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INDEX 



[Natttre, Nov. 28, 1889 



San Jose Meteorological Institute, 84 



Sand Showers, Prof. P. F. Denza, 286 



Sanderson (Prof. Burdon, F.R.S.): Opening Address in Section 



1) (Biology) at the British Association, 521 ; on Evolution 



and Morphology, 521 

 Sandhurst and VVoolwich, Examinations for, 43 

 Sanitary Conference at Worcester, 548 

 Sanitary Institute, 536, 537 ; Congress of, 326 

 Sanitary Reform at Benares, Native Opposition to, 44 

 Sanitary Science, Diplomas in Public Health, 516 

 Sanitary and Technical Purposes, Examination of Water for, 



Henry Leffmann, 293 

 Saprolegnia, Prof. Hartog on the Structure of, 6n 

 Sardine Fisheries on the Coast of Brittany, 264 ; the Oceanic 



Sardine, 384 

 Saturn's Ring, White Spot on. Prof. Holden, 15 ; M. Terby, 



307 

 Sauermann (Dr.), Effects of Pepper-feeding on Birds, 192 

 Saxicava Borings and Valves in a Boulder Clay Erratic, T. 



Mellard Reade, 246 

 Saxony, Waterspout in, 84 ; Ornithological Observatories in, 



577 

 Sayce (Prof A. H.), Babylonian the Language of Polite Society 



in the Fifteenth Century B.C., 239 

 Scabiosa succissa, Trimorphism in, Arthur Turner, 643 

 Scania, Meteorite found at, 229 

 Scarlet Fever and Cow Disease, 55 



Schists, Crystalline, of Norway, Dr. A. Geikie, F.R. S., 608 

 Schlagintweit (Adolph), Memorial to, 326 

 Sclater (Dr. P. L., F.R.S.), Bambangala, 54 

 Schlcesing (Th.) : Nitrification of Ammonia, 539; Air in the 



Soil, 636 

 Schmidt (Dr. Carl), Zur Geologie der Schweizeralpen, 220 

 Schmidt (Dr. K. W. ), the Soil and Climate of German East 



Africa, 46 

 Schneider (M.) : the Channel Bridge, 536 ; the Proposed Chan- 

 nel Bridge, 560 

 Schonland (Selmar), Weismann's Essays on Heredity, &c., 618 

 School of Oriental Studies, a New, 251 

 Schorlemmer (C, F.R.S.) and Sir H. E. Roscoe, F.R.S., a 



Treatise on Chemistry, Vol. iii.. Part v., 31 

 Schuster (Prof Arthur, F.R.S. ), on the Passage of Electricity 



through Gases, 585 

 Schwatka (Lieutenant), Cave-dwellers in Mexico, 208 

 Schweinfurth (Dr.), Journey to Hodeida, 182 

 Schweizeralpen, zur Geologie der. Dr. Carl Schmidt, 220 

 Science and Art Examination in Physics, 102 

 Science and Art, Sir Henry Roscoe on the Relations between, 



44 

 Science Collections at South Kensington, 425, 565 

 Science^ Elementary Teaching of, 589, 599 

 Science in Elementary Schools, Report to the British Association 



of the Committee on the Teaching of, Prof. Armstrong, 554 

 Science Examination Papers, R. Elliot Steel, 293 

 Science, French Association for the Advancement of, 394 

 Science, an Index to, J. Taylor Kay, 226 ; James Blake Bailey, 



245 



Science Lectures, Victoria Hall, 653 



Science as She is Wrote, 556 



Science Teaching, the New Code and, Dr. J. H. Gladstone, 

 F.R.S., I 



Science, the Teaching of, Prof. Henry E. Armstrong, F.R.S., 

 645 



Scientia, Dinner to Prof. Eras. Darwin, 207 



Scientific Education, the Vices of our, Prof. Minchin, 126 



Scientific Research, Endowment of, the Framjee Dinshaw Petit 

 Laboratory at Bombay, 133 



Scientific Works of Sir William Siemens, 409 



Scientific Worthies, Dmitri Ivanowilsh Mendeleeff, Prof. 

 T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 193 



Scotland : Scotch Fisheries Board, 106 ; Scottish Geographical 

 Magazine, 181, 598; Recent Researches into the Origin and 

 Age of the Highlands of, and the West of Ireland, Dr. 

 Archibald Geikie, F.R.S , 299, 320 ; Scottish Meteorological 

 Observatory, 304 ; Meteorology in, 326 ; Scottish Meteoro- 

 logical Society, 326 ; Report of the Committee appointed 

 by the British Association for the Purpose of co-operating 

 with, in making Meteorological Observations on Ben Nevis, 



535 

 Scott (C. S. ), Patches of Prismatic Light, 224 



Scott (Thomas), Artificial Fertilization of Ova, 163 ; the- 



Fertilization of the Ova of the Lemon Sole with the Milt of 



the Turbot, 253 

 Seamen of the Merantile Marine, Colour-Blindness and Defective 



Far-Sight among the, 438 

 Section Work at the British Association, Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, 



F.R.S., 593 

 Sedgwick Prize Essay at Cambridge, 516 tf 



Seed-Di«persion, Birds and, 305 I 



Seeley (Prof H. G., F.R.S.): in Russia, 13; Structural Peca-* 



liarities of Colymbosaurus, 653 

 Seismography : the Earlier Eruptions of Krakatab, Prof. John' 



W. Judd, F.R.S., 365 ; the Supposed Connection between 



Distant Earthquake Shocks, William White, 393 

 Seismology : in Italy, Prof Giulio Grablovitz, 246 ; Dr. H. J. 



Johnston-Lavis, 294; an Earthquake, A. B. Sharpe, 294 



the Recent Great Earthquake in Japan, 461 ; Prof. John 



Milne's Ninth Report on the Earthquake and Volcanic 



Phenomena of Japan, 608 ; Seismological Work in Japan, 



Prof. John Milne, 656 

 Self Induction, Name for Unit of, Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S.,. 



II 

 Self-induction, on a Valuable Standard of, Prof. Perry, F.R.S.,. 



586 

 Selous (F. C), Mashona Land, 16 

 Sensations, Intermittent, Thos. Reid, 318 

 Sensations of Motion, our. Prof. A. Crum Brown, 449 

 Senses of Criminals, the, 596 



Sentis, Meteorological Experiences on the, Dr. Assmann, 660 

 Sequence, an Unusual Geological, the Duke of Ariiyll, 642 

 Series Electric Traction, Northfleet Tramways, Edward Man- 



ville, 630 

 Servia, Disafforestation in, 445 

 Service Chemistry, Vivian B. Lewes, 639 

 Seven, some Properties of the Number, R. Tucker, 115 

 Sewage and Fish, Willis Bund, 548 



Sewage, Purification of, by Electrolysis, W. Webster, 631 

 Seymour (Dr.), the Hygiene of the Japanese House, 15 

 Sguario (Eusebio), an Italian Precursor of Franklin, 108 

 Shark off Ventnor, Capture of Large, 163 

 Sharpe (A. R. ), an Earthquake, 294 

 Sharpe (R. Bowdler), the Extinct Starling of Reunion [Freg/'- 



lupus vai'ius), 177 

 Shaw (W. N.), Report to the British Association on the Present 



State of our Knowledge in Electrolysis and Electro-chemistry, 



555 



Sheldon (Lilian), Maturation of Ovum in Cape and New Zea- 

 land Peripatus, 1 16 



Sherman (O. T.), the Residuals of Mercury, 63 



Shining Night Clouds, an Appeal for Observations, T. W. 

 Backhouse, 594 



Ship Railways, General Andiews, 108 



Shipley (A. E.), Weismann's Essays on Heredity, 6i8 



Shufeldt (R. W.), on the Aquatic Habits of certain Land Tor- 

 toises, 644 



Sibley (W. K.), on Left-leggedness, 632 



Sideroxylon dulcifictim, D. Morris, 238 



Siemens (Fredk.), the Application of Gas to Furnace-heating,. 

 .576 



Siemens Furnace, a New Form of. Head and Pouff, 561 



Siemens (Sir William, F.R.S.), the Scientific Works of, 409 



Sigillaria, the, Grand'Eury, 48 



Signals, on an Instrument for Measuring the Reaction Time to- 

 Sight and Sound, Francis Galton, F.R.S., 633 



Sikawei Meteorological Observatory, Bulletin of, 253 



Silicon, the Influence of, on the Properties of Steel, Hadfield,. 



.587 

 Silks, Wild, in the East, Treatment of, 4!i.7 

 Silver, Action of Light on Allotropic, M. C. Lea, 404 

 Silver, on the Quantity of Deposit of. Produced by the Develop- 

 ment on a Photographic Plate in terms of the Intensity of 

 Light Acting, Captain W. de W. Abney, F.R.S., 584 

 Sinclair (A. C), Hand-book of Jamaica for 1889-90, 593 

 Skeleton of an English Dinosaur, the Entire, 324 

 Skeleton of Phenacodus, 57 



Skertchley (Sydney B. J.), Note on Ragadia crisia, 10 

 Skin: Formation of Horny Layer of. Dr. Blaschko, 119 ; on 

 the Natural Colour of, in certain Oriental Races, 'Dr. J. 

 Beddoe, F.R.S., 633 

 Skraup and Wiegmann (Drs.), a New Amine, 14 



