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INDEX 



[Nature, Nov. i6, 1876 



Tidal Retardation Argument for the Age of the Earth, 481 



Tiddeman (R. H.), the Age of Palseolithic Man, 505 



Time-Measuring Apparatus, H. Dent Gardner on the Principles 

 of, 529, 554, 573 



Time Signal System, the Greenwich, 50, no 



Tizzard (Staff-Commander), the Temperature obtained in the 

 Atlantic Ocean during the Cruise of the Challenger, 490 



Tobacco Pipes, Dr, Chas. C. Abbott on American-Indian, 154 



Todd (Charles), " On the Observatory and Climate of South 

 Australia," 536 



Todhunter (I., F.R.S.), "Whewell's Writings and Correspon- 

 dence, 206 



Tomlinson (C, F.R.S.), Science in Italy, 333 



Topographical Association in Paris, 218 



Tornado of September 28, 508 



Toitoises, Giant, Dr. Samuel Haughton, F.R.S,, 149; at the 

 Zoological Gardens, 180 



Totemism in Scotland, 458 



Transon (M. Abel), Death of, 381 



Trauzl (Capt. I.)» Dynamite, 367 



Tree-lifter, the, Col. G. Greenwood, 447 



Troglodytes zoster, 383 



Trouvelot (M.) , Drawings of Jupiter, 299 



Tunis, Col. Playfair's Travels in, 490 



Tunisian Chotts, Survey of the, 219 



Turkey, Wyld's Map of, 444 



Turner on the Placenta, 287, 485, 517 



Twining (T.), *« Science Made Easy," 189 



Tylor (E. B., F.R.S.), Wilson's Prehistoric Man, 65 



Type-writing Machine, the Remington, 43 



Tyrol, Holidays in, Walter White, 270 



Ujfalvy (M.), Scientific Mission to Russia, 301 

 University of London, the Science Degrees ot, 331 

 University College, Bristol, 470 

 University Education, Prof. Huxley on, 546 

 University Reform, Rev. Mark Pattison on, 550 

 United States, Geological Survey of, 35 ; Museum of Compara- 

 tive Zoology at Cambridge, 109 ; Weather Maps, 216 ; see 

 also America, New York, Philadelphia, &c. 

 Units of Force and Dynamometers, Prof. Heimessy, 69 

 " Uranometria," the Cordoba, 417 

 Uranus, Visibility of the Satellites of, 91 

 Uranus and Jupiter's Satellites, Relative Brightness of, 545 

 Urine, Fermentation of, and the Grerm Theory, Dr. H. Charlton 

 Bastian, 309 



Valboline, Thunderstorm at, 158 



" Vallisneria Spiralis," Evolution of Oxygen by, 231 



Valorous, the Voyage of the, 459 



Vanadium and its Compounds, 458 



Variabla Nebulse, Chacornac's, 545 



Variable Stars, 152, 211, 424, 507, 533, 571 



Varieties and Species, W. L. Distant, 392 



Variations, the Origin of, G. S. Boulger, 393 



Vaucanson, Statue of, 342 



Vegetable Kingdom, Prof. W. T. Thiselton Dyer on the Classi- 

 ficalion ot the, 293 



Venus, the Rotation of, 29 ; the Secondary Light of, 91, 131 ; 

 the Satellite of. Rev. T. W. Webb, 193 ; Short's Obser- 

 vation of a Supposed Satellite of, 231 ; in Inferior Conjunc- 

 tion, 292 



Vertebrate Animals, Origin of, Prof. Huxley, F.R.S., 33 



Vertebrates and Invertebrates, the Missing Link between, G. T. 

 Bettany, 195 



Vesta, Diameter of, 475 



Victoria Institute, 63, 204 



Victoria, Geological Survey of, 130 



Vienna, Meteorological Congress, 11 ; Academy of Sciences, 

 204, 303, 363, 383, 420, 468, 540 ; Geological Society, 64, 

 84, 303 ; Earthquake at, 279 ; Observatory, the Gieat Equa- 

 torijil for the, 418 



Virginia, University of,'Gift to, 60 



Virgo, Olber's Supposed Variation in, 545 



Visible Horizon, B. J . Jenkins, 49 



Visual Phenomena, 350, 392, 423, 474, 525 



"Vital Motion," Dr. RaccUife's, 267 



Vivisection Bill, Lord Carnarvon's, 65, 87, 172, 241, 248 ; 

 Deputation from the British Medical Associjition, 299 



Vivisection, Dr. B. W. Richardson's Abstract Report to Na- 

 ture on Experimentation on Animals for the Advance of 

 Practical Medicine, 149, 170, 197, 250, 289, 339, 369; Vivi- 

 section in Florence, 157 j "The Fortnightly Review" on, 



259 

 Vogel's " Chemistry of Light and Photography," 328 

 Volcanic Dykes, R. Mallet, F.R.S. , on, 302 

 Volcanoes of Hungary, 39 ; of Iceland, 83 ; of Reunion, 333 

 Voles, Field, Plague of, 35 



Wallace (A. R,), Geographical Distribution of Animals, 165, 

 186, 544, 569 ; Opening Address in the Biology Section at 

 the British Association, 403 ; Erratum in his British Asso- 

 ciation Address, 473 



Wanklyn (Mr.), on Drinking- Water, 486 



Ward (I. W.), Visual Phenomena, 423 



Warsaw, Meeting of Russian Naturalists at, 497, 552 



Wasps' Eggs Deposited in a Penholder, 537 



Waterspout near Tours, 320 



Watson (Dr. Forbes), the Imperial Museum for India and the 

 Colonies, 173 



" Weather Charts and Storm Warnings," R. H. Scott, F.li.S., 



565 

 Weather Warnings in France, Agricultural, 266 

 Weather Maps of the United States, 216 

 Webb (Rev, T. W.), the SateUite of Venus, 193 

 Weber (Wilhelm Edward), his "Doctor's Jubilee," 496 

 Wellington College Natural Science Society, 201 

 Westminster Aquarium, Additions to, 62, 80, 121, 159, 20I, 219, 



243, 280, 382, 466 

 Whewell's Writings and Correspondence, Prof. J. Clerk Maxwell, 



F.R.S., 206 

 Whipple (G. M.), an Intra-Mercurial Planet, 526 

 White (Walter), " Holidays In Tyrol," 270 

 Whitmee (Rev. S. J.), Recent Discoveries in New Guinea, 48 ; 



Decrease of the Polynesians, 190 ; Earthquakes in Samoa, 



270 J Fauna and Flora of New Guinea and the Pacific Islands, 



271 

 Whitney (Prof. W. D.), "Language and Its Study," 88 

 Whitney (Prof. J. D.), Are We Drying Up? 527 

 Williams (A. L.), Famines in India, 209 

 Williams' (?) Thermometer, S. M. Drach, 210 

 Williamson (Prof. W. C, F.R.S.), Fossil Plants of the Coal 



Measures, 182, 456 

 Wilson's " Prehistoric Man," E. B. Tylor, F.R.S., 65 

 Wind Driftage, G. N. Kinahan, 191 

 Wolllez (M.), Spirophore, 260 

 Wolves in Russia, 381 

 Women and the Medical Profession, 560 

 Wood (Major H.), the Shores of Lake Aral, 66 

 Wood (H. T.), a Science Museum, 349 

 Woodward (H. B.), " Geology of England and Wales," 556 

 Wounded, the, in Shooting, 501 

 Wilght (Dr. E. Perceval), the Basking Shark, 313 

 Wright (Dr. Thomas StrethlU), Obituary Notice of, 580 

 Wroblewskl (Dr. v.), Diffusion of Gases through Absorbing 



Substances, 24 

 Wyman (Prof. Jeffries), Florida Shell Mounds, 531 



Yorkshire, Proceedings of the Geological Society of the West 



Riding, 142 

 Yorkshire College of Science, 217, 278, 443; Professorship of 



Biology, 259 

 Young (Prof. J.), Opening Address in the Geology Section at 



the British Association, 399 



Zeitschrift der oesterreichischen Gesellschaft fiir Meteorologie, 



18, 122, 161, 220, 281, 323 

 Zeitschrift fur wlssenschaftllche Zoologle, 162, 323, 382, 539, 



563 

 Zermatt, Geology of, 210 

 Zlttel's Handbook of Palaeontology, 445, 474 

 Zoological Gardens, Additions to, 17, 36, 62, 80, I2i, 139, 158, 



180, 182, 201, 219, 243, 261, 280, 301, 322, 343, 362, 382, 



444, 466, 498, 518, 538, 562, 583 

 Zoological Gardens of Calcutta, 120 

 Zoological Record, 1874, 139 

 Zoological Society, 15, 38, 123, 180, 183, 222 

 Zoological Society of France, 443 

 Zoologico-botanical Stations on the German Coast, 535, 570 



