SCIENCH.— INDEX TO VOLUME III. 
Topp, D. P. The Dearborn observatory, 
629; humidity and chronometer rates, 
287; researches on astronomical spec- 
trum-photography, 726. 
Topp, J. E. The possible origin of some 
osar, 404. 
Todhunter, Isaac, 296. 
Toepler-Holtz machine, 7//. 753. 
Tongue, development of, 725. 
Topographic work in Appalachians, 265; 
.in Tennessee, 206. 
‘Topographical map of Massachusetts, 427 5 
of New Jersey, 500; survey of Massa- 
chusetts, 467; survey, practical value of, 
644; surveying, reviewed, 692. 
Topography of Appalachians, 604; of 
North Carolina, 391. 
Tornado chart for March, él. 556; circu- 
lar xxi., 524; investigation, 767; in 
western North Carolina, 474. 
Tornadoes, i//. 40, 63, 98; breeding-ground 
of, 585; illustration of, 399; mechanical 
and electrical theories of, 530; study of, 
in America, 372; unrecorded, 346. 
Torrance, F., on phosphate deposits, 337. 
Torrey botanical club, 236, 523, 636. 
Tottenville, fossil leaves at, 24. 
“Tracheal organs of insects, 266. 
‘Transit, rapid, in Philadelphia, 693. 
‘Transportation, agencies of, 209. 
‘Trautschold, on oceanic oscillations, 341. 
‘TREAT, Mary. Behavior of Dolomedes 
tenebrosus, 217. 
‘Tree-growth, influence of winds on, 114. 
Tree of heaven, growth of, 276. 
Trees of slow growth, 335. : 
TRELEASE, W. A bad habit of the fox- 
squirrel (Sciurus niger, var. ludovici- 
anus), 747; insects and fermentation, 
545 
Trenton gravels, human underjaw from, 
605; natural history society, 395, 494, 
768. 
Triassic red shale, fossils in, 299. 
Tribe. See Gladstone and Tribe. 
Tribulum, 470. 
Trilobite, appendages of, 7//. 279. 
Triodus sessilis, 429. 
Troglodytes aedon, 494. 
Troschelia berniciensis, 657. 
‘TROWBRIDGE, J. Progress of electrical 
science during 1883, 258. 
TROWBRIDGE, 8. H. A blind fish from 
the Missouri River, 587. 
True, F. W., 239. 
Tryon’s Conchology, reviewed, 601. 
‘Tuberculosis, propagation of, 634. 
TucKER, R.H.,jun. The distribution of 
comets with reference to solar motion, 
650. 
Turbine, action of water in, 694. 
Tuttle’s comet, ephemeris of, 799. 
Tyrrell, J. B., on revision of Suctoria, 
Oe 
U., W. 
485. 
Ujfalvy, Madame, journey of, to Karako- 
rum valley, 228. 
Uloborus riparia, 396. 
Umbrella mediterranea, 658. 
Unalashka, voleanic sand which fell at, 
all. 631. 
‘Unio, byssus of, 302, 484; calceolus, 295; 
lanceolatus, 295. 
Unit-of-time question, 299, 430. 
United States astronomical expedition to 
Chile, 137; census bureau, 343; suspen- 
sion of work of, 343; census office, 778; 
publications of, 83; tenth census reports, 
vol. iv., 138, 209; vols. v. and vi., 468; 
coast-survey, 86; appendix to report of, 
641; integrity of, 746; transferrence of, 
30; entomologist, report of, 802; geologi- 
cal survey, 26, 52, 80, 135, 166, 205, 234, 
265, 293, 333, 365, 391, 421, 463, 493, 522, 
551, 582, 603, 636, 665, 692, 735, 766, 795; 
chemical division of, 80, 692; Rocky- 
Mountain district of, 293; hydrographic 
office, pilot chart of, 496; work of, 643; 
land-office maps, 696; life-saving ser- 
vice, 267; meteorological station at Point 
Barrow, i//. 478; mineral statistics, 636; 
The winter of 1879-80 in Europe, 
motion of waves of cold in, map, 149; 
museums of, 191; national museum, 109; 
proceedings of, 268; naval institute, 
prize offered by, 83; naval observatory, 
108, 187; administration of, 29, 399; ob- 
servatories, impression produced by, 
472; post-route maps, 696; signal-office, 
1, 767; terms employed by, 344; wants 
of, 58; silk-industry, 290; solar eclipse 
expedition, report of, 425. 
Universities, Russian, 756. 
Unknowable, philosophy of, 417. 
Upham, W., on cataloguing plants of 
Minnesota, 495; on drift in Minnesota, 
695; on Minnesota lakes, 695. 
Upton, W. The red skies, 37. 
Uranus, observation of, 698. 
Urnatella gracilis, 423. 
Utamania torda, 294. 
Vaccinium parvifolium, 253, 
Valgus squamiger, 127. 
Valvata virens, 323. 
Vanadis, cruise of, 54. 
Van Duzer’s iron-mine, 51, 
Van Hertsen. See Lydtin, Fleming, and 
Van Hertsen. 
Variable stars, 167. 
Varieties, origin of, 737. 
Vassar Brothers’ institute. See Pough- 
keepsie, Vassar Brothers’ institute of. 
Vega voyage, 268. 
Vegetation along Northern Pacific rail- 
road, 236. 
Ventilation, 796; of mines, 470. 
Ventura county, Cal., relics in, 373. 
Venus mercenaria, 267. 
Verbeek’s Geological relatives of Kra- 
katoa, reviewed, zl. 762. 
Vermont birds, 216, 503. 
Verrill, A. E., on deep-sea dredgings, 504; 
his second catalogue of Mollusca, 610. 
Vertebrates, study of, in America, 271. 
Vertigo Gouldii, 236; milium, 236. 
Vespertilio fuscus, 539. 
Vicia americana, 768. 
Victoria, observations of, 470. 
Vicuna, image of, from Peru, 748. 
Vienna, ornithological congress of, 670; 
telescope, 2//. 380. 
Villa Rica, 2. 
Viola, 523; blanda, 523; canina, 523; cu- 
cullata, 253, 523; lanceolata, 523; odo- 
rata, 523; palmata, 523; pedata, 523; 
primulaefolia, 523 ; pubescens eriocarpa, 
768; sagittata, 523; striata, 396. 
Violet, structure of, 666. 
Virginia, faults of, 614. 
Vivisection in England, 297. 
Voice, 231. 
Volcanic dustin the Great Basin, 555; dust 
in snow, 139; eruption in Iceland, 528; 
island, new, ill. 89; rocks of division of 
Pacific, 366; sand, z//. 651. 
Voleano on Augustine Island, 798. 
Vortex rings, 289. 
W. Atmospheric wave from Krakatoa, 
401; inertia, 559. 
W.,A. Limits of tertiary in Alabama, 
32. 
W.,F. The variation of temperature of 
Germany, 546. 
WapswortH, M. E. Olivine rocks of 
North Carolina, 486. ; 
Wadsworth, M. E., on the Keweenawan 
series, 553. 
Wagner’s Geographisches jahrbuch, re- 
viewed, 200. 
WatcoTt, C. D. Appendages of the 
trilobite, il/. 279. 
Walcott, C. D., on Cambrian fauna of the 
United States, 582; on Potsdam fauna 
of United States, 136. 
WaLpo, Leonard. Standard thermome- 
ters, 35. 
Walker prize, bestowal of, on James 
Hall, portrait, 571. 
Warp, L. F. Caulinites and Zamio- 
strobus, 532; the claims of political 
science, 748. 
Ward, L. F., on upper Missouri system, 
555. 
813 
Warington. See Lawes, Gilbert, and 
Warington. 
WARREN, E. R. The skidor in the 
United States, 23. 
Warren, Gouverneur Kemble, portrait, 
276. 
Warring, C. B., on gyroscope, 237. 
Washington anthropological society, 605; 
Saturday lectures of, 56, 229; biological 
society, 208, 294, 423, 738, 769; chemical 
society, 294, 463, 583; entomological 
society, 338, 496, 768; philosophical so- 
ciety, 26, 166, 208, 336, 396, 424, 555, 607. 
Washingtonia bilifera, 629. 
Watch trials at Yale college, 212. 
Water, action of, in modern turbine, 694; 
drinking, purity of, 640; expulsion of, 
from leaf, z//. 245; temperature of, 523. 
Water-pores of lamellibranch foot, 130. 
Water-supply of New-Jersey cities, 700. 
Waters, colors of, 445. 
WatTson, Sereno. Note on the flora of 
the Upper Yukon, 252. 
Watts’s Manual of chemistry, reviewed, 
390. ; 
Wave - lengths in invisible prismatic 
spectrum, 496. 
Weather, 262; at Lick observatory, 526; 
observations, Kansas, 426; service, Ala- 
pbama, 527; Iowa, 83; stations, locations 
of, 299. 
Weathering in Pottsville conglomerate, 
all. 12. 
Webster’s Outlines of chemistry, re- 
viewed, 521. 
Weights and measures, international bu- 
reau of, 305. 
Welch, William H., 525. 
West Virginia, topographical work in, 
603. 
WEsTON, E. B. Atmospheric waves 
from Krakatoa, 7//. 531. 
Wethered, E., on structure and formation 
of coal, 526. 
Whalebone, manufacture of artificial, 
466. 
Wheat-rust, growth of, 457. 
Wheeler surveys, geodetic work of, 447. 
Whirlwinds, 7/2. 40, 63, 93. 
WHITE, ©. A. Adaptability of the 
prairies for artificial forestry, 438; the 
enemies and parasites of the oyster, 
past and present, 618. 
White, C. A., on mesozoic fossils, 582. 
White-fishes of North America, 739. 
Whiteaves’s mesozoic fossils, 611. 
WHITING, Harold. Law connecting physi- 
cal constants, 3783. 
WHITMAN, C.O. Development of Sipun- 
culus nudus, 682. 
WHYMPER, E. Colored skies after an 
eruption of Cotopaxi, 99. 
Wiegand, S. L., on use of cast-iron in 
boiler-construction, 266. 
Willcox, J.,on Florida shell-mounds, 736; 
on geology and natural history of Flori- 
da, 687; on Nummulites from Florida, 
607. 
Williams, A., jun., on mineral resources 
of the United States, 636. 
WILLIAMS, G.O. Experiments with re- 
flections, i//. 616. 
WiuiiaMs, H. 8. The spirifers of the 
upper Devonian, 374. 
Williams, H. 8., on paleontology of New 
York, 421. 
Wilson, H. M., topographical work of, 26. 
WINCHELL, A. His world-life, 172; the 
red sunsets, 3. 
Winchell’s World-life, 172. 
Wind charts of North Atlantic, il/. 593; 
velocities, 77. 495. 
Winds within storm-disk, 7/2. 402. 
Wine, arsenic in, 3388. 
Wingate division, topographical work of, 
26. 
WINLOCE, W.C. The Pons-Brooks com- 
et, z//. 67. 
WINSLow, Arthur. Peculiarities of 
weathering in the Pottsville conglomer- 
ate, i//. 12. 
Winslow, F., on oyster-industry, 720. 
Winter of 1879-80 in Europe, 485. 
