XXXIV 



INDEX 



[Nature, Dec. I, 1887 



United States: Monthly Weather Review, no, 324, 375; 



Meteorology in, 255 ; Report on the Mining Industries of the, 



R. Pumpelly, 315 ; Mineral Wealth of the, Dr. A. E. Foote, 



619 ; Earthquakes in, 376 ; Tornadoes in, H. Faye, 456 

 Units, Dynamical, Robert H. Smith, 53 

 Units of Weight, Mass, and Force : Rev. Edward Geoghegan, 



4 ; J. Lancaster, 102 ; Prof. D. H. Marshall, 102 ; Rev. 



John B. Lock, 174, 317 ; Prof. Alex. Macfarlane, 174 

 University, the Case for a London Teaching, 329 

 University for Brisbane, Proposed, 13- 

 University College, Bristol, Engineering Education at, 499 

 University College, London: Appointments at, 135 ; Prospectus 



of Engineering Department, 525 

 University Colleges of England : Claims on Government of, 



159 ; State Aid for, 229, 237 

 University of Dublin, Chair of Civil Engineering at, 255 

 University of Gottingen, Anniversary of, 282 

 University Intelligence, 22, 69, 115, 142, 165, 189, 261, 382, 



575, 623 

 University of Tokio, Prof. S. Sekiya, 198 

 University of Upsala, Opening of, 109 

 Universities, Scottish, Progress of the, M.A. and Medicus, 



294 

 Unwritten Chapter on Golf, the, 502 

 Upper Cloud Movements in the Equatorial Regions of the 



Atlantic, Captain David Wilson- Barker, 197 ; Hon. Ralph 



Abercromby, 222 

 Upper Wind-currents near the Equator, and the Diffusion of 



Krakatab Dust, E. Douglas Archibald, 152 

 Upsala : Opening of University of, 109 ; Meteorologiske In- 



stitut at, and Cloud Measurements, Hon. Ralph Abercromby, 



Upton (Prof.), Meteorological Obsei-vations during Eclipses ot 



the Sun, 24 

 Uric Acid, a New Synthesis of, Prof. Horbaczewski, 209 

 Urine, Hasmatin in. Dr. Lewin, 120 

 Use of Flowers by Birds, William White, 173 

 Ussher (W. A. E. ), the Triassic Rocks of West Somerset, 572 ; 



the Devonian Rocks of West Somerset on the Borders of the 



Trias, 572 



Vaccinttm intermedmm, N. E. Brown, 70 



Valency, Note on. Prof. Armstrong, 569 



Valentiner (Dr. W.), Orbit of the Minor Planet Eucharis, 77 



Vanadates, Alkaline, 24 



Vanadates, on Organic, J. A. Hall, 570 



Vane, Wind, Theory of the, G. E. Curtis, 480 



Vapour-Calorimeter, a, Prof Neesen, 288 



Variable Star, New, Mr. Espin, 431 ; Prof. Lewis Boss, 501 



Variable Star of the Algol Type, New, E. Sawyer, 376 



Variable Star in the Ring Nebula in Lyra, Herr Spitaler, 431 



Variation, Proposed Contributions to the Theory of, Patrick 



Geddes, 592 

 Varnish for Textile Materials, a New, Jovis, 376 

 Veeder (Dr. M. A.), Earthquakes and the Suspended Magnet, 



I02 



Vegetable Kingdom, a German Treatise on the, A. Engler and 

 K. Prantl, 123 



Vegetation, Nitrogen in, the Present Aspect of the Question of 

 the Sources of. Sir J. Lawes, F.R. S., and Dr. Gilbert, F. R. S., 

 570 



Vegetation, Influence of the Moon upon, Superstition as to the, 

 at Trinidad, 586 



Velocity of the Movement ot the Solar System in Space, Deter- 

 mination of the Direction and, 45 



Velocity of Formation of Acetic Ether, Prof. Menschutkin, 

 569 



Venn (John), the Game of Logic,53 ; Law of Error, 411 



VenukofF, Earthquake of June 9, 1887, in Central Asia, 312 



Venus, on the Problematic Satellite of. Prof. Stroobant, 503, 



543 

 Verhandlungen of the Vienna Geographical Society, 283 

 Vernoje, the Earthquake at, M. Wilkins, 230 

 Vertebrates, on the Presence of Bacteria in the Lymph, &c., of 



Living Fish and other. Prof J. C. Ewart, 251 

 Viala (Pierre) and L. Scribner, Note on Greetieria fuliginea, 504 

 Vian- Williams (H.), Singular Nesting-place of Linnets, 154 

 Vicia Faba, the Tuliercular Swellings on Roots, Prof. H. M. 



Ward, 214 



Victoria Institute, 256 



Victoria, Meteorology in, 324 



Vienna, Hygienic Congress at, 429, 524, 618 



Vignoli (Tito) on Influence of Sensuous Images on Reasoning 



Faculty, 455 

 Vignon and Barbier (MM.), Safranines, 615 

 Vine-Mildew, Sulphate of Copper as a Remedy against, Prof 



Pollacci, 262 

 Vineyards, Artificial Clouds for Protection from Frost of, 160 

 Virus, Scorpion, Prof A. G. Bourne, 53 

 Viscosity and the Rigidity of Iron and Steel, Effects of Magneti 



zation on the, C. Barus, 575 

 Volcanic Ashes, Fall of, in New Guinea, 136 j in Kaiser 



Wilhelm's Land, 281 

 Volcanic Eruption on Algerian Coast, 376 

 Voltaic Combinations in which Oxidizable Metals replaced by 



Alterable Solutions, a New Class of, Dr. C. R. A. Wright 



and C. Thompson, 166 

 Voltaic Combinations, Notes on some Peculiar, C. R. A. 



Wright, F.R.S., and C. Thompson, 570 

 Vortex-Theory of Luminiferous Ether, on the. Prof. Sir W. 



Thomson, F.R.S., 550 

 Vulpian (Prof), Death and Obituary Notice of, 88 



Wagner (Dr. Moritz), Death of, 160 



Wake (C. Staniland), the Origin of Totemism, 599 



Wales, North, Dr. H. Hicks's Explorations of Caverns in, 185 



Walks in the Ardennes, Percy Lindley, 340 



Wallace (Dr. Alfred R.), Return of, 399 ; British Museum and 

 American Museums, 530 



Ward (Prof H. M.), the Tubercular Swellings on Roots of 

 Vicia Faba, 214 



Ward (Thos.), the History and Cause of the Subsidences at 

 Northwich and its Neighbourhood in the Salt District of 

 Cheshire, 572 



Ward (Dr. W. H.) Babylonian Seals, III 



Warren (Colonel Sir Chas., F. R. S.), Opening Address in Sec- 

 tion E (Geography) at the British Association, 465 



Warren (Dr. William F.), a Suggestion for Anthropologists, 

 198 



Washington Observatory, 564 



Washington, International Medical Congress, 453, 475 



Wasps, Dr. Peckham, in 



Watches and Clocks, Fifty Years' Progress in, Henry Dent 

 Gardner, 392, 484 



Water : Expansion and Compressibility of, M. E. H. Amagat, 

 24 ; on some Method of testing the Purity of Drinking, Prof 

 Maggi, 1 16 ; Influence of Development of Bacteria on Organic 

 Substances in, S. Leone, 209 ; Importance of Qualitative 

 Bacteriological Examination of Potable Waters, Prof L. 

 Maggi, 335 ; on the Turbulent Motion of Water between Two 

 Planes, Prof Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., 523 ; Synthesis 

 of Water by Weight, Experiments upon the, Dr. E. H. 

 Keiser, 541 ; Further Researches concerning the Electrolysis 

 of Water, Prof von Helmholtz, 547; Combinations of Water 

 and Alcohol, Prof Mendeleef, 570 



Water-Partings of the Earth, General Tillo on, 17 



Waterspout of August 19, 1887, on Lake of Geneva, Ch. 

 Dufour, 456 ; M. H. Faye, 552 



Waterspout, M. D. Colladon's Artificial, M. Mascart, 576 



Watson (Capt. W. ), the Umbria's Wave, Capt. Henry Toynbee, 

 S08 



Watts (Arthur), Relation of Coal-Dust to Explosions in Mines, 

 221 



Wauters (A. J.), Lake Muta-Nzige, 617 



Wave, the Umbria^s, Capt. Henry Toynbee, Capt. W. Watson, 

 508 



Wave-length, Recent Determination of Absolute, L. Bell, 524 



Weather Charts, German and Danish, 88 



Weather Charts and Storm Warnings, 563 



Weather P'orecasting, B. G. Jenkins, 117 



Weather Reports, German, 159 



Weather, Remarkable, in Scandinavia, 256 



Weber (Prof L. ), Observations of Atmospheric Electricity, 548 



Wedge Photometer, Prof. Pickering, 477 



Weight (Human), Diminishable by Deep Inspiration, Prof. 

 Wolff, 120 



Weight and Mass, 53 



