XXXVlll 



Index 



f Supplement to Nature, 

 December g, 1897 



Turbinia, the, Hon. C. A. Parsons, 116, 182, 252 



Turin, Sunspots and the Mean Yearly Temperature at, Dr, G. 



B. Rizzo, 350 

 Turkestan, Earthquake in, 499 

 Turner (Dr. Dawson), Rontgen Rays, 54 

 Turner (Sir William, F.R.S.), some Distinctive Characters of 



Human Structure, Opening Address in Section H of the 



British Association, 425 

 Tutorial Trigonometry, the, William Briggs and G. H. Bryan, 



391 

 Tutt (Mr.), Remarkable Melanic Aberration of Neiueophila 



plantaginis, 607 

 Twenty Years of Indian Meteorology, 226 

 Tyrrell (J. B.), on the Glaciation of North Central Canada, 485 



Unbehaun (Dr. Johannes), Versuch einer philosophischen 

 Selektionstheorie, 49 



Unification of Methods of Testing, International Congress for 

 the, held at Stockholm, 419 



Unification of Time, on the, J. A. Paterson, 461 



United Slates: New York Botanical Garden, 16; Annual 

 Meeting of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, 19 ; New 

 Forest Reserves, 60 ; Electrical Storms on Pike's Peak, 

 Colorado, 107 ; Earthquake in Kentucky, 229 ; Latitude 

 Observations at the U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington, 

 Prof, W. Harkness, 256 ; Ascent of the Mesa Encantada by 

 Prof. W. Libbey, jun., 346; the Sinking of the Earth about 

 the Great American Lakes, Dr. J. W. Spencer and Prof. G. 

 K. Gilbert, 413 ; Prof. F. C. Chamberlin on the Distribution 

 of the Pleistocene Ice-sheets of the Northern United States, 

 485 ; Recent Work of the United States Geological Survey, 

 496 ; the University Geological Survey of Kansas, Erasmus 

 Haworth, 539 ; Wild Neighbours : Out-door Studies in the 

 United States, Ernest Ingersoll, 565 ; Missouri Botanical 

 Garden, Annual Report, 587 ; Year-Book of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture for 1896, 587; on the Species of 

 Picea occurring in the North-eastern United States and 

 Canada, Prof. D. P. Penhallow, 602 



Universe, the Machinery of the. Prof. A. E. Dolbear, 612 



University Colleges, Grants to, 181 



University Geological Survey of Kansas, Erasmus Haworth, 

 539 



University Intelligence, 20, 43, 68, 92, 117, 141, 164, 213, 237, 

 260, 286, 310, 334, 359, 386, 416, 440, 463, 488, 512, 535, 

 559, 582, 605, 630 



Unlike, the Survival of the, L. H. Bailey, 493 



Upton (W.), Star Atlas, 8 



Uranic Rays, Becquerel's, Profs. Elster and Geitel, 15 



Uranium, Continuation of Experiments on Electric Properties 

 of, Rt. Hon. Lord Kelvin, F.R.S., 20; Dr. J. Carruthers 

 Beattie, 20 ; Dr. M. S. de Smolan, 20 



Ussher (R. J.), Great Auk Bones in Ireland, 347 



Utility of Specific Characters, Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, 31 ; 

 the, Dr. Samuel Wilks, F.R.S., 79 



Vailati (Dr. G.), the Statical Knowledge of the Greeks, 453 



Vallier (E. ), Cuirasses et Projectiles de Marine, 315 



Vandervelde (Prof. Emile), L'evolution regressive en biologic 

 et en sociologie, 292 



Vannutelli (Lieut.), the Second Bottego Expedition in Somali- 

 land, 550 



Variable Stars : New Southern Variable Stars, 163 ; the 1897 

 Maximum of Mira Ceti, Dr. Nyland, 163 ; New Southern 

 Variables, R. T. Innes, 415; the Variable Star ij Aquilse, 

 William J. S. Lockyer, Prof. R. Copeland, 249 ; Prof. A. 

 Belopolsky, 597 ; New Variable in Coma Berenices, T. D. 

 Anderson, 279 ; the Algol Variable Z Herculis, Dr. Ernst 

 Hartwig, 350; New Variable Stars, Thomas D. Anderson, 

 386 ; Stanley Williams, 386 ; Variable Stars in Clusters, Prof. 

 S. I. Bailey, 454 



Vapour Pressures : Studien liber Dampfspannkraftmessungen, 

 Georg W. A. Kahlbaum, 246 



Vapour Tensions of Mixed Liquids, Dr. W. L. Miller on the, 

 463 



Variation and Correlation in Civilised and Uncivilised Races, 

 Relative, Alice Lee and Karl Pearson, 190 



Variation of Latitude, on the. Prof. S. C. Chandler, 40 



Variations, Periodic, of Rainfall in India, up 



Vascular Plants, on Changes in Number of Sporangia in, Prof, 



F. O. Bower, F. R. S. , 601 



Vectors, Prof. Henrici on a New Notation to denote Products 



of, 462 

 Vegetables, a Manual of the Cultivation of, in Glass-houses, 



L. H. Bailey, loi 

 Veley (Lilian J.), a Bacterium Living in Strong Spirit, 197 

 Veley (V. H., F.R.S.), a Bacterium Living in Strong Spirit, 



197 

 Ventilating Fans, Propeller, Experiments with, W. G. Walker, 



19 

 Venus : Physical and Micrometrical Observations of. Prof. 



Barnard, 133 : New Observations of. Dr. Eduardo Fontsere, 



300 ; Conjunction of Venus and Jupiter, 573 

 Verbeck (Mr.), Geology of Bangka and Biliton, 47 

 Verneuil (A.), Cerium Purification, 143 ; the Atomic Weight of 



Cerium, 167 

 Versuch einer philosophischen Selektionstheorie, Dr. Johannes 



Unbehaun, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 49 

 Vertebrate Skeleton, the, Sidney H. Reynolds, 245 

 Vesuvius, Iodine and Bromine produced by Fumaroles of. Dr. 



R. V. Matteucci, 472 

 Vezes (Mr.), a New Mixed Platinum Salt, 608 

 Victorian Age, Social Transformations of the, T. H. S. Escott, 



222 

 Vieille (M.), the Explosive Decomposition of Solutions of 



Acetylene in Acetone, 71 ; the Storage of Acetylene, 89 

 Vignon (Leo), a Theoretical Point in Dyeing, 388 ; Oxycellu- 



lose, 536 

 Villard (P.), the Alleged Reflexion of Kathodic Rays, 254; 



Veiled Appearance of X-Ray Photographs, 336 

 Villari (Prof. E.), Cooling Property of Electrified Gases, 15; 



Influence of Rontgen Rays upon Electrical Conductivity, 91 

 Villiers (A.), a Method of Oxidation and Chlorination, 191; 



Destruction of Organic Matter in Toxicological Researches, 



216 

 Visibility of a Sound Shadow, the, C. V. Boys, F.R.S., 173 

 Viticulture, Calcium Carbide as Phylloxericide, E. Chuard, 143 

 Vivarium, the ; being a Practical Guide to the Construction, 



Arrangement, and Management of Vivaria, containing full 



Information as to all Reptiles suitable as Pets, how and 



where to obtain them, and how to keep them in health, Rev. 



G. C- Bateman, 467 

 Vivisection, Curare and, 383 

 Vogel (Dr. Karl), Death of, 413 



Volcanoes : Eruption in Manila. 229 ; the Ancient Volcanoes o. 



Britain, Sir Archibald Geikie, F.R.S., Dr. Chas. Barrois, 241 ; 



Iodine and Bromine produced by Fumaroles of Vesuvius, Dr. 



R. V. Matteucci, 472 

 Voller (A.), Rontgen Rays, 311 



Vorderman (Inspector), Beri-beri and Rice Diet, 264 

 Vosmaer (A.), Rontgen Ray Theory, 316 

 Voyages made by the Sieur D. B. to the Islands Dauphin^ or 



Madagascar and Bourbon or Mascarenne in the Years 1669, 



1670, 1671, 1672, 341 

 Vuillemin (Paul), Nutritive Apparatus 01 Cladochytrium 



tulposum, 23 



Waals (Prof, van der), Equilibrium o. Compound Solid in 



Presence of Gas and Liquid, 96 

 Wade (E. B. H.), New Methodof Determining Vapour Pressure 



of Solutions, 118 

 Wadsworth (Prof. F. L. O.), Resolving Power of Telescopes and 



Spectroscopes, 62 ; Resolving Power of Spectroscopes, 300 ; 



Astronomical Photography for Small and Large Apertures, 



386 ; the Photography of Delicate Celestial Phenomena, 620 ; 



on the Conditions required for Attaining Maximum Accuracy 



in the Determination of Specific Heat by the Method of 



Mixtures, 631 

 Wager (Harold), the Nucleus of the Yeast Plant, 600 

 Wagtail, Blackbird's Nest appropriated by a, F. C. Constable, 



248 ; G. W. de P. Nicholson, 343 

 Walker (Alfred O.), Protective Colouring, 566 

 Walker (C. F.), Iodic Acid applied to Analysis of Iodides, 21 

 Walker (G. T.), Boomerangs, 45 

 Walker (Dr. J. W.), on the Reaction between Hydrobromic and 



Bromic Acids, 463 

 Walker (W. G.), Experiments with Propeller Ventilating 



Fans, 19 



