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Index 



[SuppUtnent to Nature, 

 December i, 1892 



Tuning-fork, Determination of G by Means of a, Prof. A. M. 



Worthington, 561 

 Tupaia javanensis, the Javanese Insectivore, 160 

 Turacin, Prof. A. H. Church, F.R.S., 22 

 Turkestan, Chinese : Discovery of an Ancient Birch-bark 



(Sanscrit) Manuscript by Lieut. Bower, Dr. Hoernle, 370 

 Turner (Dr. Dawson), Experiments on the Electric Resistance 



of Metallic F'owders, 384 

 Turner (P.), the Carob-Bean Tree in New South Wale?, 210 

 Turner (T.), Estimation of Slag in Wrought Iron, 189 

 Turner (Sir William), Coiffure of a Kanaka Labourer, 433 ; 



Human Osteometry, 433 

 Tutton (A. E.), the New Element, Masrium, 79; Inorganic 



Synthesis of Azoimide N.,H, 286 

 Tylden (Dr. Henry J.), the Bearing of Pathology upon the 



Doctrine of the Transmission of Acquired Characters, 302; 



Death of, 331 

 Tyrol, South, Landslips in the. Miss Ogilvie, 428 



Uganda Question, the, 280 



Uganda, Return of Capt. Lugard from, 552 



Underground Temperature, the Report on, 383 



United Kingdom, an Ethnographical Survey of the, 615 



United States : University Extension Movement in, 15 ; Pacific 

 Coast Fisheries, 63 ; difficulty of obtaining Iron adapted for 

 Electrical Purposes in America, W. S. Key, 133 ; Sal-Soda 

 Manufacture in the United States, Prof. C. F. Mabery, 332 ; 

 Forestry in, the Annual Loss to Government through Thieves 

 and Fire, M. Fernow, 454 ; Volcanic Craters of, Prof. R. T, 

 Hill, 456 ; the American Association for Advancement of 

 Science in the United States, W. Kent, 494 ; Coast Line of 

 United States, 525 ; United States, Gas Engines in, 595 



Units, Discussion at British Association, Prof Oliver T. Lodge, 

 F.R.S.,368 



Units, Discussion on the Nomenclature of, Prof. Oliver J. 

 Lodge, F.R.S., 383 



Universities : Chicago University, 594 ; the Proposed Labora- 

 tory for Electrical Engineering at University College, 227 ; 

 Prof. Ramsay's Report as Dean of the Faculty of Science at 

 University College, 253 ; Agricultural Education at Univer- 

 sity College of North Wales, Bangor, 474 ; University of 

 Dublin : Tercentenary Celebration, 203 ; University Intel- 

 ligence, 21, 140, 163, 186, 213, 338, 411,579, 602,627; 

 University of Japan, Imperial, 551 : a Professorial University 

 of London, 121 ; New London University, 151, 169 ; the 

 London University of the Future, 193 ; University Extension 

 Movement in United States, 15 ; University Observatory, 

 301 



Unwin (W. Cawthorne, F.R.S.), Opening Address in Section 

 G of the British Association, 355 



Urine, Estimation of Uric Acid in, F. G. Hopkins, 236 



Ussher (Mr.), Petrological Papers, 428 



Vacation Courses, the Edinburgh Summer Meeting, 449 



Vaccination of Dogs, Tuberculous, Hericourt and Ch. Richet, 

 168 



Vaillant (Leon), Alimentation in Ophidia, 364 



Valley Fog, Reflection on, J. Edmund Clark, 514 



Variable Nebulae, E. E. Barnard, 211 



Variable, a New, T. E. Espin, 17 



Variable Star, a New, Prof. Schaeberle, 620 



Variable Star T Cassiopeiae, Cuthbert E. Peek, 443 



Variable Stars, New, Prof Pickering, 334 



Variation of Latitude, Dr. Chandler, 211, 476 



Variation of Latitude at Pulkova, B. Wanach, 524 ; S. Kos- 

 tinsky, 524 



Variations in Latitude, Declination of Stars for Reduction of, 

 65 



Variations, Magnetic, William Ellis, 67 



Variations, Periodic, of Alpine Glaciers, F. A. Forel, 386 



Variation of Terrestrial Latitudes, the, M. Antoine d'Abbadie, 

 65 



Varley Testimonial, the, 369 



Vascular. Cryptogams, Notes on the Morphology of the Spore- 

 bearing Members in the. Prof. F. O. Bower, 555 



Vatican Observatory, Pubblicazioni (vol. ii.) of, 299 



Veley (V. H.), Conditions of Formation and Decomposition of 

 Nitrous Acid, 188 ^ 



Veeder(Dr. M. A.), Aurora, 29 



Ventilation of Public Buildings, the, Dr. Hunter Stewart, 143 



Venus, the Planet, E, L. Trouvelot, 468 



Venus, Determination of Angle of Polarization of, J. J. 



Landerer, 240 

 Vertebrates, Fossil, the Washington Collection of, R. Lydekker, 



295 



Vesuvius, Mount, the Eruption of, 132, 277 



Viault, (M.), Physiological Effects of Mountain Climates, 240 



Victoria, the Planet, Comparison Stars of. Dr. Gill, 423 



Victoria : Victoria Field Naturalists' Club ; Excursion to the 

 Grampians (Australia), 63 ; Development of Raisin Industry 

 in Victoria, J. Knight, 256 ; Proceedings of Royal Society of 

 Victoria, 459 ; Movement for Prevention of Wanton Destruc- 

 tion of Birds in Victoria, 495 ; Some Victorian Lepidoptera, 

 Ernest Anderson, 595 



Vineyards of Europe, Statistics of the, 450 



"Viper" Bite, a, W. A. Rudge, 270 



Virchow (Prof.) on Learning and Research, 593 



Vision, a 5-Sensation Theory of, E. Hunt, 485 



Visual, Photographic and. Magnitudes of Stars, Prof. J. C. 

 Kapteyn, 41 



Vital Absorption, Prof. Waymouth Reid, 403 



Viticulture in the Punjab, 86 



Vivisection at the Church Congress, 557 



Vivisection Controversy, the, 593 



Vogel's (Prof.) Method of Colour Photography, 263 



Voit (Prof), the Physiological Effect of a Farinaceous Diet on 

 Animals, 618 



Vole Plague in the Border Districts, the, 398 



Volcanoes : the Eruption of Mount Etna, 254, 276, 299, 331, 

 361, 371, 398, 450; the Present Eruption of Mount Etna, M. 

 Wallerant, 460 ; Gaetano Platania, 542 ; Volcanic Eruption 

 at Great Sangir, 287, 299, 332 ; the Eruption of Mount 

 Vesuvius, 132, 277 ; Active Lunar Volcanoes, Prof Pickering, 

 134; Volcanoes, Past and Present, Edward Hull, F. R.S., 

 220 ; Miss C. F, Gordon Cumming's Paintings of Volcanic 

 District in New Zealand, 254 ; the Origin of Coon Butte, 

 Arizona, Prof. G. K. Gilbert, 454 ; Craters of United States, 

 Prof. R. T. Hill, 456 ; Further Notes on a Recent Volcanic 

 Island in the Pacific, Capt. W. J. L. Wharton, F.R.S., 

 611 



Volga, Poisoning by Naphtha of the, 421 



VohicellcE, the Alleged "Aggressive Mimicry" of, William Bate- 

 son, 585 



Vulcano, Eruption of, (August 3, 1888, to March 22, 1890), 

 G. W. Butler, 117 



Wager (Harold), on the Structure of Cystopus candidus, 405 



Wahrlich (W. K.), Structure of Bacterial Cells, 39 



Waikiki, Latitude Observations at, Mr. Preston, 64 



Walcott (C, D.), Cambrian Rocks of Virginia, 311 



Wales, University College (Bangor) of North, Agricultural 



Education at, 474 

 Walker Prize of Boston Natural History Society awarded to 



Prof. J. D. Dana, the, 158 

 Walker (J.), Preparation of Alkyl Iodides, 312 

 Walker (J. W.), Resolution of Lactic Acid into its Optically 



Active Components, 311 

 Wallace (Dr. Alfred R.), Award of Linnean Society's Gold 



Medal to, 37 ; Correction in " Island Life," 56 

 Wallace (Prof. Robert), Egyptian Agriculture, 15 

 Wallaschek (Dr.), an Ethnological Enquiry into the Basis of our 



Musical System, 238 

 Wallerant (M.), the Present Eruption of Mount Etna, 460 

 Walters (H. S. ), a Tide-motor, 429 

 Wanach (B.), Variation of Latitude at Pulkova, 524 

 Ward (F. W.), Report on the Relations of Australasian Fruit 



Production to the English Market, 39 

 Ward (R. de C), Thunderstorms in New England during 



1887, 555 

 Wanngton (R., F.R.S.), the Nitric Organisms, 151 

 Warner (Dr. Francis), Co-ordination of Cellular Growth and 



Action by Physical Forces, 404 ; Observations as to the 



Physical Deviations from the Normal as seen among 50,000 



Children, 433 

 Warth (H.), the Tin District in Burma, 522 

 Washington Collection of Fossil Vertebrates, R. Lydekker, 



295 



