Supplement to Nlltu^■e,'^ 

 June I, 1893 J 



Index 



XXXIX 



Vanlair(M. C), Survival after the Successive Section of both 



the Branches of the Vagi, 621 

 Variation, the Volucellseas Alleged Examples of, Almost Unique 



Among Animals, Edward B. Poulton, F.R.S., 126 

 Varigny (Henry de), Experimental Evolution, 25 

 Varioliteofthe Lleyn and Associated Volcanic Rocks, Catherine 



A. Raisin, 334 

 Vasey (Dr. Geo.), Grasses of the Pacific Slope, including 



Alaska and the Adjacent Islands, 173 

 Vasey (Dr. G.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 495 

 Vector Analysis, Prof. P. G. Tait, 225 

 Vector Theory, on Recent Innovations in. Prof. C. G. Knott, 



287, 590 

 Vectors, Principles of the Algebra of. A, Macfarlane, 3 

 Vectors, Co-planar, the Algebra of, and Trigonometry, R. 



Baldwin Hay ward, F. R.S., 266 

 Vectors, Quaternions and the Algebra of. Prof. J. Willard 



Gibbs, 463 

 Vectors versus Quaternions, Oliver Heaviside, F.R. S., 533 

 Vegetable Wasps and Plant Worms ^^- C, Cooke, 99 

 Vegetation, Influence of Moisture on, E. Gain, 119 

 Veins of the Rabbit, on an Abnormality in the, Prof. W. M. 



Parker, 270 

 Veitch (H. G.), Coniferae of Japan, 619 



Veley (V. H.), Necessity of" Water in Chemical Reactions, 167 

 Venukoff (M. ), the Pinsk Marshes and non-Russian Atlases, 



282 ; the Form of the Geoid, 566 ; Measurement of the 



Parallel of 47" 30' in Russia, 576 

 VerschafTelt (J.), Two Experimental Verifications Relative to 



Refraction in Crystals, 428 

 Vertebrate Biology, H. G. Wells, 605 



Vertebrate Fauna of Lakeland, a, Rev. A. Macpherson, 457 

 Verworn (Herr), the Rising and Sinking Process in the Radi- 



olaria, 397 

 Veterinary Physiology, a Manual of, Vcty. Capt. F. Smith, 76 

 Vezes (M.), Metallic Osmium, 497 

 Victoria Field Naturalists' Club, 62 

 Vine-disease, American, Appearance of the Black-rot in 



Europe, 16 

 Vine-disease, the Mai Nero, Dr. B. Pasquale, 130 

 Vineyards of Cyprus, the, M. Mouillefort, 517 

 Violle (J.), the Temperature of the Electric Arc, 240 ; the use 



of the Electric Current in Producing High Temperatures, 



497 

 Virchow (Prof.), on the Immediate Task for Anthropologists, 



38 ; Lord Kelvin, no ; the Croonian Lecture, 487 

 Vire (Arinand), Neolithic Village of the Roche-au-Diable, near 



Tesnieres, canton of Lorez-le-Bocage (Seine-et-Marne), 576 

 Viscous Liquid, Motion of a Solid Body in a, A. B. Basset, 



F.R.S., 512 

 Visible Universe, the, J. Ellard Gore, A. Taylor, 193 

 Vision, Defective, in Sailors, Association of Shipping Disasters 



with, Dr. T, H. Bickerton, 16 

 Vision, Energy and, Prof. S. P. Langley, 252 

 Vision, a New Hypothesis concerning, John Berry Haycraft, 478 

 Viticulture ; the Mai Nero Vine Disease, Dr. B. Pasquale, 130 

 Vladimiroff (M.), Rule for Estimating Quality of Vulcanised 



Caoutchouc, 563 

 Vochting (Dr. Hermann), Ueber Transplantation am Pflanzen- 



kiirper, 128 

 Vogelius (Dr.), the Construction of Carbohydrates in the Fasting 



Body, 552 

 Volcanoes : Formation of Lunar, J. B. Hannay, 7 ; Stromboli 



in 1891, L. W. Fulcher, 89 ; A. Ricco and G. Mercalli, Dr. 



H. J. Johnstone Lavis, 453 ; Volcanoes of Japan, John Milne, 



F.R.S., 178; on the Age of the most Ancient Eruptions of 



Etna, M. Wallerant, 264 ; Fumo di Vulcano Veduto dall'Os- 



servatorio di Palmero durante 1 eruzione del 1889, A. Ricco, 



428 : Kilauea in August 1892, Frank S. Dodge, 499 

 Vole Plague in Thessaly, the Field, J. E. Ilarting, 545 

 Voles in Scotland, the Plague of Field, 155 

 Voles in Southern Scotland, the Colour Variations of the, 



Robert Service, 587 

 Volucella, Parasitism of, W. E. Hart, 78 

 Volucelloe as Examples of Aggressive Mimicry, Edward B. 



Poulton, F.R.S., 28 

 Volucelhc, the alleged Aggressive Mimicry of, William Bate- 

 son, 77 

 Volucellte as Alleged Examples of Variation, almost Unique 



among Animals, Edward B. Poulton, F.R.S., 126 



Wachsmuth (R.), the Thermal Conductivities of Liquids, 350 

 Wadsworth (Prof. M. E.), Geology of the Iron, Gold, and 



Copper Districts of Michigan, Sir Archibald Geikie, Dr. 



Hicks, H. Bauerman, 117 

 Waite (Edgar B.), appointed Assistant Curator in Australian 



Museum, Sydney, in 

 Wakefield (H. Rowland), an Elementary Text- book of Hygiene, 



245 

 Waldo (Dr. Frank), Standard Barometry, 511 

 Wales, December 8, 1892, Corncrake caught in, 157 

 Wales, the Origin and Progress of the FMucational Movement in, 



O. M. Edwards, 421 

 Walker (Mr.), the Screw Propeller, 21 

 Walker (Alfred O.), a Remarkable Rainfall, 31 

 Walker (Sir Andrew Barclay), Death of, 421 

 Walker (J.), Electrolysis of Sodic Ethylic Camphorate, 479 

 Walker (J. W.), Optically Active Ethoxysuccinic Acid, 311 

 Walking of Arthropoda, on the, Henry H. Dixon, 56 

 Wallace (Dr. Alfred R ) : an Ancient Glacial Epoch in 



Australia, 55 ; the Earth's Age, 175, 226 ; the Glacier 



Theory of Alpine Lakes, 437; Idle Days in Patagonia, W. 



H. Hudson, 483 

 Wallerant (M.), on the Age of the most Ancient Eruptions of 



Etna, 264 

 Ward (Prof. Marshall): Experiments on the Action of Light 



on Bacillus anthracis, 331 ; Further Experiments on the 



action of Light on Bacillus anthracis, 597 

 Ward (Rowland), Horn Measurements and Weights of the 



Great Game of the World, being a Record for the use of 



Sportsmen and Naturalists, 6 

 Ward (R. de C), the First Aerial Voyage across English 



Channel, 143 

 Warrington (R., F.R.S.), Experiment Stations in United 



States, 157 

 Washington, Geological Society of. Founded, 613 

 Washington Magnetic Observation, 209 

 Wasps, Vegetable, and Plant Worms, M. C. Cooke, 99 

 Watch Factory, the Prescot, Address by Lord Kelvin, 279 

 Water and Water Supply, Major L. Flower, 183 

 Water, Dilatation and Compressibility of, E. H. Amagat, 288 

 Water, Expansion of, at Constant Pressure and at Constant 



Volume, E. H. Amagat, 623 

 Water-boring in Cape Colony, 349 

 Water-Gas, Experiments to determine Temperatures of Flame 



of, E. Blass, 113 

 Water-Pollution, Improved Ball Hydrant for Preventing, J. R. 



Wigham, 167 

 Water-Purification by Bacteriological Methods, Messrs. V. and 



A. Babes and Percy Frankland, 588 

 Waterdale Researches : Fresh Light on Dynamics, 601 

 Watson (John), Ornithology in Relation to Agriculture and 



Horticulture, 533 

 Watson (Sereno), Botanical Nomenclature, 53 

 Wave-Lengths, a New Table of Standard, Prof. II. A. Row- 

 land, 590 

 Waves as a Motive Power, II. Linden, 438 

 Waves, Electromagnetic, Oliver Heaviside, 505 

 Weapons of Defence, Remarkable, G. F. Hampson, E. Ernest 



Green, 199 

 Weather of Summer, the, 245, 270 

 Weber (Mr.) on the Origin of the Mammalian Hair, 504 

 Weber (Prof. L.), an Improved Mercury Thermometer, 497 

 Weber (William), Proposed Monument to, 106 

 Webster (A. D.), Conifers for Economic Planting, 619 

 Weights and Measures, Changes in the Imperial Standard, 86 

 Weights and Measures, International Committee of, 21 

 Weinek's Lunar Enlargements, 473 

 Weismann (Prof. August), Das Keimplasma, 265 

 Wells and Wheeler, Isolation of Penta- Iodide and -Bromide of 



Caesium, 113 ; Preparation of Chloraurates and Bromaurates 



of Caesium and Rubidium, 158 

 Wells (H. G.), Text-book of Biology, 605 

 Wenlock (Lord), Remarkable Hornet's Nest presented to 



Madras Museum by, 16 

 Were- Wolf in Latin Literature, the, Kirby W. Smith, 423 

 Wesendonck (Mr.). Pure Gases incapable of producing Electri- 

 fication by Friction, 280 

 West Indies, Observations in the. Prof. A. Agassiz, 608 

 West wood (Prof.), Death of, 232 

 Wethered (Frank J.), Medical Microscopy, Dr. A. H. Tubby, 5 1 



