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INDEX 



Xlll 



Scottish Meteorological Society, 440 



Scottish Universities Commission, 441 



Sea-Sediments, Movements of, 293 



Sea-Water, Oxygen in, J. Y. Buchanan, 162 ; as a Specific, 234 



Sccchi (Father), Illness of, 291 ; Death of, 350 ; Obituary 

 Notice of, 370 



Sediments in the Sea, Movements of, 293 



" Seiches" on the Lake of Geneva, 234 ; and Earthquakes, Dr. 

 F. A. Forel, 281 ; the Law of, 475 



"Selborne," Prof. Bell's White's, 399 



Selective Discrimination of Insects, 62, 163 



Selenium, Action of Light on, Robert Sabine, 512 



Scmirechensk District, Exploration of, 252 



Sense in Insects, W. M. Gabb, 282 



Sewing Machines, Effects from Using, 71 ; a New, 371 



Sewage, the Metropolitan, 157 



Seychelles and Mauritius, the Flora of, by J. G. Baker, 77 



Shadows, Obsei-vations on, 351 



Shells, Atlantic, WoUaston's 503 ; Dr. P. P. Carpenter's Col- 

 lection of, 513 



Shenstone {W. A.), Conservation of Energy — Lecture Experi- 

 ment, 45 ' 



Shetland and Orkney, Glacial Geology of, S. Laing, M.P., 123 



Shooting Stars, 201, 212 



" Shorthand for General Use," Prof. Everett, 17 



Shot, Trajectories of, Rev. Francis Bashforth, 401, 506 ; W. 

 D. Niven, 466 



Siberia : Sea Trade with, 324 ; the University of, 354 ; and 

 Mongolia, Exploration of, 435 



Sidebotham (Joseph), Singing Mice, 29 



Silesian Society, Proceedings of, 219 



Silver Salts, Relations between the Volumes of, 260 



Simon Testimonial Fund, 371 



" Simple Lessons for Home Use," 25 



Singing in the Ears, Xenos Clark, 342 



Singing Mice, 11, 29 



Sipyhte, a New Mineral containing Niobium, 269 



" Sizing of Cotton Goods," Thomson's, 4 



Skin, Human, and Mineral Waters, 252 



Skull, the Morphology of the, Parker and Bettany, 3 



Slater (H. H.), Singing Mice, li 



Sleep, Causation of, 124 



Smell and Hearing in Insects, Henry Cecil, 381 



Smith (A. Percy), the Telephone, 380 



Smith (George), Ancient History from the Monuments, 119 



Smith (Worthington G.), a Fossil Fungus, 127; the Fossil 

 Peronospora as a Primordial Plant, 144 



Smith (Herbert H.), Exploration of Brazil, 308 



Smith (J.), " Ferns, British and Foreign," 43 



Smith (Prof. W. Robertson), the Colour Sense of the Greeks, 



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Smithsonian Institution : 18, 39 ; Annual Report, 192 



Smyrna, Plague of Field-mice or Rats in, 43 



Smyth (Prof. Piazzi), Sun-spots and Terrestrial Magnetism, 220 



Snake Poison, 337 



Snow in the " Salzkammergut," 292 



Snowflakes, Hailstones, and Raindrops, the Formation of. Prof. 



Osborne Reynolds, F.R.S., 207 

 Soap-Films, the Acoustical Properties of, Prof. Silvanus P. 



Thompson, 486 

 Social Electrical Nerves, 305, 346 

 Societe des Colons Explorateurs, 290 

 Societe d'Hygiene of Paris, 310 

 Solar Corona, Early Observations of the, 14 

 Solar Eclipses : The Total Solar Eclipse of July 29, 1878, 36, 



250, 269, 381, 452, 453; J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., on, 



481, 501 ; Solar Echpse of a.d. 418, 163 

 Solar Radiation in India, Methods for Determining 131 

 Solar Spectrum, Optical Spectroscopy of the Red End of the, 



J. B. N. Hennessey, F.R.S., 28 

 Solar, see also Sun 

 Soleil (M.), Death of, 455 



Soles and Turbot, Consignment of, to America, 212, 311, 

 Sorby (H. C, F.R.S.), the Colouring Matter of Human Hair, 



355 

 Sound: Experiment on Viljralions, 194; "Lord Rayleigh's 

 Theory of Sound," Prof. H, Ilelmholtz, F.R.S., 237 ; Velo- 

 city of, 410 ; Sound Colour- Figures, Sedley Taylor, 426, 447 ; 

 and Density, J. Cameron, 507 ; the Transmission of, l)y 

 Wires, 519 



Sounding Apparatus, Lieut. Theo. F. Jewell, 230 



Spain, Science in, 91 ; the Telephone in, 437 



Spalding, Douglas A,, Obituary Notice of, 35 



Spanish Peninsula, the Climatology of the, 248 



Spectroscope, the, and its Work, R. A. Proctor, 360 



Spectroscopical Researches of D' Arrest, 311 



" Spectrum Analysis," Vogel's, 99 



Spherules, Coloured, in the Retina of Birds, 473 



Spiders, Hungarian, 128; the Aeronautic Flight of, 434; 

 Spider and the Wasp, 402, 448 



Spitzbergen, Maps of, 290 



vSponges, Glassy, 222 



Standards, Public, at the Guildhall, 454 



Stanley (H. M.), Exploration of Africa, '49, 90; at the Cajje, 

 109 ; his Arrival in England, 232, 249, 291 ; Dinner to, 

 270 ; at St. James's Hall, 297 ; his new Work on Africa, 364 



Starch in Plants, 269 



Starfishes, North American, Alex. Agassiz, 98 



Stars : Tycho Brahe's, of 1572, 129 ; Variable, 163, 210, 231, 

 288; Shooting, 201, 212; e Indi, 231; the Star Lalande, 

 19,034, 306 ; Double, 407 



Steam-Engine, a Remarkable Small, 214 



Steel Plates, Gigantic, 436 



Stellar Systems, 82 



Stewart (Prof. Balfour, F.R.S.), Sun-spots and Declination 

 Ranges, 326 



Stobart (J. W. H.), Islam and its Founder, 239 



Stockholm, the Royal Library at, 273 



Stockdale (William), the Telephone, 380 



Stokes (Prof, G. G., Sec. R.S.), Certain Movements of Radio- 

 meters, 172, 234 



Stone (Dr. W. H.), Grove's Dictionary of Music, 422 



Stoney (G. Johnstone, F.R.S.), the Radiometer and its Lessons, 

 79, 181, 261 



Stonyhiurst, Meteorology of, 489 



Strassburg, New University Buildings, 55 ; University Intelli- 

 gence, 195 ; Discovery of Prehistoric Remains in, 492 



Strawberries in December, 193 



Strontian, Lime, and Baryta, Crystallisation of, 372 



Striimpell (Dr.), Causation of Sleep, 124 



Strychnia and its Antidote, J. Sinclair Holden, 360 



Styria, Avalanches in, 273 



Subsidence of Soil in France, 513 



Suicides in France, 54 



Sumatra : Death of the Leader of the Dutch Expedition to, 170 ; 

 Exploration of, 290, 409 



Sun : the Sun's Distance, i ; the Sun's Photosphere, J. Norman 

 Lockyer, F.R.S., 23 ; Sun's Magnetic Action at the Present 

 Time, J. Allan Broun, F.R.S., 183 ; Photographs of the, 195 ; 

 the Presence of Oxygen in the. Dr. Arthur Schuster, F.R.S., 

 148 ; R. Meldola, 161 ; Dr. Henry Draper, 339 ; Age of the, 

 in Relation j to Evolution, 206, 303, 321, 360, 464 ; Age 

 of the Sun's Heat in Relation to Geological Evidence, S. 

 Tolver Preston, 423 



Sun-spots : Rainfall in the Temperate Zone in Connection with 

 the Sun-spot Cycle, Dr. W. W. Hunter, 59 ; Sun-spots and 

 Terrestrial Magnetism, Prof. Piazzi Smyth, 220 ; A. W, 

 Downing, 242; B. G. Jenkins, 259 ; J. Allan Broun, F.R.S. 

 262, 280 ; Joas Capello, 488 ; Sun-spots and Declination 

 Ranges, Prof. Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., 326; Sun-spots and 

 Rainfall, 61, 443, 448, 505 _ 



Supplementary Eyebrows, W. Ainslie Hollis, 124 



Swinhoe (Robert, F.R.S.), Death of, 16; Obituary Notice of, 35 



Sydney, International Exhibition at, 233 



Sylt, the Island of, Discovery of a Submerged Village, 232 



Sylvester (Prof. J. J., F.R.S.), Chemistiy and Algebra, 284, 309 



Symons (G. J.), Alluard's Condensing Hygrometer, 28 



Tacitus, the "Nerthus" of, 250 



Tait (Prof. P. G.), " Sketch of Thermodynamics," Prof, Clerk 



Maxwell, F.R.S., 257, 278; ZoUner's Scientific Papers, 420; 



Thermal Conductivity, 480 

 Talking Machine, Edison's, 469 

 Tanner (Prof. H. W. Lloyd), Potential Energy, 81 

 Taschenberg (Dr. E.), Die Insekten, 41 

 Tasmania, 508 



Taunton College School, 16, 154, 214, 354 

 Taylor (Sedley), Fluid Films, 44 ; Was Galileo Tortured ? 299 ; 



Phoneidoscopic Representation of Vowels and Diphthongs, 



447 ; Sound Colour- Figures, 426, 447 



