[Na/nn; /mic 9, iS 



Ulrich (Prof.), Discovery of Identity of Sand in the New 

 Zealand Rivers with Oktibehite, 190 



Uniherlo, 11 re, the Kngines of, 352 



United Kingdom, Ordnance Survey of the, Lieut.-Col. T. 

 Pilkington White, 170 



United States : Earthquakes in, 36 ; Fish Commission, Work of 

 the, 55, 541; ; Observatory for Women in, 229 ; Greenleaf's 

 Bequest lo flarvard College, 229 ; Science on advertising for 

 Candidates for Vacant Professorships, 229 ; A. Heilprin, on 

 the Geology of Florida, 230 ; Fish-destroying Insects in the, 

 George Dimmock, 327 ; Number of Female Teachers in the, 

 375; Coast Survey, 400; Geological S-irvey on Mineral Re- 

 sources of the United States, 401 ; Bligh' and Mildew on Fruit 

 in the, 422 ; National Museum, R-port for the Year 18S4 of 

 the, 544 ; Baldness of Men in the, 595 ; Naval Observatory, 

 595. {See also America.) 



Units of Weight, Mass, and Force, Prof. A. G. Greenhill, 486 ; 

 Rev. Edward Geoghegan, 534 ; Prof. A. Lodge, 557 ; Archd. 

 C. Elliott, 605 ; Robert F. Hayward, F.R.S., 604 



University of Berlin, Number of Students, 444 



University of Bologna, Eight Hundredth Anniversary, 399 



University College, the Career of, 179 



University College, Bristol, Albert Fry, 345 



University College, Liverpool, Generous Endowments, 2S0 



University Colleges, Prof. Jowett on, 441 



Universities: University Extension Scheme, 611 ; Trial of, in 

 Scotland, 327 ; University Intelligence, 22, 6g, 119, 212, 285, 

 380, 404, 451, 477, 501, 59S, 621 ; University for London, 

 505; Semi-Centennial Anniversary of Louisville, 545; Sixty- 

 eighth Anniversary of St. Petersburg, 422 



Unwin (Prof W. C, F. R.S.), on some New Measuring-Instru- 

 ments, used in testing Materials, 334 



Upsala University, Female Students at, 306 ; New University 

 Building at, 518 



Uralian Society of Natural Sciences, 133 



Uranus, Ellipticity of. Prof. W. Valentiner, 614 



Urine, Ammoniacal Decomjjosition of, Dr. W. R. Smith, 404 



Urostyle of the Common Frog, Abnormality in the. Prof C. 

 Lloyd Morgan, 344 



Urua, Capt. Cameron's Lecture on, 259 



Urvolk of Japan, Aino Hairiness and the, F. V. Dickins, 534 



Vaerdalen, Norway, Brilliant Meteor seen in, 612 



Vaizey(J. R.), the Morphology of the Sporophore in Mosses, 358 



Valency and Residual Affinity, Prof. H.E. Armstrong, F.R.S., 



570, 595 

 Valentiner (Prof W.), Ellipticity of Uranus, 614 

 Van Slyke (L. L.), Kilauea after the Eruption of March 18S6, 



451. 

 Vanadic Acid, Quantitative Analysis of, 576 

 Vanadium occurring in Rocks and Mineral Ores, on the E.xtrac- 



tion and Analysis of the, 576 

 Vaporisation of some very Volatile Substances, on the Latent 



Heats of, 551 

 Variables : New, S. C. Chandler, 307 ; New, in Cygnus, Dr. 



Gould, 282 ; Gore's, near y} Orionis, Dr. G. Miiller, 329 ; the 



New Algol-Type, Mr. Chandler, 329 ; Observations of, in 



1S85, Edward Sawyer, 378 ; Probable New, 402 

 Vaschy (M. A.), on the Nature of the Electric Actions in an 



Insulating Medium, 263 

 Veddahs, C. Stevens on the, 134 

 Veddas of Ceylon, 205 

 Veeder (Dr. M. A.) : Aurora, 54 ; Meteors and Auroras, 126 ; 



Auroras, 272 ; Sunspots, 5S4 

 Vegetable Soils, on the Direct Fixation of the Gaseous Nitrogen 



of the .Atmosphere by, M. Berthelot, 335 

 Vegetable Tissues, on the Effect of certain Stimuli on, Anna 



Baleson and Prof Francis Darwin, F.R. S., 429 

 Velocities, Virtual, F. Guthrie, 149 

 Venezuela, Anthropological Notes from, 496 

 Venice, Earthquake Shock in, 350 

 Ventosa (V.), a Claim of Priority, 513 

 Venukoff (M.), on the Upheaval of the South-West Coasts of 



Finland, 600 

 Verbeek, Volcanoes in Sumatra, 60 

 Verhandlungen of the Berlin Geographical Society, 520 

 Vertebral Column of the Common Frog, Abnormalities in the. 



Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan, 53 



Vertebrates, Comparative Anatomy of, Robert Wiedersheim, 



W. Newton Parker, 121 

 Vertical Decrement of Temperature and Pressure, S. A. Hill, 



606 

 Victoria Hall Lectures, 35 

 Victoria Institute, 191, 454, 527 



Vienna Geographical Society, 354 ; Imperial Academy of 

 Sciences, 72 ; Types of Birds in the Vienna Natural History 

 Museum, 204 

 Vilayet Konia, Asia Minor, Earthquake at, 370 

 Villepigne (Floran de), Autographome'er, 444 

 Vine, Anti-Phylloxeric Disinfection of the Grape, 382 

 Vine, Peronospora of the, 382 

 Virginia, Astronomy in, 35 

 Virtual Velocities, F. Guthrie, 149 

 Virus, Scorpion, Sir J. Fayrer, F. R.S., 488; Prof. C. Lloyd 



Morgan, 534 

 Vitality of Mummy Seeds, Geo. Murray, 582 

 Vitality of S;eds, 414; F. G. Hilton Price, 463 ; L. Blome- 



field, 463 ; Dr. L. Martial Klein, 463 

 Vitality and its Definition, Prof. John W. Judd, F.R.S., 511 ; 



F. Howard Collins, 583 

 Volcanoes : of Japan, Prof. Milne, 19 ; in Sumatra, Verbeek, 

 60 ; Revelations of a Dissected Volcano, Jas. D. Dana, 93 ; 

 Active Volcano in Japan, 133 ; Volcano of Mauna Loa in 

 Eruption, 423 ; Volcanic Action, Jas. D. Dana, 451 ; Deposits 

 of Volcanic Dust, Prof Geo. P. Merrill, 174 ; Volcanic Dust 

 from New Zealand, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 56; Vol- 

 canic Eruption in Niua-Fu, Friendly Islands, Prof. T. G. 

 Bonney, F. R. S., 127 ; Volcanic Eruption in Mount Tarumai, 

 in Yezo, 472 ; in Northern California, 3S0 

 Voltaic Action, Theory of, J. Brown, 142 

 Voltaic Arc, on the, 576; Electromotive Force of the, 331 

 Voltaic Electricity, Note on the Development of, by Atmo- 

 spheric Oxidation, C. R. Alder Wright, F. R.S., 59S 

 Volumetric Determination of Hydrogen Sulphide, 3S4 

 Vortices, Aerial, 551 

 Vortices, Aerial, and Revolving Spheres, E.xperiments on, Ch. 



Weyher, 514 

 Vrie-i (Prof Hugo de), how to make Colourless Specimens of 

 Plants to be preserved in Alcohol, 149 



Wagner Free Institute of Science, 230 



Wahrlich on Fungus and Orchids, 230 



Wales (Prince of). Imperial Institute, Prof. Huxley, 265 



Walker (John), Enormous Loss from O.x- Warble, 7 



Walker (J. J.), Solar Halo, 272 



Walker (Gen. J. T., F.R.S.), on the Lu River of Tibet, 615 



Walker (Fred. W.), Practical Dynamo-building for Amateurs, 

 294 



Wall (H. Beresford de la Poer), Manual of Physical Geography 

 of Australia, 389 



Wallace (Dr. Alfred R.), Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., on Physio- 

 logical Selection, 247, 366, 390 



War and Ballooning, Eric S. Bruce, 259 



War-Ships, Modern, W. H. White, 306 



Ward (Henry A.), West Indian Seal, Monachus tropicalis, 392 



Ward (Prof. H. Marshall), Entyloma A'aniiiiciili, 166; Proto- 

 plasm, 300 



Warington (R., F.R.S), on the Constitution of the Nitrogenous 

 Organic Matter of Soils, 403 



Washburn Observatory, Publications of the, 159 



Washington, Ninth Triennial Meeting of the International 

 Medical Congress at, 350 



Washington Observatory, 308, 614 ; Capt. R. L. Phythian, 

 569 



Watch, Means to Convert a, into a Repeater, 312 



Water, Aerated, on some Phenomena connected with the Freez- 

 ing of, Geoge Maw, 325 



Water Battery, Henry A. Rowland, 452 



Water in the Chalk beneath the London Clay of the London 

 Basin, on the, Robert B. Hay ward, F. R.S., 335 



Water, Cohesion of an Air-free Column of. Prof. Helmholtz, 

 456 



Waters (A. W.), Fossil Chilostomatous Bryozoa from New 

 Zealand, 190 



Waterspouts, Ch. Weyher on, 407 ; M. Mascart, 431 ; on a 

 Complementary Experiment relative to, 600 



