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INDEX 



[Nature, Dec. 27, 18S3 



Profs. Dewar and Liveing, 550 ; on Supposed Sunspot In- 

 equalities of Short Periods, 605 



Sunday Society, 17 



Sunday, the Opening of Museum?, &c., on, 63 



Sussex Folk Lore, K E. Sawyer, 624 



Swallows and Cholera, 329 



Sweden : Swedish Contributions to the Memorial to Charles 

 Darwin, 63; Aurora Borealis in, 134; Mirage in, 158 ; Cater- 

 pillars in, 234 ; Swedish Circumpolar Expedition, 328 ; Meteors 

 ™> 377> 4 2 5 > Swedish Meteorological Expedition, 469 



Swift (Lewis), a New Comet, 1883, 546 



Swift's Cometary Object, 606 



Swinburne (Jas.), "Practical Electrical Units Popularly Ex- 

 plained," 610 



Swiss Alpine Club Yearly Report, 573 



Sydney : Linnean Society of New South Wales, 95, 239, 311, 

 383 ; Royal Society of New South Wales, 263 



Symons (G. J., F.R.S.), the Zodiacal Light (?), 7 



Tachlyte, Prof. Judd, F.R.S., and G. O. J. Cole, 167 



Tait (Lawson), the Uselessness of Vivisection, 589 



Tait (Prof. P. G.), S'ate of the Atmosphere which Produces the 



Forms of Mirage observed by Vince and by Scoresby, S4 

 Talisman Expedition, 403 ; Return of, 469 

 Tangier, Earthquake at, 623 



Taschenberg (Dr. Otto), Verwandlungen der Tiere, 100 

 Tashkend Observatory, 53 1 



Tasmania, Proceedings of the Royal Society of, 258 

 Taun (A.), Meteor, 564 

 Taxidermy, Manual of, C. J. Maynard, 317 

 Taylor (J. W.), Proposed Monograph on British Mollusca, 180 ; 



Sheet Lightning, 126 

 Taylor (Sedley), " Sound and Music," 434 

 Taylor (W. W.), Meteors of June 3, 174 

 Tchesme, &c, Earthquake at, 623 

 Teachers' Association for the Advancement of Science and Art, 



279 

 Technical School at University College, Nottingham, 532 

 Telegraph, the, in China, 330 ; Chinese Telegraphic Code, 570 

 Telephone: Experiments in the United States, 43; Result of 



Inquiry as to Invention of, 401 ; New Clai nant to Invention 



of. 445 



Telescopic Work for the Autumn, F. W. Denning, 590 



Tempel's Comet, 1873 II. 44, 377; Schulhof's Elements of, 446 



Temperature, Note on the Influence of High, on the Electrical 

 Resistance of the Hutnan Body, W. H. Stone, 151 



Temperature, Effect of on Electromotive Force and Resistance 

 of Batteries, 191 



Temperature, Continuous Resistance of, E. M. Jacob, 436 



Teneriffe, the Peak of, not very Active again, Prof. Piazzi 

 Smyth, 172 



Terminology, Dr. Burt G. Wilder on, 77 



Terrestrial Currents, Prof. Lenz's Proposed Observations on, 

 186 



Terrill (W.), Cholera and Copper, 462 



Tertiary Corals, W. E. Balston, 270 



Tertiary Period, Master Divisions of the, Prof. Boyd Dawkins, 

 F.R.S., 578 



Testacella hallotoidea, the Rare Slug, 581 



Testimonial System, Result of our, Dr. M. Foster, F.R.S., 341 



Thermometer, Negretti and Zambra's Deep Sea, 306 



Thibet, Col. Prejevalsky's Expedition to, 546 



Thompson (D'A. W.), Hermann Midler's " 

 Flowers," Translated by, 513 



Thompson (Prof. Silvanus P.), Historical Notes in Physics, 130 



Thomson (A. W.), and Thos. Alexander, Elementary Applied 

 Mechanics, J. F. Main, 364 



Thomson (Joseph), Expedition, 158 



Thomson (Sir William, F.R.S.), Electrical Units of Measure- 

 ments, 91 ; the Size of Atoms, 203, 250, 274 



Thorium, the Properties of, 18 



Thunderstorms and Aurora, E. R. Chadbourn, 388 ; A. Ram- 

 say, 414 ; Alan Macdougall, 436 ; Prof. Edlund's Theory of 

 Connection between, 446 



Thylacoleo, Prof. Owen, F.R.S., 119 



Tidal Wave, the Great, 626 



Tide, Extraordinary Low, in Colombo Harbour, 544 



Tigers in South Usuri, Siberia, 134 



Tihon (Mons. P.), New Semi-incandescent Lamp, 625 



: Fertilisation of 



Timor-Lant, B.A. Report on the Natural History of, 549 



Tin Mines in Malacca, 330 



Tissandier's Continuous Process for filling Large Balloons with 



Hydrogen, 445 

 Todhunter's Mathematical Works, Piracy of, in Japan, 43 

 Tokio Observatory, Weather Maps, 402 

 Tokio University, Calendar of, 425 

 Tomsk, Hailstorm at, 376 

 Tonkin, the Mines of, 257 

 Tonquin, Proposed Cables for, 135 

 Tornadoes in America, 16, 88, 426 

 TSrnebohm (A. E.), Metamorphic Rocks of Scandinavia and 



Scotland, 7 

 Torsion Galvanometer, Siemens and Halske, 571 

 Tortoises, Aldabra Island, \V. Littleton, 39S 

 Total Solar Eclipse, of September S-9, 1S85, 208 ; of August, 



28-29, 1886, 2S1 

 Toth (Prof. M.), the Minerals of Hungary, 7S 

 Townsend (Frederick), Flora of Hampshire, J. Britten, 122 

 Tramcars, French Storage Company's Accumulators applied to, 



207 ; Trial of, in Paris, 469 

 Tran-it Instrument, Latimer Clark, 51 

 Transit of Venus, the Late, 377 



Transmission Eastwards round the Globe of Barometric Ab- 

 normal Movements, Contribution to the Study of the, A. N. 



Pearson, 354, 377 

 Transmission of Power to a Distance, Marcel- Deprez System of, 



470 

 Treble Primary Rainbow, 344 



Trewendt's " Encyclopaedia of Physical Sciences," 470 

 Triangle, the Circles of a, 7, 104 

 Trieste, Earthquake at, 623 

 Trimen (Dr.), on Leaf Disease in Coffee, 234 

 Triple Rainbow, R. P. Greg, 300 

 Tromholt (Herr Sophis), Researches on Aurora Borealis, 133 ; 



Auroral Observatory at Kautokeino, 397 

 Trrop (H. R.), on Colour Sensation, 47 

 "Tropical Agriculturist" (Ferguson's), Prof. W. Fream, 459 

 Trouvelot's Red Star, 546 



Tseng (Marquis), on the Study of Modern Languages, 16 

 Tucker (R.), Gauss and the Late Prof. Smith, 272 

 Tunicata and Vertebrata, Hypophysis Cerebri in, Prof. W. A. 



Herdman, 284 

 Turner (E. R.), the Zodiacal Light, 103 

 Tweed Salmonidae, 469 

 Tycho Brahe's Nova 1572, 65 



Tylor (Dr. E. li., F.R.S.), Lectures on Anthropology, 8, 55 

 Tyndall (Prof. John, F.R.S.), Sheet Lightning, 54 



Ulrome, Lake-Dwellings at, 623 



Underground Waters, H. A. Report on, 548 



United States : Education in the, 25 ; Co-education of the 

 Sexes in, 352; Francis Galton, F.R.S., on the American 

 Trotting Horse, 29 ; Telephony in, 43 ; Table at the Naples 

 Zoological Station, 63 ; Tornadoes in the, 16, 88, 426 ; 

 National Academy of Sciences, 92 ; Commission of Fish and 

 Fisheries, 339 ; Hailstones in, 376 ; Professorial Salaries in, 

 376 ; Coast and the Geodetic Survey, 416 {see also America) 



Units of Measurement, Electrical, Sir William Thomson, 

 F.R.S., 91 



University and Educational Intelligence, 21, 45, tlS, 141, 166, 

 189, 213, 261, 2S6, 383, 407, 455, 560, 607 



University College, London, Gilchrist Engineering Entrance 

 Scholarship at, 407 



Upheaval, the Java, 443 



Upsala University, Lady Graduate at, 624 



Urine Pigment-, Dr. MacMunn on, 46 



Uranus, Ellipticity of, 30S 



Urd Expedition, 447 



Valentin (Dr. Gabriel Gustav), Death of, IIS 



Vatiadis, Voyage round the World of the, 258 



Van der Ven (E.), Comparative Resistance of Bronze and Cop- 

 per Wires for Lines, 626 



Variable Stars, 403 ; U Cephei, 625 



Varigny (Henry de) : Dr. Miguel's " Les Organismes Vivants 

 de l'Atmosphere," 76 ; " Les Enchainement du Monde Ani- 

 mal dans les Temps Geologiques," Albert Gaudry, 193 



