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INDEX 



XXXI 



Selenic Acid, on the Alums formed by, C. Fabre, 287 



Self-induction and Conductivity, Names for Electric Units of, 

 Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., 174 



Self-Induction of Two Bobbins combined in Quantity, on Co- 

 efficient of, Maneuvrier and Ledeboer, 432 



Sendall, Governor, 135 



Sense of Smell in Dogs, 412 ; Experiments on the. Dr. Geo. J. 

 Romanes, F.R.S., 273; W. J. Russell, 317 



Sense, Studies in Life and, Andrew Wilson, 316 



Serpent Mound in Ohio, the, 281 



Sewage, Treatment and Utilization of, W. H. Corfield, F.R.S., 



73 

 Sextan (A. H.), Outlines of Quantitative Analysis, 410 

 Shadow of Adam's Peak, R. Abbay, 152 ; Hon. Ralph Aber- 



"cromby, 197 

 Sharpe (H.), the Brocken Spectre, 118 

 Sharpe (K. Bowdler), Obituary Notice of Spencer F. Baird, 



397 ; Ocean Birds, J. F. Green, Bird Life in England, Edwin 



Lester Arnold, 435 

 Shaw (Prof. Hele), Rolling Contact of Bodies, 92 

 Shells, Marine, on the Pliocene Deposit of, near Lattakia, and 



a Similar Deposit in the Island of Zante, Dr. Geo. E. Post, 



Shenstone (W. A.), the Volumetric Relations of Ozone and 



Oxygen, 118 

 Shetland Lighthouses, Earthquakes observed at, R. H. Scott, 



325 



Shipley (Arthur), on the Disease of the Onion Crop at the Ber- 

 mudas, 563 



Shooting-Stars at Patagones, Remarkable Display of, 15 

 Shooting- Stars and Fires of Unknown Origin, Possible Relation 



between, C. V. Zenger, 476 

 Shores and Alps of Alaska, H. W. Seton Karr, 220 

 Shorthand, International Shorthand Congress, 500 

 Shrubsole (W, H.), I^iatoms in the Thames, 125 

 Siberia, Earthquakes in, 210; the Eclipse in, 430; Von Soil's 

 llxploration of Wood Mountain in, 478 ; New Siberian 

 Islands Expedition, Return of the, 113 

 S c enberger (Adolf), Die Determinanten in genetischer 



Behandluns;, 51 

 Sidgwick (Alfred), the Game of Logic, Lewis Carroll, 3 

 Siemens Steel Tubes, Mannermann's New Method of preparing, 



216 



Signals, Storm, 617 



Signals, a Mechanical and Automatic Registering Apparatus of, 

 transmitted by Telegraph and by Optical Projectors, M. E. 

 Ducretet, 624 

 Sil'con, Influence of, on the Properties of Steel, Report of the 



B.A. Committee on the, 516 

 Silk Industry of India, 63, 452 

 Silver, Salts of, as used in attempting to obtain Photographs in 



Natural Colours, Carey Lee, 64 

 Sinclair (A. C.) and Lawrence R. Fyfe, the Hand-book of 



Jamaica for 1887-88, 555 

 Siret (Henri and Louis), the Early Ages of Metal in South-East 



Spain, 599 

 Sirius, Companion of, Prof. A. Hall, 186 

 Skalweit (Dr. Johannes), Death of, 475 



Skiddaw High Man, Slate Ripples on, J. Edmund Clark, 388 

 Sky-coloured Clouds, T. W. Backhouse, 269, 365, 556 

 Slag, Occurrence of Apatite in, W. M. Hutchings, 460 

 Slate Ripples on Skiddaw High Man, J. Edmund Clark, 388 

 Smell, Experiments on the Sensitiveness of the Sense of, Drs. 



Fischer and Penzoldt, 90 

 Smell, Sense of Taste or, in Leeches, Prof. A. G. Bourne, 125 

 Smell, Sense of, in Dogs, 412 ; Experiments on the, Dr. Geo. J. 



Romanes, F.R.S., 273; W. J. Russell, F.R.S,, 317 

 Smets (Abbe G.), Carapaced Hydrosaurian discovered by, 262 

 Smith (B. Woodd), Pear-shaped Hailstones, 102 

 Smith (Fredk.), Spherical Integrator, 31 

 Smith (Robert H.), Dynamical Units, 53 

 Smith (Samuel), Education in Germany, 567 

 Smith (Watson), on the Constituents of the Light Oils of Blast- 

 furnace Coal Tar from the Garthsherrie Works, 569 

 Smithsonian Institution Papers, 255, 281 

 Smyth (R. Brough),a Remarkable Meteor, 93 

 Sneezing, Paroxsymal, Hay Fever and, Morell Mackenzie, 363 

 Snowfall in Central Germany, Statistics of, 42 

 Snow, Air- Bubbles from, Rev. A. Bonney, 215 

 Snow in Central Germany, Dr. Otto Knopf,'i98 



Snowstorms, Heavy, in Germany, 210 



Social History of the Races of Mankind, A. Featherman, Prof. 



A. H. Keane, 147 

 Soda, Nitrate of, A. Stutzer, 4 

 Solar Eclipse, Total : of 1886, W. H. Pickering, 308 ; of August 



19, 1887, 45, 60, 398 ; Arrangements for the Observation of, 



373 ; H. G. Madan, 437 ; M. Niestcn, 455 

 Solar Radiation, Direct Intensity of. Fourth Report of the B.A. 



Committee, 497 

 Solar Rays, Luminous, Observations on, 45 

 Solar Spectrum, Map of the. Prof. H. A. Rowland, 523 

 Solar System in Space, Determination of the Direction and 



Velocity of the Movement of the, 45 

 Sollas(Prof. ), Primary Observations on the Geology of Wicklow 



and Wexford, 591 

 Soil's (Von) Exploration of Wood Mountain in New Siberia, 



478 

 SolmsLauhach (Count), on Bennettites, 593 

 Solubility of Isomeric Organic Compounds, Prof. Carnelley, 



569 

 Solution, Chemical Affinity and, Wm. Durham, 318 

 Solution, Nature of. Report of the B.A. Committee on, 516 

 Solution, on, W. Durham, 570 



Solution, on a Partial Separation of the Constituents of a, 

 during Expansion by Rise of Temperature, J. W. Mallet, 

 F.R.S., 570 

 Solvent, on the Action of the, in Electrolytic Conduction, T. C. 



Fitzpatrick, 547 

 Somerset, West, the Triassic Rocks of, W. A. E. Ussher, 572 

 Somerset, West, the Devonian Rocks of, on the Borders of the 



Trias, W. A. E. Ussher, 572 

 Sommer (Dr.), on Method of determining Specific Weight of 



Bodies by weighing them in Water, 216 

 Sonora Earthquake of May 3, 1887, Dr. T. Sterry Hunt, F.R.S., 



and Jas. Douglas, 572 

 Sound-Mirage, on, H. Fizeau, 95 

 Southern Double Stars, 588 

 Spain, South-East, the Early Ages of Metal in, Henri and Louis 



Siret, 599 

 Sparrow chasing Pigeons, W. Harcourt Bath, 4 

 Spawn of Sun- Fish? W. S. Green, 245 

 Specific Heat, Measurement of, Geo. N. Huntley, 438 

 Specific Weights of Fluids, New Method of measuring the. Dr. 



Ales?andro Sandrucci, 45 

 Spectator sxid Science, Prof. Arthur W. Riicker, F.R.S , 580 

 Spectrum Analysis : Stars with Remarkable Spectra, 461 ; 

 Spectra of Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Water Vapour, Prof. 

 Griinwald, 501 ; Dr. K. Olszewski on the Absorption-Spectrum 

 of Liquid Oxygen and Liquid Air, 42 ; New Fluorescences 

 with well-defined Spectral Rays, L. de Boisbaudran, 383, 

 408 ; Spectrum of Didymium, Note on the. Dr. Claude M, 

 Thompson, 115 

 Speeds of Ions, Experiments on the, Prof. Lodge, F.R.S,, 547 

 Spherical Integrator, Fredk. Smith, 31 

 Spider allowing for the Force of Gravity, Major C. B. Lyster, 



366 

 Spiders, Classification of. Rev. O. P. Cambridge, 12 

 Spinal Ganglia, Anatomical Researches on the Physiology of 



the. Dr. Joseph, 120 

 Spitaler (Herr), Variable Star in Nebula in Lyra, 431 

 Spitzbergen, Measurements of the Heights and Motion of Clouds 



in. Dr. Nils Ekholm, 459 

 Spot, Red, upon Jupiter, 65 

 Spring (M.), Nature of Chemical Action between Acids and 



Zinc, 400 

 Spring's (Dr. W.) Compressing Machinery, Decomposition by, 



160 

 Springer (Dr. A.), Torsioft Balances, 569 

 Standards of Light, Report of the B.A. Committee on, 499 

 Stanford's Tourists' Guides, 185 



Stanley (H. M. ) : the Rumoured Death of, 309 ; News of, 475 

 Stanley (Wm. F.), Stature of the Human Race, 366 

 Stanoiewitch (G. M.), Solar Photography, 72 

 Stars : Relative Positions of the Principal Stars in the Pleiades, 

 Dr. W. L. Elkin, 232 ; Magnitudes of Nautical Almanac, 

 Prof. Pickering, 401 ; New Variable, Mr. Espin, 431 ; Vari- 

 able, in the Ring Nebula in Lyra, Herr Spitaler, 431 ; Stars 

 with Remarkable Spectra, 461 ; Shooting- Stars and Fires of 

 Unknown Origin, possible Relation between, C. V. Zenger, 

 476 ; Flamsteed's Stars, "Observed but not Existing," Prof. 



