Supplement to Naiurer^ 

 November 26, 1891 J 



Index 



Stoney (Dr. Johnstone, F.R.S.), on Double Lines in the 



Spectra of Gases, 454 

 Storms, the Formation of, W. H. Dines, 95 

 i Story of the Heavens, Sir Robert Stawell Ball, F.R.S , 589 

 Story-Miskelyne (Prof. N., F.R.S. ). the Koh-iNur, a Criticism, 



than (Dr. S. A. K.), on Instinctive Criminality, 511 



light Hani, a, A. d'Abbadie, 444 



aits Government Scientific Expedition to Pahang, 112 



awl)erry Plants and Climate, 83 

 reatfeild (Frederick William), Practical Work in Organic 



"hemistry, 466 



lomboli, a Recent Eruption of, Prof. A. Ricco, 280 

 : lovant (P.), Personal Equation in Transit Observations, 608 



ychnine and Snake Poison, Antagonistic Action of. Dr. 

 Mueller, 162 

 .studies in Statistics, George Blundell Longstaff, 4 

 ! Sugar-cane from Seeds, the Propagation of, 631 



Imatra : Ethnology of, 68 ; a New Mammal from. Prof. A. 

 K. W. Hubrecht, 468 

 ■pner (Dr. W. E.) : Quadrant Electrometers, 166 ; Alternate 

 Current and Potential Difference Analogies in Methods of 

 ■easuring Power, 237 

 i: Partial Eclipse, June 6, 1891, of, M. Perrotin, 168; 

 Luminous Outburst observed on the Sun, 234 ; Sun's Motion 

 P Space, Miss A. M. Gierke, 572 ; Sun's Radiation of Heat, 

 IV. Goff, 468 ; Observations of Sun-spots and Faculse, M. 

 Marchand, 305 ; Sun, sec also Solar 

 '"' Sunday Society, Mr. J. T. Brunner, M.P., elected President of, 



'35 . , ^ 



Sunday Lecture Society s Programme, 577 

 Sunlight diffused by Sky, Analysis of, A. Crova, 119 

 Sunlight, Radiant, Connection between Terrestrial Magnetism 



and, Prof. F. H. Bigeiow, 453 

 Sunset Phenomena, Variations in, Herr Busch, 599 

 Survey, the Ordnance, 112 



Sutherland (George), Silver Lodes and Salt Lakes, 342 

 Sutherland (Dr. John), Death and Obituary Notice of, 302 

 Swanston (G. J.), Colour Tests used in Examinations for 



Mercantile Marine, 500 

 Switzerland, Fishes of, Victor Fatio, Dr. Albert Giinther, 



F.R.S., 269 

 Sydney Biological Station, 39 



Sydney, Meteorological Observations for January 1891 at, 304 

 Sylvester (Prof. J. J., F.R.S.), Proposed Complete Edition of 



his Mathematical Works, 183 

 Symons (G. J., F.R.S.), Rain-Gauges, 398 

 Syria, North, the Geology and Physical Geography of. Prof. 



Edward Hull, F.R.S., 99 



Tacchini (Prof.); Solar Observations, 453; Distribution in 



Latitude of Solar Phenomena during First Half of 1891, 488 

 Tadpoles, Prof. W. N. Parker on Respiration in, 482 

 Tait (Prof. P. G.): Quaternions and the Ausdehnungslehre, 

 105; the Foundations of the Kinetic Theory of Gases, V., 

 310 ; Some Points in the Physics of Golf, 497 ; on Van der 

 Waals's Treatment of Laplace's Pressure in the Virlal Equa- 

 tion, in answer to Lord Rayleigh, 546, 627 

 Tansky (A. G.), Sleep Movements in Plants, 493 

 Tasman Sea, 371 



Tasmania: Bush Friends in, Mrs. L. A. Meredith, 517; Dis- 

 covery of Stalactite Caves in, Mr. Morton, 576 ; Tasmanian 

 Official Record, 1891, R. M. Johnston, 196 ; Crozet's Voyage 

 to Tasmania in the Years 1771-72, 492 

 Taylor (Dr. C), Elementary Geometry of Conies, 517 

 Taylor (Dr. H. Couplaud), the "Leste," or Hot Wind of 



Madeira, 95 

 Teaching University for London, Proposed, 257 

 Technical Chemistry, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 602 

 Technical Education and County Councils, Sir T. H. Farrer, 

 6 ; J. C. Buckmaster, 588 ; Technical Education in Middlesex, 

 65 ; in Russia, 116 ; the Technical Education of Girls, 185 ; 

 National Association for the Promotion of, 231 ; Lord Har- 

 tington on Technical Education, 234 ; Organizers of Technical 

 Education, 241 ; Technical Education for Farmers, Farriers, 

 and Engine-Drivers, John L. Winter, 320; the Progress of 

 Technical Education, 351 

 Technical and Physical Institution at Berlin, 154 

 Technological Examinations, Programme of, 344 

 Teisserenc de Bort, Destructive Tornado at Dreux, 112 



Telegraph Company, Pacific Postal, Opening of New Telegraph 



Office in San Francisco, 231 

 Telegraphy, W. E. Weber, C. Runge, 272 

 Telephone, Extraordinary, Accidental Paris, 113 

 Telephonic Service, the Paris, 326 ; W. H. Preece, F.R.S., 510 

 Telescope, the, an Introduction to the Study of the Heavens, J. 



W. Williams, 342 

 Telescopic Work for Starlight Evenings, W. F. Denning, 467 

 Temperature, Dry and Moist, and Health, Herr Rubner, 66 

 Temperature in Europe, Normal, M. Lancaster, 437 

 Temperatures, Underground, Henry Becquerel, 632 

 Templeton's British Earthworms, Identification of. Rev. Hilderic 



Friend, 273 

 Tempel- Swift's Comet, Discovery of, 551 

 Teneriffe, the Language of. Marquis of Bute, 511 

 Tensions, the Law of, H. G. Williams, 591 

 Terrestrial Magnetism and Radiant Sunlight, Connection be- 

 tween. Prof. F. H. Bigeiow, 453 

 Texas, Artificial Production of Ram in, 436, 473 ; Prof. George 



E. Curtis, 594 

 Thermo-Electric Positions of Cobalt and Bismuth, Prof. Kno'.t, 



Thermometers, the Testing of, at Berlin, 155 



Thiele (Dr.), New Method of Preparing Azoimide, 601 



Thompson (Dr. Ashburton), on Quarantine in Australasia, 



Theory and Practice, 366 

 Thompson (I. C:.), Copepoda as an Article of Food, 294 

 Thompson (Prof. Silvanus Phillips) : Proposed Fellow of the 



Royal Society, 16; an Optical Illusion, 187; on the Measure- 

 ment of Lenses and on a New Polarizer, 455 

 Thomson (G. M.), en Bees in New Zealand, 19 

 Thomson's (Joseph) Explorations in South Africa, 598 

 Thomson (Prof. J. J., F.R.S.): on Vacuum Tubes, 93, 94; 



Discharge without Electrodes through Gases, 187 

 Thomson (Principal), Olive Gmwing in Australia, 501 

 Thomson (Surgeon- Major), Leprosy Bacillus cultivated in 



Serum by, 161 

 Thomson (Sir William, P.R.S.), on Some Test Cases for the 



Maxwell-Holtzmann Doctrine regarding Distribution of 



Energy, 355 

 Thome (Dr. Thorne), elected Corresponding Member of Royal 



Italian Society of Hygiene, 351 ' 

 Thorpe (Prof. T. E., F.R.S.), a History of Chemistry from the 



Earliest Times to the Present Day, by Prof. Ernst von Meyer, 



289 

 Thursfield (Dr.), on Diphtheria, 369 



Thurston (Kdgar), Report on the Madras Central Museum, 629 

 Tiber, Discovery of an Ancient Roman Helmet in, 476 

 Tibet, the Vegetation of, 260 

 Tillo (General A. de), Magnetic Anomalies, 83 

 Timber Tests, on Government, B. E. Fermor, 471 

 Timofeiew (W.), Specific Heats of some Solutions, 144 

 Tin Resources of Tenasserim, 40 

 Tischler (Dr. Otto), Death of, 280 

 Tisserand (F.), Lunar Inequality of Long Period owing to 



Action of Venus, 263 

 Tiichener (E. B.), Comparative Palatability, 540 

 Tite (G.), Action of Water on Basic Salts of Copper, 336 

 Tizard (Thomas Henry), Proposed Fellow of the Royal Society, 16 

 Tobacco Fermentation, 390 , , ,^ , 



Todhunter (I., F.R.S.), Plane Trigonometry for the Use of 



Colleges and Schools, 342 

 Tokyo Botanical Magazine, 236 

 Tokyo University College of Agriculture, 353 

 Tomlinson Regulator for Electric Light Mains, 45 

 Tondini (M.), Atmospheric Conditions of Greenwich with re- 

 gard to Universal Hour Question, 119 

 Topley (W., F.R.S.), on the Origin of Petroleum, 479 

 Tornado, the Bergen Point, W. A. Eddy, 512 

 Tortoise inclosed in Ice, F. H. Perry Coste, 520 

 Tortoise, Large Duncan Island, 113 ,01 



Toxicology : Antagonistic Action of Strychnine and Snake 



Poison, Dr. Mueller, 162 

 Trachyte, Micaceous, Artificial Production of, 392 

 Transandine Railway Across the Andes, 87 

 Transmission of Power, Electric, J. J. Murphy, 590 

 Traube (Prof.), the New Peroxide of Sulphur, 163 

 Trautschold (H.), Protospirator centrodon, 359 

 Travel, the Business of, W. Eraser Rae, 247 

 Trelease (Dr. William) : the Species of Epilobium occurring 



North of Mexico, 196; Missouri Botanical Gardens, 588 



