Appleton’s Cyclopædia, pp. 21, 48, 49, 52, 56, 107, 131, 134, 148, 155, 156, 159, 162, 168, 181, 188, 200, 207, 262, 264, 267, 270, 294.

Argyle, 319.

Arnold (Matthew), 348.

Augustine (Saint), 329.

Ayrton, 77.

Ball, 9, 28, 34, 35, 39, 41, 48, 51, 54, 58, 61, 63, 79, 82, 128, 139, 158, 163, 170, 193, 206, 207, 216, 239, 241, 243, 245, 256, 266, 270, 272.

Beethoven, 347.

Bible, 308, 327, 329, 330, 332, 333, 334, 337–340.

Bode, 287.

Brahe (Tycho), 179, 342.

British Association, 206.

Buffon, 21.

Byron, 152.

Carrington, 59, 75.

Clark, 258.

Copernicus, 80.

Crookes, 232, 297, 298.

Crowell, 28.

D’Arrest, 257.

Darwin (Charles), 28.

Dewar, 213.

Draper (Dr.), 4, 7, 214, 217.

Dulong, 215.

Dunkin (Prof.), 133, 159, 163.

Egyptian cosmogony, 316.

“Electrical Review,” 85.

“Electricity in the Service of Man,” 70, 74, 77, 83, 90, 91–94, 95, 105, 132, 176, 225, 233.

Emerson, 248.

English version of Bible, 311.

Ethiopic sources, 316.

Faraday, 123, 132, 227.

Ferguson, 132.

Flammarion, 9, 238, 263, 305.

Fleming (Prof. J. A.), 83.

Flight (Dr.), 232.

Fontanelle, 24.

Foster (Prof.), 78.

Fownes, 215, 216.

Fraunhofer, 9, 87, 153.

Gathmann (Prof.), 135.

Geike, 28.

Goethe, 145.

Groombridge, 63, 246, 249.

Guillemin, 273, 285, 304, 305.

Guyot (Prof. Arnold), 316, 319, 325.

Hale (George E.), 58.

Hamilton, 124, 227.

Hausen, 122.

Helmholtz, 9, 21, 23, 28, 31, 140, 288.

Herschel (Alexander), 140.

Herschel (Sir John), 229, 304.

Herschel (Sir William), 9, 35, 58, 80, 148, 199, 239, 257, 258.

Hertz, 79.

Hind, 257, 258.

Hodgson, 75.

Holtz, 94.

Huggins, 9, 55, 61, 79, 109, 158, 163, 181, 205, 212, 213, 214, 216, 217, 235, 254, 255, 258.

Huygens, 265.

Indian sources, 316.

Janssen, 49.

Jouvencel (De), 318.

Kant, 35.

Kelvin (Lord), 38.

Kepler, 80.

Kircher, 329.

Kirchhoff, 53, 77.

Langley, 9, 29, 33, 48, 58, 113.

Laplace, 35, 269, 275, 278, 279, 280, 309.

Liveing (Prof.), 213.

Lockyer, 49, 285, 305.

Loomis, 108.

Lyell (Sir Charles), 28.

“Mankind: their Origin and Destiny,” 314.

McCosh (Dr.), 317, 318.

McGee, 28.

Mann, 334.

Masoretic pointing, 311.

Mayer, 21.

Melconi, 149.

Miller, 9, 26, 122, 158, 200, 204, 248.

Mosaic narrative, 310, 337–340.

Moses, 313, 315, 330, 332, 334.

Mott (A.), 39.

Mozart, 347.

Myer (Gen. A.), 9, 55, 56.

Newcomb, 9, 34, 270.

Newton, 21, 80, 228, 241, 280.

Nichol, 9, 80, 164, 188, 238, 262, 263, 265, 278, 279.

Perry, 77.

Petit, 215.

Pickering (Prof.), 258.

“Popular Science Monthly,” 57, 113.

Proctor, 9, 24, 27, 35, 36, 37, 45, 46, 47, 51, 75, 78, 80, 97, 99, 108, 111, 145, 156, 157, 159, 166, 179, 182, 184, 191, 199, 200, 201, 204, 206, 207, 212, 220, 224, 231, 232, 234, 237, 253, 255, 258, 299, 302.

Ptolemy, 342.

Pythagoras, 329.

Rawlinson (Prof. George), 359.

Rosse (Lord), 9, 188, 255, 261, 266, 279.

Rougé (M. de), 316.

Rowland (Prof.), 61.

Rupert (Prince), 295.

Salisbury (Lord), 38, 69.

Schiaparelli, 200.

Schmidt (Dr.), 258.

Schröter, 134.

Schuster (Dr.), 79.

Secchi, 156, 157.

Seebeck, 149.

Septuagint, 334.

Siemens, 21, 36, 37, 53.

Smyth (Admiral), 163.

Spencer (Herbert), 270.

Stewart (Balfour), 7, 140, 141, 142, 145, 146, 152.

Struve (O.), 257.

Tait, 38, 204.

Tennyson, 198, 268.

Theophilus, 329.

Thomson (Sir William), 25, 26.

Toepler, 95.

Tyndall, 9, 104, 123, 146, 148, 149, 227.

Upham, 28.

Urbanitsky, 9, 70.

Vogel, 170.

Voss, 94, 233, 290.

Waterston, 21.

Weldon (Charles), 347.

Wilson, 123, 227.

Wimshurst, 94, 132.

Wolcott (Prof. C. D.), 28.

Wolf, 107.

Wright (Arthur W.), 52.

York (J. F.), 316.

Young (Prof. Charles A.), 9, 53.