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INDEX 



XXIX 



Stieltjes (M.)> the Exponential Function, 382 



Stiffe (Captain), Glaciation of Valleys in Kashmir Himalayas, 



190 

 Stockholm, Royal Academy of Sciences, 24, 168, 192, 288, 408, 



576, 600 

 Story, the Earth and its, edited by Dr. Robert Brown, 341 

 Story of a Tinder-Box, Chas. M. Tidy, 30 

 Strabismus, H. Parinaud, 72 

 Straits Settlements, Meteorology of, 114 

 Strasburger (E. ), Hand-book of Practical Botany for the Botanical 



Laboratory and Private Student, 223 

 Strieker (Prof.), New Electrical Lantern, 593 

 Strickland (Father, S.J.), Last Days of Father Perry, F.R.S., 301 

 Strings, Vibrating, Melde's, Rev. W. Sidgieaves, 355 

 Strips, the Behaviour of Twisted, Prof. J. Perry, F. R. S., 47 

 Stromeyer (C. E. ) : Self-luminous Clouds, 225 ; the Evaporative 



Efficiency of Boilers, 516 ; Structure of Jupiter's Belt 3, IIL, 



Dr. Terby, 45 

 Struggle for Existence in Plants, Prof. Walter Gardiner, 90 

 Stuart (Prof.), Proposed Address to, on his Resignation, 426 

 Students, Foreign, in Paris, 520 

 Subchloride of Copper, the Spectrum of. Prof. A. S. Herschel, 



F.R.S.,513 

 Sub-oceanic Crust, Physics of the. Rev. Osmond Fisher, A. J. 



Jukes-Browne, 53 ; J. Starkie Gardner, 103 

 Subsidence at Northwich, 230 

 Suffolk : Flora of, by Dr. W. M. Hind, 149 ; Dr. Wheelton 



Hind on the Geology of, 149 

 Sugar losing its Attractions for Lepidoptera, Joseph Anderson, 



349 



Sugar-Cane: Disease at St. Vincent, 372 ; Seeding of, D. Morris, 

 478 



Sulphur, Crystalline Allotropic Forms of, Dr. Muthmann, 449 



Sumpner (Dr. W. E.), Galvanometers, 310, 381 



Sun's Way, Apex of the, Lewis Boss, 548 



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

 Thomson, F.R.S., 271 ; W. Scouller, 271 



Sunset, the Green Flash at, C. Michie Smith, 538 



Sunset at Sea, Cause of Blue-green Flame Phenomenon of, 

 Prof. Sohncke, 495 



Sun-spots : Minimum Sun-spot Period, M. Bruguiere, 68 ; Sun- 

 spot of June, July, and August, 1889, Prof, Ricco, 115 ; Sun- 

 spots and Prominences, Prof. Tacchini, 233 ; Sun-spot in 

 High Latitudes, G. Dierckx, 472 ; Sun-spots in High 

 Southern Latitudes, Rev. S. J. Perry, F. R. S. , 88 ; Observa- 

 tions of Sun-spots made at Lyons Observatory in 1889, Em. 

 Marchand, 599. See also Solar 



Survey, the Indian, 230 



Sutherland (Geo,), Earth-Currents and the Occurrence of Gold, 

 464 



Swift (Dr. Lewis) : a New Comet discovered by, 69 ; Comet 

 Swift (/ 1889, November 17), Dr. Zelbr, 115, 233 ; Dr. R. 

 Schorr, 139 ; Dr. Lamp, 233, 429 ; Swift's Comet (V. 1880), 

 Orbit of, 257 ; the Cluster G.C. 1420 and the Nebula N.G.C. 

 2237, 285 



Sydney, Royal Society of New South Wales, 96 



Symons (G. J., F. R.S. ), Remarkable Hailstones, 134 



Synoptical Tables of Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, Clement 

 J. Leaper, 510 



Synthetic Philosophy, an Epitome of the, F. Howard Collins, 

 340 



Systems of Russian Transliteration, Chas. E. Groves, F.R.S., 

 534 ; W. F. Kirby, 535 



Table and Formula Book, Rev. Isaac Warren, 558 



Tacchini (Prof.) : Corona of January i, 1889, 139 ; Solar Spots 

 and Prominences, 233 ; Solar Observations at Rome, 595 



Taczanowski (Dr. L. ), Death of, 324 



Tait (Prof. P. G.): Portrait Memorial of, 135; Glissette of 

 Hyperbola, 214 ; . Compressibility of Water, 361 ; Physical 

 Properties of Water, 416 



Tannin, Nessler's Ammonia Test as a Micro-Chemical Reagent 

 for, Spencer Moore, 585 



Tarchenoff (Herr), Electric Currents in Skin from Mental 

 Excitation, 232 



Tasmania : Change in Character of Acclimatized Salmon in, 43 ; 

 the Last Living Aboriginal of, James Barnard, 43 ; Destruc- 

 tion of Opposum in, 304 ; a Surviving Tasmanian Aborigine, 

 Hy, Ling Roth, 105 



Taste, Sense of, Dr. Goldscheider's Researches on, 600 



Tavernier (Jean Baptiste), Travels in India, 313 



Taxine, a New Alkaloid from Leaves, &c.,'of Yew Tree, 

 Drs. Hilger and Brande, 496 



Teacher's Manual of Geography, J. W. Redway, 78 



Technical Education : Conference on, at Manchester, 84 ; 

 Dundee Association, 113; on the Future of our Technical 

 Education, Sir Henry Roscoe, MP., F.R.S., 183 ; Technical 

 Education in Elementary Schools, 356 ; the New Codes, 

 English and Scotch, 385, 505 ; Technical Education in Central 

 India, 470 



Teeth in the Ornithorhynchus, Who Discovered the, C. Hart 

 Merriam, 11, 151 ; Prof. W. H. Flower, F.R.S., 30, 151 ; 

 Prof. Oswald H. Latter, 30, 174 



Telephone, the Pulsion Mechanical, 65 



Telephone Transmitter, Carbon Deposit in Blake, F. B. Hawes, 



477 

 Telescope, the Maintaining and Working of the Great Newall, 



357 



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



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

 Austen, F.R.S., II, 32 



Ten and Tenth Notation, B. A. Muirhead, 344 



Tench, the Striated Muscles of, Dr, Rene du Bois-Reymond on, 



95 



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



Tension of Recently Formed Liquid Surfaces, Lord Rayleigh, 

 566 



Terby (Dr.), the Structure of Jupiter's Belt 3, III., 45 



Terminology, the Revised, in Cryptogamic Botany, Alfred W. 

 Bennett, 225 



Tetanus, Antidote and Treatment of. Prof. G. Sormani, 212 



Tetranychus, on a Mite of the Genus, found Infesting Lime 

 Trees in the Leicester Museum Grounds, F. R. Rowley, 31 



Texas, Great Find of Rare Minerals of Yttrium and Thorium 

 Groups in, 162 



Textiles, Prehistoric, Herr Buschan, 182 



Textural Elements, the Longevity of, particularly in Dentine 

 and Bone, John Cleland, 392 



Thames Estuary, the. Captain Tizard, R.N., 539 



Theory of Least Squares, a Formula in the, D. Wetterhan, 394 



Thermal Conductivity in Flints, a Natural Evidence of High, 

 Prof. A. S. Herschel, F.R.S., 175 



Thermometer, Electric, Herr Siegefeld, 43 



Thermometers, Aspiration, Dr. Assmann's, 239 



Thermometry, Exact : Dr. Sydney Young, 152, 271,488; Her- 

 bert Tomlinson, F.R.S,, 198 ; Dr. Edmund J. Mills, F.R.S., 

 227, 538 , . 



Thermometry : Traite pratique de la Thermometrie . de Pre- 

 cision, Ch. Ed. Guillaume, Dr. Edmund J. Mills, F.R.S., 

 100 



Thomas (Oldfield), a Milk Dentition in Orycteropus, 309 



Thomas (R. Haig), Panmixia, 585 



Thompson (Prof. Silvanus P.) : Geometrical Optics, II., 213 ; 

 Electric Splashes, 309 ; Bertrand's Refractometer, 526 ; 

 Bertrand's Idiocyclophanous Prism, 574 



Thomson (Dr. Arthur) : the Veddahs of Ceylon, 303 ; Prof. 

 Patrick Geddes and. Evolution of Sex, 531 



Thomson (Sir William, F.R.S.): Rainbow due to Sunlight 

 reflected from the Sea, 271 ; Eight Rainbows seen at the 

 same time, 316 ; Electrostatic Stress, 358 



Thoroddsen's Explorations in Iceland, 165 



Thorpe (Prof. T. E., F.R.S.) : Photometric Intensity of Coronal 

 Light, 139 ; Frangulin, 262 ; a Dictionary of Applied Che- 

 mistry, Vol. I., Sir H. E. Roscoe, M,P., F.R.S., 387 ; the 

 Glow of Phosphorus, 523 ; and Prof. A. W, Riicker, F.R.S., 

 on Magnetic Surveys of Special Districts in the British Isles, 



598 

 Thought and Breathing : R. Barrett Pope, 297 ; Prof. F. Max 



Miiller, 317; Rev. W. Clement Ley, 317; Mrs. J. C. 



Murray-Aynsley, 441 

 Thresh (Dr.), New Method of Estimating Oxygen dissolved in 



Water, 335 

 Thuillier and Waterhouse's Conversion Tables for Metric 



System, 66 

 Thunderstorms in England and Wales, 93 

 Thury (Prof,), Changes in Lunar Craters, 183 

 Tibet, Discovery by Colonel Pevtsoff and M, Roborovsky of New 



Pass from Nia to, 327 

 Tidal and Levelling Operations in India, 140 

 Tiddemann (R. H.), Brilliant Meteors, 105 

 Tidy (Chas, M.), the Story of a Tinder-box, 30 



