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Index 



Supplement to Nature, 

 June II, 1896 



Snake-Poison, the Discovery of the Anti-Toxin of, Prof. E. Ray 

 Lankester, F.R.S., 1-28, 175 ; Prof. T. R, Fraser, F.R.S., 

 150 



Snakes : Immunisation against Serpents' Venom, and the Treat- 

 ment of Snake-bite with Antivenene, Prof. Thomas R. Fraser, 

 F.R.S., 569, 592 



Soaring Machines, Experiments with, Percy S. Pilcher, 365 



Sociology, Physics and, W. H. Mallock, 232, 331 



Sodium and Potassium Vapours, P'luorescence of, and the 

 Importance of these facts in Astrophysics, Drs. E. Wiedemann 

 and G. C. Schmidt, 250 



Soils, Prof. Shaler, 438 



Soja Organism, the. Dr. G. Wehmer, 564 



Solar Eclipse, the Coming, Data as to Gloudiness in Northern 

 Norway, Prof. H. Mohn, 544 



Solar Eclipses and Occultations, Computations of the Times of, 

 L. Cruls, 474 



Solar Halo, an unusual, William J. S. Lockyer, 509 



Solar Parallax, the, 16 



Solar Prominences, Two Remarkable, Father Fenyi, 495 



Solar System, the Story of the, Geo. F. Chambers, 244 



Sollas (Prof. W. J., F.R.S.), Dr. Dubois' "Missing Link," 

 116: Pithecanthropus erecttis and the Evolution of the Human 

 Race, 150 



Solution and Electrolysis, W. C. Dampier Whetham, J. W. 

 Rodger, 146 



Solvay (E.), Mechanical Production of Extreme Temperatures, 

 239 



Somaliland, Evidences of Palaeolithic Age in, H. W. Seton-Karr, 

 544 



Sorbose, the Biochemical Preparation of, G. Bertrand, 624 



Sorel (E.), Aspergillus orizce, 192 



Sounding, the Deepest, yet known. Admiral W. T. L. Wharton, 

 F.R.S., 392 



Sounds, Curious Aerial or Subterranean, Prof. R. Meldola, 

 F.R.S., 4; C. Davison, 4 ; Dr. W. T. Blanford, F.R.S., 30 ; 

 Ernest Van den Broeck, 30 ; Prof. T. McKenny Hughes, 

 F.R.S., 30 



Sounds, Remarkable, C. Tomlinson, F.R.S., 78, 197; Prof. J. 

 P. O'Reilly, loi ; W. F. Ganong, loi ; W. Tucknell, loi ; 

 C. Fox-Strangways, 130; Rev. W. S. Smith, 197 ; O. Firth, 

 197 ; W. Stoney, 197 ; Kumagusu Minakata, 317, 414, 605 



Souveault (L.), Rhodinol, 503 



Spain, Earthquake in, 202 



Spanish Main, the West Indies and the, James Rodway, 508 



Spanton (J. H.), Science and Art Drawing, 128 



Specific Gravity of Minute Fragments of Minerals, Apparatus 

 for determining the, T. D. La Touche, 199 



Spectator, Dog Stories from the, 54 



Spectrum Analysis : the Spectrum of o Aquilre, 1\I. Deslandres, 

 38 ; Anomalous Dispersion Curves, A. Pfiiiger, 94 ; the 

 Clevite Gas Spectrum, Dr. G. J. Stoney, 94 ; on the Appear- 

 ance of the Spectral Lines of Clevite Gas in Stellar Spectra, 

 Prof. Vogel, 448 ; a Probably New Element in Terbium 

 Earths, Lecoq de Boisbaudran, 96 ; on the New Gases ob- 

 tained from Uraninite, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 163, 526 ; 

 Gases from Eliasite, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 190; 

 Wave-lengths of Dg Helium Line, A. de F. Palmer, jun., 190 ; 

 Gases from Mineral Waters, Alexander Kellas and Prof. 

 William Ramsay, F.R.S., 191 ; Position in Solar Spectrum 

 of Calorific Maximum, M. Aymonnet, 239 ; on Crookes' 

 Spectrum of Helium, Prof. C. Runge and Dr. F. Paschen, 

 245 ; the Story of Helium, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 

 319, 342; Stellar Velocities with Objective Prism, M. Des- 

 landres, 255 ; Variable Stars of 8 Cephei Class, J. Norman 

 Lockyer, F.R.S., 262; Apparatus for obtaining Spectroscopic 

 Conditions of Total Solar Eclipse for Observation and 

 Photography of Corona and Prominences, 309 ; Absorption of 

 Light by Solutons of Indophenols, MM. Bayrac and Ch. 

 Camichel, 335 ; Small Direct- Vision Spectroscope, Prof. Ram- 

 say, 382 ; the Shifting of Spectral Lines, J. Norman Lockyer, 

 F.R.S., 415; Spectrology of Haemoglobin Compounds and 

 Derivatives, Dr. Arthur Gamgee, F.R.S., 478; the Visual 

 Purple of Fishes, Dr. Abelsdorfif, 503 ; Fluorescence of 

 Sodium and Potassium Vapour, E. Wiedemann and G. C. 

 Schmidt, 526 ; Relations of Turacin and Turacoporphyrin to 



I Colouring Matters of Blood, Prof. A. Gamgee, F.R.S., 574 ; 

 the Spectrum of Mira, Prof. Wilsing, 612 



Speculative Method in Entomology, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., 

 352 



Spee (M.), Apparatus for obtaining Spectroscopic Conditions of 

 Total Solar Eclipse for Observation and Photography of 

 Corona and Prominences, 309 



Spencer (Herbert): the Development of Professional Institu- 

 tions, vii. the Teacher, 116; viii. the Sculptor, 331 ; ix. the 

 Painter, 428 ; x. the Evolution of the Professions, 548 



Sperm Whale, the, and its Food, J. Y. Buchanan, F.R.S., 

 223 



Spheroid, Rotation of Elastic, S. S. Hough, 310 



Spiders of Burma, Descriptive Catalogue of the. Dr. T. Thorell, 

 122 



Spleen, Rhythmic Contractility of, E. A. Schafer, F,R.S., and 

 B. Moore, 453 



Sponges from Lake Baikal, New, B. Sukatchoff, 573 



Spots on Saturn, the, Stanley Williams, 474 



Spring (W.), the Phenomena of Decomposition by Pressure, 70 



Spronck (Prof.), the Uncertainty of Elaboration of Dipththeria 

 Toxine, 135 



Squires (R. W.), Tree Temperatures, 327 



Ssusew (P. W.), Middle Ural Ferns, 405 



Standardisation of Apparatus, an Account of the Construction 

 and, recently acquired by Kew Observatory for the Measure- 

 ment of Temperature, E. H. Griffiths, F.R.S., 39 



Standfuss (Dr. M.), Handbuch der Palaarktischen Gross- 

 Schmetterlinge ftir Forscher und Sammler, 506 



Stanley (Hiram M.), Studies in the Evolutionary Psychology of 

 Feeling, 313 ; Children's Drawings, 510 



Stanley (William Ford), Notes on the Nebular Theory in rela- 

 tion to Stellar, Solar, Planetary, Cometary and Geological 

 Phenomena, 25 



Stapf (Dr. O.), Structure of Flowers and Fruit of Sararanga, 



551 



Starke (H.), Simple Method of Determining Electrical Con- 

 stants of Solid Bodies, 504 



Stars : the Star Showers of November, W. F. Denning, 7 ; 

 Parallaxes of Stellar Systems, 15; Stars with Bright and 

 Dark Hydrogen Lines, Prof. Campbell, 15; the Double 

 Star, 02-285, Dr. See, 38 ; the Double Star 70 Ophiuchi, 

 Dr. See, 305 ; Variability of Red Stars, Dr. Brester, 38, 

 248; Variable Star Clusters, 91 ; Dr. Belopolsky, 474; a 

 Peculiar Variable Star, Mr. Chandler, 109 ; New Variable 

 Star of the Algol Type, 206 ; Parallax of a Centauri, A. W. 

 Roberts, 206 ; Wells' Algol Variable, 403 ; New Variable 

 Stars, Mrs. Fleming, Prof. Pickering, 519 ; a New Star in 

 the Constellation Carina, 63 ; Stellar Velocities with Objective 

 Prism, M. Deslandres, 255 ; a New Star in Centaurus, Mrs. 

 Fleming, 256 ; the Astrophotographic Catalogue, 351 ; Orbit 

 of o Centauri, Dr. Doberck, 351 ; on the Appearance of the 

 Spectral Lines of Clevite Gas in Stellar Spectra, Prof. Vogel, 

 448 ; the Proper Motion of r Tauri, Dr. Fritz Cohen, 495 ; 

 Mira Ceti, M. Dumenil, 565 ; the Spectrum of Mira, Prof. 

 Wilsing, 612 



Steel : the Hardening of Extra-hard Steel, F. Osmond, 71 ; 

 Dilatation, Annealing and Welding of Steel, Thomas Wright- 

 son, 141 ; the Molecular Structure of Hardened Steel, M. 

 Osmond, 205 



Stereophotochromoscope, the, Frederick Ives, 383 



Stetson (G. R.), Vampirism in United States, 401 



Stevens (F. S.), Elementary Mensuration, 339 



Stevens (Prof. W. Le Conte), Recent Progress in Optics, 233 



Stewart (Dr. C. H.), Carbonic Acid in Edinburgh Air and Soil, 

 and Relation of Scotch Soil to Summer Diarrhoea, 287 ; 

 Bacteria in Milk, 599 



Stewart (G. N.), a Manual of Physiology, 266 



Stokes (Sir G. G., F.R.S.), the Perception of Light, 66 



Stokes (J. S.), the Rontgen Photography, 502 



Stolgel (Dr. K.), Death of, 399- 



Stone (Witmer), the Moulting of Birds, 611 



Stoney (Dr. G. J.), the Clevite Gas Spectrum, 94 



Stoney (W.), Remarkable Sounds, 197 



Story of the Earth in Past Ages, the. Prof. H. G. Seeley, 

 F.R.S., 77 



Strachey (Lieut. -General Richard, F.R.S.), the Metric System, 

 270 



Strahan (A.), Submerged Land-Surfaces at Barry, Glamorgan- 

 shire, 551 ; Phosphatic Chalk -with. Holastes planus at Lewes, 



551 

 Strange (E. H.), Explosion of Cyanogen, 499 

 Stratonofif (W. ), the Sun's Rotation, 566 

 Straubel (Dr. R.), Experiments withX-Rays, 613 



