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INDEX. 



Electrolysis, the dissociation theory of, 

 reply to Prof. Armstrong's criticisms 

 regarding, by S. Arrhenius, 352 ; note 

 thereon by Prof. H. E. Armstrong, 

 355. 



Electrolysis in its physical and chemical 

 bearings, third report on, 339. 



Electrolysis of thallium trisulphide. Dr. 

 J. H. Gladstone and W. Hibbert on 

 the, 349. 



Electrolytes, the accuracy of Ohm's law 

 in. Prof. Fitzgerald and F. Trouton on, 

 341. 



Electrolytic theory, the authorship of, 

 by Prof. Clausius, 346. 



Electro-magnetic induction of incom- 

 plete circuits, a simple hypothesis for, 

 with consequent equations of electric 

 motion in fixed homogeneous or hetero- 

 geneous solid matter, by Prof. Sir W. 

 Thomson, 567. 



*Electro-magnetic waves, on a modifi- 

 cation of Maxwell's equations of, by 

 Prof. H. A. Eowland, 617. 



, on the measurement of the length 



of, by Prof. O. J. Lodge, 567. 



*Electrometric determination of ' v,' by 

 Profs. Sir W. Thomson, Ayrton, and 

 Perry, 616. 



Ellis (W.) on the best means of com- 

 paring and reducing magnetic obser- 

 vations, 28. 



El- Wed], mission to, by Capt. C. Surtees, 

 747. 



*Elwes (Capt. \V. J.), a new route from 

 India to Tibet, 741. 



*Embryos, certain adaptations for the 

 nutrition of, F. W. Oliver on, 710. 



Enseignement technique secondaLre en 

 Italic, I'organisation et la statistique 

 de 1', by Signer Bonghi, 774. 



Erosion of the sea-coasts of England and 

 Wales, the rate of, and the influence 

 of the artificial abstraction of shingle 

 or other material in that action, report 

 on, 898. 



Erratic blocks of England, Wales, and 

 Ireland, sixteenth report on the, 101. 



Errors of the argument of statistical 

 tables, J. Kleiber on the, 618. 



Eruption, the late, in the island of Vul- 

 cano, Drs. T. Anderson and H. J. 

 Johnston-Lavis on, 664. 



Etheridge (R.) on the ' manure ' gravels 

 of Wexford, 133 ; on the fossil phyllo- 

 poda of the palfeozoic rocks, 173 ; on 

 the earthquake and volcanic pheno- 

 mena of Japan, 422. 



Etna, the occurrence of leucite at. Dr. 

 H. J. Johnston-Lavis on, 669. 



Etruscans, Pelasgians, and Iberians : 

 their relations to the founders of the 

 Chaldean and Egyptian civilisations, 

 by J. S. S. Glennie, 857. 



Evans (Dr. J.) on the work of the Corre- 

 sponding Societies Committee, 255 ; 

 on the prehistoric inhabitants of the 

 British islands, 289 ; on the advisa- 

 bility and possibility of establishing 

 in other parts of the country obser- 

 vations upon the prevalence of earth 

 tremors similar to those now being 

 made in Durham, 522. 



Everett (Prof. J. D.) on the desirability 

 of introducing a uniform nomenclature 

 for the fundamental units of me- 

 chanics, 27 ; on standards for use in 

 electrical measurements, 55 ; on the 

 relations between orbits, catenaries, 

 and curved rays, 581. 



Ewart (Prof. ) on the researches on 

 food-fishes at the St. Andrews marine 

 laboratory, 141. 



Ewing (Prof.) on the advisability and 

 possibility of establishing in other 

 parts of the country observations upon 

 the prevalence of earth tremors similar 

 to those now being made in Durham, 

 522. 



Examination, the statistics of, Prof. F. T. 

 Edgeworth on, 763. 



Explosions, the incompleteness of com- 

 bustion in, by Prof. H. B. Dixon and 

 H. W. Smith, 632. 



Factory industries, the suitability of 

 small towns for, by R. R. Tanner," 767. 



♦Fauna of the Firth of Clyde, W. E. 

 Hoyle on the, 717. 



Fayum and Raian basins, the, by Cope 

 Whitehouse, 746. 



Fermat's theorem, recurring decimals 

 and, Prof. R. W. Genese on, 580. 



Ferns, abnormal, hybrids, and their 

 parents, by E. J. Lowe and Col. 

 Jones, 713. 



Figures produced by electric action on 

 photographic dry plates, J. Brown on, 

 565. 



Fire-damp detector, an automatic, J. W. 

 Swan on, 817. 



''Firth of Clyde, the fauna of the, W. E. 

 Hoyle on, 717. 



Fitzgerald (Prof. G. F.) on the desir- 

 ability of introducing a uniform no- 

 menclature for the fundamental units 

 of mechanics, 27 ; on standards for 

 use in electrical measurements, 55 ; on 

 arranging an investigation of the sea- 

 sonable variations of temperature in 

 lakes, rivers, and estuaries, 326 ; on 

 electrolysis in its physical and chemi- 

 cal bearings, 339 ; Address to the 

 Mathematical and Physical Section by, 

 557. I 



and F. Trouton on the accuracy of I 



Ohm's law in electrolytes, 341. 



