^itpplement to Nature, 

 Decemberi, iia% 



Index 



xliii 



W asp-life, a Wave of, G. W. Peckham, 6ic 



Water ; the Surface-film of, and its Relation to the Life of 

 Plants and Animals, Prof. L. C. Miall, 7 ; Variations in 

 Temperature of Water suddenly Compressed to 500 Atmo- 

 spheres between 0° and 10', Paul Galopin, 240 ; an Aconstic 

 Method whereby the Depth of Water in a River may be 

 Measured at a Distance, Frederick J. Smith, 246 ; Sound- 

 carrying Power of Water, A. R. Sennett, 430 ; Impure 

 Water in Bread, 514 ; Electricity of Waterfalls, Ph. Lenard, 

 484 ; Water Supply, London, for September 1892, Profs. 

 W. Crookes and W. Odling, 617; on the Relative contami- 

 nation of the Water-surface by Equal Quantities of Different 

 Substances, Miss Agnes Pockels, 418 ; Physical Condition of 

 the Waters of the English Channel, IL V. Dickson, 384 ; 

 Waterspouts in East Yorkshire, J. Lovcl, 246 



Waters (B. H.), . Primitive Segmentation of Vertebrate Brain, 



339 



Waterston's (J. J.) Theory of Gases, 30 

 Watson (A. J.), the Protective Device of an Annelid, 7 

 Watson (Dr. Forbes), Death of, 331 

 Watson (G.), Refuse-destructor Question, 429 

 Watson (Rev. H. W., F.R.S.), on a Proposition in the Kinetic 

 Theory of Gases, 29 ; Maxwell's Law of Distribution of 

 Energy, 100 

 Watts' Dictionary of Chemistry, Forster Morley and M. M. 



Pattison Muir, Sir H. E. Roscoe, F.R.S., 242 

 Wave of Wasp-life, a, G. W. Peckham, 611 

 VVave-Propagation of Magnetism, Fred. T. Trouton, 56 

 Waves, the Use of Oil for Calming, 228 

 Weapons, Savage ; a Peculiar form of Womerah, R, Etheridge, 



jun., 86 

 Weapons and Articles of Clothing used by the Toba Indians 

 of the Gran Chaco, J. Graham Kerr, 432 

 . Weather Changes? Can Spiders Prognosticate, Dr. H. C. 

 McCook, 406 

 Weeds Worst, at Chicago, Projected Exhibition of, 14 

 Weight, Prof. A. G. Greenhill, F.R.S., 247 

 X Weinek (Dr. L.), Lunar Photography, 257 

 \t^W«?ir's (Capt.), Azimuth Diagram, 44 



mann (Dr. A.), Essays on Heredity, 558 

 ;ensee, the, Carinthia, Physical Conditions of, Dr. K. 

 ssinger, 525 



:h (Jules), Miocene Formations of Western Algeria, 628 

 . Indian Fauna in South Florida, T. D. A. Cockerell, 

 8 

 sX Indies, Sugar- cane Borers in the, 531 

 stergaard (Harold), Die Grundziige der Theorie der Stalls- 

 ik, 437 

 stminster Technical Institute : the Townshend Scholarships, 



449 



haling Expedition, Sailing of the Dundee Antarctic, 477 



arton (Capt. W. J. L., F. R.S,), Further Notes on a Recent 

 Volcanic Island in the Pacific, 611 



hippie (G. M.), Comparison of Richard's Anemo-cinemo- 

 graphe with Standard Beckley Anemograph t Kew Ob- 

 servatory, 95 



Whirlwinds In the South Indian Ocean, Robert H. Scott, 294 



White Rainbow, M. Mascart, 532, 555 



White Rhinoceros, the, W. L. Distant, 29 



White (C), Journey in Sikkim, 477 



White (William), Aurora Australis, 368 



White (W. H., F.R.S.), Experimentswith Basic Steel, 114; 

 Shipbuilding in Portsmouth Dockyard, 337 



White (Dr. W, Hale), the Temperature of the Human Body, 

 588 



Whitman (Prof. F. P.), Magnetic Disturbances caused by 

 Electric Railways, 455 



Whitmore (John), Method of Increasing Range of Capillary 

 Electrometer, 311 



Whyte (Alexander), Mount Milanji in Nyassaland, 482 



Whymper (Edward), Supplementary Appendix to Travels 

 amongst the Great Andes of the Equator, H. J. Elwes, 147 



Wiedemann's Annalen der Physik und Chemie, 483, 602 



Wien (Dr.), Experiment on the Measurement of High Tempera- 

 tures, 263, 602 



Wigham (J. R.), a New Giant Lighthouse Lens, 71 



Wilde (Henry, F.R.S.), on the Origin of Elementary Sub- 

 stances and on some New Relations of their Atomic Weights, 

 Prof. R. Meldola, F".R.S., 568 



Williams's Frog Heart Apparatus, Prof. R. Robert, 177 



Williams (Juliet N.), Carnivorous Caterpillars, 128 



Williams (W.), Relation of Dimensions of Physical Ouantities to 



Directions in Space, 237 ^ 



Williamson (Prof. W. C, F.R.S.), Two Common Processes of 

 Mineralization of Fossil Remains illustrated by Fossil Nau- 

 tilus and Starfish, 70 

 Willis (J. C.), Gynodioecism in the Labiatae, 167 

 Wilson (Sir Daniel), Death of, 361 

 WiUon (Dr. Thomas), Analysis of Fossil Bones from the 



Natchez Bluff, Mississippi, 255 

 Winder (C. A.), Failures in Necks of Chilled Rolls, 527 

 Wines, the Analysis of, Dr. L. Magnier de la Source, 170 

 Wingham (A.), the Elimination of Sulphur from Iron, 115 

 Winnecke's Periodic Comet, 1892, no 

 Winter, Range of the Sanderling in, Prof. Alfred Newton, 



F. R.S., 177, 222 

 Winternilz (Herr), the Antiseptic Properties of Milk, 550 

 Wire Standards of Electric Resiitance, Dr. Lindeck, 383 

 Wister (Geo. I. T.), Endowment of Museum of Anatomy at 



Pennsylvania University by, 38 

 Wolpai, a Maid of, Dr. Shufeldt, 451 

 Women and Musical Instruments, Otis T. Mason, 561 

 " Womerah," a Peculiar Form of, R. Etheridge, jun., 86 

 Wood Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, the, 493 

 Wood-work, the English Sloyd, S. Barter, 244 

 Woods (E. IL), New Design of Electric Locomotive, 430 

 Woodpecker, the Le-sser Spotted, Albert C. Mott, 77 

 Woodward (B. B.), Growth and Structures of Shell in Neri- 



tidae, 215 

 Woodward (C. J.), Arithmetical Chemistry, 610 

 Woodward's (Prof. R. S.) Icud-bar Base Apparatus, 455 

 World, Synoptical Geographv of the, 246 



Worthington (Prof. A. M.) : Dynamics of Rotation, an Ele- 

 mentary Introduction to Rigid Dynamics, 4 ; Direct Deter- 

 mination of the Gravitative Constant by means of a Tuning- 

 fork, a Lecture Experiment, 490 ; Determination of G by 

 Means of a Tuning-Fork, 561 

 Wright (C. R. Alder, F.R.S.), the Threshold of Science, 173; 



Certain Ternary Alloys, vi., Aluminium, &c., 188 

 Wrightson (Prof.), Live Stock, 76 

 Wundt's Philosophische Studien, 133 



Yale College Observatory Report, Mr. Brown, Dr. Elkin, 



280 

 Year, Origin of the, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 104 

 Yeast, Hydrolytic Functions of, J. O'Sullivan, 190 

 Yellow Fever, Immunity of the African Negro from. Dr. C. 



Creighton, 200, 222 

 Yemen, Journey through. Walker Harris, 408 

 Yendell (Mr.), Light-Variations of Y Cygni, 134 

 Yorkshire College, Leeds ; the County (Agricultural) Lectures 



to Farmers, 300 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, 107 

 Yukon Expedition, Mr. Schwatka's, 180 



Zakrzevski (J. von). Specific Gravity and Fusion of Ice, 602 



Zebra's Stripes, Dr. S. Schonland, 6 



Zehnder (L.), Method of exhibiting Hertzian Oscillations to a 

 large Audience, 573 



Zoology : the Zebra's Stripes, Dr. S. Schonland, 6 ; Zoological 

 Gardens, additions to, 16,41,64, 86, no, 134, 161, 179, 211, 

 229, 257, 279, 301, 333, 362, 371, 400, 422, 451, 475, 496, 

 524, 551, 575, 597, 619 ; Zoological Gardens, the Madagascar 

 Pratincole at the, 616 ; the White Rhinoceros, W. L. 

 Distant, 29 ; Award of Linnean Society's Gold Medal to Dr. 

 A. R. Wallace, 37 ; Bibliothek des Professors der Zoologie 

 und Vergl. Anatomie, Dr. Ludwig von Graff, in Graz, 54 ; 

 Zoological Society, 70, 142, 215 ; Phases of Animal Life, 

 Past and Present, R. Lydekker, 74 ; Peripatus from St. 

 Vincent, R. J. Pocock, 100 ; the Oviparity of the larger 

 Victorian Peripatus, Dr. Dendy, 239 ; Peripatus rediscovered 

 in Jamaica, Grabham and Cockerell, 514; the Coming 

 Moscow International Congress of Prehistoric Zoology, 108 ; 

 Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 133 ; Geographical Dis- 

 tribution of the Land-MoUuscaof the Philippine Islands, Rev. 

 H. H. Cooke, 142 : Death and Obituary Notice of Hermann 

 Burmeister, 176 ; A Bird's-Egg Eating Snake. 185 ; Growth 

 and Structure of Shell in Neritidae, B. B. Woodward, 215 ; 

 Outlines of Zoology, J. Arthur Thomson, 241 ; Hairlessness 



