INDEX. 



X055 



Royal Society by King Chai-les the 



Second, 612. 

 Weld (C. R.), particulars concerning the 



safety-lamp presented to the Society 



by Jos. Hodgson, Esq., 950. 

 Westmoreland, meteorology of, 757 ; 



quantity of rain in the lake districts, 



757, 816 ; mild temperature, 816, 952. 

 Wheat, on the ashes of, 554. 

 Wheatstone (C), royal medal awarded 



to, 480. 



Whewell (Rev. W.), tide researches, thir- 

 teenth series ; on the tides of the Pa- 

 cific, 728. 



, tide researches, fourteenth series, 



on the results of continued tide obser- 

 vations at several places on the British 

 coasts, 915. 



Wilmot (Capt. F. E.), account of a re- 

 markably large and luminous spot in 

 the sea, 475. 



Wilson (Erasmus), researches into the 

 structure and development of a newly- 

 discovered parasitic animalcule of the 

 human skin, the Entozoon folliculorum, 

 495. 



Wilson (Erasmus) on the structure of 

 the ultimate fibril of the muscle of 

 animal hfe, 514. 



, observations on the growth and 



development of the epidermis, 563. 



Williamson (W. C.) on the microscopic 

 structure of the scales and dermal teeth 

 of some ganoid and placoid fish, 837. 



, investigations into the structure 



and development of the scales and 

 bones of fishes, 969. 



Winds and movements of the barometer, 

 connection between, 556. 



Wohler (F.), account of compact alumi- 

 num, 548. 



Wood, devoid of nitrogen, bearing of this 

 fact on the origin of coal, 842. 



Wrangham (Archdeacon), obituary no- 

 tice of, 489. 



Young (J. R.) on the analysis of nume- 

 rical equations, 854. 



Zodiacal light, instrumental measurement 

 applied to, 761. 



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