INDEX 
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Sedgwick Memorial, 171 
Seedling Plants, Growth or Evolution of Structure in, 373 
Settle Cave, W. Boyd Dawkins, on (Br. A.), 476, 540 
Shairp (Principal J. C.), Forbes and Tyndall, 84 
Shooting Stars observed at Bristol, 385 ; 
Sidereal Dial, designed by Capt. Ashton Mayne, 366 
Siemens (Dr., F.R.S.), Fuel (Br. A.), 441 
Signal Office, Washington, 35, 112, 124 
Silbury Hill bought by Sir J. Lubbock, Bart., 191 
Silicates, Constitution of (Br. A.), 475 
Simple Diffraction Experiment, 550 
Smet (Rev. P. J. de), Obituary Notice of, 355 
Smith (Archibald), Obituary Notice of, 183 
Smith (A. Percy), Instinct of Dogs, 6 
Smith (E., M.D., F.R.S.), “ Foods,” 301 
Smith (F. J.), Mechanical Combination of Colours, 262 
Smith (Geo.), Assyrian Expedition, 75, 271, 333, 436 
Smith (Hermann), Approach caused by Velocity and Resulting 
in Vibration, 26; Errors respecting Organ-pipes, 45; Har- 
monic Causation and Harmonic Echoes, 383 
Smith (J. H., M.A.), “Treatise on Arithmetic,” 159 
Smith (W. G.), Phosphorescence in Wood, 46 
Smith (W.R.), The Hegelian Calculus, 26 
Smithsonian Institution, 389 
Snakes, Canarese, 303 
Sneezing, Physiology of the Phenomenon, 76 
School of Mines, 210 
- Social Science Congress, Norwich, 472 
Societies, Scientific List of, 521 ; Publication of Transactions, 
55° 
Society of Arts, 110, 112, 371, 492; Memorial to Premier on 
National Museums, 543 
“* Sociology, Principles of,” by Herbert Spencer, 93 
‘* Sociology, Descriptive,” by Herbert Spencer, 544 
Somersetshire Archeological and Natural History Society, 333, 
354 
Sorby (H. C.), Chlorophyll Colouring-Matters, 202, 224 
South African Museum, 352 
South Kensington Museum, Cookery at, 178; H. Cole, C.B., 
on, 534 
Space ot Four Dimensions, 8 
Spalding (Douglas A.), Flight of Birds not acquired, 289 
ag of Gases, Effect of Pressure and Temperature on (Br. A.), 
49) 
Spectra of the Limb and Centre of the Sun, 77 
Spectroscope, The, and its Applications, by J. Norman Lockyer, 
F.R.S., 10, 87, 104 
Spectroscope, Improved, 172 
= Analysis, Researches in,” by J. N. Lockyer, F.R.S., 
153, 15 
Spectrum Lines of Iron, Calcium, and Titanium, 46 
Spectrum of Nitrogen, 161 
Spencer (Herbert), ‘‘ Principles of Sociology,” 93; ‘‘De- 
scriptive Sociology,” 544 
Sphygmograph, and the Pulse, 330, 464, 486 
Spicer (Rev. W. W.), Etymology of Aphis, 103 
““Spiders, European, Synonyms of,” by T. Thorell, Ph.D., 378 
Spiller (J., F.C.S.), Artificial Magnetite (Br. A.), 475 
Sponge, New, dredged by the Chadlenger, 29 
Sporer (Prof. D.), Observations on the Sun, 391 
Sprengel (C. K.), Fertilisation of Flowers, 49 
Standards of Weight and Measure, 268, 307, 327, 367, 386, 489, 
552 
Stanhope (Earl), Proposed Order of Intellectual Merit, 177 
Star-Fishes, 104, 107 
Stars, Southern, Catalogue of, 94 
State Aid to Science, 21, 41, 54, 157, 177, 197, 217, 237, 257; 
261, 262, 297, 317; 337) 3545 377) 414, 543 
Statistical Congress, International, 54 
Sternbergia, Modem, Pith of the Balsam-Fir, 53 
Steven-on (Thos.), Meteorological Influence of Trap Rocks, 181 
Stewart (Prof. B.), Heating of a Disc by Rotation in vacuo, 173; 
Sun-spots, 234; Ethereal Friction (Br. A.), 494 
Stewart (Dr. J. L.), Death of, 514 
Stirling (J. H.), The Hegelian Calculus, 26; ‘‘ Philosophy of 
Law,” 241; Hegel’s Philosophy, 382 
Stone (Livingstone), Fish Acclimatisation in California, 171 
Stone Implements found at New Jersey, 13 
Stones, Musical, 46 ; 
Storms, Law of, Developed, 124, 147, 164 
Struthers (Prof.), Appendix Vermiformis, 509 ; Diverticulum of 
Small Intestine, 541 
Strezelecki (Count de), Death of, 493 4 
Sub-Wealden Exploration (Br. A.), 497 
Sullivant (W. S.), Obituary Notice of, 391; his Library and 
Collections, 404 
Summers and Winters, 182 
Sun : Comparison of Spectra of its Limb and Centre, 77 ; Coro- 
nal Atmosphere of the, 127, 149; Prof. G. A, Young on the, 
393 
Sun-spots and Rainfall, Periodicity of, 194, 245, 495, 547 
Sunday Lecture Society, 558 
Sundevall (Prof. C. J.), Classification of Birds, 131 
Suppression of Scent in Pheasants, 48 ; in Rabbits, 78 
Survival of the Fittest, Prof. L. Agassiz on, 34, 283 
Swallows, Young, Flight of, 289 
Switzerland, Helvetic Society of Natural Sciences, 561 
Tait (Prof. P. G.), Rede Lecture on Thermo-electricity, 86, 122 ; 
Heating of a Disc by Rotation in vacuo, 173; Tyndall and 
Forbes, 381, 399, 431 
Tarry (M.), Cyclones and Sand-storms, 405 
Tasmania : Royal Society, 172 ; Geological Map of, 352 
Taunton College School, Science at, 171 
Taylor (J. E.), ‘‘ Half hours in the Green Lanes,” 361 
Taylor (Mrs. R. B.), ‘‘ The A B C of Chemistry,” 260 
Technical Education, Meeting at Marlborough House, Deputa- 
tion to Privy Council, 293, 314, 513 
Tegetmeier, Suppression of Scent in Pheasants, 48 
Telegraphic Communications (Transatlantic) of Astronomical 
Discoveries, 389 
Telescope for Washington Observatory, 253 
Telescope Tube for Celestial Photography, 284 
Telescope: Webb’s ‘Celestial Objects for Common Tele- 
scopes,” 199 
Tempel’s Comet, 153 
Temperature and Pressure, 200 
Temperature of the Deep-sea, 29, 52, 266, 347, 403, 529; Im- 
proved Thermometers, 195 
Thermo-electricity, Rede Lecture at Cambridge, by Prof. P. G. 
Tait, 86, 122 
Thermometers, Discussion on, 19; Miller-Casella, broken in 
Deep-sea Soundings, 109 ; Deep-sea, 529 
Thomé (Dr. O. W.), ‘‘ Lehrbuch der Zoologie,” 198 
Thomson (James, C.E., LL.D.), Professor of Engineering at 
Glasgow, his scientific Career, 49 
Thomson (Prof. Wyville, F.R.S.), Notes from the Challenger, 
28, 51, 109, 246, 266, 347, 400; Ventriculid, 484 
Thorell (T., Ph.D.), ‘‘ European Spiders,” 378 
‘‘Thysanura, Monograph of the,” by Sir J. Lubbock, Bart., 
M.P., 482 
Tiddeman (R. H.), Settle Caves Report, 529 
Timbs’ ‘‘ Year Book of Facts,” 44 
Tissandier (M. G.), Aérial Spectres seen from a Balloon, 227 
Topley (W., F.G.S.), Whin Sill of Northumberland (Br. A.), 
476 ; Sub-Wealden Exploration (Br. A.), 497 
Tornadoes, 126 
Toulmin Smith (Lucy), Dr. Wyville Thomson and the Ven- 
triculidee, 484 
“* Trades Guild of Learning,” 151, 171, 293, 494 
Transit of Venus (See Venus) 
Trap Rocks, their Meteorological Influence, 181 
Triangulation of Europe, 192 
Turin Industrial Museum, 152 
Turkish Scientific Periodical, 13 
Tuscan Memorial to Galileo, 329 : 
Tylor (E. B., F.R.S.), Clodd’s “ Childhood of the World,” 99 ; 
Morality and Religion in Early Civilisation, 498 ; Spencer's 
‘Descriptive Sociology,” 562 
Tyndall (Prof. J., F.R.S.), Principal Forbes and Glacial The- 
ories, 64, 84, 381, 399, 4313; Swedish Order conferred on, 
292 ; Reflected Rainbows, 361, 423 
Typhoid Epidemic in London, 343, 466, 514 
Ule (Dr. Otto and A. Hummel), ‘‘ Physikalische und Chemische 
Unterhaltungen,” 44 
Univer-ities, English, their Future ; a Voice from Cambridge, 
an Echo from Oxford, 71 
Universities and Science, Pro” C. A. Joy on, 13 
Universities, English and Foreign, Science at, 21 
