XIV 



[A'a/tiri; Nov. 15, 1877 



South India: Droughts and Famines in, 14; Rainfall in, J. 



Allan Broun, F.R.S., 333 

 Southwell (Thomas), Greenland Seal Fishery, 42 

 South Kensington Museum, Models of Cliff Houses, Cave 



DweUings, &c., 3S9 

 Spain : Proposed Scientific Association in, 130 ; the Vertebrated 



Fishes of, Sefior Calderon's, 140 ; Science in, Francisco 



Ginez de Los Rios, 362 

 Spalding (Douglas A.), "The Physical Basis of Mind," by 



George Henry Lewes, 261 

 Spectra of Chemical Compounds, Dr. Arthur Schuster, 193 

 Spectra of Chemical Elements and Compounds, M. Ciamician 



on, S3 1 



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

 Prof. Piazzi Smyth, 264 



Spectrum : Visibility of the Ultra-Violet Rays of the, A. S. 

 Herschcl, 22 ; Prof. Langley's Proposed New Method in 

 Spectrum Analysis, 150 ; of Nova Cygni, 400 ; of the Electric 

 Spark, 531 



Speed of Machinery, Apparatus for Determining, 3S 



SpeUing Reform, 95 



Spined Soldier Bug, 446 



Spirogyra, Reproduction of, 340 



Spongy Iron Filters, 48 



Spontaneous Generation, 24; Prof. Tyndall, F.R.S., on, 127 ; 

 the Commission of the French Academy on the Pasteur-Bastian 

 Experiments, 276 



Spontaneous Movements in Plants, 364 



Spottiswoode(Wm., F.R.S.), Stratified Disch.arge3, iS 



Sprengel Air-Pump, New Form of, 514 



Squier's "Peru," Edward B. Tylor, F.R.S., 191 



Stiilldalen Meteorite, 238 



Standards, Annual Report of the Warden of the, 557 



Stanford's Maps of the Seat of War, 174 



Stanley's Exploration of Africa, 465, 529 



Stars : Change of Colour in a UrsK Majorii, 29 ; a Centauri, 

 30 ; Double, 70 ; Anthelm's Star of 1670, lo2 ; Variable, 143, 

 2S7, 42S ; Mira Ceti, 256 ; the Triple Star 7 Camelopardi, 

 169 ; Spectrum of the New Star in Cygnus, 400 ; Star or 

 Nebula? J. Norman Lockyer, /[ij, ; Binary, 441, 477, 522 



Statistical Society, Subject for the Howard Medal, 557 



Statues to Eminent Men of Science in France, 131 



Steam, Temperature of, and Saline Solutions, 72 



Steam-Brake, New, 390 



Steamers, the Steering of. Prof. Osborne Reynold, F.R.S., 382 



Steel and Iron, Direct Process in the Production of, Dr. C. W. 

 Siemens, F.R.S.,467 



Steering of Steamers, Effect of Reversing the Screw on tlie, 

 370, 



Steppes, the Prehistoric, of Centr.il Europe, 195 



Stevenson (Thomas), Reduction of the Height of Waves by 

 Lateral Deflection under Lee of Breakwaters, 423 



Stewart (Prof. Balfour, F. R.S.), Suspected Relations between 

 the Sun and the Earth, 9, 2G, 45 ; Indian Rainfall and Sun- 

 Spots, l6l ; Famines and Shipwrecks, 4G1 



.Stokoe (P. H.), Colour-Sense in Birds, 142; Evolution by Leaps, 

 361 



Stoneyhurst Meteorological and Magnetic Observations, 90 



Strachey (Gen.), Indian Rainfall and Sun-Spots, 171 



Strassburg, University of, 259 



Stratified Discharges, Wm. Spottiswoode, F.R.S., 18 



Striped Mullet, 523 



Sirop]iantlnis Itispidns^ 5^4 



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



Sub-Wealdcn Exploration, Final Report, 132 



.Sugar, Manufacture of, 429 



.Sulphate of Iron, Preparation of, 17 



Sulphur, Regeneration of, in Alkali Manufacture, 377 



Sulphuric Acid, the Measurement of the Heat of Solution of, in 

 Water, 516 



Sumatra, Exploration of, 296 



" Summer Schools " in America, 92 



Sun : Discovery of Oxygen in the, and a New Theory of the Solar 

 Spectrum (with a Photograpli], by Prof. Henry Draper, M.D., 

 364; Mr. Gill's Expedition to Ascension, to Measure the .Sun's 

 Distance, 14 ; Suspected Relations between the .Sun and 

 Earth, Prof. Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., 9, 26, 45, E. D. Archi- 

 bald, 339, 359, Dr. Wm. Hunter, 359 



Sunshine Records at Greenwich, 259 



Sunshine, Does, Extinguish Fire? 341, 477, 521 



Sun-spot Periods and Auroras from 1773 to 1S27, 167 



Sun-spots : and a Decennial Period, Dr. J. Allan Broun, 62 ; 

 and Rainfall, Prof. Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., 161 ; and the 

 Weather at Mauritius, 168 ; and Rainfall, 251 ; and Wind, Prof. 

 Hornstein on, 352 ; E. D. Archibald, 267, 396, 43S ; and 

 Wrecks, 447 ; Dr. W. W. Hunter, 455 ; and Solar Radiation, 

 S. A. Hill, 50s 



Sunday Weather Warnings, 51 



Swallows, the Hibernation of, 43 



Swiss Miocene Flora, Migration of. Rev. Geo. Henslow, lOI 



Switzerland, Chronometers of, 369 ; District Museums in, 429 ; 

 the Government Map of, 447 



Sydney, University of, 355 



Sylvester (Prof.), on Teaching and "Researching," 103 



Tagiiilalt of the German Naturalists' Association, 2i5 



Tait (Prof. P. G.), Prof. Clerk Maxwell's " Matter and Motion," 



119 

 Tait on Force, Francis E. Nipher, 1S2 

 "Takimetry," E. Lagout, 226 

 Talbot (W. H. Fox, F.R.S.) : Death of, 464 ; Obituary Notice 



of, 523 

 Tank Irrigation in Ceylon, the Restoration of the Ancient Sys- 

 tem of, Rev. R. Abbay, 509 

 Tarentaise, Fall of a Mountain in, 279 

 Tasmania, Climate and Infant Mortality in, 90 : Tasmanian 



Carnivorous Plant, 31 

 Taunton College School, 153, 164, 183, 199, 299 

 Teasel, the Contractile Filaments of the. Prof. Cohn and Charles 



Darwin, F.R.S., 339 

 Technological Chemistry, Dr. Jul. Post, 83 

 Teeth, Deformity of, in the Inhabitants of the Admiralty Islands, 



251 

 Tegetmeier (\V. B.), Colour-sense in Birds— Blue and Yellow 



Crocuses, 163 

 Telegraph, Subterranean, between Berlin and Il.imburg, 197 

 Telegraph .System and Commercial Traffic, 237 

 Telephones : Dr. Paget Higgs on, 359 ; Prof. Graham Bell on 



Recent Experiments in, 3S3 ; Practical Application of, in 



New York, 3S9 ; W. H. Preece on, 403 

 Telescopes, List of the Principal, 33 ; Galileo's Claim to be the 



Inventor of, 390 

 Temperature Coefficients, on the Determination of, for Insulating 



Envelopes, 375 

 Temperature, James Glaisher, F.R. S., on Nocturnal Increase 



of, with Elevation, 450 

 Temperature of Trees, 2SS 



Temperature and Humidity of the Air at Different Heights, 369 

 Taedo navalis, Arthur Nicols, 8 

 Tenill (Wm.), Experiment for Proving the Compound Nature 



of White Light, 42 

 Tertiary Leaf-beds of Colorado, 148 

 Thatcher (C. R.), Discovery of a New Shell, 147 

 Theel (Dr.), the Natural History of the Jenissei, 367 

 Thermic Formation of Ozone, 71 

 Thermometer, a New Metallic, 131 ; M. Herve Mangon's New 



Registering, 237, 421 

 Thiers (M.), the Late, 42S 

 Thomas (E., F.R.S.), Jainism ; or, the Early Faith of Asoka, 



329 

 Thome's Text-Book of Botany, Translated by A. W. Bennelt, 



453 

 Thompson (S. P.), Chromatic Abberration of the Eye, 84 ; 



Japanese Mirrors, 163 ; on the Relative Apparent Brightness 



of Objects in Binocular and Monocular Vision, 374 

 Thomson (Dr. Allen, F.R.S.), Inaugural Address at the British 



Association Meeting .at Plymouth, 302 

 Thomson (J. M.), Double Compounds of Nickel and Cobalt, 



372 

 Thomson (Sir Wm., F.R.S.), on Compass Adjustment on the 



Clyde, 132 ; New Compass, 301 ; Tides of Port Louis and 



Freemantle, 405 

 Thomson (Sir C. Wyville, F.R.S.), and the " Ann.als of Natu- 

 ral History," 53 ; Honorary Degree conferred on, 336 

 Thunderstorms at Antibes, 51 

 Tiber and its Tributaries, Strother A. Smith, 226 

 Tichorhine Rhinoceros, 146 



Tidal Observations of the Late Arctic Expedition, 405 

 Tidal Wave at the Sandwich Islands, 112; at San "Francisco, 



112; at Callao, 132; and Earthquake in South America, 



174 ; New Zeaiand, 567 

 Tides of Port Louis and Fremantle, 405 



