GENERAL INDEX. 
431 
Traill (W. A.) on the rocks of Ulster as 
a source of water-supply, 1878, 537 
_ and Prof. Hull on the relative 
ages of the granitic, plutonic, and vol¬ 
canic rocks of the Moume Mountains 
and Slieve Croob, co. Down, 1871, 101 
^Tramway car, a pneumatic, W. D. Scott- 
Moncreiff on, 1876, 233 
Tramways, cable, W. N. Colam on, 1890, 
950 
- the Lisbon steam-. 1873, W. H. 
Barlow, jun. on, 1873, 210 
-London street, H. Bright on, 1868. 
189 
_wire, C. Hodgson on, 1872, 246 
Transfer of land, the simplification of, 
J. H. Edge on, 1878, 663 
Transformers, the design of, J. Swin¬ 
burne on, 1889, 741 
__ precautions to be adopted when the 
electric light is supplied by means of, 
K. Hedges on, 1889, 740 
Transit of Venus, Capt. Abney on photo¬ 
graphic operations connected with the, 
1874 ,19 
- Dec. 8 , 1874, Rev. S. J. Perry on 
the, 1875, 24 
-- Dr. J. Janssen on the observations 
of the, made in Japan, 1875, 26 
Translation of foreign memoirs, report an 
the desirability of combined, action for 
the purpose of, 1887, 41 
^Transmission of force through an elastic 
solid, Prof. Sir W. Thomson on the, 
1882, 474 
-of motion and power, J. W. Pearse 
on the, 1888, 823 
* -of power by electricity, J. N. Shool- 
bred on the, 1881, 779 
- of power by compressed air , experi¬ 
ments upon the , in Paris {Popp's 
system ), by Prof. A. B. W. Kennedy , 
1889, 448 
Transparency, G. J. Stoney on one cause 
of, 1871, 41 
- in glass, Prof. Stokes on the re¬ 
searches of the late Rev. W. V. Har- 
court on the conditions of, 1871, 38 
^Transpiration (of plants), an apparatus 
for determining the rate of, Prof. W. 
Hillhouse on, 1886, 701 
^Transport by land and water, E. Wragge 
and A. McDougall on, 1884, 862 
* Transportation in connexion with coloni¬ 
sation, Col. Torrens on, 1863, 192 
Transporting power of water, T. Login on 
the roads and railways of Northern 
India as affected by the abrading and, 
1869, 214 
Transvaal district of S. Africa, R. W. 
Payne on the, 1866, 114 
* -or South African Republic, P. H. 
Ford on the, 1888, 745 
Trap-dykes, Pre-carboniferous and Meta¬ 
morphosed, and the associated rocks of 
North Mayo, Ireland, \V. A. Traill on 
certain, 1876, 97 
Trappean conglomerates of Middletown 
Hill, Montgomeryshire, G. Maw on the, 
1869, 96 
- rocks in Fifeshire, W. Carruthers 
on the vegetable contents of masses of 
limestones occurring in, 1871, 94 
Trapping of young fish by the water 
weed, Utricularia vulgaris , Prof. H. N. 
Moseley on the, 1884, 761 
Traquair (Prof. R. H.), additional re¬ 
searches on the asymmetry of the Pleu- 
ronectidce, 1868, 120 
* -on the cranial osteology of Poly- 
pterus Birchii, 1870, 143 
- on the restoration of the tail in 
Protopterus annectens, 1871, 143 
* -additions to the fossil vertebrate 
fauna of Burdiehouse, near Edinburgh, 
1871, in 
* -on the genus Ctenodus (Agassiz), 
1878, 571 
- preliminary note on a new fossil 
reptile recently discovered at New 
Spynie, near Elgin, 1885, 1024 ; *011 
the distribution of fossil fishes in the 
Estuarine beds of the Carboniferous 
formation, 1033 
- on the provincial museums of the 
United Kingdom, 1887, 97 ; 1888, 124 
- on the researches on food-fishes at 
the St. Andrews Marine Laboratory, 
1888, 141 
-on the fossil fishes of the Devonian 
rocks of Scaumenac Bay and Campbell- 
ton, Canada, 1889, 584 ; *on the re- 
toration of Asterolepis maximus (Agas¬ 
siz), with remarks on the zoological 
affinities of the Pterichthyidce, 1889 ,638 
Traquairia, W. Carruthers on, a radiola- 
rian Rhizopod from the Coal-Measures, 
1872 ,126 
Travellers , ethnologists, and other anthro¬ 
pological observers, report of the Com¬ 
mittee appointed to prepare brief forms 
of instructions for, 1873, 482 ; 1874, 
214 ; report on a new edition of ‘■Anthro¬ 
pological Notes and Queries' 1887, 172 ; 
1889, 186 ; 1890, 547 
4 Travels beyond Three Seas, by Athana¬ 
sius Nitikin, Merchant of Iver, 1466- 
1472,’ E. D. Morgan on, 1874, 177 
Travertine or Calcareous Tuff, a mass of, 
called 4 The Glen Rock,’ near Bally- 
castle, co. Mayo, Ireland, W. A. Traill 
on, 1875, 84 
Treatment and utilisation of sewage. (See 
‘ Sewage ’) 
*Tree-ferns, Dr. Moore on the growth of 
the stems of, 1874, 134 
Trees, the analytic l forms called, Prof. 
Cayley on, with application to the 
