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213, 295; at Fiume, 269; at Yokohama, 295; in Upper 
Scinde, 353; West Coast of Africa and Assam, Ecuador, and 
Bombay, 394; in Asia Minor, 395 ; March 17, 1871, account 
of, 405, 413, 426; North of England, New Zealand, 413 ; 
Peru, 434, 512; in India and Chili, 472 
Earthquakes and the Electric Telegraph, 47 
Earthquakes Ascribed to Subterranean Lightning, 492 
Earwaker (J. P.) on the Aurora Borealis, 46; on Natural 
Science at Oxford, 170 
East Kent Natural History Society, 472 
Echoes of the Royal Albert Hall, W. Mattieu Williams on the, 
499 
Eclipse of the Sun of December 22, 1870; notices of Govern- 
ment and other Expeditions and Observations, 13, 14, 52, 69, 
73, 87, 92, IOI, 113, 132, 51, 152. 171, 184, 195, 212, 221, 
228, 231, 240, 261, 267, 288, 289, 310, 321, 327, 369 
Eclipse (Sze Corona) 
Edinburgh : University, 13, 452, 511 ; Mr. Geikie appointed 
Professor of Geology, 332; Botanical Society, 300, 440; 
Royal Society, 219, 380; Royal Physical Society, 98, 220, 
296, 459, 478 
Edinburgh, H.R.H. the Duke of, in Ceylon, 366 
Edmonds (R.), on the Insulation of St. Michael’s Mount, 309 ; 
on the Derivation of the name ‘‘ Britain,” 446. 
Education of Civil Engineers, 301 
Egerton (Sir P. G., Bart., F.R.S.), on Ceratodus Forsteri, 166 
Electricians, a Hint to, by Prof. Sir W. Thomson, F.R.S., 248 
Electric Telegraph and [arthquakes, 47 
Electro-magnetic Engine, Examples of its Performance, 474 
**Elementary Physics, Lessons on,” by Prof. Balfour Stewart, 
L.L.D., F.R.S., 163 
Elementary Schools, 
Teaching) 
Elephant, White, captured in Siam, 353 
Elger (T. G.), on the Aurora Borealis, 6 
Energy and Prof. Bain’s ‘‘ Logic of Physics,” 89. 
Engineering College for Indian Service, Proposed, 232, 372, 413 
Entomological Society, 58, 97, 138, 218, 278, 312, 317, 397, 430, 
477; Address of A. R. Wallace, I’. Z.S., President, 312, 435 
Entomology, Economie, Prizes offered by the Horticultural 
Society, 495 , 
EozoGn Canadense in Canada, 146, 185, 267, 287, 367, 386 
Essex Institute, 57 
Etna, Mount, Ascent of by Prof. W. H. Corfield, go, 266 
Ethnological Society, 59, 97, 158, 239, 278, 497 
Ethnological Society of New York, 452 
Evans (Rev. D. S.) on the Milky Way, 167 
a (Sebastian) on Sir J. Lubbock’s ‘‘ Origin of Civilisation,” 
2 
Everett (Prof. J. D.), his edition of Deschanel’s ‘‘Treatise on 
Natural Philosophy,” 145, 187, 227 ; on the Measurement of 
Mass, 167, 187, 227, 266, 325, 345, 369, 420 
Exeter, Royal Albert Museum, 332, 432 
Extreme Seasons, 28 (See Cold, Frost) 
Scientific Teaching in (Se Science 
Faraday, Prof. Helmholtz on, 51 
“Fauna Argentina,” by Dr. Burmeister, 282 
Faunas of Oceanic Islands, 488 
Fawcett (T.), on the Earthquake of March 17, 424 
Fée’s ‘‘ Cryptogames Vasculaires,” 24 
Fennell’s ‘‘ Book of the Roach,” 25 
Ferments, Glycerine Extracts of, 168 
Fern, the Irish, in Cornwall, 509 
Femet’s ‘“‘ Elementary Physics,” 23 
Fertilisation of Plants, 47; of the Hazel, 347, 414, 509 
Field (W.), on Hereditary Deformities, 7 
Fielding (Dr. G. H.), on the Frost of 1870—71, 327 
Fires, Rain produced by, 448 
Fishes in the British Museum, Catalogue of, 342 
Fiume, Earthquake at, 269 
Flammarion’s ‘‘ Marvels of the Heavens,” translated by Mrs. 
Norman Lockyer, 225 
Floating Islands in Victoria, 449 
Flower (Prof, W. H., F.R.S.), on the Osteology of the Mam- 
malia, 251 ; on Dr. Burmeister’s ‘‘ Fauna Argentina”, 282 
Fluorspar, its Action on Cast-iron, 435 
Folkstone Natural History Society, 153, 394 
Forbes (David, F.R.S.), On the Nature of the Interior of the 
Earth, 296 ; On the Iron and Steel Institute, 422 
Fossil Cetacea, 392 


Fossils in the Museum at Oxford, 333 
Foster (Prof. M.) on Glycerine Extracts of Pepsine, 168 
Frankland (Prof. E., F.R.S.), on Spontaneous Generation, 225, 
247 ; on Chemical Research, 445 
Fraser (Geo.), on Sexual Selection, 489 
Frost of the Winter of 1870-71, 193, 208, 212, 233, 295, 327 
Fry (Edward, Q.C.), on Natural Selection, 506 
Fuel of the Sun, 26 
Fungi, 126 
Fungi and Lichens, Swedish Pamphlet on, 214 
Fungoid Origin of Cholera, 391 
Gagliardi (J.), on the work by Prof. De Notaris, on Mosses, 349 
Galloway (R., F.C.S.), his ‘‘ Manual of Qualitative Analysis,” 
122 
Galton (F., F.R.S.), on Pangenesis, 502 
Garrod (A. H.), on Mounta‘n Climbing, £27. 
Geikie (A., F.R.S.), on Recent Petrographical Literature, 283, 
‘302, 387 
Genesis of Species, 270, 347, 426. 467 
Geographical Society, 157, 411 
“* Geology,” by Prof. Morris and T. Rupert Jones, 285 
Geology of Nova Scotia, 214 
Geology of Victoria, 134 
Geological Magazine, 57, 339, 417 
Geological Society, 96, 99, 117, 158, 217, 259, 316, 356, 376, 
418, 458; Anniversary Meeting, 351 
Geologists’ Association, 115, 498, 518 
Geometrical Teaching, Association for its Reform, 169, 248 
“Geometry, the Essentials of,” by J. R. Morell, 323, 347, 407, 
427, 446 
Geometry, Pre-Euclidian, 483 
German Chemical Society, 60, 178 
German Geological Society, 58 
German North Pole Expedition, 454 
Germany, Natural History Museums in, 441, 462 
Gibbon, The Hoolock, at the Zoological Gardens, 481 
Gibbs (W. B.), on the Aurora Borealis, 6 
Glacial Motion, 309, 452 
Glasgow University, Opening of, 35 
Glasgow Geological Society, 159, 279, 398, 478 
Glass Floats, 36, 87, 108, 307 (See Ocean Currents) 
Glutton, Remains of, near St. Asaph, 425 
Glycerine Extracts of Pepsine, &c., 168, 207 
Godman (F. D., F.L.S.), on the Natural History of the Azores, 
393 
Gold at Bangalore, 394 
Gold Mining in Victoria, Reports of Surveyors, 93 
Gold Ore in Madagascar, 255 
Gottingen, Royal Academy of Sciences, 140 
Grape Sugar, Manufacture of, 93 
Greenland, Explorations in, 372 
Greenwocd (Col. G.), on Ocean Currents, 48, 87 
Gresham College Lectures, 212 
Ground Nut, Pods of the, 93 
Grove (W. R., F.R.S.), on the Aurora Borealis, 2 
Gryson (Robert), on am extraordinary Meteor, 209 
Guano Island discovered, 93 
Gull (Larus occidentalis) at California, 513 
Giimbel (Dr. C. W.), on Deep-sea Mud, 16 
Gum Dammar, 470 
Gum-trees of Australia, 494 
Gun-cotton and Nitro-glycerine, 168 
Gunpowder and Steam, Comparative Forces of, 35 
Giinther (Albert, M.A., M.D., F,R.S.), his Catalogue of Fishes 
in the British Museum, 342 
Hackney Scientific Association, 14, 54, 393, 398 
Haeckel (Dr. Ernest), his ‘‘ Natural History of Creation,” 102 ; 
on Spontaneous Generation, 354. 
Haidinger (Wilhelm von), Obituary Notice of, 450 
Hailstones, their Form, 128, 167 
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Institute of Natural Science, 119, 399 
Hall (J. G.), on the Aurora Borealis, 7 ; Electro-Magnetic Ane- 
mometer, (Br. A.), 17 
Hall (John James, F.M.S.), on the Frost of 1870—71, 208 ; on 
a Wind Direction Gauge, 509 
Hall (M.), Records of European Research, 446 
Hammond (Basil E.), on the Light from the Red Hydrogen- 
Stratum of the Chromosphere, 487 
