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INDEX. 



by means of working models, 380 ; the 

 geology of petroleum and natural gas, 



G3r. 



♦Topographical society in Cardiff, the 

 proposed formation of a, E. G. Eaven- 

 stein on, 722. 



Tower (B.), a steady platform for guns, 

 ice, at sea, 7G3. 



*To\v-net, a, exhibition of a new appa- 

 ratus for opening and closing by 

 electricity, by W. E. Hoyle and L. F. 

 Massey, 693. 



, a deep-sea, for opening and closing 



underwater, report of the Committee 

 for improving and experimenting with, 

 382. 



Transformation of adilferentialresolvent, 

 Rev. K. Harley on the, 560. 



Transformations used in connection with 

 the duality of differential equations, 

 E. B. Elliott on the, .568. 



Transmission of power by compressed 

 air, the compound principle in the, 

 Prof. A. C. Elliott on, 76.5. 



*Trces and prairies, by M. Christy, 715. 



Trimen (Dr.) on tlie steps taken for 

 establishing a botanical laboratory at 

 I'eradeniya, Ceylon, 3.)8. 



♦Tristram (Canon), exhibition of a very 

 .small parrot from the tfolomon Islands, 

 702. 



Trouton (F. T.) on the various phenomena 

 connected with the recalescent points 

 in iron and otiier metals, 147; *magneti(^ 

 experiments made in connection with 

 the determination of the rate of pro- 

 pagation of magnetisation in iron, .581. 



*Tuuing-forks maintained in vibration 

 electrically, the periodic time of. Prof. 

 J. V. Jones and T. Harrison on, 581. 



Tupper (C. L.), the recent progress of 

 agriculture in India, 532. 



Turner (T.), on the best method of estab- 

 lishing an international standard for 

 the analysis of iron and steel, 273 ; on 

 the cause of imperfections in the sur- 

 face of rolled copper alloys, 607. 



Tylden-Wright (Mr.) on the circulation 

 of underground waters, 300. 



Tylor (Dr. E. B.) on editing a new edition 

 of ' Anthropological Notes and Queries,' 

 404 ; on the North-western tribes of the 

 Dominion of Canada, 407 ; on the limits 

 of savage religion, 800. 

 Tylor (L.), State provision against sick- 

 ness and old age, and the German in- 

 validity and superannuation law, 739. 

 Type specimens of British fossils, the 

 registration of all the, second report 

 on, 299. 



Ultra-violet rays of the solar spectrum, 

 report on researches on the, 147. 



Ultra-violet spectrum of the solar pro- 

 minences, the, by Prof. G. E. Hale, 

 557. 



Underground waters in the permeable 

 formations of England and Wales, the 

 circulation of, and the quantity and 

 character of the water supplied to 

 various towns and districts from these 

 formations, seventeenth report on, 300. 



Units, electrical and mechanical, some 

 revolutionary suggestions on the 

 nomenclature of, by Prof. W. Stroud, 

 577. 



♦Units and their nomenclature, discussion 

 on, 577. 



Units of measurement, absolute, by 

 W. Moon, 580. 



Unwin (Prof. W. C.) on the investigation 

 of the action of waves and currents on 

 the beds and foreshores of estuaries by 

 means of working models, 386. 



Upbringing of destitute and pauper 

 children. Rev. J. O. Bevan on the. 745. 



Usk, the river, and the harbour of New- 

 port, by L. F. Vernon Harcourt, 757. 



Ussher (W. A. E.), vulcanicity in lower 

 Devonian rocks : the Prawle problem, 

 642. 



' r,' some experiments on a new method 

 for the determination of, by A. G. 

 Webster, 580. 

 '■'V.ascular .system of vertebrates, some 

 simple models illustrating the. Prof. 

 W. N. Parker on, 679. 

 Vectian, or lower greensand, note on an 

 undescribed area of, in Dorsetshire, by 

 A. J. Jukes-Browne, 635. 

 Velocity of light in the neighbouihood 

 of rapidly-moving matter. Prof. O. J. 

 Lodge on an experiment on the, 560. 

 ♦Ventilation and heating of buildings, 



mechanical, by W. Key, 758. 

 ♦Vertebrates, some simple models illns- 

 trating the vascular system of. Prof. 

 W. N. Parker on, 679. 

 Vesuvius and its neighbourhood, the 

 volcanic phenomena of, report on, 312. 

 Villamil (Jlajor R. de), action of screw- 

 propellers, 780. 

 Vine (G.R.) notes on the Poh/zoa {Bryozoa) 



of the zones of the upper chalk, 656. 

 Vines (Prof. H. S.) on the occupation of a 

 table at the laboratory of the Marine 

 Biological Association at Plymouth, 

 364 ; the presence of a diastatic fer- 

 ment in green leaves, 697. 

 Violet and ultra-violet of the solar spec- 

 trum, comparison of e3'e and hand 

 registration of lines in the, against 

 photographic records of the same, with 

 the same instrument, after a Japse of 

 several years, by Dr. C. P. Smyth, 573. 



