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“Psychology, Principles of,” by Herbert Spencer, 298, 357 
Putrefaction and Fermentation, 61, 78 
Pyramid, Great, 71 
Pyramid Mountain, 423 
Pyrometer, New, 273 
oo (Dr. P. H,), The Mammalian Skull, by Prof, Lucae, 
Quantock Hills, Flora of the, 48 
Queckett Club, 94 
Radiation of Heat from the Moon, 436 
Radiant Heat, Prof. Tyndall’s Researches on, 66 ; Capt. Ericsson 
on, 27 
Rainbow Treble, 46 ; on Blue Sky, 68 
Rainfall : Periodicity of, 98, 143, 161 ; at Barbados, 124, 161 ; 
for October 1872, 16; at Sea, 123, 202 ; and Temperature of 
North-Western Europe, 245 
Ramsay (A.), Authorities on Mirage, 322 _ 
Ramsay (Prof., F.R.S.), Fresh and Salt Lakes, 312, 333 
Rankine (Prof. W. J. Macquorn), Obituary Notice of, 204 
Ransom (A.), Inherited Instinct, 322 
Ranyard (A. Cowper), Polarisation of Zodiacal Light and 
Aurora, 201 
Rawson (Rawson W.), Rainfall at Barbados, 124, 161 ; Meteor 
at St. Thomas, 262 
Reason or Instinct? 47 
Reclus (Elisée), ‘‘ The Earth” and ‘The Ocean,” 421 
“Records of the Rocks,” by Rev. W. S. Symonds, F.G.S., 
461 
Reid (Serg.-Major R.), Flight of Projectiles, 341, 404 
Reflected and Transmitted Light, 481 
Reflected Sunshine in India, 162 
Respighi (Prof.), Solar Diameter, 385 
Reynolds (Prof. Osborne), Meteor at Manchester, 315 
Rhinoceros born in Vic oria Docks, 133; its Death, 255 
Riga, Society of Naturalists, 155, 215, 495 
** River Basins, Notes on,” by R. A. Williams, 122 
Roberts (E.), The Greenwich Date, 105 
Roberts (Wm., M.D.), Dr. Bastian’s Experiments, 302, 321, 
381 
Robertson (G. C.), External Perception in Animals, 322, 361, 
377, 499 
Rocky Mountains, Prof. Marsh’s Expedition, 209 
Rodwell (G. F., F.C.S.), “The Birth of Chemistry,” 36, 90, 
104, 206, 285, 393, 492; Lectures on Ancient Science, 190 
Romanes (G, J.), Perception in the Lower Animals, 411 
Ross (Dr. James), Anticipations of Natural Philosophy, 402 
Ross (Sir James),,Portrait of, 55 ; his South Polar Explorations, 
63, 139 
Rosse (Earl of, D.C.L., F.R.S.), Diathermacy of Flame, 28 ; 
Radiant Heat, 273; Radiation of Heat from the Moon, 436 
Rotability, Treatise on, 124 
Bagine i “University Oars,” by J. E. Morgan, M.A., 397, 
418 
Big At Commission on Scientific Instruction, 70, 268 
Royal Institution, 15, 88, 111, 131, 170; New and Old Labo- 
ratories, 223, 263 
Royal Society, 34, 70, 75, 114, 133, 174, 213, 235, 254, 275, 
294, 313, 331, 353, 369, 372, 390, 395, 413, 434, 453, 454, 
47° 
Ruck’s Hydrocarbon Gas, 329 
Rugby School, 131, 151 
Russell (H. C.), Coloured Stars about Kappa Crucis, 130 
Russia, Science in, 55 
Rutherfurd (L. M.), Stability of the Collodion Film, 391 
St. Andrews University, 231 
St. Clair (G., F.R.S.) Meteor near Stourbridge and at Man- 
chester, 262, 290 
St. Petersburg, Academy of Sciences, 194; Geographical So- 
ciety, 452 
Sale (M. L., R. E.) Electric Conductivity of Selenium, 340 
Salmon-breeding in Silesia, 290 
Salmonidz of Great Britain, 162, 203 
Salt Lakes, 312, 333 
Sanderson (Dr. J. Bardon, F.R.S.), Dr. Bastian’s Experiments 
on the Beginnings of Life, 180, 242, 261, 275, 302, 321, 380, 
413; ‘* Handbook for the Physiological Laboratory,” 438 
Sanitary Association, Dublin, 332 
Saxon Antiquities at Trinity College, Cambridge, 251 
Schafer (E. A.), Striped Muscular Fibre, 489 
Schmidt (J. F.), November Meteors at Athens, 211 
School of Mines, Lectures, 269 
Schweinfurth (D.), his African Travels, 55, 215 
Science and Art Department ; Lectures, 35, 230, 290, 370 
Scientific Research and University Endowments, 97 
Sclater (Dr. P. L., F.R.S.), Proceedings of Zoological Col- 
lectors, 110 
Scott (A. W.), November Meteors at Lampeter, 84 
Scott (R. H.), Possession Islands, 384 
Beka Coal Fields, 14 
Scottish Meteorological Society, 24 
Scottish Naturalist, 453 ce 
Scrope (G. P.), German Translation of his work on ‘‘ Vol- 
canoes,” 469 
Seabroke (G, M., and J. N. Lockyer, F.R.S.), New Method of 
viewing the Chromosphere, 313 
Seals in the Frith of Clyde, 152 
Sedgwick (the late Professor), Obituary Notice of, 257 ; Memo- 
rial to, 391, 411 
oc eaee Effect of Light on, during an Electric Current, 303, 
349, 301 
*¢ Sepulchral Monuments of Cornwall,” by W.C. Borlase, B.A., 
337, 378 
Settle Cave Exploration, 374 
Sheep, Instinct in, 425 
Sheffield, Literary and Philosophical Society, 310; Naturalists’ 
Club, 311 
Shelley (G. E., F.G.S., F.ZS.), “‘ Handbook to the Birds of 
Egypt,” 178 
Sherman Astronomical Expedition, 107 
Sight in Dogs, 361, 384, 377, 409, 424 
Signal Service in America, 484 
Silesian Society for National Culture, 137, 158, 162 
Silex in Water, the cause of its Blue Colour, 132 
Skeletons at Mentone, 401, 443 
Skeletons of Wild Animals, 46 
Skull, The Mammalian, 460 
Skulls of the Troglodytes of the Vézére, 426; found near 
Danzig, 372 
Smell in Animals, 360, 377, 384, 409, 410, 411, 424 
Smith (Archibald, LL.D., F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of, 169 
Smith (George), his Expedition to Assyria, 151, 210 
Smith (Willoughby), Effect of Light on Selenium, 303, 340, 361 
Smith (W. Robertson), Hegelian Calculus, 442 
Smyth (Prof. Piazzi, F.R.S.), Petrified Forest in the Libyan 
Desert, 363 ; Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, 451 
Snakes, Venomous, of India and Australia, 15, 140, 190 
Society of Arts, 55, 150, 392, 451 
Solar Diameter, Prof. Respighi on, 335 ; Heat, its Source, 262 ; 
Spots, Spectra of, 107, 108 
Somersetshire Natural History Society, 48 
Somerville (Mary), Obituary Notices of, 87, 132, I51 
South London Entomological Society, 131 
South London Museum, Proposed, 251 
South Polar Exploration, 21, 62, 138 
Spalding (Douglas A.), Herbert Spencer’s ‘‘ Psychology,” 298, 
357; Perception in Animals, 377 
Spanish Society of Natural History, 411 
Spectra: Effect of Resistance in Modifying, Prof. Tyndall on, 
384 ; of Solar Spots, 107, 108 ; of Aurora, 242, 463 ; of the 
Aurora and Zodiacal Light, 182, 201 ; of Nitrogen, 463 
Spectroscope, its application, by Janssen and Lockyer, 301, 320, 
81 
ge eiene and its Applications, by J. N. Lockyer, F.R.S., 
125, 166, 226, 246, 345, 406, 466 
Spectroscopic Observations, 222 
Spectrum Analysis; the Spectrum of the Sun, by J. N. Lockyer, 
F.R.S., 174 
Spencer (Herbert), ‘‘ Principles of Psychology,” 298, 3575 
Planarians and Leeches, 354 
Spiders, Hints on Collecting, 163 
‘“Spiders, Trap-door,” by J. T. Moggridge, F.L.S., 337, 453 
Spitzbergen, Geographical Discoveries, 413 
Sponges ; “ Die Kalkschwamme,” by E. Hiackel, 279 
Spottiswoode (Wm., F.R.S.), Old and New Laboratories of 
Royal Institution, 223, 263 
Sprengel (Dr. H.), Invention of the Water Air-pump, 241 
i Springs, Deep, Prof. Geikie, F.R.S., on, 177, 283 
