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Index 



[Nature, 

 June 13, 1901 



Vienna, Overhead Tramway Wire Accident at, 35 



Vignon (Leo), Cellulose and Hydrocellulose, 51 



Villari (Prof. E.), How Air subjected to X-Rays loses its 



Discharging Property, 432 

 Vines (Prof. S. H., F.R.S.), Raciborski's Researches on 



Leptomin, 434 

 Viol (G.), Mechanical Vibrations of Isolated Stretched Wire 



with Visible Discharge, 626 

 Virgil as a Physicist, 205 

 Vision : Experiments Illustrating Phenomena of Vision, Dr. S. 



Bidwell, 23 

 Visual Observation of Capella (o Auriga'), Prof. W. J. Hussey, 



92 

 Visual Organs of the Trilobites, Researches on the, G. 



Lindstrdm, 535 

 Visual Sensation, Studies in. Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan, F.R.S., 



Viticulture: " Gehvure due to Lightmng, L. Ravaz and A. 



Bonnet, 556 

 Vivarez (H.), Les Phenomenes ElectriqUes et leurs Applications, 



585 

 Vogel (Prof. H. C.), Nova Persei, 502, 620; the Spectrum of 



Nova Persei, 575 

 Volcanoes : Early Observations of Volcanic Phenomena in 



Auvergne and Ireland, Prof. Grenville A. J. Cole, 464 

 Vortex Rings, Prof. R. W. Wood, 418 

 Vortex Rings, the Velocity of, Drs. G. Vicentini and G. Pacher, 



209 

 Vowels, on the Nature of, E. W. Scripture, 626 



Waddell (Dr. John), a School Chemistry, 323 



Wahl (A.), Direct Nitration of Unsaturated Fatty Compounds, 

 13 ; Nitro-derivatives of Elthyldimethylacrylate, 75 ; Trans- 

 formation of Dimethylacrylic Acid into Dimethylpyruvic Acid, 



435 

 Wait (Prof. C. E ), Effect of Muscular Work on Digestibility of 



Food, 451 

 Walcott (R. H.), Cast of Fossil Tree-trunk in Basalt, 284 

 Wales : Celtic Folklore, Welsh and Manx, John Rhys, 



E. Sidney Hartland, 485 

 Wallace (Dr. Alfred Russel), Studies, Scientific and Social, 174 

 Wallace (Prof. R. ), Agricultural Prospects in South Africa, 499 

 Waller (Dr. A. D., F.R.S.), " Blaze Currents" of Frog's Eye- 

 ball, 266 

 Walsham (Dr. Hugh), Photography of the Static Discharge, 180 

 Ward (T. ), the Northwich Subsidences, 523 

 Warner (E. T.), Instruments of Precision at the Paris 



Exhibition, 107 

 Warren (R.), the Birds of Ireland, loi 

 Washington (H. S. ), Chemical Analysis of Glaucophane Schists, 



290 

 Wassermann (Dr.), Method of Distinguishing Human from 



Animal Blood, 499 • 

 Waterer (Clarence), Protective Markings in Animals, 441 

 Watson (A. E.), Recurrence of Severe Winters, 459 

 Watson (Mr.), Half-seconds Pendulums, 195 

 Wave Surfaces in Sand, Vaughan Cornish, 623 

 Waves, Cusped, Propagation of. Prof. R. W. Wood, 432 

 Weathers (John), a Practical Guide to Garden Plants, 463 

 Webb (Wilfred Mark), Conference of Science Masters in Public 



Schools, 313 

 Weber (Prof Heinrich), Die Partiellen Differentialgleichungen 



der Mathematischen Physik, nach Riemann's Vorlesungen, 



390 

 Weber (R. H.), Surface Tension and Range of Molecular 



Action of Water Surfaces Covered with Oil Layer, 626 

 Weidman (Dr. S.), Pre-Cambrian Igneous Rocks of Fox River 



Valley, Wisconsin, 382 

 Weightman (W. J.), the Nilgiri Railway, 402 

 Weiss (Prof F. E.), the Phloem of Lepidophloios and Lepido- 



dendron, 99 

 Welding Process, " Thermit," Dr. Goldschmidt's, 36 

 Weller (Stuart), Succession of Fossil Faunas in Kinderhook 



(Iowa) Beds, 425 

 Wells (H. G. ), Land Locomotion in Twentieth Century, 546 

 Welton (Thomas), Population-Distribution in England and 



Wales, 450 

 West Indies : West Indian Hurricanes, E. B. Garriott, 305 ; 



Agriculture in the West Indies, Prof. J. P. D'Albuquerque, 



356 ; Sugar Cane Experiments, 335 ; Zoology in the West 

 Indies, 159 

 Westell (W. P.), a Year with Nature, 80 

 Weston Cadmium Element, Irregularity of, W. Jaeger, 362 

 Whale and Seal Fishery, Notes on, T. Southwell, 524 

 Wheeler (W. H.), the Mississippi River, 525 ; the Commercial 



Uses of Peat, 590 

 Wheeler (Prof. W. M.), Discontinuous Distribution of 

 Koenenia inirabilis, 161 ; Ants' Mushroom Gardens, Prof. 

 W. M. Wheeler, 162 

 Wheeler (Mr.), Males of Eciton Ants, 594 

 Wherry (George), Direction of Spirals in Horns, 252, 348 

 Whetham(W. C. D.), a Self-adjusting Wheatstone's Bridge, 122 

 White (Rev. Gilbert), the Natural History and Antiquities of 



Selborne, and a Garden Kalendar, 606 

 Wiedemann's Annalen der Physik, 362 

 Wien (Max), Sinoidal Currents, 528 

 Wildfowl of Scotland, the, J. G. Millais, 567 

 Wilkin's (Mr.), Algerian Journey, 170 

 Wilkinson (E. J.), Genistein, II., 75 

 Willcox (W. F. ), the Census of Cuba, 162 

 Willey (Dr. A.), New Subgeneric Type of Lancelets, 523 

 Williams (A. Stanley), New Variable Star in Lyra, 92 ; New 

 Variable in Cygnus, 188 ; New Variable Star i 1901 (Cygni), 

 426 

 Williams (Henry Smith), the Story of Nineteenth Century 



Science, 342 

 Willeston (S. W. ), Creosaurus from Wyoming, 481 

 Wilson (C. T. R., F.R.S.), Electrical Leakage through Dust- 

 free Air, 195 ; the lonisation of Air, 577 

 Wilson (E. B.), the Cell in Development and Inheritance, 437 

 Wilson (Herbert M.), Topographic Surveying, 2 

 Wilson (Prof J. Cook), Inverse or " a posteriori " Probability, 



154 ; Probability, James Bernoulli's Theorem, 465 

 Wilson (L. P. ), I : 2 : 4-Metaxylidine-6-Sulphonic Acid, 291 

 Wilson (R. W.), the Thermal Diffusivity of Carrara Marble, 90 

 Wilson (Dr.), Interval between Cracking and Bursting of 



Gauge Glasses, 147 

 Wind-pressure, R. H. Curtis, 481 

 Wine, the "Clouding" of White, R. G, Smith, 220 

 Winter, a Nest of Young Starlings in, 252 

 Wireless Telegraphy : a New Form of Coherer, Prof Augustus 

 Trowbridge, 156 ; Wireless Telegraphic Fog-signal Apparatus, 

 187 ; Extension of Marconi's Wireless Telegraphy, 381 ; 

 Prof Braun's System, 402 

 Woburn Experimental Fruit Farm, Report of the Working 

 and Results of the, Duke of Bedford and Spencer U. 

 Pickering, Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, 177 

 Wohler (Friederich), Fin Jugendbildniss in Briefen an, Her- 

 mann von Meyer, 586 

 Wolff (Jules), Methyl Alcohol in Fermented Fruit Juice, 267 

 Wood (Prof R. W.), the Anomalous Dispersion of Carbon, 

 123 ; on the Nature of the Solar Corona, with some Sugges- 

 tions for Work at the next Total Eclipse, 230 ; an Artificial 

 Representation of a Total Solar Eclipse, 250 ; a Mica Echelon 

 Grating, 386 ; Vortex Rings, 418 ; Propagation of Cusped 

 Waves, 432 ; Cyanine Prisms, 433 

 Woodd (C. H. B.), Artificial Rain, 232 

 Woodward (C. J.), Snow Crystals^ 441 

 Woodward (H. O.), Landscape Marble from Bristol Rhaetic, 



578 

 Woodward (Dr. H. and H. B.), the Table of British Strata, 



560 

 Woodward (Dr. S.), Reptile Remains from Patagonia, 507 

 Woodworth (J. B.), Geology of Richmond (Va.), Basin, 215 

 Workman (Fanny Bullock and William Hunter), in the Ice 



World of Himalaya, 254 

 Workshop Mathematics, Frank Castle, 153 

 Worlds, the Origin of, Kant's Cosmogony, W. Hastie, 413 

 Wrens, the Field-mice and, of St. Kilda and Shetland, G. E. H. 



Barrett- Hamilton, 299 

 Wright (Prof. G. F.), Recent Geological Changes in Northern 



and Central Asia, 530 , 



Wroblewski (A.), Mode of Crystallising from Albuminous Solu- 

 tions without Surface Crust-formation, 238 



Yasuda (Prof A.), Action of Chemical Solutions on Infusoria, 



66 

 Year with Nature, a, W. P. Westell, 80 



