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INDEX 



[Nature, Nov. 27, 1879 



Prjvalsky, 1$; Journal, 37, 130; Anniversary Meeting 



of, 96 

 Royal Microscopical Society 139, 620 

 Royal Society : 22, 46, 70, 92, :i2, 136, 163, 234, 258, 281 ; 



Soiree, 35 ; Proposed Representation of, in Parliament, 2.07 ; 



Subject-Indexes to the Catalogue of Scientific Papers of, 627 

 Rossi (Prof. M. S. de), BuUetino del Vulcanismo Italiano, 179 

 Rozier (Pilatre de). Relics of, 41 

 Rugby School Natural History Society, 112 

 Russia ; Notes from, 45 ; Discovery of Prehistoric Remains in, 



353 ; Russian Geographical Society, 433, 460 ; Congress of 



Russian Naturalists, 461, 640 ; Exploration of Rivers of, 535 

 Rutley (Frank), an English Microscope for Students, 13 



Safford (Prof. T. H.), Swift's Comet— Williams College Obser- 

 vatory, 314 

 Sahara, Proposed Railway across the, 271 

 St Elmo's Fire, 462 

 St. Gothard Tunnel, 484 



Salmo Salar and the Schoodic Salmon, Chas. G. Atkins, 29 

 Salmon, Disease in, W. Walker, 121 

 Salmon, the Pacific, Dr. James Hector, 338 

 Salt, Common, Blue Flame from, 5 

 Salt, Disease among Salt Smugglei-s in Chinkiang, 208 

 Sanitary Congress, 400, 617, 642 

 Sanitary Institute, 276, 400, 541 



San Remo and the Western Riviera, Dr. A. H. Hassall, 551 

 Sargassum, Vegetation of : Dr. Otto Kuntze, 552 ; Dr. J. J. 



Wild, 578 

 Saturn's Dusky Ring, A. A. Common, 577 

 Satumian Satellite Hyperion, 204 

 Saturnian Satellite Mimas, 560 



Saunders (William Wilson, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of, 536 

 Saussure (H. de). Mount Etna, 544 

 Sayce (Prof. A. H.), " How to Leara a Language," 93 ; 



Bumell's South-Indian Paleography, 311 

 Saxony, the Former Existence of Glaciers in, 424 

 Scandium, the New Element, Spectrum of, 41 

 Schliemann's Trojan Excavations, 161 

 Shoa, the Exploration of, 604 

 Schoraburgk (Dr.), Report on the Adelaide Botanic Garden, 



232 

 Schoodic Salmon and Salmo salar, Chas. G. Atkins, 29 

 Schoolbred (J. N.), "Electric Lighting, 165 

 Schrottner (Herr), Gravitatitrn Experiments in Liquids, 17 

 Schuster (Dr. Arthur, F.R.S.), last Year's Solar Eclipse, 227; 



on Harmonic Ratios in the Spectra of Gases, 533 

 Schiitt (Otto), Exploration of Africa, 425 

 Science and Art Department and Agriculture, 258 



Science and Agriculture, 189 



Science and Parliament, 207 



Science Teaching in Schools, 117, 333 



Science Teaching, Guides for, 278 



Scientific Societies, Prof. Leoni Levi on, 475 



Scintillation of Stars and Weather Forecasts, 435 



Scorpion, the : Dr. H. H. Hutchinson, 553 ; Suicide of the, 

 Dr. Allen Thomson, F.R.S., 577; F. GiUman, 629 



Scottish Meteorological Society, 303 



Scudder (S. H.), Index to Zoological Genera, 551 



Sea-Serpent, H. C. Bamett, 289 



Sea- Weeds, Fertilisation of, by Infusoria, 463 



Secular Effect of Tidal Friction, G. H. Darwin, 246 



Seeds : Transportation of, H. O. Forbes, 456 ; iheir Develop- 

 ment, 562 J and Fruits, Sir John Lubbock, F.R.S., 472 



Sense of Force and Sense of Temperature, 6 



Serpent Mound of Lochnell, near Oban, 242 



Serpents, New, at the Paris Jardin des Plantes, 231 



Severn (Henry A.), New Form of Mariner's Compass, 233 



Shanghai, Belgian Museum at, l6l 



Shark's Teeth, H. O. Forbes, 456 



Sheffield, Firth College, 619 



Sheldon (J. P.), " Dairy Farming," 336 



Showers of Rain and Gusts of Wind, A. Mallock, 56 



Siam Coast in the Bay of Bengal, 364 



Siberia, "Eden's Frozen Asia," 576 



Siberian Arctic Sea, Expedition to, 64 



Sibree (Rev. James, Jun.), on the Physical Geography and 

 Geology of Madagascar, 368 



Sierra Forests, Damage to the, 354 



Sigmaringen, Earthquake at, 18 



Signalling by Sunshine, 456 



Silk Goods of America, \V. C. Wyckofi", 574 



Silkworm, Prof. Riley's Pamphlet on the, 18 



"Silurian Fossils," Prof. H. Alleyne Nicholson, F.R.S., 26 



Sitzungsberichte der naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Isis zu 



Dresden, 355 

 Skertchly (Sydney B. J.), Butterfly Swarms, 266 

 Sladen (W. Percy), on the Occupation of the B.A. Table at the 



Naples Zoological Station, 466 

 Slide Rule, Spiral, Prof. Fuller's, 36 

 Smith (A. Percy), on Blue Flame from Common Salt, S 

 Smith (F. J.), a Liquid Rheostat, 552 

 Smyth (Prof. Piazzi), End-on Tubes brought to bear upon the 



Carbon and Carbo Hydrogen Question, 75 ; the Good Time 



Begun, 431; Colour-Blindness, 504; Sun-Spots in Earnest, 



602 

 Snails f. Glow- Worms : R. S.Newall, F.R.S., 197, 243; R. 



McLachlan, F.R.S., 219; R. Greenwood Penny, 219 

 Snails, Vitality of, James Ward, 363 

 Snakes, About, Dr. H. F. Hutchinson, 528 

 Societe Languedocienne de Geographic, 296 

 Society Islands, Earthquakes in, 435 

 Society of Arts : Technological Examinations, 45 ; Medals of 



the, 207 

 Socotra, the Exploration of, 444 

 Sodium, Note on the Spectrum of, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 



137 

 Solar Eclipses: Total, of May 22, 1724, 97; of 1S78, Dr. 



Arthur Schuster, F.R.S., 227 ; of July 19, 1879, 270 

 Solar Halo : Rev. G. Mapleton, 530 ; Howard Grubb, 628 

 Solar Protuberances, the Origin of the, Herr Sporer on, 162 ! 

 Solar Spot Frequency, and the Range Magnetic Declination 



and Horizontal Force, the Relation between, Wm. Ellis, 91 

 Soleillet's Exploration of Africa, 87, 96 

 Solly (Edward), Oxygenated Rain, 169 

 Solomon Islands, Notes on the Fauna of the, 125 

 Sorting Demon of Maxwell, Sir William Thomson, LL.D., 



F.RS., 126 

 Sound : Experiments in, 277 ; Transferring, to Light, 327 ; ; 



Elementary Lessons on, Dr. W. H. Stone, 480; Norr's Ex- ! 



periments on, 514 '' 



South Carolina Fossils, 354 



"South-Indian Pala;ograpliy," A. C. Burnell, 31 1 

 Spain, Science in, 483 

 Spanish Railways, the Elevations of, 616 

 Specific Inductive Capacity, New Instruments for Research on, 



447 



Spectroscope : M. Comu s New, 256 ; a New, Dr. W. H. 

 Stone, 338 



Spectrum Analysis : A. Percy Smith on Blue Flame from 

 Common Salt, 5 ; Spectrum of Brorsen's Comet, 5, 75, 94; 

 Professors Liveing and Dewar on the Reversal of the Lines of 

 Metallic Vapours, 46 ; the Influence of Pressure on the 

 Spectra of Gases and Vajiours, G. Ciamician, 90 ; Peirce on 

 Ghosts in Diffraction Spectra, 99 ; Peirce on Comparison of 

 Wave-Lengths with the Metre, 99 ; Note on the Spectrum of 

 Sodium, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 137; the Distribution 

 of Heat in the Spectrum, 282 ; the Blowpipe Cone-Spectrum 

 and the Distribution of the Intensity of Light in the Prismatic 

 and Diffraction Spectra, Dr. J. W. Draper, 301 ; G. L. 

 Ciamician's Researches in Spectroscopy, 435 ; G. Johnstone 

 Stoney on the Cause of the Bright Lines of Comets, 466 ; 

 Notes on Recent Spectral Observations, J. Norman Lockyer, 

 F.R.S., 468; Vogel on the Photography of Spectra, 483; 

 Spectroscopical Observations on Shooting Stars, Prof, von 

 Konkoly, 521 ; on Harmonic Ratios in the Spectra of Ga.ses, 

 Dr. A. .Schuster, 533 ; Prof. WiiUner on the Gradual Conversion 

 of the Band Spectrum of Nitrogen into a Line Spectrum, 564 



Sphenophyllum, Asterophyllites, and Calamites, Professors 

 Williamson and Weiss on, 375 



Spheres in a Fluid, the Motion, 282 



Sphinx (Deilephila) iineala, Henry Cecil, 432 



S phygmographic Experiment, Dr. W. H. Stone, 84 



Spicula in Helix : Edw. B. Parfitt, 316 ; Dr. P. H. Stokoe, 339 



Spider, the Hunting, Dr. H. F. Hutchinson, 581 



Spider's Webs : 456 ; Capt. S. P. Oliver, 554 



" Spiritual Evolution," 602 



Sporer (Herr), on the Origin of the Solar Protuberances, 162 



Stalk-Eyed Crustaceans, 535 



