Supplement to Naiure,~\ 

 June 2, 1892. J 



Index 



XXXlll 



Sydney University, the Demonstrator of Chemistry at, 19 



Syme (David), Topical Selection and Mimicry, 30 



Symons (G. A.), Phenomenal Barometrical Depression 

 (November ri, 1891), 65 



Tacchini (Prof.), State of Solar Activity, 137 ; Solar Observa- 

 tions, 352 



Tait (Prof. P. G.) : on the Virial Equation for Gases and 

 Vapours, 199; the Isothermals of Mixtures of Gases, 431 ; 

 the Relation between Kinetic Energy and Temperature in 

 Liquids, 455 



Tannin, the Mangrove as a Source of. Dr. J. T. Rothrock, 546 



Tarr (R. S.), the Permian of Texas, 310 



Tasmania, on the Freshwater and Terrestrial Fauna of. Prof. 

 W. Baldwin Spencer, 425 



Tate Gallery, the Science Museum and the, 385, 433 



Taurus, the Eastern, and the Anti-Taurus, D. G. Hogarth, 138 



Taylor (A. J.), the Ouse, 102 



Taylor (J. Traill), Optics of Photography and Photographic 

 Lenses, 364 



Taylor (Sedley), a System of Sight-singing from the Established 

 Musical Notation, based on the Principle of Tonic Relation, 

 437 



Tea-Culture in New South Wales, W. T. Robertson, 260 



Teaching, the Optical Lantern as an Aid in, C. H. Bothamley, 

 437 



Teall(J. J. H., F.R.S.), the Plutonic Rocks of Garabal Hill 

 and Meall Breac, 360 



Technical Education : the Speaker of the House of Commons 

 on, 19 ; Technical Education in Essex, 243, 613 ; in Scotland, 

 377 ; in London, 403 ; the New London County Council and, 

 566 ; Technical Education for Novelists, 487 



Technology. Photography as a Branch of, Prof. R. Meldola, 

 F.R.S, 331 



Tegetmeier (W. B.), L'tilization of Homing Pigeons, 320 



Telegraph, Heroes of the, J. Munro, 5 



Telegraphic Connection with the Bahama Islands, 114 



Telephone Installation at Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, 184 



Telescopic Objectives, A. Fowler, 204 



Telluric Spectrum, Dr. Miiller on the, 21 



Tempel-Swift's Periodic Comet, 21 



Tempelj-Swift Comet, 159 



Temperature, Changefulness of, as an Element of Climate, 610 



Temperature in Europe, Research on Extremes of, Dr. 

 Lachmann, 576 



Temperature, Metals at High, Prof. W. C. Roberts-Austen, 

 F.R.S., 534 



Temperature of the Sun, the, M. H. Le Chatelier, 547 



Tenasserim River, Discovery of Coal on, 496 



Tension, a Lecture Experiment in Surface, E, D. Fridlander, 

 463 



Terne (Dr. B.), the Utilization of the By-products of the Coke 

 Industry, 157 



Tertiary Silicified Woods of Eastern Arkansas, R. Ellsworth 

 Call, 119 



Tesla (Nikola), Lectures on Alternate Currents of High Potential 

 and Frequency, 345 



Theobald (F. V.), an Account of British Flies (Diptera), 173 



Theory of Solutions, Prof. W. Ostwald, 293, 415 ; J. W. 

 Rodger, 342, 487 



Thermodynamics : Thermodynamics of the Steam Engine and 

 other Heat Engines, Cecil H. Peabody, Prof. A. G. Green- 

 hill, F.R.S., 172; a Simple Heat Engine, Fred. J. Smith, 

 294 ; Elementary Thermodynamics, J. Parker, 314 ; the 

 Thermal Conductivities of Crystals and other Bad Conductors, 

 C. H. Lees, 382 ; Poincare's Thermodynamics, Prof. H, 

 Poincare, 245, 414, 439, 485, 532 ; Thermodynamical View 

 of Action of Light on Silver Chloride, H. W. Elder, 524 



Thermometer, a Compensated Air-, H. L. Callendar, 212 j 



Thermometers, the Change of Zero of, C. T. Heycock, 526 



Thiselton-Dyer (\V. T., F.R.S.) : University of London, 329 ; | 

 Award by Royal Society of New South Wales of Clarke | 

 Memorial Medal to, 495 



Thomas (R. Haig), a Plague of Small Frogs, 8 



Thompson (Elizabeth), Science Fund, 91 



Thompson (E. E.), the Prairie Larks and Cranes of Manitoba, 

 135 



Thompson (J. O.), the Law of Elastic Lengthening, 311 



Thompson (Prof. S. P., F.R.S.) : Electro-Magnetism, Prof. A. 

 Gray, 73 ; Supplementary Colours, 452 ; Modes of Repre- 

 senting Electromotive Forces and Currents in Diagrams, 478 



Thomson (D.), the Prolongation of the Gooseberry Season, 157 

 Thomson (Prof.), some Experiments on Electric Discharge, 526 

 Thomson (Prof. J. J., F.R.S.), Collection de Memoires Relatifs 



i la Physique, 361 

 Thomson (Principal J. L.), Olive-culture in Australia, 135 

 Thomson (J. P.), on Recent Explorations and Discoveries in 



British New Guinea, 425 

 Thomson (Sir William, F.R.S.) : Portrait of, 113; Peerage 



conferred on, 233 

 Thome (R. Thome, F.R,S.), Diphtheria, its Natural History 



and Prevention, 123 

 Thornycroft (J. I.), the Steadying of Vessels at Sea, 570 

 Thorpe (Prof. T. E., F.R.S.): Dr. George Lunge on the 



Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid, 121 ; the Alkali Maker's 



Handbook, by Dr. George Lunge and Dr. F, Hurler, 121 ; 



Phosphorous Oxide, ii., 213 ; Frangulin, ii., 214; Obituary 



Notice of Hermann Kopp, 441 ; Lecture Experiment to 



illustrate Phenomena in Coal-Dust Explosion, 551 

 Thraen (Herr Dr.), Wolfs Comet, 1891 IL, 548 

 Throwing- Sticks, Eskimo, Prof. O. T. Mason, 66 ; Agnes 



Crane, 103 

 Thurston (Edward), on the Fall of Meteorites in Madras, 20 

 Thibet, Across, Gabriel Bonvalot, 269 

 Tibet Expedition, General Pevtsoff, 45 

 Tides of St. Malo Bay, the, M. Heurtault, 143 

 Tierra del Fuego, Mussel Poisoning in, M. Segers, 134 

 Tilden (W. A.), Limettin, 453 

 Tin Mining in Mergui, 496 

 Titchener (E. B.) : Comparative Palatability, 53; Peculiar 



Eyes, 177 

 Tittmann (O, H.), C.G.S. System of Units, 581 

 Tobacco, the Insect &c. Enemies of. Prof. Tozzetti, 325 

 Tokyo Botanical Magazine, 46 



Tomb, Prehistoric, in Ohio, Discovery of Remarkable, 157 

 Tombs, Ancient, and Burial Mounds of Japan, Prof. Hitchcock, 



381 

 Tomlinson (Herbert, F.R.S.), the Aneroid in Hypsometry, 440 

 Tonganoxie Meteorite, E. H. S. Bailey, 119 

 Topical Selection and Mimicry, David Syme, 30 ; Dr. Alfred 



R. Wallace, 30 

 Topinard (Paul), the Transformation of the Animal Skull into 



a Human Skull, 260 

 Topinard (Paul), L'Homme dans la Nature, 457 

 Topley (W.), Obituary Notice of Dr. T. Sterry Hunt, 400 

 Tornado in N.W. States of North America, 545 

 Torpid Cuckoo, A. Holte Macpherson, 416 

 Tortoise Enclosed in Ice, a, Frank Finn, 320 

 Tower of Babel and the Confusion of Tongues, the, Thos. G. 



Pinches, 210 

 Town Fogs and their Effects, 53 ; Dr. W. J. Russell, F.R.S., 



10 

 Tozzetti (Prof. A. T.), the Insects &c. that Injure Tobacco, 



325 



Trajectories of Elongated Projectiles, Calculation of. Rev. F. 

 Bashforth, 473 



Transcaucasie et la Peninsule d'Apcheron, la, Calouste S. 

 Gulbenkian, 52 



Transit Circles, N.P.D.'s Observed with Greenwich and Wash- 

 ington, Prof. Newcomb, 548 



Transit Observations, Personal Equations in, 617 



Transvaal, Southem, Geology of the Gold-bearing Rocks of 

 the, Walcot Gibson, 598 



Travaux de la Societe des Naturalistes de St. Petersbourg, 141 



Travels of a Painter of Flowers, 602 



Trees, Our, John Robinson, 603 



Trigonometry, Elementary, Rev. R. H. Whitcombe and J. M. 

 Dyer, 174 



Trigonometry : Levels, J. A. C. Oudemans, 240 



Trigonometry, the Elements of Plane, R. Levett and C. Davison, 



509 

 Trinity College, Dublin, Tercentenary Celebration of, 378 

 Tropical Sea-side Plants, W. Botting Hemsley, F.R.S., 3 

 Trouton (Fred. T.), some Experiments made with the View of 



Ascertaining the Rate of Propagation of Induced Magnetism 



in Iron, 42 

 Trow (A. H.), a Difficulty in Weismannism, 102, 175 

 Trowbridge (John), a Phasemeter, 622 

 True (F. W.), the Puma, 445 

 Tuberculosis, the Vaccination of the Dog against, H^ricourt 



and Richet, 576 



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