INDEX 



[Nature, Nov. 27, 1890 



Ring, Observations of Saturn at the Disappearance of the, 



M. E. L. Trouvelot, 429 

 Rio Negro Salt Company's Exhibits at Buenos Ayres Rural 



Exhibition, 402 

 Risley (H. H.), the Study of Ethnology in India, 335 

 Rivers, on the Construction of Sluices for, F. G. M. Stoney, 



534 

 Roberts (Charles), Relative Growth of Boys and Girls, 390 

 Roberts (Isaac) : proposed Fellow of the Royal Society, 15 ; 



Changes in the Magnitude of Stars, 68 ; Photographs of Two 



Clusters in Perseus, 92 ; Presentation to, 251 

 Roberts- Austen (Prof. W. C, F.R.S.), on the Carburization of 



Iron by the Diamond, 69 

 Robson (W. G.), Diurnal Variations of Magnet at Kew, 239 

 Rochet (M. ), on the Cause and Treatment of Sea-Sickness, 574 

 Rock Creek, Washington, the New Zoological Garden, 134 

 Rocks under Mechanical Stresses, Chemical Changes in. Prof 



J. W. Judd, F.R.S., loi 

 Rocks of the Moon, M. Landerer, 331 

 Rollet (A.), on Obtaining Purified Metal for Castings, 69 

 Roman Camp at Octon, 581 

 Romanes (Prof. G. J., F.R.S.) : elected President of the 



Sunday Society, 34 ; Panmixia, 5, 79 ; Intelligence of Chim- 

 panzees, 245 ; and the Sunday Society, 211 

 Ronkar (E.), Thickness of Earth's Crust deduced from Diurnal 



Motion, 144 

 Roos (L. ), Mode of Combination of Sulphuric Acid in Plastered 



"Wines and Method of Analysis, 656 

 Roscoe (Sir Henry, F.R S.), on Recent Legislation for Facilita- 

 ting the Teaching of Science, 530 

 Rosset (M. C. W.), his Ethnographical Collections, 34 

 Rotation, Changing the Apparent Direction of, Hercules Mac- 



donnell, 614 

 Rotation of Mercury, 317 ; Prof. Alex. Winchell, 391 

 Rotation of the Sun, Prof. N. C. Duner, 138 

 Roth (H. Ling) : the Aborigines of Tasmania, Prof. F. Max 



Miiller, 489 ; a Guide to the Literature of Sugar, 636 

 Rotterdam, Organisms Infesting the Water-works at. Prof. 



W. A. Herdman, 314 

 Roux (L.) : Researches on Dispersion of Fatty Alcohols, 143 ; 



Optical Dispersion of Fatty Acids, 360 

 Rowan (F. J.) and E. J. Mills, F.R.S., Chemical Technology, 



or Chemistry in its Application to Arts and Manufactures, 



Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 25 

 Rowan (D. J.), Night-Shininc; Clouds, 246 

 Royal Academy Banquet, Sir William Thomson, F. R. S., on 



Science, 34 

 Royal Asiatic Society Journal, No. 20, 66 

 Royal College of Science, London, 646 



Royal Geographical Society : and Mr. H. M. Stanley, 34 ; An- 

 niversary Meeting of, 180 

 Royal Geographical Society of Australasia, 573 

 Royal Horticultural Society, Report on Diseases of Garden 



Plants, 17 

 Royal Institution, Andrew Lang's Lectures on the Natural 



History of Society, 86 

 Royal Meteorological Society, 119, 214 

 Royal Microscopical Society, 46, 167, 263, 573 

 Royal Observatory, 158 

 Royal Society, 21, 43, 70, 94, 118, 142, 167, 189. 213, 238, 261, 



335 j proposed New Fellows, 14 ; Election of Fellows, 158 ; 



Conversazione, 34, 90 ; Ladies' Conversazione of the, 210 ; a 



Subject-Index and the, F. Howard Collins, 126 ; Royal Society 



Grant for Enquiry into the Composition of London Fog, 180 

 Royal Society of Edinburgh, Index to the First Thirty-four 



Volumes of the Transactions of, 36 

 Royal Society of New South Wales, 560, 632 

 Royal Society of Victoria, 328 

 Royal Victoria Hall, Lecture Arrangements at, 17 

 Ruby, Discovery of a Large, 34 



Riicker (Prof A. W., F.R.S.), Advisability of Reducing and 

 Publishing Magnetic Observations at Various Observatories in 

 same Manner and for same Periods, 239 

 Rudler (F. W. ), on the Present Aspect of the Jade Question, 



581 

 Russell (H. C, F.R.S.), the Narraburra Meteor, 526 

 Russell (Dr. W. J., F.R.S.), Chemistry and Medical Students, 



23 

 Russia : Russian Transliteration, Charles E. Groves, F. R. S., 6 ; 

 Geo. G. Chisholm, 7 ; a Uniform System of,A. Wilkins, 77 ; Ch. 

 R. Osten-Sacken, 78; the Correspondence on, H. A. Miers 



and J. W. Gregory, 316 ; Report of the East Siberian Branch 

 of the Russian Geographical Society, 18 ; Wolves in, 19 ; Prof. 

 Bastian's Ethnological Collections from Russian Central Asia, 

 64; Wind-Velocities in, 65; Russian Expeditions to Tibet. 

 Col. PevtsoflF and M. Grombchevsky, 253 

 Rutherford on Lunar Photography, 569 

 Rutland (Joseph), the Bush Rat of New Zealand, 428 



Sachs (Prof Julius von), History of Botany, 337 



Sahara, on the Meteorological Conditions of Desert Regions with 



Special Reference to the. Dr. John Murray, 296 

 St. Elmo's Fire, Capt. Haltermann, 254 

 St. John (Rev. J. Seymour), Larva Collecting and Breedins;, 



269 

 St. Petersburg : Society of Naturalists, Memoirs of, 64 ; Proposed 



Reopening of Medical Academy for Women at, 279 ; Bulletin 



de 1' Academic des Sciences, 535 

 Salcher (P.) and E. Mach, the Velocities of Projectiles, 250 

 Salem, U.S.A., Collection of Objects Illustrating the Art and 



Ethnology of Japan, no 

 Salet, Girard, and Pabst (MM.), Agenda du Chimiste, 340 

 Salt, how to Keep it Dry, 486 

 Salt Company's, Rio Negro, Exhibits at Buenos Ayres Rural 



Exhibition, 402 

 Salt-Range Fossils, Dr. W. Waagen, 66 

 Sammlung von Vortragen und Abhandlungen, 376 

 San Jose de Costa Rica, the New Observatory of, 301 

 Sanchez, St. Domingo, Meteorological Observations made at, 



by Dr. W. Reid, 458 

 Sand, Sonorous, H. C. Hyndman, 554 

 Sands, the Barking, of the Hawaiian Islands, H. Carrington 



Bolton, 389 

 Sands, Musical, Cecil Carus- Wilson, 568 

 Sandberg (C. P.), Steel Rails, 356 

 Sanderson (J. B. , F.R.S.), Photographic Determination of 



Changes in Muscle during Latent Stimulation, 142 

 Sandwich Islands, the Ornithology of the, Prof A. Newton, 



F.R.S., 579 

 Sang (Dr. Edward) : on Curves produced by the Vibration of 



Straight Wires, 575 ; on Last-Place Errors in Vlacq, 593 

 Sanitary Congress, the Coming, 180 

 Sanitary Institute, Brighton Congress of, 426, 458 

 Sanity and Insanity, Charles Mercier, 635 

 Sanskrit Manuscripts, the Search for, in India, 459 

 Santiago, Chile, Observatory, 427 

 Saporia (Marquis de). Recent Work among Fossil Plants, J. 



Starkie Gardner, 521 

 Sarrau (M.), on the Characteristic Equation of Nitrogen, 47 

 Saturn, Satellites of. Dr. Hermann Struve, 600 ; Observations 



of Saturn at the Disappearance of the Ring, M. E. L. 



Trouvelot, 429 

 S'aville-Kent (W. ), the Zoological Affinities ol Heliopora carulea, 



Bi., 340 

 Sawerthal's Comet 188 1 I., and j3 Lyrae, Spectroscopic Obser- 

 vations, Dr. Nicolaus von Konkoly, 650 

 Scandinavian Peninsula, Finland and Denmark, Map of, 35 

 Scarlatina, a Contribution to the Natural History of, derived 



from Observations on the London Epidemic of 1887-88, Dr. 



D. Astley Gresswell, 220 

 Scenic Contrivance, Ingenious, at Paris Hippodrome, 353 

 Schaeberle (Prof), a Mechanical Theory of the Solar Corona, 



68 

 Schneider (Dr. A. F.), Death of, 160 

 Scholarships, Establishment of Science, 431 

 Schultze (Dr.) : Should Beer be Drunk out of a Glass, 525 ; 



Stachyose, a New Crystalline Carbohydrate Extracted from 



Stachys tuberifera by, 255 

 Schuster (Dr. Arthur, F.R.S.), the Discharge of Electricity 



through Gases, 591 

 Schutzenberger (P.), on a Sulphocarbide of Platinum, 512 

 Science : in Plain I^anguage, William Durham, 4 ; Scientific 



Societies of Great Britain and Ireland, Year-book of, 19 ; 



Scientific Serials, 43 ; Science and Art Department and 



Birthday Honours, 86 ; Science Applied to Work, John A. 



Bower. 147 ; Science and Art Department, a Suggestion 



respecting the Syllabus of the, Volo Leges Mutari, 592 ; 



Science Subjects and the Indian Civil Service Examinations, 

 133 ; Scientific Serial, a New, 157 ; Science Instruction in 



Public Elementary Schools, 206 ; the Elizabeth Thompson 



Science Fund for Scientific Research, 206 ; Revival of Mr. 



