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Index 



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Observalions of Air Temperature and Pressure at British 



Observatories, 621 

 Strange Survivals : Some Chapters in the History of Man, S. 



Baring-Gould, 53 

 Strasburger (Prof. Edward), Ueber das Verhalten des Pollens 



unddie Befruchtungsvorgange bei den Gymnospermen, 484 

 Strenitz (Herr), Power of Hydrogen-absorption of various 



Metals, 63 

 Stromboli, L, W. Fulcher, 89 ; A. Ricco and G. Mercalli, Dr. 



H. J. Johnston Lavis, 453 

 Stromeyer, (C. E.), Measurement of Distances of Binary Stars, 



199 

 Strugnell (W. Bishop), the Fauna and P^lora of Gloucester- 

 shire, 197 

 Struthers (Dr. John), the Rudimentary Hind-limb of Great 



Fin-Whale, Humpback and Greenland Right-Whale com- 

 pared, 588 

 Struve (Wilhelmus), Centenary of Birth of, 585 

 Studies in Corsica, John Warren Barry, 462 

 Study of Animal Life, the, J. Arthur Thomson, 2 

 Stuhlmann (Dr.), Two Akka Girls brought to Germany by, 470 

 Stur (Dr. D.), Death of, 206 

 Substitutions, the Theory of, and its Applications to Algebra, 



Dr. Eugen Netto, 338 

 .Suchslandonthe Micro-organisms of Tobacco Fermenlation, 208 

 Sudborough (J. J.), the Action of Nitrosyl Chloride and of 



Nitric Peroxide on some Members of the define Series, 430 

 Sulphuric Acid, the Amide and Imide of. Dr. Traube, A. E. 



Tutton, 566 

 Summer, the Weather of, 245, 270 

 Sumpner (Dr.), Williams on the Relation of the Dimensions 



of Physical Quantities to Directions in Space, 69 ; Diffusion 



of Light, 190; on the Differential Equation of Electric 



Flow, 574 

 Sun, Theory of the. Dr. A. Brester, 433 

 Sunshine, Amy Johnson, 9 



Sunshine, Comparative, Bishop Reginald Courtenay, 150 

 Sunspots, H. Faye, 167 

 ' Sunspots and Magnetic Perturbations in 1892, M. Ricco, 352 

 Sunspots : La Grandissima Macchia Solare del Febbrajo, 1892, 



A. Ricco, 429 

 Superabundant Rain, Sir H. Collett, 247 

 Superstitions of the Shuswaps of British Columbia, Colonel C. 



Bushe, 199 

 Surface, the Lunar, 352 

 Surgery, John Hunter (the Hunterian Lecture), Thomas 



Bryant, 372 

 Survivals, Strange, some Chapters in the History of Man, S. 



Baring-Gould, 53 

 Suter (H.), Catalogue of the New Zealand Mollusca, 397 

 Sutherland's Paper on the Laws of Molecular Force, Dr. Young, 



70; Prof. Fitzgerald, Dr. Gladstone, S. H. Burbury, Prof. 



Ramsay, Macfarlane Gray, Prof. Herschel, 117 

 Swarts (Frederic), on a New Fluorine-derivative of Carbon, 



309 

 Swinburne (Mr.), Williams on the Dimensions of Physical 



Quantities, 116; 011 Messrs. Rimington and Smith's Experi- 

 ments in Electric and Magnetic Fields, Constant and Varying, 

 166 ; on the Differential Equation of Electric Flow, 574 

 Swinhoe (Col. C), Catalogue of Eastern and Australian Lepi- 



doptera Heierocera in the Collection of the Oxford University 

 Museum, 53 ; on the Mimetic Forms of Certain Butterflies 



of the genus Hypolimnas, 429 

 Swift's Comet, Prof. Barnard, 186 

 Swift, Comet (A. 1892), A. E. Douglas, 546 

 Swift's (Messr.-.), Aluminium Microscope, G. C. Karop, 47 

 Swiss Torrents, the Regulation of, M. de Salis, 377 

 Sydney, Australian Museum, Edgar B. Waite appointed As- 

 sistant Curator in, m 

 Sydney, Royal Society of New South Wales, 311, 335 

 Symbolism in Burmah, Developments in Buddhist Architecture 



and, Major Temple, 46 

 Symons (C. J., F. R.S.), Colonial Meteorology, 390 ; Arbores- 

 cent Frost Patterns, 162 

 Synchronisation, Problem of Integral, M. A. Blondel, 599 



Tabular History of Astronomy to the Year 1500 a.d., Dr, Felix 



Muller, 18 

 Tacchini (Prof.), Solar Observations at Rome, 304, 399, 565 



Tahiti, a New Luminous Fungus, 157 



Tait (Prof. P. G.), Vector Analysis, 225 



Tanganyika (Lake), a New Medusa from, R. T. Giinlher, 563 



Tanner (Prof. Lloyd), on Complex Primes formed with the 

 Fifth Roots of Unity, 526 



Tarantula, the Bite of the, C. W. Meaden, 184 



Tashkend, Tobacco Cultivation at, 86 



Tasmania the Paradise of Horticulturists, Sir Edward Braddon. 

 587 



Tasmanians, on the Rude Stone Implements of the, showing 

 them to belong to the Palaeolithic or Unground Stage of the 

 Implement-makers' Art, Dr. Tylor, 527 



Taylor (A.), the Visible Universe, J. Ellard Gore, 193; the 

 Approaching Total Solar Eclipse, April 15-16, 1893, 317 



Tcherning (M.), Seven Images of the Human Eye, 354 



Tea Industry, the Development of the Ceylon, D. Trimen, 317 



Teaching of Botany, 151 ; Dr. D. H. Scott, 228 



Teall (J. J. H., F.R.S.), Notes on some Coast-sections at the 

 Lizard, 407 ; on a Radiolarian Chert from Mullion Island, 

 407 



Technical Education, Dr. W. Anderson on, 155 ; Sir M. W^ 

 Ridley on, 130; Industrial School opened at Lucknow, iii 

 Report of the Scottish Technical Education Committee, 543 ; 

 the Universities and the County Council, 586 ; the Cam- 

 bridge University Extension Movement, 586 ; Improvements 

 in City and Guild of London Institute Technological Exami- 

 nations, 612 



Technical School, the Manchester Municipal, Sir Henry E. 

 Roscoe, F.R.S., 201 



Technological Examinations, 35 



Telephone, Demonstration of Existence of interference of 

 Electric Waves in Closed Circuit by means of, R. Colson, 

 96 



Telephones in Warfare, Use of, 182 



Telephotographic Lens, the New, T. R. Dallmeyer, 161 



Telescope, a Large, 18 



Telescopes, Large, 616 



Tell-el-Hesy Excavations, the, F. J, Bliss, 302 



Temperature and Insolation, Relationship between. Dr. Berson, 



24 

 Temple (Major), Developments in Buddhist Architecture and 



Symbolism in Burma, 46 

 Ten Kate (Dr.), on the Type-characteristics of the North 



American Indians, 374 

 Tennant (the late Prof.) on Magic Mirrors, Prof. Silvanus P. 



Thompson, F.R.S., 79 

 Teredo and Electric Cables, the. Sir Henry Mance, 450 

 Terra, Qucestio de Aqua et, Edmund G. Gardner, 295 

 Terrestrial Phenomena, Coincidence of Solar and, Prof. G. E. 



Hale, 425 

 Tests of Climate, Fossil Plants as, Charles E. De Ranee, 294, 



342 ; J, Starkie Gardner, 364 

 Tetanus, the Bacteriology of, Kitasato, 158 

 Texas, Remarkable Meteor in, C. F. Maxwell, 279 

 Texas, Hot Winds in. May 29 and 30, 1892, I. Cline, 454 

 Thatch in Burmah, Snakes in, 113 

 Thaxter (R.) Proposed Establishment of New Order (Myxo- 



bacteriacea) of Schizomycetes, 373 

 Theory of Numbers, G. B. Mathews, 289 

 Therapeutics : a New Method of Treatment for Cholera, 83 ; 



Epidemic Influenza, F. A. Dixey, 244 ; the Blood-serum 



Therapeutists, Dr. Behring, 336 ; Record of Medical Expe- 

 rience at Davos Platz, Dr. Spengler, 519 

 Thermal Conductivities of Copper and Iron, the Absolute, R. 



Wallace Stewart, 599 

 Thermal Conductivities of Liquids, the, R. Wachsmuth, 350 

 Thermodynamics : Determination of Low Temperatures ol 



Platinum Thermometer, Griffiths and Clerk, 95 ; Carnot's 



Principle Applied to Animal and Vegetable Life, J. Parker, 



95 ; Treatise on Thermodynamics, Peter Alexander, 388 

 Thermometer, the Centigrade, adopted by Prussian Govern' 



ment, 60 

 Thermometer, Mercury, an Improved, Prof. L. Weber, 497 

 Thermometer, Platinum, Determination of Low Temperature 



by, Griffiths and Clerk, 95 

 Thermometer, Depression of Zero in Boiled, L. C. Baudin, 



143 

 Thermometers, Dr. Joule's, Prof. Sydney Young, 316, 389 

 Thermometers, Dr. Joule's, Prof. Arthur Schuster, F.R.S., 



364 



