Supplement to NatureA 

 December Z, 1898 J 



Index 



XXXI X 



in Clusters, Prof. Bailey, 583 ; Atlas of Variable Stars, Dr. 

 J. G. Hagen, 606 

 Variation, Latitude, in a Rigid Earth, Prof. Henry Crew, 232 

 Variation of Latitude at Tokyo, the, H. Kimura, 490 

 Variations, Organic, and their Interpretation, f. T. Cunning- 

 ham, 593 ; Rev. George Henslow, 594 ; Prof. W. F. R. 

 Weldon, F.R.S.. 595 ; Walter Garstang, 619 

 Vasco da Gama, Sir Clements R. Markham, F.R.S., 67 

 Vegetable Anatomy : Anatomia Vegetale, Dr. F. Tognini, 100 

 Vegetable Organography, Dr. K. Goebel, 74 

 " Velox," a New Photographic Printing Paper, 213 

 Venus, a Trip to, John Munroe, 366 

 Vemeuil (A.), Commercial Extraction of Thorium, 516 

 Vernon (H. M.), Relations between Hybrid and Parent Forms 

 of Echinoid Larv-x, 118; on the Relations between Marine 

 Animal and Vegetable Life in Aquaria, 584 

 Vertebrate Palseontology, Outlines of, A. Smith Woodward, 



337 



Vertebrates, Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of. Dr. 

 Robert Wiedershein, W. N. Parker, 409 



Vesuvius, Eruption of, 396, 513 



Vezes (M.), Atomic Weight of Nitrogen, 191 



Vienna, Deaths from Plague at, 625 



Vignon (Leo), Absorption of Liquids by Textiles, 264 ; the 

 Estimation of Tannin, 432 



Vigouroux (E.), a Silicide of Tungsten, 492 



Villard (P.), a Crookes' Tube revivable by Osmosis, 96; a 

 Property of Fluorescent Screens, 96 ; the Kathode Rays, 143 



Villari (Prof), Action of Rontgen Rays on Opaque Tubes, 

 132 ; Comparison of Shadows of Rontgen Rays by Photo- 

 graphy, 303 



Vincent (M.), Immunity of Arabs against Typhoid Fever, 86 



Virchow (Prof. R.,»For. Member R.S.), the Second Huxley 

 Lecture, 554 ; Dinner to, 581 



7 Virginis and y Leonis, Parallaxes and Masses of. Dr. 

 Belopolsky, 400 



Viticulture : the Adherence of Copper Washes against Vine- 

 Parasites, MM. Guilland and (louirand, 336 



Vitalism, Stereo-Chemistry and, Prof. F. R. Japp, F. R.S., 

 452 ; Prof F. J. Allen, 520; Herbert Spencer, 592 



Vitalism, Chance or. Prof. Karl Pearson, F.R.S., 495; Prof. 

 Geo. Eras. FitzGerald, F.R.S., 545; Clement O. Bartrun;, 

 545 ; Asymmetry and Vitalism, Prof. G. Errera, 616 ; Prof. 

 F. R. Japp, F.R.S., 616 



Vitzou (Prof. A.), Recovery of Sight in Monkeys after Total 

 .\blation of the Occipital Lobes, 485 



Vleck (Prof, van), Stieltjes' Polynomials, 310 



\'ogel (Trof. II. C. ), Kirchhoff's Spectroscope, 19 



Voigt (Dr. Woldemar), Die fundamentalen physikalischen 

 I'igenschaften der Krystalle in Elementarer Darstellung, 

 W. II. and G. Chisholm Young, 99 



\'olcanoes : Petroliferous Sands and Mud Volcanoes in Burma, 

 Dr. Fritz Noetling, 20 ; Volcanic Flames, Prof. Semmola, 

 303 ; Prof. Matteucci, 303 ; Local Variations in Intensity of 

 Ciravity near Mount Etna, A. Ricco, 354 ; Eruption of 

 Vesuvius, 396, 513 



\olumetric Analysis, Notes on, Arthur Thornton and Marchant 



Pearson, 269 

 \oorst (Mr. van), Death of, 299 

 \'osmaer (Dr.), Food-reception by Sponges, 47 

 \xy (Dr. J. E. de). Death of, 352 



Wade (E. B. IL), Method of Facilitating Measurement of 

 Temperature by Platinum Thermometry, 142 



Wager (Harold), Structure of Yeast Cell, 633 



Wales, the Astronomical Society of, 42 



Walker (J.), Preparation of Solid Ammonium Cyanate, 23 

 Solubility of Isomeric Substances, 238 



Walker (Mr.), on Electric Traction by Surface Contacts, 608 



Wall Mirages, C. T. Whitmell, 619 



Waller (Prof. A. D., F.R.S.), Action of Anaesthetics on Pro- 

 toplasm, 93 ; on the Influence of Salts upon the Electro- 

 Mobility of Medullated Nerve, 482 ; on the Action upon 

 Isolated Nerve of Muscarine, Chlorine and Neurine, 484 



Wallich (Major G. C), Linnean Society's Annual Gold Medal 

 awarded to, 107 



Wallis (H. Sowerby), Symons's British Rainfall, 1897, 389 



Walpi, the Winter Solstice Ceremony at, 295 



Wanton Mutilation of Animals, the, Dr. George Fleming, 605 



Ward (Lester F.), Outlines of Sociology, 494 



Ward (Prof. Marshall), a New Potato Disease, 633 



Ward (R. de C), Cumulus Cloud Formation over Fire, 32S 

 Warning Colours, Mimicry and, Frank Finn, 58, 279 

 Warrington (A. W.), on Hydrometers of Total Immersion, 534 

 Warrington (Dr.), on the Physiological Structure of the Brain 



of the Fowl, 485 

 Wasp and Bee Stings, Sir J. F. D. Donnelly, 435 

 Water Circulation in Rhone Glacier, F. A. Forel, 635 

 Water, the Flow of, Prof H. S. Hele-Shaw, 34, 467, 520 

 Water, Flow of, shown by Colour Bands, Prof. Osborne 



Reynolds, F.R.S., 467 ; Prof H. S. Hele-Shaw, 467 

 Water-Flow in Uniform Pipes and Channels, G. H. Knibbs, 



354 

 Water Gas, Opinion of Public Control Committee of London 



County Council, 276 

 Water Power in Switzerland, Electric Transmission of, 328 

 Waters, Natural Colours of. Prof. W. Spring, 580 

 Waterston (David), an Osteometric Index-Calculator, 597 

 Wattenwyl (Brunner von). Observations on the Colorations of 



Insects, 193 

 Watts (W. W.), Geology for Beginners, 518 

 Wave-power, the Utilisation of. Experiments at Los Angeles, 207 

 Weather, Dogmatism on the Moon and the, 368 

 Weather-Lore, Richard Inwards, 222 

 Weather Prediction, Prof Dr. W. J. van Bebber, 28 

 Weather of this Summer, the, Alex. B. MacDowall, 247 

 Wedd (C. B.), Corallian Rocks of Upware, 239 

 Wehnelt (A.), Light Nodes in Kathode Ray Bundle under 



Influence of Magnetic Field, 93 ; the Dark Kathode Space, 



491 

 Weights and Measures, Our, a Practical Treatise on the 



Standard Weights and Measures in Use in the British 



Empire, with some Account of the Metric System, H. J. 



Chaney, 268 

 Weldon (Prof W. F. R., F.R.S.), Scientific Worthies, Albert 



von Kolliker, i ; Opening Address in Section D of the 



British Association, 499 ; Organic Variations and their 



Interpretations, 595 

 Wellby (Captain M. S.), through Unknown Tibet, 347 

 Wells, Ebbing and Flowing, W. F. Sinclair, 52 ; F. R. Mallet, 



104 

 West Indies, Economic Botany in the, J. H. Hart, 87 

 Wethered (E.), on the Building of the Clifton Rocks, 558 ; on 



the Relation and Extension of the Franco- Belgian Coal-field 



to that of Kent and Somerset, 559 

 Wettervorhersage, Die, Prof Dr. W, J. van Bebber, 28 

 Whale, the Centipede, Kumagusu Minakata, 570 

 Wharton (Rear-Admiral, Sir W. J. L., K.C.B., F.R.S.), 



Undercurrents in the Strait of Bab-el- Mandeb, 544 

 Wheeler (W. \\.), on the Action of Waves and Tides on the 



Movement of Material on the Sea-coast, 559 

 Whitaker (W.), on the Relation and Extension of the Franco- 

 Belgian Coal-field to that of Kent and Somerset, 558 

 White (Dr. Buchanan), the Flora of Perthshire, 124 

 White (Sir W. H.). on Engineering Education, 634 

 White Sea, a, James W. Barrett, 496, 619 

 White or Milky Sea, a, Dan Pidgeon, 520 

 Whitehead (Alfred North), a Treatise on Universal Algebra, 



with Applications, 385 

 Whitmell (C. T.), Wall Mirages, 619 

 Whitney's (Prof) Calaveras Skull, 17 

 Whittaker (E. T.), Connection of Algebraic with Automorphic 



Functions, 93 ; the Recent History of the Theory of the 



P'unctions used in Analysis, 535 

 Wiedemann (Prof E.), Light Nodes in Kathode Ray Bundle 



under Influence of Magnetic Field, 93 ; Electric Properties 



of Gases, 180; Wiedemann's Annalen, 93, 117, 187, 335, 



491 

 Wiedershein (Dr. Robert), Elements of the Comparative 



Anatomy of Vertebrates, 409 

 Wien (W.), Electric Discharge in Rarefied Gases, 335 ; Motion 



of Translation of Luminiferous Ether, 491 

 Wilcox (E. M.), Winter Condition of Reserve Food in Lirioden- 



dron Stems, 335 

 Wilks (Sir Samuel, Bart., F.R.S.), the Moon's Course, 496 

 Willey (Dr. A.), Development of Feripalus nova-britannuc , 



142 ; What is Aniage ?, 390 ; on the Phylogeny of the 



Arthropod Amnion, 584 

 Williams (Lloyd), the Reproduction oi Dictyota dichotoma, 632 

 Williams (Percy), a New Carbide of Tungsten, 191 ; a Double 



Carbide of Iron and Tungsten, 516; Double Carbides of 



Iron and Chromium and Iron and Tungsten, 588 



