Supplement to eel 
June 17, 1897 
Index 
XXXIX 
Viticulture, Death of Dr. F. Saccardo, $0 
Vivisection: Heredity of Acquired Characteristics, Leonard 
Hill, 160 ; Experiments on Distribution of Posterior Root- 
Fibres of Spinal Nerves, Prof. C. S. Sherrington, F.R.S., 
356; Cateleptoid Reflexes in Monkey, Prof. C. S. Sherring- 
ton, F.R.S., 3573 Reciprocal Innervation of Antagonistic 
Muscles, Prof. C. S. Sherrington, F.R.S., 381 ; Conditions 
of Fat-Absorption from Intestines, B. Moore and D. P. Rock- 
wood, 429; the Regeneration of Nerves, Dr. Robert Ken- 
nedy, 429; Reducing Power of Living Animal Tissues, Dr. 
D. F. Harris, 599 
Vogt (J. G.), Das Wesen der Electricitat und des Magnetismus 
auf Grund eines einheitlichen Substanzbegriffes, 604 
Voigt (W.), Electric Moment of Tourmaline, 381 
Volcanoes: the Causes of Volcanic Outbursts, N. S. Shaler, 
301; Volcanic Activity in Central America in relation to 
British Earthquakes, A. Gosling, 502; Depth of Source of 
Lava, J. L. Lobley, 503; the Mount Etna Observatory, H. 
Faye, 599 F 
Volkmann (Dr. P.), Erkenntnisstheoretische Grundziige der 
Naturwissenschaften und ihre Beziehungen zum Geistesleben 
der Gegenwart, Prof. Karl Pearson, F.R.S., 1, 342; the 
Epistemology of Natural Science and Mr. Karl Pearson, 342 
Vuillemin (Paul), the Beetroot Parasite, 72 
Waals (Prof. van der), Decrease with Diminishing Volume of 
é in Equation of Fluids, 192 ; Decrease of Vapour-Tension 
determined by Magnitude of Molecules of Solvent, 527; 
Special Points of Melting-Curves, 551 
Wachsmuth (R ), the Cadmium Standard Cell, 92 
Wagstaff (Prof. W. H.), the Metric System of Weights and 
Measures compared with the Imperial System, 172 
Wagstaffe (W. W.), Separate Day and Night Rainfall Records, 
81 
Waite (E. R.), Range of Platypus, 72 
Walcott (Prof. C. D.), Gold in Alaska, 298 
Waldo (Frank), Elementary Meteorology, 363 
Walker (General F. A.), Death of, 277 
Walker (J.), Velocity of Urea Formation in Aqueous Alcohol, 
526 
Walker (Dr. T. L.), Geological Studies of Sudbury Nickel 
District (Canada), 93 
Wallace (Dr. Alfred R., F.R.S.), Charles Darwin and the 
Theory of Natural Selection, Edward B. Poulton, F.R.S., 
2890 
Walter (Js.), Influenza Bacilli in Central Nervous System, 182 
Wampum, the Symbolic use of, Horatio Hale, 189 
Ward (Isaac W.), the Satellite of Procyon, 153 
Warington (Robert, F.R.S.), Agricultural Teaching at Oxford, 
449 
Warring (Dr. C. .), Curious Optical Phenomenon, 232 
Wart-Wort (Chelédonzum majus) Sapas Kemedy for Cancer, Dr. 
Denisenko, 60; C. Leeson Prince, 155 
Washington, Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of, 438 
Washington, U.S.A., the Bureau of Ethnology at, 9 
Washington Bureau’s Method of disseminating Weather Fore- 
casts, 59 
Wason (Mr.), Keaction of Ferric Chloride, Potassium Chloride, 
and Hydrochloric Acid, 543 
Wasted Records of Disease, Chas. E. Paget, 414 
Water, Floating Mercury on, C. Stromeyer, 53 
Water Purification, Bacterial; Mrs. Percy Frankland, 163 
Water and its Purification, Samuel Rideal, Joseph Lunt, 602 
Water-Vapour in Dust-free Air, &c., Condensation of, C. T. R. 
Wilson, 622 
Water-Ways, Deep, Report of United States Commission, 513 
Waterer (Clarence), the Additional Colouring Matter of Faces 
vesiculosus, 508 
Waters (Sidney), Death and Obituary Notice of, 181 
Waterspouts, True and False, H. Faye, 383 
Watson (W. G.), Radiograph with Wimshurst Machine, 12 
Watteville (Ch. de), New Method for producing Transparent 
Crystals, 431 
Watts (F.), the Best Sugar-Cane for Leeward Island Cultivation, 
12 
Wave-lengths, Formule for Computing, 137 
Weather, the Story of the, George F. Chambers, 413 
Webb (Wilfred Mark), Prichard and Acquired Characters, 342 
Weber (Heinrich), Lehrbuch der Algebra, 25, 481 
Weber (Prof.), Absolute and Relative Weight of Brains of 
Mammals, 192 
Weber (Prof. Leonhard), 
Units, 513 
Webster (William), X-Ray Photography, 559 
Proposed System of Photometric 
| Weed (W. H.), Missourite, 91 
Weierstrass (Prof. K. T.), Death of, 397 ; Obituary Notice o:, 
442 
Weights and Measures, the Metric System of, compared with 
the Imperial System, Prof. W. H. Wagstaff, 172 
Weisbach (Dr. Julius), the Mechanics of Pumping Machinery, 
364 
Wells (Sir Spencer), Death of, 326 
Weldon ((Prof. W. F. R., F.R.S.), Measurements 0:1 Crabs, 30 
Wernicke (Herr), the Vitality of Cholera Vibrios, 233 
Wesendonck (K.), Point Discharge Potentials in Air and 
Hydrogen, 381 
Westhoff (Dr. Fritz), Death of, 133 
Weston (Rev. Walter), Mountaineering in the Japanese Alps, 
102 
Weyer (Dr. G. D. E.), Death of, 231 ; Obituary Notice of, 299 
Wharton (Rear-Admiral W. J. L., C.B., F.R.S ), Foundations 
of Coral Reefs, 390 
Wheat, Sparrows and, F. G. Brook-Fox, 33 
Wheeler (W. H.), Cultivation of Woad, 79; a History of the 
Fens of South Lincolnshire, 436 
Whetham (W. C. Dampier), the Theory of Dissociation into 
Tons, 151, 606 
Whipple (G. C.), the Growth of Diatoms, 83 
Whirlwind on Rydal Water, Henry J. C. Anderson, 5 
Whitmell (C. J.), the Leonid Meteor Shower, 1896, 54 
Who’s Who, 1897, 580 
Whymper (Edward), Chamounix and the Range of Mont Blanc, 
102 
Whymper (Fred), the Komance of the Sea, 149 
Whyte (Alexander), Natural History of North Nyasa, 398 
Widal’s Test for Typhoid Fever, Microscopic Demonstration of, 
Dr. Amand Ravold, 454; Widal’s Bacteriological Diagnosis 
of Typhoid Fever, 590 
Wiechert (E.), Foundations of Electrodynamics, 47 
Wiedeburg (O.), Interference Refractometer for Electric Waves, 
Wiedemann (E.), Electrostatic Deflection of Kathode Rays, 524 
Wiedemann’s Annalen, 46, 92, 214, 309, 380, 524 
Wieland (G. R.), Archelon zschyros, 188 
Wien (W.), Measurement of Low Temperatures, 46 
Wilcox (A. J.), a Short Catechism of Chemistry, 52 
Wild Flowers, How to Study, Rev. Geo. Henslow, 
Wilder (Prof. Burt G.), some Neural Descriptive Terms, 
Wilkinson (H. D.), Submarine Cable Laying and Repairing, 
222 
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| Willem (Victor), Influence of Water-Aeration on Development 
of Fresh-Water Mollusca, 300 
Willey (Dr. A.), the Eggs of the Pearly Nautilus, 326; the 
Embryology of the Nautilus, 402 
Williams (Dr. Dawson), Immunity from Snake Bite, 415 
Williams (J. Ll.), Drunken Habits of Humble Bees, 300 
Wilson (Dr.), on Hybridisation in Passion Flowers and Albucas, 
22 
Wilson (C. T. R.), Condensation of Water-Vapour on Dust- 
free Air, &c., 622 
Wilson (Sir C. W., K.C.B., F.R.S.), the Geodetic Survey or 
South Africa, 226 
Wilson (E.), Capacity and Residual Change of Dielectrics as 
affected by Temperature and Time, 381 
Wilson (Edmund B.), the Cell in Development and Inheritance, 
fo) 
Wikon (J. T.), Development and Succession of Teeth in 
Marsupials, 350 
Wilson (W. E., F.R.S.), Effect of surrounding Gas-pressure on 
Temperature of Crater of Electric Arc, 332, 514 
Wilson-Barker (D.), a Manual of Elementary Seamanship, 459 
Wimshurst Machine, the X-rays produced by a, T. C. Porter, 
30; a Correction, 79 
Wind Force, the First Attempt to Measure, Prof. Marvin, 259 
Wines (Emma S.), Handbook of Courses open to Women in 
British, Continental, and Canadian Universities, 100 
Wines, Decolorisation in, J. Laborde, 191; the Decolorising 
Ferment, P. Cazeneuve, 576 ; Action of Zinc on Red Wines, 
L. A. Levat, 359; Wine Manufacture in Southern Regions, 
A. Muntz, 407 ; the Oxydase of Wines, M. Bouffard, 551 ; 
Wine and Cobwebs, 564 
Winkelmann (A.), some Properties of Rontgen Rays, 47 
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