GENERAL INDEX. 
459 
disposal of sewage, and drainage, with 
special reference to Ireland, J. Price 
on, 1878, 709 
Wind, the pressure of , upon a fixed plane 
surface, T. Haroksley on, 1881, 480 
■- pressures, the effective, to which 
buildings and structures are exposed , 
report upon the best means of ascer¬ 
taining, *1881, 779 ; 1882, 315 
* -the rate at which Energy is trans¬ 
mitted by, Prof. 0. Rejmolds on, 1877, 
42 
-on the coast, registration of, R. H. 
Scott on the importance of improved 
methods of, 1871, 37 
- values and declination disturbances 
at the Kew Observatory, results of a 
comparison between the, bg Prof. Bal¬ 
four Stewart and W. L. Carpenter, 
1888 , 28 
-vane or anemoscope, a new, speci¬ 
ally designed for the use of meteorolo¬ 
gists, G. M. Whipple on, 1885, 926 
-velocity and pressure of the, J. J. 
Hall on registering the, by a new elec¬ 
tro-magnetic anemometer, 1870, 35 
- waves, G. H. Kinahan on the 
drifting power of tidal currents and 
that of, 1875, 74 
- at Wrottesley, Liverpool, and Bir¬ 
mingham, A. Follett Osier on varia¬ 
tions in direction and motion of, 1865, 
264 
Winding machinery, the, employed at 
the Rosebridge Colliery deep mine, G. 
H. Daglisli on, 1883, 657 
Windle (Prof. B. C. A.) on the arteries 
of the base of the brain, 1887, 753 
- *on the morphology of the long 
flexors of the digits of the mammalian 
hand, 1889, 616 ; *on certain con¬ 
genital abnormalities in fishes, ib. 
—— and J. Humphreys on man’s lost 
incisors, 1886 , 688 
Winds, the action of the, in relation to 
ocean currents, A. W. Clayden on two 
models illustrating, 1889, 669 
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Dr. J. D. Everett 
on the results of observations of atmo¬ 
spheric electricity at Kew Observatory 
and, 1867, 20 
Winnecke’s, Charles, explorations in 
Central Australia, J. S. U’Halloran on, 
with notes on the employment of 
camels, 1884, 812 
* Winter (A.) on controlling the direc¬ 
tion of rotation of a dynamo, 1888, 
824 
- (G. K.) on the use of electro¬ 
magnetic instead of electrostatic in¬ 
duction in cable-signalling, 1872, 52 
Winters, the periodicity of mild, R. E. 
W. Goodridge on, 1889, 510 
Winton (Sir F. de). See ‘ De Winton ’ 
Winwood (Rev. H. H.), exhibition of 
flint-implements from South Africa, 
1872, 198 
-on recent excavations in Pens Pits, 
Somersetshire, 1884, 918 
-on the Tytherington and Thornbury 
section, 1888, 658 
Wire-gauge, Birmingham, Latimer 
Clark on the, 1867, 153 ; 1869, 209 
-Latimer Clark on the advisability of 
obtaining a uniform, 1868, 189 
Wires, the cooling of, in air and in 
vacuum, J. T. Bottomley on, 1885, 904 
-under elongating stress, expansion 
with rise of temperature in, J. T. 
Bottomley on, 1887, 620 
Wise (H.) on a proposed railway across 
the Malay peninsula, 1861, 201 
Wishmoor Bottom, Sandhurst, Lieut. 
Cooper King on the discovery of a 
flint-implement station at, 1872, 190 
*Wislicenus (Prof. J.) on the relation of 
geometrical structure to chemical pro¬ 
perties, 1887, 647 
* Witch’s ladder, found in Somerset, Dr. 
E. B. Tylor on a, 1887, 900 
* Witt (Dr. O. N.), the constitution and 
relationship of the eurhodine and 
saffranine classes of colouring matters, 
and their connection with other groups 
of organic compounds, 1887, 642 
Wohler’s urea, J. Emerson Reynolds on 
the action of aldehyde on, 1871, 78 
Wokey Hole, W. Boyd Dawkins on the 
liysena den at, 1862, 71 
tWoLF (Dr. L.), explorations on the 
Upper Kasai and the Sankuru, 1887, 
798 
*WOLLA.STON (Dr. R.), some account of 
the Romans in Britain, 1861, 201 
Woman, exhibiting in London, Sir D. 
Gibb on a fat, 1871, 152 
* -oldest in Scotland, Sir J. Alexander 
on the, 1876, 164 
-skeleton of a, set. 104, Dr. G. M. 
Humphry on the, 1865, 107 
Wombat, the human mesocolon illus¬ 
trated by that of the, Prof. Cleland on, 
1869, 120 
Women, college for, at Hitchin, J. Hey- 
wood on the examination subjects for 
admission into the, 1869, 193 
-education of, Miss Shirreff on the 
national union for improving the, 1872, 
226 
-employment of, in workhouses, Miss 
Twining on the, 1861, 248 
-the employment of, and the educa¬ 
tion of girls, E. Lydia Becker on some 
maxims of political economy as applied 
to, 1871, 201 
-fallen, W. M‘Bean on the Edinburgh 
Industrial Home for, 1871, 212 
-industrial position of, as affected by 
