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INDEX 



XXV11 



Schists, Crystalline : of the Western Alps, on the Constitution 

 and Structure of the, Prof. Ch. Lory, 506 ; Dr. T. Sterry 

 Hunt, 519 ; some Questions connected with the Problems pre- 

 sented by the, together withX'ontributions to their Solution 

 from the Palseozoic Formations, Prof. K. A. Lossen, 522 ; on 

 the Classification of the, Prof. Albert Heim, 524 ; Remarks 

 on some of the more Recent Publications dealing with the, 

 Prof. J. Lehmann, 540 



Schlcesing (M. Th.) : the Slow 'Combustion of Organic Sub- 

 stances, 48 ; on the Relations of Atmospheric Nitrogen to 

 Vegetable Soils, 383 



Schofield (A. T.), Another World, or the Fourth Dimension, 



363 

 Scholarship for Women, Miss Williams, 206 

 Schools, Teaching of Physics in, 500 

 Schorlemmer (Prof.), Complimentary Dinner to, 182 

 Science, Advancement of, the Australasian Association for the, 



437 

 Science, Empiricism versus, 609 

 Science, Natural, in Japan, 83 

 Science Teaching in Dundee, 574 

 Science Teaching in Elementary Schools in England and Wales, 



576 . . 



Scientific Assessors in Courts of Justice, 289 



Scientific Missions, French, 255 



Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M. S. Challenger during 

 the Years 1873-76, Report on the, 561 



Scientific Value of Volapiik, 351 



Scientific Writings of loseph Henry, 98 



Sclater (Dr. P. L., F.R.S.) : Electric Fishes in the River Uru- 

 guay, 148; the Tamaron of the Philippine Islands, 363 ; Recent 

 Visit of Naturalists to the Galapagos, Leslie A. Lee, 569 ; and 

 W. H. Hudson, Argentine Ornithology, Prof. R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, 587 



Scotland : Geology of the North-West Highlands of, Dr. A. 

 Geikie, F.R.S., 70 ; Geology of the Scottish Highlands, Dr. 

 Archibald Geikie, F.R.S. , 127 ; Dr. A. E. Tornebohm, 127 ; 

 Scottish Meteorological Society, 302 ; Scottish Geographical 

 Magazine, 424 ; Scotch Fishery Board, the, 574 ; Return of 

 H.M.S. jackal, 623 



Scott (Robert H., F.R.S.), International Meteorology, 491 



Scudder (S. H.), the Butterflies of the Eastern United States and 

 Canada, 624 



Sea, Determination of the Mean Level of the, M. Ch. Lalle- 

 mand, 191 



Sea-Birds, how they dine, Earl Compton, 618 



Sea-Fisheries in the United Kingdom, Return of the Board of 

 Trade, 349 



Sea-side and Way-side, Julia McNair Wright, 125 



Seager (P. S.), Salmonidae in Tasmania, 528 



Seals, Scarcity of, on the Coast of Greenland, Dr. Nansen, 422 



Season in Sutherland, a, J. E. Edwards-Moss, 220 



Seebohm (Henry), the Geographical Distribution of the Family 

 Charadriidae, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 73 



Seeds, Dispersal of, by Birds, Dr. H. B. Guppy, 101 



Seeds and Plants, Dispersion of, E. L. Layard, 296 



Seeley (H. G., F.R.S.), Factors in Life, 267 



Seidel (K.), Industrial Instruction, 148 



Seismology : Duplex Pendulum Seismograph, Prof. J. A. Ewing, 

 30 ; Report on Earthquake at Vyernyi, Prof. Mushketoff, 204 ; 

 Two Years' Seismometric Observations inTokio, Prof. Sekiya, 

 302 ; Tables to show the Distribution of Japanese Earthquakes 

 in connection with Years, Seasons, Months, and Hours of the 

 Day, Prof. J. Milne, 597 ; Earthquakes and how to measure 

 them, Prof. J. A. Ewing, F.R.S., 299 



Sekiya (Prof.), Two Years', Seismometric Observations in Tokio, 

 302 



Selborne Society, Lower Thames Valley, Branch of, 277 



Self-induction, W. E. Sumpner, 30 



Self-induction in Iron Conductors, Prof. J. A. Ewing, 55 



Self- Reproducing Food for Young Fish, 631 



Sense of Taste, 7 



Seubert (Prof.), Atomic Weight of Osmium, 183 



Shadow and Halo, 540 ; A. S. Eve, 589 ; Rev. Edward Geoghe- 

 gan, 619; Charles Cave, 619 



Shales, the Stockdale, Marr and Nicholson, 1 18 



Shanghai, Projected Zoological Garden at, 598 



Sharp (Abraham), Life of William Cudworth, 304 



Sharpe (Prof. R. Bowdler) ; the Geographical Distribution of the 

 Family Charadriidse, Henry Seebohm, 73 ; the Birds of 



Devonshire, J. Mansel-Pleydell, 125 ; Notes on the Birds of 

 Herefordshire, Henry Graves Bull, 125 ; Birdsnesting and 

 Birdskinning, a Complete Description of the Nests and Eggs 

 of Birds which breed in Britain, 587 ; British Birds, Key 

 List of, Lieut. -Colonel L. Howard Irby, 587 ; Argentine Orni- 

 thology, P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., 587 



Shell-Collector's Difficulty, a, Consul E. L. Layard, 566 ; D. 

 Pidgeon, 590 



Shell-Collector's Hand-book for the Field, Dr. J. W. Williams, 

 51, 103; Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S., 103 ' 



Sherborn (C. Davies),a Bibliography of the Foraminifera, Recent 

 and Fossil, from 1565 to 1888, 562 



Sherman (O. T. ), Zodiacal Light, 594 



Shih-Ping, China, Earthquake in, 16 



Shipley, A. J., I.ethrus cephaloies, 172 



Ships, on Meldrum's Rules for Handling, in the Southern Indian 

 Ocean, Hon. Ralph Aberciomby, 358 



Shufeldt (Dr. R. W.), Notes on the Reproduction of Rudi- 

 mentary Toes in Greyhounds, 56 ; the Osteology of Porzana 

 Carolina, 279 



Siam, W. J. Archer's Journey in, 280 



Siberia : Winter Temperature of Werchojansk, 303 ; First 

 University of, 350; the Question of Communication with, Dr. 

 Torell, 601 



Sierra Leone, or the White Man's Grave, G. A. Lethbridge 

 Banbury, 244 



Siemens (Dr. Werner) Ennobled, 41 



Sikkim, Ethnology of the Himalayan Hill Region of, 89 



Silicon and Sulphur in Cast Iron, 90 



Silicon Tetrafluoride Compounds, Comey and Loring Jackson, 

 203 



Silicotetraphenylamide, Prof. Emerson Reynolds, F.R.S., 



575 

 Silk, Researches on, Dr. Weyl, 144 

 Silkworms, E. A. Butler, 386 

 Silver King, Note on the Tarpon or {Megalops thrissoides), Prof. 



W. C. Mcintosh, F.R.S., 309 

 Simart (M.), Monthly Charts of the North Atlantic Currents, 



143 

 Simple Bodies, Equivalents of the, 96 

 Simpson (A. Nicol), Parish Patches, 341 

 Skate, Electric Organ of, Prof. J. C. Ewart, 310 

 Skin Colouring, Dr. Klaatsch on, 96 

 Sky-coloured Clouds, T. W. Backhouse, 196, 270 ; R. T. Omond, 



220 

 Sky Lights, Mysterious, W. Mattieu Williams, 102 

 Slatter (Geo. W. ), Outlines of Qualitative Analysis, 100 

 Sledges, &c, at Burials, on the Use of, M. Anutchin, 134 

 Smart (Stephen F.), Tours and Excursions in Great Britain, 



Charles A. Gillig, 318 

 Smith (Chas.), Solutions of the Examples in an Elementary 



Treatise on Conic Sections, 588 

 Smith (Dr. G. M.), Wasted Sunbeams, 205 

 Smith (H. W.)and Prof. H. B. Dixon, F.R.S., Incompleteness of 



Combustion on Explosion, 596 

 Smith (Percy), Visit to the Kermadec Islands, 18 

 Smyth (Prof. Piazzi), Resignation of, 421 

 Snakes, Poisonous, of the Bombay Presidency, H. M. Phipson, 



284 

 Snow-Blindness, Nose-Blackening as Preventive of, Prof. E. 



Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 7 ; Edmund J. Power, 7 ; Dr. Robert 



L. Bowles, 101 ; A. J. Duffield, 172 

 Snow-water Rivers, Cause of Peculiar Green of, L. Uchermann, 



527 



Soap-Bubbles, 177 ; C. V. Boys on, 22 ; Magnetic and Electnc 

 Experiments with, C. V. Boys, 162 



Soaps and Candles, Dr. C. R. Alder Wright, F.R.S., 292 



Society of German Engineers, 598 



Sodium Salt of Zincic Acid, 86 



Soil, How to increase the Produce of the, Prof. John Wrightson, 

 329 



Solar Eclipse of August 28-29, 1886, on the Determination of 

 the Photometric Intensity of the Coronal Light during the, 

 Captain W. de W. Abney, F.R.S., and T. E. Thorpe, 407 



Solar Parallax from Photographs of the last Transit of Venus, 

 600 



Solar Phenomena for 1887, Distributions in Latitude of, P. 

 Tacchini, 47 



Solid Matter, a Simple Hypothesis for Electro-magnetic Induc- 

 tion of Incomplete Circuits with Consequent Equations of 



