Newcomb (Prof. S.), “Researches on the Motion of the Moon,"
166

Newton (Prof. A., F.R.S.), the Migration of Birds, 433; Weis-
mann's Migration of Birds, 580

Newton (Prof. H. A.), Relation of Meteorites to Comets, 315,
340

"Newton-Fourier Imaginary Problem," 451

Newton's "Principia," Interesting Copy of, 422

Newts, British, 75

Nickel Mines in New California, 16

Nicol (James), Obituary Notice of, 590

Nicoll (H. J.), Electric Lighting, 340

Nicols (Arthur), Feeding a Python, 291; Intellect in Brutes,

365, 409, 433; Transportation of Seeds, 555

Niepce (Nicephore), Proposed Statue of, 445, 559
Nile, Sun-Spots and the, 299

Nitric Acid Batteries, John Henry Knight, 581
Nitro-Glycerine, Experiments with, 61

Nordenskjöld (Prof.), his North-West Passage Expedition, 77,
102, 222, 247, 270, 298, 349, 373; Russian Gold Medal to,
373

Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, 17

North, the Derivation of Life from the, J. W. Barry, 173
North-West Passage Expedition, the Swedish, 77, 102, 222,
247, 270, 298, 349, 373
Norway, the "Terrace Lines" of, 578
Nova Zemlya, Expedition to, 298, 372
Nyassa, Lake, 438

Nymphalidæ, the Pupation of the, J. A. Osborne, 567

Oak, Irish Bog, W. F. Sinclair, 74

Oak Forest, Subterranean, in Prussia, 302

Obach (Eugen), Galvanometers for Strong Currents, 98
Ober (F. A.) Exploration of the West Indies, 100

Obi and Yenissei, Water Communication between, 298

Paris: Pottery at the Exhibition, 5; Science Exhibition in, 18,
560; the Academy of Sciences, 24, 48, 91, 116, 140, 164, 212,
236, 256, 260, 284, 308, 332, 356, 380, 404, 428, 452, 500,
524, 548, 559, 572, 596; Prizes of the, 468, 475; the Great
Reflector at the Paris Observatory, 108; Soirée at the, 395;
Geographical Society, 180, 271, 324, 583; Bulletin, 349, 542;
Celebration of Capt. Cook's Centenary, 373; New Aero-
nautical Society in, 395; Appointment of Professor of Meteo-
rology at the School of Agriculture, 231; the Electric Light
in, 280; Comparison of the Longitude of Washington and,
438; the Whale at the Jardin des Plantes, 561

Parker (Prof. W. K., F.R.S.), on the Skull of the Green Turtle,
593

Parkes' Museum of Hygiene, 107

Parsloe's Railways, 313

Partridges, Intellect in, 291

Passeres, Johannes Müller on the Classification of the, 525
Patagonia, Wanderings in, Julius Beerbohm, 217
Patentee's Manual, Johnson's, 362

Patterson (C. P.), Magnetic Storm of May 14, 1878, 288
Pavesi (Prof. Pietro), on Selachi, 384

Peabody Museum, Annual Report of the, 131
Peat Fuel in Germany, 160

Pechar (M.), "Coal and Iron in all Countries," 336

Perak, Suitability of, for Planting, 324

Perry (Rev. S. J., F.R.S.), Magnetic Storm of May 14-15, 220
Perseus, Bessel's Nebula in, 555

Persia, Earthquake in, 493

Pervouchine's First Result," 17

Petermann's Mittheilungen, 77, 156, 180, 247, 349, 542

Petersen (Dr. Jul.), "Theorie der algebraischen Gleichungen," 3
Petroleum, Discovery of, 473; in Japan, 473

Petzold's Method of Preserving Insects, 301

Philadelphia Academy, 403

Philippine Islands, Weaving in, 493

Phonograph and Vowel Sounds, Dr. F. Auerbach, 122

Dome for the Troy, U.S., 375

Ocean Currents, Prof. Zöppritz on, 202

Ochovowicz (Dr. Julian), the Microtelephone, 482

Odessa, University for Ladies at, 330

Omerod (Miss E. A.), Observations of Injurious Insects, 492
Opium, the Cultivation of, in China, 327

Opium Smoking, Dr. Miclucho Maclay on, 492

Oppölzer (Dr.), on the Intra-Mercurial Planet Question, 347
Ord (Dr. W. M.), the Effect of Strong Induction-Currents upon
the Structure of the Spinal Cord, 3c6

Orenburg to Tashkent, Proposed Railway, 349

Organic Infusions, Note on the Influence exercised by Light on,
Prof. John Tyndall, F. R.S., 210

Organisation and Intelligence, Alfred R. Wallace, 477
Organs, the Ancient Pitch of, Alex. J. Ellis, F.K.S., 171
Ornithological Society at Berlin, 18

Osborne (J. A.), the Pupation of the Nymphalidæ, 507
Oxford, Medical Endowments at, 20
Oxus, the, or Amu Darya, 205

Oxygen in the Sun, J. C. Draper, 352

Oxygen, Spectrum of, M. Paalzow's Researches on, 397

Phosphuretted Hydrogen, the Inhalation of, 155

Photography: Manual of the Carbon Proces of, Dr. Paul E.

Liesegang, 362; of Animals in Motion, 517

Photographic Society, 140, 236, 331, 499

Phylloxera in Italy, 375, 408

Physical Society, 68, 116, 188, 330, 379, 427, 475, 523

Physics, Guthrie's, 311

Physiology, Ashby's Notes on, 51; Studies from the Laboratory

at Cambridge, Part III., 145

Pic du Midi Observatory, 207, 255, 390

Pickering (Prof. E. C.), the Cosine Galvanometer, 217
Pigeons, Carrier, Thomas Stevenson, 5

Pinto (Major), Journey across Africa, 471, 556
Piscicultural Exhibition at Berlin, 232

Pitch of Organs, the Ancient, Alex. J. Ellis, F.R.S., 171
Plague, Statistics of the, in China, 61; in Astrakan, 325; Sun-
Spots and the, Prof. Stanley Jevons, F.R.S., 338; Prof. Vir-
chow on the, 545

Plane of Polarisation Electromagnetically rotated in a Vapour, 519
Planets, Minor, 14, 420, 437, 532, 556; Ismene, 42; Hilda,
510, 583; Relative Brightness of Venus and Mercury, 23;
Vulcan and Bode's Law, 74; the Intra-Mercurial Planet
Question, 347

Plants, Absorption of Water by the Leaves of, 75, 183; Alfred
S. Jones, 244; Leaf Sheaths and the Growth of, John Munro,
147; Heliotropism in, Herr Wiesner on, 161; "New Com-
mercial Plants," Thomas Christy, 265

"Pleasant Ways in Science,” R. A. Procter, 71; Explanatory,

121

Podmore (Frank), Was Homer Colour-Blind? 73

Poggendorf (Prof.), Posthumous Work on Physics by, 206
Pola, Meteorological Observations at, 420

Pole (Dr. Wm., F.R.S.), Colour-Blindness, 120, 148; the
Musical Association, 223

Pompeii, the Destruction of, 446

Popoff (Prof.), Death of, 374

Portuguese African Expedition, see Africa

Postal Microscopical Society, 301

Pottery at the Paris Exhibition, 5

Potts (T. H.), Notes from New Zealand, 21, 234

Poynting (J. H.), on a Method of using the Balance with great
Delicacy and its Employment to determine the Mean Density
of the Earth, 115

Schmitz (Dr. F.), Halosphæra, a New Genus of Unicellular
Algæ, 584

Schott (C. A.), Magnetic Storm of May 14, 1878, 288
Schubert (G. H. von), Centenary of, 325

Schwendler (Louis), Experiments in Electric Lighting, 230;
"Instructions for Testing Telegraph Lines, 192, 241
Science and Teaching, the Liberty of, Prof. Ernst Haeckel, 113,
135

Science and War, Signalling by Sunshine, H. Baden Pritchard,
508

Science in Lancashire and Cheshire, 322

"Science Index," 473

"Science News," 60, 232

Science Teaching in Elementary Schools, Dr. Gladstone on, 181
Scientific Discovery, the Art of, Dr. G. Gore, F.R.S., 285
Scientific Journals, New, 326

Scientific Societies, the Association of Local, J. Clifton Ward,
165

Scientific Terms, on the Use of Historical National Names for,
163

SCIENTIFIC WORTHIES, XIV., Louis Agassiz, 573
Scintillation of Stars, 233; M. Montigny, 326

Smyth (Prof. Piazzi), Weather, Past and to Come, 338; Illu-
mination in Spectroscopy, 400, 458

Smyth (R. Brough), "The Aborigines of Victoria," A. H,
Keane, 549

Snow Flakes, Frank E. Lott, 529

Society Islands, Volcanic Eruptions in the, Rev. S. J. Whitmee,

105

Solar Eclipses: of July 29, 1878, at Watson's Station, 14; of
July 19, 1879, 42; the Total, of January 11, 1880, 74
Solar Heat and Atmospheric Pressure, S. A. Hill, 432
Sonnenschein (Prof.), Death of, 422

Sopwith (Thomas, F.R.S), Death of, 279

Sorby (H. C., F.R.S.), the Structure and Origin of Limestones,
424

Sound, New Methods for Determining the Velocity of, 85, 86;
Lord Rayleigh's Theory of, vol. ii., Prof. H. Helmholtz,
F.R.S., 117; Measuring the Velocity of, in Air, 529

South America, Clark's Journey to, 312; Dr. Edwin K. Heath's
Expedition in, 394

Spain: Campion's "On Foot in Spain," 288; Mathematics in,
407
Speaking-Trumpets, Wm. Chappell, 5

279, 342, 445

Scudder (Samuel H.), the Early Types of Insects, 584

Sea-Depths, the Measuring of, 474

Sea-Water, Constituents of, 257

Secular Cooling of the Earth and the Formation of Mountains,

G. H. Darwin, 313

Sedgwick Memorial Museum, Cambridge, 115

Seebohm (Henry), on the Natives of Arctic Siberia, 547

Seeds, Transportation of, Consul E. L. Layard, 527; Arthur
Nicols, 555

Seefeld (Tyrol), Earthquake at, 207
Selachi, Prof. Pietro Pavesi on, 384

Severn (Walter), Intellect in Brutes, 291
Sewerage and Drainage, Alfred S. Jones, 53

Shakespeare's Colour-Names, J. J. Murphy, 197; A. Craig.
Christie, 221; Robert Brewin, 221, 290; Dr. C. M. Ingleby,
244; E. T. Hardman, 267

Shantung, China, Cotton Growing in, 351

Sharks, Prof. Pietro Pavesi on Selachi, 384

Sharpe (R. Bowdler), Legge's "Birds of Ceylon," 505

Shaw (J.), Ice Pearls, 508

Sheep as Beasts of Burden, 257

Shetland, Earthquake in, 396

Ships' Magnetism, on Gaussin's Warning regarding the Sluggish-

ness of, Sir Wm. Thomson, F.R.S., 127

Shoolbred on Electric Lighting, 379

Shortia galicifolia, Re-discovery of, 232
Siberia, Exploration of, 205

Siberia, Arctic, the Natives of, 547

Siemens (Dr. C. W., F.R.S.), on Measuring and Regulating
Electric Currents, 330; New Electric Current Regulator, 427
Signalling by Sunshine, H. Baden Pritchard, 508
Silicified Trunks and Fossil Forests, Dr. Otto Kuntze, 314
Silver Ores, Discovery of, at Caylloma, 423
Simmonds (P. L.), "Commercial Products of the Sea," 3
Simultaneous Linear Equations, on a Machine for the Solution

of, Sir Wm. Thomson, F. R.S., 161

Sinclair (W. F.), Irish Bog Oak, 74

Singapore, Zoological Gardens, 46; Value of Land in, 351

Sitzungsberichte der naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Isis
in Dresden, 401

Six-Fingered Family, a, 197

Skate, an Intelligent, 160

Skeleton, Discovery of a Human, in New Jersey, 160

Skin, on the Anatomy of the, Dr. George Thin, 307

Sleet, Extraordinary Fall of, in France, 301

Smiles (Dr. Samuel), "Robert Dick," Prof. Arch. Geikie,
F.R.S., 189

Smith (E. J. A'Court), Rats and Water Casks, 529

Smith (Fredk.), the Power of Stupefying Spiders possessed by
Wasps, 32; Death of, 395

Smith (Dr. R. Angus, F.R.S.), Absorption of Gases by Char-
coal, 354

Smith (Robert H.), Force and Energy, 194, 217, 242
Smithsonian Institution of Washington, U.S., 108

163; Researches on the Absorption of the Ultra-Violet Rays
of the Spectrum by Organic Substances, 259; M. Paalzow's
Researches on the Spectrum of Oxygen, 397; Spectrum of
Lightning, Dr. A. Schuster, 427; Russian Research on the
Spectra of Stars, 448; Spectrum of Common Salt, 483, 582;
Recent Researches on Spectra Absorption, 495; the Spectrum
of Safranine, 560

Sperm Whales on European Coasts, 76
Spiders, the Power of Stupefying, possessed by Wasps, 32, 54
Spiller (Prof, Philipp), Death of, 374; "Das Leben," 384
Spinal Cord, the Effect of Strong Induction-Currents upon the
Structure of, Dr. W. M. Ord, 306

Spottiswoode (Wm., F.R.S.), Proposed Testimonial to, 107;
Bust of, 445

Stanford's Map of Zululand, 438

Stanley (W. F.), Mathematical Drawing Instruments, 128
Stars Orbits of Binary, 99; Lalande's, 99; Flammarion
on Double, 216; the Scintillation of, 233, 326; a Vari-
able Star observed by Scheiner in 1612, 245; the Vari-
able Star Algol, 298; "A Missing Star," 365; the Binary
Star a Centauri, 437; a New Variable Star in Saggitarius,
437; the Distant Herschelian Companion of y Leonis, 484;
Mira Ceti, 510; Variable, x Cygni, 531 ; 72 Ophiuchi, 531;
Double Star, South, 190, 583

Statistical Society, 116, 182, 547, 596

Steam-Engine, the Growth of the, Prof. R. H. Thurston, 381
Stebbing (Rev. T. R. R.), the Sting of the Bee, 314
Steel, Meteoric, 61

Stethoscope, the Microphone as a, 146

Stevenson (Thomas), Carrier-Pigeons, 5; Early Experiments in
Electricity, 302; on the Vertical Distribution of the Light
from Lighthouses placed at High Elevations above the Sea-
Level, 19

Stewart (Dr. James) on Lake Nyassa, 438

Stewart (Prof. Balfour, F.R.S.), the Inequalities of the Diurnal
Range of the Declination Magnet as recorded at Kew, 259;
Variations of Diurnal Range of Magnetic Declination, 354
Stieler's Hand Atlas, New Edition, 395
Stilling (Dr. Benedikt), Death of, 350
Stillman (W. J.), Tempel's Comet, 217
Sting of Bees, 289, 314, 340, 385, 410

Stoffkraft (Hermann), "Paradoxical Philosophy," 193; the
Unseen Universe-Paradoxical Philosophy, 242

Stone Period in Russia, 132

Stoney (G. Johnstone, F.R.S.), Receiving Telephones, 71
Storm Warnings, A. Hutton Burgess, 313

Storms in the United States, Prof. Loomis on, 270
Strickland (C. W.), Intellect in Brutes, 410
Styria, Excavation of Caves in, 161

Sumatra, Carl Boch's Exploration of, 77

Sun Preliminary Note on the Substances which produce the
Chromospheric Lines, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 292;
Oxygen in the, J. C. Draper, 352; the Physical Nature of
the, Dr. Gruss, 424

Sun-Spots, Atmospheric Pressure, and the Sun's Heat, J. Allan
Broun, F.R.S., 6; S. A. Hill, 432; Joao Capello, 506;
Sun-Spots and Commercial Crises, Prof. Stanley Jevons,
F.R.S., 33, 588; John Kemp, 97; A. Stephen Wilson, 196;
and Locusts, E. D. Archibald, 145; and the Nile, 299; and
the Plague, Prof. Stanley Jevons, F.R.S., 338
Suram and Borjom, Earthquake at, 108
"Survival of the Fittest," A. Crane, 197

Swedish North-West Passage Expedition, 77, 102, 222, 247,
270, 298, 349, 373

Swift (Prof Lewis), Intra-Mercurial Planets, 96

Switzerland: H. Christ on the Plants of, 130; Elementary In-
struction in, 306; Curious Meteorological Phenomenon in,
326; Earthquakes in, 352; Palæontological Society of, 446;
Weather Warnings in, 446, 559

Sydney: the University of, 47; proposed Zoological Station at,
60; proposed Technological Museum at, 159; Rock Carvings
near, 547

Synchronised Clocks, 55

Szuchuen, Baber's Journey in, 298

Tait (Prof. P. G.), Leibnitz's Mathematics, 288, 384; the Law
of Cooling of Bars, 379

Tait (Thos. S.), the Microphone, 146!

Tait and Steele's Dynamics of a Particle, 94

Tanganyika Expedition, 15

Tasmania, Gold in, 545

Tasmanian Races, R. Brough Smyth, 549

Taxidermy, Ramsay's Hints on, 61

Taylor (Herbert), Duplexing the Atlantic Cable, 52

Teas of Japan, 423

Teal (J. J. H.), Vacuum Tube Phenemena, 482

Technical Education: The London Institute for the Advance-
ment of, 47; Abroad, 131; and the City of London, 180,
354; Prof. S. P. Thompson's Lecture on, 231; in America,
591

Tegetmeier (W. B.), "Moore's Columbarium," 474
Teignmouth, Electrical Phenomenon on Shaldon Bridge, 182
Telectroscope, the, 278

Telegraphy: Museum at Berlin, 17; Schwendler's Instructions
for Testing Telegraph Lines, 192, 241; Wires broken by
Sleet in France, 301; a real Telegraphic Writing Machine,
323; Example of Rapid, 445; at Quebec, 473
Telephone, its History and Recent Improvements, Prof. W. F.
Barrett, 12, 56; New Discovery by Prof. Bell, 46; Receiving,
G. Johnstone Stoney, F.R.S., 71; Experiments with the, 85;
Prof. J. C. Watson on, 95; History of the Speaking, Prof.
W. F. Barrett, 121; James Blyth's Experiments with, 283;
Gower's Modification of Bell's, 301; Edison's, 471
Tempel's Comet, 1867, II., 347, 389; W. J. Stillman, 217;
Dr. W. Valentiner, 457

Temperature, Underground, 303; Sense of, and Sense of Force,
554; Alfred H. Huth, 582

Temperature-Equilibrium, Life in the Universe and the Ten-
dency to, S. Tolver Preston, 460; in the Universe in Relation
to the Kinetic Theory, S. Tolver Preston, 555
Teplitz Stadtbad, Discovery of Roman Antiquities at, 446
Teplitz Thermal Question, 493

Termites kept in Captivity by Ants, Henry O. Forbes, 4
Terschelling, Island of, Netherlands Zoological Station at, 107
Tertiary Rocks, Insects in, 246

Tête D'Or, Meteorological Observatory at, 491

Thatcher (Charles R.), Death of, 16

Theriodont Reptile, 283

Thermal Conductivity of Water, J. T. Bottomley, 547

Thermal Phenomena produced by the Passage of Electricity
through Rarefied Gases, Naccari and Bellati, 21
Thermo-Magnetic Motor, a Curious, 397
Thermometer, a New Differential, 188
Thermo-Regulator, a New, 326

Thibet, the Beasts of Burden of, 375

Thin (Dr. George), on some Points Connected with the
Anatomy of the Skin, 307; on Hyaline Cartilage, 307
Thomas (J. W.), "Coal, Coal-Mines, and Ventilation," Prof.
T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 405

Thompson (G. S.), the Weather, 148

Thompson (Prof. Sylvanus P.), a Study in Magnetism, 79; His
Lecture on Technical Education, 231; Van der Willigen's
Magnétisme des Aimants Artificiels, ' 552

Thomson (Sir Wm., F.R.S.), on Gaussin's Warning Regard-
ing the Sluggishness of Ships' Magnetism, 127; Influence of
the Straits of Dover on the Tides of the British Channel and
North Sea, 152; on a Machine for the Solution of Simul-
taneous Linear Equations, 161; on Tides, 571

Thomson Electrometer at the Montsouris Observatory, 560
Thorpe (Prof. T. E., F.R.S.), Thomas on "Coals and Coal-
Mines,"
405
Thunderer, the Bursting of the Gun on Board the, 294, 333, 414
Thurston (Prof. R. H.), the Growth of the Steam Engine, 381
Tides Influence of the Straits of Dover on the Tides of the
British Channel and North Sea, Sir Wm. Thomson, F.R.S.,
152; the Highest on Record, H. N. Moseley, F.R.S., 363;
at Chepstow, 432, 481, 507, 582; in the Bay of Fundy, 432,
458; Sir William Thomson on, 571

Tiger, the Size of the, Sir J. Fayrer, F.R.S., 9

Tilden (Dr. W. A.), the Dissociation of Sal Ammoniac, 314
Time and Longitude, 290; E. L. Layard, 197; Latimer Clark,

220

"Tit-tat-to," Automaton for Playing, 352

Tokio, Astronomical Observatory at, 159

Torpedo, Electricity of the, Dr. François Franck, 295, 320
Torsional Strain, the, which remains in Glass Fibre after
Release from Twisting Stress, Dr. J. Hopkinson, F. R.S.,
187, 306

Tortoises, Gigantic Land, Alexis A. Julian, 30; Dr. Jeffries
Wyman, 31

Toughened Glass, G. C. Diuce, 5

Trajectory of Molecules, on the Illumination of Lines of
Molecular Pressure and the, Wm. Crookes, F.R.S., 137
Trans-Neptunian Planet, Prof. Asaph Hall, 481
Transvaal, Sudden Change of Temperature in the, 131
Trant (William), the Divisibility of the Electric Light, 52
Travelling, Kaltbrunner's "Manual du Voyageur," 71
Trieste, Zoological Station at, 76

Tri-Methyl-Sulphine, the Action of Heat on Salts of, 3791
Trowbridge (John), Galvanometer for Strong Currents, 121
Troy, Dr. Schliemann's Excavations at, 85, 131

Tuning-Forks, the Determination of the Rate of Vibration in,
401

Tunnel, the Longest, in the World, 509; the Channel, 592
Tupman (Capt. G. L.), Brorsen's Comet, 527
Turkestan, Major Butler's Survey of, 395

Turkestan, Russian, and the Moscow Anthropological Exhibi-
tion at Moscow, 300

Turnip Seeds, Experiments on, 159

Turtle, Green, the Skull of the, Prof. Parker, F.R.S., 593
Tweeddale (The Marquis of), Obituary Notice of, 205
Tyndall (Prof. John, F.R.S.), Note on the Influence Exercised
by Light on Organic Infusions, 210

Tyson (Capt.), Polar Expedition in the Florence, 15, 43, 123

Underground Temperature, 303
Undertones, Herr Auerbach on, 183

Ungulata, the Fissures of the Cerebral Hemispheres in, V.
Horsley, 276

United States: the Geological Survey, 130, 518, 559; Annual
Report of the Peabody Museum, 131; Entomology in America,
309; Reorganisation of the American Surveys, 370; Wash-
ington Observatory, 389; Missouri Weather Service Report,
420; Fisheries, 429, 460; Weather Report of the Signal Ser
vice, 473; the National Museum, 561; see also America, New
York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, &c.

University and Educational Intelligence, 22, 46, 62, 87, 115,
137, 234, 281, 305, 330, 353, 377, 4co, 425, 448, 475, 497,
520, 546, 594

University College of Wales Magazine, 87

University Education for Women, 353

Unscientific Art, 384; John W. Buck, 460, 508; Chas. Coppock,
484

Unseen Universe-Paradoxical Philosophy, W. A. T. Hallowes,
219; Hermann Stoffkraft, 242

Unwin (W. C.), Wind-Pressure, 72

Urns, Roman, a Curious Discovery in Connection with, 396
Usambara, East Africa, Rev. J. P. Farler, 76

Utrecht, Prize Competitions of the Society of Arts of, 592

Vacuum Tube: Experiment with, H. A. Cunnington, 458;
Wm. Crookes, F.R.S., 458; Phenomena of, J. J. H. Teal,
482

Vacuum Tubes, End-on, in Spectroscopy, 400, 458
Valentiner (Dr. W.), Tempel's Comet, 1867 II., 457
Valleys and Lakes, the Formation of, 205

Vanilla, the Cultivation of, 474

298; Mira Ceti, 510; x Cygni, 531

Veitch (Prof. J.), Prof. Huxley's Hume, 453

Velocity of Sound in Air, Measuring the, 529
Venezuela, Sachs's Work on, 456

Venice, Prizes of the Istituto Reale Veneto, 376

Ventoux, Proposed Meteorological Observatory on the Top of,
270

Venus and Mercury, Relative Brightness of, 23
Verhandlungen der naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Freiburg, 23
Verhandlungen des naturhistorischen Vereines der preussischen
Rheinlande und Westphalens, 235

Vesuvius: the Flow of Lava from, 60; the Recent Eruption and
Present Condition of, G. F. Rodwell, 343
Vibration of Metal Rods, Dr. F. Guthrie, F.R.S., on, 331
Victoria Philosophical Institute, 356, 451, 547

Victoria: Prodromus of the Zoology of, 160; the Aborigines of,
R. Brough Smyth, 549

Vienna: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 68, 188, 236, 284, 404,
452; Sitzungsberichte of, 449, 450, 569; Discovery of Roman
Remains at, 446; Geographical Society, Mittheilungen, 583
Vincent (Camille), on a New Chemical Industry Established by,
Prof. H. E. Roscoe, F.R.S., 398

Vines (S. H.), the Chemical Composition of Aleurone Grains,
235

Vinot (M. Joseph), his Lectures on Astronomy, 231
Virchow (Prof.), on the Plague, 545

Virginia, U.S., Discovery of Caves in, 160

Viscosity of the Earth's Mass, G. H. Darwin, 292
Visual Purple of the Retina, Experiments on, 350
Vita Nuova, 545

Vivisection Question in Germany, 544
"Vögelbilder aus fernen Zonen," 232
Vogler (Dr. F. W.), Death of, 491

Volcanic Eruptions in the Aleutian Isles, 45

Volcanic Phenomena and the Microphone, 207
Volcanoes: Cotopaxi, 17; Vesuvius, 17

Voltaic Action, the Contact Theory of, Profs. Ayrton and Perry,
498

Vowel Sounds, the Synthetic Examination of, Preece and Stroh,
426

Voyageur, Manuel du, Kaltbrunner's, 71

Vulcan and Bode's Law, B. G. Jenkins, 74

Wallace (A. R.) and Epping Forest, 16; Remarkable Local
Colour-Variation in Lizards, 4, 53; the Formation of Moun-
tains, 121, 244, 289; Organisation and Intelligence, 477;
Grant Allan's " Colour-Sense," 501; Colour in Nature, 581;
Did Flowers Exist during the Carboniferous Epoch? 582
Wallich (Dr. G. L.), Ear Affection, 340
Waltenhofen (Prof. von), on the Magnetic Properties of Pow-
dered Iron, 352

Ward (James), Physiology of the Nervous System of the Cray-
fish, 451

Ward (J. Clifton), the Association of Local Societies, 165
Washington, U.S., Observatory 388

Washington and Paris, Comparison of the Longitude of, 438
Wasps, the Power of Stupefying Spiders possessed by, 32, 54
Water, Musical Notes from Outflow of, 244; Thermal Con-
ductivity of, J. T. Bottomley, 547

Water-Drops and Electricity, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 486
Water-Level Indicators, 518, 554

Water-Rat, Intellect in a, 268, 340

Water-Spout on Lake Leman, 256

"Waterton's Wanderings," Rev. J. G. Wood's Edition of, 576
Watson (Prof.), Observation of the Solar Eclipse of July 29,
1878, 14; on the Telephone, 95

Weather Signs and Clouds, Rev. W. Clement Ley, 178
Weather, the, G. S. Thompson, 148; American, E. D. Archi-
bald, 266; Past and to Come, Prof. Piazzi Smyth, 338
Weather Warnings, Prof. Forster, of Bern, on, 232; in Switzer-
land, 559

Weismann (Dr. August), the Migration of Birds, 433, 479
Wellington, N.Z., Discovery of Graphite at, 300; Philosophical
Society, 308

Whales, Sperm, on European Coasts, 76

Wheat Grown in Japan, 86

Wheatstone Laboratory of King's College, London, 594
Whipple (G. M.), Atmospheric Electricity, 220

White (Dr. Buchanan), Discovery of a Crannog in Ayrshire, 32;
Robert Munro, 54

Whitmee (Rev. S. J.), on Volcanic Eruptions in the Society
Islands, 108; on Indo-Oceanic Races, 258; on Captain Cook's
Accuracy, 408

Wilczek (Count), Expedition to Novaya Zemlya, 298, 372
Wild (J. J.), the Range of the Mammoth, 146
Wilde (Henry), on some Improved Methods of Producing and
Regulating the Electric Light, 78, 152

Wilke (J. F.), Measuring the Height of Clouds, 148
Williamson (Prof. W. C., F.R.S.), "Coal; its History and
Uses," 238

Willigen (V. S. M. van der), "Sur le Magnétisme des Aimants
Artificiels," Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, 552

Wilson (Dr. Andrew), Handbook to Map of the Geographical
Distribution of Animals, 30; "Leisure-Time Studies," 286;
the Wolf Fish, 556

Wilson (A. Stephen),

"The Botany of Three Historical Re-
cords," 3; Commercial Crises and Sun-Spots, 196
Wiltshire (Rev. T.), "History of Coal,” 407
Winchester City Museum, 45

Wind-Pressure, W. C. Unwin, 72

Winterberg (A.), “Malta,” 77

Winther (Georg Peter), Death of, 325

Wittstein (Dr. G. C.), the Organic Constituents of Plants and
Vegetable Substances and their Chemical Analysis, 93
Woeikof (Dr. A.), Eastern Yucatan, 554

Wolf Fish, the, Dr. Andrew Wilson, 556
Women, University Education for, 353

Wood (Rev. J. G.), "Waterton's Wanderings," 576

Wood-Mason (J.), Remarkable Colour-Variation in Lizards, 53.
Woodcroft (Bennett, F.R.S.), Death of, 374
Woodruff Expedition Round the World, 157
Woollen Manufactory at Lanchow-fu, China, 446
Wright (Dr. E. Perceval) on the Development of the Garpike,
100; About Fishes' Heads, 149; Fossil Calcareous Algæ,
485

Wurtz (Charles Adolphe), Notice of, 62; on the Constitution of
Matter in the Gaseous State, 62; on Science Education, 87
Wyman (Dr. Jeffries), Gigantic Land Tortoises, 31

Zachariæ (G.), Work on Geodesy, 505
Zeitschrift f. wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 186, 449
Zodiacal Light, the, 245

Zoological Gardens, Additions to, 19, 46, 62, 87, 109, 132, 161,
208, 233, 257, 280, 302, 327, 352, 376, 397, 424, 447, 474,
493, 518, 561, 592

Zoological Gardens, Singapore, 46

Zoological Laboratory, Prof. Alex. Agassiz's, 317

Zoological Society, 47, 70, 162, 283, 355, 403, 451, 499, 547;
Election of President, 349

Zoological Stations: Naples, 2; at Trieste, 76; on the Island
of Terschelling, 107; proposed, 472
Zoologischer Anzeiger, 118

Zoology, Prof. A. Macalister's Class-Books of, 143
Zöppritz (Prof.) on Ocean Currents, 202
Zululand: 491; Stanford's Map of, 438; Geology
de Rance, 467

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