INDEX. 



683 



Dynamo-machine, a new hand, W. H. 

 Preece on, 447. 



Earthquake phenomena of Japan, second 



report on the, 205. 

 Economic Science and Statistics, Address 



by Kt. Hon. G. Sclater-Booth to the 



Section of, 631. 

 Edgeworth (F. Y.), the abstract tlieory 



of rent, 642. 

 *Edison steam dynamo, the efficiency of 



the, Dr. Fleming on, 667. 

 Edwards (E. P.) on sound signals, 670. 

 Electric currents, the absolute measure- 

 ment of, Prof. Lord Kayleigh on, 445. 

 , free, the duration of, in an infinite 



conducting cylinder. Prof. Lord Kay- 

 leigh on, 446. 

 Electric furnace, Dr. C. "W. Siemens and 



Prof. A. K. Huntington on the, 496. 

 *Electric light engineering. Dr. Fleming 



on, 667. 

 measurement, some apparatus for 



use in connection with, 1!. Sabine on, 



667. 

 Electric meters, C. V. Boys on, 464. 

 Electric railways, recent progress in, by 



Dr. Fleming," 667. 

 Electrical contact mater, a new, Prof. 



H. S. H. Shaw on, 465. 

 Electrical distribution, demands of a 



system of, by F. J. Sprague, 448. 

 Electrical measurements, report of the 



Committee for constructing and issuing 



practical standards for use in, 70. 

 Elephant bed at Freshwater Gate, Prof. 



Prestwich on the, 529. 

 Elevation and subsidence of land, J. S. 



Gardner on the cause of, 541. 

 Elimination of nitrogen, the influence of 



bodily exercise on the, report on, 269. 

 Elliptic functions, a theorem in, J. W. L. 



Glaisher on, 456. 

 , integration of an equation connected 



with the, by Capt. P. A. MacMahon, 450. 

 Elwes (J. W.) on the classification of 



oligocene strata in the Hampshire 



basin, 539. 

 Engine-power meter, C. V. Boj's on the, 



672. 

 Eocenes, British, suggestions for a revised 



classification of, by J. S. Gardner, 539. 

 ♦Equilibrium of liquid-conducting sur- 

 faces charged with electricity. Prof. 



Lord Rayleigh on the, 447. 

 Erratic blocks of England, Wales, and 



Ireland, tenth report on the, 243. 

 Etheridge (R.), Address by, to the Geo- 

 logical Section, 502. 

 Evans (Dr. J.) on explorations in caves 



of carboniferous limestone in the South 



of Ireland, 240. 

 Everett (Prof.) on standards for use in 



electrical measurements, 70 ; on under- 



ground temperature, 72 ; summary of 

 results contained in the first fifteen 

 reports of the Underground Tempera- 

 ture Committee, 74. 

 Eyre (G. E. B.), cottagers and open wastes 

 in the district of the New Forest, 645. 



Faraday (F. J.), considerations arising 

 from Koch's discovery of the bacillus 

 of tuberculosis, 578. 



Feet of mammalia, the homologies of 

 the long flexor muscles of the, G. E. 

 Dobson on, 574. 



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

 mittee for carrying out the recom- 

 mendations of the Anthropometric 

 Committee of 1880, 278 ; on the ap- 

 propriation of wages and other sources 

 of income, 297. 



Field (Pi.) on the best means of ascer- 

 taining the effective wind-pressures to 

 which buildings and structures are ex- 

 posed, 315. 



Filaria in the blood. Dr. P. Manson on 

 the destiny of the, 579. 



Filaria sanguinis bominis. Dr. Cobbold 

 on, 579. 



Fleming (Dr.), recent progress in electric 

 railways, 667 ; *on electric light en- 

 gineering, ib. ; *on the efficiency of the 

 Edison steam dynamo, ib. 



Flints, the formation of. Prof. W. J. 

 Sollas on, 549. 



Flora of the ' Halifax Hard Bed,' Lower 

 Coal Measures, preliminary report on 

 the, 267. 



Flower (Prof.) on obtaining photographs 

 of the tvpical races in the British Isles, 

 270. 



Forbes (Prof. G.) on the measurement of 

 the lunar disturbance of gravity, 95 ; 

 on the velocity of white and coloured 

 light, 441 ; on a new form of arc lamp, 

 668 ; on the laws defining the strength 

 of current which can be sent through 

 wires of different diameters without 

 raising the external temperature above 

 a certain limit, ib. 



Forbes (Dr. L.), the geography and 

 meteorology of Kansas, 625. 



Fordham (H. G.) on the erratic blocks of 

 England, Wales, and Ireland, 243. 



Formula of Alfred 11. Wallace, the, in its 

 relations to characters and alphabets, 

 Hyde Clarke on, 608. 



Forth bridge, the, by B. Baker, 419. 



Fossil polyzoa, third report on (Jurassic 

 species — British area only), 249, 



Fossils of the inferior oolite, Eev. G. F. 

 Whidborne and Prof. W. J. Sollas 

 on some, 534 ; lamellibranchiata, ib. ; 

 spongid;e, ib. 



Foster (A. Le Neve) on the determination 



