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INDEX. 



[Nature, June 7, \\ 



Wind Force at Sea : Capt. David Wilson-Barker, 274 ; W. G. 

 Black, 321 



Wind Velocity and Pressure, Relation between, H. Allen 

 Hazen, 39, 47 



Winds, Proposed Classification of, 595 



Winkler Observatory, Herr Winkler, 302 



Wissmann (Lieut.), Preliminary Account of his Journey across 

 Africa, 159 



Witchell (C. B.), Swifts, 79 



Wolf's Relative Numbers, 423 



Wolpert (Prof.), Apparatus for measuring the Amount of Car- 

 bonic Acid, 157 



Wolsingham Observatory, Rev. T. E, Espin,'400 



Wolves in France, Rewards for killing, 65 



Wolves nurturing Children, 444 



Wood, Green Colouring-matter of Decaying : Rev. A. Irving, 

 511 ; Henry Robinson, 536 



Wood, Manufactures from American, C. R. Dodge, 473 



Wood (Theodore), Farmer's Friends and Foes, 388 



Woodford (C. M.), Exploration of the Solomon Islands, 331, 



546 : . 



Woodhead (Dr. G. Sims), on Mercuric Salts as Antiseptic 

 Surgical Lotions, 527 



Woodward (Harry Page), appointed Government Geologist for 

 Western Australia, 139 



Woolwich Cadets, Science Training of, 566 



Woolwich Examinations, Science and the, 296, 319, 385, 409, 

 433 ; Rev. A, Irving, 389 ; Henry Palin Gurney, 415 



Woolwich Regulations, the, and the House of Commons, 576 



Wright (Dr. C. R. Alder, F.R.S.) and C. Thompson : Note on 

 the Development of Feeble Currents by purely Physical 

 Action, and the Oxidation under Voltaic Influences of 

 Metals not ordinarily regarded as Spontaneously Oxidizable, 

 213 ; Voltaic Circles producible by Mutual Neutralization of 

 Acid and Alkaline Fluids, and ^Various Related Forms of 

 Electromotors, 573 



Wright (Mark R.), Sound, Light, and Heat, 199 

 Wrightson (Prof. John) : United States Commission of Agri- 

 culture, 188 ; Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society, 211 ; 

 on Report of the New York Agricultural Station, 524 



Y Cygni, the New Algol- Variable, Sawyer, 37 



Y Cygni and R Canis Majoris, the New Algol-Variables, 

 Chandler, 140 



Yang-tse Gorges, through the, A. J. Little, 556 



Year-book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great 



Britain and Ireland, 615 

 Yorkshire Lias, Fossil Pterodactyl Skull found in the, 598 

 Young (Dr. Sydney), the Composition of Water, 390, 417 



Zenker (Dr.), Distribution of Heat over the Surface of the Earth, 



552 

 ZintgraflF(Dr.), Start for Rio del Rey, 354 

 Zograff (Dr. Nicholas) : on Some Affinities between Ganoidei 



chondrostei and other Fishes, 70; Structure of Acipenser 



ruthenus, 399 

 Zoological and Botanical Results of the Cruise of the Dijumphna, 



173 

 Zoological Gardens, Additions to, 17, 36, 66, 89, 113, 140, 158, 

 187, 210, 233, 259, 284, 301, 330, 353, 380, 400, 423, 445, 



475, 495. 519, 544, 569. 596, 616 



Zoological Record, 187, 300 



Zoological Results of the Challenger Expedition, 1,219 



Zoological Society, 119, 190, 239, 334.. 43i, 454, 503, 5*6, 569 



Zoological Station at Villafranca, Russian, 566 



Zoology : M. Zograif on the Structure of Acipenser rufhenus, 

 399 ; Wolves nurturing Children, 444 ; Prodromus of the 

 Zoology of Victoria, Prof. F. McCoy, 533 ; Leitfaden der 

 Zoologie fiir die oberen Classen der Mittelschulen, Dr. Vitus 

 Graber, 604 



