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INDEX 



[Nature, Dec. i, i5 



C. 11. F. Peters, 542 ; Southern Double, 588 ; Corrigenda 

 in Various Star- Catalogues, Prof. Peters 543 

 Star-fish, the Locomotor System of, Prof. Preyer, 20 

 Star-fish from the Yorkshire Lias, on a. Prof. J. F. Blake, 591 

 State, University Colleges and the, 237 

 Statics, Analytical, a Treatise on, I. Todhunter, 459 

 Statistical Atlas of India, 615 



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

 Steains (VVm. J.), the Valley of the Rio Doce, Brazil, 596 

 Steam Cylinder, Initial Condensation in a. Major Thomas 



English, 551 

 Steam Tricycle, New, 564 

 Steel, Hadfield's Manganese, Magnetization of, in Strong 



Fields, Prof. A. Ewing, F.R.S., and William Low, 548 

 Steel, on the Influence of Silicon on the Properties of, Report 



of the B.A. Committee, 516 

 Steel Tubes, New, Mannermann's, Method of Preparing 



Siemens, 216 

 Steel, Viscosity of, and its Relations to Temperature, Carl 



Barus, 479 

 Steering of H. M.S. AJax, 61 

 Stellar Photography, Instruments for. Sir Howard Grubb, 



F.R.S., 523; New Forms of Construc'ion of Object-glasses 



intended for, Prof. Edward C. Pickering, 562 

 Stellar Spectra, Photographic Study of. Prof. Edward C. 



Pickering, 31 

 Sterna anglica in Belfast Lough, Occurrence of, Prof. Robert 



O. Cunningham, 582 

 Stevenson (D. A.), Lighthouse Work, 243 

 Stewart (Prof. Balfour, F.R. S.): Obituary Notice of Joseph 



Baxendell, F.R.S., 585 ; and W. W. Haldane Gee, Lessons 



in Elementary Practical Physics, 241 

 Stieng Tribe, Pere Azemar on the, 501 

 Stockholm Royal Academy of Sciences, 24, 120, 216 

 Stokes (Prof. G. G., P.R.S.): on the Beneficial Effects of 



Light, Prof. P. G. Tait, 98 ; Science and Revelation, 333 

 Stone (J. H.), Nicotiana glauca, 70 

 Stone (Prof. Ormond), the Leander McCormick Observatory, 



543 

 Stone (Dr. William H.), Harveian Oration, 589 

 Stone Age in Congo State, Discovery of Instruments of, Ed. 



Dupont, 116 

 Stone Men of Corea, Miryeks or, Prof, de Lacouperie, 615' 

 Stones, Precious, in Nature, Art, and Literature, S. M. Burn- 

 ham, 482 

 Stonyhurst College, Results of the Meteorological and Magneti- 



cal Observations made at, 565 

 Storm Signals, 617 



Storm Warnings and Ben Nevis Observatory, 430 

 Storms, the Law of, 617 

 Strachey (General Richard, F.R.S.) : the Progress of Geography, 



258 : Carnatic Rainfall, 267 

 Streeter (G. Skelton), Ruby Mines of Burmah, 596 

 Stromeyer (C. E.), Perception of Colour, 246 

 Stroobant (Prof.), on the Problematic Satellite of Venus, 503, 



543 

 Stroud (Prof. William) : Sounding Coils, 262 ; a Null Method 



in Electro-calorimetry, 483 ; and W. W. Haldane Gee, a 



Null Method in Electro-calorimetry, 523 

 Structure of Nostochinese, Walter Gardiner, 125 

 Studer (Bernard), Obituary Notice of, 87 

 Stutzer (A.), Nitrate of Soda, 4 



Stuyyaert (M.), Present Appearance of Saturn's Ring, 65 

 Subsidences at Northwich and its Neighbourhood and in the 



Salt District of Cheshire, the History and Cause of the, Thos. 



Ward, 572 

 SufBing (Ernest R.), Land of the Broads, 457 

 Sulphites in the Presence of the Hyposulphites and Sulphates, 



Qualitative Study of the, 24 

 Sulphurous Acid, Density in Liquid and Vapour State, Cailletet 



and Mathias, 167 

 Sumatra, Proposed Railway in, 63 

 Summer Clouds, Height of, 206 



Sun and Fire Symbolism, Mrs. J. C. Murray- Aynsley, 364 

 Sun, Meteorological Observations during Eclipses of the. Prof. 



Upton, 24 

 Sun, Researches on the Diameter of the, Prof. Auwers, 256 

 Sun-fish, Spawn of, W. S. Green, 245 

 Sunday Lecture Society, Meeting of the, 615 

 Sunlight Colours, Prof. S. P, Langley, 76 



Sunspots, 53 



Supan (Dr.), the Climate of Europe, 257 



Surfaces, on the Normal Derivatives of the Potential Function 



of, G. Morera, 455 

 Suspended Magnet, Earthquakes and the. Dr. M. A. Veeder, 



I02 



Suzor (Renaud), Hydrophobia : an Account of M. Pasteur's 



System, 482 

 Svastika on English Walls, H. G. Madan, 437 

 Swainson (Rev. Chas.), Provincial Names and Folk-Lore of 



British Birds, 49 

 Sweden, Central, Discovery of Fossil Remains of an Arctic 



Flora in, Prof. A. G. Nathorst, 21 1 

 Sweden, Oyster-Culture in, iii 

 Swifts, Aubrey Edwards, 605 

 Switzerland, Earthquakes in, no 



Sylvester (Prof. J. J., F. R. S.), on Hamilton's Numbers, 557 

 Symbolism, Sun and Fire, Mrs. J. C. Murray- Aynsley, 364 

 Symonds (Rev. William S.) : Death of, 527; Obituary Notice 



of, 562 

 Symons (G. J., F.R. S.): Distribution of Rain over the British 



Isles, during the Year 1886, 388 ; British Rainfall, 430 j 



Monthly Meteorological Magazine, 617 

 Synthesis of Water by Weight, Experiments upon the. Dr. 



E. H. Keiser, 541 

 Syria, Boat-shaped Graves in, Geo. St, Clair, 598 

 Syrphidse, North American, 208 



Tabasheer mentioned in Older Botanical Works, Dr. Ernst 



Huth, 29 

 Taconic System, 576 

 Tait (Prof. P. G.) : on the Beneficial Effects of Light, Prof. G. 



G. Stokes, 98 ; Obituary Notice of Prof. Kirchhoff, 606 

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



125 

 Tattooing, a New Work on, 586 

 Tattooing, Miss A. W. Buckland, 399 

 Tauri, a, Parallax of, Prof. Asaph Hall, 138 

 Taylor (Rev. Canon Isaac), the Primitive Seat of the Aryans^ 



597 



Taylor ( R. L. ), Chemistry for Beginners, 28 



Teaching of Chemistry, on the, M. M. Pattison Muir, 536 



Teaching University, London, the Case for a, 329 



Teall (J. j. H.), the Origin of Banded Gneisses, 590 



Tebbutt (J.), Proper Motion of LI 26481, 564 



Technical College, Finsbury, 256 



Technical Education, 87, 135, 279 : Sir Lyon Playfair on, 16 ; 

 Industry for Country Schools, 16 ; City and Guilds of 

 London Institute for Advancement of, Sir Philip Magnus's 

 Report, 349 ; Technical Education Bill, 283, 305, 309, 323, 

 347 ; Abandonment of, 398 ; the Scotch Technical Educa- 

 tion Bill, 347, 430, 475 ; National Association for Promotion 

 of, 229 ; Proposed Technical School for Preston, 254 



Technological Examinations, City and Guilds of London Institute, 

 476 



Technology Quarterly, the, 185 



Teeth of Mammalian, on the History of the Evolution of. 

 Oldfield Thomas, 94 



Telegraph, Writing, Modification of Cowper's, J. H. Robertson, 



540 ... 



Telegraphy, Determination of Longitu-de of Haiphong, Tonquin, 



F. Laporte, 456 

 Telegraphy in London, the Jubilee of, 230 

 Telluric Currents, on the Variations of, J. J. Landerer, 504 

 Tellurides (Crystallized), Heat of Formation of some, Ch. Fabre,, 



360 

 Tellurium, the Different States of, Berthelot and Fabre, 118 

 Temperature of the Western Lakes and Locks, on the, Dr. 



Mill, no 

 Temperature and Pressure, Maxwell Hall, 197 

 Temperature in Relation to Fish, 213 

 Temperature, Effects of Change of, in twisting and untwisting 



Wires which have suffered Permanent Torsion, Herbert 



Tomlinson, 263 

 Temperature of the Clyde Sea Area, Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, 37, 



Temperature, Viscosity of Steel, and its Relations to, Carl 

 Barus, 479 



