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INDEX 



XXXI 



fohn Fryer's Chinese Science Quarterly, 208 ; Musical 

 ;ience, Dr. Primo Crotti, 259 ; Scientific Principles involved 

 making Big Guns, Prof. A. G. Greenhill, F.R.S., 304, 

 J31, 378 ; Advancement of Science, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, 

 I.R.S., 339 ; Australian Association for the Advancement of 

 ^Science, 352, 374 ; the Income Tax and the Promotion of 

 Science, 361 ; Science Scholarships to be Established by 

 1851 Exhibition Commission, 374 ; Science and Art Museum, 

 Dublin, and the National Library of Ireland, 391 ; French 

 Association for the Advancement of, 399 ; Establishment of 

 Science Scholarships, 431 ; Sir Henry Roscoe, F.R.S., on Re- 

 cent Legislation for facilitating the Teaching of Science, 530 » 

 the Age of Science, Earl of Derby, F.R.S., 556 ; Science in 

 China, 575 ; Forthcoming Scientific Books, 559 ; Scientific 

 Investigations of the Fishery Board for Scotland, 653 



[Sclater (Dr. P. L., F.R.S.): the White Rhinoceros, 520 ; the 

 New Australian Mammal, 645 



i Scotland: Scientific Investigations of the Fishery Board for, 

 39, 653 ; Half-yearly General Meeting of the Scottish Meteoro- 

 logical Society, 278 ; Scenes and Stories of the North of, 

 John Sinclair, 591 ; Proposal to Apply the New Spirit-Tax to 

 Free Elementary Education in, 327 



Scott (R. H.), Thunderstorms, 160 



Scott-Elliott (G. F.), Ornithophilous Flowers, Sun-birds and 

 Flower-fertilization, 279 



Screws, Theory of. Sir Robert Ball, F.R.S., Prof. O. Henrici, 

 F.R.S., 127 



Scudder (S. H.), on the Fossil Butterflies of Florissant, 

 Colorado, 18 



Sea Anemones of the North Atlantic, Dr. D. C. Danielssen, 



397 

 Sea, Experiments on the use of Oil at, 87 ; R. F, Grantham, 



on the Encroachment of the Sea on the English Coast, 87 

 Sea- Fish, on the Distribution of Immature, Dr. Wemyss Fulton, 



653 



Sea-bickness, M. Rochet on the Cause and Treatment of, 574 



Sea-Urchins and their Homes, M. John, no 



Seal-Fisheries of Alaska, 171 



Seals, the Eskimo Method of Catching, F. F. Payne, 66 



Searle (Prof. Arthur), Observations of the Zodiacal Light, 282 



Seasonal Growth, Reduplication of, Rev. A. Irving, 296 



Secondarj' Cells, the Working Efficiency of, 423 



Secular Inequalities in the Moon's Motion, Prof. J. N. Stock- 

 well, 256 



Sedgwick (Rev. Adam, F.R.S.), the Life and Letters of, John 

 Willis Clark, F.S.A., Thos. McKenny Hughes, F.R.S., 

 Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 217, 241 



Seebohm (Henry) : Classification of Birds, an Attempt to 

 Diagnose the Sub-Classes, Orders, Sub-Orders, and some of 

 the Families of Existing Birds, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 74 ; the 

 Birds of the Japanese Empire, R. Bowdler Sharpe, 633 



Seedling Sugar-canes, 258 



Seeley (Prof.) in South Africa, 327 



Seismography : the Eruption of Vulcano Island, Dr. H. J. 

 Johnston-Lavis, 78 ; Prof. Milne, on the System of Building 

 best adapted to withstand Earthquakes, 36 ; Earthquakes at 

 Sofia, 65 ; on the Study of Earthquakes in Great Britain, 

 Charles Davison, 346 ; Earthquakes in the Danube Valley, 

 458 ; the Mode of Observing the Phenomena of Earthquakes, 

 Harold G. Dixon, 491 ; Prof. John Perry, F.R.S., 545 ; 

 Earthquake-tremors, Alfred P. Wire, 593 {see also Earth- 

 quakes) 



Selection, Cessation of (j^^ Panmixia) 



Selkirk Range, Among the Selkirk Glaciers, W. Spotswood 

 Green, 26 



Selous (F.), the White Rhinoceros, Dr. P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., 

 520 



Semon (Dr. F.), Position of Vocal Cords in Quiet Respiration 

 of Man, and Reflex-tonus of Abductor-muscles, 238 

 nsitive Plant, a New Theory for the. Dr. G. Haberlandt, 561 

 iiulchres. Ancient, the Covered Mortuary Chambers at Les 

 Mureaux, Dr. Verneau, 407 



rve Tube and the Simplex Brake, W. B. Marshall, 533 

 ibert and Pollard (Drs), on Cyanogen Iodide, CNI, 36 

 xual Selection in Spiders, R. I. Pocock, 405 

 ys-Phillips (W.) and E. M. Langley, the Harpur Euclid, 295 

 irp (David), proposed Fellow of the Royal Society, 16 

 i.arpe (R. Bowdler): Classification of Birds, an Attempt to 

 Diagnose the Sub-Classes, Orders, Sub-Orders, and some of 

 the Families of Existing Birds, Henry Seebohm, 74 ; a Hand- 

 book of European Birds for the Use of Field Naturalists and 



Collectors, James Backhouse, Jun., 74 ; the Birds of the 



Japanese Empire, Henry Seebohm, 633 

 Shaw (Dr. Cecil), Night-shining Clouds, 246 

 Shaw (lames). Extraordinary Flight of Leave':, 637 

 Shaw (W. N.), on a Pneumatic Analogue of the Wheatstone 



Bridge, 44 

 Shining Clouds, Night, T. W. Backhouse, 246 ; Dr. Cecil 



Shaw, 246 ; D. J. Rowan, 246 

 Sheffield, Crucible Steel-making at, 355 



Sheffield Technical School, Sir Frederick Mappin's Gift to, 64 

 Sheldon (Dr.), the Magneto-optical Generation of Electricity, 



534 

 Shenstone (W. A.), British Association Procedure, 456 

 Sherborn (Charles Davies) : Index Generum et Specierum 



Animalium, 54 ; and Arthur Smith Woodward, Catalogue of 



British Fossil Vertebrata, I22 

 Shooting- Stars, the Mass of, C. C. Hutchins, 90 

 Shore (T. W.), Celtic Survivals in Hampshire, 402 

 Shorthand Congress, the International, 233 

 Shrews, Recent Classification of the. Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, 567 

 Shropshire and Wales, Dr. Hicks on Earth-Movements in, 532 

 Shrubsole (P. A.), Reading-Valley Gravels, 263 

 Shufeldt (Dr. R. W.) : on the Position of Chama:a in the 



System, 33 ; Recent Classification of the Shrews, 567 

 Siberia, Miocene Deposits in East, 18 

 Sibley (Dr. Walter K.), Protective Colours, 544 

 Sicily, L. Nicotra's Flora of, 655 

 Siebold's (Heinrich von) Japanese Collections presented to the 



Vienna Hofmuseum, 375 

 Siemens's P'urnace : John Head on a New Form of, 69 ; Prof. 



Akerman on Regenerating Gas in, 69 

 Sight in the United States, Increase of Defective, 301 

 Silkworm, Colouring by Feeding of, Louis Blanc, 384 

 Silvestri (Orazio), Death of, 458 

 Simony's Lizard at the Zoological Gardens, 16, 91 

 Simplex Brake, the, and the " Serve" Tube, W. B. Marshall, 



533 

 Sinclair (John), Scenes and Stories of the North of Scotland, 



.591 

 Singing Mice, J. E. Harting, 22 



Skate, the Common, the Development of. Dr. Beard, 654 

 Skidegate Islands, Earthquake at, 134 

 Skull, a Clinical Study of the. Dr. Harrison Allen, 87 

 Sky, Remarkable Appearance in the, 198 ; D. J. Rowan, 222 

 Sloyd or Handcraft, 279 

 Slugs and Thorns, T. D. A. Cockerell, 31 

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



534 

 Smart (William), Translation of Prof. Eugen von Bohm- 



Bawerk's Capital and Interest, 462 

 Smith (Anderson), the Cruise of the Garland, Interesting Cap- 

 tures, 252 

 Smith (Charles), Elementary Algebra, 518 

 Smith (S. W. J.), Diurnal Variations of Magnets at Kew, 239 

 Smith (Dr. Wilberforce), on Male and Female Respiratory 



Movements, 581 

 Smithson (T. Spencer), Pond-Life, AlgK and Allied Forms, 



171 

 Smithsonian Institution, Explorations of the U.S. Fish Com- 

 mission Reports, 574 ; Smithsonian Report, 1887, 368 

 Smoke- Preventing Appliances, Committee on, 108 

 Smoking, the Influence of, on Tuberculous Matter, 48 

 Smyth (Prof. C. Piazzi), on Photographs of the Invisible in 



Solar Spectroscopy, 578 

 Smyth (Sir Warington W., F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of, 204 

 Snail Burrows, Coral Reefs, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 147 

 Snails, Land, Excavation of Algerian Limestone by, 327 

 Snake Swallowed by Snake, D. Le Souef, 301 

 Snakes, Poisonous, in South America, 115 

 Snakes of North Kanara, the Venomous, G. W. Vidal, 160 

 Sneefeldness, Iceland, Dr. Thoroddsen's Proposed Geological 



Investigation of, 64 

 Snow (F. H.), on a Fall of Meteorites in Kansas, 86 

 Snow, the Temperature of, Signor Chistoni, 109 

 Soaring of Birds : Prof. Magnus Blix, 397, 593 ; Rev. O. 



Fisher, 457 ; C. O. Bartrum, 457, 637 ; Right Rev. Bishop 



Reginald Courtenay, 463 

 Societede Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve, Proposed 



Celebration of Hundredth Anniversary, 326 

 Society of Arts, Award of the Albert Medal to Dr. W. H. 



PerUin, F.R.S., 205 



