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tube, 201 ; reducible in capillary 

 tubes to 5 F. without freezing, 

 202 ; the supply to Gibraltar in- 

 vestigated, id. 



Water-battery, experiments with a 

 large one, 160. 



Wave principle and war steamers, 

 116. 



Weather conditions, diagrams of, 

 for use in daily newspapers, 195. 



Weight, standards of, 121. 



Weldon, W. F. R., election of, and 

 biographical note on, 93. 



Welwitschia, description of the 

 plant, 1 60. 



Westminster, accident in sewers, 

 no; funeral of Charles Darwin 

 in the Abbey, 220. 



Wheatstone, C., biography of, 21 ; 

 communications from, 99, 106, 

 125, 127, 142, 178 ; death of, 69. 



White ants, their ravages at St. 

 Helena and Pointe de Galle, 207 ; 

 defences against, id. ; date of 

 introduction from Africa to St. 

 Helena, 208. 



Whitstable, discovery of a palaeo- 

 lith near, 154. 



Williamson, A. W., election of, 54 ; 

 biographical note on, 55 ; com- 

 munication from, 170 ; placed on 

 supernumerary list, 80. 



Willis, Mr., patents a new process in 

 printing photographs, 209. 



Wind gauge, modification of Lind's, 



J 37- 



Winter temperatures in United 

 States and England contrasted, 

 MS- 



Wohler, Herr, artificial production 

 of leucine and other fatty acids, 

 127. 



Wood, drift, above sea-level on 

 Arctic islands, 122 ; silicified 

 in same region, id. ; scored by 

 drifting sand, 206 ; fossil, con- 

 taining silver, id. ; from the 

 desert near Cairo, 248. 



Woolwich, cartridge-case factory 

 established at, 128. 



Work and rest, effects of, on excre- 

 tory processes, 175. 



Wrottesley, Sir J., election of, 30 ; 

 biographical note on, 32 ; com- 

 munications from, 1 20, 148 ; 

 death of, 61. 



Wurtz, Professor, on aldehyde and 

 alcohol, 159. 



Yeast plant, at Guinness' Brewery , 



231- 

 Yenesei, bed of graphite discovered 



on the, 1 60. 

 Yorke, P. J., election of, and 



biographical note on, 56 ; death 



of, 68. 

 Young, James, and Forbes, George, 



new experiments on the velocity 



of light, 215. 

 Young, John, studies of edible birds' 



nests, 234 ; their composition, 



id. 



Yttrium, its compound nature sug- 

 gested by spectrum analysis, 



241. 



Zoological Society, gadflies ex- 

 hibited at the, 112. 



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