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INDEX 



[Nature, Nov. 22, \\ 



Turner (Prof. Sir Wm., F.R. S.), an Additional Contribution 



to the Placentation of the Lemurs, 190 

 Tutton (A. E.), the Absorption Spectra of Crystals, 343 

 Typhoons, Report of the Hong Kong Observatory on, 229 

 Tyrrell (J. B.), Geology of Part, of Northern Alberta, 184 



Ucherman (L.), Cause of Peculiar Green of Snow-water Rivers, 



527 



Uhthoff (Dr.), Experiments on Change in Wave-Length of 

 Spectral Lights necessary to produce Perceptible Difference in 

 Colour, 464 



Unequal Capacities, on a Method of comparing very, Dr. A. 

 H. Fison, 213 



United States : Pilot Chart of the North Atlantic Ocean, 16, 

 204, 303, 422, 574 ; Salt Industry in the, Thomas Ward, 29 ; 

 F. Tuckerman, 148 ; Proposed Alteration in the Weather 

 Bureau, 229 ; Anthropology and Ethnology at the Cincinnati 

 Centennial, 279 ; United States Fish Commission sending 

 Lobsters to California, 327 ; Applied Electricity in, 555 ; 

 Loftiness of the Meteorological Stations in the, 453 ; United 

 States and Canada, Butterflies of the Eastern, S. H. Scudder, 

 624 



Universities: Octocentenary of Bologna, 113 ; the Times Corre- 

 spondent on, 302 ; Scientific Scholarships at Cbristiania, 

 574 ; Gilchrist Engineering Scholarships at University College, 

 London, 430 ; University and Educational Intelligence, 20, 

 46, 69, 116, 139, 163, 189, 237, 331, 429, 607; Imperial 

 Japan University, 552 ; Tomsk University, 574 ; University 

 Training for Women, 257 



Uric Acid, the Volumetric Determination of, A. M. Gossage, 

 263 



Urns, Ancient Clay, in Jutland, Discovery of, 454 



Ums, Funereal, near Frankfort-on-Oder, Discovery of, 486 



Uruguay, Electric Fishes in the River, Dr. P. L. Sclater, 

 F.R.S., 147 



Uslar (General) : Works on the Caucasus, 159 ; Ethnography of 

 the Caucasus, 623 



Vail (Alfred), Proposed Purchase of his Telegraphic Instrument, 

 230 



Valency, Prof. Armstrong and Dr. Morley, 596 



Vapour- Tensions, on the, of Solutions made in Alcohol, M. F. 

 M. Raoult, 432 



Variable Stars, 328 ; New Catalogue of, S. C. Chandler, 554 



Varna Vineyards, Kara terzi in, 133 



Vegetable Rennet, Prof. J. R. Green, 274 



Vegetation, the New, of Krakatab, Dr. M. Treub and, W. B. 

 Hemsley, 344 



Veined Structure of the Mueller Glacier, New Zealand, on the, 

 F. W. Hutton, 77 



Veley (V. H.), Conditions of Evolution of Gases from Homo- 

 geneous Liquids, 310 



Velocity of Etherificalion, Measurement of the, M. Negreano, 

 192 



Venus, Transit of, the Solar Parallax from Photographs of the 

 Last, 600 



Verneuil, Microbism and Ab.-cess, 488 



Vertebrate Animals, Anatomy of the Central Nervous System 

 of, Alfred Sanders, 92 



Vesuvius, Report on, Dr. Johnston-Lavis, 597 



Vettin (Dr.), Daily Periodicity of Wind- Velocity, 119 



Viala (Piene) and L. Ravaz, on Diseases of the Vine, 216 



Victoria Institute, 143 



Victoria Peak, Hong Kong, on the Rainfall and Temperature 

 at, Dr. W. C. Doberck, 78 



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



Vignon (M. Leo), Heat of Combination of the Primary, Second- 

 ary, and Tertiary Aromatic Monamines with the Acids, 216 



Viking Mound in Jutland, Excavation of a, 454 



Village buried by a Gigantic Ice- Wall, 205 



Villard (M.), on some New Gaseous Hydrates, 168 



Villiers (M.), a New Sulphur-Acid, 41 



Vine, Diseases of the, MM. Pierre Viala and L. Ravaz, 216 



Virchow (Dr. H), the Blood-vessels of the Eye in Carnivora, 

 264 



Virginia University, the Miller Professorship of Agriculture at, 

 552 



Vital Movement, on the Origin and ;Causation of, Dr. W. 



Kiihne, 627 

 Vital Statistics of Germany, M. Ch. Grad, 135 

 Viviani, Vincentio, Problem by, Rev. Edward Geoghegan, 78 

 Vogel (Prof.), Researches on the Spectrum of Carbon, 72 

 Volapiik Grammar, Key to the, Alfred Kirchhoff, 1 

 Volapiik, Pasilingua, Spelin, Lingualumina, 1 

 Volapiik, Scientific Value of, 351 

 Volapiik, or Universal Language, Alfred Kirchhoff, 1 

 Volcanic Eruption, Island of Vulcano, 348 

 Volcanic Eruption in Japan, 303, 452, 46b 

 Volcanic Eruption in the Philippine Islands, 528 

 Volcanoes, History of Changes in Mount Loa Craters, J. D. 



Dana, 462 

 Volga, Remains of an Ancient Town on the Right Bank of the, 



374 

 Voltaic Balance, the, Dr. G. Gore, F.R.S., 335 

 Voltaic Couple : the Minimum-Point of Change of Potential 

 of a, Dr. G. Gore, F. R. S., 284 ; on the Change of a Poten- 

 tial of a, by Variation of Strength of its Liquid, Dr. G. 

 Gore, F.R.S., 285 ; Influence of the Chemical Energy of 

 Electrolytes upon Voltaic Couple in Water, Dr. G. Gore, 

 F. R. S., 285 ; Effects of Different Positive Metals, &c, upon 

 the Changes of Potential of, Dr. G. Gore, F.R.S., 335 

 Von Fritsch (Dr. Karl), AUgemeine Geologie, 387 

 Von Helmholtz (Prof.), Focal Lengths of Lenses, 192 

 Vulcano and Stromboli, Islands of, Dr. H. J. Johnston-Lavis, 



13 



Vulcano, Volcanic Eruption in the Island of, 348 ; Dr. H. J. 



Johnston-Lavis, 596 

 Vyernyi, Report on Earthquake at, 204 



Wagner (Prof. Paul), the Increase in the Produce of the Soil 



through the Rational Use of Nitrogenous Manure, 330 

 Wakefield (H. R.) and W. J. Harrison, Earth Knowledge, 563 

 Walcott (Prof. Chas. B.), the Stratigraphical Succession of the 



Cambrian Faunas in North America, 551 

 Waldo (Prof.), Anemometers, 112 



Walker (J.), Theory and Use of a Physical Balance, 146 

 Walker (Sidney), Lightning Conductors, 547 

 Wallace (Robert), India in 1887, 294 

 Wallace (Prof. Robert), Rural School Education in Agriculture 



(Scotland), 576 

 Waller (Dr. Augustus D.), on the Electromotive Variations 



which accompany the Beat of the Human Heart, 619 

 Walsingham (Lord), the Gape-worm of Fowls (Syngamus 



t radicalism, 324 

 Wanderer's Notes, a, W. Beatty-Kingston, 196 

 Ward (Prof. H. Marshall, F.K.S.), Timber, and some of its 



Diseases, 108, 127, 270, 297, 367 

 Ward (Thomas), Salt Industry in the United States, 29 

 Warner (Francis, M.D.), Muscular Movements in Man, and 



their Evolution in the Infant, a Study of Movement in Man, 



and its Evolution, 238 

 Washington, Projected Zoological Park in, 64 

 Watase (S.), Observations on the Development of Cephalopod.s, 



Homology of the Germ-layers, 356 

 Watches and the Weather, W. B. Croft, 245 

 Water-Colours, Effect of Light on, 348 ; Dr. B. W. Richardson, 



F.R.S., 596 

 Water, Compressibility of, Salt Water, Mercury, and Glass, Prof. 



P. G. Tait, 581 

 Water, Evaporation of, Dr. Dieterici, 143 

 Water, the Micro-organisms of Air and, Dr. Percy F. Frankland, 



232 

 Water-Power employed in the United States, 349 

 Waterspouts, Grosses Haff and Dammausch, 204, 205 

 Waterspouts, Storms, and Rotating Spheres, Whirlwinds, 



C. L. Weyher, E. Douglas Archibald, 104-) 

 Waves, Enormous, Isle of Rugen, 422 

 Weather Charts for Australia, Wragge's Daily, 303 

 Weather in the Doldrums, Hon. Ralph Abercromby, 238 

 Weather, Watches and the, W. B. Croft, 245 

 Weekly Problem Papers, Companion to the, Rev. John Milne, 



76 

 Weight and Mass, Prof. A. G. Greenhill, F.R.S., 54; Rev. 



John B. Lock, 77 

 Weights and Measures, International Bureau of, 574, 623 



