Nature^ May 22, 1890J 



INDEX 



XXVll 



Rotation of Mercury, on the, Signer Schiaparelli, 257 



Roth (Ily. Ling) : a Surviving Tasmanian Aborigine, 105 



Roth (Herr), on the South American Pampas Formation, 231 



Roumania, Meteorological Institute of, 181 



Roux (G.), Morphology and Biology of OiJium albicans, 72 



Rowley (F. R. ), on a Mite of the Genus Telranychus found 



Infesting Lime-trees in the Leicester Museum Grounds, 31 

 Royal Botanic Society, 448, 494 



Royal Geographical Society, 351 ; Honours for 1890, 571 

 Royal Horticultural Society, 182, 282 

 Royal Institution Lecture Arrangements, 136, 181, 256, 426, 



519, 545 

 Royal Irish Academy, 469 

 Royal Meteorological Society, 93, 212, 301, 358, 406, 503, 598; 



Exhibition of the, 491 

 Royal Microscopical Society, 93, 191, 263, 335, 371, 550 

 Royal Society, 17, 118, 140, 166, 189, 212, 237, 287, 309,332, 



357, 380,430, 477, 501, 525, 550, 573. 598; Medals, 41 ; 



Anniversary Meeting. 84, 1 16, 234; Election of Foreign 



Members of, 135 ; Key to the Royal Society Catalogue, 



James McConnel, 342, 391, 418 ; the Government Grant, 



347 ; the Royal Society Proceedings, 400 

 Royal Society of New South Wales, 311; Prizes offered by, 



349 

 Royal Society of Tasmania, 43 



Royal Victoria Hall and Morley Memorial College, 343 

 Rubens (Dr.), Use of Bolometer for Observing Electrical Radia- 

 tions of Hertz, 504 

 Riicker (Prof. Arthur W., F.R.S.) : Physical Properties of 

 Water, 416; and Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., Magnetic 

 Surveys of Special Districts in the British Isles, 598 

 Rudge (W. A.), Specific Inductive Capacity, 10 

 Ruhemann (Dr. S.), Action of Chloroform and Alcoholic Potash 



on Hydrazines, 263 

 Rule of the Road at Sea, Admiral Colomb, 515 

 Russell (Hon. F. A. R. ), the Causes and Character of Haze, 60 

 Russell (H, C), Meteorology of New South Wales, 113 

 Russia : Russian Botanical Appointments, 42 ; Geography in 

 Russia, Baron Kaulbars, 208 ; Russian Geographical Society, 

 and the Black Sea, 348 ; Russian Academy of Sciences, 302 ; 

 Eighth Congress of Russian Naturalists, 356 ; a Uniform 

 System of Russian Transliteration, 396 ; Chas. E. Groves, 

 F.R.S., 534; W. F. Kirby, 535; Mammoth Skeleton in 

 Russia, 448 ; New Russian Natural Science Review, 469 

 Rutley (Frank), Composite Spheruiites in Obsidian from Hot 

 Springs near Little Lake, California, 551 



Sacchiero (G. B.), the Chin Tribes, North Burma, 375 



St. Andrews, Bequest of ;i^ioo,ooo to the University of, 41 



St. Helena : the Native Ebony of, Morris, 519 ; the " Rollers" 



of, Prof. Cleveland Abbe, 585 

 St. Louis Botanic Garden, the Shaw Bequest for the Endow- 

 ment of the, 324 

 St. Louis, Earthquake at, 18 

 St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, 495 

 St. Petersbuig Problem, the, Sydney Lupton, 165 

 Saint-Venant (Barre de), the Elastical Researches of, Prof. A. 



G. Greenhill, F.R.S., 458 

 Salad-Plants, H. de Vilmorin, 494 

 Salet (G.), the Blue Flame of Common Salt, 383 

 Salisbury (the Marquis of) : on Electrical Science, 21 ; on Free 



Education, 84 

 Salmon, the Habits of the. Major John P. Traherne, 74 

 Salmon in Tasmania, Acclimatized, 43 

 Salt, Common, Experiments upon Simultaneous Production of 



Pure Crystals of Sodium Carbonate and Chlorine from, Dr. 



Ilempel, 19 

 Salvador! (Count), Agguinte alia Ornitologia della Papuasia e 



delle Molucche, 85 

 Sanitary Assurance Association, 136, 401 

 Sanitary Institute, 302 



Saporta (G. de), some Proven9al Tree-Hybrids, 23 

 Sardines in Moray Firth, Prof. Ewart, 282 

 Satellite of Algol, W. H. S. Monck, 198 

 Saturn : Mass of, Asaph Hall, 429 ; Stability of the Rings of, 



O. Callandreau, 548 

 Savelief (R. ), Actinometric Observations (1888-89) at, 359 

 Scale : Sir G. Shuckburgh's Unit of Length of a Standard, 



General J. T. Walker, R.E., F.R.S., 381 ; Shuckburgh Scale 



and Kater Pendulum, O. H. Tittmann, 538 



Scenery of the Heavens, J. E. Gore, 391 

 Schafhaull (Dr, von), Death and Obituary Notice of, 448 

 Schevner (Dr. ), }ome Photographic Star Spectra, 163 

 Schiaparelli (Signer), on the Rotation of Mercury, 2>7 

 Schick (Herr), Troglodytic Remains in Jerusalem, 284 

 Schleinitz (Admiral von), the North Coast of New Guinea, 21 

 Schlich (Dr. William) : a Manual of Forestry, Sir D. Brandis,. 



F.R.S., 121 ; Forestry in India, 470 

 Schloesing, Fils (Th.) : Air in the Soil, 23 ; the Fermentation of 



Stable Manure, 143 ; Absorption of Atmospheric Ammonia 



of Soils, 479 

 Schneider (Dr.), Iron in the Animal Organism, 24 

 Schools, Technical Education in Elementary, 356 

 Schorr (Dr. R.) : Comet Swift (/1889, November 17), 139; oa 



the Star System | Scorpii, 374 

 Schuster (Dr., F.R.S.), Total Solar Eclipse of 1886, 327 

 Science, Australasian Association for the Advancement of, Prof. 



Orme Masson, 441 

 Science Collections at South Kensington, the Housing of the, 



399, 409 



Science in Dutch East Indies, 547 



Science at Eton, Lieut. -General Tennant, F.R.S., 587 



Science of Every-day Life, J. A. Bower, 78 



Science, Experimental, George M. Hopkins, 102 



Science and the Future Indian Civil Service ExamiDations, 25 ; 

 Henry Palin Gurney, 53 



Science and Law, 399 



Science and the New English and Scotch Codes, 385 



Scientific Education in China, the Question of Language, I62 



Scientific Literature, Native Indian, 569 



Scientific Missions, French, under the Old Monarchy, Dr. 

 Hamy, 427 



Sclater (Dr. P. L., F.R.S.): Argentine Ornithology, R. 

 Bowdler Sharpe, 7 ; la Pietra Papale, 31 ; African Monkeys 

 in the West Indies, 368 



Scorpii, on the Star System f. Dr. Schorr, 374 



Scoiland : Railways of, W. M. Acworth, 434 ; certain Devonian 

 Plants from. Sir J. W. Dawson, F.R.S., 537 



Scott (R. H., F.R.S.), Variability of Temperature of British 

 Isles, 1859-83, 550 



Scottish Journal of Natural History, 373 



Scottish Meteorological Society, 518 



ScouUer (William), Rainbow due to Sunlight reflected from the 

 Sea, 271 



Sea, Rainbow due to Sunlight reflected from the, Sir William 

 Thomson, F.R.S., 271 ; William ScouUer, 271 



Sea, Rule of the Road at. Admiral Colomb, 515 



Sea, Toilers in the, M. C. Cooke, 409 



Seal (W. P.), the Management of Aquaria, 18 



Sedgwick and Murchison, Cambrian and Silurian, Prof. James 

 D. Dana, 421 



Sedgwick Prize Essay for 1 888, 414 



Seismology : Record of British Earthquakes, Charles Davison, 

 9 ; the Earthquake of Tokio, April 18, 1889, Prof. Cargill 

 G. Knott, 32 ; Earthquake in Servia, 113 ; Brassart Brothers' 

 New Seismoscopes, 137 ; British Earthquakes, William White, 

 202, 248 ; Atmospheric Circulation, A. Buchan, 363 ; Re- 

 cherches sur les Tremblements de Terre, Jules Girard, 583 



Selenite, Salts of, M. Boutzoureano on, 87 



Selenium : the Chlorides of, M. Chabrie, 284 ; Compounds of. 

 Prof. William Ramsay, F.R.S., 343 



Self-luminous Clouds : Geo. F. Burder, 198 ; C. E. Stromeyer, 

 225 



Semites, the Cradle of the, Dr. Brinton, Prof. Jastrow, 569 



Semites, Lectures on the Religion of the. Prof. W. Robertson 

 Smith, 337 



September, Chiff-Chaff Singing in, F. M. Burton, 298 



Severn Valley Field Club, 86 



Servia, Earthquake in, 113 



Serviss (Garrett P.), Astronomy with an Opera Glass, 462 



Sex, the Evolution of: M. S. Pembrey, 199 ; Dr. A. B. Meyer, 

 272 ; Prof. Patrick Geddes and Arthur Thomson, 531 



Shan States, a Thousand Miles on an Elephant in. Holt S. 

 Hallett, 265 



Sharp (Dr. Davis) appointed Curator in Zoology at Cambridge, 

 324 



Sharpe (R. Bowdler) : Argentine Ornithology, P. L. Sclater, 

 F.R.S., and W. H. Hudson, 7 ; Notes on Sport and Ornitho- 

 logy, H.I.H. Prince Rudolph of Austria, 169; Matabele 

 Land and the Victoria Falls, Frank Gates, 169 ; Index Gene- 

 rum Avium, F. H. Waterhouse, 169 ; the Birds of Oxford- 



