Nature, June <), 1887] 



Reid, 534 ; in Travnik, 545, 568 ; in Campfer and St. Moritz' 

 545 ; in Stuttgart, 545 ; in Savona, 545 ; at Friedau, 568 ; a' 

 Forli, 568 ; at Aden, 593 ; at Lisbon, 612 ; Pie-Scientific 

 Theories of the Causes of, 428 ; Magnetic Effects of Recent, 

 479 ; Earthquakes in Connexion with Fire-Damp, 527 ; 

 Possible Cause of the Earthquakes of 1755, 1S84, and 1887, 

 528 ; Sekei Sekiya on the Comparison of, 593 

 Earthworms, Australian, J. G. Fletcher, 95 

 Eastern Seas, Law of Storms in the. Dr. W. Doberck, 135 

 Eclipse of the Sun at Grenada in August l885. Preliminary 

 Account of the Observations of the, Capt. Darwin, 287 ; Dr. 

 Arthur Schuster, F.R.S., 549 

 Ecuador, Travels in the Wilds of, Alfred Simson, 437 

 Edinburgh : Mathematical Society, 71, 191, 454 ; Royal Society, 

 191, 311, 454, 479, 551, 599; College of Physicians, 399 ; 

 Royal Physical Society, 454 ; Scottish Meteorological Society, 

 575 

 Edison (Mr.), Illness of, 257 



Education : Industrial and High Art, in the United States, J. 

 Edwards Clarke, W. Odell, 97 ; Association for Promoting 

 a Teaching University in London, 179; Japan Educational 

 Society, 204; the State and Higher Education, 457 ; Neces- 

 sity for a Minister of Education, 481 ; Organisation of Indus- 

 trial Education, Prof. Huxley, 493 ; Technical Education, 

 592 ; Educational Exhibits and Conventions at the World's 

 Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, New Orleans, 

 245 ; Educational System in New York, Andrew S. Draper, 



445 



Eels discovered in Masonry, 400 



Eggs, Birds' Nests and, H. Seebohm, 236 



Egypt : Specimens of the Different Strata of Soil in the Delta 

 received from, III; Botanical Discoveries in the Tombs of, 

 405 



EichIer(Dr. August Wilhelm) : Death of, 443; Obituary Notice 

 of, 493 



Eight Squares, Product of Two Sums of, 455 



Ekaterinburg, Scientific and Industrial Exhibition at, 133, 

 400 



Elastic Fluid, on the Movement of an Indefinite and Perfectly, 

 120 



Elasticity, History of the Theory of, Isaac Todhunter, F.R.S., 

 A. G. Greenhill, 313 



Elasticity of Bending of Pure Zinc, Copper, Tin, and their 

 Alloys, 333 



Electricity : Dynamo-Electric Machines, on the Intensity of the 

 Magnetic Field in. Marcel Deprez, 23 ; Electro-Metallurgy, 

 57 ; Electric Conductibility of Vapours and Gases, the, 

 Prof. Giov. Luvini, 85 ; Electric Charge on the Atom, A. P. 

 Laurie, 131 ; Electrical Metronome established at the Paris 

 Opera House, 158; an Error in Maxwell's "Electricity and 

 Magnetism," 172 ; James C. McConnel, 172 ; Rev. Henry W. 

 Watson, 223 ; Prof. A. Seydler, 512 ; Electrical Phenomenon, 

 Thos. Higgin, 173 ; Electricity and Clocks, T. Wilson, 173 ; 

 Henry Dent Gardner, 198, 231 ; Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, 

 224 ; " Horloge " on, 43S ; Electro-Statics, M. A. Vaschy, 

 263 ; Lives of the Electricians, W. T. Jeans, 270 ; Electric 

 Telegraph, Sir Chas. T. Bright, 282 ; Latest Industrial 

 Application of Electric Welding, 331 ; Electromotive Force 

 of the Voltaic Arc, 331 ; Quadrant Electrometers, 331 ; 

 Pyro-Electricity of Quartz, B. von Kolenko, 333 ; Propaga- 

 tion of, in Telegraph-Wires, Ed. Hagenbach, 333 ; Prize 

 offered to the Inventor of a Cheap Method for the Applica- 

 tion of, 350 ; Spiders and Electric Light, 351 ; Electrolysis 

 of AlkaUne Solutions, M. Duter, 3S2 ; Formation of Peroxide 

 of Hydrogen by Electrolysis, Dr. Richarz, 384 ; Electric 

 Motor and its Applications, T. C. Martin and Jos. Wetzler, 

 Prof. S. P. Thompson, 410 ; Equatorial Zone of almost Per- 

 petual Electrical Discharge, Hon. Ralph Abercromby, 487 ; 

 Experiments on Electrical Resistance of Suspended Copper 

 and Iron Wires, Shelford Bidwell, 526 ; Gas- Lighting by 

 Electricity, 569 ; Electrical Discharges in the Doldrums, 

 David Wilson-Barker, 584 ; Train Lighted by Electricity, 

 595 ; Note on the Development of Voltaic, by Atmospheric 

 Oxidation, C. R. Alder Weight, F.R.S., 598; Practical 

 Electricity, Prof W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S., 601; Electric 

 Locomotion, 613 

 Elemore Pit, W. Galloway on the Recent Explosion at, 133 

 Elephantiasis, Species of. Investigations of, 473 



Eliot (President), Present Position of Science in the Secondary 

 Schools of America, 375 



Elliot (Sir Walter, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of, 543 



Elliott (Archd. C), Units of Weight, Mass, and Force, 605 



Elliott (Henry W.), an Arctic Province, 243 



EUipsoidal Current Sheets, on, Horace Lamb, F.R.S., 574 



Elliptical Integrals, 575 



Ellipticity of Uranus, Prof. W. Valentiner, 614 



Elwes (Capt. H. J.), Butterflies of India, Lionel de Niceville, 



436 ; Lepidoptera-Heterocera, 503 

 Embiyogeny of the Anthropoid Apes, J. Deniker, 509 

 Embryology of Monotremata and Marsupialia, W. H. Caldwell, 



524 

 Emin Bey (Dr.) : Proposed Expedition for Relief of,:83, 177 ; Dr. 

 Junker on the Best Route by which to reach him, 258 ; Mr. 

 Stanley's Expedition, 283, 330, 446, 475 ; Arrival of Dr. 

 Junker's Caravan, 475 ; Short Biography of, 497 

 Encyclopredia Britannica, 314 

 Encyclopaedia of Natural Science, Trewendt's, 58 

 Encyclopa;dic Dictionary, 485 

 Encyclop.-cdie der Wissenschaften, 593 

 Endowed Schools Committee, Report of, 611 

 Endowment of Medical Research, 409 

 Enfida, Dolmens on, 551 

 Engelhardt's (Baron I)'), Observator)', 546 

 Engineer, the, on the Dimensions of Physical Quantities, 462 

 Engineering, Canal and River, David Stevenson, Major Allan 



Cunningham, 169 

 Engineering Laboratories, on the Use and Equipment of, Prof 



Alex. B. Kennedy, 235 

 Engineering, Marine, 242 



Engineering : on the Conversion of Heat into Work, W. 

 Anderson, 3S7 ; Hydraulic Power and Hydraulic Machinery, 

 H. Robinson, Major Allan Cunningham, 460 

 Engler's Botanische Jahrbiicher, 405 

 English Coasts, Erosion of the, W. Topley, 37 

 Entomology : Notes on the Recent Swarming of Aphides, 

 G. B. Buckton, F.R.S., 15 ; Entomological Society, 70, 

 191. 335, 453, 503, 623 ; the Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera 

 of Middlesex, S. T. Klein, 167 ; Macro-Lepidoptera of East 

 Sussex, J. H. A. Jenner, 230 ; Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod on 

 the Hessian Fly, 256 ; Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 

 473 

 Entropy, Felix Lucas on, 455 

 Entyloma Ranuneuli, Prof. H. M. Ward, 165 

 Eosin Silver, Use of, in Photography, 432 

 Epidermis, Structure of the, Dr. Blaschko, 551 

 Equatorial Observations of the New Comets, 382 

 Equatorial Zone of almost Perpetual Electrical Discharge, Hon. 



Ralph Abercromby, 487 

 Equilibrium of a Fluid Mass, 479 

 Equinoctical Gales, Dr. R. Miiller, 612 



Erck (Dr. Wentworth)': Barnard's Comet, 198 ; Sunset Phe- 

 nomenon, 391 

 Ernst (Dr. A.), Dutch Colonies in South America and the West 



Indies, K. Martin, 459 

 Erosion of the English Coasts, W. Topley, 37 

 Eruption, Volcanic, in Niua-Fu Friendly Islands, Prof. T. G. 



Bonney, F.R, S., 127 

 Eruption of Mount Tarawera, 406, 472 ; Meteorological Con- 

 ditions at the Time of the, Capt. F. W. Hutton, 322 

 Eruption of March 1886, Kilauea after the, 451 

 Eruptions, New Zealand, Red Sunsets and, Lieut. -Col. A. T. 



Eraser, 224 

 Erythrene, MM. E. Grimaux and Ch. Cloez, 28S 

 Erythrite, M. Albert Colson, 288 

 Eskimo, Dr. H. Rink, Prof A. H. Keane, 309 

 Eskimos, some Popular Errors in regard to the, John Murdoch, 



518 

 Essex Field Club, the, 1 58 

 Essex Naturalist, 545 

 Etheridge (Robert, F.R.S.) and P. Herbert Carpenter, the 



Blastoidea, 267 

 Ethnological Collection presented by Lieut. Quedenfeldt to the 



Anthropological Society, 423 

 Ethnological Collection presented by Gen. Gene to the Ethno- 

 graphic Museum of Rome, 496 

 Ethnological Museum at Berlin, Opening of, 180 

 Ethnology : Cannibalism and its Prevalence in Ancient and 



Modern Times, Herr Richard Andree, 350 

 Etiology of Scarlet Fever, E. Klein, F. R.S., 452 

 Eucalyptus-Tree, Bee-hives discovered in, 423 



