Wit 
Wines, grease of, xxil, 192. 
, mode of improving, iv, 394. 
, odor of, due to a peculiar 
ether, Liebig and Pelouze, xxxii, 
381. 
——, tests of coloring material of, 
Jacob, xlix, 198. 
Winnebago, Fort, some account of 
the region around, D. Ruggles, 
xxx, lf 
Winslow, M., on the minerals of 
Ceylon, vi, 192. 
, notices from Ceylon, viii, 186. 
Winthrop, J., ancient catalogue of, 
objects of Natural History, xlvii, 
282. | 
, meteorological observations 
during the years 1741 to 1757, 
xl, 204. 
Wire drawing, vi, 393. 
—— gauze windows, a protection 
against malaria, xvill, 370. 
rope for deep mines, xxxv, 319. 
, covering for, xx, 409. 
——, conducting power of, xlv, 
392. 
Wirtemberg University, viii, 183. 
——, kingdom of, xx, 176. 
Wisconsin Indian mounds, xxxiv, 
88.f 
——, copper ores in, xliil, 38. 
—— lead region, remarks upon, 
xlili, 35.f 
——, earthworks, S. Taylor, xliv, 
21.f 
——, elevations in, xlvi, 258. 
Wiseman, NN., Connection of Sci- 
ence and Revealed Religion by, 
noticed, xxxii, 209. 
Witham, H., on the vegetation of 
the first period of an ancient 
world, xviii, 110.f 
, Investigations on fossil vege- 
tables, xxv, 108. 
——, sections of fossil wood, xxvil, 
415. 
Witherite in the state of Missouri, 
lll, 63. 
Withers, R. W., geological notices 
of Greene Co., Alabama, xxiv, 
286 
187. 
woo 
Wohler, F., method of obtaining 
osmium and iridium from the pla- 
tinum residue, xxvi, 371. 
——, products of the decomposi- 
tion of narcotine, xlix, 205. 
and Liebig, on the radical of 
benzoic acid, xxvi, 261f ;—analy- 
sis, 267. 
, bitter almond oil, xxvi, 263. 
——, on compact aluminium, xlix, 
390. | 
Wolchonskoite, Kammerer, xxvi, 
387. 
Wolf, anecdote of, iv, 310. 
Wolves, destruction to stock in Rus- 
Sia’ byyxx, Lill: 
Wollaston, H. W., remarks on the 
Cryophorus of, vii, 140. 
» scale of chemical equiva- 
lents, xii, 4; xvi, 371. 
, obituary notice of, xvi, 216; 
xvii, 159. 
Wollaston Medal, awarded to G. A. 
Mantell, xxviii, 391. 
to L. Agassiz, 
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xxx, 382. 
to Richard Owen, 
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Wolle, J., catalogue of plants, 
xxxvil, 310. 
Wonders of Geology, G. A. Man- 
tell, xxxiv, 387; xxxv, 384; 
MOCK IK yl 
Wood, A., Class Book of Botany 
by, noticed, xlix, 190. 
Wood, charring of, xvii, 395!; xx, 
189. 
, bituminization of, in human 
era, xxxv, 345; xxxvi, 118.f 
, coating for, xxiii, 199. 
, decay and mouldering of, 
Hermann, xlix, 204. 
» attacked by the Limnoria 
terebrans, xxxiv, 27. 
, fossil, see under Fossil. 
, eatable food from, xxviii, 399. 
, rendered incombustible, xiv, 
379. 
» spontaneous combustion of, 
xxvil, 178; xxxiii, 150; xxxv, 
144. 
