XXXIV 



Index 



[Sui>pletuent to Nature, 

 June 3, J 892 



Tudor Specimen of Eozoon, J. W. Gregory, 486 



Turner (F.), the Acclimatization of the Avocado Pear in New 



South Wales, 66 

 Turner (H. H,), Solar Disturbances of 1891, June 17, 404 

 Turner (Sir W.), the Lesser Rorqual Whale, 454 

 Tutton (A. E.) : Iron Carbonyl from Water Gas, 36 ; Further 

 Researches upon Azoimide, N3H, 127 ; Phosphorous Oxide, 

 ii., 214; Phosphorous Oxide, 446 ; the Properties of Amor- 

 phous Boron, 522 

 Tylor (Dr. E. B.) : the Limits of Savage Religion, 71 ; the 



Bow as Origin of Stringed Instruments, 184 

 Tyndall ( John, F.R.S.), New Fragments, 508 

 Typological Museums, General Pitt-Rivers, 184 

 Tyrell (J. B.), Geology of Lake Winnipeg, 115 



Ungulates of South America, Aberrant Fossil, 608 



Umney (J. €.)» the Aconite Alkaloids, ii., 525 



United States : Weather Bureau of the, 86 ; Education in, 

 156; Production of Pig-iron in, John Birkinbine, 208; 

 the Paper-making Industry in the, J. F. Hobart, 279 ; U.S. 

 Naval Observatory, Report of, 352 ; the Mountain Meteoro- 

 logical Stations of the United States, A. L. Rotch, 403 ; 

 the Study of Psychology as a Science in the United States, 

 E. W. Scripture, 568 



Units, C.G.S. System of, O. H. Tittmann, 581 ; Prof. J. D. 

 Everett, F.R.S., 581 



Universal Atlas, the, 52 



Universities in Australia, Prof. Morris on, 426 



Universities, Functions of, Prof. Geo. Fras. Fitzgerald, F.R.S., 



513 



University College, London, Proposed Extension of Physical 



and Engineering Departments, 348 

 University Colleges in Great Britain, Report of Committee on 



Grants to, 544 

 University Extension Movement, Lord Cranbrook and the. 



University, the Function of a, Prof. W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S., 



430 

 University Intelligence, 23, 45, 70, 92, 118, 139, 162, 286, 



334» 356, 381, 428, 449. 549, 622. 

 University of London, W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.R.S., 392; 



Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 413; Prof. W, F. R. 



Weldon, F.R.S., 440 

 University, the Proposed Gresham, 323, 443, 517 

 University, Teaching, for London, Royal Commission to inves- 

 tigate the Question of a, 612 

 Upham (Warren), Fossils recently Discovered near Boston, 



622 

 Uraninite, New Analyses of, W. F. Hillebrand, 119 

 Uranium in Swedish Anthracitic Minerals, Discovery of, Baron 



Nordenskiold, 209 

 Urinary Secretion of Nitrogen, Dr. Gumlich on the, 599 

 Urine in some Infectious Maladies, Ptomaines extracted from, 



A. B. Griffiths, 72 

 Useless Studies, Value of, Prof. Geo, Fras. Fitzgerald, F.R.S., 



392 

 Utilization of Homing Pigeons, W. B. Tegetnieier, 320 



Vaccination of the Dog, the Tubercular, Hericourt and Richet, 



576 

 Vacher (M.), Workmen Killed and Wounded in Accidents in 



Germany, 350 

 Vacuum Discharge Streamers, on the Action of, upon each 



other, Dr. M. I. Pupin, 622 

 Vacuum Tubes and Electric Oscillations, Prof, Oliver T- 



Lodge, F.R.S., 366 

 Valence of a Coloured Radiation, Hering, 115 

 Value of Useless Studies, Prof. Geo. Fras. Fitzgerald, F.R.S,, 



392 

 Value, an Introduction to the Theory of, William Smart, 



268 

 Varet (Raoul), Action of Metals on Salts Dissolved in Organic 



Liquids, 360 

 Variability of Nebulae, Dr. Lewis Swift, 522 

 Variable Nebulae, Some Apparently, Lewis Swift, 261 

 Variable Stars, Fuzziness of Some, Cuthbert G. Peek, 497 

 Variables, Two New, in Cepheus, Paul S. Yendall, 570 

 V ariation of Latitude, Dr. S, C. Chandler, 404, 589 ; Robert 



B. Hay ward, F,R.S., 465 ; Dr. B. A. Gould, 521 ; on the, 

 M. Faye, 570 



Vasey (Dr. George), Grasses of the South-West, 390 



Vaussenat (C. X.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 207 



Vedalia cardinalis successfully Colonized at the Cape of Good 

 Hope, 615 



Vedel (Lieut.), on the Polynesians, 615 '?' 



Veeder (Dr. M. A.) : Auroras at Lyons, N.Y., 7 ; Red Light 

 after Sunset, 30 ; Plan for Observations to Determine Local 

 Distribution and Altitude of, 234 ; Magnetic Storms, 557 



Velocity, Molecular, Relation of Voltaic Electromotive Force to, 

 Dr. G. Gore, F.RS., 596 



Venus, Rotation of, Herr Loschardt, 210 



Verbeek (Dr, R. D. M.), Relics of the Hindu Period in Java, 

 88 



Vereker (Hon. J. G. P.), the Resolution of Podura, 239 



Verner (W.), Threatened Extermination of the Kentish Plover, 

 236 



Vesuvius, Eruption of, 259 



Vibrations, on Earth, Dr. Emil Oddone, 5 10 



Victoria : Victoria Agricultural Department, Results of the 

 Travelling Dairy, A. Crawford, 39 ; Hand-book of the De- 

 structive Insects of Victoria, C. French, 246 ; Experimental 

 Perfume Farming in, 305 ; Viticulture for Victoria, F. de 

 Castella, 324 



Vienna, Annales of the University Observatory in, 138 



Vienna, a New Epidemic in, 349 



Vilmorin (Philippe L. de), Les Fleurs a Paris ; Culture et 

 Commerce, 510 



Vincent (M.), Thermometer- Temperature and Skin-Tempe- 

 rature, 304 



VioUe (J.), Radiation of Incandescent Bodies and Optical 

 Measure of High Temperatures, 552 



Virial Equation for Gases and Vapours, on the, Prof. P. G. 

 Tait, 199 



Virial of a System of Hard Colliding Bodies, on the, Lord 

 Rayleigh, F.R.S., 80 



Vision, Peculiar Eyes, James Shaw, 104 



Viticulture : the Wines of the Medoc District, 279 



Viticulture for Victoria, F. de Castella, 324 



Vogel (Dr. E. ), Praktisches Taschenbuch der Photograohie, 5 1 



Vogel (Prof. H. C.) : Motion of Stars in the Line of Sight, 

 280 ; the New Star in Auriga, 498 



Volcanoes : Projected Abandonment of Villages near Colima 

 (Mexico), in Consequence of Activity of Neighbouring Vol- 

 cano, 158 ; Volcanic Action in the British Isles, Sir Archi- 

 bald Geikie, F.R.S., 398 ; Volcanic Action in Eastern 

 Australia and Tasmania, T. W. E. David, 424 ; Eruption of 

 Vesuvius, 259 ; Discovery of Saltpetre and Soda in Kilima- 

 Njaro District, 379 



Voltaic Electromotive Force, Relation of, to Molecular Velo- 

 city, Dr. G. Gore, F.R.S., 596 



Vonberg (Prof. Ignace), 518 



" W = Mg," Prof. Arthur G, Webster, 29 



Waals's (Van der) Generalizations regarding " Corresponding " 



Temperatures, Pressures and Volumes, Prof, Sydney Young, 



93 

 Waals's (Van der) Isothermal Equation, Prof. D. T. Korteweg 



on, 152, 277 

 Wagner (Rudolf von), Manual of Chemical TechnoJogy, 



386 

 Walker (Alfred O.), Destruction of Immature Sea-fish, 176 

 Walker (G. T.), Repulsion and Rotation produced by Alternat 



ing Electric Currents, 213 

 Walker (J. J.), Ants' Nest Beetles, 351 

 Wallace (Dr. Alfred R.) : Topical Selection and Mimicry, 30 ; 



the Naturalist in La Plata, W. H. Hudson, 553 

 Waller (Augustus D.), an Introduction to Human Physiology, 



Dr. E. H, Starling, 340 

 Ward (Prof. H. Marshall, F.R.S.) : the Ginger-beer Plant, 190 ; 



The Oak, a Popular Introduction to Forest Botany, 509 

 Warner Observatory, 422 

 Warning Colours, Frank E. Beddard, 78 ; Edward B. Poulton, 



F.R.S., 174; W. L. Distant, 174 

 Washington Observations, 1886, 237 

 Washington Observations, 1887, 548 

 Washington Weather Bureau, Atlas issued by, 587 

 Washington, Wind-iush at, Prof. H. A. Hazeii, 597 



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