Supplement to Nature.~\ 

 June n, 1S96 J 



Index 



Vigouroux (M.), Silicides of Nickel and Cobalt, 71 ; Manganese 

 Silicide, 119 ; Silicide of Copper, 384 



Villard (P.), Carbonic Snow, 88 



Villari (E.), the existence of Anodic Rays, 616 



Villou (A. M.), Death of, 59 



Violle (J. ), Acetylene as a Photometric Standard, 288 



Vision, Colour, Captain W. de W. Abney, F.R.S., 124 



\ ivisection : Presumed Regeneration of Extirpated Bile-Duct, 

 Dr. Rosenberg, 336; Supposed Self- regulative Process in 

 Muscles, Dr. Joachimsthal, 407 ; Experiments on Dog's 

 Stomach, Dr. Lewin, 407 ; the Attraction-Spheres in Tes- 

 ticular Cells of Salamander maculosa, Dr. Rawitz, 408; 

 Spinal-Root and Ganglion-Cell Connections of Spleen-con- 

 tracting Nerve Fibres, Prof. E. A. Schiifer, F.R.S., and B. 

 Moore, 550 ; Vivisection, Father Tyrrell, 18 



\ i);;el (Prof.), on the Appearance of the Spectral Lines of Clevite 

 ( las in Stellar Spectra, 448 



\ ogt (H. C), Experiments on Wind-Pressure, 279 



X'olcanoes, a View of Kilauea, 490 



\ olkmann (P. ), True Surface Tension of Pure Water between 

 0° and 40° C., 106 



\ lies (Jan de), a Class of Complete Functions, 216 



Wachsmuth (Charles), Death of, 399 



Waggener (W. J.), Temperature of Bunsen Flame, 216 



Walcott (Mr.), Igneous Rocks of Unkar Terrane, 464 ; Physical 



History of North America during Cambrian Time, 464 

 Wales : Geological Survey Index Map of Wales, 254 

 Walker (Alfred O.), a Fog Scale, 249 

 Walker (].), Transformation of Alkyl-Ammonium Cyanates into 



Corresponding Ureas, 357 

 Walker (General J. T., F.R.S.), Death of, 373 ; Obituary Notice 



of, 469 

 Walking and Running en flexion, MM. Comte and Regnault, 



407 

 Wallace (Dr. Alfred R., F.R.S.), the Cause of an Ice Age, 220; 



the Astronomical Theory of a Glacial Period, 317 ; the 



Primary Factors of Organic Evolution, Prof. E. D. Cope, 553 ; 



the Present Evolution of Man, C. Archdall Reid, 553 

 Walnuts, Rooks and. Rev. G. Henslow, 32 

 Walsingham (Lord), the Type of Pseiidodoxia limulus, 23 

 Walter (Dr. B.), Die OberflJichen- oder Schiller- Farben, 148 

 " Wandering Jew," the Story of the, Kumagusu Minakata, 78 

 Warburg (J. C. ), Tenacity of Life in Saturiiia pyri, 421 

 Warder (Robert B.), the Major Premiss in Physical Chemistry, 



139 

 Warner (Dr. Francis), the Causes of Mental Dulness in Chil- 

 dren, 400 

 W asp-Nest in Oak Plank, 88 

 \\ aler Supply of London, the Past, Present and Future, Dr. 



E. Frankland, F.R.S., 619 

 Watercress and Herons, Miss E. A. Ormerod, 610 

 Waterford, the Aurora at. Dr. M. F. O'Reilly, 437 

 Waterhouse (Mr.), Pupii; of Antkertea mylitta, 406 

 Waterman (F. A.), Improved Calorimeter. 36 

 Watkinson Prof. W. H.), Circulation in Water-Tube Boilers, 



521 

 W alts (W. W.), Boring a Coral Reef, 248 

 W ave-Siren, the, Rudolph Kcinig, 453 

 \\ ax secreted by Lepidoptera, Dr. II. G. Knaggs, 13 

 W caidcn, the Age of the, [Prof. O. C. Marsh, 436 ; A. C. 



Seward, 462 

 " ither. Crime and, C. E. Linney, 304 



uhor Bureau, Relations of the, to the Science and Industry 

 i the United States, Prof. W. C. Moore, 187 

 \N cl)b (Walter Loring), Problems in the Use and Adjustment of 



F,ngineering Instruments, 411 

 W ecd (W. H.), Igneous Rocks of Yogo Peak, Montana, 262 

 Wcedon (Frank C. ), Physical Measurements, 340 

 Weeks (J. D. ), Appalachian and Potomac Coal-fields, 465 

 W ehmer (Dr. C), the Soja Organism (^Aspergillus IVeniii), 564 

 W eierstrass's(Dr. Karl) Mathematical Researches, Lord Kelvin, 



'.'3 

 W eigang (Herr), Virulence of Cholera Cultures dependent on 



Number of Bacilli present, 494 

 W eigel (C. E. ), the Inventor of Liebig's Condensor, Dr. G. W. 



Akahlbaum, 375 

 W eights and Measures, the Metric System of, 84 ; John W. 



1-vans, 102 



Welby (F. A.), the Growth of the Brain, H. H. Donaldson, 98 



Welch (Dr.), Results of Antitoxin Treatment of Diphtheria, 36 



Wellmann (V.), Orbits and Origin of Comets, 180 



Wells' Algol Variable, 403 



Welsford (J. W. ), Elementary Algebra, 267 



West Indies and the Spanish Main, James Rodway, 508 



West (Robert H.), Flight of Birds across the Moon's Disc, 



131 

 Whale, the Sperm, and its Food, J. Y. Buchanan, F.R.S., 223 

 Wharton (Admiral W. J. L., F.R.S.), the Deepest Sounding 



yet known, 392 

 Wheat Area in Great Britain, the 1895 Diminution of, 35 

 Wheeler (W. H.), Origin and Movement of Drift and Alluvial 



Matter around our Coasts, 445 

 Whetham (W. C. Dampier), Solution and Electrolysis, 146 

 White (Gilbert), Natural History of Selborne, 126 

 White (Prof. Philip J.), Rana esculenta m Kincardineshire, 581 

 Whitehead (C. S. ), Measurement of High Potential Difference, 



334 

 Wiedemann (Dr. E.), Luminiscence of Solids and Solid Solu- 

 tions, 94 ; Fluorescence of Sodium and Potassium Vapours, 

 and the Importance of these Facts in Astrophysics, 250, 526 

 Wiedemann's Annalen, 94, 166, 262, 430, 453, 526 

 Wien (Max), Apparatus for Varying Self-Induction, 453 

 Wien (W.), a Perfectly Black Body, 136 

 Wilberforce (L. R. ), the Stress in Magnetised Iron, 462 

 Wilde (Henry, F.R.S.), Science and Morals, 414 

 Williams (Edward H., jun.), Manual of Lithology, 556 

 Williams (H. G.), Lecture Experiment on the Nodes of a Bell, 



367 

 Williams (J. L.), Dental Enamel, 213 

 Williams (Stanley), Rotation of Jupiter, 206 ; Surface Drift of 



Jupiter, 376 ; the Spots on Saturn, 474 

 Willis (B.), Mechanics of Appalachian Structure, 463 

 Wilsing (Prof.), the Spectrum of Mira, 612 

 Wilsmore (N. T. M.), Production of Naphthalene and Iso- 



quinoline Derivatives from Dehydracetic Acid, 454 

 Wilson (Dr. Gregg), Hereditary Polydactylism, 611 

 Wilson (John H.), the Coronal Rays of Passion-flowers, 173 

 Wilson (R. W.), Thermal Conductivity of Rocks, 4 ; Tempera- 

 ture Variations of Thermal Conductivities of Marble and 



Slate, 205 

 Wilson (S. ), Submarine Telegraphy and other Papers, 196 

 Winchell (N. H.), Composition of Fisher (Minnesota) Meteorite 



of April 9, 1894, 503 

 Wind, Northerly, in Winter Seasons, 174 

 Wind-Pressure, Experiments on, H. C. Vc^t and Irminger, 



279 

 Winkelmann (Dr. A.), Experiments with X-Rays, 613 

 Winogradsky (Prof.), the Flax " Retting" Bacillus, 400 

 Winter Seasons, Northerly Wind in, 174 

 Winter (J.), Constancy of Freezing Point of some Liquids of 



the Organism applied to Analysis of Milk, 71 

 Wires, Torsional Oscillations of, II. , Dr. W. Peddie, 501 

 Wistar (General I. J. ), Distribution of Iron Oxide Colouring in 



Anthracite Rocks, 576 

 Witness, the Expert, 583 



Woeikof (Dr. A.), Rainfall of Malay Archipelago, 497 

 Woitow (Dr. A. J.), Death of, 133 

 Wolf (Joseph), the Life of, A. H. Palmer, 559 

 Wolf (Dr. Max), Photography of Minor Planets, 162 

 Wolff (Emil v.). Farm Foods : or the Rational Feeding of Farm 



Animals, 53 

 Wolff (Mr.), Green Mountains, Massachusetts, 465 

 Wood (Dr. G. E. C), Method of rapidly producing Diphtheria 



Antitoxines, 574 

 Wood (R. W.), Demonstration of Caustics, 23 

 Wood (W. H.), P'ormation of Ammonium Amalgam, 310 

 Wood-Martin (Colonel W. G.), Pagan Ireland, 82 

 Woodward (A. Smith), Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the 



British Museum, 531 

 Woodward (General jf. B.), Death 0., 491 

 Woodward (M. F.), the Spiny Ant-Eater, 599 

 Working Models for Engineering Students : Engine Slide- 

 Valves, 172 

 Woronine (W.), Biological Value of Inflammatory Leucocytosis, 



24 

 Wright (Prof. A. C), the Nature of the Physiological Element 



in Emotion, 206 

 Wright (A. W.), Experiment upon Kathode Rays, 573 



