INDEX. 



525' 



Cubics, on the diameters of plane, 



(Walker), 334, 483. 

 Current sheets, on ellipsoidal (Lamb), 



196. 



Cyclones, on the relation between 

 tropical and extra-tropical (Aber- 

 cromby), 138. 



Darwin (Gr. H.) on figures of equili- 

 brium of rotating masses of fluid, 

 359. 



note on Mr. Davison's paper on 



the straining of the earth's crust in 

 cooling, 483. 



Dasyuridse, on the homologies and suc- 

 cession of the teeth in the, with an 

 attempt to trace the history of the 

 evolution of mammalian teeth in 

 general (Thomas), 310. 



Davison (C.) on the distribution of 

 strain in the earth's crust resulting 

 from secular cooling, with special 

 reference to the growth of continents 

 and the formation of mountain- 

 chains, 325. 



[ ] note on the geological bearing of 



Mr. Davison's paper (Bonney), 328. 



[ ] note on Mr. Davison's paper (Dar- 

 win), 483. 



Definite integrals, on certain (Russell), 

 477. 



Dispersion equivalents. Part I (Glad- 

 stone), 401. 



Dissociation of some gases by the electric 

 discharge, on the — Bakerian lecture 

 (Thomson), 343. 



Douglass (Sir James Nicholas) elected, 

 352. 



admitted, 352. 



Dowdeswell (Gr. F.) on rabies, 355. 

 Dynamical principles, some applications 



of, to physical phenomena. Part II 



(Thomson), 297. 

 Dynamo, note on the theory of the 



alternate current, (Hopkinson), 167. 



Earth's crust, on the distribution of 

 strain in the, resulting from secular 

 cooling, with special reference to the 

 growth of continents and the forma- 

 tion of mountain- chains (Davison), 

 325. 



[ ] note on the geological bearing of 



Mr. Davison's paper (Bonney), 328. 



« note on Mr. Davison's paper on the 



straining of the, in cooling (Darwin), 

 483. 



Echidna Mamsayi (Ow.), on fossil re- 

 mains of. Part II (Owen), 390. 



Eclipse of August 29, 1886, report of 

 the observations of the total solar, 

 made at Carriacou (Perry), 316. 



Eclipse, total, of the sun observed at the- 



Caroline Islands on May 6, 1883 



(Abney), 482. 

 of Aug. 22, 1886, on the total 



solar, (preliminarv account) (Schuster),. 



180. 



Elasticities, the velocity of sound in 

 metals and a comparison of their- 

 moduli of torsional and longitudinal 

 (Tomlinson), 362. 



Election of Fellows, 16, 352. 



Electric time-constant of a circular 

 disk, - on the principal (Lamb), 289. 



discharge, on the dissociation of 



some gases by the — Bakerian lecture 

 (Thomson), 343. 



■ stimulation, a further minute- 



analysis by, of the so-called motor 

 region of the cortex cerebri in the 

 monkey (Macacus sinicus) (Beevor 

 and Horsley), 483. 



Electrical organ of Torpedo m,armorata r 

 the electromotive properties of the- 

 (Crotch), 357. 



Electricity, note on the development of" 

 voltaic, by atmospheric oxidation 

 (Wright and Thompson), 212. 



experiments on the discharge of, 



through gases ; second paper (Schus- 

 ter), 371. 



on the rate at which electri- 

 city leaks through liquids which are- 

 bad conductors of (Thomson and 

 Newall),410. 



Electrochemical effects on. magnetising 

 iron (Andrews), 459. 



Electrodeposition of alloys, note on the, 

 and on the electromotive forces of 

 metals in cyanide solutions (Thomp- 



. son), 387. 



Electromotive forces of metals in cyanide 

 solutions, note on the electrodeposi- 

 tion of alloys and on the (Thompson), 

 387. 



properties, the, of the electrical 



organ of Torpedo marmorata (Gotch),, 

 357. 



Elements, a geometrical interpretation 

 of the first two periods of chemical,, 

 following hydrogen, showing the re- 

 lations of the fourteen elements to 

 each other and to hydrogen by means- 

 of a right line and cubic curve with 

 one asymptote (Haughton), 482. 



Elliot (Sir Walter), obituary notice,, 

 viii. 



Ellipsoidal current sheets, on (Lamb),, 

 196. 



Embryology of marsupialia and mono- 

 tremata.' Part I (Caldwell) , 177. 



Equilibrium, on figures of, of rotating, 

 masses of fluid (Darwin), 359. 



