''INDEX 



[Naiiue, May 30, iJ 



Romanis (Dr. R.), Tectoquinone, 190 



Romilly (H. H.), Saper.itition and Sorcery in New Guinea, 



594 

 Roscoe (Sir Henry, F.R.S.), and Eton College, 255 

 Rosenbusch (L. von H.), Hiilfstabellen zur mikroskopischsn 



Mineralbestimmung in Gesteinen, 315 

 Rosenthal (Prof.), Calorimetric EKperiments on Animals, 624 

 Ross (Major W. Gordon), Practical Solid Geometry, 26 

 Rossikoff , Migrant Birds in the Caucasus, 86 

 Rotation, the Use of Lissajous's Figures to determine Rate of, 



Prof. J. V. Jones, 573 

 Rotch (A.. L.), the Meteorological Service in France, 447 

 Roth (H. Ling), Use of Sucker-Fishes in Fishing, 342 

 Rothamsted, Results of Experiments upon the Growth of 



Potatoes at, Dr. Gilbert, 595 

 Rotifera and their Distribution, Dr. C. T. Hudson, 437 

 Rotifera, the Use of, 81 



Rouergne, Le, Ethnology of, Durand de Gros, 70 

 Rousdon Observatory, Lyme Regis, 328 

 Rouville (Dr. P.), Porphyritic Rocks, Cavenac, near Saint Pons, 



456 

 Rouville (M. De), Genus Amphion (Pander), in the Cabrieres 



District, Herault, 479 

 Roux (M.), Preventive Inoculation, 446 

 Rowland (Prof.), Classical Berlin Experiment, 308 

 Royal Asiatic Society, Ceylon Branch, 468 

 Royal Botanic Society, 281 



Royal Bjtanic Society, Coffee Grown in the Gardens of, 467 

 Royal Botanic Society, Jubilee of, 184 

 Royal Botanic Society Quarterly Record, 305 

 Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, Research Laboratory 



of, 68 

 Royal Geographical Society, 115, 259, 328 ; Award of Medals, 



568 

 Royal Geological Society of Ireland, 305 

 Royal Hibernian Academy, Dablin, Miss Mary Anne Nicholl's 



Gift, 517 

 Royal Horticultural Society, 382, 494 ; Centenary of Chrysan- 

 themum and Dahlia, W. Henslow, 230 

 Royal Institution Lectures, 1 57, 282, 378 ; Prof. A. W. Riicker, 



F.R. S., Lecture on Electrical Stress, 4:^4 

 Royal Meteorological Society, 143, 239, 255, 347, 431, 466, 



574, 623; Report of Council, 310; Exhibitioi, 523 

 Royal Microscopical Society, 359, 431 ; Dr. C. T. Hudson's 



Address, 437 

 Royal S)ciety, 94, 117, 142, 165, 238, 285, 357, 383. 430, 453, 

 478, 503, 525, 549, 565, 571, 596, 622 ; Election of President 

 and C mncil, 3S ; Ro/al Society Medals, 58; Anniversary 

 Meeting of the, 142, 159; on lliylacopjrdus australis, by Sir 

 Richard Owen, F. R.S., 215 ; Government Scientific Research 

 Fund, 326 ; Report of the Krakatab Committee of the, 345 ; 

 Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 1874-83, 375 ; Bakerian 

 Lecture, 466 ; Fellowships, 494 ; Selected Candidates, 586 

 Royal Society of Edinburgh, Proceedings, 369 

 Royal Victoria Hall, Science Lectures at, 40, 282 

 Rubens (Dr ), the Selective Reflection of Light by Metals, 552 

 Riicker (Prof. A. W., F.R. S.): the Dimensions of Temperature, 

 165 ; Electrical Stress, 444 ; Magnetic Survey of the British 

 Isles, 466 ; Dimensions of Electro magnetic Units, 502 

 Riidorff (Prof.), New Crystalline Compounds of Arsenious Oxide, 



86 

 Runic Stone at Christiania University, 306 

 Russell (Hon. F. A. Rollo), Smoke in Relation to Fogs in 



London, 34 

 Russell (Dr. W. J., F.R.S.), the Relation of Cobalt to Iron as 



Indicated by Absorption-Spectra, 453 

 Russia : Prize for Discovery of Means of Preventing Fish- 

 Poisoning, 59 ; Learned Societies in, 67 ; Meteorology of 

 South, M. Klossovski, 466 ; Russian Geographical Society, 

 III, 329, 380; Russian Flora, 350 

 Rutherford (Prof.), Electrotonic Variation in Nerve with Strong 



Polarizing Currents, 455 

 Rutley (Frank), Rock-forming Minerals, 78 

 Rylands (John), Legacy to Owens College, 446 



Saccharification by Diastase, M. L. Lindet, 479 

 Sadler (H.), Satellite of Procyon, 537 

 Sahara, Desiccation of the, M. Ed. Blanc, 497 

 St. Lucia Botanical Station, 326 



St. Petersburg, Fisheries Exliibition, 446 

 .St. Petersburg Province, Flora of. Dr. R. Regel, 592 

 Saliva, Salts in, Langley and Fletcher, 117 

 Salmon Ova, the Incubation of, at Malvern Wells, 208 

 Samoan Archipelago, Hurricane in, 544 



Sand Grouse, ^^\2i%''i,{Sy7-rIiaptes paradoxui), Dr. A. B. Meyer, 

 9; John Cordeaux on, 40 ; T. Southwell, 137 ; Dr. Robert 

 Scharff, 448 

 Sanderson (Prof. Burdon, F. R.S), Cranial Nerves of Elasmo- 



branch Fishes, 525 

 Sanderson (F. W. ), Hydrostatics, 306 

 Sands, Sonorous, Julien and Bolton, 18 ; C. Carus- Wilson, 113 ; 



at Botany Bay, A. S. Olliff, 224 

 Sanitary Assurance Association, 376 

 Sani'ary Institute, 376 

 Sanitary Point of View, London Ancient and Modern from a. 



Dr. G. V. Poore, 356 

 Sanitary Science, Translations of the Sanitary Institute of Great 



Britain, 533 

 Satellite of Neptune, the, A. Marth, 114 

 Satellite, the, of Procyon, J. M. Barr, 510; Isaac W. Ward, 



558 ; H. Sadler, 537 

 Saturn's Ring, Keeler, 546 ; Value of the Retrogradation of 



the Plane of, J. A. C. Oudemans, 264 

 Saturn's Ring, White Spot on, 616 



Saturn, Spectrum of the Rings of, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S. , 

 564 

 ! Saiiba Ant {(Ecodoma cephalotes), from Para, F. P. Pascoe, 527 

 Savelief (R.), Actinometric Observations at Kief, 407 

 Sawyer's Observations of Variable Stars, 568 

 I Saxon Burying-Ground at Cambridge, Discovery of, 396 

 Scaly Insect Pests, 328 

 Scandinavia ; Discovery of Remains of Cave-dwellers in, 40 ; 



Remarkable Meteors in, 566 

 Schiifer (E. A., F.R.S.) : the Innervation of the Renal Blood- 

 vessels, J. Rose Bradford, 453 ; the Innervation of the Pul- 

 monary Vessels, 478 

 Scharff (Dr. Robert), Pallas's Sand Grouse {Sy rrhaptes para- 

 doxus) in Ireland, 448 

 Schenck (Dr. A.), Nama Land and Herero Land, South-West 

 I Africa, 450 

 Schiaparelli (Prof.). Mars, 494 



Schlagdenhauffen (Fr. ), a New Gutta-percha Plant, 192 

 Schmoll(M.), Solar Activity, 1888, 456 



Schonland (Dr. Selmar), Curator of Albany Museum, Grahams- 

 [ town. Cape Colony, 466 



! Schools, a IVxt-book of Euclid's Elements for the Use of, H. 

 ; S. Hall and F. H. Stevens, 78 

 Schroter (Dr.) and Dr. Stebler, the Best Forage Crops, Prof. 



John Wrightson, 578 

 Schulze (Prof. F. E.), Sponges, 479 

 Schiilt (Dr. Franz), Presentation to, 230 

 j Schuster (A., F.R.S.), the Diurnal Variation of Terrestrial 



Magnetism, 622 

 I Schweinfurth (Dr. Georg) : Departure for Arabia of, 89 ; his 

 [ African Collections, 207 ; Expedition to Arabia Felix for 

 j Botanic d Specimens, 207 ; Exploration of the Menakha 

 1 Mountains, 2S3 ; Return of, 612 

 I Scidmore (Mrs.), the Coreans, 448 

 ! Science, Gleanings in, Gerald Molloy, 534 

 I Science and the Report of the Education Commission, 348 

 i Science, Right Hon. John Morley on State Aid to, 39 

 Scientific Education, the Vices of Our, Prof. G. M. Mlnchin, 



Scientific Men, Use of, in the Administration of Public Justice, 

 589 



Scientific Papers, the Reprinting of. Prof E, Wiedemann, 

 418 



Scientific Research Fund, Government, 326 



Scientific Worthies, XXV., James Joseph Sylvester {with a 

 Portrait), 217 



Sclater (Dr. P. L., F.R.S.) : the Barbary Ape in Algeria, 30 ; 

 Use of the Kemora in Fishing, 295 ; Opportunity for a Natura- 

 list, 341 ; the Rabbit Pest, 493 



Scofield (Dr. Harold), Chromatology of the Bile, 527 



Scotland: Scientific Education in, 16; Supposed Fossils "from 

 the Southern Highlands, 300 ; Earthquake in Midlothian, 

 305 ; Supposed Fossils from the Southern Highlands, Duke of 

 Argyll, 317 ; Spawning of the Plaice at Smith Bank, Caith- 

 ness, 326 ; Scotch Fishery Board Scientific Department, 326 ; 



