Nature, Nov. 1 6, 1876] 



INDEX 



XI 



Scientific Apparatus, Loan Collection of, i, 21, 34, 41, 52, 72, 

 76, 92, 114, 120, 138, 140, 157, 159, 231 ; Conferences at, 72, 

 92, 114, 140, 159, 175; Photography of, 149; Prussian 

 Scientists at, 442 



Scientific Bibliography, 538, 562, 583 



Scientific Missions, French, 278 



Scientific Poisoning, 130 



Scientific Research, Government Aid to, 185 



Scientific Worthies, VIII., Sir Wyville Thomson (with 

 Portrait), 85 ; IX., Sir William Thomson {with Portrait), 385 



Scintillation of Stars, 562 



Sclater (P. L., F.R.S.), Antedated Books, 351, 392 



Scotland, Geological Map of, 342 ; Dr. Bryce's Report on Earth- 

 quakes in, 454, 456 



Scott (Robt. H., F.R.S.), "Weather Charts and Storm Warn- 

 ings," 565 



" Scottish Naturalist," 37 



Scottish Meteorological Society, 219 



Screw, Song of the, 30 



Seeds, Germination of, when kept between Ice, 322 



"Seiches," Prof. Dr. Forel on, 164 



Seine, Inundations of the, 121 



Selective Absorption, W. Ackroyd, 163 



Selenium in Telegraphy, 279 



Self-Fertilisation of Plants, 475, 543, 570 



Servia and Bosnia, Resources of, 277 



Sewage, Reports on the Treatment of, 455 



Seychelles Islands, W. R. McNab, 113 



Shark, the Basking, Dr. E. Perceval Wright, 313 



Sharp (D.), Antedated Books, 474 



Sharp's " Rudiments of (Jeology," 90 



Sharpe (R. Bowdler), Prof. Steere's Expedition to the Philip- 

 pines, 297 ; Antedated Books, 330, 392 



Shell Mounds, Florida, Prof. Jeffries Wyman, 531 



Shells, Carboniferous Land, 317 



Shooting, the Wounded in, 501 



Short's Observation of a Supposed Satellite of Venus, 231 



Siberia, German Exploration of Western, 180, 358, 514, 579; 

 the Orography of, 581 



Siderite, the Rowton, Prof. N. S. Maskelyne, F.R.S., 272 



Siemens (Dr. C. W., F.R.S.), Opening Address at the Loan 

 Collection, 56 



Siemens' Electric Light Apparatus, 133 



Siemens (M. W.), Velocity of Electricity, 358 



Silk-Culture, Congress on, 497 



Simon (Dr.) of Heidelberg, Death of, 497 



Sirocco in the Basses Pyrenees, 80 



Sitzungsberichte der naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Isis in 

 Dresden, 301, 538 



Skeleton, Prehistoric, in New Zealand, 90 



Skertchley (S. B. J.), on the. Discovery of Palaeolithiclmple- 

 ments of Inter-Glacial Age, 448, 505 



Sloths, Protective Resemblance in the, 91 



Smith (C. Michie), the Flame of Chloride of Sodium in a Com- 

 mon Coal Fire, 570 



Smith (George), Death of, 418 ; Obituary Notice of, by the 

 Rev. A. H. Sayce, 421 ; the Fund in Aid of his Family, 516; 

 Pension to' his Widow, 580 



Smith (John), " Historia Filicum," 286 



Smith (Worthington G.), the Potato Disease, 70 



Smithsonian Institution, 342 ; Meteorology at the, 382 



Smyth (Prof. Piazzi), the Warm Rain Band in the Daylight 

 Spectrum, 9 



Snow Partridges, 180 



Social Science Congress, 418, 559 



Society of Arts, Medals ot the, 217 



Sodium, Chloride of. Flame of, in a Coal Fire, 506, 570 



Solar Eclipses, of 1878, 210 ; of 1882, 357 ; of 1885, 450 



Solar Eruptions observed at Palermo, 562 



vSolar Halos, 79 



" Solid Geometry/' Percival Frost's, 47 



Sollas (W. J.), Miniature Physical Geology, 526 



Song of the Screw, 30 



Sound, Our Perception of the Direction of a Source of, Lord 

 Rayleigh, F.R.S., 32 



Sound Waves, Dr. Konig on, 141 



South Kensington, Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus at, 

 I, 21, 34,41, 52, 72, 76, 92, 114, 12^, 138, 140, 157, 159, 

 231; Conferences at, 92, 114, 140, 159, 175; Science Lee- 

 tures at, 138, 157, 180, 199; Prussian Scientists at, 442 



Southport Aquarium, 279 



Spalding (Douglas A.), the Origin of Li'e, 44 ; Maudsley's 



*' Physiology of Mind," 541 

 Spanish University, a Free, 132 

 Species and Varieties, W. L. Distant, 392 

 Spectroscope and Radiometer, M. de Fonvielle's Experiment on, 



181 

 Spectrum, the Warm Raiuband in the Daylight, Prof. Piazzi 



Smyth, 9 

 Spirophore, M. Woillez's, 260 

 Sponge's, 162 ; Siliceous, 481 



Spottiswoode (W., F.R.S.), Opening Address at the Loan Col- 

 lection, 54 ; Stratified Discharges by Means of a Revolving 



Mirror, 142 

 Spring Dynamometers, Prof. W. F. Barrett, 29 

 Stanley's Expedition to Africa, 279, 373 

 Stars, Binary, 29 ; Star Lalande, 27,095, 49 ; New Red Star, 



72 ; Double, 72, 152, 232, 337 ; Binary, 152, 474 ; Variable, 



152, 211, 424, 507,533, 571; Mira Ceti, 277; Huth's 



Moving, 291 ; Scintillation of, 562 

 Statistical Society, 217 



Stebbing (Rev. T. R. R.), Protective Mimicry, 330 

 Steel, the Use of, for Structural Purposes, 477 

 Steere (Prof. J. B.), Expedition to the Philippines, R. Bowdler 



Sharpe, 297 

 Stephans' Comet, 192 



Stewart (Prot. Balfour, F.R.S.), Meteorological Research, 388 

 Stockholm Academy of Sciences, 144, 164, 184 

 Stone (O. C. ), Expedition to New Guinea, 338, 489 

 Stone (Dr. W. H.), Blaserna on Musical Sound, 502 

 Stonyhurst College Observatory, Meteorological Observations 



at, 299 

 Storms, 320; at Brussels, 158; at Valbonne, 158 ; Prediction 



of, 200 ; Rosser's Law of, Considered Practically, 504 

 Stratified Discharges by Means of a Revolving Mirror, W. 



Spottiswoode, F.R.S., 142 

 Struthers (Prof), the Finger-Muscles of Whales, 486 

 Sub-Wealden Exploration, Final Report on, 419 

 Sulina, Meteorological Station at, 16 

 Sumatra, the Mountain Limestone of, 480 

 Sumner's " Method at Sea," 346 ; Sir G. B. Airy and Prof. G. 



G. Stokes on, 559 

 Sun, M. Janssen's Photographs of, 62, 79 ; Photographing the, 



534, 535 

 Sun-spots and a supposed Intra-Mercunal Planet, 473 

 Sun-spot of April 4, 1876, by the Astronomer-Royal, 533 

 Supplemento alia Meteorologia Italiana, 158 

 Sweden, Fall of Meteorites in, 300 

 Sweden and Norway, Thunderstorms in, 219 

 Sydney, Mr. Krefft and the Australian Museum, 157 

 Symons (G. J.), Meteorological Society, 10 

 Symonds (Rev. W. S.), Ancient Glaciers in Auvergne,'i79 



Tacheometer, Gentilli's, 296 



Tail, a Rudimentary, Dr. Andrew Dunlop, 450 



Talt (Prof. P. G.), on Force, 459 



Tasmanians, the, 211, 242 



Taylor (Sedley), Galileo and the Roman Court, 226 



Tea, Bad, 278 



Telephone, on the, J. Munro, 30 



Telephones and other Applications of Electricity, 353 



I'elfer (Commander J. B.), the Crimea and Transcaucasia, 368 



Temperature of Summer, the Extreme, 270 



Tempered Glass, Curious Behaviour of, 561 



Terpenes, Reports on, 455, 456 



Tetraogallus tauricus, 180 



Textile Industries, Schools of Instruction, 535 



Theriodonts, Prof. Owen on, 163 



Thermometer, Williams (?), S. M. Drach, 210 



Thibet, M. Prejevalsky's Expedition to, 496 



Thompson (Mr. B. A.), on the Supposed New Force, 143 



Thompson (S. P. ), Acoustical Phenomena, 149 



Thomson (Prof. James), on the Windings of Rivers, 122 



Thomson (Su- William, F.R.S,), "Tables for faciUtating Sum- 



ner's Method at Sea," 346 ; Notice of (c^vUh Portrait), 385 ; 



on Science and Scientists in the United States, 426 ; Opening 



Address in Section A at the British Association, 426 

 Thomson (Sir C. Wyville, F.R.S.), Notes from the Challenger, 14 ; 



Notice of {^uith Portrait), 8$ ; Address on the Challenger 



Expedition, 492 

 Thunderstorm at Valbonne, 158 

 Tidal Operations in the Gulf of Cutch, 480 



