.NDEX 



{Nature, May ii, 1876 



Poncelet (General) Eloge on, 196 



Porto Rico, Earthquake in, 155 



Potato Disease, 459 ; Worihington G. Smith on, 524 



Pouchtt's " Universe," 77 



Preece (W. H.), Bryant and May's Matches, 208 



" Preece and Sivewright's Telegraphy," 441, 511 



Prehistoric Cave, Discovery of, in France, 456 



Primroses and Bullfinches, 427 



Primulacese, Hybrid, of the Alps, 113 



Pringsheim (Dr.), " Jahrbuch fiir Botanik," 156 



Prismatic Basalt, 7, 47 



Procter (W., M.D.), Chemistry of the Non-metallic Elements, 



446 

 Proctor (R. A.), the Late Eclipse, 186 

 Procyon, Struve's Companion o', 406 

 Frorasfomiis siretioidcs, Prof. Owen, F. R. S., on, 114 

 Pryor (R. A.), a New Palmistry, 47 ; Seasonal Colour in Flowers, 



Psychological Society, 77 

 Public Analysts,, 242, 287 

 Puckle (Col. J.), the Rainfall, 



Putnam's Archaeological Researches in Kentucky and Indiana, 

 109 



Quarterly Journal of the Meteorological Society, 531 

 Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 257 

 Queen's Colleges in Ireland, 22 ; Commission on, 530 

 Quetelet (Prof. E.), Statistics, Brussels, 296 



Radiation and Repulsion, W. Crookes, F.R.S., 391, 450 



Radiation and Thermal Energy, Capt. J. Ericsson, 114 



Radiometers, 10, 324, 366, 420, 458, 473, 489, 511 



Railway Exhibition in Paris, 135 



Railway Stations in France, Maps at, 77 



Rainbow Projected on Blue Sky, 348 



Rainfall in 1875, 70, 86 



Rainfall on the Continent, Decrease of, 15 



Rainfall of Sweden, 436 



Ramsay (Prof., F.R.S.), Anglesey, how it became an Island, 



279 

 Rankine (Prof.), Memorial to, 374 

 Rare Plants in the Alps, Unequal Distribution of, 516 

 " Recent Origin of Man," J. S. Southall, 245, 484, 510 

 Red Snow, 414 



Refraction, Apparatus for illustrating the Law of, 535 

 Refraction of Light and Sound through the Atmosphere, Dr. A. 



Schuster, 67 

 Refraction of Sound, Prof. Osborne Reynolds, 218 

 Rekhert and Du Bois Reymoad's Archiv, 258 

 "Reliquice Aquitanicee," Lartet and Christy, 401 

 Renshaw (A. G. ), Screw-Propeller in Nature, 367 

 Reptilia and Batrachia of Costa Rica, 25 7 

 Repulsion and Radiation, W. Crookes, F. R.S., 391, 450 

 Research Fund for the Chemical Society, Dr. W. J. Russell, 



F.R.S.,461 

 Retriever Dog, and Cat, ^6 ; a Criminal, 69 

 Revue Philosophique, 477 

 Reynolds (Prof. Osboine), Hartley's "Air and its Relation to 



Life," 243 ; Refraction of Sound, 218 

 Rhabdomancy, Miss Buckland on, 200 

 Richardson (Dr., F.R.S.), Dr. F. de Chaumont on his Hygeia, 



25 ; " Diseases of Modern Life," 508 

 Rink (Dr. Henry), "Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo," 103 

 River-beds of the Riviera, 406, 448 

 Rivers, Wm. Hope on the Pollution of, 81 

 Riviera, the Dry River-beds of the, 406, 448 

 Romanes (G. J.) on Medusa, 496 

 Rome, Academia dei Lincei, 536; Excavations at, 155; the 



University of, 1 14, 296 

 Roscoe (Prof., F.R. S.), on Popular Science Lectures, 82 ; Phy- 

 sical Science in Schools, 353, 386 

 Ross (Major W. A.), " Pyiology, or Fire Chemistry," 164; 



Blow-pipe Analysis, 186 ; D-line Spectra, 366 

 Rosse (Lord), Bronze Statue of, 435 

 Rotherham, Science Classes at, 135 

 Routledge (R., F.C.S.), "Discoveries and Inventions of the 



Nineteenth Century," 44 

 Royal Arsenal, Chemical Society at, 395 

 Royal Institution, Lectures at, 75 

 Royal School of Mines, Annual Dinner, 155 



Royal Society, 78, 98, 118, 134, 138, 158, 176, 198, 218, 237, 

 277, 298, 397, 418, 458, 478, 498, 533; Anniversary Meeting, 

 93 ; Committees, 193 ; Conversazione, 473 ; Election of Officers 

 and Council, 35 ; Medals of the, 34, 93 ; New Fellows, 474 



Rogers (C. E. H.), Seasonal Order of Colour in Flowers, 129 



Rugby Catalogue of Double Stars, 287 



Russell (Dr. W. J., F.R.S.), a Research Fund for the Chemical 

 Society, 461 



Russia, Expedition to Behring's Straits, 217 



Riitimeyer on Traces of Man in the Glacial Coal-beds of Swit- 

 zerland, 130 



Safety Matches, 469, 512 



St. Gothard's Tunnel Works, Compressed Air Locomotives used 

 in, 489 



St. Helena, the Natural History of, 272 



St. Petersburg, Meeting of Orientalists, 76 



Salet (M.), the Spectrum of Nitrogen and that of Alkaline Metals 

 in Geissler Tubes, 314 



Salmon, Investigation into the Habits of, 53 ; in New Zealand, 

 256, 257 



Salt, the Flame of Common, 287, 306, 448 



Satellites of Uranus, 208 



Saturn, Occultations of, 188 ; Rings of, 307 ; Satellite Hyperion, 

 326 



Saw-fish inhabiting Fresh Water, 107, 167 



Scheerer and Blanford's " Introduction to the Use of the Mouth- 

 Blowpipe, 164 



School Examinations and the University of London, 261, 286 



Schools, Physical Science in, 311, 329, 353, 371, 386, 412, 430, 

 454, 472, 491 



Schott (Chas. A.), Meteorological Charts of the United States, 



53 

 Schuster (Dr. A.), the Bothkamp Sun Observations, 402 ; the 

 Flame of Common Salt, 306 ; the Late Eclipse, 86, 207 ; on 

 the Radiometer, 458 ; Refraction of Light and Sound through 

 the Atmosphere, 67 ; Scientific Notes taken in the Himalayas, 



393 

 Schweinfurth (Dr. G.), " Artes Africanae," 142 

 Science and Art in Ireland, 309, 349, 370 

 Science Classes and Penny Lectures in Birmingham, 149 

 Science Commission, Seventh Report of, 21 

 Science : in Germany, 10, 30, 75, 112, 250, 452, 521 ; in Italy, 



no ; in Leeds, 527 

 Science in Schools {See Schools) 

 Science Lectures at Manchester, 82 

 Science Teaching to Young Children, G. H. West, 48 

 Scientific Agriculture, Prof. T. Baldwin, loi 

 Scientific Apparatus, Loan Exhibition of, 36, 196, 231, 274, 295, 



315. 349, 375. 413. 455, 47°, 474, 503 

 " Scientific Culture," Josiah P. Cooke, 284 

 Scientific Instruction and the Advancement of Science, 371 

 Scientific Notes taken in the Himalayas, Dr. A. Schuster, 393 

 Scientific Research, Lord Derby on the Endowment of, 141 ^ 



Scientific Research for the Promotion of Science, Prof. Piazzi 



Smith, 45 

 Scientific Societies of Dublin, 470 

 Scientific Worthies, VIL — Sir Charles Wheatstone, 501 

 Sclater (P. L., F.R.S.), Geographical Zoology, 482; the Island, 



of Socotra, 414, 426 

 Scorpion, H. Woodward, F.R.S., on a Fossil, 58 

 Scotland : Scotch Herring Fishery Board, Report of, 35 ; Scotch 



Universities, Science Commission, Report on, 21 ; Royal 



Agricultural Society, loi ; Meteorological Society of, 53, 76, 



100, 135 

 Scott (R. H., F.R.S.), Hoffmeyer's Synoptic Weather Charts, 



85 

 Screw Propeller, Origin of, 367, 386, 428, 465, 512 

 Screws, Dr. Ball, F.R.S., on, 463 

 Scrope (G. Poulett, F.R.S.), Cup-shaped Joints in Prismatic 



Basalt, 47 ; Glaciers in France, 149, 166 ; Obituary Notice 



of, 241 

 Scudder (S. H.), Fossil Butterflies, 222 

 Sea, the, Jules Michelet, 106 



Seasonal Order of Colour in Flowers, 150, 326, 348, 366, 427 

 Sea Trout on the Norfolk Coast, 114 

 Sea-water, the Expansion of, by Heat, 237 

 Secchi (Padre), Ericsson's Researches on the Sun, 46 ; Spectra 



of Stars, 480 

 Sedgwick Memorial, 375 





