INDEX.

Aberdeen, tides at, 23

Action and reaction, 69

Adams, discoverer of Neptune, 186

Admiralty Manual of Scientific Inquiry, 30, 31, 34

Admiralty tide tables, 29

Africa, Krakatoa dust over, 84

Analysis, harmonic, of tides, 34

Analysis of tide into its constituents, 33

Ancient tides on moon, 136

Annus Magnus of solar system, 72

Areas, conservation of, 61

Arklow, tides at, 23

Ascension, tides at, 24

Astronomical chronology, 147

Atlantic, Krakatoa dust over, 84

Atlantic, tides in, 38

Atmosphere, tides in, 40

Avon, tides in, at Bristol, 39

Ball-room, illustration, 62

Barometric records of Krakatoa airwave, 82

Batavia, Krakatoa heard at, 83

Bath, hot waters at, 89

Bay of Fundy, 39

Beds of rock, how formed, 149

Birmingham, lecture at, 148

Birth of moon, 118

Blast iron furnace, 87

Blue sun produced by Krakatoa, 84

Bodily tides of moon, 131

Brake illustrating friction, 68

Brickwork as a non-conductor, 87

Bristol Channel, 39

Bucket of water, oscillations in, 98

Cambrian rocks, 153

Cannon-ball, energy of, 51

Cardiff, tides at, 39

Caspian Sea, tides in, 38

Casting, cooling of, 79

Celebes, Krakatoa heard at, 83

Central America, 86

Change and full, tides at, 22

Chemical action in earth, 81

Chepstow, tides at, 39

Chronology, the two systems of, 147

Clifton, tides in Avon at, 39

Clock, illustration of, 49

Coal, 11

Coincidence of moon's rotation and revolution, 134

Combustion, heat of, 92

Cones, volume of, 151

Conservation of spin or areas, 64

Constituent tides, 35

Consumption of energy by tides, 48

Cooling, laws of, 79

Cooling of earth from primitive heat, 87

Crane, brakes on, 69

Craters of moon, 94

Critical epoch in earth's history, 75

Darwin, 12

Darwin, G. H., in Admiralty Manual, 34

Darwin, G. H., on tidal evolution, 97, 118, 122, 151, 185

Day and month equal, 107

Day at present increasing, 68

Day of 1400 hours, 121

Day of 3 or 4 hours, 75

Decline of earth's heat, 90

Diagram showing why moon recedes, 70

Diego Garcia, Krakatoa heard at, 83

Difficulties of tidal evolution, 48

Dives and Lazarus, 161

Dust clouds, 84

Dynamical principle, 65

Dynamical stability, 110

Earth and moon as rigid body, 107

Earth a fly-wheel, 57

Earth, fusion of, 12

Earth, heat of, 80

Earth in highly heated early state, 92

Earth's crust, Lyell on, 12

Earth's history, 12

Earth-moon system originally, 107

Earthquakes, 80

Eccentricity of moon's path explained, 184

Ecliptic, obliquity of, explained, 184

Economic aspects of tides, 45

Egg on end, 108

Elliptic orbit of moon, 113

Endowment of moment of momentum, 167

Energy for tides, whence, 67

Energy lost by tides, 60

Energy of moon's position, 50

Energy of motion, 51

Energy of separation, 50

Energy, sources of, 49

Equality of day and month, 122

Equilibrium, stable and unstable, 108

Equinoxes, precession of, 72

Eruption of volcanoes, 80

Establishment, 30

Estuary, tides in, 152

Explosion of Krakatoa, 83

Extinct season, moon, 129

Fiji, 24

Fishes, periods of fossil, 12

Fitzgerald, Prof., on Hertz' experiments, 101

Floating log, 109

Fortnightly tide, 34

Friction brake, 69

Friction, tidal, 40, 47

Full and change, tides during, 22

Fundy, Bay of, tides in, 39

Gauge for tides, 31

Geological chronology, 146

Geology and tides, 144

Geometric series, 92

Geysers, 85

Gibraltar, Straits of, tides in, 38

Glimpse through the corridors of time, 148

Glorious sunsets from Krakatoa, 85

Greatest length of day, 121

Greatest length of month, 122

Greatest tides, 39

Green moons from Krakatoa dust, 84

Greenock, tides at, 22

Grindstone, rupture of, 76

Gunpowder, energy from, 51

Hall, Prof. A., discovers satellites of Mars, 142

Harmonic analyzer, 35

Heated body, cooling of, 79

Height of tide, how to measure, 29

Helmholtz explains the constant face of the moon, 136

Hertz, undulations of ether, 101

High water, is it under the moon? 21

High water, simple rules for, 26

High water twice a day, 18

Hot springs, 85

Hot waters of Bath, 89

Hour of high water, how found, 26

Howth, 25

Hull, tides at, 23

Ichthyosaurus, 148

Impulse, effect of timed, 101

Incandescence of earth's interior, 85

Incandescence of moon, 94

Indian ocean, 84

Initial condition of earth and moon, 76

Instability, dynamical, 110

Interval, luni-tidal, 30

Iron, machine for punching, 55

Iron smelting, 87

Java, 82

Jupiter, 141, 156

Kepler's Law, 53, 114

Kerguelen Island, 24

Kingstown, 21

Krakatoa, 58

Lagrange, 186

Language, origin of, 12

Laplace, 186

Laurentian rocks, 148

Law of tides, 15

Lazarus and Dives, 161

Leakage of heat, 86

Length of day increasing, 68

Leverrier discovers Neptune, 186

London, tides at, 23, 27

Lunar and solar tides compared, 15

Lunar diurnal tide, 34

Luni-tidal interval, 30

Lyell, 12

Macassar, explosion of Krakatoa heard at, 83

Machine for analyzing tides, 35

Machine for predicting tides, 35

Machine for observing tides, 32

Malahide estuary, 152

Mars, moons of, 142

Mass of moon found from tides, 16

Max Müller, 12

Maximum and minimum, 104

Mediterranean, tides in, 38

Meridian position of moon at high water, 26

Mills, tidal, 43

Mines, heat in, 86

Moment of momentum, how estimated, 170

Month equals day, 122

Month of 1400 hours, 122

Month with greatest number of days, 118

Moon and tides connected, 13

Moon, constant face of, 136

Moon-energy, 54

Moon, volcanic activity on, 94

Moons of Mars, 142

Motion, perpetual, 48

Nautical almanac, 26

Neap tides, 16

Needles, tides at, 23

Niagara, utilization of, 47

Noise from Krakatoa, 83

Numerical data of tidal evolution, 127

Obliquity of ecliptic and tides, 184

Observations of tides, 29

Ocean tides, 38

Orbit of earth, changes in, 72

Orbit of moon explained by tides, 184

Origin of moon, 100

Oscillations of water, 98

Pacific, 84

Paradox of geometric series, 92

Pendulum, motion of, 49

Periodic phenomena, 71

Periods of rotation and revolution of moon equal, 43

Periods of tides, 34

Perpetual motion, 48

Planets and tides, 155

Precession of equinoxes, 72

Prediction of tides, 35

Principal tides, 33

Punching-engine, 55

Purser, Professor, 61

Railway brakes, 68

Reaction and action, 69

Relative rotation, 104

Relative tides on earth and moon, 131

Reptiles, fossil, 11

Retreat of moon explained, 69

Retrospect of moon's history, 77

Rhine, mills on, 43

Ring theory of moon's origin, 96

Rivers, 149

Rocks, formation of, 150

Rodriguez, Krakatoa heard at, 83

Rolling mills, 56

Rotation of moon on its axis, 133

Rupture of earth, 76

Rupture of grindstone, 75

St. Helena, tides at, 38

Santa Cruz, 24

Satellites of Jupiter, 135

Saturn, 141

Seasons, 72

Seas, so called, on moon, 129

Secondary ages, 11

Sligo, tides at, 23

Small tides, 38

Smelting of iron, 87

Solar and lunar tides compared, 15

Solar system, 155

Solar tides, 14

Solar tides, ultimate importance of, 139

Sounds from Krakatoa, 83

Source of tidal energy, 67

Spring tides, 16

Stability, dynamical, 110

Stable equilibrium, 108

Stages of special importance, 117

Stalactites, 73

Steam engine and tides compared, 45

Strata, formation of, aided by tides, 154

Sumatra, 82

Sun, rotation of, 134

Sunbeams stored, 11

Sunda, 82

Sunsets, Krakatoa, 85

Table of luni-tidal corrections, 30

Telescope at Washington, 143

Temperature of space, 91

Tertiary ages, 11

Thames, tides in, 125

Thomson, Sir W., 36, 44

Tidal currents used in making rocks, 153

Tidal efficiency, how estimated, 14

Tidal evolution, to whom due, 97

Tide gauge, 31

Tide mills, 44

Tide predicting engine, 36

Tides and geology, 144

Tides at London bridge, 28

Tides, change and full, 22

Tides, commercial value of, 47

Tides, due to moon, 13

Tides, how to observe, 29

Tides in Jupiter, 138

Tides in moon, 128

Tides, small, 38

Tides, solar and lunar compared, 15

Tides varying inversely as cube of distance, 15

Time and tide, 12

Timor, Krakatoa heard at, 83

Tralee, tides at, 23

Tyndall, 73

Tynemouth, 23

Undulations of a fluid globe, 99

Undulations of air from Krakatoa, 82

Unintermitting phenomena, 71

Unstable equilibrium, 108

Uranus, 142

Vast tides, 39

Volcanoes, 80

Voyage of Krakatoa dust, 84

Washington reflector, 142

Water absent from moon, 129

Water-wheels under London bridge, 43

Waves of air from Krakatoa, 82

Whewell on tides, 30

Work done by tides, 42, 47

Work of tides, 42

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