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Index 



Water, Production of Local Anaesthesia by Subcutaneous In- i 



jection of, Dr. Sleich, 452 

 Water, on the Variation of the Density of, at Different Tem- i 



peratures, Prof. Mendeleeff, 334 

 Water-Birrls that live in the Woods, G. B. Sennett, 529 \ 



Watkin (Sir E. ), Proposal to place Electric Light on Snowdon, ' 



352 

 Watson (Arnold T.), the Protective Device of an Annelid, 507 

 Watson (I"hn), Redevelopment of Lost Limbs in Insects, 163 

 Watson (William Harnett), Death and Obituary Notice of, 574 

 Wattles and Wattle-barks, J. H. Maiden, 577 

 Wead (C. K.), on the Intensity of Sound, ii. the Energy used 



by Organ pipes, 310 

 Weather Changes, a Cycle in, 225 

 Weather Charts, European, Captain C. H. Seem:inn on, 41 ; 



Daily International, 62 

 Weather Cycles, Prof. J. P. O'Reilly, 541 

 Weather Cycles and Severe Winters, 591 

 Weather and Disease, Herr Magelssen, 113 

 Weather Prospects in North- West India, 303 

 Weather Record of the Fourteenth Century, William Merle, 



538 

 ^\eather Service, How can it best promote Agriculture, M. W. 



Harrington, 165 

 Weber (Wilhelm Eduard), Death of, 206; Obituary Notice of, 



229 ; C. Runge, 272 

 Webster's Dictionary of the English Language, 102 

 Weeren (Dr.), Course of Insolubility of Pure Metals in Acids, 



259 

 Weights and Measures : Proposed Liternational System of, 



C. J. Hanssen, 41 ; Old Standards of, 280 ; the Discovery of 



the Standards of 1758, 295 ; International Committee of, 475 

 Weismannism, a Difficulty in, Prof. Marcus Hartog, 613 

 Weiss (Dr.), Death of, 388 

 Werner (E. A), Action of Acetic Anhydride on Substituted 



Thiocarbamides and an Lnproved Method of preparing Aro- 

 matic Mustard Oils, 118 

 West (Prof. G. M.), the Growth of the Face, 325 

 West Indies, Botanical Enterprise in, 1 10 

 Westergaard (Prof. Harald), Alcoholism, 484 

 Westermarck (Edward), the History of Human Marriage, Prof, 



W. Robertson Smith, 270 

 Wethered (Edward), a Microscopic Study of the Inferior Oolite 



of the Cotteswold Hills, 95 

 Wetterhan (D.), Force and Determinism, 320 

 Whetham (W. C. D.), on the Velocity of the Ions, 94 

 Whirling Ring, the Flying to Pieces of a, Chas. A. Carus- 



Wilson, 3t ; C. Chree, 82 

 White (A. H.), Unusual Frost Phenomenon, 519 

 White (W. H.), on the Shipbuilding Material at the Naval 



Exhibition, 579 

 Whitworth Scholarships and Exhibitions, 392 

 Wilken (M.). Death of, 500 



Wilkinson (Chas. Smith), Death and Obituary Notice of, 574 

 Wilks (Dr. Samuel), Physiological Effects of Alcohol, 353 

 Willcocks (Mr.), the Engineering Importance of Dongola, 301 

 Willey (Arthur), the Later Larval Development of Amphioxus, 



21, 202 

 Williams (A. Stanley), Newly- discovered Markings on Saturn, 



164 

 Williams (George Huntingdon), Crystallography for Students 



of Chemistry, Physics, and Mineralogy, Prof, John W. Judd, 



F.R.S., 193 

 Williams (H. G.), the Law of Tensions, 591 

 Williams (J. F.), Newtonite and Rectorite, New Minerals of 



the Kaolinite Group, 310 

 Williams (J. W.), the Telescope, an Introduction to the Study 



of the Heavens, 342 

 Williams (W. Mattieu), Destruction of Mosquitoe«, 519 

 Wilson (E.), on a Rhastic Section at Pylle Hill, Bristol, 94 

 Wilson (W. E.): on the Absorption of Heat in the Solar 



Atmosphere, 453 ; a Rare Phenomenon, 494 

 Winchell (Prof. Alexander), Obituary Notice of, 601 

 Wind, Barometer at Ben Nevis, Observatory in Relation to. 



Dr. Buchan, 167 

 Wind, is Influenza Spread by the, H. H. Hildebrandsson, 165 



Winds of Ben Nevis, the. R. T. Omond and A. Rankin, 191 



Wine, the Yeast of, A. Rommier, 512 



Winter (John L,), Technical Education for Farmers, Farriers, 



and Engine- Drivers, 320 

 Winters in Essex County, Massachusetts, Old-time, Mr. Perley 



on, 353 

 Wishaw (Bernhard) and E. B. Sargant, a Guide-book to Books, 



196 

 Witkowski (A. W.) : the Expansion and Compressibility of 



Atmospheric Air, 312; an Electrical Thermometer for Low 



Temperatures, 312 

 Wlislocki (Dr. H. von), on the Handicrafts of the Hungarian 



Gypsies, 630 

 Wood (R, W.), Consumption of Gas Jets under Pressure, 189 

 Woeikof (Dr.), Snow-slips in the Kazbek Glaciers, 600 

 Wolf's Comet, Re-discovery of (1884 HI.), 69 

 Wolf's Periodic Comet {h 1891), 209, 478 



Wolter (A.), Use of a-Monobromnaphtalin in Study of Ultra- 

 violet Rays of Spectrum, 207 

 Wolves in Ontario, 18 

 Wood, Protection against Decay, Chemical Methods of, O. 



Chanute, 476 

 Wood (W. E.), Lightning Spectra, 504 

 Woodhead (Dr.), on the Milk and Meat of Tuberculous Animals, 



396 

 Woodhead (Sims, M.D.), Bacteria and their Products, 246 

 Woodwork in Public Elementary Schools, Instruction in, the 



City and Guilds of London Institute and, 327 

 Woolls (Rev. Dr. W.), the Classification of Eucalypts, 41 

 World's Fair at Chicago, 629 

 Wright (G. Frederick), the Ice Age in North America, Prof. 



T, G. Bonney, F.R.S., 537 

 Wright (Prof.), the Ice Age in North America, 4S0 

 Writing, Hygienic Advanta;res of Erect as compared with 



Slanting, Drs. Von Reuss and Lorenz, 325 

 Wroughton (Mr.), Ant-imitating Bug, 262 



Yale University, Observatory of. Dr. Elkin, 283 

 Yarkand, Coleoptera of, 318 

 Yeast of Wine, the, A. Rommier, 512 

 Yellow-Fever, Preventive Inoculations of, 392 

 Young (C. A.), Lessons in Astronomy, 342 

 Young (Dr. S.), Dibenzyl-Ketone,' 287 ; Vapour-pressures ot 

 Mercury, 287 



Ziehen (Dr. Th.), Physiological Psychology, 145 

 Zimbabye Ruins, Mr. Theodore Bent's Investigation of, 451 

 Zodiacal Counter Glow, Observations of the, E. E. Barnard, 



283 

 Zodiacal Light as related to Aurora, O. T. Sherman, 310 ; 



M. A. Veeder, 631 

 Zoology : Additions to the Zoological Gardens, 19, 42, 69, 89, 

 114, 137. 163, 186, 208, 234, 259, 283, 304, 327, 354, 391, 

 416, 438, 453, 478,502, 551, 577, 601, 631; the Insect- 

 house in, 103, 168 ; the Scorpions at the, 163 ; R. I. Pocock, 

 198 ; Opening of Stall for Sale of Zoological Photographs, 

 206; for Boston U.S.A., Projected, 529; Zoological So- 

 ciety, 48, 135, 143, 239; Anniversary Meeting, 22; Zoo- 

 logical Society of Philadelphia, 113; Cordylophora lacustris 

 in Norfolk, John BiJgood, 106 ; the Destruction of American 

 Fauna, 113 ; Large Duncan Island Tortoise, 113 ; the Habits 

 of the Moose, J. G. Lockhart, 114 ; Synute pulchclla, a New 

 Species of Calcareous Sponge, A. Dendy, 120; Porpoises in 

 the Victoria Nyanza, Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., 124; W. 

 Ball, F.R.S., 198; the Zoological Station at Naples, W. 

 Percy Sladen, 124; Porpoises in African Rivers, Willy 

 Kiikenthal, 175 ; Notoryctes lyphlops, the New Australian 

 Marsupial, 135, 188 ; Birth of Sea Lion at Brighton Aquarium, 

 185 ; Sherborn's Index Generum et Specierum Animalium, 

 207 ; the Australian Marsupial Mole, Notoryctes typldops, 

 Y)x. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., 449; Animals of the World 

 arranged according to their Geographical Distribution, 492 ; 

 Zoological Wall Pictures, 492 ; Giraffe and its Allies, 524 ; 

 Mr. W. L. Sclater's Projected Collecting Expedition to 

 Upper Assam, 598 



