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Index 



r Supplement to Nature, 

 L December 8, 1898 



Williamson (Dr. Sidney), Artificial Food, 368 



Willis (J. C), Report of Royal Botanic Gardens, Ceylon, 329 



Willows, Changes in Sex of, Mr. Burkill, 633 



Wilson (Prof. Carus), Action of Two Electro- Motors Coupled 



so as to Rotate at Different Speeds, 215 

 Wilson (C. T. R.), Cloud-Production by Ultra-Violet Light, 62 

 Wilson (Edward), Death of, 85 

 Wilson (Ernest), Aluminium as Electrodes, 188 

 Wilson (].), Action of Light on Acetylene, 238 

 Wind (Dr. C. II.), the Diffraction of X-Rays, 360 

 Wind- Power, the Utilisation of. Prof la Cour, 300 

 Windt (Mr. de). Death of, 513 

 Windward Islands Hurricane, 512 ; Meteorological Statistics of, 



H. Powell, 551 

 Winter, Summer and, in Relation to the Sun-spot Cycle, 270 

 Winternitz (Dr. M.), Folk-Medicine in Ancient India, 233 

 Winton (W. E. de), Aethurus glirinus, a New Rodent, 95 

 Wireless Telegraphy, Experiments in, 398 

 Wireless Telegraphy, Richard Kerr, 495 

 Wires, Torsional Oscillations of, Dr. W. Peddie, 239 

 Wolfs Comet, 330, 356, 375 

 Wolmer Forest as a Sanctuary for Birds, 255 

 Wood (J. K.), Preparation of Solid Ammonium Cyanate, 23 ; 



Solubility of Isomeric Substances, 238 

 Wood (R. W. ), Phase Reversal and Silver Zone Plates, 61 ; 



Mirage on City Pavements, 596 

 Wood (T. B.), Cannabinol, 238 

 Wood Incombustible, Process of Making, 328 

 Woodward (A. Smith), Outlines of Vertebrate Palaeontology, 



337 

 Woodwork, Manual Training : a Handbook for Teachers, Geo. 



Ricks, 124 

 Wupper, the River, Dr. C. Dammann, 109 

 Wyatt (G. H.), Experimental Mechanics, loi 

 Wyronhoff (M.), Commercial Extraction of Thorium, 516 



XeniidiV, the, J. H. Ashworth, 335 

 Xenon, Prof. Ramsay and Dr. Travers, 556 



Yarn, Peat- Fibre, 178 



Yeast Cell, Structure of. Prof. Errera, 633 ; Harold Wager, 



633 ; Enzyme of Yeast Plant, Prof. Reynolds Green, 633 

 Yellow Fever and Anti-Toxin Serum, Dr. Sanarelli, 158 

 Yerkes Refractor, the 40-inch, Prof. Barnard, 181 

 YUimani, Ascent of, Sir W. M. Conway, 513 

 Yorkshire Moor, a, Prof. L. C. Miall, F.R.S., 377, 401 

 Young (Prof. Sydney), on the Thermal Properties of Gases and 



Liquids, 556 

 Young (W. II. and G. Chisholm), Die Fundamentalen 



Physikalischen Eigenschaften der Krystalle in Elementarer 



Darstellung, Dr. Woldemar Voigt, 99 



Zaharia (A.), Solubility of Camphor, 635 



Zeeman Phenomenon, New Observations on, Henri Becquerel 



and H. Deslandres, 264 

 Zeeman's Phenomena, Prof. S. P. Thompson, 533 

 Zickler (Prof.), Telegraphic Instruments actuated at a Distance 



by Ultra-Violet Light, 524 

 Zoology : Additions to Zoological Gardens, 19, 4I, 60, 88, ill. 



134, 159, 181, 209, 232, 258, 277, 279, 303, 326, 330, 355, 

 375. 400, 424. 462, 490, 515. 526, 553. 583, 60s, 629; 

 Zoological Society, 23, 70, 95, 190, 238 ; Anniversary Meet- 

 ing, 17 ; Traite de Zoologie Concrete, Prof. Yves Delages 

 and E. Herouard, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F. R.S.,25; a 

 Text-book of Zoology, Prof. T. Jeffery Parker, F.R.S., and 

 Prof. W. A. Haswell, F.R.S., Prof. E. Ray Lankester, 

 F.R.S., 25; Prof. W. N. Parker, 200; Death of Prof. D. S. 

 Kellicott, 39 ; the Present Position of some Cell Problems, 

 Prof. J. B. Farmer, 63 ; Aethurus glirinus, a New Rodent, 

 W. E. de Winton, 95 ; the Linacre Reports, 100 ; Climbing 

 Habits in Frogs, iii ; the Strangling of an Elephant, 115 ; 

 Relations between Hybrid and Parent Forms of Echinoid 

 Larvae, H. M. Vernon, 118; Development of Peripatus 

 noViC-brittannicc, Dr. A. Willey, 142 ; a Student's Text- 

 Book of Zoology, Adam Sedgwick, F.R.S., Prof. E. Ray 

 Lankester, F. R.S., 147; the West Indian Seal, Monachus 

 tropicalis, 179 ; Lion-Tiger Hybrid, R. I. Pocock, 200 ; the 

 Atoll of Funafuti, Ellice Group, its Zoology, Botany, Ethnology, 

 and General Structure, based on Collections made by Mr. 

 Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum, Sydney, N.S.W., 

 221 ; Zoology as a Higher Study, Prof. William A. Haswell, 

 F.R.S., 247 ; the Senegal Giraffe at the Zoological Gardens, 

 277 ; Death of the Senegal Giraffe, 373 ; the Destruction of 

 the Birds and Mammals of the United States, William T. 

 Hornaday, 308 ; the Angora Goat, and a Paper on the 

 Ostrich, S. C. Cronwright Schreiner, 314 ; Elementary 

 Practical Zoology, P'rank E. Beddard, 318; Galapagos 

 Tortoises in Zoological Gardens, 326 ; the International 

 Congress of Zoologists, 376, 424 ; International Congress of 

 Zoology, 390 ; Address by the President, Sir John Lubbock, 

 391 ; the Life Work of William Turner, Rev. H. A. 

 Macpherson, 398 ; the Marine Fauna m Lake Tanganyika, 

 and the Advisability of Further Exploration in the Great 

 African Lakes, J. E. S. Moore, 404 ; the Building of Atolls, 

 Stanley Gardiner, 425 ; New Method of Preserving Rotifers, 

 C. F. Rousselet, 425 ; Classification of Insects, Dr. David 

 Sharp, 425 ; Colour Evolution of Lepidoptera, M. Bordage, 



425 ; Relation of Colour of Lepidoptera Chrysalids to Colour 

 of Environment, M. Bordage, 425 ; Position of Sponges in 

 Animal Kingdom, Prof. Yves Delages, 425 ; E. A. Minchin, 



426 ; Saville Kent, 426 ; the Tsetze Disease in Mammals, Prof. 

 Kanthack and Mr. Durham, 426 ; Traces of Six Primitive Seg- 

 ments in Insects' Heads, Ch. Janet, 426 ; Origin of Mammals, 

 Prof Seeley, 426 ; Prof. Osborn, 426 ; Prof Marsh, 427 ; 

 A. Sedgwick, 427 ; Prof Hubrecht, 427 ; the Descent of 

 Man, Prof. Haeckel,427 ; the Brain oi Pithecanthropus erecius, 

 E. Dubois, 427 ; Origin of Echinoderms, Prof. MacBride, 



427 ; Origin of Red Blood Corpuscles in Placenta of Tarsius, 

 Prof. Hubrecht, 428 ; Pliohyrax fraasii, Prof. Osborn, 428 ; 

 the Medusa of Lake Urumiah, Dr. Albert Giinther, 319 ; the 

 "Jelly-Fish " of Lake Urumiah, R. T. Giinther, 435 ; a 

 Request for Zoological Literature, Prof Blaxland Benham, 

 520 ; the Tailless Batrachians of Europe, G. A. Boulenger, 

 F.R.S. , 567; Organic Variations and their Interpretations, 

 J. T. Cunningham, 593; Rev. George Henslow, 594; Prof. 

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

 and Water as F^actors in Food of Frogs, H. Pellat, 612; 

 the Echinoderm Fauna of New Zealand, II. Farquhar, 636 



