ure. May lo, 1877] 



INDEX 



XI 



:ience in Sport made Philosophy in Earnest," R. Routledge, 



:nce : Examinations in, W. Biptiate Scoones, 137; Govem- 



ent Grants in Aid of, 369 



ntific Apparatus, Loan Collection of, 188, 207, 459, 490 



ntific Club, 364 



KNTiFic Worthies. X. Prof. Hermann I.. F. Ilelmholtz 



oith Portrait), 389 



Iter (P. E., F.R.S.), Meteor, 178 



ones (W. Biptiste), Examinations in Science, 137 



ttish Meteorological Society, 363 



Fisheries, 23, 55, 135, 156, 176, 198 

 % Fur, Introduction into Lake Superior, 147 

 chi (P'ather), New Star in Cygnus, 315 ; List ot Coloured Stars, 

 55 ; Typical Division of Stars, 430 ; Bjrelly's Comet, 431 

 eiches" ot the Swiss Lake*, 91 

 le, Height of the, in 1876, 343 



ilaginella," Morphology ot, Prof. Thiselton Dyer, 489 ; 

 'hos. Comber, 548 



iltic Remains in the British Museum, 247 

 sation of Sound, 108 



se of Hearing in Birds and Insects, 177, 292, 354 

 sitive Flame Apparatus for Ordinary Gas Pressure, R. H. 

 Lidout, 119 



:le Cave Exploration, 479 



nal Selection in Relation to Monkeys, Charles Darwin, 

 •.R.S., 18 



uality in Plants, Prof. W. R. McNab, 511 

 ^er Gases, Dr. Frankland on the Transport of Solid and 

 liquid Particles in, 385 

 xlow. Halo round, Arnulph Malloch, 375 

 rk, Basking, Prof. Henry J. G'g'ioli, 273 ; Pro*". E. Perceval 

 Vright, 292 



(J.), a Local Museum, 61 

 !tland Isles, G'aciation of, John Home, 139 

 p's Chronometers, Parkinson and FrodshanS, 470 

 )oting Stars, Radiant Points of, 158, 217 

 eria, Exploration of, 265, 417 ; the Beaver in, 265 

 dall (J. D.) on Foraminifera, 461 



ereal Astronomy, Knobel's Catalogue of the Literature of, 48 

 idereal Messenger," Ormond Stone, 198 

 mens (Dr. C. W., F.R.S ), Presidential Address at the Iron 

 nd Steel Institute, 462 

 ux Indians, Skulls of the, 245 



hon Recorder and Automatic Curb Sender, Sir Wm. Thom- 

 on's, 10 1 



3CC0S, at Pau, 49 ; in Algsria, 89 

 ill, the Primary Elements of the, 127 

 ee (Alfred, F.R.S. ), Death of, 284 

 iles (Samuel), " Life of a Scottish Naturalist," 349 

 ith (Alexander J.), "The Impossible Problem," 155 

 ith (Prof. H. J. S., F.R.S.), The Present State ot Mathe- 

 natical Science, 79 



yth (Prof. Piazzi), Solar Physics at the Present Time, 157, 

 !I7 ; Centralism in Spectroscopy, 449, 508 

 ■ith (Worthingfon G.), Mushrooms and Toadstools, 134 

 ikes Devouring each other, 399 

 )wstorm in Norway, 284 

 1-Cap, the Movement of the. Sir C. W3rville Thomson, 



R-S., 359; James Geikie, F.R.S., 397 

 at Eclipses : the Nineveh, of B.C. 763, 65 ; of 1239 and 1241, 

 16; Ancient, 115, 186; of Stiklastad, 1030, 206; of 1567, 

 42 ; Total, 457 



ar Physics at the Present Time, Prof. Piazzi Smyth, 157, 

 !I7; SirG. B. Airy, F.R.S., 196 

 ar Radiation, Caloric Intensity of, 384 

 ar Spectrum, Prof. C. A. Young on the, 98 

 ar Spots, Early Observations on, 549 

 utions. Supersaturated, J. G. Grenfell, 138 

 by (H. C, F.R.S.), Microscopical Investigation of Sands 

 nd Clays, 356 ; Structure and Origin of Meteorites, 495 

 md, the Sensation of, 108 

 md Waves in Explosions, Velocity of, 266 

 ith African Museum, 377 



ith Pacific, Temperatures and Ocean Currents in the, 237 

 ith Polar Depression of the Barometer, 157, 198, 253 

 ithem Double Stars, 470 



ithern Tendencies of Peninsulas, Sir J. Lubbock, F.R.S., 275 

 ilding (D, A.), Swallows and Cuckoo at Menton, 488, 528 

 jctra : Dr. MacMunn's Method for Measuring, 18 ; Influence 

 f Electricity on Certain, 70 ; Dr. Higgin on Uie Photographic 



Spectra of Stars, 171 ; Dr. N. v. Konkoly on the Spectra of 

 Fixed Stars. 344 ; Researches on the Spectra of Metalloids, 

 401, 447 ; Prof. A. Cornu on the Spectrum of the New Star, 

 158 ; Spectrum of the Star a Lyroe, 307 



Sphenodon (Cwntkert), 66 



Spicer (W. W.), the Tasmanians, 178 



Sponges, Early Development of, 414 ; a New Sponge, 415 



Spontaneous Generation Question, 302, 313, 380 



Spottiswoode (W., F.R.S), Polariscope Objects, 275; Strati- 

 fied Discharges, 482 



Spry (W. J. J.), " The Cruise of H.M.S. Challenger," 290 



Spectroscopy, Centralisation of, 449, 489. 508 



Spectroscope, Rosenberg's Application of, to Medicine, 547 



Squirrels, Henry H. Higgins 117 



Stanford's Physical Geography Wall Maps, 480 



Stanley (H. M. ), Exploration of Africa, 440, 480 



S^ars : fi Doradiis, 14 ; Uranus, 48 ; the Distance of the, 86 ; 

 Change of Colour in, 107 ; New Double, 107 ; Binary Star 

 t\ Cassiopese, 107 ; The Mass of Neptune, 107 ; A New Star 

 in Cygnus, 146, 166, 186, 206, 303, 315, 361 ; The Spectrum 

 of the New Star in Cygnus, 158, 295 ; Radiant Points of 

 Shooting, 158,217; Remarkable Star Spectrum, 166; Dr. 

 Huggins on the Photographic Spectra of Stars, 171 ; Binary 

 Stars, 186, 303, 500; Variable Stars, 244, 281, 414, 478, 

 549 ; The New Star of 1604, 262 ; Red Star in Cetus 281 ; 

 Double Stars, 24, 303 ; Spectrum of the Star o Lyrse, 307 ; 

 Father Secchi's List of Coloured S:ars, 365 ; Nebulous Star 

 in the Pleiades, 397; Typical Division of Stars, 430; 65 

 Ophiuchi, 438 ; Strange Star in Serpens, 451 



Steam-Boat, New Fast, 209 



Stebbing ( Rev. T. R. R ), Antedon rosaceus (Comatula rosacea), 

 58 ; Pronunciation of the word Antedon, 366 



Steele's "Equine Anatomy," 310 



Steine (Dr.), Photography of Tones, 170 



Stereograph, Broca"s, 558 



Stevenson (Thos ), Prof B. Stewart on Meteorological Research, 

 76 ; on the Investigation of Climates, 556 



Stewart (Prof. Bilfour, F.R.S.), on Meteorological Research, 76 



Sticklebacks, Irish, 91 



Stockholm: Proposed Scientifi: College at, 283; Acidemy of 

 Sciences, 367 



"Stone Rivers," Phin. S. Abraham, 431 



Stone (Ormond), "The Sidereal Messenger," 198 



Stone (Dr. W. H), The Musical Asssciation, 59 



Storms, 126, 186, 263, 311, 538 



Storms and Cyclones, On a Mode of Investigating, Dr. Bays 

 Ballot, 216 



Stratified Discharges, W. Spottiswoode, F.R.S., 482 



Sturgeon's Method of Protecting Buildingj from Lightning, 88 



Sugar Canes, "Rust " in, 189 



Sulphates and S2lenates, Molecular Volumes of, 521 



Sumatra, Exploration of, 284 



Sumner's Method at Sea, J. A. Ewing, 22 



Superior, Lake, Introduction of Seals into, 147 



Supersaturated Solutions, J. G. Gren''ell, 138 



Sim, Annular Eclipse of, 1737, 500 



Sun-spots, Prof. Langley on, 90 ; Sun-spots and Weather, 263 



Sutton's " Volumetric Analysis, 67 



Swallows and Cuckoo at Menton, D. A. Spalding, 48S, 528 



Swarm-Spores, Algoid, E. Rodier, 178 



Swedish Anthropological Society, 305 



Switzerland : Prof. Heer's Primaeval World of, 140 ; Carto- 

 graphy in, 365 



Sydney, Great Storm of Wind at, 107 



Sylvester (Prof,), On Edu:ation, 501 



Tait (Dr. Lawson), Galton's Whistles, 294 

 Tait (Prof. P. G.), Definiteness and Accuracy, 77 

 Tape-worm of Rabbits, 275, 335, 375 

 Tasmanians, the, W. W. Spicer, 178 

 Tate and Blake's " Yorkshire Lias," 113 

 Tea, Theine in, 167 ; Tea Plants, Blight in, 419 

 Teeth, Tomes' Anatomy of the, i6i 

 Telegraphic Engineers, The Society of, 199, 388 

 Telegraphy, Duplex, an Account of, 180 

 Telegraphy and Chemistry, Prof. Abel, F. R.S., 321 

 Telescopic Meteors, 125 

 Telluride of Gold, 418 



Temperature, Relations of Body-change to, 324 

 Temperature, Low, 244 ; Lowest, 399, 471 ; Underground, 

 Report of the British Association Committee on, 240 



