[Nature, Dec. iS, 1SS4 



School Museums, Dr. J. II. Gladstone, F. R.S., 384; Rev. G. 



Henslow, 407 ; ,W. Hewitt, 407 

 Schools, Healthy, 388 

 Schools,' Science in, Prof. Huxley, 63 

 Schorlemmer and Roscoe's Chemistry, Dr. H. Watts, 75 

 Schrauf (Dr. Albrecht), Elected Corresponding Member of 



Vienna Academy of Sciences, 129 

 Schriften der Physikalisch-Oekonomischen Gesellschaft, 379 

 Schwackhofer's "Fuel and Water," Prof. Fleeming Jenkin, 



F.R.S., 3" 

 Schweinfurth (Dr. Georg), Return to Africa, 343, 547 

 Science and Manufactures, I 

 Science and the Public Service, 32 

 Science in Schools, Prof. Huxley on, 63 

 Science Lectures in Royal Victoria Coffee Hall, London, 180 

 Science and the Woolwich and Sandhurst Examinations, 1S9, 



409 

 Science and Military Examinations, E. D. Archibald, 239 

 Science in Russia, 327 

 Science ami Art Education, 349 

 Science : Government Endowment of, in Norway, 200 ; in 



Germany, 394 ; in the United States and England, 371, 394 ; 



Interdiction of, in Russia, 430 

 Science Teaching in America, 396 ; in Schools, 517 

 Science and its Development, Peripatetic Method of Instruction 



in, Henry W. Crosskey, LL.D., 622 

 Science, Natural, in Tasmania, 562 

 Scientific Association, International, 566 

 Scientific Associations, International Convention of, 371 

 Scientific Study, Specialisation in, 314 

 Scientific Works, the Distribution of, Published by the British 



Government, Prof. V. Ball, F.R.S., 634 

 Scotland, Fishery Board for, 387 

 Scottish Meteorological Society, 179, 326 

 Scott- White (A. H.), Chemical Analysis for Schools, 51 

 Scythic Disease among Aleutes and Kamchadales, 132 

 Se'a, Light at Great Depths in, A. E. Verrill, 280 

 Sea, the Saltness and Temperature of the, H. R. Mill, 313 

 Sea and Continental Climate with regard to Vegetation, Differ- 

 ence between, Dr. M. Bergsman, 392 

 Sea-Bed, Remarkable Raised, near Lattakia, Syria, Prof. E. 



Hull, F.R.S., Rev. Dr. G. E. Post, 3S4 

 Sea Monster, Alfred Morris, 513 

 Sebert's Method of Registering the Velocity of Shot within the 



Tube of a Gun, 344 

 Seats in Railway Carriages, 320 

 Seebohm, Henry, on Birds' Nests, 276 

 Seismograph, a Multiplying, 569 

 Seismological Society, 614, 642 

 Seismology in Japan, 642 

 September Stream of Krakatoa Smoke at Strong's Island, 



S. E. Bishop, 537 

 Serrel Serigraph, 429 



Serrell (E. W., jun.), Dust-Free Spaces, 53 

 Settari (Dr.), Death of, 517 

 Sextants, T. W. Baker, 464 

 Shamanism in Perak, 346 

 Shifting of the Earth's Axis, W. M. Flinders Petrie, 561 ; Prof. 



C. Piazzi- Smyth, 582 

 Shorthand, History of, 397 



Siam, 546; Progress of English in, 644; Holt Hallett's Expe- 

 dition, 324 

 Siberia, Steamers to, 344 

 Siberia, Arctic, Hydrography of, 345 

 Sicily, Malta and, Remarkable Sunsets in, 20 

 Siemens (Sir Win.) : Proposed Engineers' Memorial to, 221 ; 



Methods of Work, 477 

 Silica, Forms of, John Ruskin, D.C.L., 1S1 

 Silkworm, Udschimya sericaria, Rond., a Fly Parasitic on the, 



C. Sasaki, 435 

 Simms (G. E., jun.), Ulricularia vulgaris, 295 

 Simplon, Piercing Alps at, 615 

 Simson's Line, 635 



Singh (Chanda), an Intellectual Prodigy in India, 592 

 Sitzungsberichte der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft, 233 

 Skirving (R. Scot), Diffusion of Species, 512 

 Sky-Glows: B. J. Hopkins, Capt. Petrie, 268; J. Edmund 



Clark, 4SS, 607 ; J. Gledhill, 489 ; Clement L. Wragge, 4S9 ; 



W. Larden, 4S9 ; T. W, Backhouse, 511 ; Robt. Leslie, 512, 



583 ; Prof. A. S. Herschel, 536 ; Miss T. M. Browne, 537 ; 

 J. J. Murphy, 583 ; E. Brown, 607 



Skye, Finds in a Peat Moss in, 181 

 Small-pox, 567 

 Smeaton Lighthouse, 567 



Smith (Prof. C. Michie), Observations on a Green Sun and 



Associated Phenomena, 347 ; Forked Lightning, 463 

 Smith (Chas.), Elementary Treatise on Solid Geometry, 143 



Smith (E. A.), Geological Survey of Alabama, 77 



Smith (Rev. F. ].), Work-Measuring Machines, 220 



Smith (J. T. G. )', the Flow of Streams, 486 



Smith (Dr. R. Angus, F.R.S.), Death of, 63 ; Obituary Notice, 

 Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 104 



Smith (Worthington G.), Lightning, 241 



Smith (W. G.), Fireballs, 408 



Smolensk, Uvaroff 's Explorations in, 223 



Smyth (Prof. C. Piazzi), Earth's Axis of Rotation, 29 ; Shifting 

 of the Earth's Axis, 582 ; Meteor-, Moon-, and Sun-shine, 

 462; Krakatoa Eruption, 511; M. Thollon's Views of 

 " Great B " in the Solar Spectrum, 535 



Smyth (R. Brough), Atmospheric Dust, 170 



Snake, a Cannibal, Edwin H. Evans, 216 ; Baron Osten- 

 Sacken, 312 ; John Fotheringham, 269 ; Dr. C. F. Crehore, 

 408 ; Suicide of, Rev. W. R. Manley, 268 ; Snakes and Tor- 

 toises in Chinese Mythology, 1S0 



Snow and Ice Flora, Prof, von Haast, 55 



Snowfall, Himalaya, Connection with Dry Winds and Drought 

 in India of the, H. F. Blanford, F.R.S., 46 



Social Science Association, 180; Questions for Discussion at, 

 222; Meeting at Birmingham, 517; Inaugural Address by 

 President O. Browning, 517 ; Paper by Dr. W. H. Crosskey, 

 on Teaching of Science in Schools, 517 



Societa di Geografia ed Etnografia, 323 



" Societies, Scientific and Learned, of Great Britain and Ireland, 

 Year-Book of the," 108 



Society of Arts, Conversazione by the Council at Health Ex- 

 hibition, 199 ; Award of Silver Medals, 1 99 



Solar (Dust ?) Halo, Prof. E. Douglas Archibald, 559 



Solar Eclipse, Total, of 1816, November 19, 616; of March 16, 

 1S85, 643 



Solar Halo, W. W. Taylor, 241 



Solar Spectrum, Constitution and Origin of the Group B of 

 the, M. L. Thollon, 520 ; M. Thollon's Views of " Great B " 

 in the, Prof. C. Piazzi-Smyth, 535 



Solar Surface, Temperature of the, Capt. J. Ericsson, 465 



Songkoi or Red River, Survey of, 3114 



Sorby (H. C, F.R.S.), the Earthquake of April 22, 1S84, 101 



Soup, Birds'-Nest, 271 



South America, German Expedition in, 570 



Southern Binaries, 594 



Sowerby (Rev. A.), the Remarkable Sunsets, 77 



Spain, Arcimis' Observations of Sunset Phenomena in, 324 



Specialisation in Scientific Study, 314 



Species, Diffusion of, Duke of Argyll, 462 ; Dr. G. C. Wallich, 

 512 ; R. Scot Skirving, 512 



Specific Resistance of Distilled Waters, M. Fousserau's Obser- 

 vations on, 568 



Spectroscope, Pocket, How to Foretell the Weather with, F. 

 W. Cory, 606 



Spectrum Analysis : Constitution and Origin of the Group B 

 of the Solar Spectrum, M. L. Thollon, 520; Prof. Piazzi- 

 Smyth, 535 



Spinach-Fly Attacking Beet-Root Plants, 494 



Spirifer disjuncius (Devonian Brachiopod), its Chinese Equiva- 

 lent and its Distribution over the Earth, 153 



Spitzbergen, some Particulars of Capt. M. E. Arnesen's Voyages 

 around, 132 



Sprats, Specimen of Mature, 129 



Spray, Rainbow on, 464 ; Frank E. Cane, 490 



Sprengel (Christian Conrad), Dr. F. Muller, 240 



Spring, New Form of, for Electric and other Measuring Instru- 

 ments, Profs. W. E. Ayrton, F. R. S., and John Perry, 205 



Stanley (H. M.), Return of, 324 



Stanley (W. F. ), Atmospheric Effect Produced by Volcanic 

 Dust from Krakatoa Eruption, 22 ; Earthquake, 125 



Stars : on the Atmospheric Influence on the Colours in the 

 Scintillation of, Montigny, 222 ; British Association Cata- 

 logue of, 496; Double, Photography fur, M. Henry, 21 ; 99 

 Ilerculis, 375 ; New Southern, 616 ; Fixed, David Gill, 



