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INDEX 



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Electric Motion in Fixed Homogeneous or Heterogeneous, 



Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., 569 

 Solids, /Eolotropic Elastic, C. Chree, 165 

 Solomon Islands, Projected Third Expedition of Mr. C. M. 



Woodford to, 115 

 Solution and Crystallization, on, Prof. Liveing, 215 

 Solutions, Effect of an Electric Current on Saturated, C. Chree, 



215 

 Solutions, Report of the British Association Committee on the 



Properties of, Dr. Nicol, 596 

 Sonnets, 347, 371, 421 



Sonorous Sands : in Dorsetshire, Cecil Carus-Wilson, 415 ; H. 

 Carrington Bolton and Alexis A. Julien, 515 ; A- R. Hunt, 

 540 ; D. Pidgeon, 590 

 Sorbonne, Professorship of the Darwinian Theory at, 182, 276 

 Sound, Diffraction of, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 208 

 Sound, Light, and Heat, Thomas Dunman, 125 

 Southall, Discovery of Elephas primigenius, associated with 



Flint Implements at, J. Allen Brown, 283 

 Sow, a Six-Legged, 257 

 Spain, Forestry School in, 461 



Spark, Electric, Undulatory Movement accompanying, 287 

 Sparrow, Nesting Habit of the House, G. L. Grant, 590 

 Species, Origin of, Dr. Eimer, 123 

 Specific Gravity, Density and, Prof. G. Carey Foster, F. R.S., 



6 ; E. Hospitalier, 6 ; Harry M. Elder, 55 

 Spectra of Crystals, the Absorption, A. E. Tutton, 343 

 Spectrum Analysis : Researches on the Spectrum of Carbon, 

 Prof. Vogel, 72 ; Dr. Koenig's Measurement of Intensities of 

 Light in Spectrum, 119; the Progress of the Henry Draper 

 Memorial, Prof. Edward C. Pickering, 306 ; Experiments on 

 Change in Wave- length of Spectral Lights necessary to produce 

 Perceptible Difference in Colour, Dr. Uhthoff, 464 ; Re- 

 searches on the Optic Origin of the Spectral Rays in Con- 

 nection with Undulatory Theory of Light, C. Fievez, 511 ; 

 Profs. Liveing and Dewar's Investigations on the Spectrum of 

 Magnesium, 165 ; Dr. Janssen on the Spectrum of Oxygen, 

 605 ; Rev. T. E. Espin on the Spectrum of R Cygni, 423 

 Spelin, Eine Allsprache, G. Bauer, I 



Spencer (Prof. W. Baldwin), the Nephridia of Earthworms, 197 

 Spinal Nerves, on the Comparison of the Cranial with the, Dr. 



W. H. Gaskell, F.R.S., 19 

 Spitzbergen, Aurora in, Dr. H. Hildebrandsson, 84 

 Sponge Fishery, Report of British Consul at Tunis, 349 

 Sprat Fisheries of France, Report of M. Renduel, 349 

 Square Bars to Torsion, Resistance of, T. J. Dewar, 126 

 Stanley (W. F.), Mathematical Drawing and Measuring 



Instruments, 230 

 Stars : Double, on the Variation of the Personal Equation in the 

 Measurement of, 191 ; Stars, Variable, 328 ; New Catalogue 

 of, S. C. Chandler, 554 ; Globular Star Clusters, A. M. 

 Clerke, 365 ; Stars, Zone Observations of the, Fearnley and 

 Geelmuyden, 626 ; on the Deformation of the Images of Stars 

 seen by Reflection on the Surface of the Sea, M. C. Wolf, 

 631 ; on the Observation of Stars by Reflection, M. Perigaud, 

 632 

 Statics, the Elements of Graphical, by Gray and Lows on, 4 

 Statistics of Blindness in Russia, 279 

 Statistics of Indian Life, Dr. Hyde Clarke, 237; S. A. Hill, 



565 

 Statistics, the Life, of an Indian Province, S. A. Hill, 245 

 Steam- Engine, the, G. C. V. Holmes, 169 

 Steel, Increase in the Production of, 90 

 Steel Vacuum Balloon, Proposed, 185 

 Steiner (P.), Elementar Grammatik zur Weltsprache, I 

 Stellar Systems, Gravitation in the, Prof. Asaph Hall, 398 

 Sternberg (Baron Ungern), Ascent of Mount Elburz, 501 

 Stevenson (Thomas), a Treatise on Alcohol, with Tables of 



Spirit Gravities, 101 

 Stewart (Prof. Balfour), Elementary Treatise on Heat, 135 

 Stewart (Dr. G. N.), Electrolytic Decomposition of Proteids, 422 

 Stewart (S. A.) and T. H. Corry, Flora of the North- East of 



Ireland, 514 

 Stirling (E. C), a New Australian Mammal, 588 

 Stockdale Shales, the, Marr and Nicholson, 118 

 Stockholm Royal Academy of Sciences, 120, 168, 584, 632 

 Storage of Life as a Sanitary Study, Dr. B. W. Richardson, 



F.R.S., 276 

 Storm Signals, Recently Established, 183 

 Storm Warnings, M. de Bort, 419 



Storms, the March, H. C. Russell, F.R.S., 491 



Storms : in the North Atlantic Ocean, 16 ; Use of Oil during 



the, 16 

 Storms, Phenomenal, in India, 42 

 Storms in the Philippine Archipelago, 16 

 Storms and Rotating Spheres, Whirlwinds and Waterspouts, 



C. L. Weyher, E. Douglas Archibald, 104 

 Storms, Theory of, M. Faye, E. Douglas Archibald, 149 

 Strachan (Captain John), Explorations and Adventures in New 



Guinea, 315 

 Strahan's (Colonel) Survey of the Nicobar Islands, 115 

 Straits Settlements Meteorological Report, 599 

 Stratigraphic Palaeontology of Man, M. Marcellin Boule, 211, 



. 357, 431. 

 Stratigraphical Succession of the Cambrian Faunas in North 



America, Prof. Chas. B. Walcott, 551 

 Strawberry, Alpine, Dr. Masters, 327 

 Stromboli, Islands of Vulcano and, Dr. II. J. Johnston-Lavis, 



13 



Strophanthine, M. Arnaud, 311 



Subsidence of the Land in France, Provisional Laws deter- 

 mining the, M. C. M. Goulier, 432 



Substitute, a, for Carbon Disulphide in Pri>ms, &c. , II. G. 

 Madan, 413 



Sulphur, the Vapour-Density of, Dr. Biltz, 229 



Sulphur- Acid, a New, M. Villiers, 41 



Sumpner (W. E.), Coefficients of Induction, 22, 30 



Sun Columns: Dr. B. Brauner, 414; Hy. Harries, 566 



Sun Motor, the, Captain John Ericcson, 319 



Sun, Reflected Image of, on Marine Horizon, M. Ricco, 608 



Sun, Rotation Period of the, from Faculae, Dr. J. Wilsing, 

 206 



Sunbeams, Wasted, Paper by Dr. G. M. Smith, 205 



Sunday Lecture Society, 600 



Sunshine Recorder, Jordan's New Photographic, 118 



Supan (Dr.), a Century of African Exploration, 186 



Superstition in Austria, Curious Relic of Medieval, 454 



Surgery, Catgut of a Ligature, Prof. Munk, 312 



Surinam, Gold-Field discovered in, 88 



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



Svenonius (Dr. F. ), Glaciers of Europe, 574 



Svoboda (Dr.), the Nicobar Archipelago, 501 



Sweden : Aurora Borealis in, 16 ; Earthquake in, 42 ; Meteor 

 seen at Kalmar, 158 ; Meteor at Smaland, 328 ; Meteor in, 

 527 ; Archceological Society of, 87 ; Swedish Academy of 

 Science, 114; Prehistoric Canoes found in, 304; Two Hundred 

 Eider Fowl caught in Fishermen's Nets off Coast on, 304 ; 

 Preservation of Eider- Fowl in, 527 ; Runic Stones discovered 



in > 5 2 7 . . 



Swedenborg Whale (Eubalena svedenborgu, Lillj.), 134 



Sword-fish [Xipkias) captured in Long Reach, Milton Creek, 

 Sittingbourne, 623 



Sydney, Hand-book of, W. M. Hamlet, 575 



Sylvester (Prof. J. J., F.R.S.): on Hamilton's Numbers, 21 ; 

 on certain Inequalities relating to Prime Numbers, 259 ; 

 Obituary Notice of Arthur Buchheim, 515 



Symons (G. J. , F.R.S.) : on the Distribution of Rain over the 

 British Isles during the Year 1887, 363 ; Lightning Con- 

 ductors, 547 



Syngamus trachealis, the Gape-worm of Fowls, Lord Walsing- 

 ham, F.R.S., 324 



Synoptic Charts, G. Rollin, 575 



Syrrhaptes paradoxus, Pallas/s Sand Grouse, on the Reappear- 

 ance of, in Europe, Dr. A. B. Meyer, 53, 77, 342 ; F. M. 

 Campbell, 77 ; Prof. Alfred Newton, F. R.S., 103, 112, 295; 

 W. B. Tegetmeier, 230; Specimen at the Zoological Gardens, 



1^2 



Tables of Reciprocals, V. A. Julius, 77 



Tacchini (P.) : Distributions in Latitude of the Solar Pheno- 

 mena for 1887, 47 ; Summary of the Solar Observations made 

 at the Royal Observatory of the Collegio .Romano, Second 

 Quarter of 1888, 40S 



Tait (Prof. P. G.), Compressibility of Water, Salt Water, and 

 Glass, 581 



Tamaron, the, of the Phillippine Islands, Dr. P. L. Sclater, 

 F.R.S., 363 



Target Practice, Note on, M. J. Bertrand, 359 



