XXXVI 
Index 
Supplement to Nature, 
June 17, 1897 
munity from Snake-Bite, R. C. T. Evans, 367; Dr. Dawson 
Williams, 415; J. Bliss, 486 
Snape (H. L.), Identity of Laurent’s Amarone and Tetral- 
phenylazine, 478 
Snell (E. Hugh), Compressed Air Illness, or so-called Caisson 
Disease, 411 
Snow Buntings, J. R. Dakyns, tor 
Sociology, the Principles of, Herbert Spencer, 506 
Soga (Dr. W. A.), Use of Fungus for Destroying Locusts, 514 
Solar Eclipse, Total, of August 9, 1896, M. Deslandres, 235 
Sollas (Prof. W. J., F.R.S.), Pacific Coral Reef Expedition, 12 ; 
Report on the Coral Reef at Funafuti, 373; Prehistoric Man 
and Beast, 314; the Legendary History of Funafuti, Ellice 
Group, 353 
Solutions, the Theory of, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 253 
Somaliland (North), Meterocephalus glaber in, Prof. Henry H. 
Giglioli, 440 
Somerville (Lieut. B. T.), Ethnography of New Georgia, 143 
Somerville (Prof. W.), Papilionaceous Plants and Nitragen, 
399; Manurial Trials, 471 ; Farm and Garden Insects, 605 
Sorby (Dr. T1. C., F.R.S.), Shooting Stars observed on January 
2, 225; Fifty Years’ Scientific Work, 348 
Sorel (M.), Results of Application of X-Rays to Stomach, 600 
Sorstedt (E.), Detection of Gold in Sea-water, 166 
Sound, Perception of Direction and Distance of, Dr. A. A. Gray, 
599 
Sparrows and Wheat, F. G. Brook-Fox, 33 
Specific Characters: Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell, 414; the In- 
heritance of Specific Characters, F. A. Bather, Prof. R. 
Meldola, F.R.S., 29; the Utility of, Rev. John T. Gulick, 
508 
Spectrum Analysis: Extension of the Visible Spectrum, A, A. 
C. Swinton, 32; Prof. Oliver J. Lodge, F.R.S., Benjamin 
Davies, 33; Stars with Peculiar Spectra, Mrs. Fleming, 84 ; 
Spectrum of Chlorophyll, A.Etard, 95 ; a New Spectroscopic 
Binary in Puppis, 137 ; the Spectrum of ¢ Puppis, 352 ; 
New Law discovered by Prof. Arthur Schuster, 180 ; Celestial 
Eddies, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 249; Spectroscopic 
Study of Water Vapour Distribution in Air, L. E. Jewell, 
258; Results with Prismatic Camera during 1896 Eclipse, 
J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 263 ; the Rydberg-Schuster Law 
of Elementary Spectra, Prof. A. S. Herschel, F.R.S., 271; 
Carbon in Bright-Line Stars, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 
304, 341; Dr. William Huggins, F.R.S., 316; Spectra of 
Argon, J. Trowbridge and J. W. Richards, 308; Heat Rays 
of Great Wave-length, H. Rubens, E. N. Nichols, 329, 524; 
the Spectroscopic Binary a! Geminorum, A. Belopolsky, 352 ; 
New Formule for Spectrum Waves, J. J. Balmer, 381; the 
Multiple Spectra of Gases, J. Trowbridge and J. W. Richards, 
406; the Gaseous Constituents of Minerals and Natural 
Waters, W. Ramsay, F.R.S., and M. W. Travers, 406 ; 
Oxygen in the Sun, Lewis Jewell, 447 ; the Chemistry of the 
Stars, 447; Iron Lines in Hottest Stars, J. Norman Lockyer, 
F.R.S., 452; Apparatus for Gas Recognition by Spectrum 
Analysis, M. Berthelot, 503; Detection of Potassium Com- 
pounds of Flame Test, S. G. Newth, 543; Peculiar Stellar 
Spectra, 616 ; Nova Aurigze, Prof. W. W. Campbell, 617 
~Spencer (Herbert), the Principles of Sociology, 506 
Spitzbergen, Sir Martin Conway’s Crossing of, 306 
Sport in the Alps in the Past and Present, W. A. Baillie- 
Grohman, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 102 
Sputa and Cryptogamic Flora of the Mouth, Bacteria of the, 
Filando Vincentini, Dr. E. Klein, F.R.S., 437 
‘Sresnevsky (Prof.), Barometric Oscillations in 1887, 234 
Stainer (S.), Observations of Swallows, 109 
Stars: Stars with Peculiar Spectra, Mrs. Fleming, 84 ; a Com- 
panion to @ Scorpii, Dr. T. J. J. See, 111; a New Spectro- 
scopic Binary in Puppis, 137 ; the Spectrum of ¢ Puppis, 352 ; 
Relative Motion of Stars in the Line of Sight, Prof. E. C. 
Pickering, 137; the Satellite of Procyon, Isaac W. Ward, 
153; the Algol Variable + 17° 4367, W Delphini, Prof. E. 
C, Pickering, 260; Double Star Measures, 280, 373, 516; 
R. G. Aitken, 280; Carbon in Bright Line Stars, J. Norman 
Lockyer, F.R.S., 304, 341; Dr. William Huggins, F.R.S., 
316; the Companions of Procyon and Sirius, 62; the Period 
of Sirius’ Companion, 329; the Spectroscopic Binary al 
Geminorum, A. Belopolsky, 352; the Chemistry of the 
Stars, 447; Three Brilliant Stellar Systems, Prof. T. J. J. 
See, 498; Refraction and the Apparent Diurnal Movements 
of Stars, Dr. A. A. Rambaut, 592; Peculiar Stellar Spectra, 
616; Nova Aurigze, Prof. W. W. Campbell, 617 
Statistical Society, Presidential Address, J. B. Martin, 81 
Statistics ; Death of J. B. Martin, 495 
Steam, Method of Determining Dryness of Saturated Steam and 
Condition of Steam Gas, Prof. Osborne Reynolds, F.R.S., 71 
Steamship, the Bazin Roller, 109, 379 
Steam Turbine Engine, Hon. Charles Parsons’, as applied to 
Marine Propulsion, Trial of, 181 
Stebbing (W. P. D.), Two Granite Boulders from Betchworth 
Middle Chalk, 478 
Steel, the Expansion of Nickel, C. E. Guillaume, 335 
Steel-tempering in Phenol, M. Levat, 143 
Stellar Systems, Three Brilliant, Prof. T. J. J. See, 498 * 
Stereoscopic Studies of Clouds, the, John Tennant, 486 
Stern (A. L.), Identity of Dextrose from various Sources, 142 
Stern (O.), Effect of Pressure on Rate of Inversion of Sugar by 
Weak and Strong Acids, 136 
Stevens (H. P.), Hydrolysis of Perthiocyanic Acid, 623 
Stevenson (Charles A.), Telegraphy without Wires, and the 
Guarding of Coast Lines by Electric Cable, 197 
Stings, Acquired Immunity from Insect, Edward S. Morse, 
G. Macloskie, 533 
Stipules, Sir John Lubbock, F.R.S., 526 
Stoker (George), Surgical uses of Oxygen, 40 
Stokes (Sir G. G.), Nature of the Réntgen Rays, 167 
Stout (G. F.), Analytic Psychology, 121 
Strahan (Aubrey), Glacial Phenomena of Varanger Fjord, 358 
Strassburg Observatory, 14 
Strasser (Herr), the Jacques Cell, 420 * 
Stratus-Cloud, the Origin of the, and some suggested Changes 
in the International Methods of Cloud Measurement, H. 
Helm Clayton, 197 
Straubel (R.), some Properties of Rontgen Rays, 47 
Stream, the Story of Forest and, James Rodway, 246 
Streng (Dr. August), Death of, 348 
Strickland (T. A. G.), Immunity from Bee-Stings, 397 
Stromeyer (C.), Floating Mercury on Water, 53; Chinese 
Yeast, 463 
Stroud (Prof. W.), Measuring Electrolytic Conductivity by 
Continuous Currents, 23 
Structural Botany, D. H. Scott, F.R.S., 457 
Structure of Nerve Cells, the, Alfred Sanders, 1o1 
Struggle for Existence, the Function of Disease in the, Prof. 
T. D. A. Cockerell, 534 
Struggle of the Nations, the, G. Maspero, 267 
Stuart (Donald M. D.), Colliery Explosions and Coal-Dust, 
597 
Stutzer (Herr), Capacity of Bacillus Radécicola of growing on 
Foreign Culture Media, 206 
Subjective Colour Phenomena, Shelford Bidwell, F.R.S., 367 
Submarine Telegraphy: the Inception of, Sir Henry Mance, 
278 ; Sixty-years of, Prof. Ayrton, 403; Death of H. C. 
Forde, 417 ; Submarine Cable Laying and Repairing, H. D. 
Wilkinson, Charles Bright, 553 
Suction Force of Branches, Experiments on the, Prof. Vines, 
F.R.S., 20 
Sudborough (J. J.), the Stilbene Series, 406 
Sugar, Effect of Pressure on Rate of Inversion by Weak and 
Strong Acids of, A. Stern, 136 
Sugar-Cane, the Best, for Leeward Island Cultivation, F. Watts 
and F. R. Shepherd, 12; Raising from Seed, J. H. Hart, 12 
Sugar-Cane Growth in Queensland, 60 
Summer Days for Winter Evenings, J. H. Crawford, 387 
Sun and Earth, a New Speculation on the Past and Future Tem- | 
perature of the, 77 
Sun, Oxygen in the, Herren Runge and Paschen, 303; Lewis 
Jewell, 447 
Sun, the Total Eclipse of, August 8, 1896, 447 
Sunspots, Comets, and Climate Variations, Herrn Johannes 
Unterweger, 42 
Surface (Matthew), Photography as a Hobby, 460 
Surgery : Surgical uses of Oxygen, George Stoker, 40; Alcohol 
as Disinfectant for Surgical Instruments, Dr. Robert Ran- 
dolph, 60; Radioscopy applied to Diagnosis of Thoracic 
Diseases, Ch. Bourchard, 239; J. Bergonié, 239; a New 
Theory of Cicatrisation, L. Ranvier, 239 ; Death of Sir 
Spencer Wells, 326; Diagnosis of Stone by Réntgen Rays, 
372 
Survey of India in 1895, 234 
Survey of the Tides and Currents in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 
595 
Surveying, Colliery, T. A. O’Donahue, 438 
