SuPpUment to Nature,' 

 Novtmber 26, 1891 



Index 



XXXI 



Koyal Institution, Election of Foreign Honorary Members, 184 



Royal Italian Society of Hygiene, Dr. Thorne Thorne elected 

 Corresponding Member, 351 



Royal Meteorological Institute of Netherlands, 476 



Royal Meteorological Society, 95, 239 ; Commemoration 

 Dinner, 183, 231 



Royal Microscopical Society, 23, 142, 239 



Royal Naval Exhibition, 180 

 ! Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Annual Visitation of the, 87 

 I Royal Sjciety, 22, 92, 117, 139, 165, 189, 212, 236, 260; 

 [J Selected Candidates, 14 ; Soiree, 45 ; Election of Fellows, 

 U 135 ; Conversazione, 187 

 I Royal Society of New South Wales, 263, 311, 560 



Royal Statistical Society, 161 



Royal Veterinary College, Centenary of, 598 



Rubner (Herr), Dry and Moist Tempera.ures and Health, 66 



Runge (C), W. E. Weber, 272 



Russell (Prof.), Excursion to Alaska, 629 



Russell (Hon. R.), Influenza, 302 



Russell (R), Epidemic Influenza, Dr. Richard Sisley, 514 



Russell (Prof. T.), Cold Waves, 165 



Russia: Snow Observations in, Herr Berg, 113; Technical 



Education in, 116; New Russian Meteorological Review, 



I 161 ; Traces of an Inter-glacial Period in Middle, N. 



Irischtafovilch, 232 ; the Northern Limits of the Black- 

 rlh Steppe Region of East, Korzchinsky, 326; Geobota- 

 al Notes on Flora of European, D. 1. Litvinoff", 359 ; 

 xlimatizalion of Plants, &c., in, 388 ; Snowdrifts on Rus- 

 LD Railways, 389 ; Contemplaied Central Agricultural 

 slitute in Russia, 502 ; Russian Geographical Society, 

 Medal Awards, 598 



Sabaneeff (A.), the Molecular Weight of Albumen, 358 



Sabatier (Paul), Silicon Selenide, 311 



Saccardo (Prof.), Royal Morphological Research Prize of 

 10,000 francs awarded by Accademia dei Lincei to, 257 



Safety- Lamps, Apparatus for Testing Sensitiveness of, Prof. 

 Frank Clowes, 260 



St. Clair (George), Buried Cities and Bible Countries, 540 



Salt Lakes, Silver Lodes and, George Sutherland, 342 



Sambon (Dr. Lewis), Measures adopted for the Prevention of 

 Infectious Diseases, and their Relation to our Knowledge of 

 Epidemics, 486 



San Francisco : Opening of the New Office of the Pacific Postal 

 Telegraph Company in, 231 ; Earthquake at, 575 



S-in Salvador, Violent Earthquake in, 475 



Sanderson (Prof. Burdjn, F. R.S.), Tuberculosis in all its Rela- 

 tions, 393 



Sandpiper, the Green, the Duke of Argyll, F.R.S., 274 



Sands, the Production of Musical Notes from Non-Musical, 

 Cecil Carus Wilson, 322 



Sanitary Association of Scotland, 527 



Sargant (E. B.) and Bernhard Wishaw, a Guide-Book to Books, 

 196 



Sars (G. 0.), Pycnogonidea, 49 



Satellite, Jupiter's First, 631 



Savage Religion, Dr. E. B. Tylor, F.R.S., on, 511 



Savelief (R.), Determination of Solar Constant, 119 



Scandinavian Chalk, Fossil Fish of the, 117 



Schaeberle (Dr. J. M.), the Solar Corona, 300 



Scheiner (Dr.), Photographic Magnitudes of Stars, 526 



Scherren (Henry), Cordylophota lacuslris, 445 



Schlich (William), a Manual of Forestry, Sir D. Brandis, 

 F.R.S., 265 



Schobben's (Dr.) Lantern Stereoscope, 142 



Schomburgk (Dr. Richard), Death of, 65 



S jhools, Defective Veniilaiion in American, Laurence Allen, 476 



Schools, Natural History in Public, Rev. T. A. Preston, 137 



Schools of Science and Art, Existing, Oliver S. Dawson, 547 



Schulhof (M.), the Capture Theory of Comets, 209 



Schutzenberger (P.), Volatility of Nickel under Influence of 

 Hydrochloric Acid, 336 



Science and Art Department : and County Councils, 17 ; Be- 

 quest to, 17 ; Alterations in the Science and Art Department 

 Directory, 40 



Science and Art, the Existing Schools of, Oliver S. Dawson, 547 



Science and Domestic Comfort in United States; 354 



Science : Elementary Science Lessons, W. Hewitt, 444 ; Forth- 

 coming Scientific Books, 462 ; American Association for the 

 Advancement of, 469 ; Blackie's Science Readers, 540 



Science, the Fairyland Tales of. Rev. J. G. McPherson, 5 



Science Museum, 63 



Science Museum and Gallery of British Art at South Kensing- 

 ton, 37 



Science or Romance, Rev. John Gerard, S.J., Prof. R. Meldola, 

 F.R.S., 441 



Sclater(Dr. P. L., F.R.S.) : Porpoises in the Victoria Nyanza, 

 124; the Australian Marsupial Mole, Notorycles typhlops, 

 449 ; the Bird-Collections in the Oxford University Museum, 

 518 



Sclater's (W. L.) Projected Collecting Expedition to Upper 

 Assam, 598 



Scorpions at the Zoological Gardens, 163 ; R. I. Pocock, 198 



Scotland : Secondary Education in, 161 ; Proposed Informal 

 Congress at Edinburgh on Scottish Higher Education, 258 ; 

 Scottish Meteorol )gical Society, 280 ; Rock-sculptures in 

 Scotland, Sir Herbert Maxwell, 350 ; Technical Education 



in. 549 

 Scoit (Dr. D. II.), Obituary Notice of Carl Wilhelm von 



Niigeli, 580 

 Scott-Elliot (G. F.), Flowers and Insects, 488 

 Screw-propellers: Major R. de Villamil on, 510; Beaumont 



on, 510 

 Scudder (Samuel H.), the Fossil Insects of North America, 



Notes on some European Species, R. Lydekker, i 

 Sea, Occurrence of the Ringed Snake in the, J. Cowper, 541 

 Sea, Prince of Monaco's New Yacht for Study of, 359 

 Sea-lion at Brighton Aquarium, Birth of, 185 

 Sea-sickness, Dr. Thomas Dutton on, 19 

 Sea-spiders, 49 

 Sea-water, Meaiurement of Density of, Vice-Admiral MakarofF, 



359 ^ . 



Seasonal Growth, RedupHcation of. Dr. A. Irvmg, 371 

 Seaton (Dr. Edward), on Diphtheria, 368 

 Secondary Generator, Messrs. Gaulard and Gibbs, 523 

 Sederholm (J. J.), the Rapakiwi, 548 

 Sedgwick (Prof. A., F.R.S.), an Oviparous Species of Peripatus, 



494 

 Seeley (Prof. H. G., F.R.S.), Researches on the Structure of 



Pareiasaurus, 93 

 Seemann (Captain C. H.), on European Weather Charts, 41 

 Seismology : Earthquake near St. Paul's Rocks in the Atlantic 



Ocean, 41 ; Transactions of Seismological Society of Japan, 



67 ; the Earthquake of June 7, Prof. A. Riggenbach-Burck- 



hardt, 151 ; the Recent Earthquakes in Italy, Prof. J. P. 



O'Reilly, 293; the Eruption of Vesuvius, June 7, 1891, Dr. 



H. J. Johnsion-Lavis, 160, 320, 352 ; Earthquake at Bourne 



mouih, Henry Cecil, 614 

 Sel borne Society's Magazine, 326 

 Sella (Alfonso), Magnetic Anomalies, 249 

 Sennett (G. B.), Water-birds that Live in the Wojds, 529 

 Sergueyeff (S.), Le Sommeil et le Systeme Nerveux, 444 

 Severe Winters, Weather Cycles and, 591 

 Sewage, Disposal of, C. G. Moor, 456 

 Sewerage, G. Chalterton, 509 



Shaler (N. S.), Antiquity of the Last Glacial Period, 529 

 Shan Sia'es, Manners and Customs of, W. R. Hillier, 137 

 Shark, the Basking, in New Zealand Waters, T. F. Cheese- 

 man, 576 

 Shaw (William Napier) : Proposed Fellow of the Royal Society, 



l6 ; on some Measurements with the Pneumatic Bridge, 94 

 Sheep, Asiatic Wild, Specimens of, at the British Museum, 40 

 Sheldon (Mrs. French), on East Africa, 508 

 Shepheard (Thomas), Cor Jylophora lacuslris, 151 

 Sherborn's (C. D.) Index Generum et Specierum Animalium, 



207 

 Sherlock (Rev. T. Travers), Force and Determinism, 320 

 Shipley (A. E.), Orange Disease in Cyprus, 528 

 Shooting-stars, Theory of, M. Callandreau, 168 

 Shufeldt (Dr. R. W.), the Anatomy of the Heloderma, 294 

 Siani, Proposed University in, 323 

 Sibley (George), Death of, 629 

 Siemens (Sir W ), Proposal to Utilize the Power wasted in the 



Falls of Niagara. 521 

 Signalling, Mr. C. E. Kelway's Apparatus for Marine and 



General Electrical, 575 

 Silicon Chlorotribromide, 19 

 Silurian and Devonian Rocks of Pembrokeshire, Dr. Hicks, 



F.R.S., 480 

 Silver, Allotropic, M. Carey Lea, 584 

 Silver, Blue, M. C. Lea, 189 



