S30 index. December, 
Electricity by the ray, production of, 
701 
— nickelising without, 708 
— transmission of power by means 
of, 183 
“ Electricity and Magnetism ” (re- 
view), 1 14 
“ Electricity, Text-book of” (review), 
646 
EleCtro-magnetic regulator, improved 
siren with, 456 
Elements, chemical, are they simple 
bodies ? 800 
Ellis, W., relation between the diur- 
nal range of magnetic declination 
and horizontal force, 444 
Elm, cochineal inseCt living on the, 
452 
Elphinstone, Lord, magnetic circuits 
in dynamo- and magneto-eleCtric 
machines, 817 
Embryogenous cellule detected in the 
ova of various animal groups, 761 
Engelmann, T. W., microscopic phe- 
nomena of muscular contraction, 
393 
Engineers, Civil, Institution of, 378 
England’s intellectual position, 519 
“ Entomological Commission, United 
States, First Annual Report of 
the ” (review), 129 
Erck, Dr., constant bichromate of 
potash battery, 202 
— novel pump for lifting solutions out 
of batteries, 511 
Etheridge, R„ and H. A. Nicholson, 
“ Monograph of the Silurian Fos- 
sils of the Girvan District ” (re- 
view), 314 
“ Etna, a History of the Mountain 
. 155 R 2 and its Eruptions ” (review), 127 
Eucalypti, analysis of the Australian, 
390 
Eucalyptus, and the Pine, 766 
‘‘Euclid, and his Modern Rivals” 
(review), 492 
“ Europaeorum, Clair’s Synoptica Hy- 
menomycetum ” (review), 130 
Evolution, Adhemar’s theory of, 315 
‘‘Evolution, Old and New” (review), 
487 
Exisothermal model of a cooling 
globe, 323 
Explosives, 503 
Eye, experiments on the, 454 
F AUCON, the origin of remains of 
phylloxera, 821 
Fauvel, A. A., true alligator found in 
China, 327 
Feather hunters, birds protected 
from, 262 
Fishes, poisonous, 263, 703 
— eleCtric, 393, 512 
— respiration of, 512 
Fitzgerald, G. F., electromagnetic 
theoiy of the reflection and re- 
fraction of light, 199 
Flannel, Saxony, red azo-colouring 
matters for, 329 
Fleck, H., arsenic in dark water 
colours, 586 
Flight, artificial, 473 
— the problem of, 163 
‘‘Flowers, and their Unbidden 
Guests” (review), 137 
Fog, mist, and dew, 384 
Fossil remains at Charing Cross, 
453 
Fournol, M. L., poisonous fishes, 703 
Fowler, T., “ Bacon’s Novum Or- 
ganum” (review), 109 
Frankland, E., and A. Lawrance, on 
stannic ethide, 200 
Frederic, L., blood of the oCtopus and 
lobster, 765 
— composition of the plasma of the 
blood, 453 
— oCtopus, 203 
French Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, 713 
‘‘Frenchmen, jumping,” or the “jump- 
ers,” 247 
G AIFFE’S galvanic deposits of co- 
balt, 708 
Galippe, M., experiment with a rabbit, 
589 
Galtier, M., studies on rabies, 761 
Galton, F., geometric mean in vital 
and social statistics, 819 
Galvanic deposits of cobalt, 708 
Galvanometer, new, 392 
Ganglia of inseCts, cephalic, 762 
Garnet, precious, from Lancashire, 
770 
Gas versus electricity, 206 
Gases and acid vapours given off by 
chimneys of chemical works, 
composition and measuring the 
volume of, 329 
Gases, sensitive state of electrical dis- 
charges through rarefied, 443 
Gases, solids in, 819 
Gasteropod mollusks, aCtion of the 
salts of strychnin upon the, 514 
Geddes, P., function of chlorophyll, 
263 
Geoffrey, M., evolution of colour- 
sense, 512 
Geographical Society, 819 
