VICARS mechanical stokers, Douglas
colliery, 111.

Vice-presidents, election, 352.

M., 93.
M.C., 87.

N.E., 3.
N.S., 139.

S.S., 217.

Vicentino, Italy, lignites, 721.
Victoria, Ballarat, loss of shafts sunk
through basalt overlying water-bearing
drift, 390.

VIEILLE MONTAGNE COMPANY, Liége,
Alston mines, 409, 411.
Viewers, duties and salaries, 244.
qualifications, 243.

Villa Nueva, Honduras, jabon or soap,
54.

VILLAIN, FRANÇOIS, pisolitic iron-ores of
Lorraine, 689.

Villapando group of veins, Mexico,
Guanajuato, 50, 52.

VOGT, PROF. J. H. L., platinum in nickel.
ores of Norway, 730.
, quoted, 707.

Vogtland, Saxony, phosphorite-deposits,
708.

Volatile matter in coal, variable amount,
cause, 637.

VOLGER, quoted, 702.
Voltage fatal to life, 489.

VON GRODDECK, PROF. A., quoted, 46, 51.
VON HUMBOLDT, BARON A., quoted, 50,

coke-ovens, firing brick-kilns,

Waste in coal-mining, 146, 147.

working coal, what is the least
possible?-Discussion, 114.
Water, action, fissure veins, 641.

bad quality and treatment, Seghill
colliery, 546.

circulating, cooling, Neptune-bank
works, 607.

Water-drawing arrangement, Tomson,
Düsseldorf exhibition, 614.

Water-gauge, boiler - chimney, Seghill
colliery, 539.

- necessary, Seghill colliery, North-
-umberland, 445.

Water-jets, ventilating, Shamrock I.
colliery, Germany, 626.

Water-meter, Guest Chrimes, South
Brancepeth colliery, 442.
Water-power, 221.

Water-softening plant, Archbutt-Deeley,
Dawdon colliery, 600.

Water-tube boilers, 192.

Watering coal-dust, doubtful efficacy of,
459, 473, 474.

WEEKS, J. G., annual report of council,
N. E., 9.

death of G. F. Bell, 269.

member of council, election, 16.

sinking by freezing method at Wash-
ington, county Durham, 306.

-, some considerations affecting the choice
of pumping machinery, 292.

undersea coal of Northumberland coast,
429.

-, vice-president, election, 352.
vote of thanks, presidential address,
N. E., 79.

retiring president, N. E., 4.
WEEKS, R. L., member of council, elec-
tion, N. E., 4.

Weighing-machine, automatic, Manors
power-house, 604.

WEINSCHENK, E., origin of marbles of
the Tyrol, 682.

quoted, 668, 669, 681.

Schneeberg ore-deposits, Tyrol, 682.
WEIR, ROBERT, quoted, 108.
WEITHOFER, DR. K. ANTON, correlation
of Bohemian coal-measures, 670.
geology of the Kladno-Rakonitz coal-
basin, Bohemia, 670.

-, quoted, 671.

Wemyss, Dysart and Leven coal-field,
Fifeshire.-Discussion, 118, 205.

Tarkwa gold-field. -- Discussion,

Allen, zinc mines, 409, 410.

Sleekburn colliery, description, 583.
Wylam colliery, coal-seams beneath
brockwell seam, 551.

Western Australia, metal-mining, 247.
Westphalia, coal-field, excursion meet-
ing, M., 612.

-- model, 613.

-, gases enclosed in coal, 18, 20, 22.
hydraulic pumping-engines, 283.

Heatherycleugh, 399.

WHITBY, HENRY DE, quoted, 393.
White-lead manufacture, 592.
WHITEHEAD governor, Neptune - bank
works, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Electric
Supply Company, 609.

WHITTAKER, J. H., sparkless electric
plant for use in mines and ironworks.
-Discussion, 233.

Whittington colliery, coal-seams, 555.
WIECHERT seismometer, 647, 649.
WIESE, DR. TH., iron ore deposits,
Weser hills, Westphalia, 705.

WILDE, W., member of council, election,
M.C., 87.

WILDE, WILLIAM, member of council,
election, M., 93.

WILKINSON JOHN WILLIAM, election,
N. E., 270.

WILLANS engines, Newbottle collieries,
64.

WILLIAMS, GRIFFITH JOHN, election,
N.E, 17.

WILLIAMS, LUKE, Alston mines, 405.
WILLIAMSON, R. S., vice-president, elec-
tion, 352.

WILSON, ANTHONY, Alston mines, 404.
-, election, N. E., 270.
WILSON, E., quoted, 378.

WILSON, JOHN, Alston mines, 396.
WILSON, J. R. ROBINSON, notes on sys-
tematic timbering, 104.

-,

vice-president, election, M., 93.
WILSON, JAMES S. GRANT, quoted, 119.
WILSON, WILLIAM, election, N. E., 17.
WILSON, WILLIAM, election, S., 113.
WILSON, WILLIAM AND JOHN, quoted,

West Sleekburn colliery, 584.
of the future, 195.

Winding velocity, Germany, Zollern
colliery, 621.

Winding water, arguments in favour, 615.
Winlaton mill, Garesfield incline, 572.
Winnington chemical works, pounds

fuel per indicated horsepower, 152.
Witton junction, Durham, victoria coal-
seam, 554, 569.

Witton-le-Wear, coal-seams, 569.
Witton park, bore-hole, 568, 569.
victoria seam, 569.

colliery, Durham, coal-seams below
brock well seam, 553.

WICST, ENRIQUE, quoted, 48.
WODRADA, F., safety apparatus for
winding-engines, 636.

Wold cottage, Scarborough, meteorite or
sky-stone, 275.

WOLF benzine safety - lamps, British
Columbia, Fernie mine, 469.

Germany, Shamrock I. col.

liery, 626.
Wolframite, Thuringia, magnetite, 704.
WOOD, SIR LINDSAY, BART., Alston mines,
404, 405.

coke-making at Oliver coke-works, 163.
Crumlin meteorite, 275.

election of officers, 353.

experimental gallery for testing life.
saving apparatus, 179.

jubilee of North of England Institute
of Mining and Mechanical Engineers,
271.

member of council, election, 16.
papers from colonial members, 415.
president, election, 352.

“-,

N.E., 3.

presidential address, N.E., 68.
probability of finding workable seams
of coal in carboniferous limestone or
bernician formation, beneath the regular
coal-measures of Northumberland and
Durham, 563.

-, utilization of exhaust-steam by com
bined application of steam-accumulators
and condensing turbines, 351.
valuation of gas coals, 311.
WOOD, NICHOLAS, first president of N.E.,

70.

quoted, 4, 73, 78.

WOOD, W. O., coke-making at the Oliver
coke-works, 163.

member of council, election, 16.
Wood, Haskin system of treating, 606.