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INDEX 



{Nature, May 22, 1879 



Vacuum Tubes, End-on, in Spectroscopy, 400, 458 



Valentiner (Dr. W.), Tempel's Comet, 1867 II., 457 



Valleys and Lakes, the Formation of, 205 



Vanilla, the Cultivation of, 474 



Variable Stars : Observed by Scheiner in 1612, 245 ; Algol, 



298 ; Mira Ceti, 510 ; x Cygni, 531 

 Veitch (Prof. J.), Prof. Huxley's Hume, 453 

 Velocity of Sound in Air, Measuring the, 529 

 Venezuela, Sachs's Work on, 456 

 Venice, Prizes of the Istituto Reale Veneto, 376 

 Ventoux, Proposed Meteorological Observatory on the Top of, 



270 

 Venus and Mercury, Relative Brightness of, 23 

 Verhandlungen der naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Freiburg, 23 

 Verhandlungen des naturhistorischen Vereines der preussischen 



Rheinlande und Westphalens, 235 

 Vesuvius : the Flow of Lava from, 60 ; the Recent Eruption and 



Present Condition of, G. F. Rodwell, 343 

 Vibration of Metal Rods, Dr. F. Guthrie, F.R.S., on, 331 

 Victoria Philosophical Institute, 356, 451, S47 

 Victoria: Prodromus of the Zoology of, 160 ; the Aborigines of, 



R. Brough Smyth, 549 

 Vienna : Imperial Academy of Sciences, 68, 188, 236, 284, 404, 



452 ; Sitzungsberichte of, 449, 450, 569 ; Discovery of Roman 



Remains at, 446 ; Geographical Society, Mittheilungen, 583 

 Vincent (Camille), on a New Chemical Industry Established by, 



Prof. H. E. Roscoe, F.R.S., 398 

 Vines (S. H.), the Chemical Composition of Aleurone Grains, 



235 



Vinot (M. Joseph), his Lectures on Astronomy, 231 



Virchow (Prof.), on the Plague, 545 



Virginia, U.S., Discovery of Caves in, 160 



Viscosity of the Earth's Mass, G. H. Darwin, 292 



Visual Purple of the Retina, Experiments on, 350 



Vita Nuova, 54$ 



Vivisection Question in Germany, 544 



" Vogelbilder aus fernen Zonen," 232 



Vogler (Dr. F. W.), Death of, 491 



Volcanic Eruptions in the Aleutian Isles, 45 



Volcanic Phenomena and the Microphone, 207 



Volcanoes: Cotopaxi, 17; Vesuvius, 17 



Voltaic Action, the Contact Theory of, Profs. Ayrtonand Perry, 



498 

 Vowel Sounds, the Synthetic Examination of, Preece and Stroh, 



426 

 Voyageur, Manuel du, Kaltbrunner's, 71 

 Vulcan and Bode's Law, B. G. Jenkins, 74 



Wallace (A. R.) and Epping Forest, 16 ; Remarkable Local 

 Colour-Variation in Lizards, 4, 53 ; the Formation of Moun- 

 tains, 121, 244, 289; Organisation and Intelligence, 477; 

 Grant Allan's "Colour-Sense," 501; Colour in Nature, 581; 

 Did Flowers Exist during the Carboniferous Epoch ? 582 



Wallich (Dr. G. L.), Ear Aflfection, 340 



Waltenhofen (Prof, von), on the Magnetic Properties of Pow- 

 dered Iron, 352 



Ward (James), Physiology of the Nervous System of the Cray- 

 fish, 451 



Ward (J. Clifton), the Association of Local Societies, 165 



Washington, U.S., Observatory 388 



Washington and Paris, Comparison of the Longitude of, 438 



Wasps, the Power of Stupefying Spiders possessed by, 32, 54 



Water, Musical Notes from Outflow of, 244 ; Thermal Con- 

 ductivity of, J. T. Bottomley, 547 



Water- Drops and Electricity, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 486 



Water- Level Indicators, 518, 554 



Water- Rat, Intellect in a, 268, 340 



Water-Spout on Lake Leman, 256 



" Waterton's Wanderings," Rev. J. G. Wood's Edition of, 576 



Watson (Prof.), Observation of the Solar Eclipse of July 29, 

 1878, 14 ; on the Telephone, 95 



Weather Signs and Clouds, Rev. W. Clement Ley, 178 



Weather, the, G. S. Thompson, 148 ; American, E. D. Archi- 

 bald, 266 ; Past and to Come, Prof. Piazzi Smyth, 338 



Weather -Warnings, Prof. Forster, of Bern, on, 232 ; in Switzer- 

 land, 559 



Weismann (Dr. August), the Migration of Birds, 433, 479 



Wellington, N.Z, Discovery of Graphite at, 300; Philosophical 

 Society, 308 



Werdermann Electric Light, 16, 37, 44, 491 

 West Indies, Mr. F. A. Ober's Exploration of, 100 

 Weyprecht (Lieut.), Proposed Expedition to Novaya Zemlya, 



298, 372 

 Whale at the Jardin des Plantes, 561 

 Whales, Sperm, on European Coasts, 76 

 Wheat Grown in Japan, 86 



Wheatstone Laboratory of King's College, London, 594 

 Whipple (G. M.), Atmospheric Electricity, 220 

 White (Dr. Buchanan), Discovery of aCrannog in Ayrshire, 32 ; 



Robert Munro, 54 

 Whitmee (Rev. S. J.), on Volcanic Eruptions in the Society 



Islands, 108 ; on Indo- Oceanic Races, 258 ; on Captain Cook's 



Accuracy, 408 

 Wilczek (Count), Expedition to Novaya Zemlya, 298, 372 

 Wild (J. J.), the Range of the Mammoth, 146 

 Wilde (Henry), on some Improved Methods of Producing and 



Regulating the Electric Light, 78, 1 52 

 Wilke (J. F.), Measuring the Height of Clouds, 148 

 Williamson (Prof. W. C, F.R.S.), " Coal ; its History and 



Uses," 238 

 Willigen (V. S. M. van der), " Sur le Magnetisme des Aimants 



Artificiels," Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, 552 

 Wilson (Dr. Andrew), Handbook to Map of the Geographical 



Distribution of Animals, 30 ; " Leisure- Time Studies," 286 ; 



the Wolf Fish, 556 

 Wilson (A. Stephen), "The Botany of Three Historical Re- 

 cords," 3 ; Commercial Crises and Sun-Spots, 196 

 Wiltshire (Rev. T.), "History of Coal," 407 

 Winchester City Museum, 45 

 Wind-Pressure, W. C. Unwin, 72 

 Winterberg (A.), "Malta," 77 

 Winther (Georg Peter), Death of, 325 

 Wittstein (Dr. G. C), the Organic Constituents of Plants and 



Vegetable Substances and their Chemical Analysis, 93 

 Woeikof (Dr. A.), Eastern Yucatan, 554 

 Wolf Fish, the. Dr. Andrew Wilson, 556 

 Women, University Education for, 353 

 Wood (Rev. J. G.), " Waterton's Wanderings," 576 

 Wood-Mason (J.), Remarkable Colour-Variation in Lizards, 53 

 Woodcroft (Bennett, F.R.S.), Death of, 374 

 Woodruff Expedition Round the World, 157 

 Woollen Manufactory at Lanchow-fu, China, 446 

 Wright (Dr. E. Perceval) on the Development of the Garpike, 



100; About Fishes' Heads, 149; Fossil Calcareous Algae, 



485 . . r 



Wurtz (Charles Adolphe), Notice of, 62 ; on the Constitution of 



Matter in the Gaseous State, 62 ; on Science Education, 87 

 Wyman (Dr. Jeffries), Gigantic Land Tortoises, 31 



Yamell (Prof.), Death of, 492 



" Year Book of Facts in Science and the Arts," 233 



Yeats (Dr. John), Tides at Chepstow, 507, 582 



Yellow River Region, Exploration of, 222 _^^ 



Yemen, Arabia, Exploration of, 247 



Yenissei, Obi and the, Water Communication between, 298 



Yezo, Island of. Exploration of, 1 00 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, Exhibition at Leeds by the, 232 



Young (Prof. C. A.), the Spectrum of Brorsen's Comet, 559, 



579 

 Yucatan, Eastern, Dr. A. Woeikof, 554 



Zachariae (G.), Work on Geodesy, 505 

 Zeitschrift f. wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 186, 449 

 Zodiacal Light, the, 245 



Zoological Gardens, Additions to, 19, 46, 62, 87, 109, 132, 161, 

 208, 233, 257, 280, 302, 327, 352, 376, 397. 424. 447, 474, 



493, 518, 561, 592 

 Zoological Gardens, Singapore, 46 

 Zoological Laboratory, Prof. Alex. Agassiz s, 317 

 Zoological Society, 47, 70, 162, 283, 355, 403, 45i, 499, 547 ; 



Election of President, 349 , t 1 j 



Zoological Stations: Naples, 2; at Trieste, 76; on the Island 



of Terschelling, 107 ; proposed, 472 

 Zoologischer Anzeiger, 118 



Zoology, Prof. A. Macalister's Class-Books of, 143 

 Zdppritz (Prof.) on Ocean Currents, 202 ^ ^ -c- 



Zululand : 491 ; Stanford's Map of, 438 ; Geology of, C. E. 



de Ranee, 467 



