xiv 
Sea Serpent, the, F. T. Mott, 293; Joseph Sidebotham, 315 ; 
W. Barfoot, 338; Prof. W. Steadman Aldis, 338; Dr. J. 
Rae, F.R.S., 366 
Seals in the Baltic, 133 
Sea-shore, Apparent Lird Tracks by, 91 
Secchi (Father), Monument to, 298 
Seebohm (Henry), Ornithologist in Siberia, 560 
Seismographic Apparatus, Gray and Milne’s, 547 
Selenka (Prof. E.), Sipunculacea, 133 
Serpieri (Prof. A.), ‘‘ I] Potentiale Elettrico nell’ Insegnamento 
dell’ Elettrostatica,” 312 
Serravallo, Double Action Mercury Air-pump, 324 
Sextants, New Apparatus for Testing, 473 
Shadows after Sunset, E. D. Archibald, 77; Prof. Dier, 150; 
J. Rand Capron, 182 
Sheep, Blanford’s, 415 
Sheffield Free Libraries Report, 19 
Shetland, Severe Weather in, 443 
Shulachenko’s Experiments with Telephones, 445 
Siberia, Proposal for Publication of General Description of, 182 
Siberian Aborigines, Yadrintseff, 541 
Siberian Flora, 445 
Siberia in Europe, Henry Seebohm, 560 
Sidebotham (Joseph), the Sea Serpent, 315 
Siemens (Sir Charles W.), Electric Lighting, the Transmission of 
Force by Electricity, 67 ; and Dr. Percy, Presented with the 
Freedom of the Company of Turners, 276; Electrical Trans- 
mission of Force and Storage of Power, 518 
Sieve Tubes, E. Russow, 366 
Silesia, Earthquake in, 400 
Silk Culture in Hungary, 209 
Silver, Electric Conductivity of Haloid Salts of, Prof. Kohl- 
rausch, 182 
Simondsia paradoxa, Dr. Cobbold, 547 
Singing, Speaking, and Stammering, W. H. Stone, 509, 531, 
558, 580; James Lecky, 580 
Sipunculacea, Prof. E. Selenka, 133 
Siwalik Carnivora, Richard Lydekker, 293. 
**Skin-vision ”” of Animals, 399 
Skobeleff (General), the Weight of his Brain, 347 
Slunin (Dr.), Popular Medicine in Russia, 62 
Smith (C. S.), Sir G. B. Airy on the Forth Bridge, 99 
Smith (F. S.): a Modification of the Gold Leaf Electroscope, 
102 
Smith (Prof. H. J. S.)’: Death of, 371 ; Obituary Notice of, Dr. 
W. Spottiswoode, F.R.S., 381; his Mathematical Papers 
and Memoirs, 443; and the Representation of a Number asa 
Sum of Five Squares, 538, 564, 565, 587 
Smith (Leigh), Gift to the Royal Geographical Society, 323 
Smith (Robert H.), ‘‘ Cutting Tools Worked by Hand and 
Machine,” 577 
Smith (Worthington G.), Ancient Monuments, 102; Palao- 
lithic Gravels, 102; Palzolithic Implements of North-East 
London, 270 
Smoke Abatement, Dr. E. Frankland, F.R.S., 407 
Smoke Abatement Institution, National, 443 
Smyth (Prof. C. Piazzi), the Magnetic Storm and Aurora, 83; 
the Peak of Teneriffe Active again, 315 
Snake Bite, Death from, in Bombay, Sir Joseph Fayrer, F.R.S., 
6 
anne Destruction of Life in India by Poisonous, Str J. Fayrer, 
F.R.S., 205 
Snowballs, Natural, a Remarkable Phenomenon, S. Hart, 483 
Snow Rollers, G. J. Symons, F.R.S., 507 ; F. W. Grey, 507 
Soda Flames in Coal Fires, Major J. Herschel, 78 
Soda, Heating by Acetate of, 344 
Soda Industry, Present Condition of, Walter Weldon, F.R.S., 
or 
Sodium as New Element for Electro-positive Plate, Jablochkoff, 
114 y 
Solar Corona, on Photographing 
F.R.S., 199 : 
Solar Eclipses, Recent and Coming Total, J. Norman Lockyer, 
F.R.S., 185 : x f 
Solar Eclipse on May 6, Total, 248; English Expedition, 398, 
the, Dr. Wm. Huggins, 
507 a F : 
Solar Radiation and Glacier Motion, Rev. A. Irving, 553 
Solomon Islands, Anthropological Notes in the, H. B. Guppy, 
607 
Sound-vibrations of Solid Bodies (glass cylinders) in Contact 
with Liquids, Auerbach, 325 
“INDEX 
[Wature, Fune 21, 1883 
Space, the Matter of, Charles Morris, 349; Prof. A. S. Hers- 
chel, 458, 504 
Spatzier (Johann), Death of, 422 
Speaking, Singing, and Stammering, W. H. Stone, 509, 531, 
558, 580; James Lecky, 580 
Spectrum Analysis: Work in the Infra-Red of the Spectrum, 
Capt. Abney, F.R.S., 15 ; Prof. Rowland’s Concave Gratings 
for giving a Diffraction Spectrum, 95; Profs. Liveing and 
Dewar on the Origin of the Hydrocarbon Flame Spectrum, 
257; Distribution of Energy in the Spectrum, Lord Rayleigh, 
F.R.S., 559 
Speedwell, Fertilisation of, A. M. Stanley, 127, 174; A. 
Ransom, 149, 223: 
Speke and Grant’s Zebra, Sir J. Fayrer, F.R.S., 604 
Spencer’s (Herbert) Philosophy, Section founded for Study of, 
at Birmingham, 587 
Spica, Schmidt’s Variable Star near, 617 
Spider, New Species of African, 348 
Spitzbergen, Swedish Expedition to, 243 
Spitzbergen Geological and Palzontological Collections, 588 
Sponges, Australian Freshwater, 91 
Sporer (Prof.) on the Transit of Venus, 284 
Sportsman’s Handbook to Practical Collecting, &c., Rowland 
Ward, 146 
Spottiswoode (Dr. W., P.R.S.): Address to Royal Society, 
134, 162; Obituary Notice of Prof. Henry Smith, 381; 
** Scientific Worthies,” 597 
Spring in the Jachére, Intermittent, 63 
Spring (M. W.), Thunderstorms, 133 
Springs, High, of 1883, P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., 529 
Squares, Prof. H. J. S. Smith and the Representation of a 
Number as a Sum of Five, 538, 564, 565, 587 
Stamens, Two Kinds of, with Different Functions in the same 
Flower, Dr. Hermann Miiller, 30 ; Dr. Fritz Miiller, 364 
Stammering, Singing, Speaking and: W. H. Stone, 509, 
531, 558, 580; James Lecky, 580 
Stanley (A. M.), Fertilisation of Speedwell, 127 
Stanley (W. F.), Causes of Elevation and Subsidence of Earth’s 
Surface, 523 
Stapleton (F.): the Magnetic Storm and Aurora, 86; the 
Comet, 151 
Stapley (A. M.), Fertilisation of Speedwell, 174 
Stars : Star Maps in Glasgow Evening Times, 80; Measures of 
Double, 182; Binary, 518; ¢ Cancri, 424;  Eridani, 589 ; 
Variable, 324, 400, 540; S Virginis, 424; U Cephei, 
Ceraski’s, 424, 445; Supposed Variable « Doradtis, 498; 
Schmidt’s Variable near Spica, 617 
Steel Plate Manufacture, 405 
Steel, Hardening and Tempering, Prof. W. Chandler Roberts, 
F.R.S., 594 
Stellar Parallax, 210 
Stephan (Prof.), Schirmwirkung of Iron, 325 
Stevenson (Thos.), Observations of Increase of Velocity ot 
Wind with Altitude, 432; E. D. Archibald, 506 
Stewart (Comm. D.), Mimicry in Moths, 314 
Stock (T.), Notice of some Discoveries recently made in 
Carboniferous Vertebrate Palzontology, 22 
Stockholm Ethnographical Exhibition, Dr. A. B. Meyer, 371 
Stokoe (Dr. P. H.), Mimicry, 508 
Stone Age in Japan, Weapons and Implements from the, 616 
Stone (Prof. E. J.), Transit of Venus, 1882, British Expedi- 
tions, 177 
Stone (W. H.), Singing, Speaking, and Stammering, 509, 531, 
558, 580 
Storage Batteries, Chemistry of, Dr. E. Frankland, F.R.S., 568 
Strahan (A.), Movements of Air in Fissures and the Barometer 
375) 461 
Stress, Clerk Maxwell on, 314 
Strong (George), Improved Feed-water Heater and Purifier, 90 
Suez Canal, Animal Migrations due to, Prof. Keller, 181 
Sulphur, Action of Zinc on, Schwarz, 184 
“Sun: its Planets and their Satellites,” Rev. E. Ledger, 309 ; 
Eclipse of the, 346; Ignition by Sunlight, Major Herschel ; 
E. H. Verney, 531; Shadows after Sunset, E. D. Archi- 
bald, 77; J. Rand Capron, 102; Prof. Dier, 150; a Mock 
Sunset, 78; Wolf and Faye on Periodicity of Sunspots, 
235; Absence of Sunspots— Unprecedented Cold in the 
Riviera, C. J. B. Williams, 551 
Sunflowers at Night, the Reversion of, C. A. White, 241 
Surveying, Marine, a Treatise on, Rey. J. L. Robinson, 289 
Svanhberg (Dr, Gustav), Death of, 132 
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