Equator, advantages of the countries bordering on, 33, 34; their organic richness and fertility, 34, 35; magnetic equator, 183-185.

Erman, Adolph, on the three cold days of May (11th-13th), 133; lines of declination in Northern Asia, 182; in the southern parts of the Atlantic, 187; observations during the earthquake of Irkutsk, on the non-disturbance of the horary changes of the magnetic needle, 207.

Eruptions and exhalations (volcanic), lava, gaseous and liquid fluids, hot mud, mud mofettes, etc., 161, [other page numbers obscured in paper copy]

p 367 Ethnographical studies, their importance and teaching, 357, 358.

Euripides, his Phaeton, 122.

Falconer, Dr., fossil researches in the Himalayas, 278.

Faraday, radiating heat, electro-magnetism etc., 49, 179, 188; brilliant discovery of the evolution of light by magnetic forces, 193.

Farquharson on the connection of cirrous clouds with the Aurora, 197; its altitude, 199.

Federow, his pendulum experiments, 168.

Feldt on the ascent of shooting stars, 123.