Supplement to NatureC\ 

 December 8, 1898 J 



Index 



Sandbanks, Sea-Beaches and, Vaughan Cornish, 42 



Sandberger (Dr. K. L. F. von), Death of, 16 



Sanders (Miss C. B.), on the Struggle for Existence in certain 

 Common Insects, 585 

 nitary Institute, Contjress of, 522 

 ollite, the Inrst, of Jupiter, A. E. Douglass, 210 

 onery and Literature, Sir Archibald Geikie, 179 



Schaeberle (Prof.), the Companion to Procyon, 134 : Blurring 

 Aberration in the Telescope, 88 



Schjifer (Prof. E., F.R.S. ), on the Alleged Sensory Functions 

 of the Motor Cortex Cerebri, 485 



Schaffers (V.), Essai sur la Theorie des Machines Electriques k 

 Influence, 466 



liaw (Major-General), Australasian Weather Charts and New- 

 Zealand Storms, 582 



.^clieiner (Prof), the Spectrum of Hydrogen in Nebulae, 41 



Scheiner (S. C. Cronwright), the Angora Goat, and a Paper on 

 the Ostrich, 314 



Schenck (Dr. H.), a Text-book of Botany, 494 



Schimper (Dr. A. F. W.), a Text-book of Botany, 494 



Schlechert (F.), the Temperature of Tree-Stems, 629 



Schloesing (Th., Fils), Study of Phosphoric Acid Dissolved by 

 the Water of the Soil, 384 



Schmidt (Dr. G. C), Thorium Rays, 47 ; Fluorescence and 

 Actino-Electricity, 117 ; Electric Properties of Gases, 180 



Schmidt (Hans), Das Fernobjektiv, 343" 



Schoentjes (Prof. H.), Collapse of Spherical Shell under 

 Pressure, 40 



Schonrock (Dr. O.), Das Optische Drehungsvermogen 

 Organischer Substanzen und dessen Praktische Anwendung, 

 172 



School Geography, a, George Bird, 411 



Schools, Technical High, Comparison, Sir Philip Magnus, 52 



Schott (Dr.), on the Magnetic and Electrolytic Actions of 

 Electric Railways, 533 



Schulhof (M.), Periodic Comets, 526 



Schuster (Prof. Arthur, F.R.S.), the Origin of the Aurora 

 Spectrum, 151; the Spectrum of Metargon, 1.99, 269; 

 Potential Matter : a Holiday Dream, 367, 618 



Schiitt (F.), Das Optische Drehungsvermogen Organischer 

 Substanzen und de.ssen Praktische Anwendung, 172 



Schuyten (C), Double Salicylates of Metals and Antipyrin, 583 



Science : Scientific Worthies, Albert von Kolliker, Prof W. 

 F. R. Weldon, F.R.S., i ; Domestic Science Readers, 

 Vincent T. Murche, 8 ; Science Buildings at South Kensing- 

 ton, 54, 155, 176, 294; General Elementary Science, 123; 

 Elementary General Science, A. T. Simmons and Lionel M. 

 Jones, 123; Science in the Theatre, Edwin O. Sachs, 162; 

 "Lessons in Domestic Science, Ethel R. Lush, 173 ; Science 

 and Art Department Examinations, 435, 625 ; Forthcoming 

 Books of Science, 535 ; Recent Advances in Science, and 

 their Bearing on Medicine and Surgery, Prof. R. Virchow, 

 For. Member R.S. , 554 ; a Short History of Scientific 

 Instruction, Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., 572, 

 597 ; Conference on the International Catalogue of Scientific 

 Literature, 578 ; Science in Relation to Trade, 609 ; the 

 Science of Applied Electricity, Magnets and Electric Currents, 

 I'rof 1. A. Fleming, 614; Report of International Conference 

 on Scientific Literature, 623 



Scott (Dr.), Anatomy of Coal- Measure Plants, 633 



Scott (Dr. F. IL), on some Points in the Micro-Chemistry of 

 Nerve Cells, 486 



Scott (Kenneth), Vegetable Application used to Inflame Eye by 

 Malingering Egyptian Soldiers, 255 



Scott (R. H., F.R.S.), Frequency of Rainy Days in British 

 Islands, 95 



Scott (W. E. D.), Bird Studies : an Account of the Land Birds 

 of Eastern North America, 541 



Screw Propeller cavitating Water, Hon. C, A. Parsons, 62 



Sea : Deep-Sea Dredging and the Phosphorescence of Living 

 Creatures at great Sea Dejiths, E. L. J. Ridsdale, 497 



Sea, a White, James W. Barrett, 496, 619 



Sea, a White or Milky, Dan Pigeon, 520 



Sea-Beaches and Sandbanks, \'aughan Cornish, 42 



Sea Fisheries Congress at Dieppe, International, 461, 511 



Seal, the West Indian, Monachus tropicalis, 179 



Sedgwick (Adam, F.R.S. ), a Student's Text-Book of Zoology, 



147 

 See (Dr. T. J. J.), Double and Multiple Southern Stars, 134 

 Seismology : Bollettino della Societk Italiana, 22, 359 ; the 



Mathematical Theory of Earthquakes, P. Rudski, 40 ; Mean 



Surface-Velocity of Pulsations from Calcutta Earthquake of 

 June 12, 1897, Dr. Agamennone, 109; the Indian Earth- 

 quake of June 12, 1897, R. D. Oldham, 421 ; Dr. Cancani's 

 Horizontal Pendulums at Rocca di Papa, 158 ; Earthquake 

 recorded in Isle of Wight, June 29, 1898, John Milne, 228 ; 

 Earthquakes of Pacific Coast, 1767-1897, Dr. E. S. Holden, 

 231 ; Calabro-Messinese Earthquakes, Prof. G. Mercalli, 

 329 ; Attempt to Calculate Velocity of Aidin Earthquake 

 of August 9, 1895, Dr. G. Agamennone, 421 ; Prof. Milne 

 on Seismological Laboratories, 534 



Self- Registering Tide-Gauges, Character and Progress of the 

 Tides in the Gulf and River St. Lawrence as ascertained by 

 Simultaneous Observations with, W. Bell Dawson, 260 



Semmola (Prof), Volcanic Flames, 303 



Septic Treatment of Sewage, 229 



Seraphimoff (M.), the Andromeda Nebula, 605 



Serotherapy : Influence of Place and Mode of Introduction on 

 Developmentof Immunising Effects of Anti-diphtheritic Serum, 

 S. Arloing, 23 ; Report of Institut Pasteur of Anti-Rabic 

 Inoculations, 1897, 59 ; Dr. Haffkine's Methods and the 

 Plague in Calcutta, 85 ; Prof. Haffkine's Inoculation 

 System as a Plague Preventive, 354 ; Inoculation against 

 Plague, 581 ; Yellow Fever and Anti-Toxic Serum, Dr. 

 Sanarelli, 158 ; Experiments with Anti-streptococcic Serum, 

 M. Courmont, 278 ; the Toxicity of Eel Serum, and Further 

 Studies on Immunity, Mrs. Percy Frankland, 369 ; the 

 Nature of the Antagonism between Toxins and Antitoxins, 



323 



Sewage : the Septic Treatment of Sewage, 229 : Bacteriology 

 of London Sewage, 374 ; the Bacterial Process of Sewage 

 Purification, Rudolph Hering, 628 ; the Disposal of the Town 

 Refuse of Naples, Prof P. Boubee, 524 



Seward (A. C), the Malayan Fern Matonia, 633 



Seyewetz (M.), Action of Ammonium Persulphate on Silver in 



, Photographic Negatives, 168 



Sharp (Dr. David), the Classification of Insects, 425 



Shashih, Chinese Antiquities at, 133 



Shaw (Saville). the Electrical Resistance and Micro-Structure 

 of Alloys, 356 



Shaw (W. N. ), on Dalton's Law, 532 : a Pneumatic Analogue 

 of the Potentiometer, 534 



Sheep's Horns, Maggots in, W. II. McCorquodale, 546 



Sherrington (Prof., F.R.S.), on his Discovery of Inhibition of 

 the Tonus of a Skeletal Muscle by the Excitation, either Elec- 

 trical or Mechanical, of the Antagonist Muscle, 482 ; Demon- 

 stration in the Monkey (Macactis) of Inhibition of the 

 Contraction of Voluntary Muscle evoked by Electrical 

 Excitation of certain Points of the Cortex Cerebri. 483 



Shipworms, Australian, C. Hedley, 240 



Shrubsole (O. A ), High Level Gravels in Berkshire and Oxford- 

 shire, 190 



Shufeldt (Dr. R. W.), Anatomy of the Swallows, 199 



Siam, Five Years in, from 189 1 to 1896, H. Warington Smyth, 

 Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, 322 



Siemens (A. ), on the Application of the Electric Motor to the 

 Engineering Workshop, 608 



Sikkim Himalaya, Orchids of the. Sir George King and Robert 

 Pantling, 465 



Silicati, Inlroduzione alio Studio dei. Dr. E. Ricci, 268 



Silphium among the Ancient Greeks, Dr. Kronfeld, 628 



Silver Medals, Treatment of the Surface of, Prof. Roberts- 

 Austen, F.R.S., 236 



Simmons (A. T.), Elementary General Science, 123 



Simplified Euclid, a, W. W. Cheriton, 150 



Sinclair (W. F.), Ebbing and Flowing Wells, 52 ; Crannoges in 

 Estuaries, 521 



Sioux Outbreak of 1890, the Ghost-Dance Religion and the, 

 James Mooney, 125 



Skertchly (S. B. J.). Distribution of Leprosy in Far East, 514 



Skinner (S.), Affinity-constants of Dihydroxymaleic, Dihydroxy- 

 fumaric, Dihydroxytartaric and Tartronic Acids, 94 : on the 

 Carbon-consuming Cell of Jaques, 533 



Skull, Calaveras, Prof. Whitney's, 17 



Sleep, and the Theory of its Cause, 8 



Slime-Flux Di-sease of Fruit Trees, the, George Massee, 133 



Smith (C), Carbohydrates of Barley-straw, 23; Action of 

 Hydrogen Peroxide>on Carbohydrates in presence of Iron, 94 



Smith (G. ¥. H.), a Possible Dimorphous Form of Laurionite, 

 311 



Smith (II. G,), Essential Oil of Eucalyptus Genus, 464 



Smithsonian Institution, the Story of the, 271 



