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Deville, Henri Sainte-Claire, cited 259 



Dewar, Professor, corabnstioQ of diamond by 221 



Dianiantiferous pipes, mechanism of 229 



Diamonds, combustion of 220 



conversion of graphite into 224 



ferric origin of 230 



genesis of 226 



meteoric .' 233 



method of artificial manufacture of 227 



physics of tlie 221 



specific gravity of 222 



William Crookes on 219 



Didymium, use of 240 



Diller, J. S., on Crater Lake, Oregon 369 



Dinwiddie, William, photographs by^ 45 



Dcibereiner, cited 247 



Dohrn, Doctor, director of Naples zoological station 9 



Dorsey, James Owen, on Siouan mythology 79 



Dromograph for balloon explorations 304 



Duclaux, E., on atmospheric actiuometry 11, 71 



Dudley, P. H., inventions of 329 



Duke of Argyle, on Antarctic ice sheet 422 



Dutton, C. E., at Crater Lake 370 



Dysjjrosium, discovery of 239 



E. 



Earll, R. E., death of xiii 



Earth, age of, as abode for life, Kelvin on 337 



composition of crust of 237 



consolidation of surface of 347 



process of formation of crust of 352 



specific gravity of strata of 237 



theory of formation of 110 



Ebert, H., electrical experiments by 281 



Eddy, Mr., meteorological experiments by 192 



Eddy, William A., kite flying exp.erimciits by 317 



Edison fluorescent screen, experiments with 147 



Editor's report on Smithsonian publications 71 



Eel, life history of 491 



Egypt, methods of illumination in 274 



recent research in 571 



tomb of Meua in - 572 



Egyptian antiquities, recent discovery of 571 



art and civilization, origin of 573 



dynasties, history of 571 



papyri, catalogue of 15 



Ekasilicon, discovery of 242 



Electoral college in Maryland 80 



Electrical advance in past ten years, Elihu Thomson on 125 



energy, definition of 257 



Electric-arc furnace, uses of 130 



light, nature of 285 



current, discoveries concerning 328 



Ohm's laws of 98 



currents, transforming of 128 



