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INDEX 



XXIX 



Tarpon or Silver King (Meqalops thrissoiJes) Note on the, 

 tfrof. W. C. Mcintosh, F.R.S., 309 



Tartar Sand Grouse, Appearance of, in Denmark and Scandi- 

 navia, 132 



Tasmania, Salmonidx in, P. S. Seager, 528 



Taste, Sense of, 7 



Taxation in China, Dr. D. J. McGovvan, 364 



Taylor (Hugh), a Column of Dust, 415 



Tea, a New Constituent of, 240 ; Dr. Kossel, 303 



Teall (J. J. Harris) : appointed to the Geological Survey, 182; 

 British Petrography, 385 



Tebbutt (John), Encke's Comet, 423 



Technical College, the Glasgow and West of Scotland, Henry 

 Dyer, 428 



Technical Education, 573; Lord Hartington on, 40; Lord 

 Armstrong on, 313 ; Sir Henry Roscoe's Bill, 121, 186 ; 

 Technical Instruction, the Bill for the Promotion of, 137 ; 

 Government Bill for the Promotion of Technical Education, 

 121, 137 ; the Technical Instruction Bill, 255 ; the National 

 Association for the Promotion of, 63, 277 ; Technical Educa- 

 tion in Ireland, Mr. Carbutt, 325 ; Technological Examina- 

 tions, 1888, Sir Philip Magnus's Report on, 372 



Tegetmeier (W. B.), Pallas's Sand Grouse, 230 



Telephone, on a, with Closed Magnetic Field, and Plaque with 

 Equal Concentric Cylindrical Sections, by M. Krebs, 384 



Telephone (Marine), Experiments with, A. Banare, 464 



Telephonic Communication between Trains in Motion, 24 



Telescope, Adaptation for Photography of, 257 



Tellurium, the Chemistry of, Berthelot and Fabre, 63 



Temnodon saltator in Morocco, 133 



Temperature, Aperiodic Variations of, Dr. Perlewitz, 119 



Temperature of 1887-88, C. Harding, 238 



Temperature, Rainfall and, at Victoria Peak, Hong Kong, Dr. 

 W. C. Doberck, 78 



Temperature, Winter, of Werchojansk, Siberia, 303 



Tenasserim, Leonardo Fea's Explorations in, 424 



Terby (F. ), Study of Mars, 119 



Terrestrial Globe, Paris Exhibition, 183 



Testudo perpiniana, P. Fischer, 464 



Texas Shell-Mounds, the, E. T. Dumple, 454 



Theophylline, Dr. Kossel, 303 



Theoretical Geology, 409 



Theory of Natural Selection, Definition of the, Prof. Geo. J. 

 Romanes, F. R.S., 616 



Thermo-chemical Constants, 23 



Thermo-dynamics of the Atmosphere, Prof, von Bezold, 144 



Thermometer, on the Grass Minimum, Dr. W. Doberck, 

 619 



Thiophosphoryl Fluoride, 348 



Thompson (Isaac C), Distribution of Animals and Plants by 

 Ocean Currents, 270 



Thompson (Prof. S. P.) : on the Graphic Treatment of the 

 Lamont-Frolich Formula for Induced Magnetism, 95 ; on the 

 Condition of Self-Excitation in a Dynamo Machine, 141 ; on 

 the Formulae of Bernoulli and Haecker for the Lifttng Power 

 of Magnets, 190 ; Note on Continuous Current Transformers, 

 286 



Thomson (Prof. Elihu), Successive Lightning-Flashes, 305 



Thomson (Joseph) : Proposed Expedition to the Atlas, 112; 

 Atlas Mountains Expedition, 555 ; Explorations in Morocco, 

 398 



Thomson (J. J., F.R.S.), Applications of Dynamics to Physics 

 and Chemistry, 585 



Thomson (Sir William, F. R. S. ) : on Clerk-Maxwell's Theory of 

 Electro-magnetic Induction for Incomplete Circuits, 500 ; on 

 Lightning Conductors, 547 ; Diffusion of Rapidly Alternating 

 Currents in Substance of Homogeneous Conductors, 555 ; a 

 Simple Hypothesis for Electro-Magnetic Induction of Incom- 

 plete Circuits, with Consequent Equations of Electric Motion 

 in Fixed Homogeneous or Heterogeneous Solid Matter, 569 ; 

 on the Transference of Electricity within a Homogeneous Solid 

 Conductor, 571 ; Five Applications of Fourier's Law of Diffu- 

 sion, illustrated by a Diagram of Curves with Absolute 

 Numerical Values, 571 



Thorpe (Prof. T. E., F.R.S.) : on some Additions to the Kew 

 Magnetometer. 214 ; on the Determination of the Photometric 

 Intensity of the Coronal Light during the Solar Fclipse of 

 August 28-29, 1 886, 407 



Thorpe (Prof. T. E., F.R.S.) and J. W, Rodger, Thiophos- 

 phoryl Fluoride, 348 



Thorpe (Prof. T. E., F.R.S.) and F. J. Hambly, Vapour- 

 Density of Hydrofluoric Acid, 373 



Thought, Religious, Evolution and its Relation to, Joseph 

 Le Conte, 100 



Three Americas Permanent Exhibition, Proposed, 256 



Three Days on the Summit of Mont Blanc, 35 



Throstle, Ring, id Norway, 304 



Thunder, a Prognostic of, B. Woodd-Smith, 221 



Thunder-Axe, Edward Tregear, 296 



Thunderstorms, Meteorological Society's Report on, 238 



Thunderstorms and Lightning Accidents, H. N. Lawrence, 172 



Tibet, General Prjevalsky's Fifth Journey to, 451 



Tibia, the, in the Neanderthal Race, Prof. Julien Fraipont, 

 212 



Tide-Lore, Ancient, W. Colenso, F. R.S., 373 



Tientsin, the New Foreign College at, 302 



Tilden(Prof. William A., F.R.S.), Opening Address in Section 

 B (Chemical Science) at the British Association, 470 



Timber, and some of its Diseases, Prof. H. Marshall Ward, 

 F.R.S., 108, 127, 270, 297, 367 



Timbuktu, Position of, Caron, 288 



Times Correspondent, the, and the University of Bologna, 302 



Titan, Mass of, G. W. Hill, 350 



Titanium, New Chlorine Compounds of, 133 



Tobacco, English-grown Samples, 183 



Tobacco-Plant, Disease of, in Russia, 278 



Toes, Rudimentary, Notes on the Reproduction of, in Grey- 

 hounds, Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, 56 



Tokio Mathematical and Physical Society, 598 



Tokio, Two Years' Seismometric Observations in, Prof. Sekiya, 

 302 



Tomkins (Rev. H. G.), Ethnographic Types from the Monu- 

 ments of Egypt, 214 



Tomlinson (H. ), Recalescence of Iron, 95 



Tomsk University, 574 



Topinard (M.), the Latest Stage of the Genealogy of Man, 



357 

 Torell (Dr.), the Question of Communication with Siberia, 601 

 Tornado, the Dacca, 42 

 Tornadoes, Prizes for Essays on, 229 

 Tornebohm (Dr. A. E.), Geology of Scandinavia, 127 

 Toronto, Canadian Institute Sociological Circular, 349 

 Torrid Zone, Upper and Lower Wind Currents over the, Dr. 



W. Doberck, 565 

 Torsion, Resistance of Square Bars to, T. J. Dewar, 126 

 Total Lunar Eclipse of January 28, 553 

 Tours and Excursions in Great Britain, Charles A. Gillig, 



Stephen F. Smart, 318 

 Toxicology : Physiological Action of Hedwigia balsamijlora, 



560 ; Gaucher, Combemale, and Marestane;, 560 

 Transformers, Note on Continuous Current, Prof. S. P. Thomp- 

 son, 286 

 Transit of Venus, the Solar Parallax from Photographs of the 



last, 600 

 Transits, Accidental Errors in the Observations of, M. G. 



Rayet, 216 

 Transmission of Power, Electric, Prof. Ayrton, F.R.S. , 508, 



533 

 Transparency of the Atmosphere, J. Parnell, 270 

 Tregear (Edward) : the Thunder-Axe, 296 ; Natural History of 



the Roman Numerals, 565 

 Treab (Dr. ), Annates du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg, 344 

 Triangle, Geometry of the, M. E. Vigarie, 624 

 Trigonometry, a Treatise on Plane, John Casey, F.R.S., 218 

 Trimen (Rowland, F.R.S.), South African Butterflies, a Mono- 

 graph of the Extra-Tropical Species, 266 

 Trimen's (Dr.) Report on Botanic Gardens of Ceylon, 112 

 Trinidad, Annual Report of the Royal Botanic Gardens, 273 

 Tropical Africa, Henry Drummond, 171 

 Trouvelot, Lightning- Flashes lasting Several Seconds, 555 

 Tuberculosis, Congress at Paris, 372 



Tuckerman (F.), the Salt Industry in the United States, 148 

 Tunis, Sponge Fishery, Report of British Consul, 349 

 Tunzelmann (G. W. de) : Molecular Physics, an Attempt at a 

 Comprehensive Dynamical Treatment of Physical and Chemical 

 Forces, Prof. F. Lindemann, 404, 458, 578 ; Obituary Notice 

 of Prof. Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius, 438 

 Turbans and Tails, or Sketches in the Unromantic East, Alf. 



J. Bamford, 269 

 Turner (Colonel), the Borings in the Nile Delta, 63 



