Nature, June T, iJ 



INDEX 



XXIX 



Storer (F. H.), Agriculture and some of its Relations with 

 Chemistry, loo 



Storm of October 30, 14 



Storm Signals in Russia, 91 



Storm Signals at the Ports of the Madras Presidency, 208 



Storm Warnings issued by the New York Herald, M. Seeman 

 on, 18 



Storms in the British Islands, 67 



Storms, New Form for Reports of, issued by the Hydro- 

 graphic Office of the United States, 67 



Story of Creation, Edward Clodd, 388 



Strachan's (Mr.), Explorations of New Guinea, 302 



Stratigraphy of the Bagshot Beds of the London Basin, 335 



Striae Medullares Acusticae, Dr. Virchow, 480 



Stromeyer (C. E.) : Perception of Colour, 79; the Umbrias 

 Wave, 151 ; Parallax of Mars, 302 



Stroobant (Paul), Physical Observations of Saturn, 308 



Strophanthus, Native Method of obtaining Poison from, 113 



Sturtevant (Dr. E. Lewis), Report of the New York Agricultural 

 Station, Prof. John Wrightson, 524 



Submarine Valleys off the Pacific Coast of the United States, 

 Geo. Davidson, 38 



Sugar, Synthesis of Glucose, A. E. Tutton, 7 



Sulphates, on the Decreasing Solubility of the, by A. Etard, 



504 



Sulphides of Gold, 34 



Sulphur, Hexiodide of, Dr. Schreiber, 258 



Sulphur, Passage of Electric Current through, E. Duter, 528 



Sulphuretted Hydrogen employed for Purifying the Salts of 

 Cobalt and Nickel, 288 



Sun : Oxygen in the, John Trowbridge and C. C. Hutchins, 47 ; 

 Spectra of Oxygen and Carbon compared with that of the, 

 Prof. Trowbridge and Hutchins, Prof. J. C. Draper, Dr. H. 

 Draper, 114; on the Existence of Carbon in the, 162; a 

 Green Sun, D. Pidgeon, 440 ; Spectroscopic Determination of 

 the Rotation Period of, 495 



Sundell (A. F.), Comparison of Barometers at Observatories of 

 Europe, 258 



Sunset, Atmospheric Effects at, Chas. Croft, 273 



Sunspots, 423 



Sunspots of 1886 and 1887, Distribution of, 495 



Surinam, River, Geological Chart of the, 552 



Siiss (Prof. Eduard), History of the Ocean, 354 



Swallows, Migration of, along the Southern Coast, W. Warde 

 Fowler, 61 



Sweden : Remarkable Auroral Phenomenon in. Dr. Ekholm, 

 186; Meteor in, 258, 282; Discovery oi Juncus tenuis in, 

 258 ; Discovery of a Runic Stone with Inscription in, 283 ; 

 Reports on Earthquakes in, 543 ; Publications of the Swedish 

 Meteorological Office, 39 



Swifts : E. Brown, 6 ; C. B. Witchell, 79 



Swinhoe (Colonel C.) and E. C. Cotes, Catalogue of the Moths 

 of India, H. J. Elwes, 386 



Swiss Forest Laws, 490 



Sylvester (Prof. J. J., F.R.S.) : Theory of Reciprocants, 71 ; 

 Note on a Proposed Addition to the Vocabulary of Ordinary 

 Arithmetic, 152 ; a Correction, 179 ; on the Divisors of a Sum 

 of a Geometrical Series whose First Term is Unity and Com- 

 mon Ratio any Positive or Negative Integer, 417 



Symons (G. J , F.R.S.), on Non-Existence of Thunderbolts 

 527 



Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine, 38 



Synchronizing of Timepieces, 288 



Synchronous Timepieces, M. A. Cornu on, 263 



Synoptic Charts of the North Atlantic Ocean, Daily, 137 



Synthesis of Glucose, A. E. Tutton, 7 



Syracuse University Observatory, 330 



Taborg, Meteorite which fell on August 18/30, 1887, at, 120 



Taconic Area, Geology of the, 623 



Taconic System, the, of Emmons, by Charles D. Walcott, 

 SCO 



Tafel (Dr.), Synthesis of Glucose, 283 



T'ai Shan, Height of. Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, 224 



Tait (Prof. P. G. ) : Obituary Notice of Dr. Balfour Stewart, 

 F.R.S., 202 ; Compressibility of Water, 239 ; on Glories, 518; 

 on Duration of Impact, 527 ; on the Effect of Differential Mass 

 Motion on the Permeability of Gas, 527 ; on the Mean Free 

 Path and the Number of Collisions per Particle per Second in 



a Group of Equal Spheres, 527 ; on the Compressibility of 

 Glass at Different Temperatures, 527 



Taramelli (Prof. T.), Tertiary Formations near Cape La 

 Mortola, in Liguria, North Italy, 404 



Tartary, the Vegetable Lamb of, Henry Lee, 1 76 



Tashkend, Consulting Hospital for Mussulman Women at, 64 



Tasmanian Coast -line. Oyster Fisheries on the, Saville-Kent, 139 



Tassi (Dr. Flaminio), on the Ansesthesis and Poisoning of 

 Plants, 308 



Taste, Action of Acids on, J. Corin, 308 



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

 Nicols, 557 



Taylor (Rev. C. S.), Total Solar Eclipse of October 29, 878, 

 223 



Te Aroha, Auriferous Deposit lately found West of. Sir James 

 Hector, 16 



Tea : Cultivation in India, 409 ; Growth of, in Jamaica, Mada- 

 gascar, and Natal, 472 



Teachers, Conference of the National Union of Elementary, 542 



Teachers, Number of, employed in New York, 398 



Teaching of Elementary Chemistry, 389 



Teaching University for London, Proposed, 331, 339, 421 ; Sir 

 Philip Magnus, 393 



Teak Tree, the Mineral Concretion of the, David Hooper, 523 



Tebbutt (John) : Probable New Variables, 114; Observatory, 

 Windsor, New South Wales, 400 



Technical Education: Conference on, 34, 139; Technical 

 Education, 186, 374 ; Prof. Hele Shaw, 43 ; Sir John 

 Lubbock, F.R.S., 284; National Association for the Promo- 

 tion of. Meeting at Manchester, iii; in Manchester, I2i j 

 Proposed Meeting for the Discussion of the Best Means of 

 obtaining, 349 ; Bill to provide for Technical Education in 

 England and VVales, 614; Technical Education in Scotland, 

 349 ; in France, 329 ; in Russia, 566 ; in the Colony of 

 Victoria, 614 



Technical Institutes for North London, 519 



Technical Instruction Bill : School Boards of England and 

 Wales, 421 ; Lord Cranbrook and Sir W. Hart Dyke, 421 



Technical University of Belgium, 284 



Technological Dictionary, 534 



Technological History at the Paris Exhibition of 1889, 156 



Teeth, the, of the Myxinoid Fishes, Dr. J. Beard, 499 



Telegraph Wire, Coefficient of Self-induction of Iron and 

 Copper, Preece, 303 



Telegraphs in China, 564 



Telescope, My, by a Quekett Club Man, 509 



Telescopes for Stellar Photography, Sir Howard Grubb, 614 



Tellurium, Specific Heat of, 215 



Temperature : Inter-diurnal Variability of Temperature at 

 Places in the Argentine Republic and South America gener- 

 ally. Dr. Oscar Doering, 39 ; Distribution of Temperature 

 and of Barometric Pressure on the Surface of the Globe, 72 ; 

 Probable Temperature of the Pole, Jules Girard, 91 ; Surface 

 Temperature of the Ocean, Prof. O. Kriimmel, 156; Effects of 

 Temperature on the Thermo-electric Properties of Iron when 

 under Stress or Strain, Herbert Tomlinson, 165 ; Mean Tem- 

 perature of the Air at Greenwich, 214 ; Influence of Altitude 

 on Temperature, M. Andre, 282 ; Influence of Temperature 

 on a Magnetic State of Iron, M. P. Ledeboer, 288 



Tenants of an Old Farm, Henry C. McCook, 363 



Tenerife and its Six Satellites, Olivia M. Stone, 221 



Teneriffe, Peak of. Electrical Condition of the, Hon. Ralph 



Abercromby, 31 

 Terrestrial Magnetism, on the Constant P in Observations of. 

 Prof. Wm. Harkness, Arthur W. Rucker, F.R.S., 127, 272 

 Terrestrial Rotation, Trajectory of a Body moving over the 



Earth's Surface under the Influence of, M. Lindelof, 543 

 Tertiary Basins of England, Belgium, and North of France, 



Eocene Strata in the. Prof. Joseph Prestwich, F.R.S., 287 

 Tertiary Formations near Cape La Mortola, in Liguria, North 



Italy, Prof. T. Taramelli, 404 

 Tetens (Herr), Olbers' Comet, 1887, 114 

 Tetrachloride of Carbon, Action of the, on Oxygenated Mineral 



Compounds free of Hydrogen, 600 

 Texas Section of the American Cretaceous, 47 

 Thmcalia concarnerata. Prof C. Stewart, 359 

 Theekultur in Britisch-Ost-Indien, im funfzigsten Jahre ihres 

 Bestandes, Historisch, Naturwissenschaftlich, und Statistisch, 

 Dr. Ottokar Feistmantel, 409 

 ThelobhorecB, a Monograph of the, George Massee, 526 



