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INDEX II. 



Vandyke-brown, composition of, 70. 



Vapours, on practical tables of the latent 

 heat of, 208. 



Vegetation, eifects of last winter upon, 

 at Aberdeen, 105; of the Crimea, 106. 



Vermis cerebelli in the albatros, on the 

 peculiar development of the, 133. 



Vertebrata, on the Forni-v cerebri in, 133. 



Vesuvius, on the late eruption of, 55. 



Victoria Regia, on the flowering of, in the 

 Royal Botanic Garden, Glasgow, 102. 



Vivaria, on, 117; on the application of 

 the principle of, to agriculture and other 

 purposes of life. 111 ; on the, now ex- 

 hibited in the City Hall, Glasgow, 114. 



Voelcker (L)r. A.) on caseine, and a me- 

 thod of determining sulphur and phos- 

 phorus in organic compounds in one 

 operation, 73. 



Wales, on the agricultural labourers of, 

 171. 



Wallflower, on a new glucocide contained 

 in the petals of a, 63. 



Walsh (Prof. R. H.) on the condition of 

 the labouring population of Jamaica, 

 as connected with the present state of 

 landed propertyin thatdistrict, 197 ; the 

 price of silver of late years does not 

 afford an accurate measure of the value 

 of gold, 198. 



Ward (N. B.) on vivaria, 117. 



Warington (Robert) on the habits of the 

 stickleback, and on the effects of an 

 excess or want of heat and light on the 

 marine aquarium, 117. 



Water, on the polar decomposition of, by 

 common and atmospheric electricitj', 

 46 ; on Dr. Clark's process for soften- 

 ing, 54 ; on the chemical composition 

 of the, of the Clyde, 64 ; on certain laws 

 observed in the mutual action of sul- 

 phuric acid and, 70 ; on denudation and 

 other effects attributed to, 81. 



Water-meter, on a pressure, 207. 



Waterspouts, on, 45. 



Waves, 25. 



Weights of this country, on a plan for 

 simplifying and improving the, 184, 



Weir-boards, on practical details of the 

 measurement of running water by, 

 211. 



Wbitehnuse (Wildman), experimental ob- 

 servations on an electric cable, 23. 



Williams (C. G.) on the new maximum 

 thermometer of Negretti and Zambra, 

 24 ; on some of the basic constituents 

 of coal-naphtha, 74. 



Wilson (G. F.) on a process for obtaining 

 and purifying glycerine, and on some 

 of its applications, 75. 



Wind, force of the, in July and August 

 1855, as taken by the " atmospheric 

 recorder" at the Beeston observatory, 

 40 ; on some of the geological functions 

 of the, illustrating the origin of salt, &c., 

 95 ; on the currents produced by the 

 action of the, and tides, 97. 



Wind-charts of the Atlantic, on, 39. 



Windermere Lake, on a singular irides- 

 cent phaenomenon seen on, 41. 



Windmill and Centrifugal pump erected 

 in Jamaica, on a, 210. 



Wine, on certain curious motions obser- 

 vable on the surfaces of, and other alco- 

 holic liquors, 16. 



Wires, on peristaltic induction of electric 

 currents in submarine telegraph, 21. 



Wood (Searles V., jun.) on the probable 

 maximum depth of the ocean, 99. 



World, on the gold-bearing districts of the, 

 83 ; on improved monographic projec- 

 tions of the, 148. 



Wright (T.) on inscriptions in \mknown 

 characters on Roman pottery discovered 

 in England, 146; on the ethnology of 

 England at the extinction of the Roman 

 government in the island, ib. 



Yeats (John) on our national strength, as 

 tested by the number, the ages, and 

 the industrial qualifications of the peo- 

 ple, 199. 



Zinc, on the action of sulphuretted hy- 

 drogen on salts of, 51. 



Zoological diagrams prepared for the Go- 

 vernment department of science and 

 art, 118. 



Zoology, 106 ; on the recent additions to 

 our knowledge of the, of Western 

 Africa, 114. 



Zoophytes observed on the coast of Nor- 

 v[ay, 113. 



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