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INDEX. 



Vesuvius and its neighbourhood, the 

 volcanic phenomena of, report on, 226. 



Vilanova (Prof.), la calcedoine enhy- 

 drique de Salto Oriental (Uruguay) et 

 son veritable gisement, 699 ; *notice 

 du Ditiotherium, deux especes, trou- 

 vees en Espagne, 717. 



Vines (Dr. S. H.), note on the nitrogenous 

 nutrition of the bean, 741 ; on the 

 movement of the leaf of Mimosa 

 imdiua,, 742. 



* Viola tricolor, a point in the morpho- 

 logy of, Prof. B. Balfour on, 763. 



*Virgnlaria, a new species of, by Major 

 Plant, 760. 



Volcanic phenomena of Japan, seventh 

 report on the, 212. 



Volcanic phenomena of Vesuvius and its 

 neighbom-hood, report on the, 226. 



Voltaic combinations, notes on some 

 peculiar, by Dr. C. R. A. Wright and 

 C. Thompson, 657. 



Vortex theory of the luminiferous £ether, 

 Sir W. Thomson on the, 486. 



* Wages, expenditure of, by D. Chad- 

 wick, 849. 



, the regulation of, by means of 



lists in the cotton industry, rei^ort 

 on, 303 



Wake (C. S.), the origin of totemism, 906. 



Walker (Gen. J. T.) on the work of the 

 Differential Gravity Meter Committee, 

 41 ; on the depth of permanently frozen 

 soil in the Polar regions, 152 ; on the 

 combination of the Ordnance and Ad- 

 miralt}' surveys, and the production 

 of a bathy-hypsographical map of the 

 British Islands, 160. 



Walker (T. A.), the Severn tunnel, 865. 



Walmsley (J.) on the nomenclature of 

 elementary dynamics, 622. 



Walras (Prof. L.) on the solution of the 

 Anglo-Indian monetary problem, 849. 



Ward (Prof. M.) on the steps taken for 

 establishing a botanical station at 

 Peradeniya, 96. 



Ward (T.), the history and cause of the 

 subsidences at Northwich and its neigh- 

 bourhood, in the salt district of 

 Cheshire, 713. 



Wardle (T.) * on the Muga silkworm and 

 moth (Anthercra assama) of Assam, 

 and other Indian silk-producing 

 species, 770 ; * on some important 

 statistics relating to the silk industry, 

 852. 



Warington (R.), the reduction of nitrates 

 by micro-organisms, 653. 



Warren (Col. Sir C), Address to the 

 Geographical Section by, 785. 



Water, the composition of, by volume. Dr. 

 A. Scott on, 668. 



Watherston (E. J.), technical education : 

 the form it should take, 844. 



Watkin (P. W.), apparatus for measuring 

 the volume of gas evolved in various 

 chemical actions, with or without the 

 application of heat, with proposed ex- 

 tension to organic analysis, and to the 

 continuous determination of abnormal 

 vapour densities, 650. 



* Watson (Major), trade prospects with 



the Sudan, 801. 

 Watson (Rev. H. W.) on the promotion 



of the study, of geography, 158. 

 Watts (W. W.), a Shropshire picrite, 700. 



* Wave-length tables of the spectra of 



the elements, report of the Committee 

 for preparing a new series of, 624. 



Wave-lengths, absolute, recent determi- 

 nations of, by L. Bell, 584. 



Weber (Prof. L.), observations of atmo- 

 spheric electricity, 592. 



*Weismann (Prof.) on polar bodies, 763. 



Weldon (W. F. R.), *notes on the genus 

 Phymosoma, 736 ; on Hajdodiscus jfiger, 

 740. 



Westgarth (W.), the battle between free 

 trade and protection in Australia, 833. 



Wethered (E.) on the circulation of un- 

 derground waters, 358. 



Wexford, the geology of, preliminary ob- 

 servations on, by Prof. Sollas, 708. 



Whipple (G. M.) on the best means of 

 comparing and reducing magnetic ob- 

 servations, 320. 



and Gen. Sir J. H. Lefroy, pre- 

 liminary list of magnetic observatories, 

 327. 



Whitaker (W.) on the circulation of un- 

 derground waters, 358 ; chronological 

 list of works referring to underground 

 water, England and Wales, 384 ; on 

 the work of the Corresponding So- 

 cieties Committee, 459. 



White (H.), an improved steel railway 

 sleeper, with chairs pressed out of the 

 solid, 872. 



White (W.) on the work of the Corre- 

 sponding Societies Committee, 459. 



Whitehouse (Cope), the Raian Moeris, 

 799 ; Wusum and other remains in 

 Egyptian Arabia, 898. 



Wicklow, the geology of, preliminary ob- 

 servations on, by Prof. Sollas, 708. 



Wiedemann (Dr. E.) on the resistance of 

 hydrated salts, 346. 



Wiedemann (Prof. G.) on some points in 

 electrolysis and electro-convection, 347. 



Wiedersheim (Prof.) on the degeneration 

 of the olfactory organ in certain fishes, 

 736 ; on the torpid state of Protopterus, 

 738. 



Wild cattle, the herds of, in Chartley Park 

 and other parks in Great Britain, re- 

 port on, 135. 



