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INDEX 
XXXi 
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W. Odell, 55 ; Geological Survey of, 57, 501 ; Index Cata- 
logue of the Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office, United 
States Army, A. T. Myers, 98 ; Fisheries and Fishery Indus- 
tries in the, 146; Acclimatisation of Flatfish in American 
Waters, 322 ; Earthquakes in, 46, 530; Major Powell, W. 
Topley, 470; Earthquake-Shocks at Summerville and Charles- 
ton, 501; Report of Department of Agriculture—Cereals, 
466 ; American Journal of Science, 539 ; Railway Mileage of, 
554; Fifth Report of Geological Survey, 597 
University College, London, J. M. Horsburgh appointed Secre- 
tary, 299 
University, Function of a, President Holden, 632 
University of Heidelberg, the Celebration of the Five Hundredth 
Anniversary of, 276 | 
University Intelligence, 19, 46, 93, 114, 157, 185, 330, 496, 562, 
610 
University of Japan, Imperial, 224 
University of Sydney, Commemoration of, 275 
University at Tomsk, Siberia, 153 
Upland and Meadow, a Poaetquissings Chronicle, Chas. C. 
Abbott, 190 
Upper Wind-Currents over the Bay of Bengal in March, and 
Malaysia in April and May, Hon. Ralph Abercromby, 288 
Uranium Salts, Absorption-Spectra of, Dr. W. J. Russell, 
F.R.S., and W. J. Lapraik, 510 
Urea, Deportment of, in Manuring, Dr. Kellner, 175 
Urine, Secretion of Nitrates through, Dr. Gossels. 164 
Ussher (W. A. E.), Relations of Middle and Lower Devonian 
in West Somerset, 513 
Vanadic Acid, Action of Hydrogenated Acids on, A. Ditte, 
163 
Vapours and Gases, Electric Conductivity of, Prof. G. Luvini, 
611 
Vapours in Liquid, Temperatures and Critical Pressures of 
some, MM. C. Vincent and J. Chappuis, 380 
Variable Stars, 435, 580, 604, 628 
Variations of the Climate in the Course of Time, Prof. A, Blytt, 
220, 239 
Varieties, Origin of, Francis Galton, F.R.S., 395 
Varnishes, Oils, Resins, and, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 213 
Vaughan (J. D. W., F.R.Met.Soc.), Meteorological Results at 
Levuka and Suva, 187 
Veddas, Prof. Virchow’s Monograph on, to be printed, 530 
Veeder (M. A.), Aurora, 469 
Vega Medal, the, 248 
Vegetable Parasites of Codfish, 17 
Vegetable Products at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, J. 
R. Jackson, 242 
Vegetable Teratology, Dr. Maxwell Masters’, translated into 
German by Udo Dammer, 489 
Vegetation of South Georgia, W. B. Hemsley, 106 
Velocity of Light: Prof. S. Newcomb, F.R.S., on the, 29 ; 
A. M. Clerke, 170, 193 
Verbeek (M.), on the Krakatao Dust-Glows, 33 
Verhandlungen of the Berlin Geographical Society, 248, 399 
Verme (Count L. dal), Changes in Mount Etna, 628 
Vernal Equinox, Dragon Sacrifices at the, G. St. Clair, 608 
Vertebrata of the Red Crag, R. Lydekker, F.G.S., 139 
Vertebrate Columns of Different Human Types, Incurvations 
of the, Dr. H. Virchow, 332 
Vesuvius: February to August 1886, H. J. Johnston-Lavis, 
557; Volcanic Phenomena of, 481 
Vibrations, Sympathetic, of Jets, C. A. Bell, 138 
Vibrations, Torsional, on certain Sources of Error in Connection 
with Experiments on, Herbert Tomlinson, 283 
Victoria Philosophical Institute, 70; Report of, 115 
Victoria, Premier of, Deputation of Learned Societies to the, as 
to the Expediency of Antarctic Exploration, 398 
Vie, L’Evolution et la, Denys Cochin, 383 
Vielle and Berthelot (MM.), Heat of Combustion, 139, 163 
Vienna: Temperatures of the Forest, Prof. Hann, 603; Geo- 
graphical Society of, 605 ; Inoculation for Hydrophobia in, 
200 ; International Congress of Orientalists at, 529 
Vincent (C.): on the Normal Propylamines, 308; and J. 
Chappuis, Temperatures and Critical Pressures of some 
Vapours in Liguid, 380 
Vines (S. H.), Lectures on the Physiology of Plants, 381 
Vines, American, E. W. Claypole, 571 
Virchow (Dr. H.): the Capillaries of the Vitreous Body, 236; 
Incurvations of the Vertebrate Columns of Different Human 
—— 
Types, 332; Monograph on the Veddas, to be printed, 530; 
History of Scientific Societies in Germany, 605 
Visitation of the Royal Observatory, 122 
Vital Questions, Prof. Ferd. Cohn, 605 
Vitreous Body, the Capillaries of the, Dr. Virchow, 236 
Vivarez, H., Causeries Scientifiques, 1885, 494 
Vocal Organs, Hygiene of, Morell Mackenzie, M.D., 548 
Vogel (H. W.),'some Colour Experiments, and on Photography 
in Natural Colours, 354 : 
Volcanoes: Eruption in Java, 14; Fennema, 224; M. Verbeek 
on the Krakatao Dust-Glows, 33; Prof. A. Sandrucci on 
Crepuscular Lights following the Krakatao Eruption, 46; M. 
Daubrée on the Krakatdo Eruption, 115 ; Eruption of Mount 
Etna, 59, 82, 108, 130; Changes in Mount Etna, Count L. 
dal Verme, 628 ; Attempt to Sound Crater of Asamayama, 
130; Eruption of Mount Tarawera, in New Zealand, 153, 275, 
301; Dr. Arch. Geikie on the Recent Volcanic Eruption in 
New Zealand, 320; Dr. James Hector, F.R.S., 389 ; Curious 
Result of, 397; Emile Blanchard on, 403; the New Zealand 
Eruptions, 512; Volcanic Ash from New Zealand, J. Joly, 
595; Mr. Pond on, 488; Volcanic Rocks of North-Eastern 
Fife, the, James Durham, 210; Volcanic Rocks from Corn- 
wall, some, Frank Rutley, 210; Volcanic Rocks between 
Langesund, in the Christiania Fjord, and Lake Mjésen, in 
Central Norway, Prof. W. C. Brogger, 404; Eruption of 
Mayon, in the Island of Luzon, 275 ; Volcanic Eruptions and 
Earthquakes in Iceland within Historic Times, Geo. 
Boehmer, 370; Red Sunsets and Volcanic Eruptions, Prof. 
S. Newcomb, F.R.S., 340; Prof. A. Riccd, 386 ; of Japan, 
434; Eruption in Galita, 457; Volcanic Phenomena of 
Vesuvius, Dr. H. J. Johnston-Lavis, 481, 557; Eruption in 
White Island, 530; Volcanic Eruptions and Recent Earth- 
quakes, 599 
Volga, Ice breaking on the, 60 
Volta on Layoisier’s Pneumatic Theory, M. Govi, 491 
Volta, Electric Ship, 500 
Von den Steinen Exploration of the Xingu, 37! 
Vosges, Earthquake of October 16, 618 
Vulpian (M.), Study of Fish after Extraction of Cerebral Lobes, 
612 ; Motor Nerves in Palate of Dog, 636 
Vysotski, Stuckenberg and, the Stone Age at Kazan, 277 
Wagner (Prof. Paul), the Result of the Nitrate of Soda Com- 
petition, 199 
Wailes (J. W.), on the Treatment of Phosphoric Crude Iron in 
Open-Hearth Furnaces, 512 
Wakley (J. G.), Obituary Notice of, 433 
Walcott (Chas. D.), Classification of the Cambrian System of 
North America, 402 
Waldeck (F. M. von), Russland, 616 
Wales : Evidence of Man and Pleistocene Animals in, prior to 
Glacial Deposits, Henry Hicks, F.R.S., 216 ; Caves of North 
Wales, Dr. H. Hicks, F.R.S., 480; Silurian Rocks of, Prof. 
T. McKenny Hughes, M.A., 512; Arenig Series of, Prof. T. 
McKenny Huzhes, 513; Pre-Glacial Man in, Dr. Hicks, 
F.R.S., 608 
Walker (Dr.), Climate of North Borneo, 347 
Walking and Running, MM. Marey and Demeny, 588 
Wallace (Dr. Alfred R.), Central American Entomology, 333 ; 
Physiological Selection and the Origin of Species, 467 
Wallace (R.), Farm Live-Stock of Great Britain, 51 
Wallis (E. White), National Smoke-Abatement Institution, 203 
Walshe (Walter Hayle), the Colloquial Faculty for Languages, 
216 
Ward (Prof. H. M.): Roots, 524; Germination of Spores of 
Phytophthora infestans, 537 
Ward (Lester F.), Fossil Dicotyledonous Leaves, 158 ; History 
and Progress of Palazeobotany, 597 
Wardle (T.), Silk Cultivation in India, 14 
Warington (R., F.R.S.), on the Distribution of the Nitrifying 
Organism in the Soil, 511 
Wartmann (E.), Compensated Rheolyser, 378 
Warwickshire and Leicestershire, Glacial Erratics of, Rev. W. 
Tuckwell, 512 
Washburn Observatory, Prof. Holden’s Work at, 490 
Water, Air and, Microscopic Organisms in, M. le Dr. Miguel, 
318 
Water-Colours, the Fading of, Prof. W. N. Hartley, F.R.S., 
511 
Water, Duration of Germ-Life in, Arthur Downes, 265 ; Percy 
F, Frankland, 289 
