supplement to .Vaiure,~\ 

 DitiHtter Q, 1897 J 



Index 



Selenium, Spectrum of, Profs. Runge and Paschem, 461 

 Selenography : Weinek's Lunar Enlargements, 233 

 Sensitiveness of the Retina to X-Rays, Guy Oliver Harrison, 



248; Ernest Braun, 271 

 Sensations, Contributions to the Analysis of the, Dr. E. Mach, 



r..340 

 Jfcptic Surfaces, on Three, J. E. Hill, 631 

 Sergi (Prof, Giuseppe), Biblioteca de Scienze Moderne, No. i. 

 Africa : Antropologia della Stirpe Camiticia, 443 

 Sen Indians of the Gulf of California, on the, Dr. W. J, McGee, 



486 

 Serotherapy : Further Studies on Snake Poison and Immunity, 

 Prof. Calmette, 39 ; Prof. Koch's Rinderpest Investigations, 

 108 ; Anti-Rabic Inoculation for 1896 at Paris Pasteur Insti- 

 tute, M. Pottevin, 161 ; Haft'kine's Plague Inoculation System, 

 Prof. Koch, 275 ; Serotherapy in Russia, 276 ; Vaccination 

 against Siberian Cattle Plague, 276 ; Inocnlation against 

 Yellow Fever, Dr. Havelburg, 322 

 Serpent Venom, Bile an Antidote against. Prof. T. R. Fraser, 



F.R.S.,322 

 Seton-Karr (H. W. ), Egyptian Prehistoric Flint Instruments, 



131 

 Seward (A. C. ), Notes on Fossil Equisetacese, 602 

 Shadow, the Visibility of a Sound, C. V. Boys, F.R.S., 173 

 Shakespeare's Time, Natural History in, H. W. Seager, 7 

 Shark,. Port Jackson, Development of, Dr. W. A. Haswell, 



192 

 Sharp (Archibald), Bicycles and Tricycles, an Elementary 



Treatise on their Design and Construction, 217 

 Shearer (J.), Problems and Questions in Physics, 194 

 Shelly Glacial Deposits, G. W. Lamplugh, 10 

 Shell-fish, on Augury from Combat pf, Kumagusu Minakata, 



30 ; Chas. A. Silberrad, 494 

 Shepherd (F. R.), Sugar-cane Cultivation in Antigua, 37 

 Sherrington (Prof. C. S., F.R.S.), Double (Antidrome) Con- 

 duction in Central Nervous Sysrem, 22 ; the Sensory Nerves 

 of Muscles, 45 

 Shinn (Charles Howard), the Story of the Mine, as illus- 

 trated by the Great Comstock Lode of Nevada, 172 

 Shoreditch "Destructor" Electric Station, 203 

 Shufeldt (Dr. R. W.), on the Feathers of Hesperontis, 30 

 Shutt (Dr. F. T.), on the Virgin Soils of Canada, 463 

 Siberian Cattle Plague, Vaccination against, 276 

 Siertsema (L. H. ), Influence of Pressure upon Natural Rotation 



of Plane of Polarisation in Cane-sugar Solutions, 264 

 Sieve for Primes, Robt. W. D. Christie, 10 

 Signalling, Military, Acetylene for, A. E. Munhy, 292 

 Signalling through Space without Wires, W. H. Preece, 



F.R.S., 163 

 Sigsbee (C. D.), Illustrative Cloud Forms, 196 

 Silberrad (Chas. A.), on Augury from Combat of Shell-fish, 



494 

 Silver, the Electro-Chemical Equivalent of Lord Rayleigh, 



F.R.S.,292 

 Silver Surface, Phase-Change of Light on Reflection at a Silver 



Surface, E. Edser, H. Stansfield, 504 

 Silvestri (Signor Filippo), Scolopendra cingulata Oviparous, 414 

 Sime (Jessie A.), the Worsted Test for Colour Vision, 516 

 Simmonds ( P. L. ), Death of, 594 

 Sinclair (W. F.), Boomerangs without Twist, 79; Sinistral 



Screws, 102 ; the Centipede Whale, 470 ; Distant Cannonade, 



223 

 Singing Flames, the Theory of, H. S. Gill, 583 

 Sinistral Screws, W. F. Sinclair, 102 



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

 Skeleton, the Vertebrate, Sidney H. Reynolds, 245 

 Skull-Deformation, Artificial, F. H. Gushing, 16 

 Skulls from the Papuan Gulf, on Dental Irregularities in, Dr. 



G. A. Dorsey, 619 

 Slouguinoff (M. ), Death of, 130 

 Small (E. W.), Twelve Diagrams illustrating the Principles of 



Mining, 539 

 Small-pox, Efficacy of Sanitation as a Substitute for Vaccination 



in dealing with, 618 

 Smith (A. Donaldson), through Unknown African Countries, 



the First Expedition from Somaliland to Lake Lamu, 193 

 Smith (C. Michie), the Madras Observatory, 424 

 Smith (E. A.), Reactions between Lead and Sulphur Oxides, 94 

 Smith (Prof. Robert H.), the Calculus for Engineers and 



Physicists, 247 



Smith (Worthington G.), Dog Running on Two Legs, 588 

 Smoke from Manufacturing Chimneys, Report on the Causes 



and Prevention of, Dr. Harvey Littlejohn, 29 

 Smolan (Dr. M. S. de). Continuation of Experiments on 



Electric Properties of Uranium, 20 

 Snake Poison and Immunity, Further Studies on, Prof. 



Calmette, 39 

 Soaring Flight, Dr. William J. S. Lockyer, 344 

 Social System of Termites, the, W. F. H. Blandford, 517 

 Social Transformations of the Victorian Age, T. H. S. Escott, 



222 

 Sociology : L'evolution regressive en biologie et en sociologie, 



Jean Demoor, Jean Massart, Prof. 6mile Vandervelde, 292 

 Soderbaum (H. G.), Acetylene as a Precipitant of Copjx'r in 



Solution, 17 

 Sodom and Gomorrah, Bearing of Geological Research on 



Destruction of. Dr. C. Diener, 88 

 Soils of Canada, Dr. F. T. Shutt on the Virgin, 463 

 Solar and Stellar Light, the Origin of, M. R. Disseit, 89 

 Solar Constant, a New Determination of the. Dr. G. B. Rizzo, 



504. 

 Soldering Aluminium in the Laboratory, on Practically avail- 

 able Processes for, A. T, Stanton, 352 

 Sonnenschein (William Swan), a Bibliography of Science, 468 

 Sound: Sound Signals in Fog, Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., 

 154; First Stage Sound, Light- and Heat, John Don, 172 ; 

 the Visibility of a Sound Shadow, C. V. Boys, F.R.S., 173 ; 

 Sound of Distant Firing, W. F. Sinclair, 223; C. Mostyn, 

 248 ; F. L. Ortt, 391 

 Southern Variable Stars, New, 163 

 South African Museum, the New, 31 

 Southern Double Stars, Profs. W. II. Pickerino; and S. I. 



Bailey, 454 

 Space, Signalling through, without Wires, W. H. Preece, 



F.R.S. , 163 

 Spain, in Northern, Hans Gadow, F.R.S., 5.|0 

 Species or Subspecies, R. Lydekker, F.R.S., 256; Prof. 



T. D. A. Cockerell, 391 

 Species, the Agency of Man in the Distribution of, Dr. L. O. 



Howard, 604 

 Specific Characters : Physiological Specific Characters, Prof. 

 T. D. A. Cockerell, 1 1 ; Utility of Specific Characters, Prof. 

 T. D. A. Cockerell, 31 ; Dr. Samuel Wilks, F.R.S., 79 

 Specific Heat of Liquid, on a New Method of Measuring the, 



Prof. Callendar and Mr. Barnes, 461 

 Specific Heat of Superheated Steam, on the. Profs. Ewing and 



Dunkerley, 461 

 Spectrum Analysis : Analysis of Resolving Power of Telescojjes 

 and Spectroscopes, Prof. F. L. O. Wadsworth, 62 ; Resolving 

 Power of Spectroscopes, Prof. Wadsworth, 300 ; Photo- 

 graphs of Metallic Spectra, D. O. Lohse, 62 ; Broadening of 

 Sodium Lines by Intense Magnetic Fields, A. St. C. Dunstan, 

 M. EUice, and C. A. Krause, 188 ; Breaking up of Funda- 

 mental Band of Chlorophyll, Ch. Etard, 191 ; a New Classifi- 

 cation of Stellar Spectra, A. Fowler, 206 ; Influence of 

 Magnetic Fields on Radiation Frequency, Prof. Oliver 

 Lodge, F.R S., and Benjamin Davies, 237 ; Relative Be- 

 haviour of H and K Lines of Calcium Spectrum, William 

 Huggins, F.R.S., and Mrs. Huggins, 262; Change of 

 Spectrum Lines by Magnetism, P. iSeeman, 264 ; Spectrum 

 of Carbon, F. A. de Gramont, 312; Measurement of Inter- 

 ference of Direct X-Rays, J. Precht, 335 ; Series Spectra of 

 Oxygen, Selenium, and Sulphur, C. Runge and F. Paschen, 

 388, 461 ; Effect of Pressure on Series in Spectra, Prof. J. S. 

 Ames, W. J. Humphreys, 415; the Corona Spectrum, J. 

 Evershed, 444 ; Argentaurum under the Spectrograph, Sir 

 William Crookes, 452 ; Prof. Schuster on Photographing a 

 Metallic Spark Spectrum, 461 ; the Shifting of the Lines in 

 the Arc Spectra of Metals by Increased Pressure of the 

 Atmosphere surrounding the Arc, W. J. Humphreys, Dr. J. 

 Larmor, 461 ; Profs. Lodge, Michelson, and Runge on Zee- 

 man's Discovery of the Effects of Magnetism on Spectral 

 Lines, 462 ; Mr. Ramage on Photographs of the Spectra of 

 various Metals, 463 ; the Meudon Astrophysical Observatory, 

 Dr. William J. S. Lockyer, 494 ; the Law of Spectral Series, 

 Prof. Thiele, 597 

 Speech, the Science of. Prof. Alexander Melville Bell, 270 

 Spencer (Prof. Baldwin), the Engwurra ; or, the Fire Ceremony 



of certain Central Australian Tribes, 136 

 Spencer (Dr, J. W,), the Sinking of the Earth about the great 



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