INDEX. 



885 



of the sea-coasts of England and Wales, 

 847. 



AVheatstone's rheostat, Sir W. Thomson's 

 improved, by J. T. Bottomley, 547. 



*VVheat-yields, the effect of aspect on, 

 by Dr. A. Haviland, 762. 



Whipple (G. M.) on the best means 

 of comparing and reducing magnetic 

 observations, 64, 71. 



Whitaker (W.) on the circulation of un- 

 derground waters, 235 ; on the work of 

 the Corresponding Societies Com- 

 mittee, 285 ; supplementary note on 

 two deep borings in Kent, 649 ; on the 

 erosion of the sea-coasts of England 

 and Wales, 847. 



Whitehouse (C), further explorations in 

 the Raian Basin and the Wadi Moileh, 

 730. 



Wigham (J. E.), a new method of burn- 

 ing oil for lighthouse illumination, 809 ; 

 a new form of light for lighthouses, 

 ib. ; a new illuminant for lighthouses, 

 ib. ; a new method of arranging the 

 annular lenses used for revolving liglits 

 at lighthouses, ib. 



Williamson (Prof. A. W.) on the work of 

 the Corresponding Societies Committee, 

 285. 



Williamson (Prof. W. C.) on recent 

 researches amongst the carboniferous 

 plants of Halifax, 654 ; on heterangium 

 tilioides, 702. 



Wilson (Sir C.) on the native tribes of 

 the Egyptian Sudan, 833. 



Wilson (Dr. D.) on the North-western 

 tribes of the dominion of Canada, 285. 



Wilson (J. S. G.) and W. I. Macadam on 

 deposits of diatomite in Skye, 678. 



Wilson (W. E.) on a new sunshine re- 

 corder, 533. 



Windle (Prof.) and J. Humphreys on 

 man's lost incisors, 688. 



Woodall (J. W.) on the erosion of the 

 sea-coasts of England and Wales, 

 847. 



Woodward (C. J.) on the mineral dis- 

 trict of Western Shropshire, 665. 



Woodward (Dr. H.) on the caves of North 

 Wales, 219 ; on the fossil phyllopoda 

 of the paliEozoic rocks, 229 ; on the 

 fossil plants of the tertiary and 

 secondary beds of the United King- 

 dom, 241 . 



* and R. Etheridge, exhibition of 



some organisms met with in the clay- 

 ironstone nodules of the coal-measures 

 in the neighbourhood of Dudley, 628. 



Woollcombe (Surg.-Maj. R. W.) on the 

 causes and results of assumed cycloidal 

 rotation in arterial red discs, 687. 



Working-men's co-operative organisa- 

 tions in Great Britain, by A. H. D. 

 Acland, 762. 



Wynne (A. B.) on a striated and facetted 

 fragment from Chel Hill olive con- 

 glomerate, Salt Range, Punjab, 631. 



Young (Prof.) on the establishment of a 



marine biological station at Granton, 



Scotland, 251. 

 Young (R.), sliding scales and hours of 



labour in the Northumberland coal 



industry, 775. 

 Young (Dr. S.) and Dr. W. Ramsay on 



the nature of liquids, 579. 

 Young's, Thomas, theory of colour- vision, 



the modern development of, by Dr. A. 



Konig, 431. 



, J. Tennant on, 526. 



Yttria, the fractionation of, W. Crookes 



on, 586. 



Zipernowsky (C.) on distributing elec- 

 tricity by transformers, 816. 



*Zoological literature, the record of, re- 

 port "on, 688. 



Zoological station at Naples, report of 

 the Committee appointed to arrange 

 for the occupation of a table at the, 

 254 ; report to the Committee by Dr. 

 R. Scharff, 257. 



