XXXll 



Index 



upflement to Xatnrf, 

 May 30, 1895 



Scott-Moncrieff(Sir Colin), the Nile, 444 



Screw Propulsion, the Limitations of, ]. I. Jhornycroft, F. R.S., 

 and S. W. Bamaby, 362 



Scribner's Magazine, Science in, 44, 381 



Sea and Land, Features of Coasts and f)ceans, with Sjiecial 

 Reference to the Life of Man, N. S. Shaler, 507 



Sea-Water, the Methods for Determining Density of, W. S. 

 Anderson, 61 



Sea-Water and Oceanic De]>i>sits, Chemical Changes between, 

 Dr. John Murray and Robert Ir\ine, 304 



.Seasonal Changes on Mars, Mr. IVrcival Lowell, 259 



Secular \'ari2iion of Terrestrial Magnetism, Wildes Theory of 

 the, L. .\. Bauer, 103 



Secular Variations of the Interior Planets, Prof. Newoomb, 1S3 



Sedgwick (.\dam, F.R.S.). Inadequacy of Cell-Theory, 119, 

 213; the Development of Nerves, 119, 213 



Seeds, the Soaking of. I'. C. (.ilubl), 107 



Seeler (Mr.), the Termination of Motor Nerves in Muscles, 288 



Segmentation, Vertebrate, P. Chalmers Mitchell, 367 



Seiches in Lake Derravaragh, J. II. K. MacKarlane, 502 



Seismology: Seismological (ibservalor)- to be Founded at 

 Constantinople, 180: on a Remarkable Karlhijuake Dis- 

 turbance ob-served at .Slra.ssliurg, Nicolaiew, and Birmingham, 

 on June 3, 1S93. C. Davison. Dr. E. von Rc1>eur I'aschwil?., 

 20S ; Connection between .\rgentina Karthquake of October 

 27 and Contemporary F.uro|)ean Pulsation Series ? 232 ; the 

 Velocity of the .\rgeniine Karthquake Pulsations of October 

 27, 1894, C. Davison, 462 : the .\lleged Diminution with Out- 

 .vard Radiation of \'elocity of Farlhciuake Waves, Dr. 

 Agamennone, 299 ; I)isl.>cation of Sumatra .Mountain .System by 

 Earthquakes of May 17, 1892, J. J. .\. Muller. 40S ; the -After- 

 shocks of Earthquakes. F. (Jmori. 423 : the Constaminoi)le 

 F.arthquake of July lo. 1894. Prof. Cancani. 440 ; Seismic 

 History- of Calabria Ultra, Dr. Mario Baratta. 468 ; Prof. 

 Vicentini's New Seismometrograi)h. 540 : the Seismological 

 Obserx-ator)- Destroyed at Tokio, 585; I'rof. J. W. Judd, 

 K.R.S., 533 : the Observation of Earth- Waves and Vibrations, 

 Prof. lohn .Milne, F.R.S., 548 



Scnilerens (I. B. f, .\ction of Nitrous Oxide on Metals and 

 Metallic Oxides, 528 



Sergi (Prof. Giuseppe), the Varieties of the Human Species, 595 



.Seward (.\. C), Pachytheca, 480 



Sewer Air, the Harnil-.-ssne.ss of, Messrs. Laws and Andrewes, 



37' 

 Sexton (A. Humboldt), Elementary Text-Book of Metallurgy, 



556 

 .Shaler (Prof. N. S.), the Horse, 44 : Sea and Land, Features of 



Coasts and Oceans, with Sixjcial Reference lo the Life of Man, 



507 

 SI\arp(Dr., F.R.S.), Geographical Distribution of Butterflies, 



479 

 Shaw (J.), Tan-S|X)ts over Dogs Lyes, 33 ; an Aurora on 



Novemlier 23, 107 

 Shaw(W. N., F. R.S. ), Motion and Formation of Clouds, 527 

 Sheet Lightning, Dr. Meinardus, 192 

 .Shenslone (|. C. ), Remarkable 0.ak Trees in Ks,sex, 280 

 Shcrborn (C. Davies), tl.e Life of Sir Richard Owen, 169 

 Sherrington (Dr. C. H., F. R..S. ), Influence of Sensory Nerves on 



Movement in Nutrition of Limbs, 620 

 .shipbuilding. Wanted :i Subslilule for Wood in, 490 

 .Short (I^'wis E. ), I'hysiMl.igy for Beginners, 165 

 Siberia ; Captain Wiggin- Wrecked. 83 

 Siberia, Baron Toll's Ivxpcdilion, 327 



Siberian Railway, Geological Researches in Connection with, 539 

 Sicily, Earthquake in, 82, 513 

 Sicilian l-jtrthquakes of August 1894, the. Dr. M. Baralta and 



I'rof. Ricco, 207 

 Sickne.w, Mountain, II. Kronecker, 394 

 Sieljc (W.), Botanical Kx|iedilion lo .Asia Min.M, 513 

 .Siemens (.V), Advice I o Voung Engineers, 131 

 .Sicrtsema (Dr.), Magnetic Rotational DLsjicrsion of Oxygen and 



Nitrogen, 504 

 ,Signal», Eflecl of Rhythm on Visibility of, Charles 1 lenry, 588 

 Silver, Colloidal, C. Barus, 190 



Silvering Gla^s, Simplified I'rix-ess for, A. ami L. Lumicrc, 371 

 .Siinmons(f J. L.), DcvclopmenI of Lungs of .Spiders, 37 

 .Simroth (11.). KhyuihoJeimis trrinln's m Germany, 294 

 Singing Water- Pijics, W. B. Croft, 107 

 Skertchly (S. B. J.), .Suiwrficial De|K).sils of .Shaniung, 478 

 Skinner (S. ), the Tin Chromic Chloride Cell, 383 

 Slidc-Kule, the, a Practical Manual, Charles N. I'ickworth, 77 



Slingo (W.), Electrical Engineering, 31S : Problems and Solu- 

 tions in Elementary Electricity and .M.agnetism, 580 



Smellie (Sir William) and his Contemporaries, John Gliiister, 

 149 



Smith (C. S.), the Anglo-German Frontier Survey in East Africa, 



Smith's (Dr. Donaldson) Expedition to Lake Rudolf, 61 



Smith (Prof. E. F. ). the .\lomic Weight and Specific Heat of 



Tungsten, 424 

 Smith (G. Elliott), the Cerebral Commissures of the Mammalia, 



192 

 Smith (Dr. lohn), a Peculiarilv in the Mammalian Tooth, 215 

 Smith (J. C'., P.Inst. C.E., Ireland), De.alh of, 4.SS 

 Smith (Robert H.), Me.isurement Conversion Diagrams, 221 

 Smith (Worlhinglon G.). Spots over Dog's Eyes, 57 : .Man — the 



Primeval Savage. Prof. \V. Boyd Daw kins, F. R.S. , 194 

 Smithsonian Institution, Report for 1S94, 571 

 Snail Fauna of the Greater .\ntilles. the, 524 

 Snake-Poison, Strjchnine no Antidote to, Surgeon-Captain R. H. 



Elliott, 540 

 Snakes : the Swallowing of one Snake by another. Baron C. R. 



O.sten Sacken, 12: Snake Cannibalism. II. Tsnagal, 321; 



Baron C. R. Osten.S.icken, 343; J. Schonland. 511 ; Snakes 



" Playing 'Posiium.'' L. C. Jones, 107; li. E. Hadow. 127; 



Death-feigning in Snakes, tlerard W. Butler, 153: the 

 Feigning of Death, R. Harry \'incenl, 223 : the Suspended 



Animation of Snakes, S. (iarman, 274 ; W. Kennedy, 274 

 Sodium and Potassium Derivatives of Nitromethane, the Explo- 

 sive Nature of the. .\. E. Tullon. 32S 

 Solar M.ignetism in Meteorologv. I'rof. F. H. Bigelow, 356 

 Sollas (I'rof. W. J., F.R.S.), the .\ge of the Earth, 533, 55S 

 Solowel/.k Marine Biological Statiim, S3 

 Solute, F. G. Donnan, 200 



Sohvay, the Natural History of the, C'l. Stewardson Brady, 322 

 Somerville (I'rof. W.), the .\nbury Turnip Disease, 251 

 Sorauer (Dr. I'aul), a Pojiular Treatise on the Physiology 01 



Plants, 554 

 Sound : Singing Water-Pipes, W. B. Croft, 107 

 Sound, a Text-Book of, E. Catchpool, 244 

 Southall (H.), FUhmIs in ihe Wesi Miillamls, 21$ 

 1 Species, New Lawof Geographical Distribution of, Chas. Dixon, 



545 . . 



Specific He.ats of ti.ases, the Ratio ol 



127 

 Specific Stability, \ ariationand, W . I 



459 



Specific Stability, (Questions Bearing 

 F.R.S., 570 



Spectrum .Analysis : the Spectrum of S Cephei, M. .\. Kelo- 

 polsky, 21 ; Studies of Bunsen Flame .Spectra of AlUalin and 

 Alkaline Earth Metals, Eder and \alenta, 20: on Recenl 

 Researches in the Infra-Red Spectrum, I'rof. S. P.. Langley. 

 12 ; an .Artificial Spectrum Top, C. E. Benhani, 113. 200, 

 321 : Prof i\. 1). Liveing, F.R.S., 167. 200 : CaiXain W. de 

 W. .Abney, C. B., I'.R.S., 292 ; J. M. Finnegan B. Moore, 

 292; Dr. F. W. Edridge-Green, 321 : Dr. Dawson Turner, 

 438; Newton and Co., 463; a True Spectrum Top .and a 

 Complementary one. Dr. C. Herbert llursl. 510: the Spec- 

 trum of Mars, Prof W. W. Campbell. 132: the Blue C,rotlo 

 of Capri Speclroscopically Tested, Dr. II. W. \'ogel, 300 : 

 Stars having Peculiar Spectra, I'rof. V.. C. Pickering, 302 : 

 Method of Rotating Prism, F. L. O. Wadsworth. 325; New 

 Spectrum Photomeler, Arthur Kiinig. 334: on the Spectra of 

 Argon, William Crookes, F.R.S.. 354 : H. F. Newall, 454; 

 the Spectra of Argon and of .Aurora Borealis, M. Berthclot, 

 552; Fluorescence Spectrum of Argon, M. Berthelot, 622; 

 Dr. Schumann's Vacuum Spectrograph, 423; .Spectroscopic 

 Me.-isures of Planetary \'clocilies, .M. Deslandres, 443; Ob- 

 .servations on SunSpol Spectra, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 

 448; Spectrum of lliu Orion Nebula, 471 ; Sped rum. if Terrestrial 

 Helium (?), i'rof Ramsay. 543 : W. Crookes, I". R.S., 543 ; 

 Terrestrial lleliuni(?). Prof Ramsay, 543; W. Crookes, 543 ; 

 I. Norman Lockyer, C.B., F. R.S., 5.S6 ; Pos.sible Exi)lanation 

 of Tw<ifol(l Spectra of (Jxygen and Nitrogen, !•;. C. C. Baly, 

 550: Ihe .Sun's Place in Nature, J. Norman Lockyer, C.B., 

 F'.R.S., 374, 396, 565, 590 : I'ltra \iolel Radiation of Solar 

 Corona (luring Total lOclipse of .April 16, I,Sg3. II. Dcslandres, 

 576; the l'ltra-\'iolel Spectrum of IheCorona, M. Dcslandres, 

 589; Ihe Fluted Spectrum, II. Poincare, 599 



Spelivologie, StKitte de, l-'ounded. 229 



Spela;ology, the Society of, Mark Stirrup. 462 



, S. II. Burbuiy. F.R.S., 

 . Thiselton-Dyer F.R.S., 

 Dr. l'"rancis Gallitn. 



