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Index 



V Sitpphfiietit to Natiife, 

 \_ November 30. 1893 



Secular Variations of our Rainfall, on, 367 



Seismology: Seismology in Japan, Prof. John Perry, F.R. S. , 

 136; the Earthquake in Baluchislan, 340; the Annual and 

 Semi-Annual Seismic Periods, Charles Davison. 359 ; Erd- 

 bebenkunde, Dr. Rudolf Hoernes, 363 ; Etude sur lesTrem- 

 blements de Terre, Leon Vinot, 363 : the Cause of the Great 

 Earthquake in Central Japan, 1891, Prof. B. Koto, 398 



Selborne Society, the, 36 



Selection, Natural, the All-sufficiency of, Prof. A. Weismann, 



443 

 Selenite in Utah, Dr. Talmage, 286 

 Selous (F. C), Return to Mashonalond of, 426 

 Semaphore-Signalling, Statue to Claud Chappe, Inventor of, 



297 

 Semper (Dr. Carl), Death of, 131 ; Obituary Notice of. Dr. J. 



Beard, 271 

 Sensitive Spherometer, Dr. A. A. Common, F.R.S., 396 

 Serpent d'Eauofthe Rhone at Geneva, the, H. Saye, 584 

 Serpent's Tongue, the, W. H. Hudson, 350 

 Sexual Colouration of Birds, F. C. Headley, 413 

 Shadbolt (W. P.), Artificial Horizon, 510 

 Shafarik (D. A.) on Specula for Reflecting Telescopes, 528 

 Shakespeare's Russet-pa'.ed Choughs, the Identity o(, J. E. 



Harting, 445 

 Sharp (Dr. D., F. R.S.), the Sound-producing Organs of Ants, 



64 

 Sharp (David), Zoology of the Sandwich Islands, 574 

 Sharpe (R. Bowdler), an Analytical Index to the Works of the 



late John Gould, F. RS., 100 

 Sharpe (T. A.), What becomes of the Aphis in the Winter? 



77 



Sheldon (Prof.), the Future of British Agriculture, 174 



Shell-bearing Clays of Clava in Nairn, Investigation into the, 

 Dugald Bell, 532 



Shenslone (W. A.), Apparatus for Studying Action of Electric 

 Discharge on Oxyen, 159 ; Formation of Ozone (ii.), 190 



Sherrington (Dr. C. S.), Correlation of Action of Antagonistic 

 Muscles, 141 



Shields (John), the Variations of Surface Energy with Tempera- 

 ture, 21 ; Boiling and Melting Points of Nitrous Oxide, 22 



Shipley (Arthur O.), Zoology of the Invertebrata, 173 



Siberia, Northern, the Kara Sea Route to, 380 



Siebert (Dr.), a Method of Preparing Nitrites in a State of 

 Purity, 39 



Silver and its Haloid Compounds, Electrical ^Action of Light 

 upon, Col. Waterhouse, 423 



Sime (John), Sir Francis Ronald's Experiments in Electric 

 Telegraphy, 325 



Simonoff (Dr.), a Simple Optical Photometer, 12 



Simplified Multiplication, Lieut.-Col. Allan Cunningham, 316 



Simpson (W. S.), Method of Preserving Water-colour Draw- 

 ings, 297 



Sinaitic Peninsula, the. Prof. Sayce, 301 



Skate, the Electric Organ of the, J. C. Ewart, 93 



Skertchly (Sydney B. J.), the Cold Wave at Hong Kong, 

 January, 1893, its After-Eflects, 3 



Slickensides, J. Allen Howe, 315 



Small (Mr.), the Igneous Rocks of South Pembrokeshire, 532 



Smith (Rev. F. J.), Inductoscript, 64; a Periodic Mercury 

 Pump, 320 



Smith (H. IL, and G. W.), Botanical Exploration of St. Vin- 

 cent, 544 



Smithell's (Prof.) Experiments to Demonstrate Structure of 

 Flames, 64 



Smithson (T. Spencer), the Definition of Heredity, 413 



Smithsonian Institution Documents, Prof. Cleveland Abbe, 6 



Smithsonian Report for Year ending 1892, 184 



Smithsonian Institution : Bolton's Select Bibliography of 

 Chemistry, 446 



Smithsonian Institution : Hodgkins Fund Prizes, Prof. S. P. 

 Langley, 6i8 



Smokes of Paris, M. Foubert's Map of, M. Delahaye, 78 



Smyth (B. B.), Difficulty of Determining Plants by Local 

 Names, 37 



Snakes : Cobras Attracted by Remains of Dead Cobra, 79 



Snakes, Catalogue of the, in the British Museum, George 

 Albert Boulenger, W. T. Blanford, F.R.S., 313 



Snell (A. B.), Water Power as a Source of Electricity, 557 



Snow Crystals, the Inner Structure of, G. Nordenskiold, 592 



Snowballs, Fall of, in Saxony, Dr. Paul Schreiber, II 



Soaring of Hawk, F. C. Constable, 223 



Societe d' Encouragement pour I'lndustrie Nationale : Prize 



Awards, 569 

 Societies' Club, Proposed Learned, 322 

 Society of Chemical Industry, Sir John Evans, Treas. R. S., 



279 

 Soil in Relation to Health, the, H. A. Miers and R. Crosskey, 



196 

 Solanum, Insects Attracted by. Prof. J. D. A. Cockerell, 438 

 Solar Climates, Geological and, their Causes and Variation, 



Marsden Manson, 588 

 Solar Eclipse, Total (April, 1893), 40; Prof. T. E. Thorpe, 



F.R.S., S3 ; M. Deslandres, 81 ; M. N. Coculesco, 135 

 Solar Eclipses, Total, 355 

 Solar and Lunar Ephemeris for Turin, 548 

 Solar Observations at the Royal College, Rome, Prof. Tacchini, 



158 

 Solar Radiation, Report of the Committee on, 525 

 Sollas(Prof. W. J., F.R.S.), the Granophyre of the Carling- 

 ford and Morne Mountains, 109 ; the Igneous Rocks of 

 Barnavave, Carlingford, 532 ; the Esker Systems of Ireland, 

 533 ; Coral Reefs, 575 

 Soot-Figures on Ceilings, Dr. A. Irving, 29 ; Dr. Hugh 

 Robert Mill, 29 ; Lieut.-Col. Allan Cunningham, 29 ; E. B. 

 Poulton, F. R.S., 29 ; J. Edmund Clark, 77 

 Soret (M.j, the Rotatory Power of Quartz at Low Tempera- 

 tures, 230 

 South Polar Cap of Mars, Prof. George Comstock, 15, 

 Space, the Sun's Motion through, 208 

 Spain, Afterglows in. Prof. Augusto Arcimis, 29 

 Spangoiite, a Remarkable Cornish Mineral, H. A. Miers, 426 

 Spearman (E. R.) Criminals and their Detection, 249 

 Specific Energies of the Organism, the, J. S. Burdon Sanderson, 



F.R.S., 467 

 Spectrum Analysis : Method of Obtaining Determination of 

 Refractive Index of Atmosphere for Every Portion of Photo- 

 graphic Spectrum, Messrs. Kayser and Runge, 60 ; Atomic 

 Refraction of Nitrogen, Prof. Biiihe, 60 ; Spectra of Flam* 

 from Bessemer Converter, Prof W^ N. Hartley, F. R.S., 64 ; 

 Cause of Luminosity of Heated Gases, Dr. Pringsheim, 144 ; 

 Geometrical Construction of Oxygen Absorption Lines and 

 Solar Spectrum, Geo. Higgs, 164 ; Oxyhydrogen Blowpipe 

 Spectra, W. N. Hartley, F. K.S., 165 ; Stars having Peculiar 

 Spectra, 208; Stars with Remarkable Spectra, T. E. Espin, 

 233 ; the Corona Spectrum, J. Evershed, 268 ; Changes in 

 the Spectrum of /3 Lyrje, 301 ; the Spectrum of the Rordame- 

 Quenisset Comet, Prof. Campbell, 379; Nova (T) Auriga 

 Spectrum, W. W. Campbell, 524 ; Periodical Maxima of 

 Spectra, M. Aymonnet, 536 

 Spee (M.), the Lunar Atmosphere, 62 

 ' Speech-Production, the Methods of, Profs, von Helmholtz and 

 Frsenkel, 407 

 Specula for Reflecting Telescopes, on. Dr. A. Shafarik, 528 

 Spherometer, a Sensitive, Dr. A. A. Common, F.R.S., 396 

 Spitaler (Dr. Rudolf) Observations of Nebulae, 184 

 Spontaneous Combustion, Prof Vivian B. Lewes, 626 

 Sprigge (Dr. S. S. ), the Poioning of the Future, 250 

 Spring, the Early, 011893, W. B. Crump, 414 

 Spring and Autumn of 1893, Right Hon. Sir Edward Fry, 



F.R.S., 509 

 Stagnitta-Balestreri, Micro-Organisms producing Sulphuretted 



Hydrogen, 352 

 Stainton Collection of Lepidoptera, Lord Walsingham, 322 

 Stairs (Capt.), Katanga Expedition, Dr. Moloney, 135 

 Starch of the Chlorophyll Granule and the Chemical Processes 

 involved in its Dissolution and Translocation, Horace T. 

 Brown ,F.R.S., 576 

 Stars : Variable Star Nomenclature, 81 ; Variable Stars, 301 r 

 the Star y Cygni, Prof. N. C. Duner, 301 ; New Variable 

 Stars in Cygnus, Herr Fr. Deichmiiller, 573 ; Stars having 

 Peculiar Spectra, 208 ; Stars with Remarkable Spectra, T. E. 

 Espin, 233 ; Grouping of Stars into Constellations, 370 ; At- 

 mospheric Refraction and Star Photographs, Prof. A. A. 

 Rambaut, 379 ; Origin of New Stars, Prof A. W. Bicker- 

 ton, 379; Prof. Hoffmann, 402 ; Double Star Measures, 512 ;. 

 Shooting Stars of August, 1893, P. F. Denza, 535 ; the Scin- 

 tillation of Stars, M. Dufour, 600 ; David Wilson Barker, 

 614 

 Statue of Arago, a New, 223 

 Stead (J. E.), the Elimination of Sulphur from Iron and Steel,. 



"3 

 Steam, Electrolysis of, J, J. Thomson, F.R.S., 70 



