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INDEX 



\NatM-e, May 22, 1890 



shire, O. V. Aplin, 169 ; the Birds of Berwickshire, Geo. 



Muirhead, 169 ; the Birds in my Garden, W. T. Greene, 



169 ; Oates's Ornithology of India, Vol. I., 388 ; Hume's 



Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Vol. I., 388 

 Shaw Bequest for Endowment of St. Louis Botanic Garden, 324 

 Sheep-farming in Australia, Prof. Wallace, 113 

 Shell, Deformation of an Elastic, Prof. Horace Lamb, F. R. S. , 



549 

 Sherrington (C. S.), Outlying Nerve-cells in Mammalian Spinal 



Cord, 358 

 Shining Night Clouds, Robert B. White, 369 

 Ships, Steel, Leak-stopping in. Captain C. C. P. Fitzgerald, 



R.N., 516 

 Ships, the Strength of. Prof. P. Jenkins, 515 

 Shooting-stars, the Origin of, 92 

 Shore (T. W.), Characteristic Survivals of Celts in Hampshire, 



406 

 Shot, on certain Approximate Formulae for Calculating the 



Trajectories of. Prof. J. C. Adams, 258 

 Shrubs, Evergreen, in Manchester, Proposed Planting of, 401 

 Shuckburgh Scale and Kater Pendulum, O. H. Tittmann, 538 

 Shufeldt (R. W.), Craniology of Heloderma suspectum, the 



Poisonous Lizard of South- West United States, 181 

 Shufeldt (Dr. R. W. ), Work on Avian Anatomy, 594 

 Siam, Life in, 265 



Siberia, Limits of Ever-frozen Soil in, Yatchevsky, 472 

 Sidgreaves (Rev. W.), Melde's Vibrating Strings, 355 

 Sieber (Dr. J. ), Diethylene Diamine, 428 

 Simaschko (Prof.), the Megueia Meteorite, 472 

 Sinclair (W. E.), Flint Remains in Kolaba District, 114 

 Singapore, Noxious Grass (Lalang) at, 182 

 Skin-Colour in Arctic Voyagers, Causes of Change of, Holm- 

 gren, 546 

 Skin, Electric Currents from Mental Excitation in, Herr 



TarchenofF, 232 

 Sluiter (Dr. C. Ph.), the Coral Reefs of the Java Sea and its 



Vicinity, Dr. H. B. Guppy, 300 

 Smith (Prof. C. Michie) : the Green Flash at Sunset, 538 ; a 



New Green Vegetable Colouring- Matter, 573 ; Determination, 



by Measurement of Ripples, of Surface Tensions of Liquids, 



575 

 Smith (Prof. W. Robertson), Lectures on the Religion of the 



Semites, 337 

 Smokeless Explosives, Sir Frederic Abel, F.R.S., 328, 352 

 Smolenski (Dr.), the Suspected Connection between Influenza 



and Cholera Epidemics, 282 

 Smyth (Robert Brough), Death of, 1 12 

 Snake and Fish, Herr Fischer-Sigwart, 162 

 Snake-bite in Ratnagherry District, Mortality from, ^Vidal, 325 

 Society of Arts, 42 

 Society for Psychical Research, 17 

 Sohncke (Prof.), Cause of Blue-Green Flame Phenomenon of 



Sunset at Sea, 495 

 Soil, the Relation of the, to Tropical Diseases, A. Ernest 



Roberts, 31 

 Soils, Sources of Nitrogen in, Prof. John Wrightson, 286 

 Solar Activity in 1889, 522 

 Solar Corona, Mathematical Study of the. Prof. F. H. Bigelow, 



595 

 Solar Eclipse of 1886, Total, 88; Dr. Schuster, F.R.S., 327 

 Solar Eclipse, Total, of December 22, 1889, M. A. De La 



Baume Pluvinel, 428 

 Solar Eclipses, New Light from, William M. Page, William 



E. Plummer, 529 

 Solar Halos and Parhelia, 330 ; J. Lovell, 560 

 Solar and the Lunar Spectrum, the. Prof. Langley, 450 

 Solar Observations at Rome, Prof. Tacchini, 595 

 Solar Spots and Prominences, Prof. Tacchini, 233 

 Solar Spectrum, Maximum Light-Intensity of the. Dr. Men- 



garini, 374 

 Solar and Stellar Motions, Prof. J. R. Eastman, 351, 392. See 



also Sun 

 Sollas (Prof., F.R.S.), Mica in Mourne Mountain Geodes, 469 

 Solomon Islands : Further Explorations of, C. M. Woodford, 



403 ; a Naturalist among the Head-hunters, C. M. Woodford, 



582 

 Sorbite, Vincent and Delachanal, 23 



Sorbonne, Mathematical Teaching at. Prof. Ch. Hermite, 597 

 Sorby(H. C, F.R.S.), on Meteorites, 307 

 Sormani (Prof. G. ), Antidotes and Treatment of Tetanus, 212 

 Sound, Propagation of, MM. Violle and Vautier, 359 



South American Pampas, Mirage in the, W. Larden, 69 

 South Kensington, Science Collections at, the Housing of the, 



399, 409 

 South Sea, Through Atolls and Islands in the, F. J. Moss, 151 

 Souza (J. A. de). Death of, 135 

 Specific Inductive Capacity : W. A. Rudge, 10 ; Prof. Oliver 



J. Lodge, F.R.S., 30 

 Spectrum Analysis : Objects for the Spectroscope, 44, 68, 87, 

 114, 138, 163, 183, 210, 232, 257, 285, 304, 326, 350, 374, 

 402, 428, 449, 472, 496, 521, 548, 571, 595 ; Photography 

 of the Red End of the Spectrum, Colonel J. Waterhouse, 67 ; 

 some Photographic Star Spectra, Dr. Scheiner, 163 ; Spec- 

 trum of Algol, Prof. Vogel, 164 ; Colour Spectrum of 

 Fluorine, H. Moissan, 214 ; Spectrum of a Metallic Promi- 

 nence, 233 ; Spectrum of f Ursas Majoris, on the. Prof. 

 Pickering, 285 ; Spectroscopic Observations of Algol, Prof. 

 Vogel, 285 ; New Fluorescent Materials, Lecoq de Boisbau- 

 dran, 287 ; Maxwell Hall on the Spectrum of the Zodiacal 

 Light, 351, 402; Spectrum of Borelly's Comet {g 1889), 374 ; 

 Maximum Light-Intensity of the Solar Spectrum, Dr. Men- 

 garini, 374 ; Spectra of 5 and /x Centauri, 374 ; Blue Flame 

 of Common Salt, G. Salet, 383 ; Spectroscopic Observations 

 of the Zodiacal Light, A. Fowler, 402 ; the Solar and the 

 Lunar Spectrum, Prof. Langley, 450 ; Kirchoffs Law and 

 Gaseous Radiation, Dr. E. Pringsheim, 480 ; the Spectrum 

 of Subchloride of Copper, Prof. A. S. Herschel, F.R.S., 

 513 ; Bright Lines in Stellar Spectra, Rev. J. E. Espin, 549 ; 

 Fundamental Common Property of two Kinds of Spectra, 

 Lines and Bands, Distinct Characteristics of each of the 

 Classes, Periodic Variations to Three Parameters, H. Des- 

 landres, 576; Spectrum of Aqueous Vapour, Chas. S. Cook, 

 598 

 Spencer (Herbert) : Inheritance of Acquired Characters, 414 ; 



Nebular Hypothesis, 450 ; Panmixia, 511 

 Spencer (Perceval), Successful Use of Asbestos Hot-air Balloon 



in India, 325 

 Spitaler (Dr. R.), Temperature " Anomalies," 303 

 Spitta (E. J.), a New Wedge Photometer, 287 

 Sponges : Discovery of Sponge-bank near Lampedusa, 284 ; 

 the Horny Sponges, Robert von Lendenfeld, 146 ; Sponges 

 attached to Crabs, Dr. R. von Lendenfeld, 317 ; Physiology 

 of Sponges, Dr. Lendenfeld, 570 

 Sporer (Prof.), Sun-spots in 1889, 383 

 Spots, Solar, and Prominences, Prof. Tacchini, 233 

 Stability of the Rings of Saturn, O. Callandreau, 548 

 Stalactite Cave discovered in Westphalia, 113 

 Stalybridge Mechanics' Institute, Chemical Laboratory at, 85 

 Stanley (H. M. ), his Explorations in Africa, 20, 73, ill 

 Stapf (Dr. Otto), Die Arten der Gattung Ephedra, 390 

 Stapley (A. M.), the Composition of the Chemical Elements, 56 

 Stars : Double, Measurements of S. W. Burnham, E. E. Bar- 

 nard, 19 ; New Double Stars, Miss A. M. Gierke, 132 ; Star 

 Distances, Miss A. M. Gierke, 81 ; New Variable Stars in 

 Hydra, 88 ; Y Cygni, 88 ; Period of U Coronse, S. C. 

 Chandler, 163 ; in Cluster G.C. 3636, Prof. Pickering, 183 ; 

 Observations of some Suspected Variables, Rev. John G. 

 Hagen, 233 ; New Short-period Variable in Ophiuchus, 403 ; 

 New Variable in Caelum, 571 ; the Origin of Shooting-stars, 

 92; Photographic Star Spectra, 115 ; Dr. Peters's Catalogue, 

 2IO ; Star-Land, Sir Robert S, Ball, F.R.S., 315; Star 

 System | Scorpii, Dr. Schorr, 374 ; the Distance of the Stars, 

 Dr. W. H. S. Monck, 392 ; Observations of C Ursae Majoris 

 and ;8 Aurigge, 403 ; Melbourne Star Catalogue, 522 ; Dis- 

 covery of Asteroids, Dr. Palisa, 522 ; M. Charlois, 522 

 State, the. Elements of Historical and Practical Politics, Wood- 

 row Wilson, 196 

 Steam, Electrification of, Shelford Bid well, F.R.S., 213 

 Steam, William Ripper, 341 

 Steam-engine Design, Jay M. Whitham, 29 

 Steam-ships, the Steering of, A. B. Brown, 516 

 Stearns (R. E. C.) : Effect of Music on Animals, 470 ; on a 



Canary, 593 

 Stebbing (Rev. T. R. R.), the Moon in London, 586 

 Steel : on the Hardening and Tempering of. Prof. W. C, 

 Roberts- Austen, F.R.S., II, 32 ; Behaviour of, under Me- 

 chanical Stress, C. H. Carus- Wilson, 213 ; Physical Proper- 

 ties of Nickel Steel, Dr. J. Hopkinson, F.R.S., 332; the 

 Rupture by Longitudinal Stress of, C. A. Carus- Wilson, 574 ; 

 Steel and Iron Manufacture, Arthur H. Hiorns, 150 

 Stellar Parallax by Means of Photography, Prof. Pritchard, 19 

 Stellar Spectra, Bright Lines in. Rev. J. E. Espin, 549 



