Nature, Nov. 27, 1879] 



INDEX 



XV 



Stammerinij in France, 377 



Standing Stones of Callanish, .W. J. Millar, 1 27 



Stars : Stellar Magnitudes, Prof. E. C. Pickering, 14 ; Niesten 

 on the Colours of Double, 330 ; Variable, 226, 248, 363, 512, 

 555 > Binary, 402, 603 ; the Washington Catalogue of, 432 ; 

 Scintillation of, and Weather Forecasts, 435 ; the Cluster 

 about K Crucis, 459 ; Shooting, Spectroscopical Observations 

 on, 521 



Statistical Society, 140, 212, 284 



Steel : Improvements in the Manufacture of, 56 ; Bessemer 

 Steel, 160 ; on the Development of the Use of, J. Robinson, 

 417 ; on the Manufacture of Crucible, H. S. Bell, 468; on 

 the Presence of Nitrogen in, A. II. Alien, 469 



Stefan (Prof.), Relation between Radiation of Heat and Tem- 

 perature, 89 



Stellar Magnitudes, Prof. E. C. Pickering, 14 



Stevenson (Thomas), Note as to Distinguishing Characteristics 

 for Illuminated Buoys, 86 



Stokoe (Dr. P. H.), Spicula in Helix, 339 ; Boring Mollusc, 

 428 



Stone (Dr. W. H-.), a Sphygmographic Experiment, 84 ; a New 

 Spectroscope, 338 ; " Elementary Lessons on Sound," 480 



Stoney (G. Johnstone, F.R.S.), Opening Address in Section A 

 at the British Association Meeting at Sheffield, 407 



Stonyhurst College Meteorological Observations, 270 



Stretched Wires, the Thermo-Electric Behaviour of, 45 



Stylasteridse, the Structure of the, H. N. Moseley, F.R.S., 339 



Subject-Indexes : to Transactions of Learned Societies, R. Gar- 

 nett, 554 ; J. B. Bailey, 580 ; to the Royal Society Catalogue 

 of Scientific Papers, H. B. Wheatley, 627 



Subterraneous Fire in Russia, 424 



Sulphides, HoUway's Method for Utilising, as Fuel, 278 



Sulphur, Flowers of Pine-Pollen Mistaken for : P. H. Carpenter, 

 195 ; Dr. Andrew Wilson, 266 



Sulphuric Acid and Alkali, Lunge's Treatise on the Manufacture 

 of, 263 



Sumatra, Dutch Expedition to, 491 



Sun and the Weather, E. D. Archib,ald, 526 



Sun-Darkenings, Historical, J. R. Hind, F.R.S., 189 



Sun, Oxy^ren in the, 212 



Sun's Parallax, 319 



Sunshine, the Registration of, 403 



Snn-Spots : and Barometric Pressure, E. Douglas Archibald, 28 ; 

 First Observations of, Alex. Hosie, 131 ; Early Records of, 

 Rev. Samuel J. Johnson, 146 ; Chinese Observations of, 161 ; 

 in Earnest, Prof. Piazzi Smyth, 602 ; W. H. M. Christie, 

 625 ; G. M. Whipple, 625 ; Rev. S. J. Perry, 625 



Supersaturated Saline Solutions, Crystallisation of, 592 



Supersaturation, C. Tomlinson, 349 



Suspended Animation, Dr. B. W. Richardson, F.R.S., 107 



Swain (W. Rees), Butterfly Swarms, 243 



Swift's New Comet, 205, 2i8, 226, 24S, 265, 315, 433; Prof. 

 T. H. Saffoid, 314 



Switzerland : New Map of, 249 ; Swiss Associa'ion of Naturalists, 

 326 ; Earthquake in, 353 ; Colour of the Population of, 423 ; 

 Swiss Alpine Club, 460 ; Annual Meeting of Swiss Natu- 

 ralists, 451 



Sydney, Statue to Captain Cook at, 7 ; Zoological Station at, 

 5c6 



Syphons, on Self-Acting Intermittent, Rogers Field, 467 



Taganrog, Plague of Beetles in, 543 



Tails : Use of Artificial, by a Tribe in New Guinea, 87 ; Prof. 



St. George Mivart, F.R.S., 508, 537; E. II. Pringle, 528; 



Arthur Nicols, 528 ; the Uses of, Lawson Tait, 603 

 Tait and Thomson's "Natural Philosophy," 213 

 Tait (Dr. Lawson), Intellect in Brutes, 147; the Uses of Tails, 



603 

 Tait (Prof. P. G.), Sir E. Beckett's " Origin ol the Laws of 



Nature," 264 

 Takashima Mines, Japan, Discovery of Two Rich Seams of Coal 



in, 66 

 Tanner (Prof. H.), "Jack's Education," 576 

 Tanning, Use of Phosphoric Acid in, 256 

 Tasmanian Goldfields, 354 

 Taunton College School, 349 

 Taylor (Baron), Death of, 514 

 Taylor (Sedley), Recent Publications on Galileo's Trial Before 



the Inquisition, 261 



Tea from St. Michael, Azores, 232 



Technical Education, City and Guilds Institute Grant, 435 

 Technological Examinations of the Society of Arts, 45 

 Telegraphic Apparatus, Lightning Protection for, W. H. 



Prcece, 445 

 Telephone : Farrar's Discovery of the Principle of, 40; Gower's 



Improved, 138; Rev. Percival Jone on the, 266; and the 



Theory of Sound, 277 ; Karsten's Telephone Syren, 435 ; 



Telephones in Paris, 435 ; the Retardation of Phase oi 



Vibrations Transmitted by, 447 ; the Telephone Exchange, 



461 

 Telescope, Dr. Joule's Method of Checking the Oscillations of 



a, 614 

 Tempel (Dr.), Discovery of a New Nebula, 37 

 Tempel's Comet, 1867, IL, 37, 59, 83 

 Temperature and Barometric Pressure in India, E. Douglas 



Archibald, 541 

 Temperature Equilibrium : General, S. Tolver Preston on, 6 ; 



in the Universe in Relation to the Kinetic Theory, S. Tolver 



Preston, 28 

 Temperature, Sense of, and Sense of Force, 6 

 Temperature, Underground, Prof. J. D. Everett, 571 

 Tension of Vapours near Curved Surfaces of the Liquids, 44S 

 Teosinte, a Fodder Grass, 232 



Thermal Conductivity of Rocks, B.A. Report on, 441 

 Thermo-Chemical Investigation, M. M. Pattison Muir, 8 

 Thermo-Electric Light Battery, 341 

 Thermograph, 321 



Thermometers, Metallised, the Action of Heat on, 305 

 Thermo-Spectrum, the 282 

 Thompson (Prof. Silvanus P.), " Noad's Electricity," 118; 



Works on the Electric Light, 165 ; on the Retardation of 



Phase of Vibrations Transmitted by the Telephone, 447 

 "Thomson and Tail's Natural Philosophy," 213 

 Thomson (Dr. Allen, F.R.S.), Suicide of the Scorpion, 577 

 Thomson, (G. S.), Phosphorescence, 77 

 Thomson (J. M.), Crystallisation of Supersaturated Saline 



Solutions, 592 

 Thomson (Sir William, F.R.S.), on Electric Lighting, no; the 



Sorting Demon of Maxwell, 126 

 Thunderer, the Explosion on the, 89 

 Thunder, Cause of, 29 



Thunderstorm in Paris, 231 ; at Manila, 353 

 Tian Shan, Col. N. Prjvalsky's Journey Across, 4 

 Tibet, the Exploration of, 604 



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

 Tide-Predictor, Roberts', 159, 281 

 Tides : Observed in a Submerged Mine, 401 ; in Artesian WelU, 



462 ; Underground, Morris B. Bellknap, 603 

 Tietkens' Exploration of Australia, 87 

 Tissandier (G.), Balloon Ascent, 353 

 Tokisdai Gaku, Biological Society of, 373 

 Tomlinson (C), on Supersaturation, 349 

 Topaz, the "Maxwell-Stuart," 305 

 Trouve Polyscope, 139 

 Troy : Schliemann's Exploration of, 161 ; Prof. Virchow on the 



Site of, 255 

 Tucker (R.), Prof. Clifford's Mathematical Papers, 195 

 Tuning-Forks, the Determination of the Absolute Pitch of, 



259 

 Tupman (Major G. L.), Comet 1879 (Swift), 218, 265 

 Turkey in Asia, J. C. McCoan's Work on, 453 

 Tylor (Dr. E. B., F.R.S.), Address in the Department of 



Anthropology at the British Association, 413 

 Tyndall (Prof., F.R.S.), on the Electric Light, 16 

 Tyrol and Venetia, the Dolomite Reefs, 167 



Underground Temperature, Prof. J. D. Everett, 571 



Underground Tides, Morris B. Belknap, 603 



Underground Waters, B.A. Report on, 485 



United States : Annual Meeting of the National Academy, 99 ; 

 South Carolina Fossils, 354 ; National Museum at Wash- 

 ington, 589 



University and Educational Intelligence, 22, 45, 69, 112, 163, 

 18s, 234, 258, 379, 522, 547, 595, 619, 644 



University, the New Northern, 280 



Unobserved Impressions, C. J. Monro, 426 



Unwin (Prof.), on the Friction of Fluids, 259 



Urua, People of, 490 



