wav 
Water-spouts, causes of, W. C. Red- 
field, xxv, 126, 1273 xxxiii, 58 ; 
xliil, 265. 
——, H. E. Girsted, xxxvii, 
f 
250. 
; , R. Hare, xxxii, 153.f 
, account and theory of, H. W. 
Ogden, xxix, 254. 
. illustration of a theory of, W. 
Gaylord, x\, 399. 
, rotation of, xl, 824, 382. 
, in France in 1828, x, 183. 
, on the Lake of Geneva, xxiv, 
377. 
, off Florida in 1826, notice) 
of, B. Lincoln, xiv, 171.f 
, at New Brunswick in 1835, 
xxxvi, 115.f 
Water-wheels, on the asserted ac- 
celeration during night and in| 
winter, ix, 104; x, 129; xu, 163. 
, on the overshot, 4d. B. Quin- 
by, ix, 304.f | 
——., pitchback and breast, A. B. 
Quinby, xi, 333. 
Water-works, in Philadelphia, vi, 
31a vill, 193; 
Waterhouse, B., notice of, i, 37. 
Watkins’s galvanic battery, xvii, 162. 
Watson, J. T., on the heat produ-| 
ced by friction, vill, 276. 
Wave lines and mud furrows in 
rocks, J. Hall, xlv, 148. 
Waves, v, 131. 
, J. S. Russell on the laws of,) 
xxxvill, 100; xl, 8238; xliv, 159. 
, mechanism of, in reference 
to steam navigation, J. S. Rus- 
sell, xxxiil, 283. 
of translation, J. S. Russell, 
XXXIV ol. 
, report of the committee of 
the British Association on, xxxv, 
290. 
—-, remarkable, at the Sandwich| 
Islands, 1887, 7. C. B. Rooke, 
XXXvil, 398. 
, transporting eflect, remarks 
on, H. D. Rogers, xlvii, 274. 
of sea, and sound, instru- 
ments for illustrating, xlix, 20. 
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Wavellite from Richmond, Mass., 
C. Dewey, ii, 249. 
Wax, fossil, Meyer, xxx, 185. 
of the Myrica cerifera, i, 294. 
, sealing, xxi, 150; xxiii, 200; 
xxvill, 148. 
tablet, used for instructing the 
blind, xxxvii, 186. 
Weasel, habits of, xlvi, 241. 
Weather, influence of the moon on, 
F. Marcet, xxvii, 192. 
, see Meteorology. 
Weather-glass, zoological, xvil, 187. 
Webb, on lunar volcanoes, xxxv, 
305, 
Webb, T. H., on fluor spar, iv, 50 ; 
vil, 54. 
, minerals near Providence, iv, 
284, 
; mineral localities, v, 402; 
Vill, 225, 228. 
, localities of tale and tourma- 
line, vil, 55. ' 
Webber, S., on the alluvial banks 
of the Connecticut, xlvil, 98. 
|Webster, J. W., notice of the lec- 
tures of, 1, 304. 
x of the cabinet of, i, 305. 
, structure of Calton Hill, near 
Edinburgh, Scotland, and on the 
aqueous origin of wacke, 1, 230.f 
, analysis of wacke, i, 296. 
, localities of minerals, princi- 
pally at Haddam, Ct., 11, 289. 
, sinterat St. Michael’s, 111,391. 
, on prussic acid, ii, 189. 
, epidote at Nahant, ill, 364. 
, on the island of St. Michael, 
iv, 2ol. 
, foreign notices in Mineralo- 
gy, iv, 20. 
, communication of Boué’s no- 
tices of European Geology, vi, 
188. 
, discovery of green feldspar, 
xxxv, 192. 
, claim to blowpipe mouth, 
xxxv, 187. 
-~——, explosion of hydrogen and 
oxygen, with remarks on Hem- 
ming’s safety tube, xxxvii, 104. 
