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INDEX 



XVU 



Vanilla Plant, Disease of the, 484 



Variable Stars, 7, 26, 27, 48, 126, 213, 272, 367 



Variola Ovina, Dr. Klein's Report on the Contagion of, 471 



Varley (C. F. ) on Lightning Figures, 1 1 



Vatnajokul, Exploration of, 319, 333 



Vegetation of Australia, Baron Mueller^on, 33 



Velocity of Sound, Herr Kundt on, 89 



Venus : Horizontal Refraction on, 233 ; Mr. Watson on the 



Atmosphere of, 446 ; Occultation of, 88 ; Transit of 1882, 



256 ; Rev. S. J. Perry on the Transit of, 373 

 Verbeck (R. D. M.), Geology of Central Sumatra, 565 

 Vennin Hooks, Australian and N. American, 554 

 Vertebrata, Dr. Dohrn on the Origin of, 479 

 "Vestiges of the Molten Globe," by W. L. Green, 85 

 Vibration of a Liquid in a Cylindrical Vessel, Lord Rayleigh, 251 

 Victoria : Baron von Mueller's List of Plants Eligible for Culture 



in, 426 ; Botany in. Baron Mueller's Report on, 33 

 Victoria Institute, 120, 160 

 Vienna: Academy of Science, 120, 224, 303, 324, 360, 488; 



Election of Mr. Charles Darwin, 95 

 Vienna Geological Society, 200, 468 

 " Ville de Calais " Balloon Ascent, 13 

 Vilna (Russia), New University at, 446 

 Vincent's "Year Book of Facts for 1874," 310 

 Vine Culture in New South Wales, 15 



Violle (^L), Ascents of the Alps to Test Temperature, 527, 542 

 Violoncello, "Wolf" in, by W, T. Kingsley, 40 

 Virchow (Prof.), Kine of Brazil's Collection of Skulls, 75 

 Viscera, Dr. Scheele on the Transposition of, 484 

 Vivisection Bill : Lord Hartismere's, 21 ; Dr. Lyon Playfair's, 



52, 75 

 Vivisection Commission, 173, 194, 220, 562 

 Vogel's " Light and Photography," 105 

 Vohl (Dr.) on Carbonic Oxide in Tobacco Smoke, 15 

 Volcanic Action and the Growth of Coral, S. J. Whitmee, 291 

 Volcanic Energy : Rev. O. Fisher's Remarks on, 79 ; Source of, 



by W. S. Green, 396, 455 

 Volcanic Phenomena in Iceland, 75, 76, 194 

 Volga, the Upper, M. Poljakow's Journey to, 134 

 Voltaic Gas Lighter, Mr. Yeates, 35 



Waagen (Dr.), appointment on Indian Survey, 503 



Wagstaffe (W. W.), Structure of Bones, 220; the Sliding Seat 



Foreshadowed, 369 

 Walden (Lord), Monograph on the Birds of the Philippine 



Islands, 195 

 Wales, Prince of. Visit to India, 261 

 Walker (Col. J. T.), Trigonometrical Survey of India, 72 

 Walker (Dr. R. B.), his "Twenty-five Years' Experience in 



Africa," 240 

 Walker's Statistical Map of the United States, 448 

 Wallace (A. R., F.R.S.), " Lawson's New Guinea," 83 

 Wanklyn (Prof.) on the Water of the Nile, 541 

 " Warburton's Western Interior of Australia," 46, 77 

 Ward (Barrington, F.L.S.), Botanical Lectures to the Sheffield 



Ladies' Educational Association, 299 

 Ward (J. Clilton) on Rocks of the Lake District, 263 

 Ward (T. Ogier), Note on the Common Sole, 7 

 Waste Products, P. L. Simmonds on, 540 

 Water, its Quality in relation to Fauna, &c., 116 

 Water Shells, Gun Cotton, 314 

 Waterspouts, 459 



Waterhouse (Capt. ), Sensitiveness of Bromide of Silver, 446 

 Watford Natural History Society, 77, 299 

 Watson (Mr.) at the Paris Observatory, 426 ; paper on Transit 



of Venus, Obscnrations made at Peking, 446 

 Watts's "Dictionary of Chemistry," 327 

 Watts (W. L.), Travels in Iceland, 117, 319, 333 ; «' Snioland, 



or Iceland, its TokuUs and Fjalls, 453 ; on Volcanic Eruption 



in Iceland, 446 

 Wave Motion, Prof. F. Guthrie on the Measurement of, 462 

 Waves, High, and a North-west Wind, Ralph Abercromby, 



Weapons, American Indian, 107, 125 



Weather on the Atlantic, by Capt. W. W. Kiddle, R.N., in 



Weather Maps of U.S., by Prof. Loomis, 273 



Weather Report of Meteorological Society, loi 



Weather and Scarlet Fever, by Dr. A. Mitchell, 320 



Weather and the Spectroscope, by C. Michie Smith, 366 



Webb (Richd.), Changes of Level in Savaii, 476 



Webster (G. W.), Origin of the Numerals, 496 



Weddas of Ceylon, B. Hartshorne, 465 



Weismann (Dr. A.) on the Season Eimorphism of Butterflies, 



127 

 Wellington College Natural History Society Reports, 157 

 Wellington, N.Z., Philosophical Society, 99 

 West Indies : Bibliography of the Zoology of the, 409 ; 



Hurricane in, 542 ; Latitude and Longitude of Places in, 54 

 West Riding Naturalists' Society, 77, 320 

 Wetenhall (H. J.), Mirage on Snowdon, 292 

 Weyprecht (Lieut.) on Arctic Expeditions, 460, 539, 563 

 Weyr (Prof. Dr.), " Gmndziige einer Theorie der cubischen 



Involutionen," ';i3 

 Wheatstone (Sir Chas., F.R.S.), Death of, 561 

 Wheeler (Lieut.), Discovery of New Species of Serpent in 



Arizona, 54 ; Report of Exploration of the looth ISIeridian 



in 1872, 231 

 Whitaker (Wm.), Guide to the Geology of London and the 



Neighbourhood, 452 

 White (Gilbert), Unpublished Letters of, 481 

 Whitehouse (W.) on Electric Conductivity of Glass, 139 

 Whitmee (S. J.), Degeneracy of Man, 47 ; on Volcanic Action 



and the Growth of Corals, 291 

 Whitney's "Life and Growth of Language," 225 

 Whitworth (W. Allen) on " Pythagorean Triangles," 320 

 Whitworth Scholarships, 1875, Successful Candidates, 280 

 Wiedmann's Galvanism, 242 

 Wilder (Prof), Foetal Manatee, 446 ; papers in Natural 



History, 444 

 Wildungen, Dr. A. Stoecker on the Baths of, 1 75 

 Williamson (Prof.) on Fossil Seeds in Coal, 442 

 Willis (Prof.), Collections of Models, cScc, 14, 25, 153 

 Wilson (W. J.) on Electrical Resistance of Liquids, 179 . 

 Wilson (Dr. Dan.), Hybridity and Absorption of the Red 



Indian Race, 563 

 Wilson's " Notes on the Fertilisation of the Cereals," 270 

 Wimbledon, Caesar's Camp, Demolition of, 298 

 Winchester and Hampshire Scientific Society, 198 

 Wind: Velocity of, 98, 118; North-west, and High Waves, 



Ralph Abercromby, 514 

 Winlock (Prof. Joseph), Obituary Notice of, 173, 191 ; on the 



Horizontal Photographic Telescope of Long Focus, 273 

 Wohler ( Prof ), Recollections of, 179; Festival, 295 

 Wolf of Northern India, Natural History of, E. Bonavia, 67 

 Wolf-fish, at Southport Aquarium, 116 

 "Wolf" in Violoncello, by W. T. Kingsley, 40 

 Wood (W. W.), Diatoms, 514 

 Wood (Major), Note on the Hyrcanian Sea, 51 ; the Separation 



of the Aral and the Caspian, 313 ; on the Aralo-Caspian 



Region, 320 

 Wood (C. F.), " A Yachting Cruise in the South Seas," 434 

 Wood-Mason (J.) on Wood Partridge, 359 



Woods, Dupont and De la Grye on Indigenous and Foreign, 512 

 Woodward (Prof.), Apparatus for Building Model Cones and 



Volcanoes, 99 

 Woodward (S. P.), "A Manual of the Mollusca," 494 

 World, M. Malte-Brun's Chart of the, 299 

 Wrangel (Baron Von) on the Best Means of Reaching the Pole, 



104 

 Wrecks, M. Bazin's Apparatus for Raising, 446 

 Wiillerstorf-Urbair (Admiral), Meteorological Notes, 134 

 Wundt (Prof. W.) at Zurich, 135 



Wurtz (M.), appointment of to Professorship of Science, 298 

 Wyman (Prof.), a Memoir of, 195 

 Wynnstay Colliery, Underground Fire in, 29 



Year Book of Facts for 1874, 310 



Yeates' Galvano-Pyreon, 35 



York School Natural History, &c.. Society, Report of, 447 



Yorkshire College of Science : Annual Report, 117; Evening 



Lectures, 542 ; Inauguration of, 501, 509 

 Yorkshire Exhibition Guide, 76, 87 

 Yorkshire, West Riding Naturalists' Society, 77 

 Young (Capt.), Arctic Expedition in the Pandora^ 539 

 Yule (C. ), the Action of Urari on the Central Nervous System, 



320 



"Zeitschrift fiir Anatomic und Entwickelungsgeochichte," 115 

 " Zeitschrift der Oesterreichischen Gescllschaft fiir Meteorologie," 

 17, 78, 98, 118, 138, 198, 221, 283, 323, 467, 488, 547, 566 



