IXDEX II. 



265 



Warming and ventilation, J. D. Morri- 

 son on a new system of, 240, 



Water, Prof. G. IJischof on the examin- 

 ation of, for sanitary piu-poses, 67. 



, Dr. B. Sanderson and Dr. Terrier 



on the origin and distribution of Mi- 

 crozymes (Bacterid) in, and the cir- 

 cumstances which determine tlieir ex- 

 istence in the tissues and liquids of 

 the living body, 125. 

 -, Prof. J. Thomson, observations on. 



in frost rising against gravity rather 

 than freezing in the pores of the earth, 

 34. 



Watson (Rev. R. B.), notes on dredging 

 at Madeira, 137, 242. 



Wave-lengths of the spectra of the 

 hydrocarbons, Prof. W. Swan on the, 

 43. 



Wave-numbers, Gr. J. Stoney on the 

 advantage of referring the positions of 

 lines in the spectrum to a scale of, 42. 



•Webster (the Rev. W.) on certain 

 points concerning the origin and rela- 

 tions of the Basque race, 162. 



Weirs, T. Stevenson on an automatic 

 gauge for the discharge of water over 

 waste, 241. 



*Well-water, Dr. J. E. Reynolds on the 

 analysis of a singidar deposit from, 78. 



•Wellington reformatoiy. Sheriff Cleg- 

 horn on, 211. 



*Wertherman (M. Arthur) on the ex- 

 ploration of the headwaters of the 

 Maranon, 190. 



Westgarth (William) on the law of 

 capital, 223. 



Wet- and dry-bulb formulae, Prof. Eve- 

 rett on, 54. 



Wheat, T. Carr on a new mill for disin- 

 tegi-ating, 233. 



•Wheeler (C. Gilbert) on recent pro- 

 gress in chemistry in the United 

 States, 83. 



Williamson (Prof. W. C.) on the classi- 

 fication of the vascular Cryptogamia, 

 131: on the structure of the Didyoxy- 

 lotis of the coal-measures, 111. 



* , on the structure of Diploxyhn, 



a plant of the carboniferous rocks, 

 112. 



Wilson (James) and 0. Lapworth on 

 the Silurian rocks of the counties of 

 ^ Roxburgh and Selkirk, 103. 



Wbhler's urea, on the action of aldehvde 

 on, 78. 



Woman, exhibiting in London, Sir D. 

 Gibb on a fat, 152. 



Women, E. Lydia Becker on some 

 maxims of political economy as ap- 

 plied to the employment of, and the 

 education of girls, 201. 



Wood-naphtha, W. Harkness on a new 

 method of testing samples of, 72. 



Woodward (Henry) on the discovery of 

 a new and very perfect Arachnide 

 from the ironstone of the Dudley coal- 

 field, 112; relics of the carboniferous 

 and other old land-surfaces, 113. 



Workhouses of England and Wales, Dr. 

 Edward Smith on the dietaries of the, 

 141. 



Wright (Dr. G. R. A.) on certain new 

 derivatives from codeia, 84. 



and C. H. Piesse on the oxidation 



products of the essential oil of orange- 

 peel, 83. 



Yang-tsze river in China, S. Mossman 



on the inundation and subsidence of 



the, 187. 

 *Yarkand, a journey from Yassin to, by 



Ibrahim Khan, 180. 

 Yncas, Clements R. Markham on the 



geographical position of the tribes 



which formed the empire of the, 185. 

 •Yorkshire, east coast of. Rev. F. 0. 



Morris on encroachments of the sea 



on the, 187. 

 lias, Rev. J. F. Blake on the, and 



the distribution of its ammonites, 90. 

 Yule (Colonel H.), Address by, to the 



Geographical Section, 162 ; on Capt. 



Garnier's expedition up the Camboja, 



Zenger (Prof. Charles V.) on the nuto- 

 scope, an apparatus for showings gi-a- 

 phically the cur-\e of precession and 

 nutation, 36 ; on a new steam-gauge, 

 45 ; on a new key for the Morse 

 printing telegraph, 48. 



*Zoological nomenclature, W. A. Lewis 

 on a proposal for a modification of the 

 strict law of priority in, 133. 



observatories, P. L. Sclater on a 



favourable occasion for the establish- 

 ment of, 134. 



results of the dredging-expedition 



of the yacht 'Noma,' W..S. Kent on 

 the, off the coast of Spain and Por- 

 tugal, 132. 



