Harker, 414; Vesuvius in 1889, Prof. Palmieri, 18; Geo Wharton (Captain W. J. L., F.R.S.): Notes on a Recent Vol.
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Sea-Waves of Krakatao, James C. McConnell, 392 ; the

Work, 503
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Cam, Essex, 527
Bestnik Estestvoznaniya, New Russian Natural Science Re- White (Robert B.), Shining Night-Clouds, 369
view, 469

White William), British Earthquakes, 202
Whitechapel, Proposed Free Library at, 161

Whitham Jay M.), Steam-Engine Design, 29.
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Cyclone of September 11-12, 1889, in Japan, 208; Meteoro- Willem (Victor), the Gizzard in Scolopendridæ, 237
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296

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298
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some Notes on his “Darwinism,” T. D. A. Cockerell, 393 Wilson (R. W.), Magnetism in Brick Buildings, 405
Wallace (Prof.), Sheep Farming in Australia, 113

Wilson William), Practical Observations on Agricultural Grasses
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companying Pulse, 288

Wilson (Woodrow), the State, Elements of Historical and Prac-
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court, 380

Wilson-Barker (Captain David), Foreign Substances attached
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Society, 334

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W. Lucas, 515
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Leguminous Plants, 140; Diseases of Plants, 436

Wind at Summit of Eiffel Tower, Mean Hourly Velocity of,
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Water, Compressibility of, Prof. Tait, 361

Winds, Dependence of Force of, upon Surface over which they
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blow, Dr. Van Bebber, 372
Water, a General Formula for the Uniform Flow of, in Rivers Winds, a Popular Treatise on the, William Ferrel, 124
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Winlock (Prof.), Progress of Astronomy in 1886, 374
Waterhouse (F. H.), Index Generum Avium, R. Bowdler Winnecke's Periodical Comet, the Orbit of, M. H. Faye, 94
Sharpe, 169

Wolves and Bears in Bosnia, 325
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67

Wood (Rev. J. G.), the Brook and its Banks, 53; the Zoo, 53
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65

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Waterspout in Atlantic, 470

403 ; a Naturalist among the Head-hunters, 582
Watt (James), Proposed Memorial to, 160

Woodthorpe (Colonel), the Aka Expedition of 1883, 86
Waves
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Woodward (A. S.), some British Jurassic Fish-remains, 310
Wayside Sketches, F. Edward Hulme, 270

World, Library Reference Atlas of the, John Bartholomew, 413
Weasel, the Cape, E. B. Titchener, 394

Worthington (Prof. A. M.), Bourdon's Pressure-Gauge, 296, 517
Weather Forecasting, 278

Wright (M. R.), Elementary Physics, 78
Weather, Influenza and, Mitchell and Buchan, 595

Wrightson (Prof. John): Sources of Nitrogen in Soils, 286;
Weather in January, Chas. Harding, 425

How to know Grasses by their Leaves, by A. N. M'Alpine,
Weather and Tidal Forecasts for 1899, Ď. Dewar's, 546

557
Weeds, European, in America, 18

Wynne (W. P.), Constitution of Tri-derivatives of Naphthalene,
Weigert's (Dr.),' Treatment of Pulmonary Phthisis, Prof. 454

Visconti, 380
Weismann's (Prof.) Essays, Dr. St. George Mivart, F.R.S., 38
Veismann versus Lamarck, Prof. E. D. Cope, 79

Yatchevsky (M.), Limits of Ever-frozen Soil in Siberia, 472
Weismann (Prof. A.): Theory of Heredity, 317, 373, 439; and Yeast, Fermentation with Pure, Prof. Percy F. Frankland, 339
the Theory of Panmixia, 437

Young (Arthur), Travels in France, 294
Weiss (F. Ernest), Foreign Substances Attached to Crabs, Young (Prof. C. A.), the Elements of Astronomy, 485
272

Young (Dr. Sydney), Exact Thermometry, 152, 271, 488
Weldon (W. F. R.), Abnormal Shoots of Ivy, 464

Yule (Sir Henry), Death of, 207
Wesley (W. H.), the Corona of 1889 December 22, 450
West Indies, African Monkeys in the, Dr. P. L. Sclater,

Zeiss's New Apochromatic Microscope Objective, 494
Westphalia, Stalactite Cave discovered in, 113

Zelbr (Dr.), Comet Swift (f 1889, November 17), 115, 233
Wethered (E.), Occurrence of Girvanella Genus, and on Oolitic Zepharovich (Ritter von), Death and Obituary Notice of, 448
Structure, 238

Zodiacal Light, Maxwell Hall on the Spectrum of the, 351, 402
Wetterhan (D.): Galls, 131; a Formula in the Theory of Least Zodiacal Light, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., on, 402

Zoo, the, Rev. J. G. Wood, 53
Weyl (Dr., Biology of Anaërobic Bacteria, 359

Zoogeography: Wolves, &c., in Germany, Dr. Lampert, 182
Whales, Time they can remain under Water, 66

Zoological Discoveries, N. M. Przewalsky's, 468

F.R.S, 368

Squares, 394

Zoological Floating Station at Isefiord, Denmark, 569

Rat in Cornwall, Thos. Cornish, 161; Snake and Fish, Herr
Zoological Gardens, Additions to, 44, 68, 87, 114, 138, 163, Fischer-Sigwart, 162 ; Arrangement of Excitable Fibres of

210, 232, 256, 284, 304, 326, 349, 402, 449, 472, 496, 521, Internal Capsules of Bonnet Monkey, Beevor and Horsley,
548, 571, 595

166; Heloderma suspectum, the Poisonous Lizard of South-
Zoological Society, 94, 143, 335, 382, 406, 478, 550, 575, 599 West United States, the Craniology of, R. W. Shufeldt, 181;
Zoological Results of the Challenger Expedition, 217

a Milk Dentition in Orycteropus, O. Thomas, 309; the Cata-
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Hart Merriam, 11, 151; Prof. W. H. Flower, F.R.S., 30 151; Zsigmondy (Dr. Emil), his Alpine Expeditions, 291
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