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INDEX 



XV 



n-Spots, Atmospheric Pressure, and the Sun's Heat, J. Allan 

 IJroun, F.R.S., 6; S. A. Hill, 432; Joao Capello, 506; 

 Sun-Spots and Commercial Crises, Prof. Stanley Jevons, 

 F.R.S. , 33, 588 ; John Kemp, 97 ; A. Stephen Wilson, 196 ; 

 and Locusts, E. D. Archibald, 145 ; and the Nile, 299 ; and 

 .he Plague, Prof. Stanley Jevons, F.R.S., 338 

 ram and Borjom, Earthquake at, 108 

 >urvival of the Fittest," A. Crane, 197 



vedish North- West Passage Expedition, 77, 102, 222, 247, 

 ^70, 298, 349, 373 



■ ift (Prof Lewis), Intra- Mercurial Planets, 96 

 itzerland : H. Christ on the Plants of, 130 ; Elementary In- 

 struction in, 306 ; Curious Meteorological Phenomenon in, 

 326 ; Earthquakes in, 352 ; Palaeontological Society of, 446 ; 

 Weather Warnings in, 446, 559 



Sydney : the University of, 47 ; proposed Zoological Station at, 

 60 ; proposed Technological Museum at, 1 59 J Rock Carvings 

 near, 547 



Synchronised Clocks, 55 



Szuchuen, Baber's Journey in, 298 



Tait (Prof. P. G.), Leibnitz's Mathematics, 288, 384 ; the Law 

 of Cooling of Bars, 379 



Tait (Tho3. S.), the Microphone, 146 



Tait and Steele's Dynamics of a Particle, 94 



Tanganyika Expeditipn, 15 



Tasmania, Gold in, 545 



Tasmanian Races, R. Brough Smyth, 549 



Taxidermy, Ramsay's Hints on, 61 



Taylor (Herbert), Duplexing the Atlantic Cable, 52 



Teas of Japan, 423 



Teal (J. J. H.j, Vacuum Tube Phenemena, 482 



Technical Education : The London Institute for the Advance- 

 ment of, 47 ; Abroad, 131 ; and the City of London, 180, 

 354 ; Prof. S. P. Thompson's Lectm-e on, 231 ; in America, 



591 



Tegetmeier (W. B.), " Moore's Columbarium," 474 



Teignmouth, Electrical Phenomenon on Shaldon Bridge, 182 



Telectroscope, the, 278 



Telegraphy : Museum at Berlin, 1 7 ; Schwendler's Instructions 

 for Te^ting Telegraph Lines, 192, 241 ; Wires broken by 

 Sleet in France, 301 ; a real Telegraphic Writing Machine, 

 323 ; Example of Rapid, 445 ; at Quebec, 473 



Telephone, its History and Recent Improvements, Prof. W. F. 

 Barrett, 12, 56 ; New Discovery by Prof. Bell, 46 ; Recei\'ing, 

 G. Johnstone Stouey, F.R.S., 71 ; Experiments with the, 85 ; 

 Prof. J. C. Watson on, 95 ; History of the Speaking, Prof. 

 W. F. Barrett, 121 ; James Blyth's Experiments with, 283 ; 

 Gower's Modification of Bell's, 301 ; Edison's, 471 



Tempel's Comet, 1867, II., 347, 389; W, J. Stillman, 217; 

 Dr. W. Valentiner, 457 



Temperature, Underground, 303 ; Sense of, and Sense of Force, 

 554 ; Alfred H. Huth, 5S2 



Temperature-Equilibrium, Life in the Universe and the Ten- 

 dency to, S. Tolver Preston, 460 ; in the Universe in Relation 

 to the Kinetic Theory, S. Tolver Preston, 555 



Teplitz Stadtbad, Discovery of Roman Antiquities at, 446 



Teplitz Thermal Question, 493 



Termites kept in Captivity by Ants, Henry O. Forbes, 4 



Terschelling, Island of, Netherlands Zoological Station at, 107 



Tertiary Rocks, Insects in, 246 



Tete D'Or, Meteorological Observatory at, 491 



Thatcher (Charles R.), Death of, 16 



Theriodont ReptUe, 283 



Thermal Conductivity of Water, J. T. Bottomley, 547 



Thermal . Phenomena produced by the Pa.' sage of Electricity 

 through Rarefied Gases, Naccari and BeUati, 21 



Thermo-Magnetic Motor, a Curious, 397 



Thermometer, a New Differential, 188 



Thermo- Regulator, a New, 326 



Thibet, the Beasts of Burden of, 375 



Thin (Dr. George), on some Points Connected with the 

 Anatomy of the Skin, 307 ; on Hyaline Cartilage, 307 



Thomas (J. W.), " Coal, Coal-Mines, and Ventilation,". Prof. 

 T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 405 



Thompson (G. S.), the Weather, 148 



Thompson (Prof. Sylvanus P.), a Study in Magnetism, 79 ; His 

 Lectrure on Technical Education, 231 ; Van der Willigen's 



" MaPTIf'tifSTnp Hpc Aimonfc Affifiz-Jole ' -f/* 



■Magn^tisme des Aimants Artificieb, ' 552 



Thomson (Sir Wm., F.R.S.), on Gaussin's Warning Regard- 

 ing the Slug^hness of Ships' Magnetism, 127 ; Influence of 

 the Straits of Dover on the Tides of the British Channel and 

 North Sea, 152; on a Machine for the Solution of Simul- 

 taneous Linear Equations, 161 ; on Tides, 571 

 Thomson Electrometer at the Montsomns Observatory, 560 

 Thorpe (Prof. T. E., F.R.S.), Thomas on " CoaU and Coal- 

 Mines," 405 

 TAuttderer, thQ Bursting of the Gun on Board the, 294, 333, 414 

 Thurston (Prof. R. H.), the Growth of the Steam Engine, 381 

 Tides : Influence of the Straits of Dover on the Tides of the 

 British Channel and North Sea, Sir Wm. Thomson, F.R.S., 

 152; the Highest on Record, H. N. Moseley, F.R.S., 363; 

 at Chepstow, 432, 481, 507, 582 ; in the Bay of Fundy, 432, 

 458 ; Sir William Thomson on, 571 

 Tiger, the Size of the. Sir J. Fayrer, F.R.S., 9 

 Tilden (Dr. W. A.), the Dissociation of Sal Ajnmoniac, 314 

 Time and Longitude, 290 ; E. L. Layard, 197 ; Latimer Clark, 



220 

 " Tit- tat-to," Automaton for Playing, 352 

 Tokio, Astronomical Observatory at, 1 59 

 Torpedo, Electricity of the. Dr. Francois Franck, 295, 320 

 Torsional Strain, the, which remains in Glass Fibre after 

 Release from Twisting Stress, Dr. J. Hopkinson, F.R.S., 

 187, 306 

 Tortoises, Gigantic Land, Alexis A. Julian, 30 ; Dr. Jeffiies 



Wyman, 31 

 Toughened Glass, G. C. Diuce, 5 

 Trajectory of ilolecules, on the Illumination of Lines of 



Molecular Pressure and the, Wm. Crookes, F.R.S., 137 

 Trans-Neptunian Planet, Prof. Asaph Hall, 481 

 Transvaal, Sudden Change of Temperature in the, 131 

 Trant (William), the Divisibility of the Electric Light, 52 

 Travelling, Kaltbrunner's " Manual du Voyageur," 71 

 Trieste, Zoological Station at, 76 



Tri-Methyl-Sulphine, the Action of Heat on Salts of, 379 ' 

 Trowbridge (John), Galvanometer for Strong Currents, I2I 

 Troy, Dr. Schliemann's Excavations at, 85, 131 

 Timing-Forks, the Determination of the Rate of Vibration in, 



401 

 Tunnel, the Longest, in the W^orld, 509 ; the Chaimel, 592 

 Tupman (CapL G. L.), Brorsen's Comet, 527 

 Turkestan, Major Butler's Survey of, 395 



Turkestan, Russian, and the Moscow Anthropological Exhibi- 

 tion at Moscow, 300 

 Turnip Seeds, Experiments on, 159 



Turtle, Green, the Skull of the. Prof. Parker, F.R.S., 593 

 Tweeddale (The Marquis of), Obituary Notice of, 205 

 Tyndall (Prof. John, F.R.S.), Note on the Influence Exercised 



by Light on Organic Infusions, 210 

 Tyson (Capt.), Polar Expedition in the Florence, 15, 43, 123 



Underground Temperature, 303 



Undertones, Herr Auerbach on, 183 



Ungulata, the Fissures of the Cerebral Hemispheres in, V. 

 Horsley, 276 



United States: the Geological Sur^-ey, 130, 518, 559; Annual 

 Report of the Peabody Museum, 131 ; Entomology in America, 

 309 ; Reorganisation of the American Surveys, 370 ; Wash- 

 ington Observatory, 389 ; Missouri Weather Service Report, 

 420 ; Fisheries, 429, 460 ; Weather Report of the Signal Ser- 

 vice, 473 ; the National Museum, 561 ; see also America, New 

 York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, &c. 



University and Educational Intelligence, 22, 46, 62, 87, 115, 

 137, 234, 281, 305, 330, 353, 377, 4C0, 425, 448, 475, 497, 

 520, 546, 594 



University College of Wales Magazine, 87 



University Education for Women, 353 



Unscientific Art, 384 ; John W. Buck, 460, 508 j Chas. Coppcck, 

 484 



Unseen Universe — Paradoxical Philosophy, W. A. T. Hallowes, 

 219 ; Hermann Stoffkraft, 242 



Unwin (W. C), Wind-Pressure, 72 



Urns, Roman, a Curious Discovery in Connection with, 396 



Usambara, East Africa, Rev. J. P. Farler, 76 



Utrecht, Prize Competitions of the Society of Arts of, 592 



Vacuum Tube: Experiment with, H. A. Cnnnington, 458; 

 Wm. Crookes, F.R.S., 458; Phenomena of, J. J. H. Teal, 

 482 



