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INDEX 



XVI 1 



Simmons, Balloon Ascent, 510 



"Simotes" (The), Genus of Snakes, H. O. Forbes, 539 



Simultaneous Affections of the Barometer, Prof. Balfour 



Stewart, F.R.S., 387 

 Sinensis, on Scientific Progress in China and Japan, 34 

 Singing, Speaking, and Stammering, Alex. Melville Bell, 



102 

 Sington (T.), "Elevation and Subsidence," 587 

 Smell, Physiology of, Herr Aronsohn, 384 

 Smiles (Samuel), James Nasmyth, Engineer, 387 

 Smith (Frederic J.), Determination of " H,'' 367 

 Smith (Prof. Henry); Memorial Bust of, 115; Gauss and the 



Late, R. Tucker, 272 

 Smith (Morris H.), " Waterspouts" on the Little Bahama Bank 



— Whirlwind at Grand Cayman, 269 

 Smith (Worthington G.) : Disease of Potatoes, 299 ; Primaeval 



Man and Working Men Students, 320 ; Aniiquities Saved by 



Protective Resemblance, 462 ; Flint Flakes Kei laced, 490 ; 



a Large and Rude Palaeolithic Implement, 617 

 Smith (Prof. W. Robertson) the Life of Edward Henry Palmer, 



by Walter Befant, 292 

 Smoke Aba'ement, 27S 

 Smyth (Prof. Piazzi) : the Peak of Teneriffe not very Active 



again, 172 ; Cyanogen in Small Induction Sparks in Free Air, 



340 ; a Green Sun in India, 575 

 Snails, Helix pomatia, 6, 31 

 Snake, the Genus " Simotes " of, H. O. Forbes, 539 ; Mrs. 



Catherine C. Hopley on Snake Poison, 612 

 Snellen (Dr.), Report of Dijmphna Expedition, 546 

 Snow and Ice Flora, Mrs. Merrifield, 304 

 Soaring of Birds, R. Courtenay, 28 ; James Currie, 82 ; Dr. 



Hubert Airy, 103 ; Rev. W. R. Manley, 10S 

 Societe des Electriciens, Preliminary Meeting of, 353 

 Society of Art-; : Albert Medal Awarded to Sir Joseph Hooker, 



179; and W. Spottiswoode, P.R.S., 233; Report of the 



Council, 233 ; Conversazione, 279 

 Sociology, W. R. Hughes on, 64 

 Socotra, B.A. Report on the Natural History of, 547 

 Solar Eclipse of May 6, 1883, 31, 471 ; Report of French 



Pacific Mission, 4S0 ; the Total ol September 8-9, 1883, 208 ; 



the Annular Eclipse of October 31, 1SS3, 208 ; the To-al, of 



August 28-29, «8S6, 281 

 Solar Halo, Sergeant E. Cardwell, 30 ; Tho. B. Groves, 30 ; 



Thomas Ward, 80 ; Sm., 80 ; E. Brown, 563 

 Solar Physics, Sir William Siemens, F.R.S., 19 

 Solar Rainbow, a Complete, D. Morris, 436, 489 

 Solar Spectrum, Atmospheric Ab orption in the Infra-Red of 



the, Capt. Abney and Lieut. -Col. Festing, 45 

 Solar {see also Sun) 

 Solfatara of Pozzuoli, on the Condensation of Vapour from the 



Fumaroles of the. Dr. Italo Giglioli, 83 

 Solid and I iquid Illuminiting Agents, 282 

 Sorghum saecharatum, 376 

 Soudan, Easter.i, New Maps of, 404 

 " Sound and Music," by Sedley Taylor, 434 

 Sound-Po=t, on the Function ot the, and the Proportional Thick- 

 ness of the Strings of the Violin, Dr. William Huggi ?, 259 ; 



R. Howson, 269, 300 

 South Africa, Stone Implements from, Major H. W. Fielden, 



144 

 Southern California, Archaeology of, L. P. Gratacap, 249 

 Southern and Swiss Health Resorts, Wm. Marcet, M D 



F.R.S., 434 

 Southport, Post Glacial Geology of Country Round, C. E. de 



Ranee, 490 

 Sowerby (W.), the Freshwater Medusae, 7 

 Space, Matter of, Prof. Chas. Morris, 148 ; Prof. A. S. 



Kerschel, 294 

 Spain, Earthquakes in, 623 

 Sparrows in Asii Minor, 116 



Speaking, Singing, and Stammering, Alex. Melville Bell, 102 

 Spectrum A-.alysis : Atmospheric Absorption in the Infra-Red 

 of the Solar Spectrum, Capt. Abney and Lieut.-Col. Festing, 

 45 ; Experiments at High Elevations iu the Andes, 606 ; 

 Spectrum of the Aurora, Thos. William Backhouse, 209 

 Speke and Grant Zebra, Col. J. A. Grant, 366 

 Spencer (Herbert) and the Birmingham Natural History and 



Microscopical Society, 64 

 Spirogyra quinina, Fredk. Haigh, 226 

 Spottiswoode (William, P.R.S.), Illness of, 155; Death of, 



205 ; Obituary Notice of, 217; Funeral of, 246 ; Monument 



of, 400 

 Spring (M.), Researches into Influence of Great Pressure on 



Chemical Reactions, 181 ; Results of Prolonged Washing of 



Precipitated Sulphide of Copper, 182 

 Squalls, Rev. W. Clement Ley, 132 



"stability" as used in Naval Literature, Prof. Osborne Rey- 

 nolds, K.R.S., 582 

 Stachys paluslris as Food, A. Wentzl, 414; W. T. Thiselton 



Dyer, F.R.S., 436 

 Stammering, Singing, and Speaking, Alex. Melville Bell, 



102 

 Stanley (H. M.), Discovery of New Lake called Mantumba, 



572 

 Stanley (W. F.), " Subsidence and Elevation," 488 

 Stapley (Alfred), Mr. Romanes and Modern Philosophy, 461 

 Stars : British Association Catalogue of, 90 ; Binary Star 7 



Coronte Australis, 158 ; Paris General Catalogue of, 181, 469; 



Shooting Stars of the July Meteoric Epoch, W. F. Denning, 



351 ; Variable, 403 ; Variable U Cephei, 625 ; Trouvelot's 



Red, 596 

 Steamships, Merchant, Stability of, Sir E. J. Reed, M.P., 



F.R.S., 419 

 Stecker (Dr.), Return of, 572 

 Steel, Carbon in, 22 



Steel Castings v. Steel .ind Iron Forgings, 69 

 Steen (A. S.), the Norwegian Circumpolar Station, 566 

 Stellar Photography at Harvard, 255 

 Stellar Navigation, W. H. Rosser, 316 

 Stevens (Joseph), Animal Intelligence, 343 

 Stevenson (C. A.), New Form of Seismograph, 117 

 Stewart (Prof. Balfour, F.U.S.), Simultaneous Affections of the 



Barometer, 387 ; on the Forms of the Sun's Influence on the 



Magnetism of the Earth, 605 

 Stewart and Roscoe (Prof<.), on the Heating Powers of the 



Sun's Rays at London and at Kew, 605 

 Stewart (Duncan), Intelligence in Animals, 31 

 Stillman (W. J.), Glowworms, 245 ; Sheet-Lightning, 271 

 Stockholm, Cyclone at, 280 

 Stokoe (Paul Henry), Helix pomatia, 6 

 Stone (E. J., F.R.S.), Positions of the Moon, 71 

 Stone (W. H.), Note on the Influence of High Temperature on 



the Electrical Resi tanceof the Human Body, 151 ; Electrical 



Resistance of Human Body, 463 

 Stone Implements from South Africa, Major H. W. Fielden, 



144 

 Stone Period in Siberia, Exploration of Remains of, 596 

 Stratford, Palaeolithic Implements at, G. F. Lawrence, 367 

 Strings of the Violin, on the Function of the Sound-Post and 



the Proportional Thickness of the, Dr. William Huggins, 



259 ; R. Howson, 269, 300 

 Struthio molybdophanes, 531 



Student's Mechanic--, Walter R. Browne, 317, 344 

 Stuxberg (Dr. Anton), Researches on the Deep-Sea Fauna from 



a Zoogeographical Point of View, 394 

 Styria, Earthquake in, 597 

 " Subsidence, Elevation and ; or, The Permanence of Oceans and 



Continents," J. Starkie Gardner, 323, 488 ; John Murray, 



365 ; Rev. O Fisher, 365, 515 ; R. Mountford Deeley, 366 ; 



F. Voung, 3S8, 4S8 ; W. F. Stanley, 488 ; William Mackie, 



488 ; Chas. Ricketts, Jas. Durham, 539 

 Suez Canal, a New, 179 

 Sulphide of Copper (Precipitated), results of Prolonged Washing 



of, Spring, 1S2 

 Sulphur in Bitumen, H. R. Mill, 414 



Sulphuric Acid, Dilute, the Electrolysis of, in Secondary Bat- 

 teries, 551 

 Sun : a Sun Pillar, 18S3, Prof. T. McKenny Hughes, 31 ; 

 Maxwell Hall, 225 ; a Green, in India, Prof. C. Piazzr Smyth, 

 575; Rev. W. R. Manley, 576; Henry Bedford, 58S ; in 

 Ceylon, 597 ; the Heating Pover of the Sun's Rays at London 

 rnd at Kew, Profs. Roscoe and Stewart, 605 ; the Sun's In- 

 fluence on tre Magnetism of the Earth, Prof. Balfour Stewart, 

 F.R.S., 605 ; Internal Constitution of the Sun, Dr. A. Schuster, 

 606 ; Dr. Huggin< on Coronal Photography without an Eclipse, 

 606 (see also Solar) 

 Sunspots, the Weather and, D-. A. Woeikof, 53 ; the Cold in 

 March and Absence of, Dr. C. J. B. Williams, F.R.S., 102 ; 

 James Blake, 319; Connection between Auroras and, Prof. 

 Lenz, 545; Sunspots and the Chemical Elements in the Sun, 



