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INDEX 



{Nature, Dec. 29, ibbi 



Salzburg, Meeting of Austrian Aathropologit.- at, 426 



Sanderson (John), Death of, 108 



Sanderson (Prof. J. Burdon, F.R.S.), on Discoveries relatuig to 



Animal Motion, 439 

 Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, 88, 109, 132, 225, 256, 265 

 Sanitary Assurance Association, 147 

 Saporta and Marion on Cryptogams, 73 

 Saturn, Satellites of, 65, 520 

 Satellites of Mars, 520 

 Satellite of Neptune, 591 

 Sauvage, Monument to, 427 

 Savoy Theatre, the Electric Light at, 519 

 Scbaberle's Comet, 342, 375, 425, 478; J. Rand Capron, 380, 



430 



Schemnitz, Dr. Otto) on Fascination, 64 



School Physical and Descriptive Geography, 541 



Science : in China, John Fryer, 9, 54 ; at Algiers, French Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of, G. F. Rodvvell, 31 ; at Eton, 

 287; Bible and, T. Lauder Brunton, F.R.S., George J. 

 Romanes, F.R.S., 332; and Industry, Dr. C. W. Siemens, 

 F.R.S., 619; Teaching of, in Public Elementary Schools, 5S9 



Sciences, Biological, the Connection of the, with Medicine, 

 Prof. T. H. iluxley, 342 



Scientific Societies, Meeting of Delegates of, 476 



Scientific Worthies — ^James Clerk Maxwell (iotM a 

 Portrait), 601 



Scott (W. E. D.), some Observations on the Migration of Birds, 

 274 



Scottish Celtic Review, Jo 



Scottish Naturalist, 304, 376 



Seabroke (George M.), the Comet, 197 ; Comet b 1881, 431 



Sea-Ice, Luminous Phenomena on Rupture of, Capt. J. Allen 

 Allen, 459 



Sea-Shore Alluvion, 286 



Sea Water, Carbonic Acid Gas not free in. Prof. P. Martin 

 Duncan, F.R.S., 213 



Sea-Weed, Gigantic, as a Protective Agfnt for Shores, 565 



Secondary Battery, Faure's, Prof. J. A. Fleming, 238 



Sedgwick (Capt. W.), Freshwater Actine^e, 189 



Sedgwick Memorial Fund (Cambridge), 475 



Seismology, Swiss Commission on, 362 ; Seismological Society 

 of Japan, 5S9 ; a New Seismometer, 113 ; S. E. Peal, 461 



Selenium Cells for the Photophone, Dr. Kalischer's Experiments 

 on, 593 



Self-luminous Photographs, 593 



Selous (F. C), his Exploration of Africa, 114 



Sensations of Light Generated jby Sound, and Related Pheno- 

 mena in the Sensations of other Organs of Sense, E. Bleuler 

 and K. Lehmann, 51 



Serajewo (Bosnia), Earthquake at, 132 



Sesamy, Electric Light in Collieries, 510 



Severn (H. A.), Notes on the Indian Glow- Fly, 165 



Sewersk, Southern Russia, Archsjological Discovery near, 541 



Shanghai, Proposed International Exhibition at, in 18S3, 315 



Shaw (J.), Birds Singing during Thunder, loi ; Singular Beha- 

 viour of a Squirrel, 167 



Shaw (H. S. Hele), Integrating Anemometer, 557 



Shipbuilding, Prof. Raoul Pictet's New Invention in, 362, 385 



Shipbuilding a Thousand Years Ago, 536 



Shipwreck, Singular Cause of, Capt. J. Allen Allen, 106 ; A. J. 

 Hubbard, 127 ; Dr. A. Woeikof, 142 



Sicily, Earthquake Shock at, 17 



Siebold (Freiherr von), Monument of, 108 



Siemens (C. W., F.R.S.), Gas Supply both for Heating and 

 Illuminating Purposes, 153; on some Apilications of Elec- 

 tric Energy to Horticulture and Agriculture, 567 ; on Techni- 

 cal Education, 601 ; Science and Industry, 619 ; New Atlantic 

 Cable, 245 ; Success of Electrical Railway in Paris, 476 



Silicon, New Compounds of, 542 



Silk Cultivation in China, 341 



Silver, Bars of, discovered near Rantrum, 291 



Silver Bromide, Photo-Chemistry of, Eder on, 542 



Simon (J., F.R.S.), State Medicine, 370 



Singapore, Corals of, 591 



Siredon, Lichenoides, 3S8 



Sirius, the Companion of, 375 



Sitzungsberichte der Physikalisch-Medicinischen Societat zu 

 Erlangen, 135 



Sitzungsberichte der naturforschenden Gesellschaft zu Leipzig, 

 46 



Six-Fingered Family, Thomas Capper, 166 



Skeleton, Relations between the Cranium and the Rest of the, 1 



388 1 



Sladen (W. Percy), Arctic Echinodermata, 97 

 Sladek (J. V.), Birds Suffering from Cold, 165 

 Slow Lightnint', W. M. Flinders Petrie, 284 

 Smith (A. Percy), The Comet, 221 

 Smith (Frederick J.), Apparent Decomposition of Sunlight by 



Intermittent Reflecting Surfaces, 140 

 Smith (Wortbington G.), Palaeolithic Man, 29; Implements at 



Acton, 141 ; Palaeolithic Implements in the Thames Valley, at 



and near London, Their Comparative Numbers, 308 ; Reiilac- 



ing Flakes on Palaeolithic Implements, 582 

 Smith (Prof. Robertson), on the Old Testament, 75 ; Major R. 



D. Upton's Gleanings from the Desert of Arabia, 209 

 Smoke Abatement in London, 290 

 Smoke Abatement Committee, InternationaL Exhibition in Con- 



nection^with, 475 

 Smyth (Prof Piazzi), A Case of Slow Sub-Tropical Discharge of 



Earth Electricity and the Sun Recojinisant thereof, 212 ; 



Special Solar Heat-Radiations ai d their Earth-felt Effects, 



237 ; Tebbutt's Comet, Origination of its Proper Light, 430 ; 



Madeira Earth-Electric Cloud Again, 530 

 Smyth (Admiral W. H.), Cycle of Celestial Objects, 234 

 Smithsonian Institute Report for 1879, 386 

 Society of Chemical Industry, 225 

 Socotran, Zoological Results of Expedition to, 83 ; Dr. Tchwein- 



furth's Exploration of. 249 

 Solar Chemistry, 581 ; Solar Eclipses, Total, L"r^urring before 



the End of the Present Century, 102 

 Solar Heat-Radiations, Special, and their Earth-feli Effects, 



Prof. Piazzi Smyth, 237 ; Prof. Balfour Stewart, F.R.S.,. 260 

 Solar Outburst of July 25, 1881, Rev. S. J. Perry, F.R.S., 556 

 Solar Parallax, 177 

 Solar Physics : Sun-Spots, Prof. Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., 114; 



Connection between Solar and Terrestrial Phenomena, Prof. 



Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., 150; the Chemistry of the Sun, 



J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 267, 296, 315, 365, 391 ; Prof. 



Stokes, F.R.S., 593, 613 

 Solids, the Specific Refraction of, from their Solutions, B.A. 



Report on, 462 

 Solomon Islands, Note on Piczorhynclms melanccep/ialus (Ram- 



s.ay) and Ptilopiis viridis (Ramsay), from the Ed. P. Ramsay, 



239 ; Birds of the, 277 

 Sonorescence, 66 

 Sound of the Aurora : 109 ; Dr. John W. Ogle, 5 ; Mrs. E. 



Hubbard, 5 ; Prof. W. Grylls Adams, 29 ; F. C. Constable, 



53 



Sound-Producing Ants : Henry O. Forbes, loi ; S. E. Peal, 

 484 



Sound, Production of, by Radiant Energy, Prof. [Alexander 

 Graham Bell, 42 



Sound Production of, by Natural Causes, 592 



Spangenberg (Prof. L.), Death of, 426 



Speaking Tube Anticipated, Dr. W. Curran, 80 



Spectrum Analysis : Wm. Crookes, F.R.S., on Discontinuous 

 Phosphorescent Spectra in High Vacua, 89 ; the Spectrum of 

 Magnesium, Professors Liveing and Dewar, 118; on the 

 Reversal of the Lines of Metallic Vapours, Professors Liveing 

 and Dewar, 206 



Speech, Mr. Wallace and the Organs of, Hyde Clarke, 3S0 



.Siiermogonia of yKcidiomycetes, 592 



Spiders of Dorset, with an Appendix containing Descriptions of 

 those British Species not yet found in Dorsetshire, Rev. Oc- 

 tavius Pickard-Cambridge, 482 



Sponges of Lake Baikal, 66 



Spooner (Elizabeth), Miscellanies of Animal Life, 566 



Spottiswoode (Dr. W., P.R.S.), Electric Railway iuLParis, 164; 

 Electrical Discharge, its Forms and its Functions, 546, 569 



Spottiswoode (Dr. Wm., P.R.S.) and J. F. Moulton, F.R.S., on 

 Str.atified Discharges, 254 



Sprague (John T.), New Meter for Electric Cur'ents, 335 



Sprengel (Dr. H.), the so-called Eunsen Pump, 53 



Springs, Influence of Barometric Pressure on the Discharge of 

 Water from, 472 



Squirrel, Singular Behaviour of, J. Shaw, 167 



Stamens, Two Kinds of, with Different Functions in the same 

 Flower, Dr. Herman Miiller, 307 



Stars: the [Distancas of. Prof. R. S. Ball, F.R.S.), 91 ; Scin- 

 tillation of, and the Aurora Borealis, 24S ; Ancient Star Posi- 

 tions, 520 ; Variable Stars, 65, 1 10, 542 ; probably New and 

 Variable Red Star, J. Birmingham, 164 ; New Red Variable, 



