vl 
Earthquakes : in Columbia, 5t; Hawaiian Islands, 51; Peru, 
51, 74, 169, 230, 418; Salvador, Valparaiso, 51; Celebes, 
85; China (fatal), 145; Chile, 150, 230, 418, 454; the 
Himalayas, 150; Mexico, 169; America and Canada, 169 ; 
India, Hayti, 212; Hawaiian Islands, 230; New York 
State, 230; Himalayas, Cashmere, near New York, 287 ; 
China, 309 ; in Scotland, Report on, (Br. A.), 317; Simla, 
325; Boston, U.S., 326; at Worthing (alleged), 349, 385; 
Panama, 350; arises 350; New “England, 373; West 
Indies, Philippine Islands, 375; Jamaica, 387; Madeira, 436; 
Callao, 494; Corstantinople, 494 
Earwaker (J. P.) his Collection of Fossils, 96; on“ Psychic Force, 
278 
Eastbourne Natural History Society, 190 
Echini, Cotteau and Triger on, 228 
Echinoderms, Prof. Wyville Thomson on (Br. A.), 
Eclipse at Darmstadt, 1699, alarm caused by it, 418 
Eclipse, Solar, of 1868, 399 
Eclipse, Solar, of Dec. 22, 1870; photographs of, 85 ; J. Norman 
Lockyer, F.R.S., his Lecture at Rove Society on, 230, 241 
Eclipses, gke Recent and Com: ing, by J. N. Lockyer, F.R.S.(Br. 
By ), 35 
Edlipse’S Epler, of Dec. 12, 1871: Preparations to observe it, 
128, 197, 210, 228, 259, 290, 348, 373, 394, 435, 445, 492; 
Map of Shadow Path over India, 258; Government Aid to 
Observation, 324; Suggestions to Observers, by A. C. Ran- 
yard, F.R-A'S., 327; Lieut.-Col J. F. Tennan’, RE., 
F.R.S., on, 339, 486 ; M. Janssen on (Br. A.), 352 ; French 
Expedition, 373; Sailing of the English Expedition, 512; 
“Instructions for Observers at the English Goverment Ex3e- 
dition,” 516 ~ 
Eclipses, J. R. Hind, F.R.S., on Total Solar Eclipses Visible 
in England in 1954 and 1999, 260 
Eclipse Photography, 121, 160, 327, 367, 445 
Economic Science and Statistics at the Br. A. (Section F), Open- 
ing Address, 298 ; Sectional Proceedings, 336 
Edinburgh : Meeting of the British Association at (Sve British 
Association) ; its Medical School, 288; Prof. A. Geikie, 
F.R.S , on its Geology, 277 ; (Br. A.) 315 ; Botanical Society, 
51; its Flora (Br. A.), 356; Naturalists’ Field Club, 10 
Royal Physical Society, 39 ; University, Prof. W. Thomson’s 
Introductory Lecture, 74, 90; Anatomy and Physiology at, | 
168; Botanical Class, 374; Science at, 452, 514 
Edmonds (Richard) on the name “ Britain,” 3, 27 
Education in Science: Lectures and Teaching for the People, 
8I, 101, 120, 141, 192, 211, 281; Science in Schools, 243, | 
257, 285, 308, 314, 296, 349, 417, 421, 452, 437, 401; Prof. 
Allen Thomson on (Br. A.), 296; G. F. Rodwell on, 455, 
Report of London School Board, 198, 192; Prof. Huxley on 
the Duties of the State, 495; Education for Farmers, 66, 
89, ror (Sze Female Education, Technical Education) 
Edwards and Kidd, Illustrations of the Heliotype Process, $5 
Fel’s Skull, its structure, W. K. Parker, F.R.S., on, 146 
Egyptian Antiquities, Mr. R. Hay’s Collection, 130 
Flastrus dolosus in the Azores, 162 
Electric Double Lever, by Czermak, 5 
Electricity, Animal, 29 
Elementary Examination Papers, their Defects, 202, 285 
Ellery (Robert J.), on the Spectrum of the Aurora, 280 
Elliot (Sir Walter) on Provincial Museums (Br. A.), 377 
Embryology, Prof. Allen Thomson on (Br. A.), 2 
Encke’s Comet, 394 ; Observations by J. R. Hind, F.R. 
492; by M. Stephan, 492, 499 
Engelman (Dr. R.), Light of jupiter Satellites, 442 
Engineering, its Study at the London University, 67 
Entomological Society, Proceedings, 39, 154, 215 
Entomology, its Study in Great Britain, 194 
Entomology at the Br. A., 333 
Entomology of America, 30; of New South Wales, 436; of New 
Zealand, 40; of Palestine, 55; of Texas, 51 
Entozoa, Dr. F. Cobbold on, 479 ; Stephanurus in Hogs, 508. 
Eozo6n Canadense, John B. Perry on, 28; Notes on, 72, 85 
Ericsson (J.), the Temperature of the Sun, 204, 449 
Emst (A.), Yellow Rain in New Granada, 68 
Erskine (Lieutenant Vincent), “ Meteorology at Natal,” 305 
Essex Institute, Salem, U.S., Proceedings of, 43, 501 
Ethnological Classifications, 56 
Ethnological Society, Journal of, 76 
Ethnology in America, 12. 32, 89, 154; at the Br. A., 289 ; of 
the Coasts of Behring’s Sea, 519; of Palestne, ei 53; of 
South Wales, 261 
334 

S., 435, 

| ‘Flora of Tropical Africa,” 
| Forth, Estuary of the, its Geology, 
| “Gaseous and Liquid States of Matter,’ 

INDEX 
Euclid, a Substitute for (Sve Geometry, Elementary) 
Evans (Colonel Albert S.), “Our Sister Republic ; a Gala Tiip 
through Tropical Mexico,” 322 
Everett (Prof. J. D., D.C.L.), on Units of Force and Energy, 
6; 3533 his Translation of Deschanel on Natural Philosophy. 
343, 425, 505; on Wet and Dry Bulb Formule 353; Cir- 
calation and Distribution of the Atmosphere (Br. A.), 353 3 
Report on Underground Temperature (Br, A.), 396 
Exogenous Structures amongst the Stems of Coal Measures (Sw 
Williamson, Prof. W.C., F.R.S.) 
Examination Tests, Use and Abuse of, 467 
«Experimental Mechanics,” by R. S. Ball, 510 
Exploration of Palestine, 33, 52, 215 
Explosion (?) on the Sun, 488 
Fairlie, R., on the Gauge of Railways (Br. A.), 337 
Falmouth, Meteorological Observatory at, 247, 248 
Fawcus, George, on a Transparent Compass, 366 
Fawcett (Thomas), on Science Lectures for the People, 101 ; o1 
Drainage as a Cause of Drought, 386 
Fellowes (Lieut. John, R.N.), on Steam Lite Boats, 181 
Ferrel (W.), Low Barometer in Polar Regions and Cyclones, 226 
Fertilisation of the Bee Orchis, 222 
Finnis (M. M.), on Meteors in South Australia, 345 
Fish, as affected by Fresh and Salt Water, 245, 339 
Fish and Fisheries, New York Commission, 244 
Fish, Fossil, in the British Museum, 77 
Fish of Nicaragua, 207 ; of North America, 33 
Fish, Phosphorescence in, 287 
Fish-Crow of Oregon and Washington, 287 
Fixed Stars, Method of Estimating their Distances (Br. A.), 396 
Flammarion, Camille, on Aérostation, 3 
Flamsteed (John), his Ghost, on the Sun’s Parallax, 503 
Fletcher (A. E., F.C.S.), on the Rhysimeter (Br. A.), 338 
Fletcher (L. E., C.E.), on Steam Boiler Legislation (Br. A.), 397 
Flight, Recent Researches on, 516; of Butterflies, 487, 494 
Flint, Hawkins Johnson, F.G gh on, 1545 Formation of, 223, 243 
“*Flora of Mentone and the Riviera,” 502 
287 
Flower (Prof., F.R.S.), on Rib Variations, 188 
Fluid State of Matter, Speculations on its Continuity (Br. A ), 291 
Forbes (David, F.R.5.), “ On the Nature of the Earth’s Interior,” 
28; on the Thickness of the Eaith’s Crust, 65; on News- 
paper Science, 406, 464 
Force and Energy, Units of, 6; Correspondence on, 69 ; Prof. 
Everett on (Br. A.), 353 
Foreign Scientific Associations, 43 
Formosa, Birds and Beasts of, 44 
Fossiliferous Boulder in Noahumbolsae 386, 467 
_ Foster (Dr. M.), his Physiological Class, Cambridge, 107 ; on 
the Action of Codeia Derivatives, 174 
Foliage, the Various Tints of, 341 
‘« Fragments of Science,” by Prof. Tyndall, LL.D., 237 
France, Baron Liebig on ae Scientific Men, 190 
Frankland (Prof. E. F., F.2.S.), on Metropolitan Water Supply, 
349 ; on Ice Fleas, 426 
Frankland Institute, Journal of the, 211, 229, 452 
Fraser (George) on Scientific Lectures for the People, 120 ; on 
“Psychic Force,” 279 
Frigate Bird at the Zoological Gardens, 394 
Freke (H.), on ‘ « Dependence of Life on Decomposition,” 422 
French Recent Zoological Discoveries, 369 
Freshwater Bathybius, Dr. R. Greef on, 49 
“Fruit Classification, Suggestions on,” by Alex. Dickson, M.D. 
(Br. A.), 347, 475 : 
Fruit, International Exhibition at the Horticultural Society, 394 
Fungi, New and Rare, 240 
Fungi i in Living Birds (Br. A.), 356 
Fungi, Exhibition at the Horticultural Gardens, 476, used for 
food in China, 494 
Futtle’s Comet, Ephemeris of, 374 
Galton (Francis), on Pangenesis, 5, 25 
Ganoid Fish discovered in Queensland, 406, 428, 447 
> Dr. Andrews on, 186 
casterepode, Striated Muscular Fibre in, 144 ; Auditory Organ, 
518 
Geikie (Prof. Archibald, F.R.S.) Opening Address at Geo- 
logical Section, 277 ; Geological Survey of Scotland, 292 
Geneva, Natural History Society of, 36 
| Geographical Distribution of Insects, G. R. Crotch on, 65 
| Gee ographical Surveys in India, 415 
