664 INDEX. 



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Electric dynamos, increase of size of 127 



furnace, nsed in diamond makino- 229 



heating, application of 134 



light, cost of 277 



development of 127 



intensity of 298 



nature of 285 



phenomena of cathode ray 158, 159 



X-rays 154 



railway, development of 126 



spark, atmosphere decomposed by 8 



transmissions, methods of 131 



welding, advantages of 134 



Electricity, atmospheric, collection of 137 



height of » 324 



Schuster on 75 



Electrolysis of alkaline fluorides - : 267 



Electro-magnets, Henry's experiments wdth 327 



Electro-metallurgy, history of 327 



Elements, classification of 248 



in reality comijounds 166 



new, recent discovery of 237 



unity of 209 



Elias, Ney, cited 386 



Ellis, Havelock, on use of mescal 537 



Embryo^ development of 488 



Emerson, L. E., in astrophysical observatory 68 



Emory, Lieutenant, explorations by 610 



Encausse, Dr. G., cited 211, 212 



Energy, clas.sificatiou of forms of 256 



matter, and motion, trinity of 213 



Entomologj', economic, study of 332 



Environment, influences of 75, 77 



Epley's ruin, Arizona 612 



Erbium, discovery of 239 



Erie, M., balloon observations by 307 



Eskimo of Bering Strait, E. W. Nelson on 44 



Esp.\ 's report on meteorology, quoted 189 



"Establishment," Smithsonian, history of 77 



members of xi, 1 



Estimates for year ending June 30, 1898 6 



Ether, father of hydrogen 213 



movements of tbe 273 



waves of 287 



Evans, Sir John, on Antarctic exploration 436 



Evarts, Choate, and Beaman, Hodgkins medal to 8 



Everette, Willis E., explorations by 10, 34 



Evermann, B. W., observations at Crater Lake by 379 



on fishes of North America 79 



Evolution, experimental study of 210 



of chemical elements 213 



plants and animals 455 



satellites, by G. H. Darwin 109 



organic, primary factorsj of 460 



Executive committee, annual report of xvii 



