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INDEX 



\Nalure, May 22, 1890 



Tietkens's Explorations in Central Australia, 286 



Tilden (Prof. W. A., F.R.S.), Crystalline Substances obtained 



from Fruits of various Species of Citrus, 527 

 Time and Tide, a Romance of the Moon, Sir Robert S. Ball, 



F.R.S., 30 

 Timehri, Journal of Royal Agricultm-al and Commercial Society 



of British Guiana, 549 

 Tinder-box, the Story of a, Chas. M. Tidy, 30 

 Ti^serand (F.) : Nuclei of Great Comet II. of 1882, 358; the 



Great Comet of 1882, 522 ; the Movement of Planets, 406 

 Titanotherium in the British Museum, 346 

 Titchener (E. B.) : Protective Coloration of Eggs, 129; the 



Cape Weasel, 394 

 Tittmann (O. H.), Shuckburgh Scale and Kater Pendulum, 



538 

 Tizard (Captain, R.N. ), the Thames Estuary, 539 

 Todd (Prof. David P.), Total Eclipse, 379 

 Togoland, German, Climate of, Dr. von Dauckelman, 545 

 Toilers in the Sea, M. C. Cooke, 409 

 Tokio: the Earthquake of, April 18, 1889, Prof. Cargill G. 



Knott, 32 ; Redetermination of Latitude in, Watanabe, 



427 

 Tomlinson (Herbert, F.R. S.) : Effect of Repeated Heating and 



Cooling on Electrical Coefficient of Annealed Iron, 166 ; 



Exact Thermometiy, 198 ; the Villari Critical Points in 



Nickel and Iron, 574 

 Topinard (Dr.), Charlotte Corday's Skull, 500 

 Topographical Survey of India, 140 

 Toronto University, Burning of, 371 

 Torpedo, Cranial Nerves of, J. C. Ewart, 477 

 Total Eclipse of January i, 1889, Prof. Holden, 305 

 Total Eclipse of December 22, 1889, 229 ; M, A. DeLaBaume 



Pluvinel, 428 

 Total Eclipse, Prof. David P. Todd, 379 

 Touraco, the Pigment of the, and the Tree Porcupine, Frank E. 



Beddard, 152 

 Traherne (Major John P.), the Habits of the Salmon, 74 

 Traill (T. W.), Boilers, Marine and Land, 486 

 Trains, Earth- Tremors from, H. H. Turner, 344 

 Trajectories of Shot, on Certain Approximate Formulae for 



Calculating the. Prof. J. C. Adams, 258 

 Transliteration, a Uniform System of Russian, 396 ; Chas. E. 



Groves, F.R.S., 534 ; W. Y. Kirby, 535 

 Trautweiler (Herr), Proposed Jungfrau Railway, 303 

 Travels in France, Arthur Young, 294 

 Travels in India of Jean Baptiste Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne, 



translated by Dr. V. Ball, F.R.S., 313 

 Tree Porcupine, the Pigment of the, Frank E. Beddard, 152 

 Trees growling in an Inverted Position, Herr Kny, 86 

 Trichosanthes palmata, a New Green Vegetable Colouring 



Matter, C. Michie Smith, 573 

 Trieste, Earthquake at, 519 



Trivier (Captain), Arrival at Mozambique of, 165 

 Troglodytic Remains in Jerusalem, Herr Schick, 284 

 Tropical Diseases, the Relation of the Soil to, A. Ernest 



Roberts, 31 

 Trotter (A. B.): Geometrical Construction of Direct-Reading 



Scales for Reflecting Galvanometers, 478 ; Parallel Motion 



suitable for Recording Instruments, 478 

 Trouton (Fred. T.), Multiple Resonance obtained in Hertz's 



Vibrators, 295 

 Tschermak (G.), Die mikroskopische Beschaffenheit der Meteor- 



iten erlautert durch photographische Abbildungen, 127 

 Tuning-Forks : a Method of Driving, Electrically, W. G. 



Gregory, 47 ; the Testing of. Dr. Lehmann, 383 

 Tunzelmann (G. W. de). Electricity in Modern Life, 561 

 Turacin, Solubility of, in Pure Water, Frank E. Beddard, 152 

 Turkestan, Earthquakes in, 230 

 Turkeys, Brush-, on the smaller Islands North of Celebes, Dr. 



A. B. Meyer, 514 

 TurnbuU (Robert), Index of British Plants, 196 

 Turner (A. E.), CompoundsofPhenanthraquinones with Metallic 



Saks, 191 

 Turner (H. H.) : Total Solar Eclipse of 1886, 88; Earth 



Tremors from Trains, 344 

 Twenty Years, Progress of Nature during, i 

 Tylor (Dr. E. B., F.R. S.), Explanation of Assyrian Sculptured 



Group, 283 

 Typhus and Ground-water Variations, the Hamburg Epidemic, 



570 

 Tyrol, Earthquakes in the, 569 



Ungulates, the Titanotherium in the British Museum, 346 



Unio, Tasmanian, Variability of, R. M. Johnston, 303 



United States : Fishery Industries of the, George Brown Goode 

 178 ; Meteorology in, 231 ; Land Grants to Educational In- 

 stitutions in, 448 ; Earthquakes in, 569 



University, Burning of Toronto, 371 



University Extension Journal, 325 



University, Helsingfors, 400 



University Intelligence, 23, 92, 140, 166, 212, 332, 357 



University, Johns Hopkins, 448 



University, Montpellier, Proposed Commemoration of Founding 

 of, 447 



University, the Proposed Reconstitution of London, 282, 348 



University of St. Andrews, ;,^ioo,ooo Bequest to, 41 



Upham (Wm.), the late Prof. H. C. Lewis, 255 



Urea, on Animal Heat and the Combustion of, Berthelot and 

 P. Petit, 94 



Ursse Majoris, on the Spectrum of ^, Prof. Pickering, 285 



Vaccination, History and Pathology of, E. M. Crookshank, 

 Dr. Robert Cory, 486 



Vade Mecum, J. C. Houzeau, 69 



Vandalism in Egypt, 447 



Variable Stars : Y Cygni, 88 ; New, in Hydra, 88 ; Period of 

 U Coronse, S. C. Chandler, 163 ; Variable Star in Cluster 

 G.C. 3636, Prof. Pickering, 183 ; Observations of some Sus- 

 pected, Rev. John G. Ha,gen, 233 ; Variability of R Vul- 

 pecuiDC, 257 ; New Variable Star in Caelum, 571 ; Prof. 

 Pickering, 571 



Variation, Causes of, E. D, Cope on the, Prof. E. Ray Lan- 

 kester, F.R.S., 128 



Vatican Observatory, 472 



Vautier (M.), Propagation of Sound, 359 



Vegetable Colouring-matter, a New Green, C. Michie Smith, 



573 

 Velocity of the Propagation of Gravitation, J. Van Hepperger, 



472 

 Venn (Dr. John, F.R.S.), Cambridge Anthropometry, 450 

 Venus (Dr. K. E.), Death of, 207 

 Verescz's Discovery as to Photographing in Natural Colours, 



469 

 Vertebrate Animals of Leicestershire and Rutland, Montagu 



Browne, 220 

 Vesuvius in 1889, Prof. Palmieri, 18 

 Vesuvius, Mount, J. Logan Lobley, 195 

 Vezes (M.) : Double Nitrites of Ruthenium and Potassium, 23 ; 



a Nitrosoplatinichloride, 576 

 Vibrating Strings, Melde's, Rev. W. Sidgreaves, 355 

 Vibration, Microseismic, of the Earth's Crust, Prof. G. H. 



Darwin, F.R.S., 248 

 Vico (1884), Identity of Comet, with Brooks's (1889), 233 

 Victoria Falls, Matabele Land and the, Frank Oates, R. Bowdler 



Sharpe, 169 

 Victoria Hall and Morley Memorial College, 343 

 Victoria, Minor Planet (12), Dr. Gill, 139 

 Victoria, Report of Bendigo School of Mines, 209 

 Vidal (Mr.), Mortality from Snake-bite in Ratnagherry District, 



325 

 Vidal (M. Sebastien), Death of, 348 

 Viking Age, the, Paul B. Du Chailiu, 173 



Villari Ciitical Points in Nickel and Iron, the, Herbert Tomlin- 

 son, F.R.S., 574 

 Vilmorin (H. de), Salad Plants, 494 

 Vincent and Delachanal, Sorbite, 23 

 Vines (Dr. Sydney H., F.R.S.), and Prof. A. Weismann's 



Theory of Heredity, 317, 373, 439 

 Vins, Manuel de 1' Analyse des, Ernest Barillot, 510 

 Violle (M.), Propagation of Sound, 359 

 Virchow (Dr.), the Spiracle Gill of Selachians, 119 

 Vision, Electrical Radiation from Conducting Spheres, an 



Electric Eye, and a Suggestion Regarding, Prof. Oliver J. 



Lodge, F.R.S., 462 

 Vision, Testing for Practical Purposes, Brudenell Carter, 302 

 Visualized I.rages Produced by Music, Geo. E. Newton, 417 

 Viticulture, Congress for, at Rome, 426 

 Vogel (Prof), Spectroscopic Observations of Algol, 285 

 Voice Figures, Mrs. Watts Hughes, 42 

 Volcanoes : Great Eruption in Japan, 400 ; Notes on a Recent 



Volcanic Island in the Pacific, Captain W. J. L. Wharton, 



F. R.S., 276; Volcanic Rocks of Caernarvonshire, Alfred 



