Vill 
Sun, the Physical Constituticn of the, 34; 
the, 67, £9, 123, 160; Evidence as to Spots on the, derived 
from Mr. Lockyer’s Method of Spectroscopic Observation, 74 ; 
Spectroscopic Observations of the, by J. N. Lockyer, F.R.S., 
131; the Fuel of the, 451; Prof. Zollner on the Tempera- 
ture and Physical Constitution of the, 522 
Swallow Holes in Mountain Limestone, Miall (Br. A.), 528 
Swallows’ Nests, by A. Naquet, 377 
Syro-Egyptian Society, 203, 287 
Tannin, the Effect of, on Cotton, 452 
Tar Pavement, the Manufacture of, 303 
Taylor (Sedley) on Physical Science at Cambridge, 28 
Tea, by J. R. Jackson, 215 
Telegraph Coils, S. A. Varley (Br. A.), 462 
Telegraphy, Novel, by Fleeming Jenkin, 12 
Telfairia pedata, 521 
Temperature of the British Islands, 307 
Tetrabromide of Carbon, 37 
Terrestrial Magnetism, S. J. Perry on, 125 
Thalium, the position of, in the series of elementary bodies, 156 | 
Thermal Springs in the Fens of Cambridgeshire, F. W. Harmer 
(Br. A.), 584 ; ; 
Thermo-dynamic Acceleration and Retardation of Streams, by 
Prof. W. J. M. Rankine (Br. A.), 440 
Thiophenol, Conversion of, into Phenylic Disulphide, 487 
Thome’s “ Das Gesetz der vermiedenen Selbstbefruchtung bei 
den héheren Pflanzen,” 334 
Thomson (Prof. Tames) on the Continuity of the Gaseous and 
Liquid States of Matter, 278 
Thomson (Sir William), Letter by, 56 
Thomson (Wyville) on Deep-sea Climates, 257 
Thorpe (T. E.) on the Province of Mineral Chemistry, 304 
Thought, the Velocity of, by M. Foster, 2 
Tideswell Dale, an altered Clay-bed and Sections in, 246 
Tomlinson (C.), Letter on Supersaturated Solutions, 335 
Tower Subway, the, 33 
Training, Classical and Scientific, 250 
Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field Club, 187 
Trans-Narym Country, An Expedition to the, 17 
Trees, the Tendency of, to bend towards the East, by L. 
Trouvelet (Boston Natural History Society), 180 
Trequair (Prof. R. H.), Paper on the Scales of Calamoichthys 
calabaricus, 155 
Truro, Royal Institution of, Cornwall, 154 
‘Turret Ships, the Stability of, 494 
Tyler (E. B.) on the Philosophy of Religion among the Lower 
Races of Mankind, 18 ; on Taunton College School, 48 
Tyndall (Prof.) on Pasteur’s Researches on the Diseases of Silk- 
worms, 181; Lectures of, at the Royal Institution, on Elec- 
trical Phenomena and Theories, 243; on the Colour of the 
Lake of Geneva and the Mediterranean Sea, 489 
Underground Temperature Committee (Br. A.), Third Report 
of, 484 
Unit of Length, the, 137 
U. S. Coast Survey, Soundings and Dredgings by the, 169 
University College, Faculty of Science in, 377 
Unpublished Italian MS. of the Seventeenth Century, by George 
F. Rodwell, 370 
Upper Silurian Strata in Roxburgh and Dumfries, C. Lapworth 
(Br. A.), 484 
Utilisation of Sewage, D. Forbes (Br. A.), 503 
INDEX 
Pinkish Colour of | Variegation, Nature of the Phenomena of, 89 
Vegetable Fossils from Victoria, 245 
Venus, the Transit of, and the Artarctic Regions, 29 ; the Coming 
Transits of, 343 
Vertebrate Skeleton, the, by St. George Mivart, 291 
Victoria Institute, 154 
Vienna: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 19, 59, 268 ; Imperial 
Geological Institution, 19 
Vignoles (C. B.), Address to Section G (Br. A.), 448 
Virchow (Prof.) on Portrait or Facial Urns, 128 
Vivisection, Prof. Huxley on, 466 
Volcanic Agency v. Denudation, 375 
Volcano Tongariro, New Zealand, Eruption of, 477 
Volcanoes, by David Forbes, F.R.S., 283 
Von Graefe, 277 
Wallace (A. R) on Pettigrew’s Handy-book of Bees, 82; on 
a Twelve-wired Bird of Paradise, 234; on the Early History 
of Mankind, 350; Speech on the Arrangement of Specimens 
in a Natural History Museum, 465; on Natural Selection, 471; 
on the Glaciation of Brazil, 510 
Waller (Dr. A.), 436 
Walz (Dr. I.), Extinction and Reducing Power of Mercury, 388 
Wanklyn’s (Prof. J. A.) Letter on Spontaneous Generation, 234 
War, 229; the Science of, 339, 358, 378 
Waterspout off Calais, 342 
| Water, the Abrading and Transporting Power of, by T. Login, 
72; Analysis, 293, 315, 308; Different forms of, 38 
Wealden, the Age of, E. W. Judd (Br. A.), 481 
Weldon’s Process for the Manufacture of Chlorine, W. Weldon 
(Br. A.), 440 
Whalebone Whales of the Southern Hemisphere, J. E. Gray, 
F.R.S. (Br. A.), 527 
What is a Boulder? Letter by C. T. Woodward, 66 
Wheat Rust and Barberry Rust, by A. W. Bennett and M. J. 
Berkeley, 318 
| Wheatstone (Sir C.) on a Cause of Error in Electroscopic Ex- 
periments (Royal Soc.), 17 
White Mustard Seed, Paper by Prof. H. Will (Vienna Acad. of 
Sc.), 19 
Williams’ (W. Mattieu) “ The Fuel of the Sun,” by Dr. Balfour 
Stewart, 99; on Iron and Steel, 322, 363 ; on the Intended 
Engineering College, 353 
Winlock (Prof.), his Plan for Photographing the Sun, 301 
Woodward (H.), Note on the Palpus and other Appendages 
of Asaphus from the Trenton Limestone, 94 
Wooster’s (David) “Mrs. Loudon’s First Book of Botany,” 23 
Working Men’s College, Letter by W. Rossiter, 475 
Wormell’s Geometry and Mensuration, J. M. Wilson, 313 
Worms from Thames Mud, by E. Ray Lankester, 527 
Xanthidia in Flint, 66 
Yale, a Word about, 470 
Yellow Rain, a fall of, 166 
Yeo’s (J. Burney) Notes of a Season at St. Moritz, 274 
| Zollner (Prof.) on the Sun’s Temperature and Physical Con- 
stitution, 522 
Zoological Society's Gardens, Recent Accessions to, by P. L, 
Sclater, 9, 146 
Zoological Society, 37, 74, 132, 154, 287 
Zoology and Botany, department of, at Br. A., 466 
