Index 



Wiciium Tump, New High, Dr. Graede, 340 



\",illircuze (R. de), Notions g^nerales sur l;i 'I'lMegrapliin 



sans Fil, 563 

 \alriitiner (S.), ihe Melting Point of Platinum, 300 

 \'all6c (H.), Experimental Diagnosis of Tuberculosis, 167 

 X'allet (G.), Destructive l-'unction of the Spleen towards 



Trypanosomes, 344 

 X'ariability of Asteroids, the, Joel Metcalf, 207 

 N'ariable Stars : Observations of Thirty-three Variable Stars, 

 17; the Discovery of \"ariable Stars, Miss Leavitt, (15; 

 Catalogue of Variable Stars, Miss Cannon, iii ; Variable 

 Siars, 258; a Quickly Changing Variable Star, Mr. Met- 

 calf, 337 ; Naozo Ichinohe, 389 ; Discovery of Seventy- 

 one New Variable Stars, Prof. Pickering, 477 ; Miss 

 Leavitt, 477 

 V'ariation : le Transformisnic appliqui^ a 1 '.Agriculture, Prof. 



J. Constantin, 2bfa 

 Variation of the Pole, the, Prof. Th. Albrecht, 337 

 Vassc (Guillaume), the Pleural Cavity in the Elephant, 192 

 Vaux (George and W. S.), Rate of Recession of Glaciers in 



Alberta and British Columbia, 626 

 Veddah Caves, the Discovery of Stone Implements of 



PaliL'olithic Type in, Drs. K. and P. Sarasin, 82 

 Veley (V. H.), Aflinity Constants of Amino-sulphonic .\cids, 



237 „ , . 



Venice, the Stones of, John Ruskm, 267 



Ventilation : Ventilation, Heating, and Lighting, W. H. 



Maxwell, 268; Air Currents and the Laws of X'cntilation, 



Dr. W. N. Shaw, F.R.S., 442 

 Venus as a Luminous Ring, H. N. Russell and Z. Daniel, 



389 

 Verfasser (Julius), the Half-tone Process, 5S7 

 Verneau (Dr. Ren^), les Grottes de (iiimaldi (Baoussi:- 



Rouss^), Anthropologie, 590 

 Vernon (Dr. H. M.), the Solubility of Air in Fats and its 



Relation to Caisson Disease, 214 

 Vernon-Harcourt (Prof. L. F.), Death of, 522 ; ObiKiary 



Notice of, 550 

 Vertebrates : Einfuhrung in die Wrgleichenrif Aii.ilomie der 



Wirbeltiere, Prof. Robert VViedersheim, 2^5 

 N'esian (J. E. S. De), Ferro-concrete, 486 

 Vienna Meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute, 5S1 

 \'ignon (G.), the Dimagnesium Compound of i : 5-Dil)rnmo- 



pentane, 216 

 Vigouroux (Em.), Limit to the Proportion of Silicon which 

 can be Taken up by Copper, 48 ; Action of Silicon Tetra- 

 chloride on Silver and Copper, 167; .Mloys of Nickel .and 

 Tin, 216, 464 

 Villard (P.), Chemical Actions of Light, 161 ; Irs Rayons 



cathodiques et I'.Aurore bor^ale, 481 

 Villeneuve (L. de), les Grottes de Grinialdi (Baouss^- 



Rouss^), Historique et Description, 590 

 Virginia, the Generall Historic of. New England, and the 

 Summer Isles, together with the True Travels, .Adven- 

 tures and Observations, and a Sea Grammar, Captaine 

 John Smith, 26 

 Viticulture : the A'ine Phylloxera, H. Stauffachcr, 668 

 Vivisection Experiments, 134 



Vogel (Prof.), Death of, 417 ; Obituary Notice of, 446 

 Voice Physiology : la Voix, sa Culture physiologique, 

 Th^orie nouvellr de la Phonation, Conferences faites au 

 Conservatoire de Musique de Paris en loofi, Pierre 

 Bonnier, 170 

 Voice of the Sea, the, 492 



Volcanoes : Eruption of Stromboli and Earthquake in Sicily, 

 14 : Activitv of Stromboli and of Mount Etna, 62 ; 

 Activity of Mount Etna, 38 ; the Eruption of Krakatoa 

 and the Pulsation of the Earth, Prof. H. Nagaoka. 89 : 

 Petrographic Constitution of the Volcanic Massif of 

 Wsuvius and Somma, A. Lacroix, 191 ; Re-survey of 

 Vesuvius. 670 ; I Vulcani .Attivi della Terra. Morfologia 

 — Dinamismo — Prodotti Distribuzione Geografica-Cause, 

 G. Mercalli, 291 ; .Active Volcano, Aleutian Islands, 522 ; 

 \'olcanic Eruption near Tonga Island, 577 

 \'(inwiller (O. U.), Specific Inductive Capacity of a Sample 



of Highly Purified Selenion, 141 

 Vortex Philosophy, or the Geometry of Science Diagram- 



maticallv Illustrated, C. S. Wake, 413 

 Vos (G. H.), Birds and their Nests and Eggs found in and 



near Great Towns, 221 

 Vredenburg (Mr.), "Tertiary System" in Sind, 137 



Waagen (Dr. L.), Relations of Ocean-basins and Moun- 

 tain-chains, 424 



Wagstaff (C. J. L.), the Tutorial Physics, ,so 



Waidncr (C. W.), the Melting Point of Platinum, 300 ; 

 Measurements of the Temperature and Selective Radia- 

 tion of the Filaments of Various Kinds of Incandescent 

 Electric Lamps made by, 597 



Wait (Dr. W. H.), a German Science Reader, with Notes 

 and Vocabulary, 149 



Wake (C. S.), Vortex Philosophy, or the Geometry of 

 Science Diagrammatically Illustrated, 413 



Wales, the King and Higher Education in, 253 



Wales, the Royal Visit to the University College of North, 

 ProL G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., 282 



Walker (A. O.), Conservation of Existing Species by Con- 

 stitutional or Physiological Variation giving Greater 

 Power of .Adaptation without Perceptible Change of 

 Structure, 71 



Walker (Dr. E. W. Ainley), Bees' Stings and Rheumatism, 

 568 



Walker (H.), Variation of Young's Modulus under an 

 Electric Current, 311 



Wallace (Dr. .Alfred R., F.R.S.), the " Double Drift 

 Theorv of Star Motions, 293 



Wallace' (Robert), Farm Live Stock of Great Britain, 

 Supp. to October 10, ix 



Waller (Augustus D., M.D., LL.D., F.R.S.), Opening 

 Address in Section I at the Meeting of the British 

 Association at Leicester, on the Action of An,-esthetics, 

 402 ; Physiological and Therapeutical Value of Alcohol, 

 S33 ; Anaesthetics, 534 .,,,., 



Walter (Prof. B.), Determination o( the Atomic Weight 

 of Nickel, 40 



Walter (Dr. Leo), the Structures by which the Fore and 

 Hind Wings of Hymenopterous Insects arc Linked 

 Together, 474 , 



Walwyn (H. W. Shepheard), Pictures from Nature s 

 Garden, Stories from Life in Wood and Field, 517 



Warner (Irene), a Bright Meteor, 647 



Warren (S. Hazzledine), Pal.nsolithic and Neolithic Imple- 

 ments from East Lincolnshire, 22 

 Wasielewski (Prof, v.). Parasitic Protozoa as Pathogenic 



Agents, 571 

 Water: the Value of Pure Water, George C. Whipple, 

 Prof R T. Hewlett, 245 ; the Bacteriological Examina- 

 tion of Water Supplies, Dr. William G. Savage, Prof. 

 R T Hewlett 245 : Waterworks Management and 

 Maintenance W. D." Hubbard and Wynkoop Kiersted, 

 CI7- Water Supply of the United Kingdom, Urquhart A. 

 Forbes, 670 ; Water and Water Power, Supp. to October 



Waterfall (Mr.), on the Occurrence of Boulders of Strontia 

 in the Upper Triassic Marls of Abbots Leigh, near 

 Bristol, 484 , ^ „ , ,r 1 



Waterston (Dr. David), Collection of So-called Kanaka 

 Skulls from the South of New Caledonia, 263 



Watson (Arnold T.), some Points in the Structure of the 

 Larva of Laiiice coiuhilega, 532 _ ..,,,. 



Watson (Dr. B. P.). Origin of the Amniotic and Allantoic 



Watson^'p! M. S.). the Cone of Bothrodcndron (Lepiiln- 



dendrou) mundum, 558 . 



Watson (Geo. A.), Experiments on the Rusting of Iron, 



wttson (John), the Woodlanders and Field Folk, Sketches 



of Wild Life in Britain, Supp. to Oct-ober 10, v 

 Watson (J.), Water Softening and Water Hardening, 



Watson (J. A.), Hydrolysis of Methyhc Acetate in Presenrn 



Watson"(Dr! William, F.R.S.), a Text-book of Practical 



Physics, 99 . . „ J ^- t 



WatteviUe (C. de). New Method for the Production of 



Flame Spectra of Metallic Bodies, 215 

 Watts (Dr. F.), Sugar-cane Experiments in the Leeward 



IslanSs, 159 

 Wayfarer, the, 492 ^ „ , > ,-,•„ ,„,!,„,-.,„, 



Weber (Sir Hermann and Dr. E. Parkes , Climatotherap 



and Ralneotherapy : the Climates and Mineral Wat., 



Heallh Resorts (Spas) of Europe and North Afru.i, 14,1 



