454 
GENERAL INDEX. 
tion of all type specimens of fossils in 
the British Jsles, 1890, 339 
Whidborne (Rev. G. F.) and Prof. W. 
J. Sollas on some fossils of the In¬ 
ferior Oolite, 1882, 534 
Whin Sill of Northumberland, W. Topley 
and G. A. Lebour on the, 1873, 92 
*Whincopp (W.) on the Red Crag 
deposits of the county of Suffolk, con¬ 
sidered in relation to the finding of 
celts, in France and England, in the 
drift of the Post-pliocene period, 1861, 
134 
Whipple (G. M.) on the passage of 
squalls across the British Isles, 1873, 
44 ; on a new form of Rutherford’s 
minimum thermometer, devised and 
constructed by Mr. James Hicks, 50 ; 
on a new electrical anemograph, ib. 
- on observations of atmospheric elec¬ 
tricity at the Ken- Observatory during 
1880, 1881, 443 
- on a universal sunshine recorder 
stand, 1881, 540 
-- on magnetic reductions , 1885, 83 
-on a new wind vane or anemoscope, 
specially designed for the use of me¬ 
teorologists, 1885, 926 ; on the errors 
of sextants as indicated by the 
records of the verification department 
of the Ivew Observatory, 936 ; on 
the behaviour of first-class watches 
whilst undergoing tests in the rating 
department of the Kew Observatory, 
937 ; on a recent improvement in the 
construction of instruments graduated 
upon glass, ib. ; on methods of pre¬ 
venting change of zero of thermo¬ 
meters by age, 938 
■ - on the best means of comparing and 
reducing magnetic observations , 1886, 
64 , 71 ; 1887 , 320 ; 1888 , 28 ; 1889,49; 
1890, 172 
•- on the best methods of recording 
the direct intensity of solar radiation , 
1889, 40 ; 1890, 144 
■ - and Gen. Sir J. H. Lefroy, preli¬ 
minary list of Magnetic Observatories , 
1887, 327 
Whirlwinds and waterspouts, Prof. J. 
Thomson on, 1884, 641 
Whitaker (J.) on the Burnley coalfield 
and its fossil contents, 1861, 135 
- (W.) on the occurrence of Thanet 
sand and of Crag in the S.W. part of 
Suffolk (Sudbury), 1873, 92 
- on the circulation of underground 
maters, 1875, 114 ; 1876, 95 ; 1877, 56 ; 
1878, 382 ; 1879, 155 ; 1880, 87 ; 1881, 
309 ; 1882, 213 ; 1883, 147 ; 1884, 96 ; 
1885, 380 ; 1886, 235 ; 1887, 358 ; 
1888, 145 ; 1889, 71 ; 1890, 352 ; 
bibliography , 1887, 384 
- on the ‘ Geological Record ,’ 1880, 
87 ; list of morhs on the Geology, Mine¬ 
ralogy , and Palaeontology of Wales (to 
the end of 1873), 397 
Whitaker (W.), list of morhs on the Geo¬ 
logy and Palaeontology of Oxfordshire, 
of Berkshire, and of Buckinghamshire, 
1882, 327 
- on Local Scientific Societies , 1883, 318 
- on the erosion of the sea-coasts of 
England and Wales, 1884 , 238 ; 1885, 
404 , bibliography, 442 ; 1886, 847 ; 
1888, 898 
--on the value of detailed geological 
maps in relation to water-supply and 
other practical questions, 1884, 731 ; 
on the extent to which a geological 
formation is available as a gathering 
ground for water-supply, 896 
- on the morlt of the Corresponding 
Societies Committee, 1885, 708 ; 1886, 
285 ; 1887,459; 1888 , 255 ; 1889 , 187 ; 
1890, 55 
- list of morhs on the Geology, 
Mineralogy, and Palceontology of Staf¬ 
fordshire, Worcestershire , and War- 
mickshire, 1885, 780 
- on deep borings at Chatham: a 
contribution to the deep-seated geology 
of the London basin, 1885, 1041 ; on 
the waterworks at Goldstone Road, 
Brighton, ib. 
- supplementary note on two deep 
borings in Kent, 1886, 649 
-on the extension of the Bath Oolite 
under London as shown by a deep 
boring at Streatham, 1888, 656 
-- on a deep channel of Drift in the 
valley of the Cam, Essex, 1889, 588 
-suggestions on sites for coal-search 
in the South-east of England, 1890, 819 
White (Dr.) on the prevention of foul¬ 
ing of ships’ bottoms, 1863, 189 
*—-(A. S.) on the political partition of 
Africa, 1890, 892 
-(Rev. G. C.), notes on Friendly 
Societies, with special reference to 
lapses and malingering, 1884, 869 
-(H.) on an improved steel railway 
sleeper, with chairs pressed out of the 
solid, 1887, 872 
*-(J.) on a form of Channel steamer, 
1873, 219 
- (John) on the means of passing 
unharmed through noxious gases or 
vapours, 1863, 125 
-(Joseph) on the statistics of the 
General Hospital, Nottingham, 1866, 
135 
- (R. B.), notes on the geology and 
mining of the United States of 
Colombia, S.A., 1882, 552 
— (Capt. T. P.) on a bifurcate stream 
at Glen Lednoch Head, in Perthshire, 
1869, 172 
