Index 



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Victoria Falls, the Physical History of the, A. J. C. 

 Molyneux, 619 



Vier- und fiinfstellige Logarithmentafein, 271 



Vigier (Dr. P.), Hair Follicles of Negroes, 452 



Vignon (L^o). Limit of the Reaction between Diazobenzene 

 and Aniline, 287 



Vila (A.), Spectroscopy of the Blood and of Oxyhajmo- 

 globin, 600 



Villari (Prof. Emilio), Obituary Notice of, Prof. A. R6iti, 

 446 



Vines (Prof. S. H., F.R.S.), Proteid Digestion in Animals 

 and Plants, 189 



Viola (Prof. C. M.), Grundziige der Kristallographle, 340 



Violle (J.), Stereoscopy without a Stereoscope, 23 ; the 

 Action of Hail Cannons, 3S3 



Vision, Arris and Gale Lectures on the Neurology of, 

 J. Herbert Parsons, 340 



Vital Products, the Chemical Synthesis of, and the Inter- 

 relations between Organic Compounds, Prof. Raphael 

 Meldola, F.R.S., 170 



Viticulture : Destruction of Phylloxera by Lysol, G. Cantin, 

 240 



Vivisection : Experiments on the Simultaneous Removal of 

 Spleen and Thymus, Drs. Noel Paton and Goodall, 263 



Voice : the Basic Law of \'ocal Utterance, Emil Sutro, 

 317; Duality of \'oice and Speech, Emil Sutro, 317; 

 Duality of Thought and Language, Emil Sutro, 317 



Voit (F. W.), Geology of German South-West Africa, 236 



Volcanoes : the Present Condition of Kilauea, Dr. Otto 

 Kuntze, 20; Renewed Activity of Kilauea, C. H. Hamil- 

 ton, 589; Activity of Mont Pelc^e, 5S8 : Occurrence of 

 Bishop's Ring, .Slartinique, F. A. Forel, 591 ; Recent 

 Changes in the Crater of Stromboli, Dr. Tempest Ander- 

 son, 593 ; Vesuvius again in Full Eruption, 614 



Volkov (Th.), Comparative Study of the Skeletal Variations 

 of the Foot in Primates and in Man, 453 



Vuillemin (Paul), Hyphoids and Bacteroids', 263 



V'ulpecula Cluster, Star Places in the, Dr. H. Meyer, 519 



Wade (Dr.), Destruction of Rats and Disinfection on Ship- 

 board with Special Reference to Plague. 209 



Wagner (Richard), Stories from Natural History, 317 



Waidner (C. W.), Measurements by Photometric Methods of 

 the Temperature of the Electric Arc, 132 



Waite (E. H.), the Nest of the Fighting Fish, 450 



Waldstein (Dr. Charles), Herculaneum and the Proposed 

 International Excavation, 182 



Walker (Prof. James, F.R.S.^ Theory of Amphoteric 

 Electrolytes, 238 



Walker (George W.), Reversal of Charge from Electrical 

 Induction Machines, 221 ; Drift produced in Ions by 

 Electromagnetic Disturbances and a Theory of Radio'- 

 activitv, 406 



Waller (Alice M.), " Blaze-currents " of the Gall Bladder 

 of the Frog. 429 



Waller (Dr. Augustus D., F.R.S.I, some Scientific Centres, 

 the Physiological Research Laboratory of the University 

 of London, 441 



Walmsley (R. M.), Electricity in the Service of Man, 124 



Walsh (E. H. C), Stone Implements in Darjeeling Dis- 

 trict. 453 



War, Wireless Telegraphy in. Captain James, 307 



Ward (J. J.), Peeps into Nature's Wavs, being Chapters on 

 Insect, Plant, and Minute Life, ^12 



Ward (Prof. Marshall, F.R.S.), "a Problem Concerning 

 Wood and Lignified Cell-walls, 71; Trees, 290; Fungi, 

 Discourse at the Royal Institution, 496 



Warth (F. J.), Affinity Constants of Aniline and its 

 Derivatives, 166 



Warth (W. F.), Polyhedral Soap-films, 273 



Washington (H. S.)^ Manual of the Chemical Analysis of 

 Rocks, 219 



Watkin (E. L.), an Interference Apparatus for the Cali- 

 bration of E.xtensometers, 47 



Watson (Dr. W.). Determination of the Moment of Inertia 

 of the Magnets used in the Measurement of the Hori- 

 zontal Component of the Earth's Field, 622 



Watt (.'\ndrew), Inversions of Temperature on Ben Nevis, 



Watts (F.), Nature Teaching, 5 



Watts (Dr. F.), Sugar-planting Experiments in the Leeward 



Islands in 1903-4, 615 

 Watts (W. Marshall), Index of Spectra, 486 

 Wave-group, Growth of a, when the Group-velocity is 



Negative, Dr. H. C. Pocklington, 607 

 Wave-motion, a Simple Model for Illustrating. K. Honda, 



29s 

 Waves, Experiment on Pressure due to, Sidney Skinner, 



609 

 Waves, on Deep Water Ship, Lord Kelvin, 382 

 Webb (Wilfred Mark), Conference of Public School Science 



Masters, 284 

 Weber (Dr. Carl Otto), Death of, 303 

 Weed (\V. H.), Copper in the United States, 162 

 Wegner (Richard), die Einheit der Naturkrafte in der 



Thermodynamik, 29 

 Weidman (Dr. Samuel), Geology of Baraboo Iron-bearing 



District of Wisconsin, 235 

 Weiss (O.), on the Registration of the n-Rays, 191 

 Wellcome Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial 



College, Khartoum, First Report of the, Dr. Andrew 



Balfour, Prof. R. T. Hewlett, 605 

 Wells (H. G.), Mankind in the Making, Anticipations, the 



Food of the Gods, 193 ; Fact in Sociology, 319 

 Welsh Conference on the Training of Teachers, fatS 

 Wendell (Prof.), Variability of a Minor Planet, 569 

 Wertheimer (Prof. J.), Compulsory Greek at Cambridge, 



344 

 Wery (Miss J.), Attractions offered to Bees by Flowers, 492 

 Wesenberg-Lund (Dr.), Comparison of the Lakes of Den- 

 mark and Scotland, 383 

 West (Prof. G. S.), a Treatise on the British Fresh-water 



Algae, 194 ; a Monograph of the British Desmidiaceae, 



194 ; the Fresh-water Plankton of the Scottish Lochs, 



623 

 West (W.), a Monograph of the British Desmidiacete, 194 ; 



the Fresh-water Plankton of the Scottish Lochs, 623 

 West Indian Madreporarian Polyps, J. E. Duerden, Prof. 



Sydney J. Hickson, F.R.S., iS 

 Westermarck (Dr. Ed.), Magic Origin of Moorish Designs, 



165 ; Studies in National Eugenics, 402 

 Weston (Frank E.), a Scheme for the Detection of the 



more Common Classes of Carbon Compounds, 75 

 Whales : the Whalebone Whales of the Western North 



Atlantic, Frederick W. True, 84 ; Eocene Whales, F. A. 



Lucas, 102 ; Measurements of Whales at Balena, New- 

 foundland, F. A. Lucas, 326 

 Wheat, on a Relation between Autumnal Rainfall and the 



Vield of, of the Following Year, Dr. W. N. Shaw, 



F.R.S., at Royal Society, 470 

 Wheeler (R. V.), the Combustion of Ethylene, 70 

 Wheeler (Prof. William Morton), Ants and some other 



Insects, an Inquiry into the Psychic Powers of these 



Animals, Dr. .'\ugust Forel, 29 

 Wherry (George), the Direction of the Spiral in the Petals 



of Selenipedium, 31 

 Whetham (W. C. D., F.R.S.). the Recent Development of 



Physical Science, 291 ; the Origin of Radium, 319 

 White (H. J. O.), Age and Relations of the Phosphatic 



Chalk of Taplow, 022 

 White (Prof. Philip J.), the late Mr. Assheton Smith, 125 

 White (Sir William, K.C.B.), Recent \'isit of the Institu- 

 tion of Civil Engineers to the United States and Canada, 



254 



Whiting (Arthur), Retouching, 100 



Whittaker (E. T.), a Treatise on the Dynamics of Particles 

 and Rigid Bodies, 601 



Whitton (W. A.), Change in the Colour of Moss Agate, 31 



Wickes (W. H.), the Rha;tic Bone-beds, 161 



Widmannstatten's Figures in Steel Castings, on the Occur- 

 rence of. Prof. J. O. Arnold and A. McW'illiam, 32 



Wilde Lecture at Manchester Literary and Philosophical 

 Society, the Early History of Seed-bearing Plants as 

 Recorded in the Carboniferous Flora, Dr. D. H. Scott, 

 F.R.S., 426 



Wildcrman (Dr. M.), Galvanic Cells produced by the Action 

 of Light, 333 



W'illey (Dr. Arthur), Zoological Results based on Material 

 from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty Islands, and 

 Elsewhere, collected during the Years 1895, 1896, and 

 1897, 411 



