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INDEX 
(Nature, Fune 29, 1882 
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Silver-Land, Cameos from the, or the Experiences of a Young 
Naturalist in the Argentine Republic, E, W. White, 480 
Singh (Nain), Death of, 472. 539 
Sion and Sierre, Earthquakes at, 161 
Skull, Artificial Deformation of the Human, ‘in the Malay 
Archipelago, Dr. A. B. Meyer, 132 
Skuthorpe (J. R.), and the Relics of Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt, 
112 
Sky: the Autumn, Rev. T. W. Webb, 9, 36; Telescopic De- 
finition ina Hazy, A. S. Atkinson, 483 
Slate, an Incised, Park Harrison on, 18 
Smith (W. G.), Heads and Hats, 55 
Smith (Worthington G.), Herbaceous Stem on a Paleolithic 
Implement, 173 ; Palzeolithic Floors, 460 
Smith (Edwin F.) aud Charles F. Wheeler, Catalogue of the 
Phzenogamous and Vascular Cryptogamous Plants of Michigan 
—Indigenous, Naturalised, and Adventive, 196 
Smith (Edgar A.), Tanganyika Shells, 218 
Smith (Prof. Goldwin), on Science Teaching, 373 
Smith (Sydney), Death of, 536 
Smoke-abating Appliances, Exhibition of, 111 
Smoke-Abatement Exhibition, 121, 219 
Smokeless London, Edmund McClure, 173 
Snakes, Notes about, Arthur Stradling, 377 
Society of Arts Patent Bill, 30 
Society of Chemical Industry, 469 
Society of Telegraph Engineers and Electricians, 192 
Solar Parallax from Observations of Mars, 278 ; Galle’s Method 
for, 472 
Solar Physics, Prof. Stokes’s Lectures on, G. G. Stokes, 30; 
Capt. Abney’s Lectures on, 162, 187, 252 
Solar, Gas-Flame, and Electric Light Spectra, J. Rand Capron, 
152 
‘© Solar ” Locomotive on the French Northern Railway, 161 
Solar Halo, J. T. Brownell, 290; W. F. Evans, 386 
Solar Eclipse of May 17, Total, 375, 450, 472, 594; Eclipse 
Notes, by J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 573; M. Bischoffs- 
heim’s Expedition to Egypt, 418 
Solar Observations, Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., 316 
Solar Energy, Conservation of, Dr. C. W. Siemens, F.R.S., 
440, 504, 603; E. Douglas Archibald, 504; Prof. Chas. 
. Morris, 601 ; Dr. T. Sterry Hunt, 602 
Solar Spot, Equatorial, Wentworth Erck, 481 
Solar Spectrum in a Hail-Storm, C. H. Romanes, 507 
Soldiers who have died on the, Battle-field, Attitudes retained 
by, 230 
Soldier’s Bed, New Design for a, 537 
Solomon Islands, New Birds from the, 282 
Song of the Lizard, Francis P. Pascoe, 32 
Sound, Action of Free Molecules on Radiant Heat and its Con- 
yersion thereby into, J. Tyndall, F.R.S., 232; Coloured, Karl 
Pearson, 339 
Sounds and their Relations, Alex. Melville Bell, 503 
Sound-prodneing Ants, H. F. Blanford, 32 ; J. Fotheringham, 
55; D. M. Lewis, 266 
South Australia, Weather in, Mrs. Merrifield, 483 
South Jutland, Earthquake in, 396 
Southern Cross, Dante and the, Samuel Wilks, 173; J. J. 
Walker, 173, 217; N. Perini, 197 
Spain, on the Whale Fishery of the Basque Provinces of, 
Clements R. Markham, F.R.S., 365 
Sparrows in South Australia, 18 
Specific Heat and Thermal Conductivity, H. G. Madan, 507 
Spectrum Analysis: Spectrum of the Electric Light, J. Hopkins 
Walters, 103 ; Solar, Gas-flame, and Electric Light Spectra, 
J. Rand Capron, 152; Photographic Spectrum of the Great 
Nebula in Orion, William Huggins, F.R.S., 489; Solar 
Spectrum in a Hailstorm, C. H. Romanes, 507; on the 
Spectrum of Carbon, by Professors Liveing and Dewar, 545 
Spottiswoode (Dr. W., Pres.R.S.), Address at Royal Society, 
115, 138; Matter and Magneto-Electric Action, 539; and J. 
F. Moulton, F.R.S., on the Movement of Gas in ‘* Vacuum 
Discharges,” 594 
Stamkart (Dr. F, J.), Death of, 395 
Stanford’s London Atlas of Universal Geography, 383 
Stars: Binary, 421 ; Star y Virginius, 19 ; Binary, 7 Cassiopeia, 
186; Double, 43; Variable, 114, 186, 209, 278, 471, 538; 
U Geminorum, 450; Ceraski’s U Cephei, 493; New Red in 
Cygnus, J. Birmingham, 198; New Red, Prof. Edward S. 
Holden, 410 ; ‘‘Easy Star Lessons,” Richard A, Procter, 358 ; 
Earliest Daylight Observations of Stars, 421 
Steckborn on Lake Constance, Discovery of Lacustrine Relics, 
47° 
Stecker (Dr.), Exploration of Lake Tana, 209 
Steeten on the Lahn, Prehistoric Remains Discovered at 421 
Steno, Prof. Thos. McKenny Hughes, F.R.S., on, 484 
Stendel’s Nomenclator, 223 
Stevenson (Chas. Alex.), Velocity of Wind, 102; Vivisection, 
48 
Gece (Thomas), on the relative Resistances of Land and 
Water to Wind Currents, 607 
Stewart (Prof. Balfour, F.R.S.), Heights of the Rivers Nile 
and Thames, 268 
Stieler’s Hand Atlas, 232 
Stillmann (Dr. J. B. D.), ‘‘ The Horse in Motion,” 591 
Stockbridge, Hants, Storm Petrel found near, 18 
Stokes (Prof. G. G., F.R.S.), Prof. Stokes’s Lectures on Solar 
Physics, 30 
Stone (J. Harris), Natural Ant Trap, 151 
Storage of Electricity, Edmund P. Toy, 289 
Storage of Energy, Prof. W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S., 495 
Storm, Magnetic, G. M. Whipple, 583, 604 
Storm-Petrel found near Stockbridge, Hants, 18 
Stradling (Arthur), on the Clenching of Hands from Emotional 
and other Causes in the two Sexes, 364; Notes about Snakes, 
377 
Strahan (A.), Channel Tunnel, 463 
Strange Phenomenon, 484 ; James Moir, 410 ; Donald Cameron, 
437 
Strecker’s (Adolph), Short Text-Book of Organic Chemistry by 
Dr. Johannes Wislicenus, H. Watts, F.R.S., 148 
Stress and Strain, Influence of, on the Action of the Physical 
Forces, Herbert Tomlinson, 401 
Struggle of Parts in the Organism, Duke of Argyll, F.R.S., 6; 
Dr. William B. Carpenter, F.R.S., 6, 52; Geo. J. Romanes, 
BRIS: 2 
Submarine Ships, Invention of, 325 
Suicide ; an Essay on Comparative Moral Statistics, Henry 
Morselli, M.D., George J. Romanes, F.R.S., 193 
Sullowsky (M.), Dispatch from, 249 
Sulphate of Copper, on the Electrolysis of, G. Gore, LL.D., 
F.R.S., 473 
Sulphur, Sainte-Claire Deville’s Studies in, 231 
Sulphuretted Hydrogen, Occurrence of, at Aetolikon, 420 
Sumatra, Dr. B. Hagen’s Exploration of, $9; Fossil Flora of, 
Dr. Oswald Heer, 200 
Sun, Land of the Midnight, Paul B. du Chaillu, 59 
Sun, the, C. A. Young, LL.D., 262 
Sun’s Heat, Variations in the, E. Douglas Archibald, 316 
Sun-Spots, Outburst of, July 25, 1881, J. B. N. Hennessey, 
241; W. H. M.- Christie, FIR.S., 3375 Reveisoemeenay, 
F.R.S., 3373; Problematical Sun-Spots, 349; Table of the 
Appearance of Rare Lepidoptera in this Country in connec- 
tion with the, A. H. Swinton, 584 
Sutherland, Geological and Mineralogical Map of, M. Foster 
Heddle, 526 
Sutton (Henry), New Electrical Storage Battery, 198 
Swan’s Incandescent Light, Photographic Experiment with, H. 
Baden Pritchard, 54 
Swinton (A. H.), Table of the Appearance of Rare Lepidoptera 
in this Country in connection with the Sun-Spots, 584 
Swiss Seismological Commission, 251 
Swiss Lake Dwellings, 519 
Switzerland, Earthquake in, 137, 208; Weather in, Albert 
Riggenbach, 364 
Sydney, N.S.W., Linnean Society, 355 
Symbiosis of Algze and Animals, 377 
Symons (W.), Growth of Trees, 218 
Syrski (Dr. Simon), Death of, 395 
Systematic Mineralogy, Text-Book of, Hilary Bauerman, L. 
. Fletcher, 49 
Sze-chuan, E. H. Parker’s Notes on, 89 
Tait (Prof. P. G.), Pressure Errors of the Challenger Thermo- 
meters, 90, 127 
enwoe New South Wales, Discovery of Copper and Iron 
at, 34! 
Tana, Lake, Dr. Stecker’s Exploration of, 209 
Tanganyika, Lake, E. C. Hore’s Exploration of, I12, 232; 
Tanganyika Shells, C. A. White, 101 ; Edgar A. Smith, 218 
Tay and the Forth Bridges, 246 
Taylor (Dr.), Curator of the Ipswich Museum, Presentation to, 137 
