INDEX. 



711 



Stoue, Mr. Liviugston, cxv., ?.05, 459, 464. 

 Storm charts of the Atlantic Ocean, 123. 

 in Nova Scotia, 97. 

 warnings, Prestel on, 101. 

 Storms of Northern Europe, 87. 

 Strachey, Gen.R., 226. 

 Strasburger, Prof., civ. 

 Straw, dyeing green, 581. 

 Streiutz, Mr., xxxvi., 151. 

 Strieker, Prof., 648. 

 Stnive, Prof., xx., 28, 57. 

 Stuart, Mr., Ivii. 

 StUkle,Mr. H. W., 251. 

 Submarine cable, a whale entangled in, 540. 

 Substitute for double windows, 405, 



for milk for calves, 390. 

 Snb-Wealdeu, borings in the, 211. 

 Sugar-making with tentrifugal action, 564. 

 Suhms, Dr.,294. 

 Suint, uses of, 417. 

 Sullivant, William S., 635. 

 Sulphide of carbon, odor of, removed, 564. 

 Sulphur fumes destroying insects, 390. 

 Sulphuret of calcium a remedy for phyl- 

 loxera, 394. 

 Sulphuric acid on lampblack, 612. 



on wine, 403. 

 Summers, Mr. William, 253. 

 Sun, constitution of the, 42. ' 



daily photographs of the, 60. 

 diameter of the, 41. 

 red flames of the, 49. 

 Sporer's observations on the, 40. 

 variable size of the, 2. 

 Sun's crust, constitution of the, 52. 



heat, force derived from the, 63. 

 limb and centre, spectra of the, 45. 

 spots, influence of, on temperature 



and rain, 100. 

 surface, temperature of the, 43. 

 Sunlight, nature of, 137. 



on flour, effect of, 485. 

 on olive-oil, 612. 

 Suppression of excretions of the skin, 272. 

 Survey of Northern boundary, 257. 

 Susani, Mr., 392. 

 Sutro tunnel, report on the, 516. 

 Switzerland, rain-fall in, 67. 

 Sydow, Count Emil von, 685. 

 Symons, Mr., xxxi., 123. 

 Synoplotherium, 285. 



lanins, 286. 

 Szekely's brilliant photographs, 576. 



T. 



Tacchiui, Prof., S. 

 Taggart, Mr.W.R.,251. 

 Taking cold, theory of, 6i5. 

 Tallow, purification of, 433, 596. 

 Tamm, Mr. Hugo, 192. 

 Tammite, a new mineral, 192. 

 Tannin and gelatine for fixing aniline col- 

 ors, 580. 

 Tarry, Mr., 80. 



Tashkend, new observatory at, 17. 

 Tea-culture in Japan, 401. 

 Teasel-cards, preservation of, 603. 

 Technical schools, 674. 

 Technology, cxxiv.,545. 

 Tegetmeier, Mr., 287. 

 Telegraph to Australia, 125. 

 Telegraphic communication, free, 653. 



Engineers, Society of, 670. 

 Telegraphy, system of optical, 161. 



Telescope, most powerful, xxiv. 

 Telescopes, mirrors for, 593. 



power of small, 152. 

 Temper of steel and magnetism, "HS. 

 Temperature and rain and sun's spots, 

 100. 

 during germination, 360. 

 of animals, eflect of heat on, 



272. 

 of rivers, 63. 



of silk-worm houses, 412. 

 of soils, 381. 

 of the ground, influence of 



forests on the, 81. 

 of the sun's surface, 43. 

 points of minimum, 68. 

 Tension of vapors, 144. 

 Terby,Mr., 31. 

 Terrell, Mr., 179. 

 Terrestrial magnetism, xxvi. 



and barometer, 149. 

 mollusca in the Bahamas, 333. 

 physics, xxvi. 



and Meteorology, 63. 

 Testing iron, new method of, 515. 

 Testini,Mr.,lS2. 

 Tests for gilding, 560. 

 Thallene and other solid hydrocarbons, 



181. 

 Thanatophidia, 290. 

 Thaumops pellucida, 295. 

 Theory of electricity, Edlund's, 173. 

 of gases, dynamical, 172. 

 of "taking cold," 615. 

 the nebular, 38. 

 Therapeutics of hyoscyamus, 622. 

 Thermometers, derangement in cari-ying, 



74. 

 Thibault, Mr.,172, 533. 

 Thiel, Prof., 400. 



Thierry, Simon Dominique Amedee, 685. 

 Thnorier, Mr., 182. 

 Thomas, Prof. Cyrus, xcix., 232, 23G. 

 Thompson, Mr. Gilbert, 253. 



Prof., 258. 

 Thomson, Mr., 275. 



Prof. Wyville, Ivii., xciii , 243, 



672. 

 Sir William, Iv., 171, 173. 

 Thorpe, Mr., xl. 

 Thuja occidentalis, 263. 

 Thurber, Mr. George, 654. 

 Tide gauge, self-registering, 65. 

 Tillman, Lieutenant Samuel E., 253, 

 Time, observing minute intervals of, 12S. 

 regulation of, by observatories, 16. 

 Timothy grass, disease of, 400. 

 Tin in Australia, 191. 

 Tingley, Prof. J., 655. 



Tinning, coppering, etc., wet method of, 

 5S9. 

 linen and cotton fabrics, 607. 

 Tissandier, Mr., 124, 668. 

 Tisy, Mr.,G20. 



Tobacco smoke, nicotine in, 628. 

 Tobias,Mr. H. B.,229. 

 Toothache cured by electricity, 644. 

 Torpedoes, protecting ships against, 522. 

 Torrey Botanical Club, 71, 654, 



Prof. John, 654,635. 

 Tourmaline, 201. 

 I Toynbee, Capt.,117. 



Tracing-paper, improved, 545, 

 I Trade in preserved meats, 499. 



