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INDEX 



XXI 



Maps of Wisconsin and Colorado, 290 ; the American 

 Association Meeting at St. Louis, 316, 532; Dr. Hayden's 

 Surveys, 316, 647 ; American Geological Surveys, Prof. 

 J. W. Judd, F.R.S., 538; Atlas of New Hampshire, 552; 

 Signal Service, 553 ; Entomological Commission Report, 554 ; 

 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 576 ; Meehan's 

 Native Flowers and Ferns of the, 615 ; Capt. Jones on 

 American Exploration, 667, 694 ; Cincinnati Society of 

 Natural History Journal, 636 ; the Geological Survey, 657 ; 

 Fish Commission, 682, 704; see aho America, New York, 

 Philadelphia, &c. 



Universities, Natural Science at Oxford, 651 



University and Educational Intelligence, 53, 82, 108, 135, 186, 

 214, 291, 223, 321, 350, 374, 399, 456, 484, 511, 535, 559, 

 584, 608, 635, 659, 687, 711 



Univers^ity College, London, Technical Education in, 95 ; 

 Classes for Women at, 143: Jubilee, 195, 262, 273; New 

 Buildings, 374 



University College School, Scientific Society at, 262 



University Extension, 82, 85 



Upsala, Meteorological Observatory at, 157 



Urechites suberecta, J. J. Bowery on, 55 



Uruguay, Proposed Railway from, to Rio Grande do Sul, 133 



Valparaiso, Natural History Museum for, 435 



Variable Stars, 180, 520, 570 



Varying Experiences, Thomas Meehan, 334 



Vaucluse Meteorological Commission, 435 



Vegetable Kingdom, Prof. Caruel's ClasMfication of, 646 



Vegetable Physiology, the Chemical Attributes of, fc. 1 1. Vine, 



110 

 Velocity of Light, Albert A. Michelson, 195 

 Velocity of Sound, the Various Methods of Determining, 558 

 Venezuela, Earthquake in, 105, 130 ; the Land of Bolivar and 



its Products, 230 

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

 Verhandlungen der k.k. zoologisch-botanischen GeselLchaft in 



Wien, 660 

 Verrill (A. E.), Fossiliferous Tertiary Rocks from the Grand 



Bank and George's Bank, 620 

 Vertebrates of the Northern United States, Prof. D, S, Jordan, 



167 

 Vesuvius, Mount, Eruption of, 49, 533, 553, 574, 598, 631, 



653 ; Proposed Railway up, 598 

 Vibrations, Articulate, a Method of Recording by Means of 



Photography, Prof. E. W. Blake, 338 

 Vibratory Motion^, the Nature of, Prof. A. M. Mayer, 571, 



594, 648 

 Victoria Institute, 56, 188 

 Vienna: Academy of Sciences, 28, 159, 296, 375, 536, 560 ; 



Annual Session, 290 ; the Geological Institute of, 287 ; Ver- 

 handlungen der k.k. zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft, 154, 



660 

 Virchow (Prof.), the Craniology of the Bulgarians, 290 

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



Herschel, 39, 142 

 Viscosity of the Earth, some Results of the Supposition of the, 



G. H. Darwin, 265 

 Viscous Spheroid, on the Precession of, G. H. Darwin, 580 

 Vision : Alternate, 169 ; Alternate and Stereoscopic, AV. M. 



Flinders Petrie, 115 

 Volcanic Ash, Fall of, from Iceland, 199 

 Volcanic Eruption in New Britain Island, 180 ; in the Island of 



Tanna, 263 

 Volcanic Phenomena and Earthquakes during 1877, 241 

 Volcanoes, Reyer's Physics of, 91 ; Reyer's " Vulcanologische 



Studien," 487 ; the Corpuna, 423 

 Vole, the Common, the Annual Increase of, 483 

 Volta (Alessandro), Monument to, 75 

 Vowel Sounds and the Phonograph, Professors Fleeming 



Jenkins and Ewing, 340, 394, 454 

 Vowel Theories and the Phonograph, Professors Fleeming 



Jenkins and J. A. Ewing, 167 

 "Vulcan," the Reported Observation of, 385, 433, 495, 539, 616 



Wake (C. S.), Classification of Primitive Relationships, 135 

 Wales, on some New Pre-Cambrian Areas in. Dr. H. Hicks, 477 

 Walker (E. Cox), Improvements upon the Telephone, 76 



Walker (G.), Spectrum of the Electric (JaSochkoft') Light, 384 

 Walker (K.), Secondary Lunar Rainbow, 618 

 Walking Stick for Naturalists, 372 



Wallace (A. R.), "Tropical Nature," Prof. E. Perceval Wright, 

 140 ; a Twenty Years' Error in the Geography of Australia, 



193 

 Wallis (Gustav), Death of, 531 



Wanklyn (J_. A.) and W. J. Cooper on a Direct Method for 

 Determining the Calorific Power of Alimentary Substances, 

 481 

 War, Proposed French School of, 291 

 Warington (R.), Report on Farming, Madras, 219 

 Washington, U.S.; the Naval Observatory of, 372; Prof. 



Nipher's Magnetic Survey of, 466 

 Wasp, a Hunting, C. L. W. Merlin, 311 

 Wasps : Under Chloroform, 588 ; Power of Stupefying Spiders 



Possessed by, William E. Armit, 642 ; Henry Cecil, 695 

 Wasps' Nests, Spontaneous Combustion of. Dr. A. Ernst, 487 

 Watches, Phosphorescent Dials of, 504 

 Water : Underground, B. A. Report on, 469, 503 ; Latent Heat 



of, at Temperature below 0° C, 679 

 Water Supply, the National, 121 ; C. E. de Ranee, 73 

 Waterfalls and Windmills, 274 

 Watershed, what is a ? 94 

 Watei spout near Bath, E. Wethered, 194 

 Watson (George S.), Hereditary Transmission, 116 

 Watson (Prof. James C), Intra-Mercurial Planets, 433, 495, 616 

 Watson (Sereno), Bibliographical Index to North American 



Botany, Sir J. D. Hooker, P.R.S., 325 

 Watt (Edmund), Hereditary Transmission, 94 

 Waugh (Major- Gen. Sir Andrew Scott), Obituary Notice of, 145 

 Weather and Sun-Spots, Fred. Chambers, 567 ; Prof. Balfour 



Stewart, F.R.S., 616 

 Weather Case, or Farmer's Weather Indicator, General A. J. 



Myer, 621, 630 

 Weather Warning at the Paris Exhibition, 682 

 Weights and Measures, Tables for the Verification of Standards 



of, 632 

 Weights, Measures, &c. , International Congress of, 532 

 Weismann (Prof.) on Decorative Colouring in Daphnoidae, &c., 



226 

 Westminster Aquarium : White Whale at, 159 ; Manatee at, 238 

 West Indies : Exploration of, 49; F. A. Ober's Exploration of, 



647 

 Westinghouse Brake, 12 

 Westinghouse Speed Indicator, 471 

 Wethered (E.), a Waterspout, 194 

 Weyprecht (Carl), the Aurora Observations of the Austro-Hun- 



garian Arctic Expedition, 1872-74, 606 

 Whale, White, at Westminster Aquarium, 159 

 Wheatley (H. B.), " What is an Index ? " 632 

 Wheat>tone's Microphone, 356 



Whipple (G. M.), the Determination of the Scale Value of 

 Thomson's Quadrant Electrometer, iioj an Unusual Rain- 

 bow, 696 

 Whirlwinds : M. Faye on, 352 ; Thomis Dobson, 250 

 White (Dr. Buchanan), on the Hemipterous Fauna of St. 

 Helena, 135 ; Insects Corroborative of the Nativity of Certain 

 Plants, 278. 

 White (E. W.), " Divide et Impera," 142 

 White (W. H.), Manual of Naval Architecture, E. J. Reed, 



C.B., F.R.S., 137 

 White Grouse, a. Sir J. Fayrer, F.R.S., 518 

 White Swallow, Albinism in Birds, Herbert W. Page, 540 ; 



David Robertson, Jun., 618 

 Whitelegge (Thomas), Gynodioecious Plants, 588 

 Whitley (Joseph), Experiments on the Relative Specific Gravities 

 of Solid and Melted Materials at the Temperature of Fusion, 

 397 

 Wh;tmee (Rev. S. J.), Time and- Longitude, 220; Winds and 



Currents in the Pacific, 617 

 Whitworth (W. A.), " Choice and Chance," 616 

 Whitworth Scholarships, the, 465 



Wiedersheim (Prof.), Description of- a Labyrinthodont, 48 

 Wild Flowers, Familiar, F. E. Hulme, ii 

 William Barends, Voyage of the, to the Arctic Regions, 647 

 Williams (W.), the Cennis megaceros, 478 



Williamson (Prof. W. C, F.R.S.), Fossil Flora of Great 

 Britain, 35 ; on the Supposed Radiolarians and Diatomaceae of 

 the Coal-Measiures, 508 



