470 



INDEX 



Tortugas, The, Florida, 147 

 Townsend, John K., 86 

 Toxodontia, 335 

 .Transmutation of species, 249 

 Travailleur, The, 401 

 Treadwell, Daniel, 13 

 Trituberculy, Law of, 330 

 Troglodytes gorilla, see Gorilla 

 Trowbridge, Prof. John, 13, 417,423 

 Trowbridge, Dr. John F., 213, 214 

 Trumbull Gallery of Paintings, 104, 



106 

 Trunk-fishes, monograph on, by 



G. B. Goode, 399 

 Tunicates, see Salpa 

 Turtles, Respiration of, by Mitchell 



and Morehouse, 177 

 Turton, William, 68 

 Tuttle, Prof. Albert H., 431, 435 

 Tyndall, John, 22, 45 



Uhler, Dr. Philip R., 438, 440 

 Ungulates, reclassification of, by 



E. D. Cope, 330 



Uniformitarianism, system of, 256 

 Union Pacific railroad, 292 

 United States Census, loth, 1880, 



400 

 United States Coast Survey, 368, 



387 



United States Exploring Expeclition, 

 see Wilkes Exploring Expedition 



United States Fish Commission, 271, 

 273, 277, 392, 397, 443; see also 

 Woods Hole 



United States Geological and Geo- 

 graphical Survey of the Terri- 

 tories, 321 



United States Geological Survey, 

 297, 306, 308, 314; see also Hayden 

 Survey 



United States Geological Survey of 

 the 4oth parallel, 300 



United States Government, early 

 policy toward scientific publica- 

 tions, 239 



United States National Museum, 

 138, 270, 273, 276, 277, 280, 306, 

 325, 328, 329, 386, 392, 399, 402 



University extension in early days, 

 108 



Valenciennes, Achille, 177 



Van Rensselaer, Gen. Stephen, 121 



Vector analysis, system of, 356, 359 



Ventilation, theory of, 33; see also 

 Heat 



Venus, expeditions to view transits 

 of, 378 



Vertcbrata of the Cretaceous Forma- 

 tions of the West, by E. D. Cope, 

 322 



Vertebrata of the Tertiary Formations 

 of the West, by E. D. Cope, 322 



Vertebrate Life in America, Introduc- 

 tion and Succession of, by O. C. 

 Marsh, 306 



Vincennes, The, see Wilkes Exploring 

 Expedition 



Virginia Cousins, by G. B. Goode, 



395 



Vogt, Carl, 117 

 Volcanic cones, 262 

 Volcanoes, 242, 261 



Waals, J. D., 355^ 



Wadsworth, Daniel, 113 



Walcott, Charles D., 262 



Walker, Francis A., 400 



Walker, Dr. William J., 180 note, 184 



Warren, Dr. John C., 175, 177 



Watt, James, 97 



Webster, Daniel, 196 



Webster, John, W., 197 



Weismann, August, 249 



Welch, Dr. W. H., 106 



Welles, Hon. Gideon, ^370 



Wentworth, Sir John, Gov., 15 



Wernerian theory, 100 



Whales, 198 



Wheeler, G. M., 323 



White Eagle, Order of, conferred 

 upon Count Rumford, 21 



Whitman, Dr. Charles O., 163 



Wilberforce, William, 97 



Wilder, Burt G., 163, 183 note 



Wilkes, Lieut. Charles, see Wilkes 

 Exploring Expedition 



Wilkes Exploring Expedition, ves- 

 sels and route, 236-239; publica- 

 tion of reports, 239, 245; geology, 

 259; volcanoes, 261; also 215, 216 



William Henry, Prince, Duke of 

 Clarence, 19 



Wilson, Alexander, birth and early 

 experiences, 52; emigration to 

 America, 56; life as a teacher, 54- 

 56, 59, 60; love of poetry, 56, 60; 



