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INDEX 



XXXI 



11, Relation between Heiijht and Shape of, P, An n )n, 653 

 v-movin^ Meteor, Fine, W. F. DanninT, 5^^ 

 .:h (Charles), Solutions of the E'cmples in a Treatise on 

 Algebra, 31 



Smith (Prof. C. M'chie), on Atmospheric Electricity, 5S5 



Smith (K. W.). a Shunt Transformer, 190 



Smith (F. J.), Mechanical Illustration of Propagation of Soini- 

 wave, 620 



Smith (Robert H.), Graphics, or the Art of Cilcalitioi by 

 Drawing Lines applied especially to Mechanical Engineering, 

 Prof. A. G. Greenhill. F.R.S., 50 



Smith (Worthington G. ), PaljcDlithic Implemsnts from the 

 Hills near Dunstable, 151 



Smithsonian Institution, the. 346, 421 



Smyth (Prof. C. Piazzi), Re-examination of the Spectra of 

 Twenty-three Gas- Vacuum End-on Tubes after Six to Ten 

 Years of Existence and Use, 584 



Smyth (Prof. C. Piazzi), Hygrometry in the Meteorological 

 younial, 585 



Snake-bites, Death in India by, 283 



Snow, the Influence of, on the Soil and Atmosphere, A, 

 Woeikof, 314 



Snow-blindness, Nose-blackening as a Preventive of, Rev. 

 Henry Bernard, 438 



Snowdon Summit, Purchase of, by Sir E. Watkin, 282 



Soaring, Effects of an Interinittent Wind in, M. Marey, 612 



Sociology of Rural Communes in France, M. Dumont, 402 



S )da, Nitrate of, and the Nitrate Country, Hon. Ralph Aber- 

 cromby, i85, 308 



Solar Eruptions in September 188S, Le Pare Jules Fenyi, 48, 64 



Solar Phenomena for 188S an I 1889, M. Tacchini, 144 



Solar Physics, on the Variation of Latitude in the Solar Spots, 

 M. R. Wolf, 383 



Solar Radiation : Electric Phenomena produced by, 384 ; Re- 

 port to the British Association on. 556 



Solar Spectrum, on the Telluric Origin of the Oxygen Lines in, 

 J. Janssen, 104 



Solar System, Stability of, D E^initis. 167 



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

 of the Turbot, Thomas Scott, 253 



Solids, the Elasticity of, E. H. Ami^at, 192 



Solutions, the Nature of, S. U. Pickering, i65 



Somerville (A. A.), on the Principle and Meth>is of Assigning 

 Marks for Bodily Efficiency, 652 



Sorbonne : the New Buildings of the, 349 ; the Fetes in Con- 

 nection with Opening of, 372 



Soret (A.), the Occlusion of Gases in Electrolysis of Sulphate of 

 Copper, 239 



Sormani (Prof. G. ) : Influence of Digestive Juices on Virus of 

 Tetanus, 21 ; Tetanus, 635 



Sound- Wave, Mechanical Illustration of Propagation of, F. J. 

 Smith, 620 



Sources of Nitrogen in Vegetation, W. Mattieu Williams, 394 



South Kensington, National Science Museum, 3 



South Kensington, Natural History Museum, 13 



South Kensington, Science Collections at, 425, 565 



South London Entomological and Natural History Society's 

 Exhibition, 653 



South Usuri Region, Colonel Nadaroff, 165 



Sowerby (W. C), Pontedera azitrea, 327 



Sparkless Electro- Magnets, Prof. S. P. Thompson on, 587 



Sparrow in America, the, 627 



Species in a State of Nature, Variability of, Alfred Russel 

 Wallace, 566 



Specific Characters as Useful and Indifferent, Prjf. G. J. 

 Romanes, F. R. S., on, 609 



Spectrum Analysis : Dr. Griinwald's Mathematical, Joseph S. 

 Ames, 19 ; the Wave-length of Principal Line in Spectrum of 

 Aurora, Dr, W. Huggins, F. R. S., 68; the Photographic Spec- 

 trum of Great Nebula of Orion, Dr. W. Huggins, F. R.S., 

 95 ; on the Telluric Origin of the Oxygen Lines in the Solar 

 Spectrum, J. Janssen, 104 ; Spectrum of x Cygni, 135 ; 

 Absorption Spectra of Mixed Liquids, A. E. Bostwick, 189 ; 

 the Absorption Spectra of Oxygen, Liveing and Dewar, 211, 

 212 ; Enlargement of Spectral Rays of Metals, Gouy, 216 ; 

 the Spectrum of Great Nebula in Orion, Dr. Williari Huggins, 

 F. R.S., and Mrs. Huggins, 405, 429; Stars with Remarkable 

 Spectra, 424 ; Prof. C. Piazzi Smyth on the Re-examination 

 ■of the Spectra of Twenty-three Gas- Vacuum ^End-on Tubes 

 after Six to Ten Years of Existence and Use, 584.; Spectro- 



scopic Survey of Southern Stars, R. L. J. Ellery, F.R.S. 

 597 : Spectro- Photography of Invisible Parts of Solar Spectrum, 

 C. V. Zenger, 539 ; ludex of Spectra, W. Marshall Watts, 

 641 ; Spectrum of R Andromeda, Espin, 656 



Spencer(Prof. Baldwin), Trip through District of Croajlngolonj, 

 421 



Spherical Eggs, Prof. A. G. Greenhill. F.R.S., 10 ; Prof. G. D. 

 Liveing, F. R.S., 55; Prof. W. Steadman Aldis, 417 



Spherical Trigonometry, a Treatise on, and its Application to 

 Geodesy and Astronomy, Dr. J. Casey, F. R. S., 342 



Spronck (C. li. H ), the Virus of Diphtheria, 407 



Squirrel in Caucasia, Absence of, E. Biichner, 285 



Stags' Horns, Implements of. Associated with Whales' Skele- 

 tons, found i'l the Carse Lands of Stirling, Sir William 

 Turner, P'.R.S-, 634 



.Stalactite Cave at Hiinnethal, Discovery of, 45 



Stalactite Grotto, the New, at Adelsberg, 577 



Stanley (H M.) : a Visit to Stanley's Rear Guard, at Major 

 Barttelot's Camp on the Ariwimi, with an Account of River 

 Life on the Congo, J. R. Werner, 241 ; Movements of, 18 1 ; 

 News of. 539 



Stanley (Hiram M.), Francis Galton, F.R.S., on Natural In- 

 heritance, 642 



Starling, Extinct, of Reuiion, Fregilupiis varius, R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, 177 



Stars : Photographic Determination of the Brightness of the, 

 15 ; Variable Stars, 16, 46, 64, 86, no, 135, 165, 181, 210, 

 231, 256, 284, 308, 329, 352. 375, 403, 424, 449, 483. 516, 

 539. 550> 578, 598, 629, 656 ; Photographic Study of Stellar 

 Spectra conducted at the Harvard College Observatory, 17 ; 

 Right Ascen-ions of North Circumpolar Stars, Prof. T. H. 

 Safford, 63 ; on the Motion of, in the Line of Sight, Prof. H. 

 C. Vogel, 109 ; Photographic Star-gauging, A. M. Gierke, 

 344 ; Stars with Remarkable Spectra, 424 ; New Double 

 Stars, Burnham, 424 ; the Triple Stir 2 2400, 482 ; Spectro- 

 scopic Survey of Southern Stars, R. L. J. Ellery, F. R.S., 



597 

 State Medicine Syndicate, Annual Examination at Cambridge, 



516 

 Statics for Beginners, John Greaves, 77 

 Stationary Dust-whirl, J. Lovel, 174 

 Statistics, Vital, Elements of, A. Newsholme, 145 

 Steam and Steam-engines, a Text-book on. Prof. Andrew 



Jamieson, 642 

 Steel, Alloys of Nickel and, James Riley, 58 

 Steel, Basic Open-hearth, J. H. Darby, 59 

 Steel, Influence of Copper on the Tensile Strength of, E. J. 



Ball and A, Wingham, 59 

 Steel and Iron, International Standards far the Analysis of, 



John W. Langley, 558 

 Steel, on the Influence of Silicon on the Properties of, Had- 



field, 587 

 Steel (K. Elliot), Science Examination Papers, 293 

 Steenstrup (Prof.), the Great Mammoth Deposit in Moravia, 



229 

 Stefan (Dr.): Ice-growth, 400; Erratum in Paper on Ice- 

 growth, 447 

 Stellar Evolution, and its Relation to Geological Time, James 



Croll, ?".R.S., A. Fowler, 199 

 Stellar Photography, Telescopes for, Sir Howard Grubb, 



F.R.S., 441, 645 

 Stereometry, W. W. Haldane Gee and Dr. Arthur Harden on, 



587 

 Stewart (Prof. Balfour, F.R.S.), the Actinometer Devised by, 



556 

 Stillman (W. J.), a Cordial Recognition, 245 

 Stockholm: Royal Academy of Sciences, 96, 120, 264, 54° 5 



Proposed Statue to late John Ericsson in, 133 

 Stomach, the Movement and Innervation of the. Dr. Open- 



chowski, 240 

 Stone Age in Italy, the, P. Castelfranco, 659 

 Stone (Prof. William L.), the Hatchery of the Sun-fish, 202 

 Stonehenge, State of, Howard Cunningham, 547 

 Stones, Bored, in Boulder Clay, G. W. Lamplugh, 297 

 Stonyhurst College Observatory, 164 

 Storm (Prof. Gustav), the Vinland Voyages of Norse Colonists 



of Greenland, 182 

 Storms, Prof. H. A. Hazen on, 383 

 Strachey (General), the Results of European Contact with other 



Paits of the World, no 



