.Va/iir,\j!iin- <), 1SS7] 



Watson (Rev. Henry W.), an Error in Maxwell's " Electricity 



and Magnetism," 223 ; Magnetic Theory, 296 

 Watson-Draper ilicroscope, 550 



Watt's (Dr. G. ), Observations in the Manipur District, 308 

 Wave- Length of the Ray of Light Do, 432 ; on the Absolute, 



Louis Bell, 524 

 Wave-Length of the Lines of the Solar Spectrum, Prof. Henry 



A. Rowland, 524 

 Wave-Measurements, iSo 



Wave-Motion in Hydrodynamics, Prof. A. G. Greenhill, 477 

 Weather Charts, Atlantic, 469 

 Weather, the Recent, 198 ; Rev. W. Clement Ley, 54 ; F. T. 



Mott, 173 ; William Ingram, 173 

 Weather Terms, a Few of our. Rev. W. Clement Ley, 323 

 Webb (K.), Definitions of Euclid with Explanations, 340 

 Weight and Mass, 512 

 Weight, Ma~s, and Force, Units of. Prof. A. G. Greenhill, 



486 ; Rev. Edward Geoghegan, 534 ; Prof. Alf Lodge, 557 ; 



Archd. C. Elliott, 605 

 Weight, and Dynamical Units, Mass, Robt. F. Hayward, F. R.S., 



604 

 Weights and Measures, International Committee of, 203 

 Weill (Dr.), Antifebrine, 445 

 Weinstein (Dr.), Observations of the Earth's Current in the 



Telegraph Lines of the German Empire, 336 

 Weir (J. Jenner), Sparrow chasing Pigeons, 584 

 Weiss (Prof. E ), Comet Barnard (1887^), 352 

 Weldon (W. F. R. ), a Balanoglossus Larva from the Bahamas, 



477 

 Wesley Naturalist, 444 

 Wesley Scientific Society, 84 

 West (Wm.), a Question for Chemists, 584 

 West Indies : Botanical Federation in the, D. Morris, 248 ; 



Dutch Colonies in South America and the, K. Martin, Dr. 



A. Ernst, 459 

 Wetzler (Jos.) and T. C. Martin, Electric Motor and its 



Applications, Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, 410 

 Weyher (Ch.) : on Waterspouts, 407 ; Movements of the Air, 



431 ; Aerial Vortices and Revolving Spheres, 514 

 Wharton (Capt. W. J. L., F.R.S.), Long-Lost Reefs, 347 

 White (Lieut. -Colonel T. Pilkington), Ordnance Survey of the 



L'nited Kingdom, 170 

 White (W. K.), Modern War-Ships, 306 

 White (William), Heredity in Abnormal-Toed Cats, 125 

 White Epidote, Note on a, from Beagle Channel, Tierra del 



Fuego, 335 

 Whitworth (Sir Joseph) : Obituary Notice of, 304 ; his Will, 



473 

 Wieder-heim (Robert), Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates, 



W. Newton Parker, 121 

 Wight (Isle of), Oyster Fisheries of, 57 

 Wild (James), Death of, 594 



Wilder (Dr.), on the Nomenclature of the Brain, 255 

 Wilkins (A-X Beetle in Motion, 414 

 Willemite, on the Artificial Production of Ziocite and, M. Alex. 



Gorgeu, 2S8 

 Williams (G. H.), Norites of the Cortlandt Series, 452 

 Williamson (Prof. W. C, F.K.S.), on some Observations on 



Palseobotany in Goebel's "Outlines of Classification and 



Special Morphology of Plants," 535 

 Wills (J. T.), on the Region between the Nile and the Congo, 



521 

 Wilson (Sir Chas.), on the Tribes of the Nile Valley North of 



Khartoum), 431 

 Wilson (Dr. Daniel), Right Hand and Left-Handedness, 307 

 Wilson (Edmund B. ), General Biology, 413 

 Wilson (H. C), Binary Star 7 Coronse Australis, 17 

 Wilson (T.), Electricity and Clocks, 173 

 Wilson-Barker (David), Electrical Discharges in the Doldrums, 



584 

 Wind, Influence of, on Barometric Readings, Prof. Cleveland 



Abbe, 29 ; G. J. Symonds, F.R.S., 53 

 Winds, the Chinook, M. W. Harrington, 568 

 Wines, Copper detected in, 312 

 Wines, New, on the Teatment of, with Sugar, 432 

 Winlock (Miss .\nna) and Prof W. A. Rogers, Reduction 0^ 



the Position of Close Polar Stars from one Epoch to another, 



Winter, Alpine, and its Medical Aspects, A. Tucker Wise, 170 



Wires, Electrical Resistance of suspended Copper and Iron, 



Shelford Bidwell, 526 

 Wise (Dr. A. Tucker) : .A.Ipine Winter and its Medical Aspects, 



170; Ozone, 584 

 Wissmann (Lieut.), Fresh Expedition from Luluaburg, 521 

 Wolf (Dr.), Explorations on the Sankuru, 520 

 Wolves, Mares, and Foals, George Maw, 297 

 Women : Education of, in Japan, 229 ; Observatory for, in 



America, 229 

 Wood (J. G.), the Handy Natural History, 341 

 Worcester Victoria Institute, 205 

 Wragge (Clement) appointed Meteorologist to the Government 



of Queensland, 229 

 Wright (Dr. C. R. Alder) : Commercial Organic Analysis, 



.\lfred II. Allen, 293 ; Note on the Development of Voltaic 



Electricity by Atmospheric Oxidation, 598 

 Wright (G. Frederick), the Muir Glacier, 380 

 Wright (I.euis), the Zirconia Oxy-hydrogen Light, 583 

 Wrightson (Prof. John) : Enormous Loss from Ox- Warble, 29 ; 



Food-Grains of India, A. H. Church, 52 ; Tobacco a 



Farmer's Crop, Philip Meadows Taylor, 52 ; Journal of 



the Royal Agricultural Society of England, 148 

 Wrought Iron, J. Starkie Gardner, 422 

 Wurster (Dr.), Active Oxygen in the Animal Organism, 383 



Yacht-building, Fifty Years of, 539 



Yellow Fever : Microbe of, 528 ; Results obtained by the Pre- 

 ventive Inoculation of the Attenuated Virus of, 576 



York, Sanitary Conditions of the City of, 423 



Yorkshire, on the Character of the Beds of Chert in the Car- 

 boniferous Limestone of, Geo. J. Hinde, 5S2 



Voumans (Edward Livingstone), Death of, 305 



Young (Prof. C. A.), Ten Years' Progress in Astronomy, 67, 86, 

 117; Longitude of Rio, 172; Rotation-Time of the Red 

 Spot on Jupiter, iSi 



Young (Dr. Sydney) and Prof William Ramsay : Preliminary 

 Note on the Coniinuity of the Liquid and Gaseous States of 

 Matter, 262 ; Clausius's Formula, 346 



Yukon, Exploration of the Watershed of the River, 593 



Zacharias (Dr. Otto\ Investigation of North German Lakes, 



473 



Zanzibar, Dr. Lenz's arrival at, 283 



Zeitschrift fiir physikalische Chemie, 376 



Ziegler (E.), a Text-bjok of Pathological .\natom.y and Patho- 

 genesis, 246 



Zincite and Willemite, on the .\rtiticial Prxluction of, M. ."Vlex. 

 Gorgeu, 288 



Zintgraff (Dr.), Exploration of the Cameroon District, 475 



Zirconia Oxyhydrogen Light, Lewis Wright, 5S3 



Zone, Equatorial, of almost Perpetual Electrical Discharge, 

 Hon. Ralph Abercromby, 487 



Zoological Gardens: Additions to, 17, 36, 59,85, 113, 134, 159, 

 181, 206, 231, 257, 2S2, 307, 329, 352, 377, 401, 424, 445, 

 474, 496, 520, 546, 569, 595, 614 ; Specimens of the Sea- 

 Lion or Eared .Seal of the Auckland Islands at the, 327 



Zoological Record for 1885, 341 



Zoological Record, 613 



Zoological Research, Grants for, Berlin Academy of Sciences, 



473 

 Zoological Results of the Challenger Expedition, 49 

 Zoological Society, 93, 166, 311, 381, 431, 502, 526, 599 

 Zoologist, 446 ; Drawings of the Rhinolophus ferrtim-eijuinum 



in the, 256 

 Zoologv, Hand-book of, with Examples from Canadian Species, 



Sir J. W. Dawson, F.R.S., 295 

 Zoology, Practical, B. P. Colton, 458 

 Zoology, a Junior Course of Practical, A. Milnes Marshall, 



F.R.S., 506 

 Zoology, Proposed Lectures on, at the Zoological Gardens, 



567 



Zoology, Mythical, of the Far East, 591 



Zuntz (Prof.), Alimentary Values of Various Albuminous Sub- 

 stances, 480 



Zurich, Earthquake Shock in, 350 



