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INDEX. 



Sanderson, Dr. J. Bnrdon, Excitability 



of Plants and Animals, 146, 151. 

 Scott, R. H., Weather Knowledge, 323. 

 Sculpture, 280. 

 Sensitive Plants, 152. 

 Shade Temperature, 17. 

 Siemens, Sir Wm., Solar Physics, 315. 



Resolution on Decease of, 405. 



Lady, Present of "Selenium Eye," 



474. 



Dr. Werner, Lettcr_froni, 473. 



Sleep of Plants, 154. 



Smith, R. Bosworth, Early Life of Lord 

 Lawrence in India, 183. 



Soap-bubble, 191. 



Socotra Island, 296. 



Sodium Vapour, 257. 



Solar Physics, 315. 



Spectrum, 60, 248. 



Sound, 175. 



Spectra of Comets, 3. 



of Elements, 245. 



of M(.'teorites, 7. 



Spectroscopic Observations, 332. 



Spectrum Analysis, 57. 



Spottiswoode, W., Matter and Magneto- 

 Electric Action, 75. 



Resolution on Decease of, 399. 



Stars, Proper Motions of, 115. 



Statham, H. H., Intellectual Basis of 

 Music (no abstract), 144. 



Statues, 280. 



Stokes, Professor, Explanation of Phos- 

 phorescence, 202 ; on Fluorescence, 

 208, 210; on Polarisation, 205. 



Fluorescent Screen, 245, 258. 



Storm Warnings, 329. 



Striae in Vacuum Tubes, 83. 



Stylidium, 157. 



Sun Temperature, 18, 22, 24. 



Surface Tension, Rumford's Experi- 

 ments on, 450. 



Swan, J. W., Electric Lighting by In- 

 candescence, 33. 



Sword, 377. 



Tait on Comets, 10. 

 Temperature and Radiation, 315; 

 Ratio, 317 ; Observations, 261. 



Thermopile, 255. 



Thompson, B. (Count Rumford), 407. 

 Thomson, Sir Wm., Size of Atoms, 185. 

 Thorpe, Professor, Chemical Work of 



W5hler, 477. 

 Town Climate, 24. 

 Tunnels, 123; Tunnelling, 488. 

 Turner, C. E., Domestic Industry in 



Russia, 359. 

 Tylor, Alfred, Roman Antiquities 



found in London, 29. 

 Tyndall, Professor, Action of INIolecules 



on Radiant Heat {abstract deferred), 



13. 

 Conversion of Radiant Heat into 



Sound, 175. 



Thoughts on Radiation, 253. 



On Count Rumford, 407. 



On Rainbows, 455. 



Ultra-violet of Spectrum, 209, 245, 



258. 

 Uranium Glass, 209. 

 Uric Acid, \1$, 480. 



VACUU3I Tubes, Discharge in, 83. 



Vapours producing Sound, 177. 



Vase Paintings, 285. 



Veiia, 470. 



Velocity of Propagation, 198. 



Vibrating Meter, 239. 



Waldstein, C, Influence of Athletic 



Games upon Greek Art, 272. 

 Wat.r Meter.'^, 235. 



Spectrum, 62, 64. 



Wave-length Particles, Velocity, 198. 



Wave-lengths of Light, 187. 



Waves illustrated, 188, 199, 209. 



Weather Knowledge, 323. 



Wells on Dew, 254. 



Whalebone, 366, 369. 



Wliales, 360. 



Williamson, C. W., Anomalous Oolitic 



and Palaeozoic Forms of Vegetation, 



220. 

 Wirashurst, James, Present of Electrical 



Machine, 214. 

 Wohler's Chemical Work, 477. 



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