INDEX. 



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'Dredging, the system of, usually em- 

 ployed in the United States, B. -Briggs 

 on, 713. 



Dresser (H. E.) on the possibility of 

 establishing a "close time" for indi- 

 genous animals, 146. 



'Dublin, the environs of, sketch of the 

 geology of, by Prof. E. Hull. 527. 



-, the port of, recent improvements in, 



B. B. Stoney on, 167. 



* Waterworks, P. Neville on the, 712. 



Ducie (the Earl of) on the work of the 

 Anthropometric Committee, 152. 



'Earth's axis, Rev. Prof. Haughton on 

 the, 548. 



'Earthworks Committee, report of the, 

 580. 



Easton (E.), Address by, to the Mechani- 



^ cal Section, 679. 



Eclipse totale et la couromie, Dr. J. 

 Janssen sur 1', 445. 



Economic Science and Statistics, Address 

 by Prof. J. K. Ingram to the Section of, 

 641. 



Edge (J. H.) on the application of copy- 

 hold enfranchisement to long leases in 

 Ireland, the assimilation of chattel and 

 freehold succession, and the simplifi- 

 cation of transfer of land, 663. 



Edmunds' electrical phonoscope, W. 

 Ladd on, 448. 



Elasticity of wires, secular experiments 

 upon the, report of the Committee for 

 commencing, 103. 



Electric lighting, the present state of, 

 J. N. Shoolbred on, 706. 



Electrical properties of bees' wax and 

 lead chloride, Profs. J. Perry and W. E. 

 Ayrton on the, 497. 



Electro-magnetic unit, a new determina- 

 tion of the number of electrostatic 

 units in the, by Profs. W. E. Ayrton 

 and J. Perry, 487. 



'Electrometer, a new form of trapdoor, 

 Prof. Barrett on, 495. 



Electro registering apparatus, a new 

 form of, D. Lane on, 454. 



Electrostatic units in the electro-mag- 

 netic unit, a new determination of the 

 number of, by Profs. W. E. Ayrton 

 and J. Perry, 487. 



*Elementary organic analysis by a moist 

 process, a method of, Prof. Wanklyn 

 and W. J. Cooper on, 517. 



Elliot (Sir W.) on the habits of the field- 

 vole (Arricola agrestis, L.), 559. 



'Equatorial mounting for a three-foot 

 reflector, the Earl of Rosse on an, 477. 



EriboUia Maeltayi, a new fossil from the 

 Assynt quartzite in the North-West em 

 Highlands of Scotland, Prof. J. Nicol 

 on, 545. 



Erratic blocks of England, Wales, and 

 Ireland, sixth report on the, 185. 



Etheridge (Mr.) on the Kentish boring 

 exploration, 380. 



Ethnological interest, some objects of, 

 collected in India and its islands, V. 

 Ball on, 588. 



Evans (Capt.) and Sir Wm. Thomson on 

 the tides of the southern hemisphere 

 and of the Mediterranean, 477. 



E vans ( Dr. J . ) on the explorat ion of Kent "s 

 Cavern, 124 ; on the examination of 

 two caves near Tenby, 209; Address 

 by, to the Geological Section, 519 ; on 

 some fossils from the Northampton 

 Sands, 534. 



Everett (Prof.) on arrangements for 

 taking certain observations in India, 

 and observations on atmospheric elec- 

 tricity at Madeira, 103 ; on under- 

 ground temperature, 178. 



Excretion of nitrogen, the : Part II., By 

 the skin, J. B. Power on, 602. 



Factor table for the fourth million, ac- 

 count of the calculation of the, 172. 



Falk (M.), elementary demonstration of 

 the theorem of multiplication of deter- 

 minants, 473. 



Farmers, small, the condition of, and 

 their position with reference to the 

 land question, M. O'Brien on, 661. 



Farr (Dr.) on Babbage's analytical ma- 

 chine, 92 ; on the work of the Anthro- 

 pometric Committee, 152 ; on a common 

 measure of value in direct taxation, 

 220. 



Feilden (Capt.) and Mr. De Ranee on 

 the geological results of the late British 

 Arctic Expedition, 548. 



Fellows (F. P.) on the work of the 

 Anthropometric Committee, 152. 



Fermanagh Caves, report on the explora- 

 tion of the, 1 83. 



Fez and Mequinez, a journey to, Dr. A. 

 Leared on, 631. 



Field (R.) on the datum-level of the 

 Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, and 

 the tabulation and comparison of other 

 datum-marks, 219. 



Field- vole (Arvieola agrestis, L.), the 

 habits of the, Sir W. Elliot on, 559. 



Filtration of water through Triassic 

 sandstone, I. Roberts on the, 397. 



Fire-damp in mines, an instrument for 

 indicating and measuring the, Prof. G. 

 Forbes on, 449. 



Fish remains in the coal-measures, the 

 occurrence of certain, and the evidence 

 they afford of their fresh-water origin, 

 J. W. Davis on, 539. 



FitzGerald (G. F.) on surface tension, 

 436 : on the theory of muscular con- 

 traction, 601. 



