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Ringwood (A.), Plan for Measuring the Heights of Clouds, 55S 



Kios (Francisco Ginez de Los), Science in Spain, 362 



"River Terraces," Col. George Greenwood, iSi 



Rivers, Iliggin's Treatise on the Pollution of, 225 



Robertson (David), Yellow Crocuses, 8 



Roby (H. J.), Taunton College School, 183 



Rock Crystals as Weights, 447 



Rock-Paintings in New Zealand, 175 



Rocks of Charnwood Forest, T. G. Bonney, and E. Hill, S 



Rocky Mountains, Excrementitious Deposits in the, 235 ; Notes 



on the Botany of the. Sir J. D. Hooker, F.R.S., 539 

 Rodier (Mons. E.). Spontaneous Movements of Plants, 364; the 



Movements of a Submerged Aquatic Plant, 554 

 Rolleston (Prof., F.R.S.), on the Vascular Supply of the Brain, 



408 ; Zoology of New Guinea, 409 

 Romanes (Geo. J., M.A.), "Physiological /Esthetics," 98; 



Evolution of Nerves and Nervo-Systems, 231, 269, 289; the 



Fish-sheltering Medusa, 24S 

 Rome, R. Academia dei Lincei, 56, 76, 136 

 Rood (Prof. O. N.), on Colours, 150 

 Rosse (Earl of, F.R.S.), Temperature of Moon's Surface, 438 ; 



the Satellites of Mars, 457 

 Rothsay Aquarium, 294 



Roudaire (M. ), Proposed Algerian Inland Sea, 353 

 Rovida (Prof. Dr. C. L.), Death of, 72 

 Royal Academy, Annual Dinner, 31 

 Royal Astronomical Society, 74, 176, 197 

 Royal Geographical Society, 54, 91 

 Royal Institution, Annual Meeting, 1 7 

 Royal Microscopical Society, 55, 536 ; Bequest to, 31 

 Royal Society, 18, 34, 55, 74, 114, 154, 175, 355 ; Conz'ersazioiif, 



16 ; President's Reception, 151 

 Royal Society, Dublin, 135 

 Royal Society, Edinburgh, 135 

 RUcker (Prof. A. W.), Un Black Soap Films, 331 

 Rudler (F. W.), Museum Reform, 140 

 Rugby School Natural History Society 133 

 Russell (J. C), the Ancient Glaciers of New Zealand, 100 

 Russia : Geographical Society of, 33 ; Population of Russia and 



Turkey, 174 : Geographical Work in Russia during 1S76, 



209 ; Russian Rivers and the Earth's Rotation, 390 ; Russian 



Account of Scientific Progress in India, 425 

 Rust, Prevention of. Prof. Barff, 37S 

 Ruthenium, the Properties of, 167 



Sabine (Robert), Rainbow Reflected from Water, 361 



Sachs (Dr. ), Researches on the Electric Eel, 296 



Sager (Dr. Abraham), Death of, 488 



Sahara, the Desert of, 54 



Saharan Sea, the Proposed, 336 



St. Andrews, the Chair of Mathematics, 198 



Saint-Victor (Niepce de). Statue to, 131 



Salix repens. Fertilisation of, 1S4 



Samarskite and Ilatchetolite, Chemical Constitution of, 442 



Samoyede, Expedition to the, District, 430 



San Francisco, 1 idal Wave at, 112 



Sand, Shower of, at Rome, 197 



Sanderson (Prof. Burdon, F.R.S.), the Electrical Disturbance 



which accompanies the Excitation of the Stigma of Mimuhis 



Uiteus, 163 

 Sandwich Islands, Tidal Wave at the, 112 

 Sanitary Institute, 210; Meeting at Leamington, 335, 389, 515 

 Sanitary Science, the Future of. Dr. B. W. Richardson, 184 

 Santa Barbara Islands, 431 

 Santa Cruz River, Exploration of, 1 52 

 Santini (Prof. Giovanni), Death of, 194 

 Sarcode Organisms, Recent Researches among the Lower, 



no 

 Saturn, the Rotation of, 363 ; the Satellites of, 341 ; the Sa- 



tumian Satellite, Hyperion, 169, 460, 552 

 Savary (G), Supposed Action of Light on Combustion, 441 

 Schafer (E. A.), Foster's Text-Book of Physiology, 79 

 Schmidt (Dr.), " Unser Sonnenkorper nach seiner phjsikalischen, 



sprachlichen, und mythologischen Seite bin betrachtet,"4i 

 Schombargk (Dr.), Report on the Adelaide Botanic Garden, 



297 

 School-Board Districts, Maps of the London, 134 

 Schustir (Dr. Arthur), the Spectra of Chemical Compounds, 



193 

 fcchweinfurth (Dr), his Collections, 152 



Science in Spain, Francisco Ginez de Los Rios, 362 



Science, Sir John Lubbock on the Teaching of Elementary, 216 



Science in America, 515 



Science Lectures in London, L. Jeans, 329 



Science and Art Department, Circular on the Teaching of 



Chemistry and Physics, 354 

 Science and War, H. Baden Pritchard, 37, 57 

 Scientific Club at Vienna, 112 

 Scientific Worthies, XL— Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, 



P.R.S. i^WUh Portrait), 537 

 Scientific Bibliography, 467, 530 



Scorpions, Stridulating Organs in, J. Wood Mason, 565 

 Scotland, Notes on the Weather of, 89 

 Scottish Meteorological Society, 53, 257 

 Sea- Water, Amount of Oxygen in, 255 

 Seal Fishery in Greenland, Thomas Southwell, 42 

 Segmentation of the Head, 288 

 Selective Discrimination of Insects, 522 ; Sir John Lubbock, 



F.R.S., 548 

 Selwyn (A. R. C, F. R.S.), Geological Survey of Canada, 40 

 Sense Perception of Electricity, Henry Cecil, 549 

 Sensitive Flames, the Effect of Inaudible Vibrations upon, 12 

 Sensitive Plant, A. W. Bennett, 348 



Serpentine Rocks of Lizard District, Rev. T. G. Bonney, 135 

 Serpiila parallela. Dr. John Young, 460 

 Seydel's Pocket Hammock, 209 

 Sharp (D.), Automatism, 286 



Sharpe (R. Bowdler), Catalogue of Birds in British Museum, 541 

 Shaw (J.), Yellow Crocuses, 8 j'Future of our British Flora, 550 

 Shell, a New, 147 



Shepard Scientific Collections at Amherst, U.S., 389 

 Shetland, the Ice Age in, 501 

 Shetland and Orkney : The Glacial Geology of. Prof. A. 



Geikle, F.R.S., 414; S. Laing, M.P., 418; Are there no 



Boulders in ? David Milne Home, 476 

 Ships, the Resistance of, Wm. Froude, F. R.S., 382 

 Ship-WOrm, the, Arthur Nicols, 8 



Shipwrecks and Famines, Prof. Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., 461 

 Shooting Stars, the July, W. F. Denning, 2S6 

 Shower of Sand at Rome, 197 

 Siberia : Discovery of a Mammoth Carcase, 113 ; University for, 



95 



Siemens (Dr. C. W., F.R.S.), the Direct Process in the Produc- 

 tion of Iron and Steel, 467 



Silkworms, Diseases of, 48S 



Silurian Rocks in Teesdale, 406 



Silver Salts, Action of Organic Substances Increasing the Sen- 

 sitiveness of Certain, 442 



Simon (John, F.R.S.), Proposed Testimonial to, 152 



Singh (Pundit Nain), Geographical Society's Royal Medal to, l6 



Sirius, the Companion of, 364 



Skertchley (Sydney B. J.), Antiquity of Man, 142, 163 



Smith (J.), the Discoverer of Photography, 501 



Smith (Strother A.), the Tiber and its Triljutaries, 226 



Smith (Swire), the Work of Mechanics' Institutes, 411 



Smithsonian Institution, Annual Report, 351 



Smyth (Prof. Piazzi), Optical .Spectroscopy of the Red End of 

 the Solar Spectrum, 264 ; Rainfall of Edinburgh, 352, 389 ; 

 the Coming Winter, 475 



Soap Film Membranes, Sound Vibrations of, E. B. Tylor, 12 



SoapFUms, Black, Prof. A. W. RUcker, 331 



Social Science Congress at Aberdeen, 466 



Society of Arts' Medals, 196 



Sograf (Herr Nicolai), Expedition to the Samoyede District, 430 



Solar Corona, Early Observations of the, J. L. Dreyer, 549 



Solar EcUpses : of 1S82, 49; Total, of 1S89, 124; of 1605, 

 255 ; of Agathocles, Rev. Prof. Haughton, F. R.S., 563 



Solar Radiation and Sun-spots, S. A. Hill, 505 ; sa Sun-spots 



Solar Spectrum, Optical Spectroscopy of the Red End of the, 

 Prof. Piazzi Smyth, 264 ; a New Theory of the. Prof. Henry 

 Draper, M.D., 364 



Soldiers' Rations, H. Baden Pritchard, F.R.S., 157 ; Prof. 

 Samuel Haughton, F.R.S., 207 



Solutions, Volumes of, J. A. Ewing and J. G. Macgregor, 376 



Sorby (H. C, F.R.S.), Pele's Hair, 23; the Study of the 

 Optical Characters of JSIinerals, 380 



Somid-Vibrations of Soap Film IMembranes, E. B. Tylor, 12 



Sound-Waves, the Amplitude of, Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 114 



Sound and Light, Dr. Henry Muirhead, 43 



South African Museum, 47 



South Atlantic, Winds of the, 267 



