XXXIV 



Index 



VSupplement to Nature, 

 L December c, 1897 



Rotation Period of Jupiter's Third Satellite, Mr. Douglass, 109 

 Rotch (A. Lawrence), Kite Exploration of the Air, 462 ; the 



Highest Kite Ascent, 540 ; on obtaining Meteorological 



Records in the Upper Air by means of Kites and Balloons, 



602 

 Rothpletz (Dr.), the Great Alpine Double-Fold, 550 

 Rotifers Commensal with Caddis-Worms, Henry Scherren, 224 

 Roy (Prof. Charles Smart, F.R.S.), Death of, 548; Obituary 



Notice of, 591 

 Royal Catania Observatory, the Latitude of the, 133 

 Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, Reports from the 



Laboratory, 78 

 Royal Gardens, Kew, Ten Years' Work of the, 577 

 Royal Geographical Society, the, 63 ; the Geographical Journal, 



292 

 Royal Institution, the Fullerian Professorship of Physiology at 



the, Dr. Augustus D. Waller, F.R.S., 248 

 Royal Meteorological Society, 94, 215 

 Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the, 134 

 Royal Society, 22, 45, 71, 93, 118, 142, 165, 189, 237,260, 



287, 416; Selected Candidates, 54 ; Conversazione, 90, 185 ; 



the Royal Society and its Hand-Books, the Record of the 



Royal Society, Year- Book of the Royal Society, 343 

 Royal Society of New South Wales, Journal and Proceedings for 



1896, 291 

 Riicker (Prof.), Photographic Records of Objective Combination 



Tones, 461 

 Rudolf and Stefanie, Lakes, 193 

 Rule, the Phase, Wilder D. Bancroft, 362 



Runge (Prof.), on the Spectrum of Oxygen, Sulphur, and Sele- 

 nium, 388, 461 ; on Zeeman's Discovery of the Effects of 



Magnetism on Spectral Lines, 462 

 Russell (Bertrand A. W.), an Essay on the Foundations of 



Geometry, 417 

 Russell (E. C), Tracks of Oceanic Current Papers, 131 

 Russell (E. J.), Explosion of Chlorine Peroxide with Carbonic 



Oxide, 93 

 Russell (H. C, F.R.S.), on a Brilliant Aurora in the Southern 



Hemisphere, 183 

 Russell (Mr.), the Rise and Fall of Bacteria in Cheddar Cheese, 



571 



Russia : Russian Chemical and Physical Society, 45 ; the In- 

 ternational Geological Congress in Russia, 104 : the Popula- 

 tion of Russia, 117 ; Bacteriology and Serotherapy in 

 Russia, 276 



Russium, Prof. Chroustchoff, 276 



Russow (Dr. E.), Death of, 60 



Sabatier (Paul), Action of Copper [Hydrate on Solutions of 



Silver Nitrate, 312 

 Sachs (Dr. Julius von), Death of, 130 ; Obituary Notice of, 



Francis Darwin, F. R.S., 201 

 Safford (Prof. Truman), Personal Equation in Transit Observ- 

 ations, 206 

 Sail, a Cyclone, Percy S. Pilcher, 342 

 St. Louis Academy of Sciences, 95, 288 

 Samoa, the Coral Reefs of, 1 150 

 Sample-Post for Natural History Specimens, Walter F. H. 



Blandford, 271 

 Samter (Dr. H.), the Alleged Former Redness of Sirius, 552 

 Sanarelli (Dr. G.), the Bacillus of Yellow Fever, 159 

 Sandias (Dr. A.), the Constitution and Development of the 



Society of Termites, 517 

 Sanitary Problems connected with the Municipal Water Supply, 



Prof. W. P. Mason, 619 

 Sanitation, Efficacy of, as a Substitute for Vaccination in dealing 



with Small-pox, 618 

 Saturn : Action of Jupiter and Saturn upon Encke's Comet, M. 



A. Lebeuf, 504 ; New Divisions in the Rings of Saturn, Prof. 



J. M. Schaeberle, 552 

 Saunders (Dr.), some Experiments in Cross-Fertilisation, 600 

 Saville-Kent(W. ), Bipedal Locomotion among Existing Reptiles, 



271 ; the Naturalist in Australia, 271 

 Saxons, the South, R. J. Horton-Smith, 551 

 Sagnac (G.), Transformation of X-Rays by Metals, 336 

 Scalp-lock and the Totem among the Omaha, on the, Miss A. C. 



Fletcher, 486 

 Schaeberle (Prof. J. M.), New Divisions in the Rings of Saturn, 



552 



Schafer (Prof. E.A., F.R.S.), Human Embryology, Prof. Ch. S. 

 Minot, 269 



Scharf (Dr. R. F.), the Origin of the European Fauna, 625 



Scherren (Henry), Through a Pocket Lens, 125 ; Rotifers Com- 

 mensal with Caddis- Worms, 224 



Schmidt (G. C. ), Electrolysis of Rarefied Gases, 388 



Scholz (Dr. Ch.), Death of, 60 



Schott (Dr. G.), on the Fogs of the Newfoundland Banks, 619 



Schrenk (H. von), the Respiration of Root-submerged . Plants, 



95 

 Schulhof (Prof.), Comet Denning 1894 I., 163 

 Schulz(Aurel), the New Africa, 340 



Schuster (Prof. Arthur), on Lunar and Solar Periodicities of 

 Earthquakes, 321 ; on Photographing a Metallic Spark-Spec- 

 trum, 461 

 Schiitzenbergen (Prof. Paul), Death of, 203 ; Obituary Notice of, 



274 

 Scientific Worthies, XXX., Stanislas Cannizzaro, Dr. T. E. 



Thorpe, F.R.S , i 

 Science: Annual Meeting of the U.S. National Academy of 

 Sciences, 19 ; the Science of Art, 33 ; the Scientific Papers 

 of John Couch Adams, F.R.S., 73; Progress of Science, 

 1837-1897, 169 ; Honours for Men of Science, 181 ; Scientific 

 Requirements of Colour Photography, 186 ; American As- 

 sociation for the Advancement of Science, 208 ; the Science 

 of Speech, Prof Alexander Melville Bell, 270 ; Essais sur la 

 Philosophie des Sciences Analyse- Mecanique, C. de Frey- 

 cinet, 270 ; Scientific Investigations of the Scottish Fishery 

 Board, 303 ; Theory and Practice, Prof. T. Clifford Allbutt, 

 F.R.S. , 332 ; a Bibliography of Science, William Swan 

 Sonnenschein, 468 ; Forthcoming Books of Science, 525 ; the 

 Duke of Devonshire on Scientific Education, 580 ; Science 

 and Poetry, Alfred Austin, 594 ; Ancient and Modern 

 Science, Sir William Roberts, F.R.S., 594; Science and 

 Modern Civilisation, Sir William Roberts, F.R.S., 621 ; the 

 Method of Darwin : a Study in Scientific Method, Frank 

 Cramer, 609 

 Scolopendra cingulata Oviparous, Signor Filippo Silvestri, 414 

 Scorpion carrying Flower, A. Newnham, 79 

 Scotland, Wild Flowers of Scotland, J. H. Crawford, 270 

 Scott (R. H., F.R.S.), Mean Monthly Temperatures of British 



Isles, 94 

 Scott (William), Death of, 593 

 Scott (William B.), an Introduction to Geology, 585 

 Scottish Fishery Board, Scientific Investigations of the, 303 

 Scottish Meteorological Society, 287 

 Screws, Sinstral, W. F. Sinclair, 102 



Scudder (Samuel Hubbard), Guide to the Genera and Classifi- 

 cation of the North American Orthoptera found Nofth of 

 Mexico, 152 

 Sea Fishes, the Breeding of, W. C. Mcintosh and A. T. Master- 

 man, Prof E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 337 

 Sea Water Effect on Induction Telegraphy, C. S. White- 

 head, 165 

 Seagar (H. W.), Natural History in Shakespeare's Time, 7 

 Searle (G. F. C), Steady Motion of Electrified Ellipsoid, 214 

 See (Dr. T. J. J.), the Evolution of Stellar Systems, 295 ; Con- 

 ditions for Best Telescopic Definition, 386 ; the Photography 

 of Delicate Celestial Phenomena, 620 

 Seebohm (Henry), Coloured Figures of the Eggs of British 



Birds, with Descriptive Notes, 25 

 "Seiche" Movements on Lakes Ontario and Huron, Mr. F. N. 



Denison on, 462 

 Seismology ; Seismology of Greece, Dr. Papavasiliou, 15 ; 

 the Tokio Earthquake of June 24, 1894, Prof F. Omori, 36 ; 

 Bollettino della Societa Italiana, 45, 388 ; the Great 

 Indian Earthquake of June 12, 160, 182, 346, 471 ; 

 T. D. la Touche, 273 ; Dr. Ralph Copeland, 419 ; Rev. 

 J. D. La Touche, 444; an Edinburgh Record of the 

 Indian Earthquake, Thomas Heath, 174, 287; Record of 

 the Indian Earthquake by Vicentini Seismograph, Dr. M. 

 Baratta, 501 ; Determination of Velocity of Propagation of 

 Amed (Asia Minor) Earthquake Shock of April 16, 1896, 

 G. Agamennone, 277 ; on Lunar and Solar Periodicities of 

 Earthquakes, Prof. Arthur Schuster, 321 ; Father Bertelli's 

 Observations, S. Arcidiacono, 384 ; the Aidin Earthquake of 

 August 19, 1895, Dr. G. Agamennone, 453 ; Prof. Milne on 

 the Work of the Committee on Seismological Observations, 

 461 ; Prof John Milne's Records, 522 ; the Etna Observatory, 

 544 



