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INDEX 



XXVll 



Saville-Kent, Oyster Fisheries on theTasmanian Coast-line, 139 



Sawyer, on the New Algol- Variable, Y Cygni, 37 



Sawyer (Edwin), Ob;ervations of Variable Stars, 545 



Sawyer's Experiments as to Existence of Separation of Irrita- 

 bility and Conducting Power in Nerves, Prof. Gad, 576 



Scandinavia, Thunderstorms of, MM. Mohnand Ilildebrandsson, 

 614 



Scarcity of Water, Threatened, Chas. Harding, 375 



SchJifer (Prof., F.R.S. ) : Comparison of Latency Periods of 

 Ocular Muscles on Excitation of Brain, 574 ; on Electrical 

 Excitation of the Monkey's Brain, 574 



Scharff, Dr. R. F., 186 



Schjellerup (Prof. H. C. F. C), Obituary Notice of, J. L. E. 

 Dreyer, 154 



Schlagintweit (Adolf), Memorial to, 64 



Schloesing (Th.) : on the Relations of Atmospheric Nitrogen 

 with Vegetable Humus, 528, 551 ; Relations of Atmospheric 

 Nitrogen to Vegetable Soil, 624 



Schmidt (Dr. Maximilian), Death of, 378 



Schmidt (Prof. Oscar) Method of Artificial Propagation of 

 Sponges, 595 



Schneider (Dr.), a New Compound of Arsenic, 258 



School Boards of England and Wales and Technical Instruction 

 Bill, 421 



Schools : Electricity for, W, Larden, 217 ; Science in Element- 

 ary, 279 ; Proposed Sanitary Reforms in Public Schools at 

 Baltimore, U.S.A., 379 



Schorlemmer (C, F.R. S.), a Treatise on Chemistry, 460 



Schott (C. A.), Davidson's Discovery of Records of the Mag- 

 netic Declaration, A.D. 1714, 379 



Schurman (Jacob Gould), Ethical Import of Darwinism, Prof. 

 Geo. J. Romanes, F.R. S. , 290 



Schuster (Dr. Max), Death of, ill 



Schwendener (Prof. S.) and Prof. Carl Naegeli, the Microscope 

 in Theory and Practice, Dr. W. H. Dallinger, F.R.S., 171 



Schwerin (Baron von). Ethnographical Objects, 442 



Schwerin (Dr.), Discovery at the Mouth of the River Congo, 65 



Science : Scientific Voyage of the Hirondelle, 24 ; Prof. Stokes's 

 Speech on, 1 1 1 ; the Art of Computation for the Purposes of 

 Science, Sydney Lupton, 237, 262 ; Prof. W. Ramsay and 

 Dr. Sydney Young, 294 ; Science in Elementary Schools, 

 279 ; the Duke of Argyll's Charges against Men of Science, 

 Prof. John W. Judd, F.R. S., 317 ; Physical Science and the 

 Woolwich Examinations, 296, 319, 385, 389, 409, 415, 433 ; 

 Natural Science and the Woolwich Examinations, Rev. A, 

 Irving, 389 ; Scientific and General Education, Prof. Fleeming 

 Jenkin on, 435 ; Scientific Study, Sir James Paget, 442 ; 

 Science Fund, Elizabeth Thompson, 492 ; Science Sketches, 

 David Starr Jordan, 535 ; Science Teaching at South Kens- 

 ington, 553 ; Home Experiments in Science, T. O'Conor 

 Sloane, 556 ; Scientific Progress in Elementary Schools, 577 



Scotland: t^cottish Geographical Magazine, 37, 286; Scottish 

 University Extension Scheme, 64 ; Journal of the Scottish 

 Meteorological Society, 68 ; Fishery Board for Scotland, Fifth 

 Annual Report of, 132 ; Scottish Fishery Board, and Arctic 

 Seal FisherieSj 399 ; Technical Education in, 349 ; Earthquake 

 Jn, 350 



Scott (Alexander), the Composition of Water by Volume, 439 



Scott (E. Erskine), the Art of Computation for the Purposes of 

 Science, 319 



Scott (Robert H., F.R.S.) : Earthquake at the Bahamas, 54; 

 British and Atlantic Weather, 350 ; International Tables, 



Scyphomedusse, Dr. von Lendenfeld, 399 



Sea: Wind Force at, Capt, David Wilson-Barker, 274; 

 Physical Geography of, Hon. Ralph Abercromby, 315 



Sea-sickness, Anfipyrine a Remedy for, Eugene Dupuy, 96 



Seebohm (M. ), on Physiological Selection, Geo. J. Romanes, 

 F.R.S., 246 



Seeds and Plants, the Dispersion of, by D. Morris, 466 ; Dr. 

 Antonio J. Amadeo, 535 



Seeman (AI.), on Storm Warnings issued by the New York 

 Herald, 18 



Seismology : Earth Tremors and the Wind, Prof. John Milne, 

 F.R.S., 214 ; Plantamour's Observations of Periodic Ground- 

 Movements, 257 ; Model of an Earthquake, Prof. Sekiya, 

 297 ; Speed of Charleston Earthquake, Newcomb and 

 Dutton, 358 ; Earth Tremors in Central Japan, Prof. Milne, 

 399 ; a Paper on Earthquakes in general, together with a 

 New Theory of their Origin, developed by the Introduction 



of Submarine Telegraphy, by W. G. Forster, 523 ; Reports 



on Earthquakes in Sweden, 543 ; Earthquake Sounds, Prof. 



Milne, 543 

 Seismometers, Pendulum, Prof. John Milne, 570 

 Sekiya (Prof.), Model of an Earthquake, 297 

 Self-induction, Dr. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., 605 

 Semmola (Prof. Eugenio), on the Heating of Metallic Points 



when discharging, 308 

 Semsey (Herr Andor), and Natural Science Society of Budapest, 



492 

 Sensation, the Objective Cause of, by Prof. Haycraft, 518 

 Sense, Organs of. Experiments on the Reciprocal Influence of, 



Herr Urbanschitsch, 157 

 Sense and Senses of Animals, Sir John Lubbock, 210 

 Sense of Taste, Delicacy of the, E. H, S. Bailey and E. L. 



Nicols, 557 

 Serum, a New Artificial, Mayet, 96 

 Sesquichloride of Rhodium, 600 

 Seton (George), on Illegitimacy in the Parish of Mamoch,^ 



527 

 Sewage, Treatment by Electricity of, 355 

 Sexual Reproduction of Millepora plicata, the, Dr. Sydney J. 



Hickson, 164 

 Shadow of a Mist : W. Fawcett, 224 ; Rev. Henry Bernard, 392 

 Sharpe (R. Bowdler) : the Tweeddale Collection, 13 5 New 



Species of Birds from Guadalcanar, 503 

 Shattock (S. G.), Scars occurring on the Stem of Dammara 



robust a, 119 

 Shaw (Prof. Hele) : Technical Education, 43 ; Perpetual 



Motion, 254 

 Shaw (W. N.), Report on Hygrometric Methods, 404 

 Shea (D. W.), Calibration of an -Electrometer, 500 

 Sheat-Fish, the Detent Joint of, 336 

 Shells, New Species of, by G. B. Sowerby, 526 

 Sherborn (Chas. Davies), an "Instructive" Bibliography of the 



Foraminifera, 583 

 Shettle (Dr. R. C.), on the Rotation of a Copper Sphere, 166 

 Shirenewton Hall, Chepstow, Extraordinary Fog in January 



1888 at, E. J. Lowe, F.R.S., 294 

 Shufeldt (R. W.), the Leaps of Lepus, 247 

 Siam, J. McCarthy on, 66 



Siberia, Eastern, Creation of Provincial Museums in, 65 

 Siberian Islands, the New, 522 

 Sidgwick (Alfred), a Short Introduction to the Study of Logic, 



Lawrence Johnstone, 175 

 Sieg (Dr.), Capillary Constants of Drops and Bubbles, 167 

 Sieger (Dr. Robert), Changes of Level in the African Lakes, 



.354 

 Siemens's Gas-Burners, 136 

 Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, Exploration of the. Dr. Sievers, 



354 

 Sievers (Dr. W.), Exploration of the Sierra Nevada of Santa 



Marta, 354 

 Silence, a Conspiracy of: the Duke of Argyll, F.R.S., 53, 246, 



293 ; Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 25, 77 ; Rev. John W. 



Judd, F.R.S., 272 ; Samuel F. Clarke, 200; an Old Pupil 



of Wyville Thomson's, 200 

 Silk : Artificial, 595 ; Industries of the United Kingdom, 595 

 Silkworms, Colour-Susceptibility of, E. B. Poulton, 95 

 Silver and Potassium, on the Production of the Double Car- 

 bonate of, 48 

 Simon (G. Eug.), China, its Social, Political, and Religious 



Life, 268 

 Singapore Museum, William Davison appointed Curator, 112 

 Skull, Fossil Pterodactyl, found in the Yorkshire Lias, 598 

 Sky, Effect of Snow on the Polarization of the, James C. 



McConnel, 177 

 Sky Interpreter, the Sailor's, S. R. Elson, 5 

 Sleep, Influence of, on Respiratory Combustion, L. de Saint 



Martin, 167 

 Sloane (T. O'Conor), Home Experiments in Science, 556 

 Smith (Rev. Alfred Chas.), Birds of Wiltshire, 601 

 Smith (Charles) : a New Treatise on Algebra, 232 ; a Treatise 



on Algebra, Capt. P. A. MacMahon, 508 

 Smith (C. Michie), Electrification of the Air, 274 

 Smith (Worthington G.) : Ffynnon Beuno and Cae Gwyn Caves, 



7, 105, 178; Earthquake in Fngland, 127 

 Smoke : Abatement, the National Institution, 356 ; in London, 



Increase of Fog and. Sir Douglas Gallon, 208 

 Snow Crystals, 343 



