Nature, May 22, 1890] 



INDEX 



XXXI 



j"; Marker, 414 ; Vesuvius in 1889, Prof. Palmieri, 18 ; Geo- 

 logical Excursion to the Active and Extinct Volcanoes of 

 Southern Italy, 133 ; Activity of Queccia de Salsa, 181 ; the 

 Catastrophe of Kantzorik, Armenia, F. M. Corpi, 190; the 

 Mount Bandai (Japan) Eruption, 348 ; the Period of the Long 

 Sea-Waves of Krakatab, James C. McConnell, 392 ; the 

 Eruption of Popocatepetl, 592 



Vulpeculse, R, Variability of, 257 



lyestnTk Estesivoznaniya, New Russian Natural Science Re- 

 view, 469 



Wada (J.) : Earthquake of July 28, 1889, at Kiushiu, 23 ; 



Cyclone of September II-12, 1889, in Japan, 208 ; Meteoro- 

 logy in Japan, 1887, 400 

 Wagner (Dr.) : Behaviour of Water in Soil, 383 ; Fire-damp 



Explosions in Mines in Relationship to Cosmic and Meteoro- 

 logical Conditions, 504 

 Walford (E. A.\ Terraced Hill Slopes of the Midlands, 325 

 Walker (Alfred O.), Foreign Substances attached to Crabs, 



296 

 Walker (General J. T., R.E., F.R.S.), Unit of Length of Sir 



G. Shuckburgh's Standard Scale, 381 

 Wallace (Dr. Alfred R.) : Protective Coloration of Eggs, 53 ; 



Degree of D.C.L. Conferred on, at Oxford, 84 ; for Degree of 



D.C.L., Prof. J. Bryce's Speech on Presentation of, 112; 



some Notes on his "Darwinism," T. D. A. Cockerell, 393 

 Wallace (Prof.), Sheep Farming in Australia, 113 

 Waller (Dr. Aug.), Electrical Negative Variation of Heart ac- 

 companying Pulse, 288 

 Walls, Training, in Mersey Estuary, EfTects of, L. F. V. Har- 



court, 380 

 Walsingham (Lord), Presidential Address to the Entomological 



Society, 334 

 Wapiti Acclimatized in Russia, 546 



Warburton (Major P. E.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 164 

 Ward (Prof. H. Marshall, F.R.S.): Tubercles on Roots of 



Leguminous Plants, 140 ; Diseases of Plants, 436 

 Warren (Rev. Isaac), Table and Formula Book, 558 

 Watanabe (M.), Redetermination of Longitude in Tokio, 427 

 Water, Compressibility of, Prof. Tait, 361 

 Water, Effect of Oil on Disturbed, Richard Beynon, 205 

 Water, a General Formula for the Uniform Flow of, in Rivers 



and other Channels, E. Ganguillet and W. R. Kutter, 411 

 Water, Physical Properties of, Prof. P. G. Tait, 416 ; Prof. 



Arthur W. Riicker, F.R.S., 416 

 Waterhouse (F. H.), Index Generum Avium, R. Bowdler 



Sharpe, 169 

 Waterhouse (Colonel J.), Photography of Red End of Spectrum, 



67 

 Waterhouse and Thuiller's Conversion Tables for Metric System, 



65 

 Waterspout in Atlantic, 470 

 Watt (James), Proposed Memorial to, 160 

 Waves, the Production of. Prof, von Helmhol'.z on, 95 

 Wayside Sketches, F. Edward Hulme, 270 

 Weasel, the Cape, E. B. Titchener, 394 

 Weather Forecasting, 278 



Weather, Influenza and, Mitchell and Buchan, 596 

 Weather in January, Chas. Harding, 425 

 Weather and Tidal Forecasts for 1893, D. Dewar's, 546 

 Weeds, European, in America, 18 

 Weigert's (Dr.), Treatment of Pulmonary Phthisis, Prof. 



Visconti, 380 

 Weismann's (Prof.) Essays, Dr. St. George Mivart, F. R.S., 38 

 Weismann versus Lamarck, Prof. E. D. Cope, 79 

 Weismann (Prof. A.) : Theory of Heredity, 317, 373, 439 ; and 



the Theory of Panmixia, 437 

 Weiss (F. Ernest), Foreign Substances Attached to Crabs, 



272 

 Weldon (W. F. R. ), Abnormal Shoots of Ivy, 464 

 Wesley (W. H.), the Corona of 1889 December 22, 450 

 West Indies, African Monkeys in the. Dr. P. L. Sclater, 



F.R.S,368 

 Westphalia, Stalactite Cave discovered in, 113 

 Wethered (E. ), Occurrence of Girvanella Genus, and on Oolitic 



Structure, 238 

 Wetterhan (D.) : Galls, 131 ; a Formula in the Theory of Least 



Squares, 394 

 Weyl (Dr., Biology of Anaerobic Bacteria, 359 

 Whales, Time they can remain under Water, 66 



Wharton (Captain W. J. L,, F.R.S.) : Notes on a Recent Vol- 

 canic Island in the Pacific, 276; Self-Colonization of Coco- 

 nut Palm, 585 

 Wheat, Field Experiments on, in Italy, Prof. Giglioli, 404 

 Whipple (G. M.), Photography in Relation to Meteorological 



Work, 503 

 Whitaker (W.), a Deep Channel of Drift in the Valley of the 



Cam, Essex, 527 

 While (Robert B.), Shining Night-CIoods, 369 

 White (William), British Earthquakes, 202 

 Whitechapel, Proposed Free Library at, 161 

 Whitham (Jay M.), Steam-Engine Design, 29 

 Will (Dr.), Analysis of Carcote, Chili, Meteorite, 428 

 Willem (Victor), the Gizzard in Scolopendridse, 237 

 Williams (F. N.) : Enumeratio Specierum Varietatumque 

 Generis Dianthus, 51 ; Notes on the Pinks of Western 

 Europe, 78 

 Williams (R. P.) and B. P. Lascelles, Introduction to Chemical 



Science, 128 

 Williamson (Prof. W. C, F.R.S.) : Organization of Fossil 



Plants of Coal-Measures, 573 

 Willoughby (Captain Sir John C), Africa and its Big Game, , 



298 

 Wilson (Sir Daniel), on the Recent Toronto Meeting of the 



American Association for the Advancement of .Science, 17 

 Wilson (J. Spottiswoode), Geological Mechanism, 390 

 Wilson (R. W.), Magnetism in Brick Buildings, 405 

 Wilson (William), Practical Observations on Agricultural Grasses 



and other Pasture Plants, 196 

 Wilson (Woodrow), the State, Elements of Historical and Prac- 

 tical Politics, 196 

 Wilson-Barker (Captain David), Foreign Substances attached 



to Crabs, 297 

 Wimshurst Machine and Hertz's Vibrator, T. A. Garrett and 



W, Lucas, 515 

 Wind, Preponderance of North-East Wind during past Five 



Years, C. L. Prince, 470 

 Wind at Summit of Eiffel Tower, Mean Hourly Velocity of, 



A. Angot, 67 

 Wind-velocity at top of Eiffel Tower, Angot, 48 

 Winds, Dependence of Force of, upon Surface over which they 



blow, Dr. Van Bebber, 372 

 Winds, a Popular Treatise on the, William Ferrel, 124 

 Winds, Relative Prevalence of North-East and South- West, 



William Ellis, 586 

 Winlock (Prof.), Progress of Astronomy in 1886, 374 

 Winnecke's Periodical Comet, the Orbit of, M. H. Faye, 94 

 Wolves and Bears in Bosnia, 325 

 Wolves, &c., in Germany, Dr. Lampert, 182 

 Wood (Rev. J. G.), the Brook and its Banks, 53 ; the Zoo, 53 

 Woodall (Herbert J.), How not to Teach Geometry, 60 

 Woodford (C. M.) : Further Explorations of Solomon Islands, 



403 ; a Naturalist among the Head-hunters, 582 

 Woodthorpe (Colonel), the Aka Expedition of 1883, 86 

 Woodward (A. S.), some British Jurassic Fish-remains, 310 

 World, Library Reference Atlas of the, John Bartholomew, 413 

 Worthington (Prof. A. M.), Bourdon's Pressure-Gauge, 296, 517 

 Wright (M. R.), Elementary Physics, 78 



Wrightson (Prof. John) : Sources of Nitrogen in Soils, 286 ; 

 How to know Grasses by their Leaves, by A. N. M'Alpine, 



557 

 Wynne (W. P.), Constitution of Tri-derivatives of Naphthalene, 



454 



Yatchevsky (M. ), Limits of Ever-frozen Soil in Siberia, 472 

 Yeast, Fermentation with Pure, Prof. Percy F. Frankland, 339 

 Young (Arthur), Travels in France, 294 

 Young (Prof. C. A.), the Elements of Astronomy, 485 

 Young (Dr. Sydney), Exact Thermometry, 152, 271, 488 

 Yule (Sir Henry), Death of, 207 



Zeiss's New Apochromatic Microscope Objective, 494 

 Zelbr (Dr.), Comet Swift (/1889, November 17), 115, 233 

 Zepharovich (Ritter von), Death and Obituary Notice of, 448 

 Zodiacal Light, Maxwell Hall on the Spectrum of the, 351, 402 

 Zodiacal Light, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., on, 402 

 Zoo, the. Rev. J. G. Wood, 53 



Zoogeography : Wolves, &c. , in Germany, Dr. Lampert, 182 

 Zoological Discoveries, N. M. Przewalsky's, 468 



