GENERAL INDEX 
139 
Eocene formation, British , list of fossil 
corals from the , 1868, 82 
-mammals of the ‘ plastic clay ’ 
period, American evidences of, Sir R. 
Owen on, 1885, 1033 
Eocenes, British, suggestions for a re¬ 
vised classification of, by J. S. Gardner, 
1882, 539 
Eozoic rocks of North America, Dr. T. 
Sterry Hunt on the, 1884, 727 
Eozoon canadense , further researches on, 
by Dr. VV. B. Carpenter, 1874, *73, 136 
-proofs of the organic nature of, C. 
Moore on, 1880, 582 
-the geological relations and mode 
of preservation of, Principal J. W. 
Dawson on, 1883, 494 
- new facts relating to, Sir J. W. 
Dawson on, 1887, 702 
Ephemeridas, R. MacLachlan on a new 
insect belonging to the family, with 
notes on the natural history of that 
family, 1873, 118 
Epidemic diseases, Dr. G. Robinson on 
the practicability of arresting the de¬ 
velopment of, by the internal use of 
antizymotic agents, 1863, 119 
Epiglottis, Dr. George D. Gibb on the 
normal position of the, as determined 
by the laryngoscope, 1862, 128 ; 1863, 
114 
—— G. D. Gibb on vocal and other in¬ 
fluences upon mankind from pendency 
of the, 1867, 101 
Epinasty and hyponasty, Prof. S. H. 
Vines on, 1889, 645 
Episcia maculata , the floral biology of, 
Prof. F. M. Oliver on, 1890, 869 
Epithelium, Professor Cleland on the, of 
the cornea of the ox in relation to the 
growth of stratified epithelium, 1867, 
100 
Equation of the fourth degree, note on a 
simple method of solving the general, 
by A. Lodge, 1883, 408 
-of finite differences in its most 
general form, Prof. Sylvester on the 
solution of the linear, 1862, 188 
-differential, allied to Riccati’s, J. 
W. L. Glaisher on the solution of a, 
1878, 469 
'^Equations, cubic and other trinomial, 
Rev. R. Harley on Prof. Evans’s method 
of solving, 1873, 22 
-differential, W. Spottiswoode on 
Petzval’s asymptotic method of solv¬ 
ing, 1861, 10 
-differential, Rev. R. Harley on cer¬ 
tain linear, 1878, 466 
-dimensional, Prof. J. Thomson on, 
1878, 451 
-functional, a certain method in the 
theory of, Prof. E. Schroder on, 1887, 
621 
^Equations, modular, Prof. H. J. S. Smith 
on, 1873, 24 
* -of motion, the, and the boundary 
conditions for viscous fluids, Prof. O. 
Reynolds on, 1883, 401 
-of prime degree, Prof. G. P. Young 
on solvable irreducible, 1884, 646 
- Tschirnhausen’s method of trans¬ 
formation of algebraic and some of its 
modern extensions, Prof. R. Harley on, 
1866, 2 
-to the real and to the imaginary 
directrices and latera recta of the 
general conic ( a, h, c, <?,/, g, h ) (a, y\y 
— o, Prof. R. W. Genese on the, with 
a note on a property of the director 
circle, 1880, 480 
Equatorial clock-movement, an electric 
control for an, the Earl of Rosse on, 
1884, 636 
* -mounting for a three-foot reflector, 
the Earl of Rosse on an, 1878, 477 
Equinoxes, the precession of the, and 
the earth’s eccentricity, a diagram of, 
illustrating their relation to geological 
climate and the rate of organic change, 
A. R. Wallace on, 1870, 89 
Equisetaceas, W. Carruthers on Calami- 
teas and fossil, 1867, 58 
Eriboll, the geology of Durness and, with 
special reference to the Highland con¬ 
troversy, B. N. Peach and J. Horne on, 
1885, 1027 
Eribollia Mackayi, a new fossil from the 
Assynt quartzite in the North-Western 
Highlands of Scotland, Prof. J. Nicol 
on, 1878, 545 
Eriophorum alpinum, Linn., A. G. More 
on, as a British plant, 1871, 129 
Erman (A.) and H. Petersen, report on 
the Gaussian constants for 1829,1872, 1 
* . (Prof.) on German explorations in 
Africa, 1879, 440 
*Ernst (A.) on the anthropology of 
Caracas, 1866, 96 
Erosion of the sea-coasts of England and 
Wales, the rate of, and the influence of 
the artificial abstraction of shingle and 
other material in that action , report on, 
1884, 238 ; 1885, 404 ; 1886, 847 ; 1888, 
898 ; chronological list of works on the 
coast-changes and shore-deposits of 
England and Wales, 1885, 442 
Erratic blocks, Sir R. Griffith on the 
Boulder-Drift and Esker Hills of Ire¬ 
land, and the position of, in the 
country, 1871, 98 
- or boulders of the United Kingdom, 
report on, 1873, 188 
- of England and Wales, report on 
the, 1874,' 192 ; 1875, 82 ; 1876, no 
- of England, Wales, and Ireland, 
report on the , 1877, 81 ; 1878, 185 ; 
1879, 135 ; 1880, no; 1881, 204 ; 1882, 
