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INDEX 



XV 



Schonfelcl (Prof.) appointed to Bonn Observatory, 297 ; Memoir 

 of Prof. Argelander, 436 



School of Anthropology in Paris, 502 



School of Mines (Royal), 220; Exhibitions at, 482 



Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig, 547 



Schrotter (Prof. Von), the Death of, 14 



Schumacher (P.), Exploration of Islands off California, 195 



Schuster (Arthur), Science in Siam, 233 



Schwabe (Hofrath Heinrich), the Death of, 13 



Schweinfurth (Dr.), Inaugural Address before the Societe Khedi- 

 vale de Geographic, 133 



Science Commission : Report on the Advancement of Science, 

 219, 285, 305, 429, 469 J Sixth Report of the, W. Tuckwell, 

 549 



Science Education from below, 203 



Science in Germany, 115, 127, 152, 168, 189, 213, 316, 331, 

 398, 457, 557 



Science in Siam, Arthur Schuster, 233 



Scientific and Agricultural Congress at Palermo, 319 



Scientific Apparatus, Loan Exhibition of, 32, 218, 562 



Scientific Bibliography, 242, 374, 407, 5or, 527 



Scientific Work in Paris, 503 



Scientific Worthies :— V, George Gabriel Stokes (with. 

 Portrait), 201 ; VI. Sir Charles Lyell (with Portrait), 325 



Scilly and Cornwall, Meteorology of, by W. P. Dymond, 250 



Sclater (P. L., F.R.S.j, Address on our Knowledge of Geo- 

 graphical Zoology before British Association, 374 ; Appendix 

 to List of Vertebrated Animals in the Zoological Gardens, 

 541 ; Cassowaries, 516 ; the India Museum, 212 ; Lecture on 

 the Pheasants, 147 ; Mura:no/>sis iridactyla, 87 



Sclater (H. H ), Report of Natural History, 75 



Scotland : Rare Plants from, by Prof. Balfour, 442 ; Survey of, 

 Deputation to Lord Henry Lennox, 153 



Scottish Meteorological Society, 14, 219 ' 



•'Scottish Naturalist," 283 



Scythians, Scalping among the, 496 



Sea Elephants trom Kerguelen's Land, at Berlin.'lby T. Willis 

 Clarke, 366 



Sea Lions at the Brighton Aquarium, 502, 526, 542 ; J. W. 

 Clarke on, 212 



Sea Power, Utilisation of, 212, 253, 280 



Sea-water, Colour and Gravity of, 78 



Seal Fishery, Greenland, 15 



Seals, J. W. Clarke's Lecture on, 8 



Secchi (Father) at the Congress at Palermo, 319 ; " Le Soleil," 



Sedimentary Rocks, Prof, Hughes on the Classification of, 406 

 Seeley (H. G.) on the Dinosaur, 119; on a Fossil from the 



Gau'.t of Folkestone, 262 ; on an Omithosaurian, 119 

 Seiches of the Lake of Geneva, 134 

 Selenium, J. E. II. Gordon, on Anomalous' Behaviour 'of, 187, 



291 ; Properties of, Richard J. Moss, 291 

 " Sensations of Tone," Helmholtz's, 449, 475 

 Serpent, New Species of, 54 

 Sewage Liquor, J. C. Melliss, 463 

 Sextans, Variable (?) Star in, J. E. Gore, 26, 27 

 Shaler (Prof N. S.), Geology in America, 5; Caverns of the 



Ohio Valley, 55. 

 Shearwater Expedition, Results'of,'28o 

 Shells, Gun Cotton Water, 314 



"Shells, Rambles in Search of," by J. E. Harting, 493' 

 Siam: Government Eclipse Expedition to, 172, 233; Science 



in, Arthur Schuster, 233 

 Siberia, Bibliography of the Zoology of, 377 ; University at 



Tomsk, 446 

 Siemens (C.W., F.R.S.), Electrical Resistance Thermometer 



and Pyrometer, 235 

 Silk, Production of, in South America, 527 

 Silkworms' Eggs from California, 54 

 " Silliman's American Journal," 17, 58, 96, 97, 157, 302 

 Silveira (Senhor Tradessa da^ Death of, 135 

 Silver Nitrate, Mr. Gatehouse on, 463 

 Simmonds (P.L.), Catalogue of "Waste Products," 540 

 Simon's Report on Medicine and Pathology, 470 

 Sirodot (Prof.) on I'Llephants, 424 



" Sitzun^sberichte der Kgl. bbhm Ges. der Wissenschaften in 

 ^_ Prag,'^ 567 



" Sitzungsberichtedernaturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Isis in 



Dresden," 468 

 Sivel and Croce-Spinelli, 195 

 Skulls, King of Brazil's Collection of, 75 



Skye, Remarkable Formation of Cloud at the Isle of, by Thos. 



Stevenson, 487 

 Sleep of Flowers : G. S. Boulger, 513 ; M. Ch. Royer on the 



Cause of, 484 

 Sliding Seat, the, 369. 533 

 Slieda on Bone-formation, 457 

 Smith (Hermann), Peculiarities of Stopped Organ Pipes, 



Humming Tops, &c., 145 

 Smith (C. Michie), the Spectroscope and the Weather, 366 

 Smith (Worthington), New Discovery in connection with the 



Potato Disease, 214, 234, 263 ; Medal awarded to, 240 

 Smithsonian Institute, and Aborigines of America, 279 ; Ex- 

 ploration of Islands off California, 195 

 Smitter's New Steering Balloon, 153 

 Smyrna, Earthquake at, 1 16 

 Smyth (Prof Piazzi), Report on Edinburgh Observatory, 108 ; 



Spectroscopic Prevision of Rain, 231, 252 

 Smyth (Warrington W.), Ores of Iron in their Geological 



Relations, 28 

 Snakes in Ireland, Dr. J. Fayrer, 495 

 " Snioland ; or, Iceland, its Jokulls and Fjalls," by William 



Lord Watts, 453 

 Snowdon, Mirage on, H. J. Wetenhall, 292 

 Social Science Association, 262, 526, 541, 542, 563 

 Societe Khedivale de Geographic, Inaugural Meeting, 133 

 Soft Iron, Sir W. Thomson on the Effects of Stress on the 



Magnetism of, 374 

 Solar Disc, New Method of obtaining Isothermals on the, 301 

 Solar Eclipse [See Eclipse) 

 Solar Heat, Industrial Application of, 548 

 Solar Heat and Sunspots, by H. F. Blanford, 147, 188 

 Solar Observation in India, by R. Meldola, 400 

 Solar Observations, Mr. De la Rue's Tables for Reduction of, 



397 

 Solar Radiation and Thermal Energy, 517 

 Solar Surface, Prof. S. P. Langley on the, 443 

 Sole, the Common, Note on, 7 

 Solfataras in Dominica, 173 

 Solitaire, Specimen of the, 526 



Solomon Islands, Bibliography of the Zoology of the, 41 1 

 Solvents, New, for Gold, Silver, &c., B. J. Fairley, 464 

 Sorby (H. C.) on the Colouring Matters of Alg.x, 38 ; on the 



Colouring Matter in Birds' Eggs, 38 

 Sound : Martineau's Chapters on, 165 ; Prof O. Reynolds on 



the Refraction of, 373 ; Velocity of, Herr Kundt on, 89 

 South America : Production of Silk in, 527 ; Earthquake, 194; 



W. G. Palgrave, 167 

 South Kensington : India Museum at, 75, 96, 192 ; Loan 



Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus at, 32, 218, 562 ; Science 



Education at, 203, 245 

 Southport Aquarium, 116, 174 



South Sea Islanders, Rev. W. Gill on the Origin of, 466 

 " South Seas," Wood's "Yachting Cruise to the," 434 

 Spalding (D.A.), Fiske's "Cosmic Philo.sophy," 267 ; Instinct 



and Acquisition, 507 

 Specific Heat of the Solid Elements, 168 

 Spectroscope, the, and the Weather, 231, 252, 366 

 Spectroscopy in America, 174 



Spengel (J. W.), " Die Fortschritte des Darwinismus," 460 

 Spettroscopisti Italiani, Memorie della Societa degli, 17 

 Spezzia, Shock of Earthquake at, 76 

 Spinning Top Problem, 455 

 Sponges, Fibrous, M. Lortet on, 424 

 Spotliswoode (W., F.R.S.) on Mathematical Printing, 404; 



Revolving Polariscope, 99 ; Stratification in Electrical Pis- 

 charges, 157 

 Spragiie (J. T. ), Electricity, 144 



Sprengel (Dr. Hermann), Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid, 319 

 Squaring the Circle, 558 



Staffordshire, North, Naturalists' Field Club, 211 

 Stagonolcpis Robertsoni, Prof Huxley on, 38 

 Stahlberger's " Az Arapaly Fiumei Obolben," 43 

 Stanley's African Expedition, 540 

 Star: The Binary, 4 Aquarii, 292; the Double, 2 1785, 213 ; 



the Double, 2 2120, 147, 496, 535 ; Double, O 2387, 555 ; 



Double,/ Eridani, 554; Kepler's Nova 1604, Prof. Win- 



necke on, 292 ; Lalande 23726 (Corvus), 233 ; the Triple, 



South 503, 232; B.A.C. 793, 127 

 Stars : The Melbourne Catalogue of, 87 ; Sfifi's Descrintion o 



Fixed, 188 ; Variable, 7, 48, 126, 213, 272 ; Binary, 8, 26 

 Steam Balloon, 153 



