GENERAL INDEX. 
451 
*Weaver Hills, E. Brown on the Drift 
deposit on the, 1866, 51 
Webb (F. W.) on compound locomotive 
engines, 1883, 647 
-(S.) on the relations bet ween wages 
and the remainder of the economic 
product, 1889, 708 
-(Rev. T. W.) on a suspected change 
of brightness in the lunar spot Werner, 
1864, 8 ; on the invisible part of the 
moon’s surface, 9 
- on mapping the surface of the moon , 
1866 , 286 ; 1866 , 214 ; 1867, i; 1868, 
1 ; 1869, 76 ; 1871, 60 ; 1872, 245 
-(W. F.), five years’experience in arti¬ 
ficial fish-breeding, showing in what 
waters trout will and will not thrive, 
with some remarks on fish and British 
fisheries, 1869, 118 
•{Webber (Maj.-G-en.), the distribution of 
electricity from accumulators, 1889, 740 
Weber (Prof. L.), observations of atmo¬ 
spheric electricity, 1887, 592 ; 1889, 506 
-on photographsof lightning, 1889 ,507 
Webster (Mrs. A.) on the workings of 
the proposed revised New Code, and of 
other legislation affecting the teach ing 
of science in elementary schools , 1881, 
148 ; 1882,307; 1883,309 
-(H. A.) on what has been done for 
the geography of Scotland, and what 
remains to be done, 1885, 1138 
-(R. E.) on patent legislation , 1884, 
293 ; 1885, 595 
-(R. G.) on imperial federation, or 
Greater Britain united, 1886, 752 
-(T.) on property in invention, and 
its effects on the arts and manufac¬ 
tures, 1861, 266 
- report on technical and scientific 
evidence in courts of lam , 1862, 373 ; 
1866, 456 
- on tidal observations , 1868, 489 ; 
1870, 120 
- on steam-boiler explosions , 1869, 47 ; 
1870, 1 ; 1871, 166 ; 1872, 57 
-on the advancement of science due 
to patented inventions, 1872, 2 ^ 2 ; 
*1873, 219 
* -on the assimilation of the patent 
systems of Great Britain and of the 
United States, 1873, 219 
* -(Rev. W.) on certain points con¬ 
cerning the origin and relations of the 
Basque race, 1871, 162 
-iW.) on the purification of sewage 
and water contaminated with organic 
matter by electrolysis, 1889, 745 
Weddas of Ceylon, B. F. Hartshorne on 
the, 1875, 175 
-Prof. Rolleston on the, 1872, 194 
Weddell (G.), notes on classification in 
sociology, 1889, 794 
Weierstrass (Dr.), the system of hyper- 
elliptic differential equations adopted 
by, IV. H. L. Russell on, 1872, 335 
Weights and measures , report on the 
best means of providing for a uniform¬ 
ity of, with reference to the interests 
of science, 1864, 102 ; 1865, 375 ; 1866, 
352 ; 1867 , 468 ; 1868, 484 ; 1869 , 308 : 
1870 , 232 ; 1871, 198 ; 1872, 25 ; 1874, 
359 ; ( see 1884, 27 ) 
- F. P. Fellows on the practical 
advantages of the metric system of, 
1865, 147 
* -W. H. Sankey on, 1869, 199 
Weirs, automatic gauge for the dis¬ 
charge of water over waste, T. Steven¬ 
son on an, 1871, 241 
-movable and fixed, with reference 
to the improvement of the navigation, 
mill power, and drainage of flood 
waters of rivers, J. Neville on, with 
especial notice of the river Shannon, 
1878, 691 
*Weismann (Prof. A.) on polar bodies, 
1887, 763 
Weiss (F. E.) on the occupation of the 
table at the zoological station at Naples, 
1889, 100 
-on androgynous cones in Pinus 
Thunbergii , and some remarks on their 
morphology, 1890, 854 ; on a curious 
cell-content in Eucommia ulmoides 
(Oliv.), ib. 
Welby (Hon. Lady), Is there a break 
in mental evolution ? 1890, 972 
Welding metals, W. Anderson on the 
Lafitte process of, 1886, 800 
Weldon (Walter) on a proposed use of 
fluorine in the manufacture of soda, 
1866, 45 
-on a new manufacturing process for 
the perpetual regeneration of oxide of 
manganese used in the manufacture 
of chlorine, 1867, 48 
* -on the manufacture of chlorine by 
means of perpetually regenerated man- 
ganite of calcium, 1869, 79 
* - on the Weldon process for the 
manufacture of chlorine, 1870, 68 
-on the manufacture of chlorine by 
means of manganite of magnesium, 
1872, 86 
* -on the means of suppressing alkali 
waste, 1876, 70 
* - on some relations between the 
numbers expressing the atomic weights 
of the elements, 1879, 293 
* - on some relations between the 
atomic volumes of certain elements and 
the heats of formation of some of their 
compounds, 1880, 503 
-on the first two lines of Mendelejefl’s 
table of atomic weights, 1881, 580 
* - on the manufacture of soda and 
chlorine, 1884, 679 
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