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INDEX 



\Nature, Nov. 28, 1889 



Strain to Stress, on Hysteresis in the Relation of, Prof. J. A. 



Ewing, F.R.S., 584 

 Straits Settlements, Proposed Training Schools for Surveyors in, 



595 

 Stranger's Sealed Packet, Mr., Hugh MacColl, R, A. Gregory, 



291 

 Streatfield (F. W.), Isomerism of Alkyl-derivatives of Mixed 



Diazoamido-compounds, 215 

 Stress, on Hysteresis in the Relation of Strain to, Prof. J. A. 



Ewing, F.R.S., 584 

 Stroud (Prof. Henry), on the E.M. F. produced by an Abrupt 



Variation of Temperature at the Point of Contact of Two 



Portions of the same Metal, 585 

 Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs, Dr. H. B. Guppy, 



53. 173 ; Prof T. G. Bonney, F.R. S., 77, 125 

 Structure in Ice, Columnar, T. D. La Touche, 35 

 Strathers ( lohn), the Anatomy of the Humpback Whale 



[Megaptera longiviana), 592 

 Stuart (Prof. A.), Modification of Kymoscope, 432 

 Sturgeons, Palaeontology of, A. Smith Woodward, 186 

 Subdivision of the Electric Light, 152 

 Subjects of Social Welfare, Right Hon. Sir Lyon Playfair, 



F.R.S., 637 

 Sudden Phenomena, the Observation of, 482 

 Sukkur Bridge, Opening of the, 13 

 Sully (James), the Principles of Empirical or Inductive Logic, 



John Venn, F. R. S., 337 

 Sulphites, Researches on the, M. P. J. Hartog, 383 

 Sulphur Compounds, M. Chabrie on, 370 



Sun : the Total Eclipse of the, December 22, 1889, 462 ; Ob- 

 servations of Twilight and Zodiacal Light during the Total 



Eclipse of the, December 21, 1889, Prof Cleveland Abbe, 



519 ; Rotation Period of the, Henry Crew, 550 ; Report to 



the British Association on Solar Radiation, 556 ; Electric 



Phenomena Produced by Solar Radiations, Albert Nodon, 



384 

 Sun-distilling Apparatus on Atacama Desert, Hon. Ralph 



Abercromby, 211 

 Sun-fish, the Hatcherv of the. Prof. William L. Stone, 202 ; 



Theo. Gill, 319 

 Sunday Lecture Society, the, 576 

 Sunset-glows, Dr. M. A. Veeder, 645 ; at Honolulu, Sereno 



E. Bishop, 415 

 Sunsets, the Red, of 1884-85, Prof. Abbe, 189 

 Sunspots and Weather in India, 230 

 Survey of the Heavens, Another Photographic, 417 

 Survey, the Indian, Colonel Thuillier, 444 

 Surveyors in Straits Settlements, Proposed Training Schools for, 



595 

 Swallows, Desertion of French Coast by, 85 

 Swan (J. Wilson), on Chromic Acid as a Depolarizer in Bunsen's 



Battery, 586 

 Swarts (F. ), a New Test for Bromine, 286 

 Sweden : Antiquities from Iron Age found in, 163 ; on the 



Geological History of the Prehistoric Flora of. Dr. A. G. 



Nathorst, 453 ; the Preservation of the Eider in, 254 ; Culture 



of Swedish Oyster, 229 

 Swift (Prof. Lewis), Comet 1889 ^ (Swift), 255 

 Swiss Census, the, 538 

 Switzerland, Earthquakes in, 84 

 Sydney, N.S.W. : Records of the Geological Survey of New 



South Wales, 254 ; Royal Society of, 263 

 " Sylvan Folk," John Watson, 221 

 Sylvester (Prof., F.R.S.), the Value of a Finite Continuous and 



Purely Periodical Fraction, 192 

 Symbols, Graphic, the Ta Ki, the Svastika, and the Cross in 



America, Dr. D. G. Brinton, 373 

 Symons (G. J., F.R.S.) : British Rainfall, 1S88, 437 ; Monthly 



Meteorological Magazine, 654 



Tables, Useful Rules and, William J. M. Rankine, 517 



Tacchini (M.), Solar Phenomena for 1888 and 1889, 144 



Tainter's Graphophone, G. R. Ostheimer, 167 



Taming the Puma, Wm. Lant Carpenter, 542 



Tanfilieff (M.), the Process of Transformation of Rivers into 



Marshes, 163 

 Tanganyika, Captain E. C. Hore on, 629 

 Tappenbeck (Lieutenant), Death of, 353 

 Tashkend, Earthquake at, 283 



Tasmania : Systematic Account of the Geology of, Robert M. 

 Johnston, Prof. John W. Judd, F.R.S., 122 ; Proposed Tas- 

 manian University, 446 



Taupin (J.), Exploration of the Lower Laos Country by, 17, 

 352 



Taylor (Canon Isaac) : on the Origin of the Aryans, 632 ; on the 

 Ethnological Significance of the Beech, 632 



Teaching of Science, Elementary, 589, 599 ; Prof Henry E. 

 Armstrong, F.R.S,, on, 645 



Teaching University for London, the Proposed, 60 



Teasel, the Spiral Torsion in, M. de Vries, 312 



Tebbutt's (Mr.) Observatory, Windsor, New South Wales, 550 



Technical Education : at Chetham College, 45 ; Opening of the 

 Jubilee Technical Institute at Bombay, 60 ; the New Tech- 

 nical Education Bill, 330, 350,457 ; Sir Henry Roscoe, M. P., 

 F. R. S., 73, 91 ; Primary Technical Education in Hungary, 

 Sir Arthur Nicholson, 164, the Government and Technical 

 Education, 304 ; Report of the National Association for the 

 Promotion of, 350 ; Technical Education in Central India, 

 595 ; Right Hon. Sir Lyon Playfair, F.R.S., on Technical 

 Education, 639 ; Guide to Technical and Commercial Educa- 

 tion, 538 ; Technical School at Frank fort-on- Maine, 350 ; 

 Technical School, Manchester, 445, 577 



Telephone Disk, Dr. Frohlich's New Method of Objective 

 Demonstration of Vibrations of, 72 



Telephone, the, William Henry Preece, F. R. S., and Julius 

 Maier, Prof A. Gray, 200 



Telephonic Communication between London and Paris, W. 

 Preece, F.R.S., 631 



Telescope, the Newall, 114 



Telescopes for Stellar Photcgraphy, Sir Howard Grubb, F.R. S., 

 441, 645 



Telluric Origin of the Oxygen Lines in the Solar Spectrum, J. 

 Janssen, 104 



Tellurium, Dr. B. Brauner on, 214, 284 



Temperature, Decrease of, with Increase of Altitude, Prof W, 

 Ferrel, 446 



Temperature, Report to the British Association on the Seasonal 

 Variations of, in Lakes, Rivers, and Estuaries in the United 

 Kingdom, Dr. H. R. Mills, 556 



Temperature, Underground, Report to the British Association 

 on. Prof. Everett, F.R.S., 551 



Temperatures, some Lake Ontario, A. T. Drummond, 416 



Temperatures, Strength of Alloys at Difterent, W. C. Unwin, 

 F.R.S., 631 



Terby (M.), White Spot on Saturn's Ring, 307 



Terrestrial Globe at the Paris Exhibition, 278 



Terry (Hubert L.) and W. W. Haldane Gee, on the Specific 

 Heat of Caoutchouc, 587 



Tertiary Flora of Australia, Contributions to the, C. von 

 Ettingshausen, J. Starkie Gardner, 517 



Test of Divisibility by a Prime, Robt. W. D. Christie, 247 



Testing of Colour-blindness, Rev. J. F. Heyes, 572 



Tetanus, Influence of Digestive Juices on Virus of, Prof G. 

 Sormani, 21, 635 



Thames, Electric Launches on the, Prof. G. Forbes. F. R. S.,'630 



"Theorem of the Bride," Prof George J. Allman, F. R.S.,299, 

 320 



Thermal Relations, the Law of, Wm. Ferrel, 310 



Thermodynamics : Impossibility of Existence of Diamagnetic 

 Bodies, P. Duhem, 118 



Thermometer, on the Black-bulb, in vacuo, Prof. McLeod, 

 F.R.S., 585 



Thermometer, Six's, for Soil Temperature, Modification of, 

 Prof Milton Whitney, 230 



Thermometers, Mercurial, Rogers and Woodward, 559 



Thermometric Scale, a New, Prof G. Forbes. F.R. S., and 

 W. H. Preece, F.R.S., on, 587 



Thionic Series, the, Marcellin Berthelot, F. R.S., 23, 95 



Thiophosphoryl Fluoride, Thorpe and Rodger, 94 



Thomasberg, Traces of Glacial Action on, 163 



Thome (Dr.), Variable 7? Argus, 550 



Thompson (Arthur), Osteology of Veddahs of Ceylon, 118 



Thompson (Beeby), Middle Lias of Northamptonshire, 341 



Thompson (Elizabeth) Science Fund, the, 209 



Thompson (Prof Silvanus P.) : Notes on Polarized Light, 143 ; 

 Methods of Suppressing Sparking in Electro- Magnets, 190 ; 

 Geometrical Optics, 190; Optical Torque, 232, 257; a Phe- 

 nomenon in the Electro-Chemical Solution of Metals, 586 ; on 

 Sparkless Electro-Magnets, 587 



