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Index 



[Supplement to Nature. 

 December i, 1892 



Sponge Deposits discovered near Pantelleria, 474 



Spot, the Red, on Jupiter, J. J. Landerer, 229 ; W. F. Denning, 



391 

 Spotted Woodpecker, the Lesser, Albert C. Mott, 77 

 Sprawson (F. C), Pigment Cells of Retina, 339 

 Spring (W.), Formation of Trithionate by action of Sodine on 



mixture of Sulphite and Thiosulphate, 94 

 Spring's (Prof. W.), Brass made by Compression, Mr. Behrens, 



216 

 Springer (Prof. Alfred), Micro-Organisms of the Soil, 576 

 Spruner von Merz (Dr. Karl), Death of, 598 

 Stack Pipes and Earth, Necessity for Connection between, W. 



H. Preece, F.R.S., 430 

 Stairs (Capt. W. G.), Death and Obituary Notice ot, 180 

 Standards, Time, of Europe, Dr. Hugh Robert Mill, 174 

 Stansfield (H.), a Portable Instrument for Measuring Magnetic 



Fields, 93 ; Experiments on Magnetized Watches, 93 

 Starling, Imitative Habits of, D. L. Thorpe, 15 

 Stars : Photographic and Visual Magnitudes of Stars, Prof. J. 

 C. Kapteyn, 41 ; Star Magnitudes, Captain Abney, 41 ; 

 Declinations of Stars for Reduction of Variations in Lati- 

 tude, 65 ; Distribution of Stars in Space, Kapteyn, 72 ; 

 Stars with Remarkable Spectra, 86 ; Stone Circles, the Sun 

 and the Stars, A. L. Lewis, 127; Stars' Proper Motions, J. 

 G. Porter, 230 ; a New Nebulous Star, E. E. Barnard, 279 ; 

 New Variable Stars, Prof. Pickering, 334 ; a New Variable 

 Star, Prof. Schaeberle, 620 ; Variable Star T Cassiopeiae, 

 Cuthbert E. Peek, 443 ; Comparison Stars of the Planet 

 Victoria, Dr. Gill, 423 ; Double Star Measures, S. W. Burn- 

 ham, 496 ; Double Star Observations, Prof. Asaph Hall, 

 524 ; Rutherfurd Measures of Stars about j8 Cygni, Harold 

 Jacoby, 619 ; in Starry Realms, Sir Robert S. Ball, F.R.S., 



315 

 Stas (Jean Servais), Text of his Famous Address, 130; 



Obituary Notice of, 81 

 State, Science and the, Rt. Hon. T. H. Huxley, F.R.S., 416 

 Statistics : Die Grundziige der Theorie der Statistik, Harold 



Westergaard, 437 

 Stead (T. A.), the Elimination of Sulphur from Iron, 527 

 Steel, Experiments with Basic, W. H. White, F.R.S., 114 

 Stellar Parallax, Researches in, by the Aid of Photography, 



Prof. Charles Pritchard, F.R.S., 612 

 Stevens (Dr. G. T.), the Relations of the Motor Muscles of the 



Eyes to Facial Expression, 86 

 Stevenson (Chas. A.), Notes on the Progress of the Dioptric 



I^ens as used in Lighthouse Illumination, 431, 514 

 Stevenson (D. A.), Proposed Ship Canal between the Forth 



and the Clyde, 429 ; Petroleum Engines for P"og Signalling, 



430 

 Stevenson (T.), a Treatise on Hygiene and Public Health, 



609 

 Stewart (D. S.), Lepidoptera and the Electric Light, 550 

 Stewart (Dr. Hunter), the Ventilation of Public Buildings, 143 

 Stewart (G. N.), the Temperature of the Human Body, 588 

 Stewart (R. Wallace), an Elementary Text-book of Magnetism 



and Electricity, 441 

 Stock (Warington), Aurora Borealis, 79 

 Stone (Mr.), Observations of the Moon, 179 

 Stone Circles, the Sun, and the Stars, A. L. Lewis, 127 

 Stone Houses, Ancient, in Easter Island, 259 

 Stone Images of Easter Island, 259 

 Stoney (Dr. G. Johnstone, F.R.S.), the Cause of the Absence 



of Hydrogen from the Earth's Atmosphere, and of Water 



and Air from the Moon, 71 ; the Line Spectra of the Ele- 

 ments, 29, 126, 222, 268 ; Recent Spectroscopic Determina- 

 tions, 513 

 Strachey (Lieut. G. R., F.R.S.), the Yearly Admissions to the 



Royal Society, 116 

 Stratigraphical Geology, Prof. C. Lapworth, F.R.S., 372 

 Strawberries, Wild, iri Ceylon, Mr. Nock, 494 

 Streatfeild (F. W.), Ethylene Derivatives of Diazoamido-Com- 



pounds, 189 

 Stretton (Clement E.), the Locomotive Engine and its 



Development, N. J. Lockyer, 538 

 Struve (H.), the Libration of Hyperion, 68 

 Stuhlmann (Dr.) : Eroin Pasha's Return Expedition to the 



Equatorial Lakes, no ; Additional Particulars of Emin 



Pasha's Expedition, 302 

 Sub-fossil Bones of Extinct Birds of New Zealand and the 



Chatham Islands, H. O. Forbes, 404 



Submerged Forest, 128 



Sugar-Cane Borers in the West Indies, 531 



Sugar-School, the Nebraska, 210 



Sully (James), The Human Mind ; a Text-book of Psy 



chology, I 

 Sully (James), and F. W. H. Myers, International Congress of 



Experimental Psychology, 261 

 Sulphur, the Elimination of, from Iron, E. Saniter, J. A. 



Stead, 527 

 Sumatra and Engano, Dr. Modigliani's Recent Explorations 



in Central, Prof. Henry H. Giglioli, 565 

 Sun : Comparative Spectra of High and Low, 211 ; the Total 

 Eclipse of the, 1893, John King, William M. Martin, 561 ; 

 New Result as to Hydrogen obtained by Spectroscopic Studv 

 of the Sun, M. Deslandres, 340 ; Stone Circles, the Sun, an. i 

 the Stars, A. L. Lewis, 126; Photometric Observations ol 

 the Sun and Sky, William Brennand, 284 ; our Sun' 

 History, Lord Kelvin, P.R.S., 597 ; Calorific Distribution (, I 

 Sun-heat at the Surface of the Northern and Southern Hemis 

 pheres of the Earth, Le G. de Tromelin, 508 ; Transmissicni 

 of Sunlight through the Earth's Atmosphere, Part II., Scat 

 tering at Different Altitudes, Capt. W. de W. Abney. 

 F.R.S., 69 ; an Unusual Sunset, Henry Crew, 391 

 Sunshine, Amy Johnson, 537 



Sun-Spots : Prof. Tacchini, 16 ; Dr. Lohse's Photographs 

 of, 258 ; the Influence of, on Terrestrial Magnetic Conditions, 

 T. S. Shearmen, 278 ; Atmospheric Depressions and their 

 Analogy with the Movements of, M. Camille Flammarion, 

 280 ; Observations of, at Lyons Observatory, E. Marchand, 

 340; Thunderstorms and, 488; Atmospheric Depiessions 

 and their Analogy with the Movements of, F. Howard 

 Collins, 489 

 Sun-Dial, a Mean Time, Major-General Oliver, 230 

 Surface-Film of Water, the, and its Relation to the Life of 



Plants and Animals, Prof. L. C. Miall, 7 

 Survey of India, the Marine, Dr. A. Alcock, 549 

 Surveying, Photography and, Col. Tanner 407 

 Sutherland (Alexander), and George M. Dawson, F.R.S., 



Elementary Geography of the British Colonies, loo 

 Swan (A. P.), the Effect of Sea- water on the Vitality of the 



Salmon Fungus, 405 

 Swan (J. Wilson), Electro Metallurgy, 478 

 Swan (Robert M. W.), Rain with a High Barometer, 442 

 Sweden and Norway, Fall of Hail and Dust in, io8 

 Swift's Comet, 1892, 17; Spectrum of Swift's Comet, W. W. 

 Campbell, 17, Prof. Konkoly, 17 ; Comet Swift, 1892 (Marcli 

 6), 65, 87, 230, 258, 423, 453 

 Switzerland : Terrible Glacier Slip Disaster at St. Gervais les 

 Bains, 254 ; Theories of Cause of St. Gervais Disaster, 426 ; 

 Profs. Duparc and Forel, 299; the Lava of July 12, 1892, 

 P. Demontzey, 387 

 Sydney : Royal Society of New South Wales, 191, 556 

 Sydney : a Bird-catching Spider, Mr. Rainbow, 474 

 Sydney Technological Museum taken over by Department o( 



Public Instruction, 85 

 Symington (Dr. J.), on the Cerebral Commissures in the Mar- 



supialia and Monotremata, 405 

 Synoptical Geography of the World, 246 

 Synthesis of Azoimide N3H, Inorganic, A. E. Tutton, 286 

 Synthesis, Electrolytic, Prof. Crum Brown on, 401 



Tablets in the British Museum, the Tel el-Amarna, 49 

 Tacchini (Prof.), Sun-Spots, i6 ; Solar Observations durint; 



First Quarter of 1892, 167 ; Solar Observations at the R. Os 



servatorio del Collegio Romano, 334; Solar Observations ai 



Rome, 476, 524 

 Tahiti, Pearl shell Diving at, A. G. Howes, 301 

 Tait (Prof.), the Laws of Motion, Part II., 262 

 Tanganyika : Eleven Years in Central Africa, Edward Cooile 



Hore, 6 

 Tanner (Col.), Photography and Surveying, 407 

 Tannor (J. E.), Habits of Parasol Ants, 595 

 Tanning with Chestnut Wood, Baron BertrandGeslin, 617 

 Tarr (R. S.), Origin of Terraces in Glaciated Regions, 311 ; 



Effects of Topography on Thunderstorms, 555 

 Tate (A. Norman), Obituary Notice of, 298 

 Taverny, Discovery of Remarkable Grotto at, 449 

 Tea, Lao, 593 

 Teall (Mr.), Petrological Papers, 428 



