heliometer

(hé-li-om’e-tér), n. [ of the West Indies are the best-known species, both of terrestrial electrical phenomena as caused by which are called screw-tree. The fruit is called twisted the sun. the sun, + pérpov, a measure.] An a str on oms tick, twisted-horn, or twisty, and is supposed by the naical instrument, consisting of a telescope hay- The helio-electric theory of the perturbations of terrestives of India to be a remedy for colic. trial magnetism. Nature, XXX, 47. ing its objective sawed acro in a plane pa -