December <), 1897 J 



Index 



XXXIX 



Waller (Dr. Augustus D., F.R.SJ, Exercises in Practical 

 Physiology, 126; the FuUerian Professorship at the Royal 

 Institution, 248 



Wallis (II. Sowerby), British Rainfall 1896, 419 



Walter (B.), Rontgen Ravs, 311 



Ward (Prof. H. Marshall, F.R.S.), Diseases of Plants induced 

 by Cryptogamic Parasites, Dr. Karl Freiherr von Tubeuf, 

 121 ; Thames Bacterial Flora, 238 ; Opening Address in 

 Section K of the British Association, 455, 476 ; Stereum 

 hirsutttm a Wood-destroying Fungus, 600 



Washington, Latitude Observations at the, U.S. Naval Observa- 

 tory, Prof. W. Harkness, 256 



W asps and Bees, Ilymenoptera. Vol. I. Lieut. -Colonel C. T. 

 Hingham, 363 



\\ aste and Repair in Modern Life, Robson Roose, 587 



\\ ater. Experiments on the Surface Tension of, Dr. N. E. 

 Dorsey, 461 



Water in Trees, on the Ascent of, Francis Darwin, PM-l-S., 



307 

 Water Divining, the Local Government Board and, 131 

 Water Finding : the Divining Rod, Prof, W. F. Barrett, 568 

 Waterspout oft" Cromer, Sir William Flower, 451 

 Water Supply, Sanitary Problems connected with the Municipal, 



Prof. W. P. Mason, 619 

 Watson (W.), Instrument for Comparing Thermometers with 



Standards, 70 

 Watts (F.), Sugar-cane Cultivation in Antigua, 37 

 Wave-Clouds, the Designation of, A. H. S. Lucas, 102 

 Weather Fallacies, C. A. Whitmore, 15 

 Weber (Prof. A.), History of Philosophy, 149 

 Webb (F. \V.), a Joint Chair and Fish Plate, 115 

 W ebber (H. J.), on Spermatozoids in Zamia integrifolia, 601 

 Webster (Prof.), on Clark Cells, 462 

 Weinek's Lunar Enlargements, 233 

 Weinzirl (Mr.), the Rise and Fall of Bacteria in Cheddar Cheese, 



571 

 Welcker (Dr. Hermann), Death of, 522, 593 

 Weldon (Prof. W. F. R., F.R,S.), the Development of the 



Frog's Egg, T. H. Morgan, 489 ; Ueber Verwachsungs- 



versuche mit Amphibienlarven, Dr. G. Born, 489 

 Well- Water Level Fluctuations and Wind-pressure, Dr. Romei 



Martini, 298 

 Wellington Caves, the. New South Wales, 184 

 Wellsite, J. H. Pratt and H. W. Foote, 188 

 Welwitsch (Dr. F.), Catalogue of the African Plants collected 



by, in 1853-61, 52 

 Wharton ( Rear- Admiral, F.R.S.), the Admiralty Surveys for 



1896, 88 

 Wheat Analysis, Aime Gerard, 23 

 Whetham (W. C. Dampier), the Theory ot Dissociation into 



Ions, 29 

 White (Gilbert), a Bibliography of, Edward A. Martin, 418 

 Whiteaves (J. F.), on a Dendrodont Tooth from the Upper 



Arisaig Rock of Nova Scotia, 485 

 Whitehead (C. S.), Effect of Sea-Water on Induction Tele- 

 graphy, 165 

 Whitmore (C. A.), Weather Fallacies, 15 

 Whitney (M.), Electrical Determination of Moisture Content of 



Arable Soils, 277 

 Wiedemann (E.), Electrolysis of Rarefied Gases, 388 ; Glow on 



Insulated Conductors in a High-Frequency Field, 583 ; 



Discharge inside Wire Box, 583 

 Wiedemann's Annalen, 311, 335, 388, 583 

 Wild Bird Protection and Nesting Boxes, &c., J. R. B. 



Masefield, 78 

 Wild Flowers of Scotland, J. H. Crawford, 270 

 Wild Neighbours : Out-door Studies in the United States, 



Ernest Ingersoll, 565 

 Wilde (Henry, F.R.S.), on the Magnetisation Limit of Iron, 



142 

 Wilks (Dr. Samuel, F.R.S.), the Utility of Specific Characters, 



79 

 Williams (J. L.), the Systematic Position of the Diciyotaceie, 



471 

 Williams (Prof.), the Cattle Disease in Jamaica, 132 

 Williams (Stanley), New Variable Stars, 386 

 Willis (Bailey), on the Drift Phenomena of Puget Sound, 485 

 Wilson (E. B.), the Chlorination Process, 494 

 Wilson (Dr. Gregg), Development of Miillerian Ducts in 



Reptiles, 287 



Wilson (R. N.), on the Algonquian Blackfeet Legend concern- 

 ing Scar-face, 486 

 Wimshurst (James), X-Ray Tubes, 364 

 Winchell (N. H.), Origin of Archaean Greenstones, 133 

 Wind (Dr. C. H.), Diffraction of X-Rays, 96; Influence or 



Dimensions of Light-Source in P'resnel's Diffraction Pheno- 

 mena and Diffraction of X-Rays, 312 

 Wind and Atmospheric Pressure on the Tide, the Effect of. 



F. L. Ortt, 80 

 Wind Velocity, Prof. G. Hellmann, 607 

 Wines, Influence of Colouring Matters on Fermentation of 



highly-Coloured Red, P. Carles and G. Niviere, 536 

 Wines, Acari in, L. Mathieu, 440 

 Winternitz (Dr. M.), Hindu Castes and Sects, Jogendra Nath 



Bhattacharya, 561 

 Wires, Overhead, on a Substitute for, in Electric Tramway 



Working, Mr. Aldridge, 507 

 Wires, Signalling through Space without, W. H. Preece, 



F.R.S., 163 

 Wires, Telegraphy without, and Thunderstorms, Rev. Frederick 



J. Jervis-Smith, F.R.S., 223 

 Witches' Broom of Barberry, on the Mycelium of the, caused by 



yEcidium graveolens, Prof. P. Magnus, 600 

 Witmer (Prof. Lightner), on certain Correlations of Mental and 



Physical Reactions, 487 

 Woburn Experimental Fruit Farm, First Report on the 



Working and Results of the, Duke of Bedford, G. Murray, 



F.R.S., 170 

 Woburn and Thomey, a Great Agricultural Estate, being the 



Story of the Origin and Administration of, Duke of Bedford, 



Geo. Murray, F.R.S., 170 

 Wolfert (Dr.), the Death of, 161 

 Wood, Non-flammable, C. Ellis, 282 

 Wood (Sir Henry Trueman), Colour Photography, 223 

 Wood (T. B.), Disappearance of Nitrates in Mangolds, 293 

 Wood (Prof, de V.), Death of, 383 

 Wood-Bison in Canada, the, 231 

 Woodland Life, the, Edward Thomas, 222 

 Woods (Henry), MoUusca of Chalk Rock, 94 

 Woodward (H. B.), on the Chalky Boulder Clay in the West 



Midland Counties of England, 485 

 Woodward (James), the New Government Laboratories, 553 

 Work and Progress of the Geological Survey, 178 

 Worship of Meteorites, the. Prof. Hubert A. Newion, 355 

 Worsted Test for Colour Vision, the, Jessie A. Sime, 516 

 Wortman (Dr. J. L.), Contribution to Knowledge of Nlammaliatl 



Descent, 38 

 Wright (Prof. A. W.), Recent Experiments in Rontgen Rays, 



^9 

 Wright (Lewis), the Induction Coil in Practical Work, including 



Rontgen Rays, 246 

 Wright (Mabel Osgood), Citizen Bird : Scenes from Bird Life, 



W. Warde Fowler, 516 

 Wright (Prof. Ramsay), on a Proposed Lacustrine Biological 



Station, 555 

 Wrightson (Thomas), Coal Shipment by Travelling Belts, 352 

 Wundt (Wilhelm), Outlines of Psychology, 9 ; System der 



Philosophic, 149 

 Wynne (W. P.), Conversion of Chloronaphthalenedisulphonic 



Acids into Dichloronaphthalenedisulphonic Acids, 359 

 Wyrouboff (M.), Cerium Purification, 143; the Atomic Weight 



of Cerium, 167 



Year-Book of the Royal Society, 343 



Year-Book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great 



Britain and Ireland, 126 

 Year Book of the United States Department of Agriculture for 



1896, 587 

 Yeast-Fermentation, Zymase and, Herr Buchner, 109 

 Yeast Plant, the Nucleus of the, Harold Wager, 600 

 Yeasts, Action of Light on, W. Lohmann, 423 

 Yeasts, Insects and. Prof. Italo Giglioli, 575 

 Yellow Fever, the Bacillus of. Dr. G. Sanarelli, 159 ; the' 



Bacillus of, and Inoculation against, Dr. Havelburg, 322 } 



the Etiology of Yellow Fever, Dr. E. Klein, F.R.S., 249 

 Yerkes Observatory, the. Prof. Hale, 300 ; Dedication of the* 



454 

 Yew Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, the, John Lowe, 290 

 Young (G.), Formation of Diacetanilide, 360 



