Index 



VSupplement to Nature, 

 L June 2, 1892 



Ross (W, J. C), on the Discovery of Two Specimens of Fossil 



Lepidodendrons in the Neighbourhood of Bathurst, New 



South Wales, and the Inferences to be drawn from their 



Occurrence, 424 

 Rossiter (E. C), Sulphochloride of Isomeric Dibromonaph- 



thalene, 263 ; Action of Alcohols on Sulphonic Chlorides as 



Means of producing Ethereal Salts of Sulphonic Acids, 263 ; 



Action of Bromine on Mixture of Ortho- and Paranitro-o- 



Acenaphthalide, 263 

 Rotation of Jupiter, W. F. Denning, 473 

 Rotation of Venus, Herr Loschardt, 210 



Rotch (A. L.), Meteorology of French Association at Mar- 

 seilles, 189 ; the Mountain Meteorological Stations of the 



United States, 403 

 Rothamsted, Results of Experiments at, on the Question of the 



Fixation of Free Nitrogen, Dr. J. H. Gilbert, F.R.S., 32 

 Rothney (E. A. J.), Two Species of Indian Ants, 454 

 Roumania, the Meteorological Service of, 444 

 Rousseau (G. ), Manganates of Potash, 288 

 Roy (Prof., F.R.S.), Contributions to the Physiology and 



Pathology of the Mammalian Heart, 451 

 Royal Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, Sir Joseph Fayrer, 



F.R.S., elected Corresponding Member of, 585 

 Royal College of Physicians, Sir Andrew Clark elected (fifth 



time) President, 566 

 Royal Geographical Society, 183 ; Appointment of Mr. J. S. 



Keltie to the Assistant-Secretaryship in room of late Mr. H. 



W. Bates, 402 ; Dr. H. R. Mill appointed Librarian to, 566 

 Royal Institution, Lectures at the, 155, 586 

 Royal Meteorological Society, 95, 215, 335, 431, 551, 623 

 Royal Microscopical Society, 46, 143, 165, 239, 311, 479, 574 

 Royal Military Academy, Science at the, 563 

 Royal Scottish Geographical Society, Branch established in 



London, 544 

 Royal Society, 37, 141, 162, 190, 212, 311, 357, 381, 407, 429, 



451. 549. 573; -'^.nniversary Meeting, no; Sir William 



Thomson's Anniversary Address, no; Medallists, in ; 



Officers and Council, 112; Catalogue of Scientific Papers, 



338 

 Royal Society of New South Wales, 95 ; Prizes Offered by, 



443 ; Award of Clarke Memorial Medal to Mr. W. T. 



Thiselton-Dyer, 495 

 Royal Statistical Society, R. Henry Rew on the Statistics of the 



Production and Consumption of Milk in Great Britain, 614 

 Rubens (Dr.): New Method of Determining Dispersion and 



Refraction in Ultra-Violet Rays, 48 ; the Dispersion of the 



Ultra-Red Rays, 576 

 Rubi, Alpine, T. D. A. Cockerell, 320 

 Riicker (Prof., F.R.S.) : Royal Society Medallist, ill; Speech 



at the Royal Society Dinner, 112 

 Ruffer (Dr. M. Armand), a Treatise on the Ligation of the 



Great Arteries in Continuity, with Observations on the 



Nature, Progress, and Treatment of Aneurism, Charles A. 



Ballance and Walter Edmunds,. 530 

 Rugby School Natural History Society, 520 

 Runge (Prof. C. ), on the Line Spectra of the Elements, 607 

 Russell (F.) Results of Meteorological Observations at Akassa, 



95 



Russell (H. C, F.R.S.), the Grouping of Stars in the Southern 

 Part of the Milky Way, 423 



Russell (H. L.), the Effect of Mechanical Movement on the 

 Growth of Certain Plants, 478 



Russell (Prof. Israel C.) : Cirques, 317 ; Geographical Position 

 of Mount St. Elias, 472 



Russell (J. S. R.), the Abductor and Adductor Fibres of the 

 Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve, 573 



Russell (Lucy J.), Bedford College and the Gresham University, 

 391 



Russell (Hon. Rollo), Untenability of Atmospheric Hypothesis 

 of Epidemics, 431 



Russell (Dr. W. J., F.R.S.) : Town Fogs and their Effects, 10 ; 

 Bedford College and the Gresham University, 391 



Russia : the Grain Production of, Borkovsky, 67 ; Russian 

 Geographical Society, 92 ; Awards, 444 ; European, Fre- 

 quency and Geographical Distribution of Heavy Daily 

 Rainfall in Russia, E. Berg, 258 ; Mercury Mining in, 305 ; 

 Causes of the Famine in. Dr. A. Woeikof, 378 ; Russian Pre- 

 historic Antiquities, the Slavonians of the First Centuries of 

 our Era, Prof. Samokvasoff", 547 ; Sunflower Cultivation in 

 Southern Russia, 568 



Rust Fungus in Wheat, 615 



Rusting of Iron, A. Liversidge, F.R.S., on the, 424. 

 Rutherfurd's Photographs, Catalogue of, 21 



Sabatier (Paul), Sulphides and Selenides of Boron and Silicon 



Selenide, 41 

 Sacken (C. R. Osten), Meretrix, Lamarck 1799, versus Cytherea, 



Lamarck 1806, 30 

 Sadtler (Samuel P.), a Hand-book of Industrial Organic 



Chemistry, 125 

 Saffard (Truman), on the Observation of North Polar Stars in 



the Vertical of Polaris, 159 

 St. Maio Bay, the Tides of, M. Heurtault, 143 

 St. Petersburg Electrical Exhibition, 303 

 St. Thomas's Hospital, Lectures on Systematic Botany at, 586 

 Saline Solutions, Heat Engines and. Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 



438, 510 

 Salmon Industry in British Columbia, 279 

 Salt Lake of Aalia Paakai, A. B. Lyons, 29 

 Salts in Natural Waters, 78 ; F. H. Perry Coste, 176 ; Robert 



B. Hay ward, F.R.S., 176 

 Samoan Cyclone of March 16, 1889, 161 

 Saaioan Hurricane, Everett Hayden, 461 

 Samokvasoff (Prof.) the Slavonians of the First Centuries of our 



Era, 547 

 Sanderson (Prof. J. Burdon, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of Sir 



William Bowman, 564 

 Sandwich Islands, Mr. R. C. L. Perkins Selected to Investigate 



the Zoology of the, 322 

 Sandwich Isles, Ornithology of the. Prof, Alfred Newton, 



F.R.S., 465, 532 ; Albert F. Calvert, 485, 558 ; J. E. 



Harting, 532 

 Sanitary Conference, International, 233 

 Sanitary Engineering, C. Napier Bell on, 426 

 Sanitary Inspectors' Association, New Year's Address, Dr. B. 



W. Richardson, F.R.S., 234 

 Sanitation in Schools, 185 

 Sapper (Dr.), the Climate of Alta Verapaz, 41 

 Sardine, Growth of the Pilchard or, Prof. J. T. Cunningham, 



255 

 Sardinia, the Nurhagi of. Dr. Ermling, 114 

 Sarro Savages, Arrow- Poison of, Laborde and Rondeau, 278 

 Saussaye (P. D. Chantpie de la). Manual of the Science of 



Religion, 148 

 Saville-Kent (W.), Oyster-Culture in Queensland, 66 

 Scandinavia, Chronology of the Neolithic Age in. Prof. 



Montelius, 39 

 Scheele (Carl Wilhelm), Letters and Memoirs of, 207 

 Scheurer-Kestner (M.), Decomposition of Sulphurous Acid by 



Water at very High Temperatures, 384 

 Schimper (A. F. W.), Die indo-malayische Strandflora, W. 



Botting Hemsley, F.R.S., 3 

 Schloesing (Th.j Jun.), the Fixation of Free Nitrogen by Plants, 



143 



Schnauss (Hermann), Photographic Pastimes, a Hand-book 

 for Amateurs, 5 



Schoetensack (Dr. O.), the Nephrite Axe found at Ohlau, 

 Silesia, 379 



Schorlemmer (C, F.R.S.), a Treatise on Chemistry, 509 



Schorr (Dr. R.), Denning's Comet {b 1892), 569 



Schoute (Prof.) : Lemoine's Two Problems of Stamps, 72 ; the 

 Stamp-folding Problem, 335 



Schweizer (Dr.), the Behaviour of Spermatozoa towards Electric 

 Currents, 599 



Science : Electricity in Relation to, Prof. W. Crookes, F.R.S., 

 63 ; Examinations in, 85 ; Elizabeth Thompson Science 

 Fund, 91 ; a Text-book of the Science of Brewing, E. R. 

 Moritz and G. H. Morris, 100 ; Scientific Nomenclature, H. 

 St. A. Alder, 104 ; Manual of the Science of Religion, P. D. 

 Chantpie de la Saussaye, 148 ; Implications of Science, Dr. 

 St. George Mivart, F.R.S., 60, 82, 222, 343; Edward T. 

 Dixon, 125, 272, 391 ; Miss E. E. C. Jones, 223, 366 ; on 

 the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Prof. E. du Bois- 

 Reymond, F.R.S., 200, 224; Science in Japan, Prof. E. 

 Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 256; Royal Society Catalogue of 

 Scientific Papers, 338 ; Science Museum and Gallery of 

 British Art at South Kensington, 348 ; Science Museum and 

 the Tate Gallery, 385, 433 ; Forthcoming Scientific Books, 

 476 ; Science at the Royal Military Academy, 563 ; the New 

 York "Scientific Alliance," 544 ; the Year-book of Science, 

 1891, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 604 



