Nature, Dec. 10, 1885] 
Trees, Causes of Liability to be Struck by Lightning of Certain, 
Percy Smith, 494 
Tremble-terre du 26 Septembre, 1885, Prof. F. A. Forel, 
74 
ee (Henri), Death of, 18 
Trewendt’s ‘f Encyklopadie der Naturwissenschaften,” 515 
Triassic Sandstone of Elgin, Presence of the Remains of Dicy- 
nodon in the, Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S., 572 
Trigonometrical Survey of India, on Levelling Operations of the 
Great, Major A. W. Baird, 536 
Trilobites in Eastern Siberia, 208 
Trimen (Dr.), Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of 
Ceylon, 354 
Tromholt (Dr. Sophus), a Yearly and a Daily Period in *Tele- 
graphic Perturbations, 88; a Note Relating to the History of 
the Aurora Borealis, 89; the Aurora, 274, 348 ; Norwegian 
Testimony to the Aurora-Sound, 499; the New Star in 
Andromeda, 579 
Trondhjem, Hugh Miller on Some Results of a Detached 
Survey of the Old Coast Lines near, 555 
Trotter (Coutts), Recent Explorations in New Guinea, 611 
Trout, Young, Destruction by Mosquitoes of, 515 
Trowbridge (J.), a Standard of Light, 568 
Truth, Guessings at, 152 
Tschermak (Dr. Gustav), ‘* Lehrbuch der Mineralogie,” 3 
Tube, Rotating Vacuum, on Certain Spectral Images Produced 
by a, Shelford Bidwell, 30 
Tuberculosis of the Vine, L. de A. Corvo, 495 
Tucker (R.), on the late Prof. Clifford’s Papers and MS., 4; 
Prof. Clifford’s Kinetic, 147 
Tuckwell (Rev. W.), ‘‘Life of Frank Buckland,” George 
Bompas, 385 
Tumuli at Geinberg in Austria, 355 
Tunis: Education in, 134: the Water-Supply of the Desert of, 
28t 
Turner (Prof. W.), on Some Points in the Anatomy of 
Sowerby’s Whale, 560 ; on the Index of the Pelvic Brim as a 
Basis of Classification, 586 
Tuttle’s Comet, 13, 280, 301, 402 
Twilight, J. Kiessling, 321 
Two Generalisations, W. M. Flinders Petrie, 597 
Tycho’s Nova of 1572, 162 
Tylor (Prof. E. B., F.R.S.), American Anthropology, 593 
Tyndall (Prof. F.R.S.), his Lectures in the United States, 
207 
Typhoons: Characteristics of, 329 ; M. Faye on, 408; Average 
Velocities of, 463 
Tyrolese Alps, New Meteorological Station on, 133 
Ultra-Violet Spark Spectra Emitted by Metallic Elements, 
529 
Unconscious Bias in Walking, Manly Miles, 293 
*“Under the Rays of the Aurora Borealis,” S. Tromholt, 
274 
Underground Temperature, 503 
United States: Harvard College Observatory, 37 ; Commission 
of Fish and Fisheries for 18$1-82, Reports of, J. T. Cunning- 
ham, 79; Shad-Rearing in, 112 ; Meteorology in, 181; Co- 
ordination of the Scientific Bureaus of the U.S. Government, 
317; Cyclones in, 328 ; Economic Ornithology in, 329; 
Mineral Resources of the, A. Williams, 341 ; U.S. Industrial 
Statistics, 369; Mineral Products of the United States, 404 ; 
Storm on Atlantic Coast of, 427.; Omithology in, 461; Ac- 
climatisation of Flat Fish in, 514; Education in the, 518 ; 
Agricultural Grasses of the, Dr. Geo. Vasey, Prof. W. 
' Fream, 525; United States Coast and the Geodetic Survey, 
572 
Universal Gallery of the British Museum, Guide to the, (Natural 
History), L. Fletcher, 364 f 
Universal Meridian, Dr. Janssen, 148, 200 
University College, Professorship of Electrical Engineering at, 
253 
University College, Liverpool, 159 
University College of North Wales, Calendar of, 608 
University Intelligence, 21, 44, 90, 116, 141, 165, 188, 237, 
309, 357, 497, 543, 614, 639 
University of London, 289 ; New Departure for the, 265 
University of Lund, 112 
INDEX 
XXI1X 
University, a Teaching, for London, 255 
University, a Model, 367 
University of Virginia, 134 
Universities and Science, Sir Lyon Playfair on, 441 
Unthinkable, the, Signor Bonatelli, 120 
Upsala, Society of Science, 72 ; Collection of Eggs at the Uni- 
versity of, 280 
Uranus and Neptune, Satellites of, 553 
Urine, Xanthine Bodies in, Dr. Salomon, 496 
Vacuum-Tube, Rotating, on Certain Spectral Images produted 
by a, Shelford Bidwell, 30 
Value of the Testimony to the Aurora-Sound, Samuel Sexton, 
625 
Variable Stars, 554; J. E. Gore, 180 ; V Cygni, 610 
Vasey (Dr. Geo.), *‘ Agricultural Grasses of the United States,” 
Prof. W. Fream, 525 
Vasomotor Centre in Cortex of Cerebrum, a, Dr. Raudnitz, 119 
Vaux (W. S. W., F.R.S.), Death of, 181 
Vegetable Substances, Guide for the Microscopical Investigation 
of, Dr. W. J. Behrens, 193 
Vegetation, Evolution of, J. Clayton, 223 : 
Vegetation of the Earth, A. Grisebach, W. Botting Hemsley, 
315 ; Dr. W. Engelmann, 366 
Veins, Pulsation in the, 437; J. Hippisley, 389; Dr. J. W. 
Williams, 466 
Velocity of Light, M. Wolf’s Modification of Foucault’s Appa- 
ratus for the Measurement of the, Albert A. Michelson, 6 
Velocity, Speed and, 29 ; Senex. 78 
Venus, the Transit of, 1882, Belgian Observations in Texas, 
254 : 
Verein fiir Naturkunde zu Mannheim, 463 
Verhandlungen des Vereins fur Naturwissenschaftliche Unter: 
haltung in Hamburg, 111 
Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft fiir Erdkunde zu Berlin, 
376 
Verrill (Prof.), Longevity of Oysters out of Water, 494 
Vertebrze, on the Development of the, of the Elephant, Prof. 
Struthers, 560 
Vesuvius, Eruption of, 11; the New Outburst of Lava from, 
H. J. Johnston-Lavis, 55, 108; Volcanic Phenomena of, 
505 
Vesta, Occultations of, 355 
Veth (Dr. D), Death of, 403 
Victoria Hall Science Lectures, 514; Penny Science Lectures 
at the, 609 
Vienna: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 24, 72, 192, 520; 
Geographical Society of, 429; Mittheilungen of the Geo- 
graphical Society of, 356 
Vincennes, Emigration of Eels at, 111 
Vine, Tuberculosis of the, L. de A. Corvo, 496 
Vines (Sydney H.) and F, O. Bower, “ A Course of Practical 
Instruction in Botany,” 73 
Vipan’s (Capt.) Aquarium of Foreign Fishes at Wansford, 
541 
Virchow (Dr. H.), the Eye of the Frog, 519 
Virginia, University of, McCormick Observatory, 13 
Viscera of Gymnotus electricus, Prof. Cleland, 561 
eoaty of Ice, Some Experiments on, Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan, 
I 
Vision—-Time—Thunderbolts—Sunglows, Antoine d’Abbadie, 
29 
Visitation of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 138 
Vivisection, 141 
Volcanoes: Volcanic Activity in Java, 401; Volcanic Phe- 
nomena of Vesuvius, TI, 506 ; Threatening State of Krakatao, 
161 ; the Recent Volcanic Eruptions in Java, 181 ; Eruption of 
Cotopaxi, 375, 428 
Voltaic Cell with a Solid Electrolyte, Shelford Bidwell, 
345 
Voltmeters, on the Winding of, Profs. Ayrton and Perry, 
215 
Volumetric Analysis for Testing Bioxides of Manganese, Paul 
Charpentier, 359 : 
Vortex Atom Theory, on the Constitution of the Luminiferous 
Ether and the, Prof. W. M. Hicks, 537 
Vortex-Rings, Prof. Lodge on Stream-Lines of Moving, 
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