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INDEX 
[Wature, Dec. 2, 1886 
Water, Flowing, 
F.R.S., 507 
Water-Heating, Flame Contact, 
Fletcher, 230 
Water-Jets, Action of Tones on, C. Baur, 22 
Water-Supply, Cholera in its Relation to, G. Higgin, 149 
Watford Free Library College, 555 
Watts (A.), Relation of Coal-Dust to Explosions in ©Coal- 
Mines, 595 
Wave-Length Tables of Spectra of Elements, 506 
Wave-Lengths, on hitherto Unrecognised, 5. P. Langley, 402 
Waves, Lecture Experiments on, A. Toepler, 402 
Weather : the Ice-Saints’ Festivals of 1886, 79 ; Severe Weather 
of Winter 1885-86, Harding, 94, 124; Barometric Pres- 
sure of May 13, 96; Weather at Caracas, Dr. A. Ernst, 
313; Weather-Signals, Railway, Chas. Harding, 361 
Webb (F. W.), Endurance of Steel Rails, 63 
Weber (R.), Coefficient of Expansion for Solids, 563 
Webi, Upper, Hydrography of the, Dr. Paulitschke, 372 
Weights and Measures, International Committee of, 79 
Weir (Dr. J. Jenner), Hypertrichosis, 22 
Weismann (Dr. A.), Importance of Sexual Reproduction for 
the Theory of Selection, H. N. Moseley, 629 
Wells (Sir T. Spencer), Inaugural Address at the Sanitary 
Institute Congress, York, 499 
Westmoreland and Cumberland, Mountain Ascents in, J. Barrow, 
F.R.S., 168 
Wharton (W. J. L.) and Capt. 
quake in Greece, 497 
Wheat, Flour, and Bread, 
Wrightson, 520 
Wheat Culture 
Dehérain, 588 
Wheat, ‘‘ Hybrid,” 629 
Wheeler (H. A.), Temperature Observations at the Lake Superior 
Copper- Mines, 402 
Whipple (G. M.), Immisch’s Thermometer, 239 
White (Dr. Chas. Abrathar), Annotated Catalogue of the Pub- 
lished Writings of, 246 
White (J. W.), Flora of the Bristol Coal-Field, 555 
White (W.), Cerura vinula, 163 
White Fish, Transmission to the Isle of Mull of, 276 
White Island Volcano, Eruption of, 530 
White Light, Saccharimeter for, Th. and A. Duboscq, 378 
Whitehead (J.), Natural History Researches in Borneo, 602 
Whitelegge, a Remarkable Species of Nitella, 283 
Whitman (C, O.), Leeches of Japan, 132 
Wietlisbach (Dr.), Telephony v. Telegraphy, 530 
Williams (H. S.), Devonian Lamellibranchiata and Species- 
Making, 539 
Williams (W. M.), Our Guns, 569 
Williamson (Prof. W. C., F.R.S.), Our Fossil Pseudo-Algze, 
Stationary Waves in, Sir William Thomson, 
a New Departure in, Thos. 
L. Aquilina, Recent Earth- 
Chemistry of, W. Jago, Prof. J. 
in North-West France, MM. Porion and 
369 
Willm (M. Ed.), on the Composition of Mineral Waters of 
Bagnéres-de-Luchon, Haute-Garonne, 403 
Wilson (Sir C.), Native Tribes of the Stidan, 608 
Wilson (H. C.), Binary Star y Coronze Australis, 176 
Wind-Currents, Upper, over the Bay of Bengal in March, and 
Malaysia in April and May, Hon. Ralph Abercromby, 288 
Wines, Quantitative Analysis of Dry Extract of, E. Bouilhon, 
516 
Wings of Birds, Prof. W. H. Flower, F.R.S., 204 
Wings, Butterflies’, 266 
Winkler (C.), Germanium, 580 
Winlock (Prof. W. C.), Progress of Astronomy in 1885, 490 
Winnecke’s Comet, 435; Perrotin and Charlois, 540 
Winter of 1885-86, Severe Weather of, C. Harding, F.R.Met. 
Soc., 94 
Winter, the Past, C. Harding, 124 
Winton (Sir Francis de), Congo Free State, 604 
Woeikoff (Dr.), on Croll’s Hypothesis of Geological Climates, 
46 
Wolf (L.), Central Africa, 605 
Wolffberg (Dr.), the Young-Helmholtz Theory of the Colour- 
Sense, 96 
Woodend Colliery Explosion, 365 
Woodward (B. B.) and P. Gray, A.B.S., Seaweeds, Shells, and 
Fossils, 28 
Woolls (Dr. W.), Zucalyptus leucoxylon, 64 
Wright (A. G.), Paleolithic Implements in Cambridgeshire, 
521 
Wrightson (Prof. J.): Naturalist’s Diary, C. Roberts, F.R.C.S., 
TEAR CAPs L19o}s Ghemaistiy of Wheat, Flour, and Bread, Ww. 
Jago, 520 
Wylie (R.), Triple-Expansion Marine Engines, 625 
Wynne (A. B., F.R.S.), Boulder Beds of the Salt Range, 
Punjab, 69 
Wyrouboff (G.), the Structure of Crystalline Bodies Endowed 
with Rotatory Power, 378 
Xingu, von den Steinen, Exploration of the, 371 
Yadrintseff (M.), Drying up of Siberian Lakes, 329 
Yale College Observatory, Heliometer of the, 84 
Yale College, Observatory at, 435 
Yarkand, Scientific Results of Second Mission to, Dr. F. Sto- 
liczka, Araneida, Rev. O. P. Cambridge, 120 
Year with the Birds, 619 
Year-Book of Pharmacy, 49 
Year-Book of the Scientific and Learned Societies, 176 
Year in Brazil, Hastings Chas. Dent, 215 
Yellowstone National Park, J. Leclerq, 545 
Yokohama, Natural History Society at, 59 
Young (Sydney, D.Sc.) and W. Ramsay, Ph D. : a Study of the 
Thermal Properties of Ethyl Oxide, 94; Thermo-Dynamical 
Relations, 138 
Young-Helmholtz Theory of Colour-Sense, Dr. Wolffberg on 
the, 96 
Yttria : Fractionation of, W. Crookes, F.R.S., 512, 584; Purifi- 
cation of, L. de Boisbaudran, 612 
Zambesi Region, Dr. Holub’s Exploration Party, 457 
Zenger (Ch. V.), Phosphorography and the Photography of the 
Invisible, 463 
Zoetrope, New Application of, Prof. R. H. Richards, 602 
Zoological Collections of the Afghan Delimitation Commission, 
108 
Zoological Garden at Christiania, 15 
Zoological Gardens : Additions to, 15, 39, 60, 84, I10, 131, 
155, 176, 202, 225, 247, 278, 301, 324, 348, 371, 398, 435, 
459, 490, 501, 531, 555, 578, 603; Anthropoid Apes at, 276 
Zoological Record, 626 
Zoological Results of the Challenger Expedition, Prof. W. A. 
Herdman and Hjalmar Théel, 437 
Zoological Society, 21, 46, 94, 138 ; Annual Report, 37 
Zoological Station at Naples, Prof. His, 605 
Zoology: T. McK. Hughes on Mole- hills, 33 Lion- Breeding, 
V. Ball, F.R.S., 601; First Lessons in Zoology, A. S. 
Packard, 616 
