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jyjDEX 



\Satnrf, May lo, I 



Temi^^^eratures and Ocean Currents in the South Pacific, 237 



Tendrils of Climbing Plants, 558 



Tertiary Formations of the Northern Shores of the Pacific, sb 



Thane (G. D.), the Brain of the Gorilla, 142 



Theobald ( W. ), Tropical Forests of Hampshire, 530 



Thermo-Chemical Researche;', 167 



Thermometers, Minimum, Thomas Fawcett, 97 



Thermo-multiplier and Radiometer, 384 



Thielmann's "Journey in the Caucasus," 547 



Thomson (John M.), Ilofmann's Life-work of Liebig inExjieri- 

 mental and Philosophic Chemistry, 193 



Thomson (Sir Wm., F.R.S.), the Siphon Recorder and Auto- 

 matic Curb Sender, loi ; a New Astronomical Clock, 227 ; 

 the Precessional Motion of a Liquid, 297 ; on Navigation, 403 



Thomson (Sir C. Wyville, F.R.S.), the Conditions of the 

 Antarctic, 104, 120 ; the Challenger QqW^qUxoxs.^, 254; the 

 Movement of the Soil-cap, 359 



Thunderstorm in Central Europe, 263 



Tides, Oscillations of, 343 



Time-Measuring Apparatus, H. Dent Gardner on the Principles 

 of, 9 



Titicaca, Lake, Exploration of, 67 



Toads Eating Bees, 502 



Toadstools and Mushrooms, Worthington G. Smith, 134 



Tomes (C. S.), "Manual of Dental Anatomy," 161 



Tones, Photography of, 1 70 



Topley (W.), Capercailzie in Northumberland, 7 



Tortoises, Gigantic Land, Prof. A. Leith Adams, 347 ; Dr. A. 

 Giinther on, 327 



"Towering" of Birds, 1 16, 158, 177, 199, 217, 292, 440 



Tropical Forests of Hampshire, VV. Theobald, 530 



Transit of Venus, Photographs of, 265 ; Medal to Commemo- 

 rate, 344 



Traquair's Monograph on British Carboniferous Ganoids, 489 



Trees, Amount of Water in, 324 



Tropical Forests of Hampshn-e, J. S. Gardner, 229, 258, 279 



Trotter (Coutts), " Some Questions of University Reform," Dr, 

 Michael Foster, F.R.S., 428 



Tucker (R.), Carl Friedrich Gauss, 535 



Tungstate of Soda and Muslin Dresses, 460, 489 



Tuning Forks, Phenomena connected with, 285 



Turkestan, Flora of, 416 



Two Dimensions, the Simplest Continuous Manifoldness of, 

 F. W. Frankland, 515 



Tjndall (Prof. F.R.S. ), Spontaneous Generation, 302 



Undated and Antedated Books, 17 



Underground Temperature, Report oi the British Association 



Committee on, 240 

 United States. See also New York, Philadelphia, &c. ; Annual 



Report on the Insects of, 84 ; Geological Collections !vt the 



Philadelphia Exhibition, 87; New York Aquarium, 150; 



Geographical Survey of, 189 ; Cambridge Observatory, 201 ; 



Vertebrates of the Northern, 216; Dr. Hayden's Geological 



and Geographical Suivey, 335 ; Science at Cambridge, Mass., 



432 ; Agriculture in the, 525 

 Universities Bill, 391 



University College, London, 69 ; Legacy to, 521 

 University Reform, Mr. Coutts Trotter on, 428 

 Upper Colorado, Prof. A. Geikie, F.R.S. , 337 

 Upsala, 400th Anniversary of the University of, 245 

 Ural Mountains, Traces of Glaciers in the, 306 

 Uranu=, Heischel's First Glimpse of, 48 

 " Uranophotometer," M. Wild's, 170 

 Urea, Estimation of, by Hypobromile, Dr. A. Dupre, 399 



Vacher (Arthur), "Primer of Cliemiiitry," 527 



Variable Components of Double Stars, 303 



Variable Stars, 244, 281, 381, 414, 478, 549 



Vennor's " Accipitres of Canada," 546 



Venus: Transit of, 1882, 48; Photographs of the Spectra of 

 Venus and a Lyrae, Prof. \\. Draper, M.D., 218; Photo- 

 graphs of the Transit of, 265 



Verhandlungen der k.k. zoologisch brtmischen Gese'lschafl 



Wien, 130 

 Verhandlungen des naturhistorif'fhen Vcreins dcr prcussisc 



Rheinlande und Westfalens, 286, 385 

 Vertebrates of the Northern United States, Dr. Jordan, 216 

 Vesuviu!=, Threatened Eruption of Mount, 246 

 Vienna: Academy of Science, 112, 192, 368, 423, 444, 5 



L R. Geological Institution, 212 ; Geological Society, 4 



Vienna Refractor, the Crown-Gla?s Lens for, 16 

 Vilna Observatory, Destruction o^, 241; 

 Virchow (Prof), Address on Anthropology, 149 ; Cranio' 0^ 



Bulgaria, 364 ; on Diluvial Remains found near Weimar, -'3 

 Vision, some Phenomena connected with, 307 

 Vogel (H.), the New Star in Cvgnus, 315 

 Volcanic Phenomena during 1875, 557 

 Volpicelli (Prof. Paul), Researches on the Radiometer, loi 

 Voltaic Electricity, Prize for Improvemen's in, 304 

 Vortex Motion in Fluids, Prof. Osborne Reynolds, 347 



Wade (Charles H.), Science at Oxford, 430 



Wallace's " Geographical Distribution of Animals," 5, 24 



Wallace (A. R.), on the Distribution of Pa'Jserine Birds, \ 



Peschel's "Races of Man," 174 ; Glacial Drift in Califori 



274 ; " Hog-Wallows " of California, 431 

 Ward (J. C ), Geology of the Lake Country, 545 

 Warsaw : Meeting of Russian Naturalists at, 69, 70 ; Zoolog 



Museum, 70 

 Washington, United States Nayal Observatory, 549 

 Walters (J. Hopkins), " Towering " of Birds, 177 

 Walterhausen (Dr. von), Death of, 16 

 Water, in Trees, Amount of, 324 ; Methods of Decomposing, 

 Water-Beetles, Carnivorous, Respiratory Functions of, 91 

 Weather and Sun-spots, 263 

 Weather of Europe, 538 

 Weather Maps : Accelerated Transmission of, 107 ; a I' 



Daily, 244 ; International, 343 

 Weismann's Researches on the Descent Theory, 45 1 

 West India Islands, Explorations of, 267 

 Westminster Aquarium, 501 



Weyprecht (Lieut.), Scheme for Arctic Exploration, 2 

 White (Dr. F. Buchanan), Sense of Hearing in Insects 



Birds, 292 

 Wiedemann (Prof. Dr. G.), Editor of Poggendorff 's Annalen, 

 Wild (J. J.), Atlantic Soundings, 377 

 Wilkes (Admiral), Death of, 382 

 Williams (Matthew W.), Tungstate of Soda, 489 

 Williams (W. Mattieu), the Solidity of the Earth, 5 

 Wind, Great, at Sydney, 107 

 Winnecke's Comet, 520, 531 



Wojeikoff (Dr. A.), Meteorological Tour Round the World, 

 Wolves in Russia, 363 



Wood (W. H.), the Meteor of January 7, 295 

 Woodpecker, the, 415 



Wright (Pi-of. E. Percival), Basking Shark, 292 

 Wyndham (T. Heathcote G.), Death of, 67 



"Year Book of Facts, 1877," 291 



Yellow Crocuses, A. G. Renshaw, 530 



Yorkshire College of Science, 325, 479, 539 



Yorkshire Lias, the, Tate and Blake, 113 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, 539 



Young (Prof. C. A.) on the Solar Spectrum, 98 



Zeitschrift fiir Biologie, 247 



Zeitschrift fiir Krystallographie und Mineralog'e, 168 



Zeitschrift fiir wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 191, 419 



Zodiacal Light, 324 



Zoological Gardens, Additions, 18, 52, 71, 90, no, 129, 



170, 190, 210, 247, 267, 286, 306, 326, 346, 366, 384, , 



441, 461, 481, 503, 523, 541, 562 

 Zoological Society, 72, in, 150, 247, 286, 347, 387, 443, 5< 

 Zoological Station on the North Sea, 117 

 Zoological Stations, Dr. Anton Dohrn on, 57 



