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INDEX 



[Nature, Da. 27, 1883 



Reichavt and Mitchell (Drs.), on the Chemical Characters of the 

 Venom of Serpents, Sir J. Fayrer, F.R.S., 114 



Reindeer in Bebring's Island, 42 



Reinold (Prof. A. W.), on the Limiting Thickness of Liquid 

 Films, 142 ; and Prof. A. W. Riicker, Liquid Films and 

 Molecular Magnitudes, 3S9 



Rendiconti of the Reale Istituto Lcmbardo di Scienze e Lettcre, 

 71, 214, 23S, 262, 335, 431, 535 



Reusch (Dr. H.), on the Geology of Norway, 307 



Revue Internationale des Sciences, 142 



Revue Internationale des Sciences Biolcgiques, 214 



Reymond (Prof, du Bois), on Animal Electricity, 95 



Reynolds (Prof. Osborne, F.R.S.), the Term "Stability" as 

 used in Naval Literature, 5S2 



Rhinoceros Group, Origin and Development of the, Scott and 

 Osborne, 579 



Rhone, Current of, tp be utilised for Lighting Geneva, 353 



Ricco, A., the Red Spot upon Jupiter, 487 



Ricketts (Chas.), " Elevation and Subsidence," 413, 539 



Riebeck (Dr. E.), Proposed Niger Expedition, 404 



Rio Janeiro, the Observatory of, 65 



Ripper (William), Practical Chemistry, with Notes and Ques- 

 tions on Theoretical Chemistry, 148 



Ristori (E.), the Great Comet h 1S82, 225 



Rivi-ta Scientifico-Industriale e Giornale del Naturalista, 584 



Roberts (M. J.), Animal Intelligence, 436 



Roberts (Prof. W. Chandler, F. U.S.), the Decimal System at 

 the Mint, 82 



Roche (Prof. Arthur), Obituary Notice of, II 



Roebling (Mrs. Washington) and Brooklyn Bridge, 156 



Rogers (Prof. W. A.), German Survey of Northern Heavens. 



47" 



Rolleston Memorial, 328 



Romanes (Dr. G. J., F.R.S.) : Gallon's "Human Faculty and its 

 Development," 97; Natural Selection and Natural Religion, 

 100; "Colin Clout's Calendar; the Record of a Summer, April 

 — October," Grant Allen, 194 ; "A Few Words on Evolution 

 and Creation," Henry S. Boase, F.R.S. , "Notes on Evolu- 

 tion and Christianity," J. F. Yorke, 222; Essays in Philoso- 

 phical Criticism, 3S6 ; "A Visit to Ceylon," Prof. Haeckel, 

 410; and Modern Philosophy, Alfred Step ley, 461 ; Physio- 

 logical Cruelty, 537; the Uselessness of Vivisection, 589 



Roscoe and Stewart (Profs.), on the Heating Powers of the Sun's 

 Rays at London and at Kew, 605 



Rosser (W. II.), Stellar Navigation, 316 



Royal Academy, 50, 73 



Royal Geographical Society, Award of Medals, &c, 15 ; Annual 

 Meeting, 104 



Royal Institution of Great Britain, 623 



Royal Observatory, 136 



Royal Society, 15, 21, 45, 71, 93, 119, 142, 166, 191, 214, 256, 



335. 535 



Royal Society of Canada, 2S3 



Royal Society of Edinburgh (set Edinburgh) 



Royal Society of New South Wales, 560, 5S4 



Riicker (Prof. A.W.) : on the Limiting Thickness of Liquid 

 Films, 142 ; and Prof. A. W. Reinold, on Liquid Films and 

 Molecular Magnitudes, 389 



Ru sia : Chemical and Physical Society of, 21, 93, 134, 213, 

 430, 455; Meteorology in, 42; Rn ian Geographical So- 

 ciety, 117, 15S, 573, 596; New Expeditions, 596; Sup- 

 pression of Ecclesiastical Censorship of Scientific Writii gs 

 in, 157 ; Permian System in Russia, 165 ; Russian Polar Sta- 

 tion at Sagastyr, 1S2 ; Russian Meteorological Stations, 1S6 ; 

 Locusts in, 258; Science in, 379; Wind Velocity in, Dr. 

 Woeikof, 571 



Ryder's Oyster Culture by Artificial Impregnation, 470 



Sabine (Gen. Sir Edward, K.C.B), Death of, 205 ; Obituary 



Notice of, 218, 256 

 Sachs (lulius), " Vorlesungen iiber Pflanzen-Physiologie," 460 

 Sacred Tree of Ruin-burn, E. L. Layard, 79 

 Sagastyr Polar Station, 1S2 

 St. Andrew's University, 5 

 St. 1 lavid's, on the Supposed Pie-Cambrian Rocks of, Archibald 



Geikie, F.K.S., iS 

 St. Petersburg Society of Natural History, 93 

 Salmon (Prof. George, F.R.S.), Arthur Cnyley, F.R.S., 41S 

 Sahnonidas, Tweed, 469 



Samuelson (B., F.R.S.), on the Iron and Steel Industries, 68 

 Sand, J. S. Gardner, 224 ; James Melvin, 245, 344 ; J. G. 



Waller, 300 

 Sanitary Congress, the, on House Sanitation, 564 

 " Sanitary Engineer," 624 

 Sanitary Institute of Great Briiain, 42 



Sanitation : Autumn, 458 ; House, the Sanitary Congress on, 564 

 Saponine, Viscosity of, 23 

 Saporta's Work on Fossil Alga:, 52 

 Sardinia, Phylloxera in, 306 

 Satellites, Ephemerides of the, 335 

 Satellites of Saturn, 158, 377 

 Satsuma Ware, 306 

 Saturnian Satellites, 158, 377 



Sayce (Prof. A. H.), " Origines Celtics?," &c, Edwin Guest, 242 

 Scale, Earliest Known Plotting, W. M. Flinders Petrie, 341 

 Scandinavia and Scotland, Metamorphic Rocks of, 7 

 "Scarecrows," Curious Nest-building, 126 

 Schools : Science in, 23; Industrial Art in, C. G. Leland, 207; 



Maternal Schools in France, 207 

 Schomburgk (Dr.), Report on Botanic Gardens of* South 



Australia, 572 

 Schulhof's Elements of Tempel's Comet, 1873 II., 446 

 Schuster (Dr. A.), Internal Constitution of the Sun, fco6 

 Schwatka's (Lieut.) Expedition to Alaska, 209 

 Schweinfurth (Dr. G.), the Flcra of Ancient Egypt, 15, IC9 

 Science in Schools, 23 



Science and Art, 50, 73 ; Latimer Clark, 125 

 Science : at Kazan, 212 ; at Cambridge, Prof. M. Foster, F.R.S., 



374; in Ru sia, 379 ; Decentralisation in, 3S5 

 Science Worthies, Arthur Cayley (with Portrait), Prof. 



George Salmon, 481 

 Science, a Plea for Pure, Prof. H. A. Rowland, 510 

 Science, Natural, Metaphysical Foundations of, R. A. Haldane, 



56l 

 Science Classes in Warwick, 622 

 Science, the Study of, Leonard Courtney, M.P., 623 

 Scientific Progress in China and Japan, by Sinensis, 34 

 Scientific Societies, Local, Francis Galton, F.R.S., 135 

 Scientific Journals and American Copyright, 280 

 Scoresby and Vince, on the State of the Atmosphere which 

 produces the Forms of Mirage observed by, Prof. P. G. Tait, 

 84 

 Scotland and Scandinavia, Metamorphic Rocks of, 7 

 Scott and Osborne on the Origin and Development of the Rhi- 

 noceros Group, 579 

 Scottish Meteorological Society, SS, 306 

 Scotsmen, Two Eminent, 337 



Scudder (S. H.), Ravages on Pine Trees by Moths, 64 

 Sea-Shore Alluvion, Dungeness, L B. Redman, 125 

 Sea-Waves, Mid-Height of, W. Parfitt, 82 

 Seal, Gray, Prof. E. Ray Lankester on a Young Specimen of, 



from Boscastle, 580 

 Secondary Batteries, the Electrolysis of Dilute Sulphuric Acid 



in, 551 

 Seebohm (Henry), " History of British Birds," 126 

 Seismic Investigations in Japan, 550 

 Seismograph, New Form of, C. A., Stevenson, 117; Prof. 



Ewing's New Duplex, 30S 

 Serpents, on the Chemical Characters of the Venom of, Sir J. 



Fayrer^ F.R.S., 114, 199 

 Shadows, Double, 366 



Shandon Cave, near Dungarvan, B. A. Report on, 55° 

 Shape of Leaves, E. M. Holmes, 29 

 Sharpe (R. Bowdler), Recent Ornithological Works, 126 

 Sheet-Lightning, 80; Rev. W. Clement Ley, 4, 54; Antoine 

 d'Abbadie, 29 ; Prof. John Tyndall, F.R.S., 54; Fred. Pratt, 

 104 ; N. W. Taylor, 126 ; W. G. Stillman, 271 

 Shipley (Arthur E.), Regnard's Incandescent Lamp, 366 

 Ships, on the Deviations of the Standard Compass in Iron- 

 Plated, 93 

 Shooting Stars of the July Meteoric Epoch, W. F. Denning, 351 

 Siberia: Tigers in South Usuri, 134; Sibiriakoff's Exploration 

 of, 233 ; Siberian Stone Period Remains Exploration, 596 ; 

 Earthquake in, 597 

 Sibiriakoft's Exploration of Siberia, 233 

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

 Siemens' Electric Railway at Portrush, 43 

 Siemens (W. ), the Luminosity of Gases, 181 

 Siemens and Halske's Torsion Galvanometer, 571 



