660 



INDEX. 



Saunders, Mr. William, 593. 



Savart polariscope, 21. 



Sawdust as fuel, 46S. 



for brandy-making, 43S. 



Sawisza, Mr. J., cxviii. 



Scammon, Capt. C. M., civ., 33S. 



Scarlet on half-wool garments, 50C. 



Scheele's green against insects, 392. 



Schenk, Mr., lx., 172. 



Schenzl, Mr., xxxiii. 



Schiff, Mr. Hugo, lv. 



Schlagintweit, Mr., cxxv. 



Schleiden, Mr. G., 202. 



Schleswig-Holstein, climate of, 124. 



Schliemann, Dr., cxxiii. 



Schmankiewitsch, Mr., cxxxiv. 



Schmick, Mr., xxxii. 



Schmidt, Dr., xxvii., cvii., cix., 50, 22S. 



Schnaus, Mr., 4S9. 



Schnitzler, Dr.,53S. 



Scholz,Mr., 228. 



Schone, Mr., xlv., 202. 



Schorlemmer, Mr., lxiii. 



& Dale, Messrs., liii. 



Schott, Mr., 82, 153. 



Schrader, Prof., cxv. 



Schrauf, Mr. A., lxvi., lxvii., 22G, 235. 

 & Dana, Messrs., xliv. 



Schrockingerite, a new mineral, 220. 



Schrotter, Mr., xlv. 



Schubert, Mr., 399. 



Schuchardt, Dr., 49S. 



Schultz, Dr., 2S2, 506. 



Mr. Alexander, 445. 



Schultze, Prof. Max, Hi., cvi., cix., 213, 

 015. 



Schumacher, Mr. Paul, cxvii. 



Schiitzenberger, Mr., 206. 



Schwartz's method of butter-making, 

 399. 



Schwarz, Mr., 22T, 497. 



Schweigger, Dr., 555. 



Schweinfurth, Dr., xcv., xcvi., cxxxi. 



Scientific institutions, catalogue of all, 

 595. 



Scintillation of the stars, 10. 



Sclater, Dr., 342, 351. 



& Salviu, Messrs., 343. 



Scott, Mr., 90. 



& Galloway, Messrs., 72,477. 



Screw of a propeller, raising and lowering 

 the 4S4. 



Scudder,Mr.,574, 575. 



Sczaroch, the, a new bomb-shell, 47S. 



Sea fisheries, clxxi. 



temperatures and fisheries, 419. 



Sea-serpent on the Scotch coast, 296. 

 -water, extracting gases from, 207. 

 -weed, uses of, 362. 

 -weeds of the Bay of Fundy, 356. 



Seal and herring fisheries of Newfound- 

 land, 424. 



Sealing-wax, friction, 490. 



Seals, act in regard to killing, 421. 



Secchi, Father, xxvi., xxix., 10, 14, IS, 19, 

 20. 

 & Him, Messrs., 19. 

 & Tacchini, Messrs., 10. 



Secular changes in the earth's magnetism, 

 153. 



Seebohm, Mr. Louis, 615. 



Seed-potato, disinfecting the, 40S. 



Seeds growing in ashes and sand, 3S5. 

 manganese in, 359. 



Seeley, Prof., 354. 



Seewarte, at Hamburg, 70. 



Seguin,Mr.,302. 



Seiler, Madame, 193. 



Seine, low water in the river, 106. 



Selache maximus, 351. 



Selenium, electrical resistance of, 14S. 



Selenka, Dr. Emil, cxliv. 



Selenography, notes on, xxvii. 



Self-recording barometers, 117. 



-registering apparatus for omnibuses, 

 etc., 465. 

 Sellack, Prof., 529. 

 Semann, Mr., 470. 

 Semper, Prof., cliv., 5S1. 

 Senna, effect of, on the urme ? 547. 

 Serpents, venom of East Indian, 2S7. 

 Serum and albumen without carbonic 



acid, 292. 

 Sesquioxide of iron in dyeing silk, 530. 

 Sewage, polluting rivers by, 555. 

 Shad, food of the, 310. 



in the Gulf of Mexico, 33S. 

 sent to Germany, clxix. 

 Shaded yarns, new manner of producing, 



533. 

 Shaler, Prof., lxxiv., cli., 575. 

 Shamaka, in the Caucasus, 50. 

 Shark, cartilage of the, 2S9. 



the basking, 351. 

 Sharks and rays, development of, 349. 

 Sharks' livers, oil from, 419. 

 Sheep, effect of fat in the feed of, 337. 



experiments of feeding, 413. 

 Sheep-raising in South Africa, influence 



on vegetation of, 374. 

 Shellac and nitrate of strontia, 432. 

 Shells of California, the banded, 314. 

 Shepai-d, Prof. C. XL, lxxiv. 

 Shertchley, Mr. J. A., cxxxi. 

 Ship canal across Middle America, xcii. 

 Ships' magnetism, 148. 

 Shoes, wooden soles for, 432. 

 Shot dangerous for cleaning bottles, 



455. 

 Shumard, Mr., lxviii. 

 Shuttleworth, Mr. Robert, 615. 

 Siberian steppes, geology of the, 235. 

 Sidbree, Mr. James, exxxii. 

 Siegen, Mr., 552. 

 Siemens, Prof., 473. 



Signal-oflice of the army in 1S73, 00, 73, SI, 

 GOO. 

 -stations in Canada, SS. 

 Signals of the London Board of Trade, 71. 



to locomotive engineers, 469. 

 Silberman, Mr., 324. 



Silk, dyeing with sesquioxide of iron, 536. 

 extraction of, from half- silk rags, 



523. 

 garments, yellow on, 505. 

 weighting with baryta, 537. 

 Silkworms' eggs, artificial hatching of, 



400. 

 Silliman, Prof., Ixv. 



and Wurtz, Profs., clxxxv. 

 Siluridae, eggs of the, 313. 

 Silver, an alloy resembling, 512. 



bromide of, 491. 

 Simon, Mr., cliii. 

 Siphon slide, the Holman, xcviii. 

 Six's minimum thermometer, 103. 

 Size of wagon-wheels, 454. 

 Skeletons, bleaching, 281. 



