XXXVlll 



Index 



[Supplement to Nature, 

 June II, 1896 



Remarks on X-Rays, 575; Polyphase Electric Currents and 



Alternate Current Motors, 293 

 Thomson (Prof. J. A.), Pasteur, 18 



Thomson (Prof. J. J., F.R.S.), the Rontgen Rays, 391 ; Leak- 

 age of Electricity through Dielectrics traversed by Rontgcn 



Rays, 502 ; Recent Work with the Rontgen Rays, 581 

 Thorell (Dr. T.), Descriptive Catalogue of the Spiders of 



Burma, based upon the Collection made by Eugene W. 



Oates, and preserved in the British Museum, 122 

 Thumb, the Opposition of the, Dr. Rn^ du Bois Reymond, 



216 

 Thunder, Effect on Pheasants of, G. T. Rope, J. E. Harting, 



421 

 Thwing (Dr. C. B.), Exercises in Physical Measurement, 436 

 Tibet Expedition, Russian, Return of Capt. Roborovsky's, 160 

 Tierreich, Das, a New Synopsis Animalium, 541 

 Tilden (Prof. W. A.), Helium and Associated Gas in Minerals, 



382 ; Phosphoric Anhydride and Metaphosphoric Acid, 406 

 Tillo (Lieut.-Gen. Alexis de), the Isanomales and Lines of 



Secular Change of Earth's Magnetism, 401 

 Timbarra (New South Wales), Granite Gold Fields, G. W. 



Card, 178 

 Time, New Standard in Japan, 373 

 Tifnes, the, on the Scientific Situation, 73 



Tisserand (F.), the Underground Pendulum of the Paris Obser- 

 vatory, 503 

 Tizzoni (Signer), the Preparation of Anti-Rabic Serum, 227 

 Tobacco, Presence of Natural Sugar in, 473 

 Tofu, M. Inouye, 137 



Tollens (B.), Kurzes Handbuch der Kohlenhydrate, 242 

 Tomlinson (C, F.R.S.), Remarkable Sounds, 78, 197 ; Barisal 



Guns and Similar Sounds, 295 

 Tones, Resultant, Prof. J. D. Everett, 310 

 Toronto, the Astronomical and Physical Society of, 587 

 Totantisfitsctis, 88 

 Toxicology : the Arrow Poison of the Namaqualand Bushmen, 



227 

 Transformation of Insects, the. Prof. L. C. Miall, F.R.S., 152 

 Transvaal, the Game Fields of the Eastern, Frederick Vaughan 



Kirby, 467 

 Tree at Kum-Bum, the Sacred, W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, F.R.S., 



412, 556 ; A. Grigoriev, 534 

 Tree Temperatures, R. W. Squires, 327 

 Trees : the Destruction of Trees by Lightning, 393 ; the 



Management and Protection of Forests, 510, 535 ; Influence 



of Terrestrial Disturbances on the Growth of Trees, Henry 



J. Colbourn, 579 

 Tremors, Earth, W. L. Dallas, 390 

 Trommels, Classifying Crushed Ore by, Henry Rosales, 487 ; 



Dr. T. K. Rose, 488 

 Troost (L.), the Origin of Argon and Helium in certain Waters, 



144 

 Troost (M. ), Use of Artificial Hexagonal Blende with Rontgen 



Rays in place of Crookes' Tube, 480 

 Trouton(F. T.), Experiments with Rontgen Rays, 615 

 Trouve's Calcium Carbide (Acetylene) Lamp, 226 

 Trowbridge (Prof. John), the Rontgen Rays, 421 ; the New 



Photography by Kathode Rays, 549 ; Triangulations by 



means of Kathode Photography, 573 

 Trigonometry, Practical Trigonometry, H. Adams, loi 

 Trigonometry, Measurement of Section of Paris Base Line 



with Jaderin's Apparatus, M. d'Abbadie, 358 

 Trinidad Pitch, L. F. Peckham and L. A. Linton, 573 

 Tristram (Dr. H. B., F.R.S.), Rambles in Japan, the Land of 



the Rising Sun, 219 

 Tsetse Fly Disease, the, Walter F. H. Blandford, 566 

 Tucknell ( W. ), Remarkable Sounds, loi 

 Turbot, Development of the, Prof. Mcintosh, 118 

 Turbyne (Captain Alexander), the Feeding-Ground 01 the 



Herring, 129 

 Turner^Dr. Dawson), the Rontgen Rays, 388 

 Turner (H. W.), Rocks of Sierra Nevada, 466 

 Turpin (Dr. G. S.), Practical Inorganic Chemistry, 243 

 Tutt (J. W.), the Pterophorina of Britain, 196 ; British Moths, 



486 

 Tutton (Mr.), the Symmetrical Partitioning ot Homogeneous 



Structures, 192 

 Typhoid Bacilli, Oysters and, Charles Foote, 226 

 Typhoid Fever Epidemics in America, Mrs. Percy Frankland, 

 38 



Typhoid, Oysters and, 280 



Typhoon Highways in Far East, Rev. L. Free, 493 



Tyrrell (Father), Vivisection, 18 



Umani (Dr. A.), Effect of Rontgen Rays on Crookes' Radio- 

 meter, 613 



United Kingdom, the Geological Survey of the, Sir Archibald 

 Geikie, F.R.S., 19 



United States : the Department of Entomology in the United 

 States National Museum, 58 ; Earthquake in, 59 ; Relations 

 of the Weather Bureau to the Science and Industry of the 

 United States, Prof. W. S. Moore, 187 ; the Boston Public 

 Library, T. R. Sullivan, 232; Railroad Speed in, T. C. 

 Clarke, 232 ; Electric Propulsion in, 399 ; Vampirism in the 

 United States, G. R. Stetson, 401 ; United States Army : 

 Index- Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's 

 Office, 410 ; United States Geological Survey, 437, 462 ; 

 Height of, Henry Gannett, 438 ; Natural Mineral Waters of, 

 Dr. A. C. Peale, 439 ; Psychology in, 494 ; Science in, 542, 

 543, 562, 563, 584, 609 ; Severe Cold in, 562 



University Intelligence, 22, 46, 68, 93, 118, 140, 165, 189, 

 212, 238, 261, 285, 308, 333, 356, 380, 405, 429, 451, 477, 

 496, 525> 549, 572, 597, 622 



University, the London, 103, 272 



Universities : Vote of Convocation on the Cowper Commission 

 Scheme, 274 ; Geology in Glasgow University, Prof. John 

 Young, 307 



Uraninite, on the New Gases obtained from, J. Norman 

 Lockyer, F.R.S., 163, 526 



Uranus and its Satellites, Prof. Barnard, 587 



Vaccination, Haffkine's Anti-Cholera, in India, Dr^ Simpson, 



14 

 Vaccination : the Small-pox Outbreak in Gloucester, 517 

 Vagedes (Dr.), New Method of Cholera Diagnosis, 544 

 Valley of Kashmir, the, W. R. Lawrence, Sir W. Martin 



Conway, 99 

 Vampirism in United States, G. R. Stetson, 401 

 Van Hise (Mr.), Penokee Iron-Bearing Series, 464 

 Vapour, Pressure of a Saturated, as an Explicit Function of the 



Temperature, Dr. G. Bakker, 79 

 Vapours, Fluorescence of Sodium and Potassium, and the 



Importance of these Facts in Astrophysics, Drs. E. Wiede- 

 mann and G. C. Schmidt, 250 

 Varangerfjord Region and the Forthcoming Solar Eclipse, the, 



Dr. Hans Reusch, 417 

 Varet (Raoul), the Lithium, Magnesium, and Cuprous Cyanides, 



24 

 Variability of Red Stars, Dr. Brester, 38, 248 

 Variability, Short Period, A. W. Roberts, 162 

 Variable Star Clusters, 91 ; Dr. Belopolsky, 474 

 Variable Star, a Peculiar, Mr. Chandler, 109 

 Variable Star of the Algol Type, New, 206 

 Variable, Wells' Algol, 403 



Variable Stars, New, Mrs. Fleming, Prof. Pickering, 519 

 Variable Stars, Mira Ceti, M. Dumenil, 565 

 Vegetable Culture, Alexander Dean, 388 

 Velocity of 61 Cygni, the Absolute, Dr. Belopolsky, 448 

 Velocity of Propagation of Electrostatic Force, Lord Kelvin, 



F.R.S., 316 

 Venezuela and British Guiana Boundary, the. Dr. Hugh Robert 



Mill, 200 

 Venom, Immunisation against Serpents', Prof. Thomas R. Eraser, 



F.R.S., 569, 592 

 Ventilating Buildings, Heating and, Rolla C. Carpenter, 387 

 Ventilation : Design and Testing of Centrifugal Fans, H. Heenan 



and W. Gilbert, 191 

 Ventilation : Ingenious System of Purifying Atmosphere and 



Regulating Temperature, 203 

 Ventosa (Seiior), New Method of determining Directions of High 



Atmospheric Currents, 179 

 Venus : the Planet Venus, 367 ; the Rotation Period of, Prof. 



Tacchini, 306; Maxwell Hall, 535 

 Vicentini (Prof. G.), Microseismographic Records of Distant 



Earthquake, 12 ; Summary of Investigations on Earthquake 



Pulsations, 585 ; the Rontgen Rays, 449 

 Victoria, Revival of Gold Mining in, 13 



