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INDEX 



[iVaimr, Nov. 2i, 1878 



the Rainfall of Brazil, Orville A. Derby, 3S4 ; SunSpots and 

 Rainfall, C. Meldrum, F.R.S,, 564; Sun-Spots and Weather, 

 Fred. Chambers, 567; Prof. Balfoiir Stewart, F.R.S., 616 



Swallow, a White, Albinism in Birds, 540, 618 



Sweden, Education in, 484 



Swedish North-East Passage Expedition, 308, 631, 6S0 



Swift (Lewis), Comet of July 7, 520 ; the Discovery of Vulcan, 

 539 



Swinhoe (Robert, F.R.S.), his Collection of Chinese Bird>, 

 465 



Switzerland : Keller's Lake Dwellings of, 664 ; Erratic Boul- 

 ders in, 206 



Sydney : Gerard KrefTt and the Trustees of the Australian Mu- 

 seum, 575 ; Proposed Grant to University of, 659 ; Inter- 

 national Exhibition, 683 



Symons (G. J,, F.R.S.), on the Rainfall of Ireland, 484 



Tait (Prof. P. G.), CliflFord's Elements of Dynamic, 89 ; a New 

 Fog-Signal, 371 



Tait (Lawson) : on the Occurrence of a Sacral Dimple and it-; 

 poshiole Significance, 481 



Tanna, the Island of. Volcanic Eruptions in, 263 



Tapir, East Indian, at Paris, 49 



Tashkent, Exhibition at, 534 



Tasimeter, Description of the, 368 



Tasimeter and Magnetisation, Andrew and Thomas Gray, 329 



Tasmania, Spicer's Handbook to the Plants of, 327 



Taunton College School, H. P. Knapton, 357 



Taurus, the Variable Nebula in, 552 



Taxidermy, Practical, Montagu Browne, 37 



Tay Bridge, Dundee, Opening of, 159; Description of, A. 

 Grothe, 361 



Taylor (J. E,), " Flowers," 276 



Tea'--, Japanese Black, 705 



Technical Education : in University College, London, 95 ; in 

 France, 317 



Tecoma capense, in Natal, 543 



Telegraphic Clerks, Diseases amongst, 49 



Telegraphy: Practical, R, S. Culley, 166; in Japan, 182; 

 French School of, 318 ; W. II. Preece on Recent Advances 

 in, 484 



Telephone : 136, 163, 424, 706 ; Geo. S. Clarke and II. 

 McLeod on, 1 1 ; in Germany, 23 ; E. Cox Walker's Improve- 

 ments upon the, 76 ; Lieut. G. R. R. Savage's Experiments 

 on, 77, 488 ; Alfred Chiddey, 94 ; Method of Showing the 

 Vibrations of, 11 1 ; and Deafness, 132, 169; Prof. Clerk- 

 Maxwell's Rede Lecture on, 159; Selenium and, 169; the 

 Telephone Relay or Repeater, E. J. Houston and E. Thom- 

 son, 194 ; Sensibility of the, to Feeble Currents, 241 ; 

 Navezs', 242 ; Prof. Hughes' Telephone and Edison's Micro- 

 phone, 277 ; Phelps' Telephone, 392 ; the Electro-Magnet 

 a Receiving, F. G. Lloyd, 488 ; W. H. Preece, 540 ; Exten- 

 sive Use of, in America, 599 ; Prof. W. F. Barrett on the, 

 its History, and Recent Improvements, 631, 698 



Tempel's Comet, 1873, 1I'» 67, 130, 281, 385 



Temperature, Cumulative, Wm. F. Stanley, 41 ; Underground, 

 William Morris, 93 ; B. A. Report on, 505 ; Nocturnal 

 Variations of, at Puy-de-D6me, 608 



" Tent Work in Palestine," Lieut. C. R. Conder, 538 



Terns and Gulls, Howard Saunders on, 83 



Terpin and Terpinol, Dr. Tilden, 55 



Terrestrial Magnetism, Eastward Progress of, Prof. Balfour 

 Stewart, 'F.R.S., 38 



Terrier, Fetichism in a, 77 



Tertiary Flora of North America, L. Lesquereux, 189 



Tertiary Fossils, Prof. Gaudry's Work on the, Prof. Boyd 

 Dawkins, F.R.S., 537 



Tertiary Rocks, Fossiliferous, on the Grand Bank and George's 

 Bank, A. E. Verrill, 620 



Texas, Guano Beds in, 344 



Thallium and Lead, Prof. H. E. Roscoe on the Specific Gravity 

 of the Vapours of the Chlorides of, 214 



Thenard (M.), Medallion of, 49 



Thermodynamics, on the Use of the Virial in. Prof, A. S. 

 Herschel, 39, 142 



Thermometer, a New Deep Sea, 348 



Thetines, on the, Prof. E. A. Letts, 474 



Thibet : Capt. Gill's Travels in, 288 ; Prjvalsky's Exploration 

 of, 496 



Thierleben, Brehm's, 496; E. H. Pringle on, 518 

 Thiers (M.), his Work on Philosophy, 653 



Thompson (Prof. Silvanus P.), the Phonograph, 39 ;^Galvano- 

 meter for Lecture Purposes, 264; on Certain Phenomena 

 Accompanying Rainbows, 441 



Thompson (Sir Henry, F.R.S.), the Microphone in Surgery, 157 



Thomson (Dr. Allen, F.R.S.), Aberrant Sacrum connected with 

 the Oblique Pelvis, 483 



Thomson (Dr. Thomas, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of, 15 



Thomson (Sir William, F.R.S.), Floating Magnets, 13 ; on a 

 New Method for Discovering and Measuring /Eolotropy of 

 Electric Resistance Produced by ^olotropic Stress in a Solid, 

 180; Influence of Stress on Magnetisation, 215; the Micro- 

 phone, 355 ; and Capt. Evans, F.R.S., on the Tides of the 

 Southern Hemisphere and the Mediterranean, 670 



Thomson ( Wm.), the Estimation of Mineral Oil or ParafiinWax 

 when Mixed with other Oils or Fat, 473 



Thomson (Sir Wyville, F,R.S.), Opening Address in Section E 

 at the British Association, 448 ; the Progress of the Challenger 

 Report, 534 



Thomson's Quadrant Electrometer, the Determination of the 

 Scale Value of, 1 10 



Thorpe (Prof. T. E., F.R.S.), Treatise on Coal, 133 ; at Salt 

 Lake City, 502 



Thorpe (R. 0.,car), "Statics," 247 



Thunderstorms in France, 653 



Tide-Calculating Machine, a Self-acting, 75 



Tides of the Southern Hemisphere and the Mediterranean, Capt. 

 Evans, F.R.S., and Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., 670 



Tidy (C. M.), Handbook of Chemistry, 586 



Tiger, the Size of the Indian, Sir J. Fayrer, F.R.S., 219 



Tilden (Dr.), Terpin and Terpinol, 55 



Timber, Indian Building, 317, Col. R. Benson, 569 



Time and Longitude, Latimer Clark, 40 ; Cape. J. P. Maclear, 

 6 ; Rev. S. J. Whitmee, 220 



Times, the, on Science in Schools, 273, 279 



Tissandier (Gaston), " Histoire de mes Ascensions, 639 



Titan, the Satellite of Saturn, 619 



Topinard's "Anthropology," Dr. Bartley's Translation of, 192 



Tornado at Canton, 394, 466 



Tortoises, Gigantic, at Paris, 372 



Tottenham Court Road Boring, 469 



Toughened Glass, Caution against, 653 



Toy (Edmund P.), Circulating Decimals, 541 



Trains of Ladies' Dresses, Prohibition of, in Prague, 632 



Transportation of Shells, Dr. Charles Darwin, F.R.S., 120; 

 Arthur H. Gray, 121 



Traquair (Dr. R. H.), the Genus Ctenodus, 483 



Travers (W. T. L.), Climate in Higher Latitudes during Geolo- 

 gical Periods, 27 



Tree-Frogs, 271 



Trees, Causes of the Ascent of Sap in, 213 



Trevandrum Observatory, the Diurnal Range of the Magnetic 

 Declination as recorded at, 25 



Triassic Sandstone, on the Filtration of Sea- Water through, 

 Isaac Roberts, 475 



Trinidad, Collections of Ferns from, 466 



Trocadero Lift, the Great, 393 



" Tropical Nature," A, R. Wallace's, Prof. E. Perceval Wright, 

 140 



Trout and Salmon, Fungus Disease in, 48 



Tuning-Forks, Scheibler's, A. Cavaille-Coll on, 381 



Tupman(Capt.), the Transit of Venus Photographs, 221 



Turkish Bath, a Primitive, 633 



Tyrone, on the Metamorphic and Intrusive Rocks of Joseph 

 Nolan, 477 



Tyson (Capt.), his Arctic Expedition, 521, 551, 681 



Underground Monsters, 389 



Underground Temperature, William Morris, 93 ; B.A, Report 

 on, 505 



Underground Water, B.A. Report on, 469, 503 



Unit, the Electro -Magnetic, the Number of Electrostatic Units 

 in, 470 



United States : Cincinnati Observatory, 103 ; Study of Marme 

 Zoology at Johns Hopkins University, 181 ; Progress of 

 Science in, 182 ; the Botanical Directory of America, 182 ; the 

 Natural History Society of Wisconsin, 182 ; the Winds in the 

 198 ; Geological and Geographical Survey Bulletin, 242 ; 

 Report of the Missouri Weather Service, 288; Geological 



