Index. 
557 
Donations to the Library, 535. 
Dornoch Firth, its Temperature and 
Salinity, by Dr Hugh Robert Mill, 
250. 
Durham (William), Chemical Affinity 
and Solution, 48. 
Laws of Solution, Part II., 381. 
Earthworms. —Structural Characters 
of certain new or little-known Earth- 
worms, by F. E. Beddard, 156. 
Election of Office-Bearers for Session 
1886-87, 1. 
Electrolytic Polarization, its Increase 
with Time, by W. Peddie, 107, 221. 
Electromotive Force, Standard of, by 
Cosmo I. Burton, 356. 
Elliott (A. C.), Improvement in Ran- 
kine’s Formula for Retaining Walls, 
48, 85. 
Energy, its Partition between the 
Translatory and Rotational Motions 
of a set of non-homogeneous 
Elastic Spheres, 387. 
Epiblastic Origin of the Segmental 
Duct in Teleostean Fishes and 
Birds, by George Brook, 368. 
Ewart (Professor J. C.) on the Pre- 
sence of Bacteria in the Lymph, 
&c. , of Living Fish and other Ver- 
tebrates, 252. 
Explosives, on the Effects of, by 
Professor Tait, 110. 
Eye, its Structure in certain Cymo- 
thoidse, by Frank E. Beddard, 381. 
Eye-Piece. — On the Achromatism of a 
Four-Lens Eye-Piece : New Ar- 
rangement of the Lenses, by Dr E. 
Sang, 153. 
Fawsitt (C. A.) and Dittmar (Prof. W.) 
on Methyl -Alcohol, 219. 
Ferric Ferricyanide as a Reagent for 
Detecting Traces of Reducing Gases, 
419. 
Fibrin-Ferment absent from Blood- 
Plasma, 419. 
Fluid Motion, on the Instability of, 
by Sir W. Thomson, 194. 
Stability of Fluid Motion. 
Rectilineal Motion of Viscous Fluid 
between two Parallel Planes, by Sir 
William Thomson, 359. 
Forth (Firth of), its Salinity, Tem- 
perature, &c., by Dr H. R. Mill, 387. 
Fossil Fishes collected in Eskdale 
and Liddesdale. I. Ganoidei, by Dr 
Traquair, 111. 
Fossil Flora of the Somerset and 
Bristol Coal Fields, by R. Kidston, 
153, 240. 
Fowler (G. H.), and Professor A. 
Milnes Marshall, Report on the 
Pennatulida dredged by H.M.S. 
“ Porcupine,” 359. 
Fraser (Professor Thomas R.), Note 
on the Chemistry of Strophanthin, 
370. 
Functions. — Expansion of Functions 
in terms of Linear, Cylindric, 
Spherical, &c., Functions, by P. 
Alexander, 37. 
Furnace capable of melting Nickel 
and Cobalt, by J. B. Readman, 240. 
Gadus ceglefinus, Bacilli found in, 
265. 
Gadus merlangus, Bacilli found in, 
265. 
Gadus morrhua , Bacilli found in, 
265. 
Gas. — Equilibrium of Gas under its 
own Gravitation only, 111, 118. 
Gases, Kinetic Theory of, by Professor 
Tait, 24. 
Gaseous Films, Action of, by W. 
Peddie, 221. 
Gasteropoda, their Problematical 
Organs, by Dr A. B. Griffiths, 230. 
Geikie (Professor James) on the Geo- 
logy and Petrology of St Abb’s 
Head, 177. 
Glories seen from Ben Nevis Observa- 
tory, by R. T. Omond, 314. 
— by Professor Tait, 358. 
Griffiths (Dr A. B.), Researches on 
Micro-Organisms, including a New 
Method for their Destruction in cer- 
tain Cases of Contagious Disease, 97. 
and Griffiths (Mrs A. B.), 
Investigations on the Influence of 
certain Rays of the Solar Spectrum 
on Root-Absorption and the Growth 
of Plants, 125. 
Researches on the Problemati- 
cal Organs of the Invertebrata 
(Cephalopoda, Gasteropoda, Lamelli- 
branchiata, Crustacea, Insecta, and 
Oligochseta), 230. 
— — — on the Nephridia of Hirudo 
medicinalis, 346. 
Griffiths (Mrs A. B. ) on Degenerated 
Specimens of Tulip a sylvestris , 349. 
Halos and Coronse seen from Ben 
Nevis Observatory, by R. T. Omond, 
314. 
Hamilton (Professor D. J.), the 
Conducting Paths between the 
Cortex of the Cerebrum and the 
Lower Centres in relation to their 
Function, 97, 519. 
