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Index 



' Suppletnent t Nature 

 December a, 1807 



American Lakes, 413 ; on the Continental Elevation during 

 the Glacial Epoch, 485 ; on the First Traces of Man in North 

 America, 486 ; on the Antiquity of Man in America, 487 



Spermatozoids in Zatnia integrifolia, on, H. J. Webber, 601 



Spiller (J.), the Solubility of Platinum-Silver Alloys in Nitric 

 Acid, 143 



Spirit, a Bacterium living in Strong, V. H. Veley, F.R.S., 

 Lilian J. Veley, 197 



Sporangia, on Changes in Number of, in Vascular Plants, Prof. 

 F. O. Bower, F.R.S., 601 



Sqaktktquacht, or the Benign-faced, C. Hill-Tout, 486 



Stadthagen (H.), Change of Length of Wooden Rods with 

 Moisture, 311 



Stansfield (H.), Phase-Change of Light on Reflection at a Silver 

 Surface, 504 



Stanton (A. T. ), on Practically available Processes for Soldering 

 Aluminium in the Laboratory, 352 



Stanton (T. E.), Passage of Heat between Metal Surfaces and 

 Liquids in Contact, 142 



Starke (H.), the Dielectric Constants of Solids, 388 



Stars : Star Atlas, W. Upton, 8 ; the Double Star 44 Bootis, 

 Mr. Burnham, 17 ; Southern Double Stars, Profs. W. H. 

 Pickering and S. I. Bailey, 454 ; the Origin of Solar and 

 Stellar Light, M. R. Dissett, 89 ; the Parallax of 61^ Cygni, 

 Herman S. Davis, 90 ; the Chemistry of the Hottest Stars, 

 J. Norman Lockyer, F. R.S., 91 ; Prof. Newcomb on the 

 Distances of the Stars, 139 ; New Southern Variable Stars, 

 163 ; the 1897 Maximum of Mira Ceti, Dr. Nyland, 163 ; 

 New Southern Variables, R. T. Innes, 415 ; the Variable 

 Star Tj Aquilae, William J. S. Lockyer, Prof. R. Copeland, 

 249 ; Prof. A. Belopolsicy, 597 ; New Variable in Coma 

 Berenices, T. D. Anderson, 279 ; the Algol Variable Z Her- 

 culis. Dr. Ernst Hartwlg, 350 ; New Variable Stars, Thomas 

 D. Anderson, 386 ; Stanley Williams, 386 ; Variable Stars 

 in Clusters, Prof. S. I. Bailey, 454 ; a New Classification of 

 Stellar Spectra, A. Fowler, 206 ; Distant Stars, Albert 

 ' CoUison, 248 ; Catalogue of 480 Stars for Zone Observations 

 between - 20° and - 80°, Prof. Auwers, 255 ; the Distribu- 

 ■ tion of Stellar Velocities, Prof. J. C. Kapteyn, 264 \ the 

 Evolution of Stellar Systems, T. J. J. See, Dr. William 

 J. S. Lockyer, 295 ; the Cause of the Proper Motion of 

 Stars, 504 ; a Remarkable Binary Star, 525 ; the Alleged 

 Former Redness of Sirius, Dr. H. Samter, 552 ; Stars in the 

 Large Magellanic Cloud, 620 



Stations for Observing the Total Eclipse of the Sun in January 

 1898, 424 



Statics : the Statical Knowledge of the Greeks, Dr. G. Vailati, 



453 

 Statistics, Old Age, in Canada, A. T. Drummond, 277 

 Steam, an Apparatus for Studying the Rate of Condensation of, 



when in Contact with Metal Surfaces at Various Temperatures 



and Pressures, Profs. Callendar and Nicholson, 507 

 Steam Aerodromes, M. Tatin and Dr. Richet, 230 

 Steam Navigation : the Bazin Roller-Boat, 500 ; the Kaiser 



Wilhelm der Grosse, 549 

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



Dunkerley, 461 

 Steam Turbine, the Progress of the, 520 

 Steam Engines, Standards of Thermal Efficiency for, 36 

 Steel (Thomas), Peripatus oviparus in New South Wales, 192 

 Steenstrup (Prof. J. J. S.), Death of, 229; Obituary Notice of, 



276 

 Stefanie, Lakes Rudolf and, 193 



Stellar Spectra, a New Classification of, A. Fowler, 206 

 Stereiun hirsutiim a Wood-destroying Fungus, Prof. Marshall 



Ward, 600 

 Stevens (H. P.), Reduction of Perthiocyanic Acid, 359 

 Stewart (H. E. ), the Birds of our Country, loi 

 Stewart ( W. ), Damping Effect of Magnetic Field on Rotating 



Insulators, 335 

 Stichtenoth (Dr. A.), the Orbit of Comet 1822 IV., 573 

 Stiger (Albert), Explosions as a Means of Preventing Hailstorms, 



453 



Stockholm, International Congress for the Unification of Methods 

 of Testing held at, 419 



Stocquart (Dr. Alfred), Death of, 229 



Stokes (Sir G. G.), Explanation of Experimental Result at- 

 tributed by M. G. de Metz to Magnetic Deviation of X-Rays, 

 336 



Stoll (Dr. Otto), zur Zoogeographie der landbewohnenden 

 Wirbellosen, 247 



Stomata : some Considerations upon the Functions of Stomata, 

 Prof. C. E. Bessey, 600 ; Prof. Bessey on the Chimney-shaped 

 Stomata of Holocantha emoryi, 601 ; on the Behaviour 

 of Stomata, Francis Darwin, F.R.S., 6cx5 



Stone (Dr. E. J., F.R.S.), Death of, 34 ; Obituary Notice of, 57 



Storm in Essex on June 24, the, Sheffield Neave, 196 



Storm Signals, New System for Holland, 277 



Story of the Earth's Atmosphere, the, Douglas Archibald, 78 



Story of Germ Life, the, Bacteria, H. W. Conn, Mrs. Percy 

 Frankland, 565 



Stratton (S. W.), on some New Harmonic Analyses, 462 



Streaming Movements of the Protoplasm in Pollen of Flowers, 

 I H. B. Potter, 248 



Stretching, a Recorder of, Mr. Henning, 353 



Studies in Ancient History, J. F. M'Lennan, 51 



Study of Natural History in Japan, the. 354 

 I Styles of the Calendar, W. T. Lynn, 180, 277 



Subjective Transformations of Colour, Shelford Bid well, F.R.S., 

 ! 128; Prof. F. J. Allen, 174 



Submarine Cables, New Self-Registering Apparatus for, M. 

 j Ader, 216, 348; Submarine Cable Working Disturbed by 

 I Electric Tramways, A. P. Trotter, 422 



Submergence, the Great, the Duke of Argyll, 173 



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

 j Cockerell, 391 



Sugar-cane Cultivation in Antigua, F. Watts and F. R. Shep- 

 I herd, 37 

 I Sulphur, Spectrum of. Profs. Runge and Paschen, 461 



Sun : Automatic Photography of the Corona, David P. Todd, 

 109 ; the Approaching Total Eclipse of the Sun, J. Norman 

 Lockyer, F.R.S., 154, 175, 318, 365. 392, 445 ; Stations for 

 Observing the Total Eclipse of the Sun in January 1898, 424 ; 

 Eclipse Expedition of the Lick Observatory, 525 ; on Lunar 

 and Solar Periodicities of Earthquakes, Prof. Arthur Schuster, 

 321 ; the Corona Spectrum, J. Evershed, 444; New Deter- 

 mination of the Solar Constant, Dr. G. B. Rizzo, 504 ; the 

 Level of Sunspots, Prof. H. Ricco, 573 ; Sunless Days and 

 the Day Distribution of Sunshine in Summer, 632 ; the Effect 

 of Sunlight on the Tints of Birds' Eggs, David Paterson, 11 



Sunspots and the Mean Yearly Temperature at Turin, Dr. G. B. 

 Rizzo, 350 



Sunspots, the Level of. Prof. H. Ricco, 573 



Supersaturation, Dr. W. W. J. Nicol, 71 



Surface Tension of Water, Experiments on the, Dr. N. E. 

 Dorsey, 461 



Surgery : Demonstration of Osseous Regeneration in Man by 

 Rontgen Rays, M. Oilier, 95 ; the Lawrence Medal, Jonathan 

 Hutchinson, 2CX) 



Survey of Canada, Geological, 467 



Survival of the Unlike, the, L. H. Bailey, 493 



Sutcliffe (G. E.), Relationship between the Masses and Distances 

 of the Planets, 424 



Suzuki (U.), an Important Function of Leaves, 502 



Swan (J. W., F.R.S.), Stress and other Effects produced by 

 Electrification in Viscid Mixtures of Resin and Oil, 262 



Sweat, Human, Toxic Effect of, S. Arloing, 360 



Swedish Method of Preserving Fish, C. T. Morner, 385 



Swinton (A. A. C), Adjustable X-Ray Tubes, 79 



Switzerland, Earthquake in, 5CK) 



Symbols in Applied Algebra, on the Meaning of, Prof. Alex. 

 McAulay, 588; Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., 613 



Symons's Monthly Meteorological Magazine, 237,416, 560, 631 



Symons (G. J., F.R.S.), British Rainfall, 1896, 419 



System of Medicine, a, 465 



System der Philosophic, W. Wundt, 149 



Tacchini (Prof. P.), Rain mixed with Sand and Caroub Seeds, 



161 

 Tailless Kites, Prof. Marvin on, 462 



Talcott Observations, Accidental Errors of, Herr Doberck, 39 

 Tammann (G. ), Crystallisation and Super-cooling, 279 

 Tanganyika, Lake, the Fresh-water Fauna of, J. E. S. Moore, 



198 

 Tarr (Prof. R. S.), Difference of Climate in Two Sides of Davis 



and Baffin's Bay, 21 ; Study of Greenland Glaciers, 298 

 Tatin (M.), Steam Aerodromes, 230 



