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INDEX 



XIX 



Varley (Cromwell Fleetwood, F.R.S., M.I.C.E.), Death and 

 Obituary Notice of, 444 



Varna Expedition, the Search for the, 427, 470 



Vega, Scientific Work of the, 177 ; Return of the, 404 



Velocities, Table of Different, expressed in Metres per Second, 

 604; II. Baden Pritchard, 612 



Venom of Serpents, on the Chemical Characters of the, Sir J. 

 Fayrer, F.R.S., 114, 199 



Venus, Transit of, 90, 377 



Yerliandlungen der Uesellschaft fur Erdkunde of Berlin, 90, 360 



Verhandlnngen der k.k. Zool. Botan. Gesellschaft in Wien, 70 



"Vertebrate Dissection, Handbook of," H. Newell Martin and 

 William Moule, 242 



Vertebrata, Hypophysis Cerebri in Tunicata and, Prof. W. A. 

 Herdman, 2S4 



Verhandlungen der Tiere, Dr. Otto Taschenberg, 100 



Vichy and it< Therapeutical Resources, Dr. Prosser James, 435 



Victoria Coffee Hall, Report of the, 206 ; Penny Science Lec- 

 tures at, 532 



Victoria, Gold Mining in, 533 



Vienna : Imperial Academy of Sciences, 240, 264, 312, 40S, 

 432, 456, 480 ; International Electric Exhibition, 399, 466 ; 

 Inauguration of New Observatory at, 156 



Villiers (Hon. Sir J. H. de), Cape Bees and Animal Intelli- 

 gence, 5 



Vince and Scoresby, on the State of the Atmosphere which 

 produces the Forms of Mirage observed by. Prof. P. G. Tait, 

 84 



Violin, on the Function of the Sound-Post and on the Propor- 

 tional Thickness of the Strings of the, Dr. W. Hugging 

 F.R.S., 259; R. Howson, 269, 300 



Viper, can a, Commit Suicide? R. Langdon, 319 



Viper, the English, Katharine B. Claypole, 563 ; E. W. Clay- 

 pole, 563 



Vivisection, Uselessness of, Lawson Tait ; G. J. Romanes, 

 F.R.S., 589 



Vladivostok, Disappearance of Spotted Deer from, 134 



Volcanic Eruptions at Krakatoa, 134, 329, 425 



" Vorlesungen iiber Pflanzen Physiologie," Julius Sachs, 460 



Voss's Influence-Machine, 12 



Vossedangen, Earthquakes at, 233, 280 



Waking Impressions, Mrs. J. Maclear, 270 ; Mrs. Hubbard, 



299 

 Wales, Eisteddfod of, and Science, 43 



Walker (Alfred O.) : Insects and Flowers, 388 ; Animal Intelli- 

 gence, 389 

 Walker (J. J.), Prof. Henrici's Address at Southport, 515 

 Wallace (Alfred R.), Ants and their Ways, Rev. W. Farren 



White, 293 

 Waller (J. G.), Sand, 300 



V\ allis (E. C.)i Remarkable Forms of Cloud, 320 

 Ward (Prof. H. Marshall) : Chlorophyll Corpuscles and Pigment 



Bodies in Plants, 267 ; on some Cell Contents in Coffee and 



other Plants, 580 

 Ward (Thomas), Solar Hal), 80 



Warder (Prof. B.), on Computing the Speed of Chemical Reac- 

 tions, 551 

 Warwick, Science Classes in, 622 



Washington National Museum, Electrical Appliances at, 207 

 Water: the Quality of London, 280; Soft and Hard, Influence 



on Growth of Bone, 329; Cholera and Water Supply, Dr. P. 



F. Franklaud, 352 ; on the Properties of Water and Ice, J. 



V. Buchanan, 417; the Motion of Water, Prof. Osborne 



Reynolds, F.R.S., 627 

 Waters, Underground, B.A. Report on, 548 

 Waterspout, D. Pidgeon, 173 

 "Waterspouts" on the Little Bahama Bank — Whirlwind at 



Grand Cayman, Morris H. Smith, 269 

 Wauschaff, Apparatus for Registering Earth-Currents, 354 

 Wave, the Great Tidal, 626 

 Waves, Sea, Mid-Height of, W. Parfitt, 82 

 Weather and Sunspots, Dr. A. Woeikof, 53 

 Weather Prognostics and Weather Types, Hon. R. Abercromby 



and W. Marriott, 330 

 Weather-Maps, Tokio, 402 

 Webb (R.), Large Hailstones, 226 

 "Weich und Schaltiere gemeinfasslich Dargestellt," die Prof. 



Ed. von Martens, Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., 148 



Weights and Measures, the International Bureau of, 464, 592 



Welch (F.), Animal Intelligence, 389 



Wentzl (A.), Slacks pxluslris as Food, 414 



Werdermann (Mr.), Death of, 509 



West Kent Natural History, &c , Society, 180 



We,ton-super-Mare, Lunar Phenomenon at, C. Pooley, 54 



Whale f jund in Selsea Bay, 257 



Whales, Past and Present, and their Probable Origin, Prof. 

 Flower, F.R.S., 199, 226 



Whirlwind at Grand Cayman — "Waterspouts" on the Little 

 Bahama Bank, Morris H. Smith, 269 



Whistles, Hydrogen, Prof, [ohn LeConte, 54; Francis Galton, 

 F.R.S., 54 



White (William), Deductive Biology, 124 



White (Rev. W. Farren), Ants and their Ways, Alfred R. Wal- 

 lace, 293 



Whitechapel Fine Art Exhibition, 63 



White Sea Hydrographical Researches, Andreeff, 1S3 



White Light, the Standard of, 605 



Whitworth Scholarships, 1883, List of Successful Candidates, 



353 



Wiedemann (E.), Luminosity of Gases, 181 



Wiedemann (Gustav), " Die Lehre von der Electricitat," 121 



Wiedemann's Aanalen, 308 



Wild Duck ani Railways, John Rae, F. U.S., 226 



Wild Fowl, Robert S. Good.-ir, 245 



WiM Fowl and Railways — Instinct and Intelligence, Dr. J. Rae, 

 F.R.S., 270 



Wilder (Dr. Burt G.), and S. II. Gage on the Animal Tech- 

 nology of the Domestic Cat, 77 



IVillcm Barents Voyage to the Arctic Regions, 42 



Williams (Dr. C. J. B., F.R.S.), on the Cold in March, and 

 Absence of Sunspots, 102 



Williams (Mattieu), Dimensions of Jan Mayen, 376 



Williamson (Prof. A. W., F.R.S ), on the Chemical Constitu- 

 tion of Matter, 551 



Williamson (Prof. XV. C, F.R.S.) : on the Morphology of the 

 Pitcher of Cefhalotus follicular!!, 140, 150; Opening Address 

 in Section C (Geology) at the Meeting of the British Associa- 

 tion at S ralhport, 503 



Wills (C. ].), "The Land of the Lion and Sun, or Modern 

 Persia," Prof. A. II. Keane, 266 



Wilson (A. Slephen) : Disease of Potatoes, 343 ; on the Closed 

 Condition of the Seed Vessel in AngiDsperms, 580 



Wimshurst's Influence-Machine, 13 



Wind -Velocity in Russia, Dr. Woeikof, 571 



Winter Life at Fort Rae, Henry P. Dawson, 371 



Woeikof (Dr. A.) : the Weather and Sunspots, 53 ; Velocity of 

 the Wind in Russia, 571 



Wolf's (M.), New Apparatus, Dr. G. H. Darwin, F.R.S., 366 



Wool Plugs and Fertilised Fluid, Duncan Matthews, 5S0 



Working Men, Lectures to, 33 



Working Men Students, Primaeval Man and, Worthington G. 

 Smith, 320 



Wragge (Clement L.): Fibre-Balls, 31; Departure of, for 

 Adelaide, 623 



Wreaths, Egyptian Funeral, 15, 109 



Wrightson (Prof. J.), " Field and Garden Crops of the North- 

 western Provinces and Oudh," J. F. Duthie, 195 ; Agri- 

 culture, its Needs and Opportunities, 618 



Wroblewski and Olszewski, Liquefaction of Oxygen and 

 Nitrogen, 533 



Wullerstorf-Urbavi (Admiral von), Death of, 400 



Yankovsky (N.), Disappearance of Spotted Deer from Vladi- 

 vostok, 134 



Yezo, the Island of, 90; Capt. Blakiston, 159 



Yokohama, the Chrysanthemum Magazine, 43 



Yorke (J, F.), Notes on Evolution and Christianity, Dr. George 

 J. Romanes, F.R.S., 222 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, 234 



Yorkshire College, the Professorship of Physics at the, 306 



Yorkshire, Lake-Dwellings at Ulrome, 623 



Young (F. ), Elevation and Subsidence, 388, 488 



Young (James, F.R.S.), Death of, 63 



Yukon River, Exploration of, 572 



Zahrtmann on the Zeni Narrative, 14 



Zebra, the Speke and Grant, Col. J. A. Grant, 366 



