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INDEX 



\Naturt, Nd'. 21, 1878 



Romanes (Geo. J.), Hypnotism, 492 ; Animal Intelligence, 642 



Rome, Accademia dei Lincei, 28, 216, 244, 376, 687; Geogra- 

 phical Society of, 46 ; the University of, 293 



Ronalds (Sir Francis, F.R.S,), Bibliography of Works on 

 Electricity and Magnetism, 393 



Roromiko, a New Remedy for Diarrhoea, 49 



Roscoe (Prof. II, E., F.R.S. ), Specific Gravity of the Vapours 

 of the Chlorides of Thallium and Lead, 214 



Ross (W. A.), Alumina, 279 



Rosse (Lord), Description of an Equatorial Mounting for a 

 Three-Foot Reflector, 506 



Rossi (Prof. M. S. de), on an Earthquake at Rocca di Papo, 



533 

 Rotating Book- Case, 15 



Rotifers, &c., how to Observe, 141, 196 '• 



Rousseau, Centenary of his Death, 345 

 .Routh (E. J„ F.K.S.), "Dynamics of a System of Rigid 



Bodies," 247 

 Rowney (Thomas), the Microphone, 519 

 Royal Archrcological Institute, 393 

 Royal Astronomical Society, 55 

 Royal Botanic Society, 425 

 Royal Geographical Society, Anniversary Meeting, 131 ; African 



Exploration Fund, 131 

 Royal Institution of Great Britain, 48 

 Royal Irish Academy, Medals of, 158 

 Royal Microscopical Society, 84, 1 1 1, 295, 660 

 Royal School of Mines, 399 

 Royal Society, 25, 54, 82, 109, 135, 186, 214, 242, 269, 293, 



321 ; Conversazione, 47 ; Portraits of the Fellows, 575 

 Russell (J. Scott), Geometry in Modern Life, 380 

 Russia : St. Petersburg: Chemical and Physical Societies, 53, 



350, 4C0 : Geographical Society, 95 ; Russian Chemical 



Society, 106 ; Stone Implements in, 264 ; Proposed Change 



of Chronology in, 532 ; see also St. Petersburg, Moscow, 



&c, 

 Rutherford (Prof, Wir., F.R.S.), Action of Dnigs on the Liver, 



268 

 Rutherfurd's Photograph of Solar Spectrum, 271 

 Rye (E. C), the Zoological Record, 615 



Sabine (Robert), Motions Produced by Dilute Acids on feme 



Amalgam Surfaces, 441 

 Saccharose, 336 



Sachs (Dr.). Fatal Accident to, 504 

 Sachsenhausen, Phylloxera at, 505 

 Sacrum : Lawson Tait on the Occurrence of a Sacral Dimple, 



481 ; Aberrant Sacrum connected wiih the Oblique Pelvis, 483 

 Sahara, Dr. Chavanne's Work on the, 360 

 St, Gothard Tunnel, 22 

 St. Helena, Dr. Buchanan White on the Hemipterous Fauna of, 



13s 

 St. Petersburg Chemical and Physical Societies, 53, 350 ; 



Bulletin de I'Academie des Sciences, 186 ; Proposed Geological 



Institute, 435 ; New Meteorological Society at, 503 

 St. Vincent, the Island of, Cocoa-Nut Palms on, 706 

 Salamander, the Artificial Transformation of the Alpine, G. T, 



Bettany, 108 

 Salmon, Introduction of, in Germany, 49 

 Salmon and Trout Fungus Disease, 48 

 Sal pa, the Male of, 307 

 Salt, Thomas Ward's Paper on, 555 ; Deposits of, in Germany, 



6or, 705 

 Salt Lake City, Prof, T, E. Thorpe, F.R.S., at, 502 

 Salt Water, Preservation of Coffee in, 344 

 Salts, Supersaturated Solutions of, 318 

 Samojedes and Ostiacs, Collection of Articles used by, 48 

 Sandeberg (Lieut.), Exploration of the Kola Peninsula, 697 

 Sanderson (Dr. Burdon, F.R.S.), Resignation of Professorfhip 



at the Brown Institution, 290 ; and F. J. M. Page on the 



Rhythmical and Excitatory Motions of the Ventricle of the 



Heart of the Fi-og, 293 

 Sanford (W. A.), Meteor, 170 

 Sanitai7 Institute of Great Britain, 49, 158, 263; Anniversary 



Meeting, 236 ; Exhibition of, 503 ; at Stafford, 631 

 Sap in Trees, Causes of the Ascent of, 213 

 Sargasso Weed, 708 

 Sars (Prof. G. O.), " MoUusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegige," 



568 . 



Saturn's Satellites, 307 ; Hyperion, 426, 669 ; Mimas, 520, 696 ; 

 Titan, 619 



Saunders (Howard), the Geographical Distribution of Gulls and 

 Tern-, 83 



Saurian, t New Fossil, 28 



Saurians from Colorado, 476 



Savage (Lieut. G. R. R.), Experiments on Long Distance Tele- 

 phones, 77 ; the Telephone, 488 



Sawyer (John), Automatic Arithmetic, 327 



Sayce (Rev. A. H), Ethnology of North- West America, 165 



Scandinavia, Aurora Borealis in, 632 



Scheibler's Tuning-Forks, A. Cavaille-Coll on, 381 



Schliemann (Dr.), his Excavations, 373 ; on the Ancient Capital 

 of Ithaca, 590 



Schmeltz (Dr. J. D. E), the Eskimo at Paris, 169 



Schmidt's Charte der Gebirge des Mondcs, 434, 501 



Schone (E.), Researches on Peroxide of Ilydrogen, 318 ' 



School Laboratory, W. A, Shenstone, 347 



Schools, Science in, 273, 279 ; the Times on, 434 



Schriften der physikalisch-okonomischen Gesellschaft zu Konigr- 

 berg, 242 



Schuster (Dr, A.), tbe Spectrum of Oxygen, 269 



Schwann (Theodore), 297 



Schweinfurth (Dr. George), Return to Cairo, 308 



Science and Art Department, South Kensington, 104, 5 1 1 



Science of Easy Chairs, 637 



Science Teaching in Scools, 273, 279 ; the Ti7ncs on, 434 



Scientific Associations and Societies, 21, 345 



Scientific Bibliography, see Bibliography 



Scientific Education in France, 574 



Scientific Nomenclature, Uniformity of ("Divide etimpcra"), 

 142 



Scientific Research and a Brewery Laboratory, 503 



Scientific Worthies, XIII., Sir George Biddell Airy, Astro- 

 nomer-Royal, 689 



Scott (W. L.), his .Magnophone, 285 



Scottish Crannog, Discovery of. Dr. Robert Munro, 695 



Scottish Meteorological Society, 262 



Scndder's Catalogue of Scientific Serials, 318 



Sea, Average Depth of the, 450 



Seabroke (G. M.), on the Microphone, 129 



Sea-vSerpent Explained, Dr. Joseph Drew, 4S9 ; E. H. Pringle, 

 519; C. Bird, 519; Dr. Andrew Wilson, 519; Dr. C. M. 

 Ingleby, 541 



Secchi's " Meteorologica Romano," 601 



Sedg%vick Memorial Fund, 186 



Segeburg, Bed of Salt near, 705 



Seiches of the Lake of Geneva, Dr. F. A, Forel, icx3 



Seismograph and Earthquakes, 533 



Selenate of Ammonium, the Action of Heat upon, Dr?, Davy 

 and Cameron, 472 



Selenogi-aphy, Recent Progress in, 541 



Senebiera didyma, the Inflorescence of, Prof. Alex. Dickson, 50S 



Septic Organism, the Life-History of a, Rev. W, IL Dallinger, 

 F.R.S., 102 



Seth Thomas Clock Company's Clock with Calendar, 575 



Settle Cave Exploration, 96 



Severn Tunnel Springs, Notes on the Waters from, W, Lant 

 Carpenter, 474 



Severn's Telephone for Deaf People, 132, 169 



Sewage and Fanning, 133 



Sexual Selection and Dress, 632 



Shakerly (Jeremiah), his Astronomical Works, 281 



Shells, Transportation of, Dr. Charles Darwin, F.R.S., 120; 

 Arthur H. Gray, I2i 



Shenstone (W. A.), a School Laboratory, 347 



Shoa, Proposed Italian Colony at, 131 



Siberia : the New University, 399 ; the Extinction of the Mam- 

 moth in, H. H. Howorth, 483 



Siebold (Dr. Carl Theodore von). Honours Conferred on, 48 ; 

 Testimonial to, 373 



Siebold (Dr. Louis), a New Method of Alkalimetry, 473 



Siemens (Dr. C. W., F.R.S.). on the Microphone, 129; Address 

 at the Paris Meeting of the Iron and Steel Institute, 574 ; on 

 Electric Lighting, 650 



Sight, Liebreich's "School Life in its Influence en Sight and 

 Figure," 534 



Silk Cocoons, Production of, in Europe, 105 



Simpson (Prof. Maxwell, F.R.S.), Opening Address in Secticn 

 B at the British Association, 441 



