GENERAL INDEX. 
127 
Education as a science, Mrs. W. Grey on 
the study of, 1874, 204 
—_ university, Rev. W. Emery on the 
expenses and social condition of, 1862, 
193 
-and writing, economy in, Eizak 
Pitman, 1888, 776 
Educational endowments, J. G. Fitch on, 
1868, 163 
-hospitals at Edinburgh, reform of, 
Thomas J. Boyd on, 1871, 202 
--- institutions, J. Heywood on the 
inspection of endowed, 1861, 222 
* -League, Jesse Codings on some 
statistics of the National, 1869, 182 
-- qualifications, Rev. G. Fisher on the 
numerical mode of estimating, as 
pursued at the Greenwich Hospital 
School, 1862, 153 
-statistics of Bradford, J. Hanson on, 
1873, 189 
*Edwards (R.) on recent discoveries of 
flint implements in drift-gravels in 
Middlesex, Essex, and Berks, 1875, 173 
Ed/vardsia , Prof. Allman on the structure 
of, 1872, 132 
*Eetvelde (M. van), notice sur letat 
independant du Congo, 1887, 798 
*Effertz (Peter) on a brick-making 
machine, 1861, 258 
Effluvia, Dr. G. Robinson on the nature 
and varieties of organic, 1863, 120 
Egerton (Hon. Capt.), report on steam¬ 
ship g) erf or mane e, 1861, 190 ; 1862, 282 : 
1663, 339 
.-(Sir Philip de Malpas Grey), 
report on the distribution of the organic 
remains of the North Staffordshire 
Coal-field, 1863, 342 ; 1865, 42 
Egg of osseous fishes, Dr. W. H. Ransom 
on the protoplasmic movements in the, 
1866, 92 
-of the common fowl, B. T. Lowne on 
the ciliated condition of the inner 
layer of the blastoderm and of the 
omphalo-mesenteric vessels in the, 
1871, * 140 , 242 
*Egg-membranes of osseous fishes, some 
remarks on the, by Dr. R. Scharff, 
1886, 698 
Eggs of birds, Dr. John Davy on the, 
1863, 112 
-decomposition of, W. Thomson on 
the, 1874, 143 
* -of British birds, O. Groom-Napier 
on the cause of the variation in the, 
1866, 77 
* -of birds, some of the probable 
causes of variation in the, H. B. 
Hewetson on, 1890, 860 
Egypt, ancient maps of, Cope White- 
house od, 1890, 896 
- Mr. Flinders Petrie’s collection of 
ethnographic types in , Rev. II. (I. 
Tovnldns on, 1887, 450 , 899 ; Observa¬ 
tions on Mr. Petrie’s ethnological 
casts from, by Dr. I. Taylor, 907 
fEgypt, wind-action in, W. M. F. Petrie 
on, 1889, 663 
- Lower, notice of an outline 
geological map of, by Prof. E. Hull, 
1885, 1015 
Egyptian art, early, hypothesis of a 
European origin of, Rev. J. Wilson on 
the, 1889, 778 
* -monuments, notes on the accuracy 
of the sculptures and paintings of races 
on the, by W. M. F. Petrie, 1887, 899 
- pictures and sculptures, the ancient , 
report of the committee for obtaining 
racial photographs from, 1887, 439 
-race, Reg. Stuart Poole on the ethnic 
relations of the, 1864, 146 
Ehrhardt (E. F.) on the relative sta¬ 
bility of the camphene hydrochlorides 
C 10 H ] 7 C1 obtained from turpentine and 
camphene respectively, 1886, 591 
Eikonogen, a new photographic developer, 
Prof. G. D. Liveing on, 1889. 533 
*Ekman (C. F.) on the fundamental prin¬ 
ciples of algebra, chiefly with regard 
to negative and imaginary quantities. 
1861, 4 
Elasmobranch fishes, F. M. Balfour on the 
development of the, 1874, 138 
-F. M. Balfour on the development 
of the proto-vertebras in, 1876, 147 
* -the modifications of electric organs 
in, Prof. J. C. Ewart on, 1889, 627 
Elastic force of certain forms of springs, 
F. H. Wenham on the, 1873, 49 
--- solid, Dr. J. Hopkinson on the 
stresses produced in an, by inequalities 
of temperature, 1872, 51 
Elasticities of air, Prof. S. P. Thompson 
on the ratio of the two, 1887, 581 
Elasticity of wires, secular experiments 
upon the, report of the Committee for 
commencing, 1878, 103 ; 1879, 33 ; 1880, 
61 
*- - of wires, J. T. Bottomley on the, 
1880, 494 
- of wires, secular experiments in 
Glasgow on the, J. T. Bottomley on, 
1886, 537 
Elbolton Cave, exploration of the, b} T 
Rev. E. Jones, 1890, 817 
Elcock (C.) on a new method for pro¬ 
moting the sanification of our cities, 
1874, 203 
Elder (John), report on steamship per¬ 
formance, 1861, 190 
El Dorado, Dr. C. Le Neve Foster on the 
existence of Sir Walter Ralei. h’s, 1869, 
162 
Electric action, figures produced by, on 
photographic dry plates, J Brown on, 
1888, 565 
