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INDEX X11 
Engadine, Chlamydomyxa in the, Prof. E.Ray Lankester,F.R.S., | Explosion of the 43-Ton Gun, 37 
Explosion, Woodend Colliery, 365 
Engelhard (Herr), on the Island of Saleijer, 371 Explosions, Colliery, Meteorology and, Hy. Harries, 361 
Engineering Society of the Lehigh University, Journal of the, 2 | Explosions in Coal-Mines, Relation of Coal-Dust to, A. Watts, 
Engineering Journals of Calcutta, 14 
Engineering, Imperial College of, at Tokio, 130 
England and Wales, Erosion of Coasts of, C. E. De Rance and 
W. Topley, 481 
English Temperatures, C. Harding, 552 
Entomology: M. Krendowsky on Hydrachnids of Southern 
Russia, 67; Entomological Society, 70, 163, 306, 403, 458, 
563, 611; Origin of Colours in Insects, J. W. Slater, 70 ; 
New Aphanipterous Insect, A. Sidney Olliff, F.E.S., 95 ; 
Cerura vinula, W. White, 163 ; Introduction to Entomology, 
Kirby and Spence, E. E. Jarrett, 239; a Revision of the 
Staphylinide of Australia, A. S. Ollifi, 283; Miss Ormerod 
on the Hessian Fly, 458; Central American Entomology, 
Dr. Alfred R. Wallace, 333; Luminosity of Insects, Dr. 
Dubois, 578 ; Indian Rhynchota, Mr. Atkinson, 603 ; Butter- 
flies of Kumaon, Himalayas, Mr. Doherty, 603 ; Lepidoptera 
and Migration, 618 
Eocene Ferns of West France and Saxony, L. Crie, 492 
Eocene Formations of Western Servia, on Certain, A. B. 
Griffiths, 259 
Epidemic, in Quest of the Origin of an, 393 
Equation, Differential, to a Curve of any Order, Prof. J. J. 
Sylvester, F.R.S., 365, 403 
Equations, Differential, R. Liouville, 491 
Equilibria, Chemical, H. Le Chatelier, 188 
Ericsson (Capt. John), the Lunar Surface and its Temperature, 
248 
Emst (Dr. A.), Weather at Caracas, 313 : New Case of Partheno- 
genesis in the Vegetable Kingdom, 549 
Erosion of Coasts of England and Wales, C. E. De Rance 
and W. Topley, 481 
Erratic Blocks of England and Wales, Rev. Dr. Crosskey, 481 
Eruption, Volcanic, in New Zealand, 301; Dr. Arch. Geikie, 
F.R.S., 320; Prof. Stephens, 379; Dr. James Hector, 
F.R.S., 389 
Eruptions, Volcanic, Red Sunsets and, Prof. S. Newcomb, 
340; Prof. A. Ricco, 386 
Espin (T. E.), Variable Stars, 110; Gore’s Nova Orionis, 502 
Essential Oils, Dr. J. H. Gladstone, F.R.S., on, 511 
Estuary Water, the Chemistry of, H. R. Mill, 511 
Ethics, History of, H. Sidgwick, 613 
Ethnography : Modern, at the British Museum, 13, 14: Ethno- 
logical Exhibits in Colonial and Indian Exhibition, C. H. 
Read, 186 ; Ethnological Exhibition at St. Petersburg, 626 ; 
Ethnology of Mindanao, Prof. Blumentritt, 372 
Ethyl Oxide, Thermal Properties of, W. Ramsay, Ph.D., and 
Sydney Young, D.Sc., 94 
Etiology of Scarlet Fever, 213 
Etna, Mount: Eruption of, 59, 82, 108, 130; M. Daubrée, 
, 140; Count L. dal Verme, 628 
Etudes sur les Lycopodiacées, Part II., M. Treub, F. O. 
Bower, 145 
Lucalyptus leucoxylon, Dr. W. Woolls, 611 
Euclid, Common-Sense, Rev. A. D. Capel, M.A., 51 
Euclid Revised, R. J. C. Nixon, 50 
Europe, North-Western, Pliocene Deposits of, Dr. Arch. Geikie, 
F.R.S., Clement Reid, 341 
Europe, Freshwater Fishes of, H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., 569 
Europe’s Mission and Prospects in Central Africa, G. Schwein- 
furth, 605 
_ Evans (F. H.), and Lantern Slides, 162 
Everett (J. D., F.R.S.), Prof. Tait on the Thomson Effect, 
75» 143 
Evershed (F.), 
Species, 468 
Evolution of a Satellite, Tidal Friction and the, James Nolan, 
286 ; Prof. G. H. Darwin, F.R.S., 287 
Evolution, Organic, Duke of Argyll, F.R.S., 335 ; Dr. Geo. J. 
, Romanes, F.R.S., 360 
Evolution et la Vie, I’, Denys Cochin, 383 
Ewing (Prof. J. A.), Seismology in Japan, 195 ; Earthquake- 
Recorders for Use in Observatories, 343 
Excursions et Reconnaissances, 348 
Exhibition. See Colonial and Indian 
Exner (Karl), on Sense-Formule, 354 
Expansion, Coefficient of, for Solids, R. Weber, 563 
Expedition, Eclipse, August 1886, 437 
Physiological Selection and the Origin of 
595 
Eye-Colour, Family Likeness in, F. Galton, F.R.S., 137 
Fabry, Comet, Dr. S. Oppenheim, 16; T. W. Backhouse, 29 ; 
M. Trépied on the Spectrum of, 40; L. Cruls, 187 
Facilities for Botanical Research, F. O. Bower, 127 
Faculty, Colloquial, for Languages, Walter Hayle Walshe, 216 
Falklands, Peat Floods in the, W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.R.S., 
440 ; Acting-Governor Bailey, 440 ; Lieut.-Governor Barkly, 
440 
Family Likeness in Eye-Colour, F. Galton, F.R.S., 137 
Farlow (Prof.), Parasites in Codfish, 17 
Farm Live-Stock of Great Britain, R. Wallace, F.C.S., 51 
Fauna, Transcaspian, 305 
Fauvelle (M.), Supernumerary Digits, 185 
Faye (M. H.), on the Relations of Geodesy to Geology, 355 ; 
Solar Spots and Protuberances, Dr. Spoerer, 588 ; ‘’empera- 
ture of Bed of Oceanic Basins, 612 
Features, Topographic, of Lake Shores, G. K. Gilbert, 269 
Fecampia erythrocephala, A. Giard, 516 
Fennema (Herr), Java Volcanic Eruptions, 22 
Ferments and Moulds, Microbes, E. L. Trouessart, 239 
} Ferns, Mount Wilson and its, P. N. Trebeck, 307 ; Eocene of 
West France and Saxony, L. Crie, 492 
Fever, Scarlet, Etiology of, 213 
Fewkes (W.), Development of Ophiopholis and Echinarachnius, 
132 
Fievez (Ch.), Origin of the Fraunhofer Rays, 562 
Fife, the Volcanic Rocks of North-Eastern, James Durham, 210 
Finland, Lapland and, Sommier’s Expedition to, 248 
Finlay (Mr.), Discovery of a Comet by, 579 
Finsbury Technical College Conversazione, 176, 218 ; Lectures, 
626 
Fir-Tree at Léiten cut in Halves by Lightning, 323 
Fire-damp Indicator, an Electric Light, Emmott and Ackroyd, 
210 
Fischer (Dr.), Return of, 226 
Fischer (E.), Isoglucosamine, 492 
Fischer (W.), on the Pressure of Saturated Vapours above 
Liquid and above Solid Substances, 402 
Fish: Prof. Farlow, Parasites on Codfish, 17 ; Foreign Fishery 
Boards, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 28; Fish-Hatching 
at South Kensington, 38; Supply of Fish to the Colonial 
Exhibition Aquarium, 38; Hybrid Trout at the South 
Kensington Aquarium, 84; Fish-Culture Conference at 
the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 246; Fish-Culture 
Association Conference at the Colonial and Indian Ex- 
hibition, 299; Canadian Salmon at the Colonial and 
Indian Exhibition, 501 ; Indian Fish at the South Kensing- 
ton Aquarium, 501; Electricity in, 48 ; Salmon Fry in the 
Dee, 84; Replenishing the Thames with Salmonidz, 109 ; 
Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, 146 ; 
Eggs of British Marine Fishes, Prof. McIntosh, F.R.S., 147 ; 
Proposed Fisheries Department of Board of Trade, 178, 179 ; 
Memorandum to Board of Trade on Scientific Knowledge 
and English Fisheries, 179; Food-Fishes at St. Andrews 
Marine Laboratory, 483; Otago Acclimatisation Society, 
501; Fish-Culture in New Zealand, 555 ; Freshwater Fishes 
of Europe, H. G. Seeley, F.R.S., 569; Scopelus miillert, F. 
Day, 571 ; Importation of German Carp, 603 ; National Fish 
Culture Association’s Operations at Delaford Park, 626; 
Fishermen’s ‘‘ Foul Water,” W. H. Shrubsole, 168 
Fiji: Meteorological Results at Levuka and Suva, J. D. W. 
Vaughan, F.R.Met.Soc., 187 
Fizeau and the Velocity of Light, 30 
Flame Contact, a New Departure in Water Heating, Thos. 
Fletcher, 230 
Flatfish, Acclimatising, to American Waters, 322 
Flegel (R.), Death of, 490 
Fleming (Dr. Geo.), Pasteur’s Researches, 144 
Flesch (Prof.), Nervous Cells, 71 
Fletcher (J. J.), Notes on Australian Earthworms, 379 
Fletcher (Thomas), Flame Contact, a New Departure in Water 
Heating, 230 
Flexure of Meridian Instruments, Prof. Harkness on, 40 
Flight Memorial Fund, 200 
