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Index 



Webber (W. H. Y.), Applications of Towns' Gas as a 



Heating Agent, 209 

 Webster (F. M.), Chinch-bug (Blissus leucopterus), 373 

 Weevers (Dr. T. H.), the Physiological Significance of 



Caffein and Thcobroniin, 373 

 Wehrli (Dr. 11. J.), zur Wirtschafts- und Siedlungs- 



Geographie von Ober Burma und den Nordlichcn Shan- 



.Staaten, loi 

 Weights and Measures Regulations, 618 

 Weinstein (Prof. B.), die philosophischen Grundlagen dor 



Wisspnschaften, 292 

 Weiss (Prof.), Comet 1905 IV., 136 

 Weiss (Prof. F. E.), Photographs illustrating the Flora of 



Corsica, 191 

 Wellman Arctic Expedition, the, 107 

 Welsford (Miss), Fertilisation in Ascobolus furfuraceus, 



5S6 

 Welsh Gorsedd, the Astronomical and Arch^ological Value 



of the. Rev. John Griffith, 9, 127; A. L. Lewis, 127 

 Whale, Layard's Beaked {Mesoplodon layardi. Flower), 



F. W. FitzSimons, 247 

 Wheeler (R. V.), Use of .Steam in Gas-producer Plant, 66 

 Whipple (George C), the Value of Pure Water, 241^ 

 White (Dr.), the late Prof. S. P. Langley, 503 

 White (.Sir Wm.), Uses of High-tensile Steel, 209 

 Whitehead (Dr. A. N.), the Axioms of Projective Geo- 

 metry, 24s ; the Axioms of Descrip.'ive Geometry, 245 

 Whiteley (Miss M. A.), Dynamic Isomerism among the 



Coloured Hydrazoncs of i : 3-Diphenylalloxan, 237 

 Whitmell (Charles T.), the Rainbow, 174 

 Whymper (R.), the Sucroclastic Action of Nitric .Acid as 



influenced by Nitrates, 262 

 Wiechert (Dr.), Two Heavy Seismographs, 164 

 Wiedemann (Prof. E.), Translation from the Qasid al 



Irschad, 87 

 Wiedersheim (Prof. Robert), Einfuhrung in die Vergleich- 



ende Anatomie der Wirbeltiere, 265 

 Wild Life in Australia, W. H. D. le Souef, 635 

 Wildfowling, Practical, W. J. Fallon, O. V. Aplin, 30 

 Wilip (J.), Experimental Verification of Doppler's Prin- 

 ciple for Light Rays, 184 

 Wilks (Sir Samuel, Bart.), the Relation of Man to the 



Animal World, 492, 568 

 Williams (Stanley), the Red Spot on Jupiter, 625 

 Willis (Bailey), Research in China, Descriptive Topography 



and Geologv, 34S 

 Williston (S. W."), Account of the Skull of the Cretaceous 



Pliosaurian Genus Brachauchenius, 278 

 Willox (W.). Chemical Composition of Steel Rails, 208 

 Wilsmore (Dr. N. T. M.), on the Nature of lonisation, 460 

 Wilson (A.), Influence of Temperature of Dyeing on 



Resolution, 191 

 Wilson (C. T.R., F.R.S.), Universal Portable Electro- 

 meter, 1^9 

 Wilson (Prof. H. A.). Velocity of Rotation of the Electric 



Discharge in Gases at Low Pressures in a Radial Mag- 

 netic Field, 342 

 Wilson (W.), Rate of Decay of the Active Deposit from 



Radium, 190 

 Winder (Blanche), the Woodlanders and Field Folk, 



Sketches of Wild Life in Britain, Supp. to October to, v 

 Windle (Dr. B. C. A.), Science and Religion, 523 

 Winmill (T. F.), .\rsenic Di-oxide, 143 

 Wirbeltiere. Einfuhrung in die Vergleichende .\natomie 



der, Prof. Robert Wiedersheim, 265 

 Wireless Signals, Atmospheric Absorption of, Dr. Reginald 



A. Fessenden. 444 

 Wireless Telegr.nphv : a Handbook of \'\^ireless Telegraphy, 



its Theory and Practice, Dr. J. Erskine-Murray, Maurice 



Solomon. ^(^^ : Notions i?^n^rales sur la Telegraphic sans 

 Fils, R. de Valbreuze, Maurice Solomon, i;63 ; Relative 

 Efficiencies of the Various Types of Receiving Systems 

 in Wireless Telegraphy, Charles A. Culver, 597: First 

 Press Mess,-ierc« by Wireless Telegraphv, 643 

 Wireless Telephonv, New Svstem of. Prof. Majorana, 501 

 Wit of the Wild. the. E. Ingersoll, 172 



Withers (Dr. L W.). Euclid's Parallel Postulate, its 



Nature. Validity, and Place in Geometrical Systems. 220 



WMtte (Dr. Hans), l^eber den gegenwartigen Stand der 



Frage nach einer mechanischen Erkl.Trung der elek- 



tri-icben Erscheinimgen, 377 



Woburn Experimental Fruit Farm, Sixth Report of the, 

 the Duke of Bedford, K.G., and Spencer U. Pickering, 

 F.R.S., 231 



Wolf (Dr.), Names for the Three Jovian Asteroids, 259 



Wolf (Prof. Max), a Rich Nebula Region, 672 



Wollaston (Dr. A. K. R.), Ravages of Sleeping Sickness 

 in the Ruwenzori Region, 133 ; Plants collected on Mt. 

 Ruwenzori by E. G. Baker, S. L. Moore, and A. B. 

 Rendle, 287 



Wolley (the late John, jun.), Ootheca Wolleyana, an 

 Illustrated Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs 

 formed by, 241 



Wood (Prof. T. B.), the Causes of the Quality Strength In 

 Wheaten Flour, 484 



Wood-Jones (F.), a Constant Westward Current in Indian 

 Ocean , 595 



Woodland (W.), the So-called Renal Portal System, 86; 

 the " Renal-portal System " and Kidney Secretion, 151 



Woodlanders and Field Folk, the, Sketches of Wild Life 

 in Britain, John Watson and Blanche Winder, supp. to 

 October 10, v 



Woods (Dr. Hugh), ^ther, a Theory of the Nature of 

 /Ether and of its Place in the Universe, 410 



Woodward (Dr. A. Smith), a Mandible of Labyrinthodon 

 leptognatlius, Owen, obtained from the Keuper .Sand- 

 stone of Cubbington Heath, near Leamington, 484 



Woodward (H. B.), the History of the Geological Society 

 of London, 537 



Woolnough (Dr. W. G.), Geology of Viti Levu, Fiji, 408 



Woosnam (R. B.), British Museum Expedition to Ruwen- 

 zori, 504 



Wootton (H. A.), Chemical Composition of Petroleum from 

 Borneo, 237 



Wootton (W. O.), a Series of Coloured Diazo-salts De- 

 rived from Benzoyl-i :4-Naphthylenediamine, 237 



Worlds, Two New, E. E. Fournier d'Albe, F. L. Usher, 



633 



Worsdell (Wilson), Cause of the Inequalities which De- 

 velop on the Surface of Rails, 205 



Worthington (Prof. A. M.), on the Fact that the Impact of 

 a Drop excavates a perfectly spherical Hollow, 461 



Wound-treatment, on the Evolution of, during the Last 

 Forty Years, Sir Hector C. Cameron, 413 



Wren (H.), the Asymmetric Synthesis of the Optically 

 Active Tartaric Acids, 238 



Wright (F. E.). New Goniometer, 624 



Wright (Frank S.), Animal Messmates, 174 



Wright (Dr. William), les Grottes de Grimaldi (Baouss^- 

 Roussi), Historique et Description, L. de Villencuve, 

 G^ologif et Pal^ontologie, Prof. Marcellin Boole, .Anthro 

 pologie. Dr. Ren^ Verneau, 590; the "Quaternary" 

 Period, 639 



X-ravs, the Nature of. Dr. Charles G. Barkla, 661 



Vamanouchi (S.), Apogamy in the Fern Genus Nephrodium 



623 

 Yapp (Prof. R. H.), the Hairiness of Certain Marsh Plants, 



558 



Yarrow (A. F.), Uses of High-tensile Steel, 209 



Year's Photography, the, 520 



Young (Ernest), a' First Year's Course in Geometry and 

 Physics, i;4 



Young (T. 'E.), the Sand-counter of Archimedes, 388 



Young (Dr. W. H.), Theory of Functions of a Real 

 Variable, 4,sS ; Best Method of introducing certain 

 Fundamentai Results in .Analysis. 459 ; on the Introduc- 

 tion of the Mathematical Idea of Infinity, 461 



Yule (G. Udny), Mendelism and Biometry, 152 ; Modern 

 Methods of Treating Observations, 461 



Zecchini (F.), Transformation of Yellow Phosphorus into 



the Red Variety, 220 

 Zeuner (Prof. Gustav .Adolf), Death and Obituary Notice 



of, 667 

 Zoology : the Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and 



LacVadive Archipelagoes, J. Stanley Gardiner, 3 ; an 



.Account of the Alcyonarians collected by the Royal Tn- 





