Nature, June II, 1885] 



Hunterian Lectures for 1884, W. Kitchen Parker, F.R.S., 

 35S ; Mr. Lowne on the Morphology of Insects' Eyes, 528 



Rome : Coffee-Planting near, 65 ; Earthquake at, 563 ; Reale 

 Accademia dei Lincei, 618 



Roots, H. Marshall Ward, 183 



Roraima, 342, 416, 607 



Roraima Expedition, Im Thurn's, 183 



Roscoe (Prof. Sir H. E.), and Prof. W. J. Russell, Experiments 

 Suitable for Illustrating Elementary Instruction in Chemistry, 

 229 



Rosy Glow about the Morn, Robert Leslie, 102 



Rotating Mirror fur Measuring the Velocity of Light, New 

 Arrangement of the Apparatus of, M. C. Wolf, 517 



Rotation of Neptune, Maxwell Hall, 193 



Roudaire (Col.), Death of, 277 



Roumania, Last Census of, 42 ; Meteorology of, 156 



Rousdon, Meteorology in, 537 



Rowan (D. J.), Noon-Glow, 102 



Royal Academy of Sciences, Belgium, 162; Extraordinary Com- 

 petition, 491 



Royal Geographical Society Award of Medals, 562 



Royal Institution Lecture Arrangements, 136, 513 



Royal Meteorological Society, 210, 306, 320, 427 



Royal Microscopical Society, 209, 306, 320, 426, 571, 617 



Royal Society, 283, 304, 328, 354, 377, 399, 423, 449, 473, 

 522, 545, 570, 592, 617 ; Award of Medals, 62 ; Anniversary, 

 109 ; Meetings for Fellows and their Friends, 440 



Royal Society of Xew South Wales. 235, 465 



Royal Society of Public Medicine of Belgium, Recent Monthly 

 Tables of, 416 



Rudler (F, W. ), and G. W. Chisholm, "Stanford's Compen- 

 dium of Geography and Travel," 287 



Rugby Observatory, 467 



Ruge (Dr.), the Nuremberg Cosmographic Society, 65 



Ruling Machine, Nobert's, J. Mayall, Jun., 571 



Russell (Prof. W. J.), and Prof. Sir H. E. Roscoe, Experi- 

 ments Suitable for Illustrating Elementary Instruction in 

 Chemistry, 229 



Russia, Geology of, 299 ; Geographical Work in Russia, 328 ; 

 Russian Law as regards Murder to be Enforced among all 

 Natives under Russian Rule, 349 



Rye (Edward Caldwell), Death of, 347 



Saharan Inland Sea, the, 369 



Saillard (M.), Discovery of Prehistoric Smithy by, 136 



Salimbeni (Count), Stone Bridge Over the River Temcha, 



613 

 Salinitv of the Water in the Firth of Forth, Hugh Robert Mill, 



541 

 St. Elmo's Fire, Display of, 15S 

 St. John (Sir Spencer), " Hayti, or The Black Republic," Prof. 



A. H. Keane, 98 

 Saliva, the Paralytic, Secretion, J. N. Langley, F.R.S., 570 

 Salmon, Canadian, and Sea Water, 370 

 Salmonidse, Hybridisation among, Francis Day, 599 

 Salvirt (Osbert, F.R.S.) and K. Du Cane Godman, F.R.S., 



Valuable Collections Presented to the Nation by, 441 

 Samsams, the, Prof. A. H. Keane, 530 

 Sanford (W. A.), Recent Earthquakes, 289 

 Sanitary Essays, Lamb, Prizes for, 32 1 

 Saporta (Marquis de), " Les Organismes Problematiques des 



Anciennes Mers," 386 

 Sars's (Prof. ! Experiments with Australian Lake-Mud, 64 

 Sartorius (Ernestine), Three Months in the Soudan, 407 

 Saturn, Rev. T. W. Webb, 485 

 Saturn, the Brightness of, 228 

 Saturnian System, 65 



Earthquake in, 396 

 lusical, of Various Nations, Alex. J. Ellis, F.R.S., 



466, 488 

 Scaphyrincus Kaufmanni, 252 

 Scandinavian Land of Ophir, 303 

 Sceloglaux Albifacies, W. W. Smith, 23 

 Schaarschmidt (Dr. Jules), Protoplasm, 290 

 Schfewig Coast, Oyster-Beds on, 90 

 Schiff and Traube's Experiments on the Capillary Coefficients of 



Liquid Carbon Compounds, 204 

 Schlegel (D.), " Lehrbuch der Elementaren Mathematik," 123 

 Schneekoppe, Meteorological Observations on the, Dr. Kremser, 



548 



School Board Committee, London, Report of the, on Technical 

 Education, 205 



Schools : Natural Science in, 19 ; Natural Science for, 28 ; Prof. 

 W. A. Shenstone, 52 ; Walter A. Watts, 101 ; Prof. Sydney 

 Young, 126 ; New Method for the Teaching of Science in 

 Elementary Public, W. Jerome Harrison, 175 ; G. H. Bailey, 

 338 ; Over-Pressure in Elementary Schools, 149 ; Dr. J. H. 

 Gladstone, F.R.S., 73 



Science, a Faculty of, Lord Reay, 320 



Science and Surgery, 213 



Scientific Aspects and Issues of the International Health Exhi- 

 bition, Ernest Hart, 138 



Science in Victoria, 301 



Science, Heroes of, T. C. Lewis, 50 



Science, Natural, for Schools, 28 ; Prof. W. A. Shenstone, 52 ; 

 Walter A. Watts, 101 ; W. Jerome Harrison, 173 ; G. H. 

 Bailey, 338 



Science, New Application of, 154 



Science Note-Book, C. H. Hinton, Dr. Karl Heun, 51 



Scientific Books, Government, W. Budden, 81 



Scientific Expedition to Sodankyla, Results of Selim Lemstrom's, 

 372 _ 



Scientific Laboratories, Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., 409; 

 "Scientific Romances," C. H. Hinton, 118, 431 



Scientific University, 549 



Scientific Work at a University, Dr. Lushington, 512 



Scientific Works, Distribution of, Published by the British 

 Government, 7 



Scorpion (Fossil), Lindstrom's, 136 



Scotland, Boulders in, 395 



Scotland, Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in, 130 



Scottish Geographical Magazine, 469 



Scottish Highlands, Crystalline Rocks of the, Arch. Geikie, 

 F.R.S., 29 



Scottish Meteorological Society, 590 ; Journal of the, 261 ; Half- 

 Yearly General Meeting, 490 



Screen, a Lantern, Rev. Chas. J. Taylor, 388 



Screen, Tracing Paper, Chas. J. Taylor, 435 ; H. Arnold 

 Bemrose, 409 



Sea, Earthquake Experienced at, Capt. E. Backhaus, 348 



Seismographs, Chas. A. Stevenson, 29 ; an Apology, Dr. H. J. 

 Johnston-Lavis, 29 ; Seismological Society of Japan, 417 ; Prof. 

 Milne on Earthquakes in North Japan, 417 ; Proposed Obser- 

 vations on Ben Nevis, 298 ; Seismology in Japan, 467, 515 



Self-Instructor in Navigation, W. H. Rosser, 597 



Selkirk (Earl of), Obituary Notice of, 606 



Semaphore and Electric Light at Shanghai, 603 



Severtsoff (N. ), Death of, 440 



Shadow on Clouds, Alfred H. Tarleton, 361 



Shan Country Expedition, Colquhoun's, 323 



Shanghai, the Semaphore and Electric Light at, 603 



Shaw (Geo. A.), "Madagascar and France," 406 



Shaw (\V. N. ), Focal Sines, 185 ; R. T. Glazebrook," Practical 

 Physics," 477 



Sheffield, Engineering School at Firth College, 46 



Shenstone I Prof. W. A.), Natural Science in Schools, 52 



Shipbuilders and Engineers, Institution of, in Scotland, 130 



Ships, Stability of, Sir E. J. Reed, 23S, 2S5 



Ships, War, Relative Efficiency of, 381, 454; Sir E. J. Reed, 

 F.R.S, 432 



Short Period, Comets of, 2S0 



Siberia: Mammoths Discovered in, 16; Discovery of Forgotten 

 Immigrant Community in, 183 ; Sulphur Deposits in, 298, 

 395 ; a Summer in, Signor Stephen Sommier, 323 ; Joseph 

 Martin's Journeys in Unknown, 397 



Sicily : Proposed Submarine Railway to Mainland, 227 



Siebold (Karl Theodor Ernst von), Death of, 537 ; Obituary 

 Notice, 554 



Siemens (Sir William), Sir Frederick Abel on his sudden 

 Death, 89 



Sievers' (Dr.) Proposed Exploration of Cordilleras of Merida, 41 



Signal Office, U.S., Work of, under Gen. Hazen, 580 



Silliman (Prof. Benj.), Death of, 277; Obituary Notice of, 



343 

 Sitzungsberichte der Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft-Isis, 



473 

 Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-medicinischen Societat zu 



Erlangen, 399 

 Skull in the Insectivorse, the, W. K. Parker, F.R.S., 377 

 Sky-Glows, W. G. Brown, 5 ; Mrs. E. A. Day, 5 ; Surgeon 



