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INDEX 



[Nature, May 22, 1879 



Schmitz (Dr. F.), Halosphsera, a New Genus of Unicellular 



Algae, 584 

 Schott (C. A.), Magnetic Storm of May 14, 1878, 288 

 Schubert (G. H. von), Centenary of, 325 

 Schwendler (Louis), Experiments in Electric Lighting, 230; 



"Instructions for Testing Telegraph Lines, 192, 241 

 Science and Teaching, the Liberty of, Prof. Ernst Haeckel, 113, 



'35 

 Science and War, Signalling by Sunshine, H. Baden Pritchard, 



508 

 Science in Lancashire and Cheshire, 322 

 '* Science Index," 473 

 "Science News," 60, 232 



Science Teaching in Elementary Schools, Dr. Gladstone on, 181 

 Scientific Discovery, the Art of, Dr. G. Gore, F.R.S., 285 

 Scientific Journals, New, 326 

 Scientific Societies, the Association of Local, J. Clifton Ward, 



Scientific Terms, on the Use of Historical National Names for, 



163 



SciKNTiFic Worthies, XIV., Louis Agassiz, 573 



Scintillation of Stars, 233 ; M. Montigiiy, 326 



Scotland, a Mounta.n Meteorological Observatory for, 237, 255, 



279, 342, 445 

 Scudder (Samuel H.), the Early Types of Insects, 584 

 Sea, Commercial Products of the, P. L. Simmonds, 3 ; the 



Mean Depth of the, 348 

 Sea- Depths, the Measuring of, 474 

 Sea-Water, Constituents of, 257 

 Secular Cooling of the Earth and the Formation of Mountains, 



G. H. Darwin, 313 

 Sedgwick Memorial Museum, Cambridge, 115 

 Seebohm (Henry), on the Natives of Arctic Siberia, 547 

 Seeds, Transportation of. Consul E. L. Layard, 527 ; Arthur 



Nicols, 555 

 Seefeld (Tyrol), Earthquake at, 207 

 Selachi, Prof. Pietro Pavesi on, 384 

 Severn (Walter), Intellect in Brutes, 291 

 Sewerage and Drainage, Alfred S. Jones, 53 

 Shakespeare's Colour-Names, J. J. Murphy, 197 ; A. Craig- 



Christie, 221 ; Robert Brewin, 221, 290 ; Dr. C. M. Ingleby, 



244 ; E. T. Hardman, 267 

 Shantung, China, Cotton Growing in, 351 

 Sharks, Prof. Pietro Pavesi on Selachi, 384 

 Sharpe (R. Bowdler), Legge's "Birds of Ceylon," 505 

 Shaw (J.), Ice Pearls, 508 

 Sheep as Beasts of Burden, 257 

 Shetland, Earthquake' in, 396 



Ships' Magnetism, on Gaussin's Warning regarding the Sluggish- 

 ness of. Sir Wm. Thomson, F. R. S., 127 

 Shoolbred on Electric Lighting, 379 

 Shortia galicifolia. Re-discovery of, 232 

 Siberia, Exploration of, 205 

 Siberia, Arctic, the Natives of, 547 

 Siemens (Dr. C. W., F.R.S.), on Measuring and Regulating 



Electric Currents, 330 ; New Electric Current Regulator, 427 

 Signalling by Sunshine, H. Baden Pritchard, 508 

 Silicified Trunks and Fossil Forests, Dr. Otto Kuntze, 314 

 Silver Ores, Discovery of, at Caylloma, 423 

 Simmonds (P. L.), "Commercial Products of the Sea," 3 

 Simultaneous Linear Equations, on a Machine for the Solution 



of. Sir Wm. Thomson, F.R.S., 161 

 Sinclair (W. F.), Irish Bog Oak, 74 



Singapore, Zoological Gardens, 46 ; Value of Land in, 351 

 Sitzungsberichte der naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Isis 



in Dresden, 401 

 Six-Fingered Family, a, 197 

 Skate, an Intelligent, 160 



Skeleton, Discovery of a Human, in New Jersey, 160 

 Skin, on the Anatomy of the. Dr. George Thin, 307 

 Sleet, Extraordinary Fall of, in France, 301 

 Smiles (Dr. Samuel), "Robert Dick," Prof. Arch. Geikie, 



F.R.S., 189 

 Smith (E. J. A'Court), Rats and Water Casks, 529 

 Smith (Fredk.), the Power of Stupefying Spiders possessed by 



Wasps, 32 ; Death of, 395 

 Smith (Dr. R. Angus, F.R.S.), Absorption of Gases by Char- 

 coal, 354 

 Smith ^ Robert H.), Force and Energy, 194, 217, 242 

 Smithsonian Institution of Washington, U.S., 108 



Smyth (Prof. Piazzi), Weather, Past and to Come, 338; Illu- 

 mination in Spectroscopy, 400, 458 



Smyth (R. Brough), "The Aborigines of Victoria," A. H. 

 Keane, 549 



Snow Flakes, Frank E. Lott, 529 



Society Islands, Volcanic Eruptions in the, Rev. S. T. Whitmee. 

 105 



Solar Eclipses : of July 29, 1878, at Watson's Station, 14; of 

 July 19, 1879, 42 ; the Total, of January 11, 1880, 74 



Solar Heat and Atmospheric Pressure, S. A. Hill, 432 



Sonnenschein (Prof.), Death of, 422 



Sopwith (Thomas, F.R.S), Death of, 279 



Sorby (H. C, F.R.S. ), the Structure and Origin of Limestones, 

 424 



Sound, New Methods for Determining the Velocity of, 85, 86 ; 

 Lord Rayleigh's Theory of, vol. ii.. Prof. H. Helmholtz, 

 F.R.S., 117; Measuring the Velocity of, in Air, 529 



South America, Clark's Journey to, 312 ; Dr. Edwin R. Heath's 

 Expedition in, 394 



Spain : Campion's " On Foot in Spain," 288 ; Mathematics inj 

 407 - 



Speaking-Trumpets, Wm. Chap pell, 5 



Spectroscope, New Method of Adjusting the Collimator of the.l 

 116 ■ 



Spectroscopy, Illumination in, Piazzi Smyth, 400 



Spectrum Analysis : Studies in. Professors Liveing and DewarJ 

 163 ; Researches on the Absorption of the Ultra- Violet Raj 

 of the Spectrum by Organic Substances, 259 ; M. Paalzow's^ 

 Researches on the Spectrum of Oxygen, 397 ; Spectrum of 

 Lightning, Dr. A. Schuster, 427 ; Russian Research on the 

 Spectra of Stars, 448 ; Spectrum of Common Salt, 483, 582 ; 

 Recent Researches on Spectra Absorption, 495 ; the Spectrum 

 of Safranine, 560 



Sperm Whales on European Coasts, 76 



Spiders, the Power of Stupefying, possessed by Wasps, 32, 54 



Spiller (Prof. Philipp), Death of, 374 ; " Das Leben," 384 



Spinal Cord, the Effect of Strong Induction- Currents upon the 

 Structure of, Dr. W. M. Ord, 306 



Spottiswoode (Wm., F.R.S.), Proposed Testimonial to, 107 ; 

 Bust of, 445 



Stanford's Map of Zululand, 438 



Stanley (W. F.), Mathematical Drawing Instruments, 128 



Stars : Orbits of Binary, 99 ; Lalande's, 99 ; Flammarion 

 on Double, 216; the Scintillation of, 233, 326; a Vari- 

 able Star observed by Scheiner in 1612, 245 ; the Vari- 

 able Star Algol, 298; "A Missing Star," 365 ; the Binary 

 Star o Centauri, 437 ; a New Variable Star ia Saggitarius, 

 437 ; the Distant Herschelian Companion of 7 Leonis, 484 ; 

 Mira Ceti, 510 ; Variable, x Cygni, 531 ; 72 Ophiuchi, 531 ; 

 Double Star, South, 190, 583 



Statistical Society, 116, 182, 547, 596 



Steam-Engine, the Growth of the. Prof. R. H. Thurston 381 



Stebbing (Rev. T. R. R,), the Sting of the Bee, 314 



Steel, Meteoric, 61 



Stethoscope, the Microphone as a, 146 



Stevenson (Thomas), Carrier- Pigeons, 5 ; Early Experiments in 

 Electricity, 302 ; on the Vertical Distribution of the Light 

 from Lighthouses placed at High Elevations above the Sea- 

 Level, 19 



Stewart (Dr. James) on Lake Nyassa, 438 



Stewart (Prof. Balfour, F.R.S.), the Ine^jualities of the Diurnal 

 Range of the Declination Magnet as recorded at Kew, 259 ; 

 Variations of Diurnal Range of Magnetic Declination, 354 



Stieler's Hand Atlas, New Edition, 395 



Stilling (Dr. Benedikt), Death of, 350 



StUlman (W. J.), Tempel's Comet, 217 



Sting of Bees, 289, 314, 340, 385, 410 



Stoffkraft (Hermann), "Paradoxical Philosophy," 193; the 

 Unseen Universe — Paradoxical Philosophy, 242 



Stone Period in Russia, 132 



Stoney (G. Johnstone, F.R.S.), Receiving Telephones, 71 



Storm Warnings, A. Hutton Burgess, 313 



Storms in the United States, Prof. Loomis on, 270 



Strickland (C. W.), Intellect in Brutes, 410 



Styria, Excavation of Caves in, 161 



Sumatra, Carl Boch's Exploration of, 77 



Sun : Preliminary Note on the Substances which produce the 

 Chromospheric Lines, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 292 ; 

 Oxygen in the, J. C. Draper, 352 ; the Physical Nature of 

 the. Dr. Gruss, 424 



