Indc. 



xlij 



" Pfedisp-)5ition " ani " Irmiunity" in Plant.?, 33^: Su^cepd - 



bility of Different Species of Broaie-grasses tolhe R ist Fan^u^, 



519 

 Ward (Frank L.), Reform in Mitherniticil Tea?hin?, 55^5 

 Wardle (II. Newell), Is the S-rew an Eikimj Invention? 281 

 Warren (Dr.), Variation and Inheritince in the Partheno- 



genetic Generations of the Aphis Hyahplerus trirhoiw:, 



Warren (li.), Structure of the Teeth of the Lampreys and Mig- 



fishe;, 573 

 Warth (Dr. II.}, Magnetic Iron Ore as a Material for Concrete 



Blocks, 31 

 Warthin (Dr. A. S.), Normal Histology of Human Hasmo- 



lymph Glands, 237 

 Washington, Meeting of the Astronomical and Astrophysicil 



Society at. Results of International Magnetic Observations 



made during the Total Solar K:lipse of May 17-18, 1901, Dr. 



L. A Bluer, 246 

 Water: Numerical Value of "Characteristic" of, J. M. Gray, 



47 ; Water and Water Supplies, Dr. J. C. Thresh, loi ; 



Development of Water-power for Manufacturing Purposes in 



Canada, Sir Christopher Furness, 159 ; O/.onised Air as 



Agent for Water Purification, the Siemens and Halske Plant, 



230 ; Method for Finding the Velocity of Underground 



Water, Prof. Slichter, 518 

 "Water-hammer,"' Etplosions of Stea^m Pipes due to, C. E. 



Stromeyer, 497 

 Waterfowl, Transport of Molluscs by, Frank Finn, 53'4 

 Watts (Francis), Sugar Cane E'cperiments in Antigua and St. 



Kitts, 36 

 Waves, Electric, 211 



Waves, the Resistance due to Companion, M. de Bu;sy, 603 

 Weather during the Past Week, Inclement, 323 

 Weber (Heinrich), Die Partiellen Differen'.ial-gleichungen der 



mathematischen Physik, 30 

 Wedenski (Prof.). Fundamental Similarity of Nerve-Inhibition 



and -Narcosis, 64 

 Wedmore (E. B. ), on Eirth Currents Derived from Distributing 



.Systems, 303 

 Weights and Measures, International Committee of, 538 

 Weiss (Dr.), Summation of Successive Electric Stimuli Applied 



to Nerve, 64 

 Weiss (Prof. F. E.), on Two Dwarf Japanese Trees, Ptntis 



parvifolia and Thuja obtusa. Prof. F. E Weiss, ng ; 



Xenophyton radiculosum and Stigmarian Rootlet probably 



Related to Lepidophloios fiiliginosu!, 334 

 Wells (H. G.), the First Men in the,Moon, 218 ; the Discovery 



of the Future, Discourse at the Royal Institution, 326 ; 



King Og's Bed, 366 ; Anticipations of the Reaction of 



Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and 



Thought, Supp. March 13, 1902, iii 

 Wertheimer (Prof. J.), the Education Bill, 568 

 West (Frederick M.), Change of Pitch of Certain Sounds with 



Distance, 129 

 West (W. and Prof. G. S.), Freshwater Alga; of the North of 



Ireland, 358 

 West Indies : Sugar-cane Experiments in Antigua and St. 



Kitt's, Francis VVatts, 36 ; Insect and other Diseases of the 



Cacao and Sugar Cane Plants in the West Indies, 1 10 ; West 



Indian Bulletin, no; West Indian Agricultural Conference, 



1902, Prof. J. P. d'Albuquerque, 331 

 Whaling for the Year 1901, T. Southwell, 399 

 What's What, a Guide for To-day to Life as it Is and Things as 



they Are, Harry Quilter, 126 

 Wheeler (R. V.), the Slow Oxidation of Methane at Low 



Temperatures, 477 

 Wheeler (W. H.), the Reclamation of the Zuiderzee, 275 ; the 



Sea Coast, (l) Destruction, (2) Littoral Drift, (3) Protection, 



Supp. April 24, 1902, iv 

 Wheeler(Prof. W. M.), the So-called " Antrice," 422 

 Wherry (Dr. George), the Value of the Horns in Bighorn 



Wild Sheep as Ear-trumpets, 127; Use and Value of Spiral 



Horns in Ovh iiivifo/a, 334 

 White Under Sides of Animals, the Meaning of the. Prof. E. B. 



Poulton, F.R S., 506 ; Abbott H. Thayer, 597 

 White (Edmund), Pharmacopedia, a Commentary on the 



British Pharmicopceia, 1898, 197 

 Whitmell(C. T.), the Date of Stonshenge, 12S ; the Severn 



Bore, 344 



Whittaker (E. T.), Two Theorems Relating to the Periodic 



Solutions of the Differential Equations of Dynamics and 



Astronomy, 286 

 Whittemore (J. K.), Geodesic Circles, 262 

 Wigner (Mr.), on the Constitution of Certain Organic Nitrates, 



383 

 Wilczynski (E. J.), Geometry of a Simultaneous System of Two 



Linear Homogeneous Differential Equations of the Second 



Order, 117 

 Wild Animals I have Known, Ernest Seton-Thompson, T. 



Digby Pigott, C.B., 25 

 Wild Birds, the Home Life of, F. H. Herrick. 437 

 Wilde (H. ), Classification of the Atomic Weights of Neon, 



Argon, Krypton and .Xenon, 579-80 

 Wilip (J.), Coefficient of Refraction of Ethyl Ether in the 



Vicinity of the Critical Point, 546 

 Wilkinson (f. B. ), Intermediate Practical Physics, 29 

 Wilks (Sir' Samuel, F.R.S.), the History of Fahrenheit's 



Thermometer, 34S 

 Williams (A. Stanley), the Red Spot on Jupiter, 596 

 Williams (W.), Temperature Variation of the Electrical Resist- 

 ances of Pure Metals, 477 

 Willis (E. C. ), Observations of Leonid Meteors, 54 

 Williston (S. W.), the Hind Limb of Protostegi, 599 

 Wilson (Edwin), Curious Apparatus at the Bise of the Wings 



of the Mosquito Anopheles iitactilipenii'S, 551 

 Wilson (Ernest), the Distribution of Magnetism as Affected by 



Induced Currents in an Iron Cylinder when Rotated in a 



Magnetic Field, 502 

 Wilson (G. F., F.RS.), Death of, 516; Obituary Notice of, 



539 

 Wilson (Dr. George), Failure of Certain Cist-Steel Dies used 



in the Manuf.iCture of Drawn Tubes, 263 

 Wilson (H. A.), the Hill Effect in Gases at Low Pressures, 



71. 550 



Wilson (Dr. W. E., F.R.S.), the Distance of Nova Persei, 19S, 

 298 ; the Effective Temperature of the Sun, 428 



Wilson-Barker (Capt. D.), Clouds, 603 



Wind Direction, on the Seisonil Variation of Atmospheric 

 Temperature in the British Isles and its Relation to, W. N. 

 Shaw, F.R.S., and R. Waley Cohen, 68 



Wines, Action of Sulphurous Acid as an Antidote against la 

 casse in, J. Laborde, 528 



Wings of Butterflies, the Colours of, 344 ; W. B. Croft, 391 



Winter Phenomena in Lakeland, Dr. P. Q. Keegan, 559 



Wire Saw for Quarryinc, the Use of the, 84 



Wireless Telegraphy : Wireless Telegraphy and English Channel 

 Lightships, 109 : the "Armorl" Electro-capillary Relay, 129 ; 

 Marconi's Signalling from England to America by Wireless 

 Telegraphy, 158, 228; Proposed Installation of Marconi's 

 System at the Mouth of the St. Lawrence River, 348 ; Kites 

 and Wireless Telegraphy, Dr. A. Lawrence Rotch, 198 ; 

 Wireless Telegraphy, Prof. F. Braun, 372 ; Position and 

 Promise of Wireless Telegraphy, 394 ; Curious Anticipation 

 of a Magnetic Means of Communication, Strada, 397 ; 

 Further Developments in Wireless Telegraphy, 416 ; Wire- 

 less Telegraphy, G. W. de Tunzelmann, Supp. November 14, 

 1901, X 



Wishart (R. S ), the Self Educator in Botany, 126 



Woburn Abbey, Przewalski's Horse at, 103 



Wonders in Monsterland, E. D. Cuming, 126 



Wood, the Use of Anatomical Characters in the Identification 

 of, Herbert Stone, Paper read at the Society of Arts, 379 



Wood (Prof. R. W. ), the Anomalous Dispersion of Sodium 

 Vapour, 284; on the Absorption, Dispersion and Surface 

 Colour of Selenium, 430 ; Suspected Case of Electrical 

 Resonance of Minute Metal Particles for Light Waves, a 

 New Type of Absorption, 477 



Woodward (Arthur Smith, F.li.S.), Catalogue of Fossil Fishes 

 in the British Museum, 388 



Woodward (B. B.), South of England post-Pliocene Non- 

 Marine Mollusca, 230 



Woodward (R. S.), Length of the Terrestrial Day, 113 



World of the Great Forest, the, Paul du Chaillu, 148 



Wormwell (W. G.), the Dielectric Constant of Paraffin, 190 



Worms : Two Species of .Vnnelids from the Freshwaters of 

 Prussian Rhineland Replaced by a Third, W. Voight, 594 



Wright (Wilbur), Aeronautical Experiments with Gliding 

 Machines, 541 



