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INDEX 



[Nature, Nov. 27, iSgc 



Trippling (J. J-), Watch and Clock-Making in 1889, 294 



Triumph of Philosophy, James Gillespie, 294 



Tropseolum, Prof. Denny on an Abnormality in some Flowers 

 of, 579 



Trouessart (Dr. E. L.), La Geographic Zoologique, Dr. H. 

 Gadow, 193 



Trouve (G.), Electrical Gyroscopes, 460 



Trouvelot (M. E. L.), Observations of Saturn at the Disappear- 

 ance of the Ring, 429 



Tuberculosis of the Bones and Joints, H. A. Thomson, 97 



Tuberculous Animal Food, Effect upon Human Health of. 

 Royal Commission to Inquire into the, 299 



Tucker (R.), the London Mathematical Society's List of 

 Papers, 8 



Turin Academy of Medicine, the Riberi Prize, 299 



Turin Observatory, 113 



Turpin (Dr. G. S.), on the Ignition of Explosive Gaseous 

 Mixtures, 531 



Tutton (A. E.): and Prof T. E, Thorpe, F.R.S., on Phos- 

 phorous Oxide, 46 ; on a Liquid Compound of Nickel and 

 Carbon Monoxide, 370 ; Einleitung in die chemische Krys- 

 tallographie. Dr. A. Fock, 387 ; the Properties of Liquid 

 Chlorine, 593; Hydrazoic Acid, a New Gas, 615 



Ulitzsch (Herr), Comparative Growth of Boys and Girls, 376 



Ulrich (Prof. G. H. F.), Remarkable Nickel-Iron Alloy 

 (Awaruite) of Terrestrial Origin from New Zealand, 210, 214 



Undset (M.j, on a Prehistoric Settlement near Toszeg, in 

 Hungary, 66 



Ungulata, the Palaeontology of the, Marie Pavloff, 575 



Uniform Penny Post, 106 



United States : Scientific Expedition to West Africa, Prof. 

 David P. Todd, 8 ; Archaeological Museum at Pennsylvania, 

 16 ; and the Jamaica International Exhibition, 87 ; the Toner 

 Lectures at the Smithsonian Institution, 87 ; Reorganization 

 of Columbia College, New York, 87 ; the Index Catalogue of 

 the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, Dr. A. T. 

 Myers, 196; Proposed Classification of the U.S. National 

 Academy of Sciences, 206 ; the Horned Dinosaurs of the, 

 349 ; Increase of Defective Sight in, 301 ; Prof. R. S. 

 Woodward appointed Assistant in the U.S. Coast and 

 Geodetic Survey, 352 ; Observations during last Pensacola 

 Cruise, 352 ; Report of the United States Naval Observatory, 

 Washington, 488 ; Convention of the Photographic Associa- 

 tion of America, 524 ; Botanical Work in the United States, 

 524 ; United States Fish Commission Reports, 574 ; S. V. 

 Proudfit's Collection of Stone Implements from Columbia, 

 575 



Universities in France, Proposed Creation of, 459 



University and Educational Intelligence, 21, 42, 93, 116, 142. 

 166, 188, 238, 631, 654 



University Extension, Conference of Cambridge Local Lectures 

 Syndicate, 302 



University Extension Meeting, the, 233 ; Reports on, 252 



University Extension Scheme, Prof. Max Miilier on the, 353 



University Hall Scheme, Progress of the Edinburgh, 618 



University for London, the Future, 73 



University of Louvain, Dr. St. George Mivart, F.R.S., ap- 

 pointed Professor of Philosophy of Natural History at the, 375 



University, Proposed Paris, 180 



University Teaching, for London, 631 



Unstable Adjustments as Affected by Isolation, Rev. John T. 

 Gulick, 28 



Unwin (Prof. W. Cawthorne, F.R.S.): the Elements of Machine 

 Design, 171 ; Short Logarithms and other Tables, 518 



Urania Gesellschaft, 511 



Uranus, the Planet, Spectroscopic Observations of, 67 ; M. 

 Perrotin, 162 



Urea, on the Soluble Ferment of, 512 



Urquhart (John W.), Electric Light, its Production and Use, 

 540 



Ussher (R. J.), Crossbills in Waterford, 135 



Ussher ( W. A. E. ), Devonian Rocks of South Devon, 95 



Utica, Earthquake at, 109 



Utilization of Niagara Falls, 287 



Vacuum Brakes on Railways, 88 



Valais, Upper, Bursting of Glacier Dam by Marjelen Lake, 

 402 



Valois (Edmund J. de), the Height of Popocatapetl, loi 



Vapour- Density, Experiments on, E. P. Perman, 118 



Varanger Fiord, Rev. Dr, Norman's Dredging Expedition in. 

 486 



Varet (Raoul), Combinations of Cyanide of Mercury \ 

 Lithium Salts, 632 



Variability, Stellar,''Prof. J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 415, 515 



Variable Stars : New Variable in Cygnus, 112 ; near the Cluster 

 5 Messier, 460; Prof. S. C. Chandler on, 528 



Variation in the Nesting-Habits of Birds, T. D. A. CockerelL 6 



Varley (F. H.), on a New Photometer, 579 



Vatican Observatory, the New, 34 



Veddahs of Ceylon, Language of the, 280 



Veeder (Dr. M. A.) : Sudden Rises of Temperature, 81 ; Atmo- 

 spheric Circulation, 126 



Vegetation, the Fixation of Free Nitrogen, Sir J. B. Lawes, 

 F.R.S., and Prof. J. H. Gilbert, F.R.S., 41 



Velocities of Projectiles, 250 



Venable (F. P.), Two New Meteoric Irons, 432 



Ventosa (Don S.), Method of Determining Wind-direction by 

 Observation of Undulations of Margins of Disks of Heavenly 

 Bodies, 260 



Venus, Rotation of, 209 



Vercoutre (Dr. A.), Astronomy and Numismatics, 556 



Vernadsky (W.), Mineralogical Composition of Porcelain, 264 



Verneau (Dr.), the Covered Mortuary Chambers at Les Mureaux, 

 407 



Verona, Meeting of Italian Botanical Society in, 597 



Verres's Photographs in Natural Colours, Prof. Vogel, 264 



Vertebrata, Catalogue of British Fossil, Arthur Smith Wood- 

 ward and Chas. D. Sherborn, 122 



Very (F. W.), the Cheapest Form of Light, 432 



Vesuvius, Revival of the Activity of, 512 



Vibration of Straight Wires, Curves produced by the, Dr. 

 Edward Sang, 575 



Victoria : Education in, 159 ; Necessity for a Central School of 

 Mines in, Cosmo Newbery, 353 ; Scientific Expedition to 

 Eastern Islands under Auspices of Field Naturalists' Club of, 



597 

 Victoria Hall, Lecture Arrangements at, 17 

 Vidal (G. W.), the Venomous Snakes of North Kanara, 160 

 Vienna Hofmuseum, Heinrichvon Siebold's Japanese Collection 



presented to, 375 

 Vienna, Naturhistorischen Hofmuseum, Annalen der, 157 

 Vigarie (E. ), Modern Geometry of the Triangle, 77 

 Villard (M.) : Certain Hydrates of Haloid Esters, 336 ; Excep- 

 tional Seasons in Past Centuries, 353 

 Villepoix (Moynier de). Repair of Shell in Anodon, 336 

 Vine and Orange Pests, Californian, 300 

 Virchow (Prof. H.), Gill-slits of the Sturgeon, 336 

 Viscosity, Surface, and Surface Tension, 545 

 Viscosity of Water, Superficial, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 282 

 Vlacq, on Last Place Errors in. Dr. Edward Sang, 593 

 Voellzkow (M.), Habits of Crocodiles, 376 

 Vogel (Prof.), Verres's Photographs in Natural Colours, 264 

 Volcanoes : the Height of Popocatapetl, Edmund J. de Valois, 

 loi ; Characteristics of the Volcanoes of Hawaii, James D. 

 Dana, 266 ; on the Origin of the Deep Troughs of the Oceanic 

 Depression, Are any of Volcanic Origin, Prof. James D. Dana, 

 357 ; Revival of the Activity of Vesuvius, 512 ; Volcanoes of 

 the Table-land of Mexico, 582; Threatened Eruption of 

 Kilauea Volcano, 618 ; Eruption of Mount Etna, 618 ; the 

 Eruption of Vulcano Island, Dr. H. J. Johnston-Lavis, 78 

 Vorce and Burton (Messrs.), Properties of Pure Magnesium 



obtained by Distillation in Vacuo, 161 

 Voyages, Camping, on German Rivers, Arthur A. Macdonell, 

 389 



Waagen (Dr. W.), Palteontologia Indica, Vol. IV., Part I., dG 

 Wales and Shropshire, Dr. Hicks on Earth-Movements in, 532 

 Walker (General, F.R.S.), Pendulum Operations for Determin- 

 ing Relative Force of Gravity at Kew and Greenwich, 167 

 Wallace (Dr. Alfred R.) : the Colours of Animals, Edward 



Bagnall Poulton, F.R. S., 289 ; Birds and Flowers, 295 

 Wanklyn (J. Alfred) and W. J. Cooper, Air Analysis, with an 



Appendix on Illuminating Gas, 591 

 War-ships, Past and Present, Captain Noble, C.B., F.R.S.,499 

 Ward (Geo. H.), Examination Papers in Trigonometry, 567 

 Ward (Prof. Marshall), on the Teaching of Botanv in School---, 

 579 



