[Nature, June II, 18S5 



Vegetable Protoplasm, Gardiner's Researches on the Continuity 



of, Prof. W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.R.S., 337 

 Vegetation, Influence of Direct Sunlight on, Dr. M. Buysman, 



324 

 Velocity of Light, Proposed Experiments for Re-rletermining 



the, at the Paris Observatory, 441 ; New Arrangement of the 



Apparatus of the Rotating Mirror for Measuring, M. C. Wolf, 



517 



Venezuela, Injuries Caused by Lightning in, A. Ernst, 45S 

 Verhandlungen der Gesellschaft ftir Erdkunde zu Berlin, 118 

 Vettin (Dr.), Measurement of Clouds, 284 

 Vibration, Note on Experimental, by Chladni, Chas. Tomlinson, 



F.R.S., 617 

 Victoria Institute, 235, 283, 330, 475 

 Victoria, Science in, 301 ; Climatic Vicissitudes of, G. S. 



Griffiths, 466 

 V.enna, Imperial Academy of Sciences, 48, 72, 120, 144, 164, 



2(2, 356, 500; Imperial-Royal Natural History Museum, Dr. 



Franz Ritter Von Hauer appointed Intendant of, 440 

 Virchow (Dr. II.), the Structure of the Eye in ZoimU: zinnii, 



380 

 Vision, Compound, and Morphology of the Eye in Insects, Dr. 



B. T. Lowne, 433 ; Sydney J. Hickson, 433 

 Vivisection Discussion at Oxford, 440, 453 

 VSlcker(Dr. A., F.R.S.), Death of, 136 

 Vogel (E.), Variation of the Atomic Weights, 42 

 Volcanic Island off Iceland, the New, W. G. Spence Paterson, 



37 ; Prof. Alfred Newton, F. R.S., 149 

 Volcanic Eruptions in Java, 6lO 

 Volcanic Ash-Showers in Iceland, 2S0 



Wallace (Alfred R. ), Colours of Arctic Animals, 552 



Ward (H. Marshall), Rools, 1S3 



War-Ships, Relative Efficiency of, 381, 454 ; Sir E. J. Reed, 



F. R.S., on, 416, 432 

 Warner Astronomical Prixc, the, 321 

 Washburn Observatory, Wisconsin, 137 

 Washington Naval Observatory, 251, 442 

 Watch Dials, Sturrock and Meek's Contrivance for Indicating 



24 Hours on, 349 

 Watches, Night, Newall's, 108 

 Watches and Clocks, Our Future, 36, 201 ; Ernest G. I tanner. 



80 ; B. J. Hopkins, 128; H. H. Clayton, 217 ; Chatel, 241 ; 



Edward L. Garbett, 317 

 Water in the Firth of Forth, on the Salinity of the, Hugh 



Robert Mill, 541 

 Waters (A. W.), Australian Fossil Chilostomatous Bryozoa, 



475 

 Watts (Henry, F.R.S.), the Late, 225 

 Watts (Walter A.), Natural Science for Schools, 101 

 Watts (W. W.) Iridescent Clouds, 193 



Wave-Theory of Light, Sir William Thomson, F. R.S., 91, 115 

 Wax, Chinese Insect-White, 615 

 Weather Service in the United States, 180, 226 

 Weather-Signals in America, 91 



Weather Warnings, H. L. Bixby's New System of, 441 

 Webb (Rev. T. W.), Saturn, 485 



Weed (Clarence M.) and Prof. A. J. Cook, Injurious Insects, 16 

 Weiler (L.), Electric Conduc'.ively of Phosphide of Tin Wire, 



203 

 Weir (J. Jenner), an Unnoticed Factor in Evolution, 194 

 " Weltreise, Eine. Plaudereien aus einer zweijahrigen Frdum- 



segelung." Von Dr. Hans Meyer, 502 

 Westropp (H. M.), Death of, 368 

 Weyl (Dr.), on Casein, 404 



Whale Exhibition in Hamburg, Dr. G. A. Guldberg, 362 

 White (W.), Earthquakes in England and their Study, 172 

 Whitefrsh, Attempted Acclimatisation of, in the Isle of Mull, 



611 



Whiteness, Exceptional Case of, in Tropical Man, Lieut. -Col. 



A. T. Fraser, 505 

 Whipple (G. M), Magnetic Disturbance, 530 

 Wiedemann's Annalen, 303 



Wigan (G.), Electrician's Pocket- Book, Prof. A. Gray, 51 

 Wild Fowl Decoy, Sir Ralph Payne Galhvey, Bart., 102 

 Wilks (Dr. Samuel), Pupil of the Eyes during Emotion, 458 

 Williams (W. Mattieu), the Northernmost Extremity of Europe, 



54. 150 

 Williamson (Rev. Alex.), Geology and Geography of China, 



516 

 Williamson (Benj., F.R.S.), Francis A. Tarleton, " Elementary 



Treatise on Dynamics," &c. , 3S4 

 Williamson (Prof. W, C, F.R.S.), Fossil Tracks of Inverte- 

 brate Animals, 571 

 Willkomm (Dr. Moritz), "Die pyrenaische Halbinsel," II. 



Spanien, 124; Earthquakes in Spain, 610 

 Winehell (Alex.), " World-Life or Comparative Geology," 



Prof. G. H. Darwin, F.R.S., 25 

 Windsor and Eton Scientific Society, 539 

 Wisconsin, Washburn Observatory, 137 

 Wohler, Berzelius and, Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R S., 196 

 Wolf (M. C), New Arrangement of the Apparatus of the 



Rotating Mirror for Measuring the Velocity of Light, 517 

 Wolf's Comet, 65, 91, 137, 280, 322, 396 

 Wood (Searles V.), New Pliocene Deposit at St. Erth, 71 ; 



Obituar/ Notice of, 31S 

 Woods (Rev. J. E. Tenison-), Physical Geography of the 



Malayan Peninsula, 152 ; Borneo Coal-Fields, 583 

 Wood's Holl, United States Fish Commission at, Alf. C. 



Haddon, 294 

 " World-Life ; or Comparative Geology," Alex. Winehell, Prof. 



G. H. Darwin, F.R.S., 25 

 Wormell (Dr. Richard), "Electrical Units," 314 ; an Author's 



Gratitude, 409 

 Woodward (H.), F.R.S., on a Skeleton of Rkytina stelleri, 570 

 Wragge's (Clement L. ) New Observatory, 227 

 Wray (L. ), Physical Geography of the Malayan Peninsula. 



459 

 Wright (Dr. C. R. A.) on Voltaic and Thermo-voltaic Con- 

 stants, 47 

 Wright (Dr. Thos., F. R.S.), Death of, 62 ; Obituary Notice of. 



103 

 Wright (T. W. ), Geodesy and Measures of Precision, 167 



Xingu, Steiner's Exploration of the, 300 



Yakutsk, Trade in Children in, 397 



Yang-tsze-kiang, Col. Prjevalski's Supposed Discovery of the 



Sources of the, 351 

 Young (Prof. Sydney), Natural Science in Schools, 126 



Zeitschrift fiir wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 449 



Zhob Valley, Survey of, 109 



Ziphiaid, a Fossil, G. Capellini, 618 



Zodiacal Light, Red Sunsets and the, Rev. Edward Reynolds, 



514 

 Zonula zinnii. Structure of the Eye in, Dr. H. Virchow, 380 

 Zoological Gardens, Additions to the, 17, 42, 65, 71, 91, 109, 



i37» ] 58, 181, 203, 227, 250, 280, 300, 322, 350, 370, 396, 



419, 442, 468, 492, 515, 539, 564, 588, 6t2 

 Zoological Society, 71, 119, 163, 305, 355, 403, 474, 523, 617 

 Zoology of the Voyage ol H.M.S. Challenger, Report on the 



Polyzoa, Geo. Busk, F.R.S., 146 

 Zoology, Elementary Text-Book of, Dr. C. Claus, 191 

 Zoology, Polynomials in, S. Garman, 413 

 Zulus, Measurements of Colour- Sense and Visual Acuteness of, 



Dr. Ronig, 476 



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