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Index 



T Supplement to Nature 

 \_ May 31, 1894 



Hydrofluoric Acid, 356 ; Action of Water on Bicalcic Phos- 

 phates, 572 

 South Kensington Museum, Mr. James McMurtrie's Collection 



of Fossil Plants acquired by, 415 

 Space, Chemistry in, Dr. John Cannell Cain, 173 

 Space, on Homogeneous Division of. Lord Kelvin, P. R.S., 



445. 469 



Spectacles for Double Vision, T. J. Dewar, 433 



Spectrum Analysis : Objective Representation of Interference 

 Phenomena in Spectrum Colours, E. von Lommel, 46 ; 

 Spectra of Hot Gases probably due to Temperature, F. 

 Paschen, 82 ; New Notation for Lines in Spectrum of 

 Hydrogen, 162; Spectrum of Nova Normas, 162, 397 ; Prof. 

 W. W. Campbell, 586 ; Stars with Remarkable Spectra, 

 T. E. Espin, 183 ; Photography of Rays of very Short 

 Wave- Lengths, Victor Schumann, 254; Magnetic Rotary 

 Dispersion of Carbon Bisulphide in Infra- Red part of Spec- 

 trum, G. Moreau, 370; Instrument of Precision for Producing 

 Monochromatic Light, A. E. Tutton, 377 ; Radiation of 

 Gases, F. Paschen, 376 ; Combination of Prisms for a Stellar 

 Spectroscope, H. F. Newall, 379 ; Method of Photographing 

 Spectrum of Lightning, G. Meyer, 417 ; Comet-Spectra as 

 affected by Width of Slit, 489 ; the Spectra of Tin, Lead, 

 Arsenic, Antimony and Bismuth, Profs. Kayser and Runge, 

 509 ; Spectroscopic Examination of Light Emitted by Pho- 

 tinus cor-}-iiscus Beetle, A. F. Miller, 540 



Spencer (Herbert), Rejoinder to Prof. Weismann, 155 ; the 

 Spencer- Weismann Controversy, P. Chalmers Mitchell, 373 ; 

 Prof. Tyndall, 352 



Spencer ( W. G. ), Effect upon Respiration of Faradic Excitation 

 of Cerebrum in Animals, 353 



Spermophiles of the Mississippi Valley, the, Vernon Bailev, 



36 



Sphere, the Geometrical Properties of the, William Briggs and 

 T. W. Edmondson, 75 



Spherical Vortex, on a. Dr. J. M. Hill, 498 



Spica, Occultation of, 464 



Spiders: Further Notes and Observations upon the Instinct of 

 some Common English, R. I. Pocock, 60 ; Protective Habit 

 in a Spider, Prof. C. Lloyd Morgan, 102 ; Mimicry by a 

 Spider, 207 ; the Silk Spider of Madagascar, Dr. Karl 

 Miiller, 253 ; Notes on the Habits of a Jamaican Spider, Prof. 

 T. D. A. Cockerell, 412 ; the Su-pension of Foreign Bodies 

 from Spiders' Webs, R. Philipp, 481 



Spiro (Dr. P. A.), Death of, 179 



Sporozoa, Cancer, Sarcoma, and other Morbid Growths con- 

 sidered in Relation to the, J. Jackson Clarke, 502 



Sprenger (Prof. A.), Death of, 206 



Springmann (P.), Polarisationof Solid Deposits between Electro- 

 lytes, 376 



Spruce (Richard), Obituary Notice of, 317 



Sprung (Prof. ), the Diurnal Range in Velocity and Direction 

 of the Wind on the Eiffel Tower, 596 



Spurge (J. B. ), New Photometric Method, 355 



Stadl (Dr. van der), Interaction between Oxygen and Phos- 

 phuretted Hydrogen, 323 



Stars : a New Southern Star Discovered by Mrs. Fleming, 38 ; 

 a New Variable Star, Rev. T. E. Espin, 67, 184 ; New 

 Variable Star in Andromeda, Rev. Thomas D. Anderson, 

 loi ; Four New Variable, Discovery of, by Mrs. Fleming, 

 608 ; the New Star in Norma, 85 ; Otto Struve's Double- 

 Star Measures, III ; Stars with Remarkable Spectra, T. E. 

 Espin, 183 ; Electromotive Force from the Light of the 

 Stars, Prof. Geo. M. Minchin, 269 ; Hydrogen Envelope of 

 the Star D.M. + 30° 3639, Prof. W. W. Campbell, 210; 

 Proper Motions of Stars, 349 ; Speed of Perception of Stars, 

 Prof. Ricco, 608. (See also Astronomy. ) 



Stas's Determination of Atomic Weights, E. Vogel, 283 



Statics, Graphic Arithmetic and, J. J. Prince, 28 



Statics and Dynamics, Solutions of the Examples in the Elements 

 of, S. L. Loney, 122 



Staurolite, Chemical Composition of, S. L. Penfield and J. H. 



Pratt, 402 

 Steam, on the Latent Heat of, P. J. Hartog and J. A. 



Harker, 5 

 Steam, the Cloudy Condensation of, Shelford Bidwell, F.R.S., 

 212, 388, 413 ; Dr. Carl Barus, 363 ; John Aitken, F. R. S., 



340 

 Steam-Engine, the Grafton High-speed, E. W. Anderson, 610 

 Steam Jets from Various Orifices, Forms of, H. Parcnty, 347 



Steam Pumps on Russian Railways, Alexander Borodin, ly 



Steamers, the Vibration of, Otto Schlick, 491 



Steamships, the Manoeuvring Powers of, and their Practical 



Applications, Vice-Admiral P. H. Colomb, R.N., 174 

 Steamships, Effects of Reversing Screw on Steering of. 



Captain Bain, 208 

 Stearns (Dr.), the Albativss Collection of Galapagos Island 



Shells, 82 

 Stebbing (Rev. Thomas R. R.), a History of Crustacea. Recent 



Malacostraca, 74 

 Steel Meteorite, a Tempered, 372 

 Steele (W. H.), Electric Currents produced by heating various 



Metals, 131 

 Stthlin (H. G.), Zur Kenntniss der Postembryonalen Scl.adei- 



metamorphosen bei Wiederkauern, 99 

 Stein's (Dr.) Arctic Expedition, 256 ; Proposed Station in 



Ellesmere Land, 18 ; Plan (or Exploration of Ellesmere 



Land, 346 ; the Proposed Continuous Polar Exploration, 



124 

 Stellar Diameters, the Measurement of, Maurice Hamy, 275 

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



285 

 Stereo-Chemistry, Recent Progress in. Prof. Victor Meyer, 



348 ; Extension of Inorganic Elements of Stereo-Chemistry, 



Dr. Werner, 372 ; Handbuch der Stereochemie, Dr. Paul 



Walden, 409 

 Stevens (F. H.), H. S. Hall and, a Text- Book of Encliu's 



Elements, 599 

 Stevenson (C. A.), Telegraphic Communication by Induction 



by Means of Coils, 571 : Electric Communication between 



Lighthouses and Lightships without Submarine Cables, 581 

 Stevenson (J. J.), Geological use of Name " Catskili," 92 j 



Origin of Pennsylvania Anthracite, 271 

 Stewart (R. Wallace), a Text-Book of Heat, 171 

 Stigmata, the, of the Arachnida as a Clue to their Ancestry, H. 



M. Bernard, 68 

 Stirling (Dr. James Hutchison), Darwinianism ; Workmen a'nd 



Work, 333 

 Stocks (H. B.), Coal-Balls and their Fossil Plant Contents, 14 

 Stokvis (Prof. B. J.), Chemistry in Relation to Pharmaco- 



Therapeutics and Materia Medica, 587 

 Stones, Precious, 319 

 Stoney (Dr. G. Johnstone, F. R.S.), Vision with Compound 



Eyes, 379 ; on M. Mercadier's Test of the Relative Validity 



ot the Electrostatic and Electromagnetic Systems of Dimen- 

 sions, 432 

 Storrie (John), Roman Villa, near Cardiff, 505 

 Streets in Paris named after Men of Science, 558 

 Stromeyer (C. E ), Marine Boiler Management and Construc- 

 tion, 410 ; Brilliant Aurora Borealis of March 30, 1894, 539 

 Struve (Prof. Otto), Double-Star Measures, iii ; the Satellite 



of Neptune, 324 

 Stuart- Menteath (M. P. W.), Ophites of Western Pyrenees, 264 

 Stubbs (Arthur J.), a Manual of Telephony, 454 

 Styles (W. A.), Orchids, 352 

 Submarine Cable between Zanzibar, Mauritius, and Seychelles, 



134 



Sugar as Food in Production of Muscular Work, Dr. Vaughan 



Harley, 283 

 Sugar-Cane Moth, the, A. S. Oliff, 64 

 Sugar Maples, W. Trelease, 323 

 Sulphide of Carbon, a New, A. E. Tutton, 275 

 Sun, an Annular Eclipse of the, 542 

 Sun, the Presence of Oxygen in the. Dr. Janssen, 585 

 Sun, the Story of the. Sir Robert Ball, F.R.S., A. Fowler, 



382 

 Sun-spots : Sun-spots and Solar Radiation, M. R. Savelief, 



274 ; Sun-spots and Magnetic Disturbances, Dr. L. Palazzo, 



327 ; Dr. M. A. Veeder, 503 ; the Sun-spot Period and the 



West Indian Rainfall, Maxwell Hall, 399 ; a Large Sun-spot, 



419 ; Sun-spot Phenomena and Thunderstorms, Rev. W. 



Clement Ley, 531 

 Superstition, on the Bugonia, of the Ancients, Baron C. R. 



Osten-Sacken, 198 

 Suspension of Foreign Bodies from Spiders' Webs, the, R. 



Philipp, 481 

 Swan (Prof.), Death of, 437 

 Swedish International Polar Expedition, Results of. Dr. J. 



Hann, 498 

 Swift's New Biological Microscope, 523 1 



