Supplement to Nature.'\ 

 June 2, 1892 J 



Index 



XXXI 



Sclater (Dr. P. L., F.R.S.), Opportunity for a Naturalist, 174, 



269 

 Sclater (W. L.), Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum, 



Calcutta, 50 

 Scotland, the Ninth Annual Report of the Fishery Board for, 



49 



Scotland, Technical Education in, 377 



Scott (Ernest), Electricity in Relation to Mining, 184 



Scott (Robt. \\., F.R.S.): Supernumerary Rainbows observed in 

 the Orkneys, 223 ; Atlantic Weather and its connection with 

 British Weather, 496 



Scottish Meteorological Society, 470 



Scottish Zoology, Prof. Cossar Ewart on, 17 



Scripture (E. W.), the Study of Psychology as a Science in the 

 United States, 568 



Scudder (F.), Action of Water Gas on Iron, 92 



Sea, Cloud-Observations at, Prof. C. Abbe, 70 



Sea-borne Sediment, the Precipitation and Deposition of, R. G. 

 Mackley Browne, 598 



Sea-Fish, Destruction of Immature, Alfred O. Walker, 176 ; 

 Ernest W. L. Holt, 240 



Sea-Serpent, D*;. A. C. Oudemans on the, 614 



Sea-shore, Wood, and Moorland, By, Edward Step, 28 



Seabroke (Geo. M.), Aurora, 605 



Search Light, Working of the, W. B. Lefroy Hamilton, 587 



Searle (G. F. C), an Experiment of Sir Humphry Davy's, 47 



Seaside Plants, Biology of, W. Botting Hemsley, F.R.S., 3 



Secular Acceleration of the Moon and the Length of the Sidereal 

 Day, 137 



Secular Variation of Latitudes, 210 



Seebohm (H.), White's Thrush (Turdtis varius), 479 



Seemann (Herr), a Weather Lexicon, 208 



Segers (M.), Mussel-Poisoning in Tierra del Fuego, 134 



Seismometry and Engineering in Relation to the Recent Earth- 

 quake in Japan, Prof. John Milne, F.R.S., 127 



Seismology : Earthquake at Nipon, Japan, 19 ; Earthquake in 

 Japan, 86, 199; Seismology in Japan, 471; Seismological 

 Phenomena in Australasia, 423 ; Earthquake at Nicaragua, 

 471 ; at Portland, Oregon, 586 ; Earthquake in California, 

 471, 614 (see also Earthquakes) 



Selection, Topical, and Mimicry, David Syme, 30 ; Dr. Alfred 

 R. Wallace, 30 



Selective and Metallic Reflection, A. B. Basset, F.R.S., 119 



Self-registering Weathercock, J. Lawrence Hamilton, 559 



Sellers (Coleman), American Superiority in Mechanics, 157 



Sendall's (Sir W. J. ) Apparatus tor making Accurate Measure- 

 ments with Camera Lucida, 46 



Sensitive Water Jets, W. B. Croft, 606 



Shaler (Prof. N. S.), Nature and Man in North America, 220 



Shark, Large Greenland, Stranded at Lynn, T. Southwell, 546 



Sharp (Dr.), on the Phyllium, 623 



Shaw ( Jas. ), Peculiar Eyes, 104 



Sheep, Origin of the, in China, Dr. Macgowan, 285 



Sherman (O. T.), Zodiacal Light, 381 



Sherwood (William), Striated Surface under the Cromer Drift, 

 5" 



Shields, Ancient Mexican, Zelia Nuttall, 520 



Shipbuilding : the Steadying of Vessels at Sea, J. T. Thorny- 

 croft, 570 ; the Influence of Shallow Water upon the Trial 

 Trip Speeds of Modern Vessels, W. H. White, F.R.S., 571 ; 

 on Balancing Marine Engines and the Vibration of Vessels, 

 A. F. Yarrow, 571 



Ships, Rolling of, 559 



Shipley (A. E. ), Onchnesoma Steenstrupii, 450 



Shore (Dr.), Action of Lymph in Producing Intravascular 

 Clotting, 455 



Shufeldt (Dr.) : Prints of Havesu-pai Indians, 235 ; Weaving as 

 Practised by the Navajo Indians, 260 



Sidereal Day, the Secular Acceleration of the Moon and the 

 Length of the, 137 



Sidgreaves (Rev. Walter), Stonyhurst Drawings of Sun-spots and 

 Faculse, 261 



Siemens and Halske, Experiments on the Production of Ozone 

 by Electric Silent Discharge, 39 



Sierra Leone Anglo-French Frontier Delimitation Commission, 

 the, 64 ; Government Mission to Investigate Botany of, 64 



Sight, Motion of Stars in the Line of. Prof. H. C. Vogel, 280 



Sight-singing from the Established Musical Notation, a System 

 of, based on the Principle of Tonic Relation, Sedley Taylor, 

 437 



Silk Insects of India, the Wild, E. C. Cotes, 520 



Silk-producing Moths, Col. Swinhoe, 38 



Simla, Capt. Bower's Journey from China to, 615 



Sinclair (F. G.), a New Mode of Respiration in the Myriapoda, 



164 

 Singer (Dr.), Cloud Pictures, 518 

 Sirius System, the. Dr. A. Auwers, 617 



Sisley (R.), a Study of Influenza and the Laws of England con- 

 cerning Infectious Diseases, 556 

 Skate, the Electric Organ of the, Prof. J. G. Ewart, 451 

 Skinner (S.), Some Notes on Clark's Cells, 47 ; Properties of 

 Alcoholic and other Solutions of Mercuric and other 

 Chlorides, 430 

 Skua in Shetland, the Great, W. E. Clarke, 545 

 Slater (Chas.), the Differentiation of Leprosy and Tubercle 



Bacilli, 450 

 Slater's (Prof. J. S.) Improved Armillary Sphere, 134 

 Slavonians of the First Centuries of our Era, the, Prof. 



Samokvasoff, 547 

 Sleep : Causation of. Jamas Cappie, M.D., 26 ; Peculiar Case 



of Prolonged, 323, 349 

 Smart (William), an Introduction to the Theory of Value, 268 

 Smith (Charles), Arithmetic for Schools, 247 

 Smith (Fred. J.), a Simple Heat-Engine, 294, 464 

 Smith (W. W.), Hellebore as an Insecticide, 546 

 Smithells (A.) : Structure and Chemistry of Flames, 214; Struc- 

 ture of Luminous Flames, 214 

 Smithells (Prof.), Origin of Flame Coloration, 306 

 Smithsonian Institution : Gift by Mr. Thomas Hodgkins to, 37 ; 



Prof. S. P. Langley's Report for the Year, 261 

 Smithsonian Standards for Physical Apparatus, Prof. S. P. 



Langley, 197 

 Snakes in the Indian Museum, List of the, W. L. Sclater, 317 

 Snow-Sweeper, Electric, 39 

 Snowstorms, Severe, in the Channel Islands and South of 



England, 586 

 Societe de Biologic, Prof. A. Chauveau elected President of the, 



612 

 Society of Arts, Lecture Arrangements, 19 

 Solar Activity, State of. Prof Tacchini, 137 

 Solar Activity in 1891, Rodolf Wolf, 307 

 Solar Disturbances of 1891, June 17, H. H. Turner, 404 

 Solar Heat, Dr. Joseph Morrison, 589 

 Solar Investigation, Prof. Hale, 473 

 Solar Observations, Prof. Tacchini, M. Marchand, 352 

 Solar Parallax, Determination of the, A. Auwers, 89 

 Solar Prominences : Measurement of, M. Fizeau, 422 ; Photo- 

 graphy of. Prof. G. E. Hale, 326 ; M. Deslandres, 404, 

 522 

 Sollas (Prof., F.R.S.), the Basal Conglomerate of Howth, 455 

 Solomon Islands, Collection of Dried Plants from the, 586 

 Solutions : Prof. W. Ostwald, 193, 293, 415, 606 ; J. W. Rod- 

 ger, 487, 342 

 Somaliland, Skin of Grevy's Zebra brought from, 598 

 Sorby (Dr.), True Relation of Technical Education to Study of 



Pure Science, 38 



Sound, a Lecture Expeiiment on, Reginald G. Durrant, 415 



South America : Adventures amidst the Equatorial Forests and 



Rivers of, Villiers Stuart, 317; Sporting Sketches in. 



Admiral Kennedy, 390 ; Aberrant Fossil Ungulates of, 608 



South Kensington, the Science Museum and Gallery of British 



Art at, 348 

 South- West, Grasses of the, Dr. George Vasey, 390 

 I Southwell (T.), Large Greenland Shark Stranded at Lynn, 546 

 ; Sowerby (William), Intermediate Forms of Azaleas, 519 

 Spanish Quatercentenary Exhibition of Discovery of America, 



Projected, 64 

 Sparrows and Crocuses, B. McLachlan, F. R. S. , 441 

 Spectrum Analysis : Dr. Miiller on the Telluric Spectrum, 21 ; 

 Note on the Chromosphere Spectrum, Prof. C. A. Young, 28 ; 

 the Chromosphere Line Angstrom 6676 '9, 103 ; the Chromo- 

 sphere Line K 6676 9, Prof. C. A. Young, 198; New Method 

 of Determining Dispersion and Refraction in Ultra-Violet 

 Rays, Dr. Rubens, 48 ; Spectra of the Sun and Metals, F. 

 McClean, 159 ; Analysis of Spectrum of Sodium, Dr. G. J. 

 Stoney, F.R.S., 166; Stars having Peculiar Spectra, Prof. 

 Pickering, 210 ; a New Spectrometer, C. F"ery, 239; Spec- 

 trum of Iron and the Periodic Law, John Parry, 253 ; Colour 

 and Spectrum of Free Gaseous Fluorine, M. Moissan, 260 ; 

 Observations of the Spectrum of Nova Aurigae, 345 ; Dr. 



