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Waltershausen (Sartorius von), MSS. Descriptive of Etna, 287 



Wappaeus (Prof.), of Gottingen, Death of, 217 



Ward (Rev. James Clifton), Obiiuary Notice of, 614 



Ward (Col.), Meteorology of the High Regions of Switzerland, 



329 

 Wasps, Carnivorous, Sir David Wedderburn, Bart., 417; R. 



S. Newall, F.R.S., 494; Lewis Bod, 538 ; Worthington G. 



Smith, 563 

 Water, the Specific Heat of, 189, 309 ; Water Figures, and Car- 

 bon, W. M. Flinders Petrie, 225 ; Directions for the Arti- 

 ficial Freezing of, 243 

 Waterspouts off Cape Spadn, Herr Miksche's Account of, 265 

 Watt (Edmund), Monkeys in the West Indies, 131 

 Watter's Guide to the Tablets in a Temple of Confucius, 424 

 Wealden Dinosaur, the New, J. Whitaker Hulke, F.R.S., 135 

 Weather, a Possible Consequence of our Present, W. Mattieu 



Williams, 130 

 Weather Maps of the United States, 304, 381, 565 

 Weaver Birds and Fire-Flies, E. L. Layard, 201 

 Webb (T. W.), Planets of the Seasons — Saturn, S7 ; Mars, 212 ; 



Discovery of a Gaseous Nebula, 11 1 

 Webb's Planetary Nebula (DM. + 41°, 4004), Light of, Prof. 



Edward C. Pickering', 346 

 Wedderbum (Sir David, Bart.), Carnivorous Wa=ps, 417 

 West Indies, Monkeys in, Edmund Watt, 131 ; P. L. Sclater, 



F.R.S., 153 ; John Imray, 371 

 West Kent Natural History Society, 525 

 Wetterhan (Prof. D.), Ice-Crys'als and Filaments, 396 

 Weyprecht (Capt.), Proposed New Polar Expedition, 505 

 Whales in the Mediterranean, 597 

 Wharton (Capt.), "False Dawn," 33 

 Whipple (G. M.), Result of an Inquiry into the Periodicity of 



Rainfall, 33S 

 Whitaker's Almanac, the Geography of, 190 

 White (Dr. F. Buchanan), Stags' Horns, 251 

 Whymper (E.), Ascent of Mount Chimborazo, 620 

 Wiedemann's (Herr E.) Experiments on the Phosphorescent 



Light produced by Electric Discharges, 385 

 Wiesbaden, International Exhibition of Plants at, 330 

 Wilckens (Herr), his Anthropological Discovery at Sypniewo, 



216 

 Wilcox (T. E.), Intellect in Brutes, 372 

 Wild (Dr. J. J.), Does Sargassum Vegetate in the Open Sea ? 



107 

 Williams (W. Mattieu), a Possible Consequence of our Present 



Weather, 130 ; Artificial Diamonds, 224 

 Willughby Society's Publications, 358 

 Wilson (Dr. Andrew), "Diagrams of Zoology," 153 

 Winnecke (Prof. A.), Sun-Spots in Earnest, 10 

 Winnecke's Comet, 264 

 Wind-Charts, M. L. Brault's, 265 

 Windsor Albert Institute, 330 

 Winstanley (David), Recording Sunshine, 214 



Wittrock (Dr. B. V.) Appointed Keeper of the Botanical 



Department of the Swedish Museum, 89 

 Woeikof (Dr. A.), "Why the Air at the Equator is not Hotter 



in January than in July," Freezing of the Neva, 249 ; Rainfall 



in the Tropics, 347 

 Wood, Fire Produced by the Friction of, 423 

 Wood (Major Herbert), Death of, 22 

 Wood (Searles V.), Triassic Footprints, 347 

 Woods (Rev. J. E. Tenison), Forests of Tasmania, 573 

 Woods (Thomas), a Claim for Precedence, 493 

 Woollen Manufactory in China, 617 

 Woolwich, Electric Light at, 188 

 Wragge (Clement L.), Ozone, 537 

 Wright (Dr. E. Perceval), "Animal Life," 232 

 Wright (Lewis), Chinese Geese, 302 ; the Transverse Vibrations 



of Light, 370 

 Writing, the History of, Trof. A. H. Sayce, 378, 404 

 Wroblewski (Dr. S.), on the Nature of the Absorption of Gases,. 



190 

 Wiirzburg, University of, 300th Anniversary of its Foundation, 



215 ; Monument to Freiherr von Siebold at, 285 

 Wyckoff (Wm. C), U.S. National Academy, 143 



Yale College and American Palaeontology, 101 



Varkand Mission, the Second, 389 



" Year Book of Facts," 263 



Yeast, Destruction of Insect Pests by Means of, H. A. Hagen, 



611 

 Yedo, Severe Earthquake in, 423 

 Yokohama, Earthquake at, 617 



" Yorkshire Naturalists' Union," Annual Meeting of, 307 

 Young (Prof. C. A.), Re-reversal of Sodium Lines, 274 



Zaborowski's (M.), Discovery of Sepulchral Vessels on the 



Banks of the Lower Vistula, 262 

 Zeitschrift fiir das chemische Grossgewerbe, 79 

 Zeitschrift fiir wissenschaftliche Geographie, 310 

 Zeitschrift fiir wissenschaftliche Zoologie, 168, 338, 433 

 Zinin (Prof. Nicholas), Death of, 473 ; Obituary Notice of, 57s 

 Zoological Gardens, Additions to, 20, 48, 71, 91, 116, 141, 164, 



216, 239, 264, 286, 307, 331, 358, 383, 408, 424, 452, 475, 



502, 525, 549. 475, 597, 618 

 Zoological Society, 99, 172, 194, 291, 315, 339, 363, 434, 506, 



578 

 Zoological Station, Scottish, T. Tefery Parker, 159; Naples, 



524 ; W. A. Lloyd, 537 

 Zoological Record for 1877, Edited by E. C. Rye, 392, 467 

 Zoology, Diagrams of, by Dr. Andrew Wilson, 153 

 Zoology for Students, Prof. A. S. Packard, 465 

 Zostera marina, 93 



