Nature, *| 



December 13, 1900 J 



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xxxix 



Warington (Prof. R., F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of Sir John 

 Bennet Lawes, Bart., F.R.S., 467 ; Year-book of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, 597 



Washington (II. S.), the Statement of Rock Analy.ses, 286 



Water, Air, Water and Food, Ellen H. Richards, Alpheus G. 

 Woodman, 620 



Water upon Glass, the Action of, Edmund F. Mondy, 246 



Water-fowl, Fancy, F. Finn, 547 



Water Supply, on the Distribution of Chlorine in West York- 

 shire, and on the Limiting Standard of Acidity for Moorland 

 Waters, W. Ackroyd, 566 



Waterhouse (General), Action of Light on Silver as demon- 

 strated by Vapour condensation, 254 



Waterson (Dr. David), on the Developmental Changes in the 

 Human Skeleton from the Point of View of Anthropology, 



633 

 Watson (J.), on the Nidd Valley Waterworks of Bradford, 609 

 Wealden Series, English, on the Evidence as to the Age of the 



G. W. Lamplugh, 588 

 Weapons and Wounds, H. Nimier and Ed. Laval, 313 

 Weather, Drunkenness and the, Dr. Edwin G. Dexter, 31 

 Weather Report of the Meteorological Office, the Daily, W. N. 



Shaw, F.R.S., 300 

 Weather Service, Maryland, 292 

 Weaving, Mechanism of, T. W. Fox, 29 

 Webb (Wilfred Mark), Plant Hybrids, 174 

 Webber (Herbert J.), Further Investigations of Xenia in Maize, 



601 

 Weguelin (H. W.), Carnations and Picotees for Garden and 



Exhibition, 598 

 Weiss (Prof. F. E.), on a Gymnosporangium from China, 613 

 Wellcome Research Laboratories, the, R. J. Friswell, 271 

 Wertheimer (A.), American, Russian and French Turpentines 



and Terebenes, 322 

 Wertheimer (Prof. J.), the Consultative Committee and 



Technical Education, 294 

 West (J. H.), Persulphuric Acid, 215 

 Westermarck (Dr. E.), the Ginn in Morocco, 499 

 Wethey's (E. R.) Method of Teaching Geography, 591 

 Whale, Southern Bight (South Africa), Barnacle Growth ) 1, 



Dr. R. Marloth, 19 

 Whales, Body Temperature of, Dr. G. Guldberg, 159 

 Wheat, Rust of, Recent Investigations on, William G. Smith, 



352 

 Wheeler (W. H.), Sea Coast Destruction and Littoral Drift, 



400 

 Whetham (Mr.), Ions, 564 



Whipple (R. S.), Improved Standard Resistance Coils, 563 

 Whips of the Larva of the Puss Moth, Function of the, W. F. 



Kirby, 413 

 Whiteley (M. A.), Oxime of Mesoxamide, 260 

 Whitmell^C. T.), Maximum Duration of a Total Solar Eclipse, 



64, 86 ; Duration of Totality of Solar Eclipses at Greenwich, 



269 ; on the Duration of Totality of the Solar Eclipse of 



May 28, 1900, 566 

 Whittaker (E. T.), Report on the Proceedings in Section A 



(Mathematics) at the Meeting of the British Association, 561 

 Whitten (Dr.), Pisciculture in United States, 423 

 Whymper (Edward), the Highest Andes, 38 

 Wiglesworth (L. W.), Racket Feathers, 54 

 Wilczynski (E. J.), Continuous Binary A Linearoid Groups, 381 

 Williams (J. Lloyd), on the Germination of the Zoospore in 



Laminariceoe, 613 ; Dictyota, 613 

 Williamson (J. B.), the Law and Practice relating to Letter 



Patent for Inventions, 618 

 Willis (Dr. J.), on the Construction of Magic Squares, 561 

 Willows (R. S.), Experiments on Striated Discharges, 240 

 Wills (A. P.), Magnetic Screening for Galvanometers, 211 

 Willson (D. H.), the Climate of San Francisco, 18 

 Wilson (Albert), the Great Smoke Cloud of the North 



England and its Influence on Plants, 6ll 

 Wilson (C. T, R.), Atmospheric Electricity, 149 

 Wilson (E.), on the Glacial Phenomena of the West Riding, 588 

 Wilson (Dr. Gregg), Eggs and Embryos of Ornithorhynchus, 589 

 Wilson (W. E.y, Astronomical Work at Daramona Observ- 

 atory, 630 

 Wind, Anemometer Tests, Prof. C. F. Marvin, 280 

 Wind-force, 93 

 Winkelniann (A.), Influence of Spark-gap on Generation of 



Rontgen Rays, 568 



Wire Fence Telephony in Indiana, 374 



Wireless Telegraphy : Maximum Sensitiveness in Coherers, 

 A. Blondell and G. Dobkevitch, 23 ; Wireless Telegraphy 

 from Free B.illoon, J. Vallot and J. and L. Lecarme, 95 ; 

 Wireless Telegraphy in French Navy, 396 ; Wireless Tele- 

 graphy and Hertzian Waves, S. R. Bottone, 522 ; Human 

 Body as Screen in Wireless Telegraphy, E. Guarini and 

 F. Poncelet, 568 



Wisconsin, the Geography of the Regions about Devil's Lake 

 and the Dalles of the. Prof. R. D. Salisbury, W. W. Atwood, 

 172 



Wislicenus (W. F.), Astronomischer Jahresbericht, 553 



Wolff (Jules), a New Indicator in Acidimetry, 23 



Wood (Butler), on the Prehistoric Antiquities of Rumbald's 

 Moor (near Bradford), 637 ; on the Preservation of Local 

 Antiquities, 637 



Wood (Prof. R. W.), Application of Striae Method to Illumin- 

 ation of Objects, 166 ; the Photography of Sound Waves, 

 342 ; Thos. Thorp's Modification of Wood's Diffraction 

 Process of Colour Photography, 580 



Woods' Holl, U.S.A., Biological Lectures from the Marine 

 Laboratory at, for 1899, 411 



Woodall (H. J.), on the Determination of Successive High 

 Primes, 561 



Woodhead (T. W. ), on the Structure of the Root-nodules of 

 A Inns glutinosa, 613 



Woodman (Alpheus G.), Air, Water and Food, 620 



Woollen (Henry), the Reform of Mathematical Teaching, 436 



Working Silica in the Oxy-gas Blowpipe Flame, W. A. Shen- 

 stone, F.R.S., and H. G. Lacell, 20 



Worms: the" Tall Army Worm," F. H. Chittenden, 109; 

 Syllis Vivipara,Y,. S. Goodrich, 215 ; Didymorchis, Prof. 

 W. A. Haswell, F.R.S., 640 



Worsdell (W. C), on the Origin of Modern Cycads, 612 



Worthington(Prof. A. M., F.R.S.), an Optical Phenomenon, 

 293 



Wounds, Weapons and, H. Nimier and Ed. Laval, 313 



Writing in Ancient Egypt, on the System of, F. LI. Griffiths, 

 634 



Writing Ink, Dr. T. E. Thorpe, 554 



Wyatt (C. W.), British Birds, 100 



Xenia in Maize, Further Investigations of, Herbert J. Webber, 



601 

 Xingu, Second Expedition to Head Waters of, Dr. Hermann 



Meyer, 36 



Yatabe (Prof. Kyokichi), Death of, 15 

 Yates (J.), Brazilin (iv.), 71 ; Hsematoxylin (v.), 71 

 Yorkshire : Extension of the Dyeing Department of Yorkshire 

 College, 115 ; on the Distribution of Chlorine in West York- 

 shire, and on the Limiting Standard of Acidity for Moorland 

 Waters, W. Ackroyd, 566 ; on the Potholes and Caves of the 

 Mountain Limestone District of North-west Yorkshire, S. W. 

 Cuttriss, 587 ; on the Glacial Phenomena of the West Riding, 

 Dr. Monckman, E, Wilson, A. Jowett, H. B. MuflF, 588 ; on 

 the Glaciation of the East Riding, J. W. Stather, 588 ; on the 

 Anthropology of West Yorkshire, Dr. John Beddoe, 635 ; on 

 some Yorkshire Earthworks, Mrs. Armitage, 637 

 Young (Mr.), the Nest-building Brook Lamprey, 500 

 Young (Prof. S.), the Law of Cailletet and Mathias and the 



Critical Density, 214 

 Young (W. J.), the oo-i8j3-tetramethylglutaric Acids, 143 

 Yule (G. U.), Correlation between Life-duration and Number 

 of Offspring, 381 



Zeiller (R.), Elements de Paleobotanique, 315 



Zenker (Wilhelm), Lehrbuch der Photochromie (Photographie 



der Natlirlichen Farben), 316 

 Zeppelin's (Count von). Navigable Balloon, 180, 231, 396, 626 

 Zoology: Zoological Society, 94, 119, 261 ; Reports for 1899, 



16 ; Barnacle-growth on Southern Bight Whale, Dr. R. 



Marloth, 19: Additions to Zoological Gardens, 19, 37, 61, 



64,85, no, 137, 160, 183, 202, 233, 256, 275, 304, 324, 



351. 376, 397, 425. 459, 491, SOI, 534, 556, 581, 606, 629 ; 



a Walk through the Zoological Gardens, F. G. Aflalo, 466 ; 



the Sub-species of Giraffe, 35 ; the Wood Bison, J. A. 



