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INDEX 



XXXI 



Vaccination, Dr. Robert Cory, 483 



Vaccination Vindicated, Dr. J. C. McVail, 483 



Vagueles, tlie, M, KuesenofF, 258 



Vaillant (M. L.), on the Nest of the Antennarius marmoratus, 



208 

 Vaizey (J. Rejmolds), Catharinea undulata, 79 

 Valency, a Note on, especially as defined by Helmholtz, Prof. 



Henry E. Armstrong, F.R.S., 303 

 Van Aubel (Ed. ), Researches on the Influence of Magnetism 



and Temperature on the Electric Resistance of Bismuth and 



its Alloys with Lead and Tin, 525 

 Van Gele (Lieut,), Connection between the Mobangi and the 



Welle, 496 

 Vapour Currents, Experiments on, Dr. Robert von Helmholtz, 



48 

 Variable Stars : Probable New, John Tebbutt, Dr. Bauschinger, 



114 ; Class of. Rev. T. E. Espin, 158 ; Observations of, Edwin 



Sawyer, 545; U Ophiuchi, S. C. Chandler, Juii., 36; the 



New Algol, S. C. Chandler, 90 ; Y Cygni and R Canis 



Majoris, S. C. Chandler, 140 

 Vegetable Humus, Relatioiis of Atmospheric Nitrogen with, 



Th. Schloesing, 551 

 Vegetable Lamb of Tartary, the, Henry Lee, 176 

 Vegetable Soil, Relations of Atmospheric Nitrogen to, Th. 



Schloesing, 624 

 Vegetation and Moonlight, D. E. Hutchins, 275 

 Ve^schow (F. A.), on the Natural Law of Relation between 



Rainfall and Vegetable Life, and its Application to Australia, 



519 

 Ventriloquism, Herr Meyer on, 264 

 Venus: Brilliancy of, 169; Brazilian Results from the Transit 



of, M. Cruls, 233 

 Verhandlungen of Berlin Geographical Society, 90 

 Verneau (Dr. R.) : Ethnology of Canary Islands, 90; on the 



Stature of the Ancient Inhabitants of the Canary Islands, 



163 



Vertebrate Fauna of Sutherland, Caithness, and West Cro- 

 marty, J. A. Harvie-Brown and T. E. Buckley, 292 



Vertebrate Morphology, a Study in, the Old Mouth and the 

 New, Dr. J. Beard, 224 



Vevers (C. C), Practical Amateur Photography, 518 



Victoria : Prodromus of the Zoology of, Prof. F. McCoy, 533 ; 

 Technical Education in the Colony of, 614 



Victoria Hall Science Lectures, 257 



Victoria University, 32 



Vieth (Dr. P.), Action of Micro-organisms on Milk, 211 



Villafranca, Russian Zoological Station at, 566 



Villary (M.)and M. deForcrand, on the Hydrate of Sulphurated 

 Hydrogen, 528 



Virchow (Dr.), on Hip-Region, 480 ; on Striae Medullares 

 Acusticae, 480 



Viscous Liquid, on the Motion of a Sphere in a, A. B. Basset, 

 164 



Vitreous State of Water, Rev. A. Irving, 104 



Vitriol-chamber Process, G. Lunge, 335 



Vocabulary of Ordinary Arithmetic, Note on a Proposed Addi- 

 tion to the. Prof. J, J. Sylvester, F.R.S., 152 



Vogel (Prof.) : and Astronomical Prizes of the Paris Academy 

 of Sciences, 259 ; Solar Eclipse of August 19, 311 



Volatility of the Carbon Compounds, Louis Henry, 525 



Volcanic and Coral Islands of the Solomon Group, Dr. H. 

 B. Guppy, 98 



Volcanic Eruptions, Elverum, Central Norway, 421 



Volcanoes of Hawaii, James Dana, 120 



Volcanoes : History of Changes in Hawaii Craters, J. D. Dana, 

 358 



Voltaic Cell, Thermal, W. Case on, 331 



Voltaic Circles producible by Mutual Neutralization of Acid and 

 Alkaline Fluids, C. R. A. Wright, F.R.S., and C. Thompson, 

 573 



Voltaic Electricity, T. P. Treglohan, 533 



Voltameters, Capacities of, A. Sokoloff, 525 



Wagner (Dr. August), Death of, 400 



Waite (Arthur Edward), the Real History of the Rosicrucians, 



193 

 Walcott (Charles D.), the Taconic System of Emmon-, 500 

 Wales, North, Earthquakes in, 595 

 Walker (J. J.), a Year's Insect-hunting at Gibraltar, 300 



Wallach and Heusler (Drs.), the Physical Nature of Fluorine, 



301 

 Walrus, Pine.al Gland in the, Sir W. Turner, 239 

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

 182, 204, 227, 251, 27s, 516; Obituary Notice of Anton de 

 Bary, 297 

 Warren (S. E.), a Primary Geometry, 317 

 Warsaw, Proposed Exhibition of Textile Goods and Machinery 



at, 15 

 Water, Composition of. Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 313 ; Dr. 



Sydney Young, 390, 417 ; Alexander Scott, 439 

 Water, Compressibility of, Prof. P. G. Tait, 239 

 Water Pressure, Centre of, Geo. M. Minchin, 201, 275 

 Water Supplies and Reservoirs, W. G. Black, 439 

 Water Supply of Cheltenham, 210 

 Water, Threatened Scarcity of, Chas. Harding, 375 

 Water, Vitreous State of, Rev. A. Irving, 104 

 Waterhouse (G. R. ), Death of, 327 

 Waterspout on the Lake of Geneva, M. Dufour on, 208 

 Waterspout in North Atlantic, 187, 567 

 Waterspouts and Tornadoes, M. CoUadon's Recent Note on, 



M. Faye, 120 

 Wave, the Utnbria's, C. E. Stromeyer, 151 

 Wave-Length of Light, the Absolute, Louis Bell, 623 

 Wave- Lengths of Spectra, on a Simple Relation between the, 



A. E. Nordenskjold, 120 

 Waves, Baracoa, Cuba, 421 

 Wax, Mineral, RemarkalDle Variety of, 48 

 Weasel (Mustela vulgaris) seen destroying Frogs, 208 

 Weasels killing Frogs, M. S. Pembrey, 321 

 Weather Changes and High Barometric Pressure of Asia, 422 

 Weather Charts of the Bay of Bengal, 137 

 Weather, Popular Exposition of the Nature of Weather Changes 



from Day to Day, Hon. Ralph Abercromby, loi 

 Weber (Prof.), a very Sensitive Micro-Radiometer, 157 

 Weeks (J. D.), Paper on Natural Gas, 422 

 Weight and Mass, T. C. Mendenhall, 416 ; Oliver J. Lodge, 416 

 Weights and Measures, 189 

 Weinstein (Dr.), Determination of Electrical Resistance of 



Tubes of Mercury, 167 

 Weismann (Prof. A.) : Theory of Polar Bodies, G. Herbert 



Fowler, 134; Duration of Life, P. Chalmers Mitchell, 541 

 Wellington College Natural Science Society Report, 473 

 Wellington (N.Z.), Philosophical Society, 518 

 Wells (H. L.), Bismutosphaerite from Willimantic and Portland, 



Connecticut, 47 

 Welsh Coal, Specimen of, 215 

 Werner (E. A.), Chromorganic Salts, 503 

 West Indies, through the, Mrs. Granville Layard, 199 

 Whale Fisheries, Spitzbergen, 301 



Whale Fishery in the Greenland Seas and Davis Strait, 543 

 Whale, Fossil Skeleton of, from Sweden, 329 

 Wharton (Capt. W. J. L., F.R.S.) : Christmas Island, 303 ; 



Coral Formations, 393 ; Oil on Troubled Waters, 435 

 Whewell (Dr. W.), on the Origin of Species, Prof. George J. 



Romanes, F.R.S., 486 

 Whipple (G. M.): Instability of Freshly- Magnetized Needles, 

 128 ; the Non-Instrumental Meteorology of England, Wales, 

 and Ireland, 309 

 White (T. Charters), Elementary Microscopical Examinations, 



555 

 White (W.), Experiments upon the Colour-Relation between 

 the Pupae of Pieris rapce and their Immediate Surroundings, 



503 

 Whitehead (Charles), the Hessian Fly, 212 

 Whitehead (John) : Return of, from Palawan, III; Proposed 



Visit to Kina Balu, 349 

 Williams (W. Mattieu), Muzzling of Oysters, 585 

 Williamson (Prof. Alex. W., F.R.S.), Politics and the Presi- 

 dency of the Royal Society, 76 

 Wilson (George J.), Medical Education at Oxford, 5 

 Wilson (J. S. Grant), on Bathymetrical Survey of Perthshire 



Lochs, 527 

 Wilson (Scott Barchard), Description of Chloridops, 526 

 Wilson-Barker (Capt. David) : Cloud Movements in the Tropics 



and Cloud Classification, 129; .Wind Force at Sea, 2jr4 ; 



Coral Formations, 604 

 Wiltshire, Birds of, Rev. Alf. Chas. Smith, 601 

 Wind, Earth-Tremors and the. Prof John Milne, F.R.S., 



214 



