Index 



2 8 5 



Tramway, electric, between Kilrush 

 and Giant's Causeway, 225. 



Transfusion of blood, experiments 

 on, 139. 



Travers, W. T. L., drawings of wind- 

 worn stones from New Zealand, 

 182. 



Trigonometrical Survey of British 

 Isles completed, 157. 



Trilobites, stages of development 

 in, 109. 



Trimblet, M. du, new principle in 

 steam engine, 123. 



Trotter, Coutts, visit to Niua-fu, 

 230. 



Trout, photographic properties of 

 the skin of the, 136 ; temperature 

 of living, 137. 



Troy, Plain of, and Homer's de- 

 scription of it, 191 ; Tumulus of 

 Hector opened, id. 



Tsetse fly, suggested experiments on 

 the, 137. 



Turpentine, effectof sunlighton, 1 16. 



Tylor, E. B., election of, and bio- 

 graphical note on, 77. 



Tyndall, J., election of, and bio- 

 graphical note on, 43 ; communi- 

 cations from, 133, 134, 136, 139, 

 142, 146, 148, 156, 159, 168, 171, 

 180, 192, 193, 194, 214, 222, 226, 

 229 ; placed on honorary super- 

 numerary list, 85. 



Uchatius, Captain, his new method 



of making steel, 132. 

 United States, winter temperature in 



the, 143. 

 Universities and the promotion of 



scientific research, 191. 

 University of London, 29 ; the 



Johns Hopkins, described by 



Dr. Carpenter, 224. 

 Uranium glass, effect of electric 



discharges on vacuum tubes of, 



1 86 ; its compounds and their 



radioactive properties, 256. 

 Utricularia vulgaris, a trap for small 



fishes, 226. 



Vacuum tubes and electric currents, 

 170 ; effects of a, on melting 

 points, 213. 



Vadso, observation of total eclipse 

 of sun at, 250. 



Vandyck Fan, on principle of Capt. 

 Peaucellier's parallel motion in- 

 strument, 197. 



Vapour bath and fatal result to 

 Dr. Carpenter, 229. 



Vegetables, a method of preserving, 

 127. 



Venus, transit of, as observed by the 

 American expeditions, 223. 



Verdel, Mr., invents method of pre- 

 serving vegetables, 127. 



Verneuil, M. de, on division of 

 British Museum, 54,152 ; explana- 

 tion of a supposed hook in a block 

 of marble, 166. 



Vesuvius, description of an issuing 

 lava-stream from, 141 ; ascent of, 

 during an eruptive phase, 180 ; 

 view into crater, id. ; a peculiar 

 phase in an eruption of, 229. 



Victoria Nyanza, Lake, explora- 

 tions in district east of it, 226. 



Vigo Bay, and Fusus contrarius, 107. 



Vincent, Captain, and the survey of 

 Jerusalem, 169. 



Vines, S. H., election of, and bio- 

 graphical note on, 89 ; resigna- 

 tion of, 93. 



Virchow, Prof., error about presence 

 of cellulose in the brain, 128. 



Viscous fluids, their effect, when 

 strained, on polarized light, 193. 



Volcanic cones, truncated and sub- 

 merged in Pacific Ocean, 25 1 . 



Volcanoes, mud, in India, 113, 116. 



Vultur, Monte, heavy winter snow- 

 fall at, 138. 



Wales, New South, and Dinornis, 



114. 

 Wallich, N., biography of, 24 ; on 



results of deep dredging in North 



Atlantic, 152 ; death of, 41. 

 Walrus, living, expected at the 



Zoological Gardens, 180. 

 War steamer on wave principle for 



king of Prussia, 116. 

 Water, its effect in increasing force 



of bursting charges in shells, 200 ; 



effect of sparks passing through 



it, if airless, on the enclosing glass 



