GENERAL INDEX. 
fluid density of certain metals, 1881, 
582 
Wkottesley (Lord) on a uniformity of 
weights and measures , 1864, 102 ; I860, 
375; 1866, 352 ; 1867, 448 
- on the rainfall in the British Isles , 
1866, 281 ; 1867, 448 ; meteorological and 
physical observations in three balloon 
ascents made in I860 and 1866, 1866, 367 
- on manning the surface of the moon , 
1867, 1 ; 1868, 1 
Wrottesley , A. Follett Osier on variations 
in direction and motion of the air at , 
I860, 264 
Wroxeter, Thomas Wright on the human 
remains found at, 1862, 149 
Wryneck obtained in Ireland exhibited 
by A. E. Jacob, 1878, 572 
Wulwa and Mosquito dialects, Dr. C. 
Carter Blake and Dr. Charnock on the, 
186'J, 129 
*Wunsch (E. A.) on some Carboniferous 
fossil trees embedded in trappean ash 
in the Isle of Arran, 1867, 73 
-on the junction of Granite and Old 
Red Sandstone at Corrie and Glen Lan- 
nox, Arran, 1876, 98 
Wusum and other remains in Egyptian 
Arabia, Cope Whitehouse on, 1887, 
898 
* Wyatt (J.) on the gradual alteration of 
the coast-line in Norfolk, 1867, 73 
fWYLDE (A. B.) on the Red Sea trade, 
1887, 802 
Wyeey (A.) on the progress of invention 
in breech-loading small arms during 
the past twenty years, 1872, 252 
-on recent improvements in breech¬ 
loading firearms, 1874, 232 ; on the 
breech-loading firearms exhibited at 
Vienna in 1878, ib. 
Wynants (Captain) on barytic powder 
for heavy ordnance, 1866, 148 
Wynn (Mrs. Williams) and Prof. T. McK. 
Hughes on the results of recent further 
excavations in the caves of Cefn, near 
St. Asaph, North Wales, 1881, 700 
Wynne (A. B.) on the geology of Knock - 
shigowna in Tipperary, Ireland, 1861, 
135 
-on the geolog}’ of a part of Sligo, 
1862, 96 
-on the physical features of the land 
as connected with denudation, 1866, 69 
—- on underground temperature , 1876, 
204; 1877, 194; 1878, 178; 1879, 40; 
1880, 26 ; 1881, 90 ; 1882, 72 ; 1883, 45 ; 
1885, 93 ; 1889, 35 
-on a striated and facetted fragment 
from Chel Hill olive conglomerate, Salt 
Range, Punjab, 1886, 631 
Wyse (L. N. B.) on the exploration of 
the American isthmus and the inter- 
oceanic canal of Panama, 1879, 454 
463 
■x /, an approximate expression for, Prof. 
A. R. Forsyth on, 1883,407 
Xenacanthus and Pleuracanthus, the Pal¬ 
eozoic elasmobranch genera, restora¬ 
tions of the, by Dr. A. Fritsch, 1890, 822 
Xenoene or diphenyl products and re¬ 
actions, Prof. W. Odling and J. E. 
Marsh on some, 1887, 646 
*Xiengmai and Moulmein, Sir R. Schom- 
burgk on a journey to, 1864, 147 
Yachts, Capt. M. Hall on the employ¬ 
ment of, in deep-sea researches, 1872, 
136 
Yahgan Indians of Tierra del Fuego, Hyde 
Clarke on the, 1883, 572 
Yang-tse-Kiang , report of a Committee on 
the desirability of an exploration being 
made of the district between the Brah¬ 
maputra, the Upper Irawadi, and the , 
1868, 430 
*—-river, China, Col. Sarel on the, 1862, 
196 
-- river, in China, S. Mossman on 
the inundation and subsidence of the, 
1871, 187 
-the Upper, J. Thomson on the gorges 
and rapids of, 1873, 173 
*Yarkand, a journey from Yassin to, 
Ibrahim Khan on, 1871, 180 
-mission, Col. R. Biddulph on the, 
1874, 181 
Yarra, the, and the languages of Australia 
in connection with those of the Mozam¬ 
bique and Portuguese Africa, Hyde 
Clarke on, 1879, 381 
Yassin and the Kajunah district, Dr. R. 
G. Latham on, 1883, 566 
Yates (James) on the excess of w T ater in 
the region of the earth about New 
Zealand, its causes and effects, 1861, 
136 
- report on the uniformity of weights 
and measures , 1863, 102 ; 1865, 375 ; 
1866, 352 ; 1867, 468 ; 1868, 484 ; 1869, 
308; 1870; 232; 1871, 198 
-exhibited specimens of Cycas revo- 
luta, C. circinalis, and Ceratozamia 
mexicana, 1864, 88 
—— on mural standards for exhibiting 
the measures of length legalised in the 
United Kingdom, 1865, 159 
- report on the mural standard , 1866, 
365 
-reasons why the office of Warden of 
the Standards should include standard 
weights and measures of the metric 
system in addition to those of the im¬ 
perial weights and measures, 1867, 147 
Yeaman (James), notes on seal and 
whale-fishings as prosecuted by the 
North-Sea fleet hailing from Dundee, 
1867, 148 
