PROCEEDINGS. VOLS. i-;o 



WALK WHERRY 



Walking on the sea, narratives of the, 



46, 80. 

 Wall, J. Sutton, Indian picture rocks 



in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, 



21, 687. 



Walter, Thomas U., foundation of 

 great tower of New Puhlic Build- 

 ings in Philadelphia, 16, 337. 



obituary notice of, 25, 322. 



Warwick, Hill Sloane, formates, the 

 electrolysis of metallic, 29, 103. 



Washington County, Va., geology of, 



22, 114. 



— -Observatory, history of, and in- 

 struments ordered for, 3, 85. 



Water at high temperatures, decom- 

 posing power of, 4, 353. 



— flow of, through an opening in a 

 pierced plate, 16, 310; 17, 124. 



— measurement of the action of, 

 upon metals, 46, no. 



— polarization of, 4, 229. 



— • sterilization of city, 29, 26. 

 — ■ supplies, purihcation of, by hypo- 

 chlorites, 48, 67. 

 Waterfall sensitive to human voice, 



12. 515- 

 Water spouts, 3, 134, 136. 

 Waterloo, descriptive list of medals 



struck to commemorate battle of, 



18, 78. 

 Waterways, emancipation of the, 44, 



42. 



— The Nation and the, 48, 51. 

 Wave interference, results of, 17, 



294. 

 Waves, electric, propagation of long, 

 along wires, 49, 364. 



— gravitating, 14, 344. 



— kinetic ratio of sound to light, 18, 



4^5- 

 Wayne, Henry C, introduction of 



the camel into the United States, 



6, 275. 

 Weather forecast, experiment in, 22, 



207. 



— lunar influence upon, 5, 117. 



— notes, American, 12, 40. 



— study, 13, 248. 



Weedon, George, Brig.-Genl., calen- 

 dar of the correspondence of, 38, 

 81. 



Weights and measures and balances, 

 standard, 4, 159. 



— standard, French and American, 



4, 155- 



Well, spouting water, at Wilcox, Pa., 

 17, 127. 



West Indian Islands, physical geog- 

 raphy and geology of, 12, 56. 



— terrestrial ^lollusca in, 12, 



56. 

 Reptiles in the ^luseum of 



Comparative Zoology at Cam- 

 bridge, ]\Iass., 24, 278. 

 West Indies, physical geography of, 



12, 56. 

 West Virginia, geology of, 14, 370, 



19, 438, 498. 

 Western Australia, aborigines of, 39, 



123: 44, 3^; 46, 361. 

 Wetherill, Charles M., deterioration 



of ether by age, 9, 171. 

 examination of an exploded 



locomotive, 14, 264. 



— — gold in Pennsylvania, 5, 274. 

 neutral sulphate of oxide of, 5, 



3,5- 

 Wetherill. John Price, oliituary notice 



of, 6, 14. 

 Whale, Jonah's, 46, 151. 

 Wharton, Joseph, Krakatoa, eruption 



of 1883, dust from the, 32, 343. 



— — obituary notice of, 48, Ixxi. 

 palladium, 43, 332. 



— — Rontgen ray, remarks on, 35, 



31- 



Wheat worm, 5, 162. 



Wherry, Edgar T., rotating anode in 

 the electrolytic precipitation of 

 uranium and molybdenum, 45, 268. 



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