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TKDEX 



\Nature, Nm>. ?7, 1879 



Valentin (William George), Death of, 39 ; Memorial Fund to, 



254 

 Valleys : the Carving of, W. R. Browne, 504 ; J. Durham, 552 

 Vanessa eardui, Swanns of, 255 

 Vapour-Density Methods, J. T. Brown, 565 

 Variable Stars : 226, 363, 512, 555 ; Piazzi XIII., 248 

 Varro's Story of the Anomalous Track and Figure of Venus, 



3SI 



Vegetable Ivory, 89 



Vegetation, Influence of Electricity on, 587 

 Venezuela and British Guiana, Boundary between, 581' 

 Venus and Mercury, their Relative Power of Light- Reflection, 41 

 Venus : Occultation of, on August 20, 1S79, 83 ; in the Pleiades, 

 351; Varro's Story of the Anomalous Track and Figure of, 



35 1 

 Verhandlnngen : der naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Freiburg 



in Badefn, 90 ; des Vereins fUr naturwissenschaftliche Unter- 



hallung zu Hamburg, 185 ; des naturhistori^chen Vereins der 



preussischen Rheinlande und Westfalens, 355 

 Vertebrata, Evolution of. Prof. Parker, F. k.S., on, 61, 80, 81 

 Vesuvius, the Eruption of, 79 ; Commemoration of, 160 

 Victoria Institute, 92, 188 

 Victoria University, 49, 76, 379 

 Vienna Imperial Academy of Sciences, 24, 140, 332, 404, 



524 

 Ville (Georges), Work on Artificial Manures, 216 

 Virchow (Prof.), his Return from Asia Minor, 160 ; on the Site 



of Troy, 255 

 Vision of Light and Colours, Hering's Theory of, Dr. William 



Pole, F.R.S., 6n, 637 

 Viticulture, Congress on, 434 

 Viticulturists, Congress of Austrian, 327 

 Vivisection, Dr. Pye Smith on, 410 

 Vogel (H. W.), on the Photography of .Spectra, 483 

 Volcanoes: about Mont Mono, ico ; Fniption of Etna, 158; 



the Schlossberg of Teplitz, 601 ; Volcanic Phenomena and 



Earthquakes during 1878, 170, 378 

 Volpicelli (Prof. Paolo), Death of, 39 ; Obituary Notice of, 126 

 Vowel Theories, Prof. Graham Bell on, 100 

 Vulcanology in Italy in 1878, G. F. Rodwell, 179 



Wallcer (W.)^ Disease in Salmon, 121 



Wallace (A. R.), Butler's "Evolution, Old and New," 141 : 



McCook's "Agricultural Ants of Texas," 501 ; "Australasia," 



598. 625 

 Ward (James), Vitality of the Common Snail, 363 

 Ward (J. Clifton), Intellect in Brutes, 428 

 Washington, Catalozue of Stars, 432 

 Water Economy, 276 

 Water Supply, National : loi ; Exhibition at the Alexandra 



Palace, 326, 401, 513 

 Water Supply, Sewage and Health, Conference on, 16 

 Waterton's Wanderings — Goat-Suckers, Rev. H. Higgins, 7 ; 

 , the Rev. J. G. Wood's Index to, Dr. Ernst, 313 

 Watt (Edmund), Earthquake in Dominica, 431 

 Watts (W. Marshall), the Spectrum of Brorsen's Comet, 94 

 Wave- Lengths, Comparison of, with the Metre, 99 

 Weather : the Recent, Wm. Ellis, 313 ; Warnings and Pigeons, 



363 ; Charts for the Northern Hemisphere, 381 ; and the 



Sun, E. D. Archibald, 626 ; su also Meteorology 

 Webb (Rev. T. W.), Planets of the Season, 601; 

 Weiss (Prof.) on Sphenophyllum, Asterophyilites, and Cala- 



mites, 375 

 Wellington College Natural History Society, 163 

 Westinghouse Brake, Experiments with, Capt. Douglas Galton, 



F.R.S., 292, 316 

 Westminster Clock, the, 154, 207 



Weston's Dynamo-Electric Machines, 467 



Westwood (Prof.) on the Insects which Injure Books, 471 



Wetterhan (D.), Antiquity of Orchids, 53 



Weyprecht (Karl), Polar Ice, H. M. Moseley, F.R.S., 573 



Wheatley (H. B.), Subject- Indexes to the Catalogue of Scien- 

 tific Papers of the Royal Society, 627 



Whirlwind near Munster, 482 



Whirlwind, Observations on a, Francis E. Nipher, 456 



White (C. F.), the Recent Hailstorm, 432 



Whitehaven Scientific Association, 641 



White Rainbow seen from a Balloon, 276 



Whitmee (Rev. S. J.), the Papau, 315 ; Intellect in Brutes, 315 



Whittem (J. S.), Intellect in Brutes, 243 



Wild (Dr. J. J.), Does Sargassum Vegetate in the Open Sea ? 

 578 



Wilkes (Admiral), his Charts of the Pacific, 6 



Williams College, U.S. Observatory, 314 



Williams (\V. M.), a Habit of Cattle, 505 



Willughby Society for Reprinting Scarce Ornithological Works, 

 254, 277, 352 



Williamson (Prof. W. C, F.R.S.), on Sphenophyllum, Astero- 

 phyilites, and Calamites, 375 



Wills (Thomas), Death of, 88 



Wilson (A. Stephen), Insect Galls Buds, 55 ; Headless Butterfly 

 Laying Eggs, 267; "Agricultural Botany," 312 



Wilson (Dr. Andrew), Intellect in Brutes, 147 ; Aquarium 

 Notes, 196 ; Pine Pollen and Sulphur, 266 



Wilson (J. M., M.A.), Elementary Geometry, 240 



Wilson (Rev. C. T.), Journey Across the Victoria Nyan^a, 249 



Window- Urn, Discovery of a, 424 



Wind, Showers of Rain, and Gusts of, A. Mallock, 56 



Winds: Prof. E. Loomis on, 99 ; the Heights of, 435 



Winnecke (Prof. A.), International Astronomical Society, 585 ' 



Winsor (Justin), List of Scientific Apparatus, 303 



Wires : Stretched, the Thermo- Electric Behaviour of, 45 ; Elas- 

 ticity of, B.A. Report on, 441 



Woeikof (M.), on the Oxus Question, 86 



Woodbury (Walter B.), Phosphorescence, 56 ■ 



Wood (Rev. J. G.), his Explanatory Index to "Waterton's 

 Wanderings," Dr. Ernst, 313 



Wright (Dr. E. P.), on some Marine Algse, 155; on Pollen 

 Plants, 225 



Writing, a History of, 183 



Wiillner (Prof.), on the Gradual Conversion of the Band Spec- 

 trum of Nitrogen into a Line Spectrum, 56 



Wyckoff (W. C), Silk Goods of America, 574 



Yedo, New Plan of the City of, 181 



Yellow Fever, Experiments in Connection with, 88 



Yorkshire College, Gjft to, 185 ; Grant to, 460 ; Calendaf, 



522 

 Young (Prof. J.), Barbed Hooklets on Spines of a Brachiopod, 



242 

 Ytterbine, the .Spectnira of, 260 



Zeitschrift fiir wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 234, 308, 619 



Zoological Exhibition at Munster, 434 



Zoological Gardens, Additions to, 19, 42, 66, 90, 112, 135, 161, 



184, 209, 233, 256, 278, 306, 328, 354, 374, 402, 424, 435, 



462, 484, 515, 544, 563 

 Zoological Genera, Index to, 551 



Zoological Record of Zoological Station at Najiles, 434 

 Zoological Station: at Cowie, N.B., 372; Naples, the B.A. 



Table at, 465, 466 ; at Sydney, 506 

 Zoological Society, 71, 138, 163, 210 

 Zululand, Geography of, 64, 582 



