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INDEX 



\_Matm-e, Nov. i8, 1875 



Steel and Iron, U. S. Government Board for Testing, 94 



Steel Wires and Rods, Prof. W. F. Barrett on the Molecular 



Structure of, 374 

 Stefan (Herr), Researches on Adhesion, 88 

 Stevenson (Thos.), Azimuthal Condensing Apparatus for Light- 

 houses, 333 ; Remarkable formation of Cloud at the Isle of 



Skye, 487 

 Stewart (Prof. Balfour, F.R.S.), Trevandrum Magnetic Observa- 



tions, 163, 186 

 Stockholm Academy, 224, 488 



Stoddart (Mr.) on Auriferous Limestone at Walton, 406 

 Stokes (Prof., F.R.S.), Lectures at Cambridge^ 526 ;, Notice of 



(with Portrait), by Prof. P. G. Tait, 201 

 Stokes (Prof.) and Dr. Hopkinson on the Optical Properties of 



a Titano-Cilicic Glass, 373 

 Stone Implements : Discovery of, 262 ; from Missouri, U.S., 



195 ; of Newfoundland, 99 ; from Porto Rico, 196 

 Stone Mask, on the Occurrence of, in New Jersey, by Chas. C. 



Abbott, 49 

 Stone (Dr.) on Phenomena of Taste, 179; on Wind Instru- 

 ments, 19 

 Storms, Faye on the Laws of, 400, 457, 497, 535 

 Strachey (Lieut. -Gen., F.R.S.), Address on Geography at 



British Association, 419 

 Stream Lines, Mr. Froude on, 406 

 Strecker (Hermann), Work on Lepidoptera, 280 

 Strelzow on Bone-formation, 457 

 Sturgeon : Fisheries of Schleswig-Holstein, 196 ; at Manchester 



Aquarium, 154; at Southport Aquarium, 116 

 Struthers (Prof.), Lectures at Aberdeen, 219 

 Subterranean Forest-Bed at the Surrey Docks, 359 

 Sub-Wealden Exploration, 95, 174, 194, 242, 261, 358, 404, 



461, 542 

 Sufi's Description of Fixed Stars, 188 



Sulphuric Acid, Dr. H. Sprengel on the Manufacture of, 319 

 Sumatra, R. D. M. Verbeck on the Geology of, 565 

 Sumbul Root, 253 

 Sun : Edw. S. Holden on the Observation of the Corona 



and Red Prominences of the, 399; Parallax of, 113, 233; 



Radiation, and Bunsen's Ice Calorimeter, 189 [,See Solar) 

 Sunspots, Ozone, Rain, &c., Dr. Moffat on the connection of, 



374 

 Sunspots and Solar Heat, by H. J\ Blanford, 147, 188. 

 Survey of Scotland, Deputation to Lord Henry Lennox, 153 

 Swallow, a White, 503 

 Sweden, Charts of the Meteorological Institute of, 426 ; Arctic 



Expedition to Novaya Zemlya {See Arctic : Nordenskjold) 

 Switzerland, Thunderstorms in, 447 

 Sylvester (J. J., P\R.S.)^on the Plagiograph aliter the Skew 



Pantigraph, 168, 214 

 "Symons' British Rainfall, " 76, 106, 437 

 Systems of Consanguinity {See Consanguinity) 



Tait (Dr. Lawson), Insectivorous Plants, 251 



Tait (Prof. P. G. ), Notice of Prof. G. G. Stokes, F.R.S., 201 



Tait and Dewar (Profs.), Charcoal Vacua, 217 



Tasmania : Acclimatation of Trout in, 95 ; Proceedings of 



Royal Society of, 198 

 Taste, Dr. Stone on Phenomena of, 179 

 Tate (Ralph) on the Lias about Radstock, 119 

 Taylor (H. M.), Relative Value of the Pieces at Chess, 527 

 Telegraph, the Progress of the, 30, 69, no, 149, 254 

 Telescope : Horizontal Photographic, of Long Focus, by Prof. 



Wenlock, 273 ; Large Reflecting, at the Paris Observatory, 



358 

 Temperature : Diverse Effects of the same, in Different Climates, 



302 ; of the Human Body during Mountain Climbing, 132, 



165, 186 ; M. Violle's Ascents of the Alps to Test, 527, 542 

 Termites, F. Miiller on, by Lady Lubbock, 218 

 Texas, Floods in, 483 



Textures and Oils, Prof Palmieri's Diagometer for Testing, 427 

 Thames Valley, Remains from, at British Museum, 427 

 Theorell's Printing Meteorograph, 488, 547 

 Thermal Conductivities of Rocks, Report on, 438 

 Thermal Energy and Solar Radiation, J. Ericsson, 5 1 7 

 Thermo-diffusers, M. Merget on, 424 

 Thermograms, Personal Equation in the Tabulation of, 453 ; 



by J. J. Plummer, 395 

 Thermographs of the Isothermal Lines of the Solar Disc, 



Meyer's Method of obtaining, 497 



Thermometer : Electrical Resistance, by Dr. C. W. Siemens, 

 F.R.S., 23s ; Self-Registering, 37 



Thomson (Prof. Wyville), Chalenger Y.x\i&dS.\\ox\, 315, 555 



Thomson (Sir W.) on the Effects of Stress on the Magnetism 

 of Soft Iron, 374 ; on Tides, 404 



Thorpe (Prof.), Temperature of the Human Body during Moun- 

 tain Climbing, 165 ; a New Compound of Fluorine and Phos- 

 phorus, 464; Oceanic Circulation, 514 



Thrushes, Scarcity of, 272 



Thudichum (Dr.), the Chemical Constitution of the Brain, 471 



Thunderstorms : Von Bezold on, 127 ; in France, 219, 564; in 

 Switzerland, 447 



Tliuret (Gustave), Obituary Notice of, 95 



Tidal Mills, 280 



Tide Gauges on the Escault, Belgium, 484 



Tides of: the Mediterranean, 43 



Tides, Sir W. Thomson on, 404 



Tiger of Bengal, by Dr. J. Fayrer, 474 



Tiger and Lion, Strength of. Prof. S. Haughton, F.R.S., 495 



Timber Trees, Exotic, in Mauritius, 565 



Titano-Cilicic Glass, Prof. Stokes and Dr. Hopkinson on the 

 Optical Properties of, 373 



Tobacco : Dr. Vohl on Carbonic Oxide in, 15; Smoke, Physio- 

 logical Effects of, 48 ; Meal and Noxious Insects, 154; Action 

 of, 417; Havana Cigars, 563 



Tomlinson (C.) on Lightning Figures, 9 



Tomsk (Siberia), University at, 446 



"Tone" and "Overtone," A. J. Ellis, 475 



Toronto, Magnetic and Meteorological Observations at, 474 



Tortoises, the Gigantic Land, of the Mascarene and Galapagos 

 Islands, by Dr. A. Giinlher, F.R.S., 238, 259, 296 



Torula, Chlorophyll and, 15 



Toynbee (Capt. H.) on the Physical Geography of the Atlantic 

 Doldrums, 405 



Transit of Comet 1826, 535 



Transit of Venus, Expedition to Japan, by Dr. J. Janssen, 405 ; 

 Mr. Watson on, 446; of 1882, 256 



Trees, Prof. Cayley on the Analytical Forms called, 463 



Trevandrum, Magnetic Observations, 163, 186 



Tribe (Alfred) on the Copper-zinc Couple, 464 



Trigonometrical Survey of India, 72 



Triple Star, South 503, 232 



Tropical Plants at the Jardin d' Acclimatation, Paris, 96 



Trout, 'Acclimatation in Tasmania, 95 



Trumbull (Dr. J. H.), Numerals in American Indian I>an- 

 guages, 106 



Tuckwell , (Rev. W.) on Science and Education, 298; Sixth 

 Report of the Science Commission, 549 



Tuke (Wm. S.), Rocks at Ilfracombe, 312 



Twickenham, Removal of Mr. Bishop's Observatory from, 526 



Tylor (A.), Heat evolved by Friction of Ice, 39 



Ucke (Dr.), Quantitative Proportion of Atmospheric Oxygen, 17 



" Ultima Thule," Burton's, 509 



United States : Anderson School of Natural History, Penikese 

 Island, 77 ; Annual Meeting of the Natural Academy of 

 Science, 34; Archaeology of Islands off California, 195 ; Coasts 

 Survey Report for 1872, 34; Geology of New York District, 

 263 ; Government Board for Testing Iron and Steel, 94, 152 ; 

 Surveys, 96, 97, 135, 231, 262, 265, 359; Hopkins University, 

 456 ; Ilydrographic Ofifice Time Signals, 134 ; Insects of Mis- 

 souri, 195 ; Meteorology of, 76 ; Microscopical Societies in, 

 77 ; Mines and Ironworks in, by Lowthian Bell, 29 ; Park , 

 Museum, New York, 299 ; Museum of Zoology at Cambridge, 

 77 ; Peabody Museum, 195 ; Zoological Society of Philadel- 

 phia, 13s ; Schools of Science in, 33 ; Spectroscopy in, 174 ; 

 Stone Implements at Museum, Washington, 196 ; Walker's 

 Statistical Map of, 447 ; Weather Maps of, 273 {See America, 

 New York, Philadelphia) 



" Unseen Universe," 41, 66 



Upsala Observatory, Observations on the Duration of Ice, 483 



Uranian and Neptunian Systems, Newcomb on the, 515 



" Uranometria, an Ancient, 167 



Uranus and Neptune, the Satellites of, 496 



Urari, on the action of, on the Central Nervous System, by C. 

 Yule, 320 



Ure's "Dictionary of Arts," 182 



Valenliner (Dr.) appointed to Mannheim Observatory, 298 

 Valorous, Work of the, 461, 527 , 



