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Index 



V Supplement to Natut 

 L December i, 1892 



Rubens (H.), Refraction of Rays of Great Wave-length in Rock 



Salt, Sylvine and Fluorspar, 483 

 Riicker (Prof., F.R.S.), the Discussion on a National Physical 



Laboratory, 383 ; on the Specific Conductivity of Thin Films, 



384 

 Rudge (W. A.), a Viper Bite, 270 



Rufter (Armand), the Imperial Institute at St. Petersburg, 520 

 Ruhmkorfif Coil, Experiments with a, Magnus Maclean and A. 



Gait, 384 

 Rumex occurring North of Mexico, Revision of the Species of, 



W. Trelease, 40 

 Runge (Prof. C), the Line Spectra of the Elements, 100, 200, 



247 

 Russell (Francis C), Induction and Deduction, 586 

 Russell (H. C), Photographic Chart of the Heavens, 576; 



Proposed School of Practical Astronomy, 496 

 Russell (Hon. Rollo), Epidemics, Plagues and Fevers, their 



Causes and Prevention, 413 

 Russia, Mercury Mining in, 86 



Russian Monthly Meteorological Bulletins, Two New, 38 

 Rutherfurd (Lewis Morris), Obituary Notice of, 206 

 Rutherford (Prof. William, F.R.S.), Opening Address in 



Section D of the British Association, 342 

 Rutherfurd Measures of Stars about ^ Cygni, Harold Jacoby, 



619 



Sabatier (Prof. Armand), Essai sur la Vie and la Mort, 560 



Saccharine, Ants and, H. Devaux, 573 



Saharian Climate, Contributions to Knowledge of, G. Rolland, 



144 

 St. Andrews Marine Laboratory, 369 

 St. Bernard, Great, Table showing Behaviour with regard to 



Cold of Small Lake at, Prof. Forel, 371 

 St. Gervais les Bains, Terrible Glacier Slip Disaster at, 254 ; 



Theories of the Cause of. Profs. Duparc and Forel, 299 ; Causes 



of, 420 ; the Lava of July 12, 1892, P. Demontzey, 387 

 St. John's, the Cause of the Great Fire at, 295 

 St. Petersburg : Bulletin de I'Academie des Sciences de St. 



Petersbourg, 68 ; Memoirs of St. Petersburg Society of 



Naturalists, 68 ; Dr. A. F. Batalin appointed Director of 



Botanic Garden at, 107 ; the Imperial Institute at, Armand 



Ruffer, 520 ; Laying Foundation Stone of New Chemical 



Laboratory of St. Petersburg University, 592 

 St. Vincent, Peripatus from, K. I. Pocock, 100 

 Sakurai (J.), Determination of Temperature of Steam from 



Boiling Salt Solutions, 94 ; Note on an Observation by 



Gerlach of the Boiling-points of a Solution of Glauber's 



Salt, 94 

 Sal-Soda Manufacture in United States, Prof. C. F. Mabery, 



332 

 Salamander, on the Relationships and R&le of the Archoplasmic 



Body during Mitosis in the Larval, J. E. S. Moore, 404 

 Salet (G.), Stokes's Law (Spectrum Analysis), its Verification 



and Interpretation, 364 

 Salmon Fungus, the Effect of Sea-water on the Vitality of the, 



A. P. Swan, 405 

 Salomons (Sir David), Optical Projection, 625 

 Samoan Calendar, Change in, 552 



Samson (G. Gordon) Bees for Pleasure and Profit, W. Tuck- 

 well, 510 

 Sand, Musical, T. S. Hall, 279 ; C. Carus-Wilson on, 44, 316 

 Sanderling, Range of the, in Winter, Prof. Alfred Newton, 



F.R.S., 177, 222 

 Sanderson (Dr. J. S. B.), appointed Waynflete Professor of 



Physiology at Oxford, 37 

 Sangir, Volcanic Eruption at Great, 287 ; George Ormsby, 457 

 Sanitation, French and English Methods Compared, Dr. B. W. 



Richardson, 299 

 Sanitation, the Victorian Era, the Age of, Sir Charles Cameron, 



472 

 Sanitary Inspectors' Association, General Meeting, 299 

 Sanitary Institute, the Thirteenth Congress of the, 449 ; Sanitary 



Institute and its Transactions in Review, 463 ; Sir Charles 



Cameron's Presidential Address, 472 

 Saniter (E.), the Elimination of Sulphur from Iron, 527 

 Sanscrit Birch-bark Manuscripts, Discovery by Lieut" Bower of. 



Dr. Hoerale, 370 



Sarasin (M.), Production of Hertz Oscillator Spark in Liquid 



Dielectric instead of Air, 532 

 Satellite, Jupiter's Fifth, Prof. E. E. Barnard, 620 

 Saturn's Kings, M. Bigourdan, iio; Rev. A. Freeman, 150 

 Saville-Kent (W.), Photographs, &c.. Illustrating Coral Reefs 



and Marine Fauna of Great Barrier District of Australia, 45 ; 



the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, 523 

 Saw Fish, New South Wales, Fine Specimen of, Mr. Pedley, 



257 



Scacchi (Prof. E.), the Crystallography of Certain New Salts 

 (Fluoximolybdates of Copper and Zinc) obtained by Prof. F. 

 Mauro, 162 



Scale for Measurement of Gas Pressures, Orme Masson, 294 



Schaeberle (J. M.), Photographic Magnitudes of Nova Aurig.T. 

 423 ; a New Variable Star, 620 



Scharff (R. F.), Land and Freshwater Shells peculiar to tli- 

 British Isles, 173 



Scherren (Henry), a New Habitat for Cladonema, 541 



Schlichter (Dr. H.), the Pygmies of Africa, 135; Determinatioi 

 of Longitude by Photography, 407 



Schmitz (Prof. F.), Tubercles on the Thallus of Cystoclonim, 

 purpurascens and other Red Seaweeds, 555 



Schonland (Dr. S.), Zebra's Stripes, 6 



Schorlemmer (Dr. Carl, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of. Sir H. K. 

 Roscoe, F.R.S., 394 



Schultz (Gustav) und Paul Julius, Tabellarische Uebersicht 

 der klinstlichen organischen Farbstoffe, R. Meldola, 313 



Schur (Prof. Wilhelm), the ObservationsofKlinkerfues reduced, 

 452 



Schuster (Arthur), a Treatise on Physical Optics, A. B. 

 Basset, F.R.S.,266 



Schuster (Prof. Arthur, F.R.S.), Opening Address in Section A 

 of the British Association, 323 ; on Primary and Secondary 

 Cells in which the Electrolyte is a Gas, 384 



Schutzenberger (P.), Contribution to History of Silico-Carbon 

 Compounds, 96 



Schwalbe (Dr.), Observations, based on Synoptic Weather- 

 Charts, on Anomalies of Temperature in Germany, 120 



Schwatka's (Mr.) Yukon Expedition, 180 



Science: the Grammar of Science, 221 ; Prof. Karl Pearson, 

 97, 199, 247 ; Edward T. Dixon, 269 ; Dr. St. George 

 Mivart, F. R.S., 269 ; Science in America, the Walker Prize 

 awarded to Prof. J. D. Dana, 158 ; the Threshold of 

 Science, C. R. Alder Wright, F.R.S., 173; Popular Read- 

 ings in Science, John Gall and David Robertson, 291 ; 

 Scientific Investigation of the Scottish Fishery Board, 395 ; 

 Science and the State, Right Hon. T. H. Huxley, F.R.S., 

 416 ; the American Association and Science in the United 

 States, W. Kent, 494 ; a Century of Scientific Work, 504 ; 

 Forthcoming Scientific Books, 505 



Scotland : Stag Smothered by Snow last Winter in, 228 ; the 

 Birds of Sutherland and Caithness, T. E. Buckley, 279 ; 

 Scottish Geographical Magazine, 302 ; Scientific Investigation 

 of the Scottish Fishery Board, 395 ; a Sketch of the Scotch 

 Fisheries, chiefly in their Scientitic Aspects, during the Past 

 Decade 1882-92, Prof. Mcintosh, F.R.S., 404; on the 

 Discovery of the Common Occurrence of Palseolithic Weapons 

 in Scotland, Rev. Frederick Smith, 432 



Scott (Dr.) Observations on Secondary Tissues in Monocoty- 

 ledons, 554 



Scott (Prof.), Cancer in Fish, 573 



Scott (Robert H., F.R.S.), Ice in the South Atlantic, 173 

 Whirlwinds in the Indian Ocean, 294 



Scovell (J. T.), Measurement of Mount Orizaba by, 598 



Scudder (S. H.), the Tertiary Rhynchophora of North America, 

 256 



Sea, Dust Storms at, Prof. John Milne, F.R.S., 128 



Sea Fisheries, Prof. Ewart, 405 



Sea-gauges : Necessary Additive Correction for Sea-swell, J. 

 Boussinesq, 288 ; Necessary Additive Correction for a Choppy 

 Sea, J. Boussinesq, 312 



Sea-water, Varying Colours of the Mediterranean, 84 



Sea-water, the Effect of, on the Vitality of the Salmon Fungus, 

 A, P. Swan, 405 



Searle (G. F. C), a Compound Magnetometer for testing 

 Magnetic Properties of Iron and Steel, 143 



Secondary Tissues in Monocotyledons, Observations on. Dr. 

 Scott and Mr. Brebner, 554 



Seddall (late Rev, H,), Byssus Silk Industry at Malta, 229 



