R.S.), New Dynamometer, 272; On the 

 Resistance of Ships, 382 



Gabb (Wm. M.), Hog Wallows, 183 



Galileo's Claim to be the Inventor of the Telescope, 390 



Galton (Capt. Douglas), the Elevated Railway of New York, 3S2 



Galton (Francis, F. R.S. ), Address in the Department of Anthro- 

 pology at the British Association, 344 



Galton (J. C. ), Mantegazza on the Relative Length of the Index 

 and "Ring" Fingers, 444 



Galvanic Current and the Resistance of Flames, 448 



Gannett (Henry), " List of Elevations principally in that Portion 

 of the United States West of the Mississippi," 21S 



Gardner (J. Starkie), the Cretaceous Flora of America, 285 



Gamett (Richard), the Critical Point of Carbonic Anhydride, 23 



Gases, Refraction of, 152 



Gases, Watson's Kinetic Theory of, 242 



Gassiot (J. P., F. R.S.), Death of, 388 ; Obituary Notice of, 399 



Gauss, Centenary Celebration, 131 ; Interesting Letters of, 237 



Gay-Lussac, Centenary of, 16 



Gazetteer, Keith Johnston's, 82 



Gee (William), Museum Reform, 140 



