Supplement to Nat ure,~[ 

 June 2, 1892. J 



Index 



XXXV 



Water, an Elementary Hand-book on Potable, Floyd Davis, 



Prof. Percy F. Frankland, F.R.S., 25 

 Water, Air and, Vivian B. Lewes, 531 

 Water Gas, Iron Carbonyl from, A. E. Tutton, 36 

 Water Jets, Sensitive, W. B. Croft, 606 

 Water-supply of London, John Ilopkinson, 88 ; Appointment 



of Commission on, 470 

 Watson (Rev. H. W., F,R.S.), on the Boltzmann-Maxwell 



Law of Partition of Kinetic Energy, 512 

 Watson (Sereno), Obituary Notice of, 494 

 Watson (W.), Effect of Fog on Plants Grown in the Houses at 



Kew, 16 

 Wave-motion Model, F. Cheshire, 347 

 Waves, Remarkable Illustration of Height of Breaking, 305 

 Weather-cock, Self-Registering, J. Lawrence-Hamilton, 559 

 Weaving as practised by the Navajo Indians, Dr. Shufeldt, 



260 

 Weber (Prof. Max), Freshwater Fauna of Sumatra, Java, &c., 



408 

 Webster (Prof. Arthur G.), " W = M^," 29 

 Weight, Examination of the Standards of Measure and, im- 

 mured in the Houses of Parliament, 543 

 Weinschenk (E.), Meteoric Iron, 69 

 Weismannism, a Difficulty in, Edward B. Poulton, F.R.S., 



52 ; Prof. Marcus Hartog, 102 ; A. H. Trow, 102, 175 

 Weiss (F. E.), Caoutchouc-containing Cells of Eucommia 



ulmoides, 335 

 Weldon (W. F. R.), the Renal Organs of certain Decapod 



Crustacea, 140 

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



440 

 Wells (H. L.), a Series of Caesium Trihalides, 310 

 Wells and Penfield (Messrs.), Remarkable Series of Compounds 



of Halogen Salts of Caesium with Two or more Atoms of 



Chlorine, Bromine, or Iodine, 325 

 Werigo's (Dr.) Experiments respecting Influence of Oxygen on 



Elimination of Carbon Dioxide of Lungs, Prof. Zuntz, 576 

 Wernadsky (W.), the Sillimanite Group and the Part played by 



Aluminium in the Silicates, 141 

 Wesendonck (Prof.), Gaseous Carbonic Acid not capable of 



Generating Electricity by Mechanical Friction on Metal, 306 

 West India Islands, Zoology and Botany of the, 139 

 West Indies, Dr. J. T. Rothrock on the Flora &c. of the 



Bahamas and Jamaica. 596 

 Westgate-on-Sea, Aurora Visible from, 613 

 Wethered (Edward), on the Microscopic Structure and Residues 



Insoluble in Hydrochloric Acid in the Devonian Limestone of 



South Devon, 597 

 Weyl (Dr. Th.), Animals rendered Immune to Anthrax, 312 

 Whale, a Steamer's Encounter with a, 88 

 Whale, the Lesser Rorqual, Sir W. Turner, 454 

 Wheat, Rust Fungus in, 615 

 Wheat in Ohio, the Average Yield of, geologically considered, 



420 

 Whipple (G. M.), Magnetic Disturbance, 364 

 Whitaker's Almanack for 1892, 156 



Whitcombe (Rev. R. H.), Elementary Trigonometry, 174 

 White (W. H., F.R.S.), the Influence of Shallow Water upon 



the Trial Trip Speeds of Modern Vessels, 571 

 White (William), Darwinian Theory, 53 

 Whiteley (R. Lloyd), Chemical Calculations, 604 

 Whitney (W. Dwight), the Century Dictionary, 316 

 Whymper (Edward) : how to Use the Aneroid Barometer, 339 ; 



Travels among the Great Andes of the Equator, Prof. T. G. 



Bonney, F.R.S,, 561 

 Wiborgh's (Prof.) Air-Pyrometer, John Crum, 304 

 Wild (H.), the Magnetic Storms of February 13-14, 1892, 480 

 Wilkins (A.), Intelligence in Birds, 151 

 Wilks (W.), the Place of Horticulture in Technical Education, 



38 

 Willey (Arthur), a new Genus of Synascidians from Japan, 450 

 Williams (Dr. C. Theodore), Value of Meteorological Instru- 

 ments in Selection of Health Resorts, 551 

 Williams (F. N.), the Genus Dianthus, 383 

 Williams (Prof. G. H.) : a Geological Excursion in Maryland, 



235 ; the part played in Growth of Geological Opinion by 



Regions near great Universities, 519 

 Williams (J. Francon) and William Hughes, the Advanced 



Class-Book of Modern Geography, 460 

 Willis (J. C), the Method ofiMjtilization in Ixora, 455 





Wilson (F. R. L. ), Action of Dry Hydrochloric Acid Gas on 

 Dry Carbonates, 503 



Wilson (Prof.), Experiment Illustrating Power of Palladium of 

 Occluding Hydrogen, 380 



Winchester, Macro-Lepidoptera and Birds of, 115 



Wines of the Medoc District, the, 279 



Wing in Dinornis, Evidence of a, Henry O, Forbes, 257 



Wind Direction, 149 



Wind-rush at Washington, Prof. H. A. Hazen, 594 



Winnecke's Comet, Dr. G. F. Ilaerdtl, 617 



Winnipeg, Lake, Geology of, J. B. Tyrell, 115 



Winter Storms of Northern India, Henry F. Blanford, F.R.S. , 

 490 



Wislicenus (Herr Dr. Walter), on the Influence of Ring and 

 Disk Blinds in Micrometic Measurements, 137 



Wissmann (Hermann von). My Second Journey through 

 Equatorial Africa, 507 



Within an Hour of London Town, 557 



Woeikof (Dr. A.), Cold Waves, 357 



Wolf (Rodolf), Solar Activity in, 1891, 307 



Wolfs Periodic Comet, 42 ; Dr. Berberich, 237 



Wolf's Comet, 1891, li ; Herr Dr. Thraen, 548 



Wolf's Numbers for 1891, 307 



Wolstenholme (Prof. Joseph), Death of, 8$ 



Wood (Sir H. Trueman), Light, 269 



Woods, Furniture, D. Deeming, 459 



Woodward (Mr. A. S.), Appointed Assistant Keeper of Depart- 

 ment of Geology at British Museum, 566 



Woodward (M. F.), the Milk Dentition of Procavia {Hyrax) 

 capensis, 287 ; Teeth Development in the Marsupialia, 333 



Worship, Dwarfs and Dwarf, Harold Crichton-Browne, 269 



Worthington (A. M.), the Mechanical Stretching of Liquids, 

 358 



Wray (Leonard, Jun.), the Ipoh Poison of the Malay Penin- 

 sula, 278 



Wright (C. R. Alder, F.R.S.), on Certain Ternary Alloys, v., 

 381 



Wright (Prof. G. Frederick) : the Theory of an Interglacial Sub- 

 mergence in England, 310; Cirques, 317 



Wrightson (J.), Farm Crops, 247 



Yahgan, the, P. Hyadesand J. Deniker, 577 



Yarrow (A. S.), on Balancing Marine Engines and the Vibration 

 of Vessels, 571 



Year, the Origin of the, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 487 



Year-book of Science, 1891, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 604 



Yeast, Milk Ferment Identical with Kefyr, in use in Canada and 

 United States, C. L. Mix, 471 



Yellow Butterflies, Pigment in, F. Gowland Hopkins, 197 



Yendall (Paul S.), Two New Variables in Cepheus, 570 



Yezo, the Fauna of, Dr. Adolf Fritz, 89 



Young (Prof. C. A.) : Note on the Chromosphere Spectrum, 28 ; 

 the Chromosphere Line \ 6676"9, 198 



Young (Prof. Sydney), Van der Waals's Generalizations regard- 

 ing " Corresponding " Temperatures, Pressures, and Volumes, 



93 

 Younghusband (Capt.), Journeys in the Panairs^nd Adjacent 

 Countries, 353 *• 



Zebra, on the Attitudes of the, during Sleep, and their Influence 

 on the Protective Value of its Stripes, 248 



Zebra, Skin of Grevy's, brought from Somaliland, 598 



Zebras, Notes on, S. B. Carlill, 526 



Zeitschrift fiir Anorganische Chemie, 421 



Zeitschrift fiir Pflanzenkrankheiten. 20 



Zimbabwe Ruins, Finds at the Great, Theodore Bent, 551 



Zodiacal Light, O. T. Sherman, 381 



Zoology : Zoological Gardens, Additions to, 21, 41, 67, 89, 

 116, 137, 159, 186, 210, 236, 260, 280, 307, 325, 351, 380, 

 404, 422,. 445, 472, 497, 521, 547, 569, 589, 616 ; the Death 

 of the Giraffe, 518; Zoological Society, 70, 164, 287, 

 383, 430, 503, 526, 597 ; Enormous American Lizard, 

 L. Stejneger, 40 ; Herr Lehmann on the Camel, 87 ; 

 Prof. Cossar Ewart on Scottish Zoology, 87 ; Zoological 

 Regions, G. A. Boulenger, 104 ; Dr. Stirling's New Aus- 

 tralian Animal {Notorydes typhlops), J. D. Ogilby, 135 ; 

 Squirrels in Winter, C. Fitzgerald, 136; Zoology and Botany 

 of the West India Islands, 139; Text-book of Comparative 



