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SECTIONS. INDEX OF AUTHORS. 



Ward (W. Sykes) on albuminized collo- 

 dion, 1856, 58. 



on the preservation of albuminized 



collodion plates, 1857, 61. 



* on dry-collodion processes, 1858, 71. 



Wakington (E.) on guano, 1844, 32. 



on preserving the balance between ve- 

 ' ' 3 and animal organisms in sea- 

 water, 1853, 72. 



on the production of boracic acid and 



ammonia by volcanic action, 1854, 76. 



* on the effect of coloured media on 



the growth of red Algje, 1854, 77. 



• on the influence of coloured glass on 



the growth of plants in sea- water, 1854, 

 103. 



, observations made in small aquaria, 



in which the balance between the animal 

 and vegetable organisms was permanently 

 maintained, 1854, 115. 



on the habits of the stickleback, and 



on the effects of an excess or want of 

 heat and light on the marine aquarium, 

 1855, 117. 



on the source of ammonia in volcanic 



emanation, 1858, 71. 



on the multiplication of ActinisB in 



aquaria, 1858, 133. 



on some additions to his portable 



microscope, 1858, 143. 



Warren (Dr.) on some crania four^ in the 

 ancient mounds in North America, 1837, 

 108. 



Wartmann (Prof. E.) on Daltonism, 1841, 

 40. 



on some meteorological phenomena, 



1846, II. 



, experiments on electro-magnetism, 



1846, 27. 



on some physical properties of the 



solid and liquid constituent parts of plants, 

 1851, 19. 



Warwick (Dr.) on a powerful temporary 

 magnet, 1831-32, 85. 



Washington (Capt.), account of a Man- 

 dingo, native of Nyani-Maru, Western 

 Africa, 1838, 97. 



on expeditions to the Antarctic seas, 



1838, 97. 



* , account of the various Government 



surveys in Europe, 1838, 98. 



Waterhouse (G. R.) on the classification 

 of the Mammalia, 1843, 65. 



Wateriiouse (J.) on an instrument for 

 maintaining a water-bath at constant tem- 

 peratures, 1858, 71. 



Waterston (J. J.) on a general theory of 

 gases, 1851, 6. 



on the gradient of density in saturated 



vapours, and its development as a phy- 

 sical relation between bodies of definite 

 chemical constitution, 1852, 2. 



on the density of saturated vapours 



and their liquids at the point of transition, 

 1853, II. 



on a law of mutual dependence be- 



tween temperature and mechanical forc^, 

 1853, II. 



Waterston (J. J.) on a metliod of com- 

 puting the absolute volume of the ulti- 

 mate particles of liquids, 1854, 63. 



Watson (B. L.) on telegi'aphic communica- 

 tion on railways, 1837, 131. 



Watson (H. H.) on the use of Leslie's hy- 

 grometer with a new scale, 1834, 569. 



on the quantity of carbonic acid in 



the atmosphere, 1834, 583. 



— — , experiments on the phosphate and 



pyrophosphate of soda, 1836, 48. 

 Watson (Eev. J.) on the Helm wind of 



Crossfell, 1838, 33. 

 ^Watt (Mr.), magnetic instrument to take 



positions corresponding to the direction 



of the wind, 1838, 38. 

 Watt (Mr.) on the vital statistics of Edin- 



bm'gh and Glasgow, 1840, 173. 

 Watt (Dr. A.) on the iron trade in Scot- 

 land, 1845, 90. 

 Watts (J, K.), notice of aurora borealis, 



1851, 41. 



, notice of a snow-storm, 1851, 41. 

 , account of a lunar rainbow, 1851, 



41. 

 * , aurora; boreales observed at St. Ives, 



Huntingdonshire, 1852, 32 ; 1854, 47. 

 ' on the geology of St. Ives and its 



neighbourhood, 1852, 63. 



on parhelia observed td> St. Ives, 



1853, 33. 



Way (Prof. J. T.) on the analysis of the 

 ashes of plants, 1845, 34. 



on the fairy-rings of pastures, 1846, 



43- 



^' on the inorganic constituents of root 



crops, 1847, 60. 



* Weathered (Hon. J.) on superheated 



steam, 1857, 199. 



on combined steam, 1858, 222. 



Webb (T. W.) on lunar volcanos, 1838, 



93- 

 Webster (T.) on the new patent law, 1852, 

 132. 



* Webster (W. H.) on the rise and fall of 



the barometer, 1851, 42. 



Wedgwood (H.) on the premises of geo- 

 metry, 1845, 2. 



Weld (Eev. A.), results of ten years' me- 

 teorological observations at Stonyhurst, 

 1860, 56. 



Wells (T. S.) on a case of Purpura haj- 

 morrhagica, 1845, 85. 



on the climate of the valley of the 



Nile, 1850, 45. 



Welsh (J.) on a sliding-rule for converting 

 the observed readings of the horizontal 

 and vertical force magnetometers into 

 variations of magnetic dip and total force, 

 1851, 20. 



, description of a sliding-rule for hy- 



grometrical calculations, 1851, 42. 



on the graduation of standard thermo- 

 meters at the Kew observatory, 1853, 34. 



