324 ALPHABETICAL INDEX 



Water — Con ti nued. 



salt, preservation of copper and iron in — A. E. Becqtjerel. (E. 1864.) 188 



sea. specific gravity of — D. Walker 146 



Watkins, E. a. System of relationship of Cree Indians, (R. 1862) 150 



Watson, S. Bibliographical index to North American botany. Part i. Poly- 



petalcR 258 



Weapons, savage, at Centennial Exhibition, study of — E. H. Knight. (E,. 



1879) 345, 415 



Weather, efiTect of moon on the— J. Henry. (R. 1871) 249 



Webb, T. W. Account of Henry Draper's telescope. (R. 18G4) 188 



Weights, atomic, recalculation of. Constants of Nature, Part v — F. W. Clarke. 441 



Weights, small, method of forming— R. Hare. (R. 1858) 109 



Weights and measures — 



English and French, tables of. (R. 1863; R. 1864) 187, 188 



metric system of, with tables— H. A. Newton. (R. 1865) 209, 371 



new system of, with 8 as the metrical number — G. H. Knight. (R. 1867.) 216 

 Weismann, a. Change of Mexican axolotl to amblystoma. (R. 1877)-- 323, 401 



Weld, I. Account of city of Washington, 1807 330 



Welling, J. C. Notes on the life and character of Joseph Henry 356, 338 



Welsh, language of Navajos said to resemble — S. Y. McMasters. (R. 1865.) 209 

 Welsh, J. Construction and verification of standard barometers. (R. 1859.) 110 

 West Indies — 



birds of the — See Lawrence, G. N., Ober, E. A. 



list of described birds of the, not in Smithsonian collection 186 



loxigilla from, description of new subspecies of — G. N. Lawrence. (P. 



1881) 467 



stone celts in the— G. J. GiBBS. (R. 1877) . 323 



West Virginia, occurrence of Canada porcupine in — G. B. Goode. (P. 1878.) 332 



Wet and dry bulb thermometer, tables for — J. H. Coffin 87 



Wetherill, C. M. — 



Modern theory of chemical types. (R. 1863) 187 



Ozone and antozone. (R. 1864) _. 188, 355 



Plan of a research upon the atmosphere. (R. 1866)..; 214 



Wex, H. G. Diminution of the water of rivers and streams. (R. 1875) 298 



Wheeler expedition, list of Indian vocabularies received from the. (R. 1874.) 286 

 Wheeler expedition— Sec Explorations. 



Whirlwind at St. Thomas, August 21, 1871— A. Coldinq. (R. 1877) 323, 398 



White, C. A. — 



Description of new cretaceous pinna from Now Mexico. (P. 1880) 425 



Description of very large fossil gasteropod from State of Puebla, Mexico. 



(P. 1880) r 426 



Descriptions of new cretaceous invertebrate fossils from Kansas and 



Texas. (P. 1879) 838 



