Supplement to Nature,^ 

 June i6, 1898 J 



Index 



xxxix 



Waller (Prof.), on the Action of Various Reagents on the 

 Electrotonic Currents of Nerves, 19 



Walsh (Dr. David), Rontgen Rays in Medical Work, 99 ; Pre- 

 mature Burial : Fact or Fiction ? 292 



War of the Worlds, the, H. G. Wells, 339 



Warburg (E.), Retardation of Spark Discharge, 92 



Ward (Prof. 11. Marshall, F. RS.). Biology of Siereum 

 hirsntum, 286 ; Oat-Smut as an Artist's Pigment, 389 



Warning Colours, Protective Mimicry and Common, Prof. 

 Edward B. Poulton, F.R.S., 389 



Warren (Prof.), Effect of Temperatures on Tensile and Com- 

 pressive Properties of Copper, 288 



Warrington (Dr.), on the Effects of Ischcemia on the Structural 

 Features of Nerve Cells, 20 



Washington, Beavers at, 589 



Water : the Critical Temperature of, H. M. Martin, 80 ; S. 

 Geoghegan, loi ; Transpiration into a Space saturated with 

 Water, Dr. Henry II. Dixon, 173 ; the Efficiency of Water 

 Filters, 324 ; Variation of Water-level under Wind-pressure, 

 A. R. Hunt, 365 ; James Watt and the Discovery of Ae 

 Composition of Water, Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 546; 

 Surface- resistance of Water and of Stream-Line Motion 

 under certain Experimental Conditions, Prof. Hele-Shaw, 

 566 ; the Purification of Sewage and Water, W. J. Dibdih, 

 601 



Waters (W. L.), Temperature Variations in E.M.F. of H-Form 

 of Clark Cells, 71 



Watkins (Prof. Elfreth), a Railroad Flying Machine, 156 



Watkins (Rev. M. G.), Gleanings from the Natural History of 

 the Ancients, 146 



Watson (W. ), Thermostat for Drying Varnish on Resistance- 

 Coils, 117 



Watt (James) and the Discovery of the Composition of Water, 

 Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 546 



Watts (Prof. W. W.), Geology of Carshalton Sewerage Works, 

 93 ; Geological Photographs, 437 



Waves, Electric, the Refraction of, Prof. Jagadis Chunder 

 Bose, 353 



Wealth and Progress of New South Wales, T. A. Coglan, 245 



Weather-Clocks in New York, 59 



Weather Prediction, the Use of Kites in, 163 



Webber (H. J.), the Discovery of Antherozoids in Zainia, 59 



Webster (Prof. A. G.), the Theory of Electricity and Mag- 

 netism : being Lectures on Mathematical Physics, 49 ; the 

 Mathematics used in Connection with Physics, 317 



Webster (William), Phenomena exhibited by Jackson Tubes, 80 



Weed (C. M. ), Life Histories of American Insects, 99 



Weiss (G.), Hermann's Method of Expanding Periodic Curves, 

 524 



Weiss (Pierre), Plane of Magnetisation of Magnetic Pyrites, 

 600 



Welby (Lady), Misleading Applications of Familiar Scientific 

 Terms, 536 



Wells (H. G.), the War of the Worlds, 339 



Weltgebaude, Das, Eine Gemeinverstiindliche Himmelskunde, 

 Dr. M. Wilhelm Meyer, 604 



Wendell (O. C), U Pegasi and Short Period Variables, 352 



Wesendonck (K. ), Thermodynamics of Luminescence, 238 



West Indian Resources, D. Morris, 464 



Wharton (Rear- Admiral Sir W. J., F.R,S.), Clipperton Atoll, 

 502 



Whatmough (W. H.), Preparation of Pare Iodine, 358 



Wheat, the Origin of, J. C. Melvill, 383 



Wheeler (Alex.), the Story of Gloucester, 537, 606 



Wheeler (W. H. ), the Northam Pebble Ridge, 209 ; Undula- 

 tions in Lakes and Inland Seas due to Wind and Atmospheric 

 Pressure, 321 



Wherry (George), Spiral Growths in Nature, 302 



White (Walter), the Journals of. Assistant Secretai^ of the 

 Royal Society, 195 



Whitaker (W., F.R.S.), Geology and Sanitary Science, loi ; 

 Memoirs of the Geological Survey, TI. B. Woodward, 319 



White (Franklin), the Dry Crushing and Direct Cyaniding of 

 Rand Ore, 135 



Whitney (M.), Tobacco Soils of United States, 615 



Whittaker's Mechanical Engineer's Pocket-book, Philip R. 



„ Bjorling, 434 



Who's Who 1898, 510 



Whymper (Edward), the Valley of Zermattand the Matterhorn, 

 292 



Wiedemann (E.), Absorption of Electric Oscillations by 



Luminescent Gases, 92 ; Kathode Rays, 238 ; Relation 



between Positive Light and Dark Kathode Space, 402 

 Wiedemann's Annalen, 70, 92, 237, 401, 500 

 Wild Flowers and other Poems, James Rigg, 316 

 Wild Life in Southern Seas, Louis Becke, 580 

 Wild Traits in Tame Animals, Dr. Louis Robinson, 150 

 Wild- Fowling, Rev. H. A. Macpherson, 98 

 Willey's (Dr. A.) Expedition to Melanesia, Zoological Results 



of, 430 

 Williams (P.), the Calcium, Strontium and Barium Borides, 47 

 Williams (Stanley), the Magnitudes of 1081 Southern Stars, 



491 

 Willis (Bayley), Drift Phenomena of Puget Sound, 573 

 Wilson (C. T. R.), Action of Radiation from Uranium Salts in 



Cloud-Formation. 47 

 Wilson (Ernest), Magnetic Properties of almost Pure Iron, 



453 ; Kelvin's Quadrant Electrometer as Wattmeter and 



Voltmeter, 453 

 Wilson (Geo.), on a Method of Determining the Reactions at 



the Points of Support of Continuous Beams, 238 

 Wilson (Mrs. L. L. W.), Nature Studies in Elementary Schools ; 



a Manual for Teachers, 340 

 Wilson (T. ), Dew and Absorption, 436 

 Wilson (C T. R.), Cloud-Production by Action of Ultra-violet 



Light on Moist Air, 407 

 Wind and Atmospheric Pressure, Undulations in Lakes and 



Inland Seas due to, W. H. Wheeler, 321 

 Wind Pressure, Variation of Water Level under, A. R. Hunt, 



Wind Pressure,a Method of Measuring, Prof. Francis E. Nipher, 



449 

 Windle (Prof. B.), Anatomy of Macropus rufus, 319 

 Wines, Bitterness in, MM. Bordas, Joulin and Rackowski, 



431 

 Wines, Turned, Bacillus of, MM. Bordas, Joulin and de 



Raczkowski, 576 

 Wings, Artificial, in Imitation of Flying-Fox, Major R. F. 



Moore, 59 

 Winnecke (Dr. Friedrich A. T.), Death of, 133; Obituary 



Notice of, 155 

 Winnecke's Periodic Comet, 180, 284, 325, 352, 472 ; Prof. 



Perrine, 230 

 Winter Meteorology of Egypt and its Influence on Disease, the, 



H. E. Leigh Canney, 52 

 Winters, Mild, 301, 405 ; Dr. G. Hellmann, 516 

 Wirbelthiere, Lehrbuch der Vergleichenden Mikroskopischen 



Anatomic der, Dr. Med. Alb, Oppel, 581 

 Wires, Electrical Oscillations in, H. C. Pocklington, 47 

 Wires, Failure of German Silver and Platinoid, in Resistance 



Coils, R. Appleyard, 116 

 Wires, Resistance Coil, the Material of, in Tropical Climates, 



R. Appleyard, 418 

 Wires, Electric Resistance of, and Temperature, J. D. H. 



Dixon, 157 

 Wires, Electric Signalling without Conducting, Prof. O. J. 



Lodge, F.R.S., 334 

 Wires, Telegraphy without. Dr. Slavey, 589 ; New Coherer for. 



Dr. H. Ruff, 612 

 Wirth (Albrecht), Aborigines of Formosa, 518 

 Wisselingh (Mr. van), the Nucleolus of Spirogyra, 263 

 Woburn Abbey Deer, the, 201 

 Woeikoff (A.), Five Years' Eiffel Tower Observations, 92; 



Temperature Variation in Arctic and Equatorial Oceanic 



Climates, 92 

 Wolfenden (Dr. R. Norris), Archiveswf the Rontgen Ray, 509 

 Wood, New Process of Preventing Decay of, S. E. Haskin, 



373 

 Wood (P. J.), Metallic Salts of Yellow Colouring Matters, 478 

 Wood (T. B. ), Cannabinol, 525 

 Wood's (Mr.) Method of Illustrating Planetary Orbits, Prof. 



Louis W. Austin, 536 

 Woodrow (Prof. G. M.), Botany of Jeur, 543 

 Woods (A. F.), Method of Preserving Green Colour of Plants 



for Exhibition, 14 

 Woodward (Prof. C. M.), Efficiency of Gearing qnder Friction, 



527 

 Woodward (H. B.), Quartzite from Criccieth, 93 ; Memoirs of 



the Geological Survey, 319 

 Worlds, the War of the, H. G. Wells, 339 



