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Russia, Biology of, 151; Science in, 190, 194, 287; Inter- 
national Exhibition at Moscow, 393 
-Sabine’s Report on Terrestrial Magnetism, Sir W. Thomson, 
_ FE.R.S., on (Br. A.), 264 
St. Mary’s Hospital Medical School, 229, 452, 476 
St. Thomas’s Hospital Opened by the Queen, 148, 149 
Salem, Peabody Academy of Science, 109 ; Proceedings of the 
__ Essex Institute, 501 
Salmon Ladders for Reservoirs (Br. A.), 337 
San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences, 419 
; Sanitary Science and State Medicine, 137 
- Sanitary Science in India, 150 
Saturday Afternoon Rambles, by Henry Walker, 157 
Saturday Afternoon Scientific Excursions, Prizes Offered, 493 
Saturn, Observations of, 360 
Saturn’s Rings, Lieut. A. M. Davies, F.R.A.S., on, 159, 203 ; 
__ the Reviewer on, 306; R. A. Proctor, F.R.A.S., on, 223, 346 
Saunders (W. Wilson, F.R.S.) on New and Rare Fungi, 249 
Schenk, on German Fossil Plants, 35 
Schobl (Dr.) on the Mouse’s Ear, 253 
School of Mines, its Proposed Transfer to Kensington, 259 
Schorlemmer (C.) on Hydrocarbon , 95 
Science and Art Department, Kensington ; Summary of Report 
for 1870, 259; Whitworth Scholarships, 260, 286; Prof. 
Huxley’s Instruction to Science Teachers, 168, 361; its 
Administration, 404 
Science for the People in France, 394 
“ Science in Plain English,” by William Rushton, 142, 166 
Scientific Instruction, Royal Commission on, 107 
Scientific Value of Cheese Factories, 104 
Sclater (Dr. P. L., F.R.S.), on Captain Sladen’s Expelition, 
405 ; on the Birds of the Lesser Antilles, 473 
Scotland, Geological Survey of (Br. A.), 292 
Scotland, Report on Earthquakes in (Br. A.), 317 
Scott (Michael) on Improved Ships of War (Br. A.), 397 
Scott (Robert H., M.A., F.R.S.), on the Minerals of Strontian, 
Argyleshire, 37 ; on Forms of Cloud, 505 
Scottish Arboricultural Society, 73 
Scottish Naturalist, 319, 498 
Sea, Colours of the, W. M‘Master on, 203, 305 
Sea-grasses, Geographical Distribution of, 211 
Secchi (Pére) on the Sun and its Temperature, 41, 82, 204, 384 
Seeley (H. G.) on Ornithosauria, 100 
Sensation and Science, 177 
Serocold (G. P.) on Rain after Fire, 83 
Sewage, Prof. Corfield on, 287 
Sharp and Dresser’s “ Birds of Europe,” 308 
Shaw (J.), Changes in the Habits of Animals, 506 
Shetland, Magnetic Storms in, 441 
Ships of War, Improved (Br. A)., 397 
Shooting Stars of August 1871, 504 
Signal Light for Storm and Danger, Inextinguishable, 49 
Signal Service in America(.See Meteorology, Hough, Prof. S. W., 
Maury, Prof. T. B., Wild, Prof.) 
Silver, Coal and Gems, in Bolivia, 418 
Skelton (Mr.) his New Lamp for Street Lighting, 477 
Skull of the Eel, its Structure, 146 
Slade Professorship at University College, 50 
Sladen (Capt.) his Expedition to Yunan, 405 
Smith (John) on ‘Domestic Botany,” 304 ; 
Smith (Worthington G., F.L.S.) on New and Rare Fungi, 240 
Smithsonian Institute, Washington (See America) 
Smoke Jacket for Firemen, 126 
Smyth (C. P., F.RS.) Paris Observatory and Metric System, 120 
Snake Bites, 74, 134, 192, 229, 287, 325 
Societies and Academies, 17, 36, 57, 77, 95; 115, 134, 153, 173 
195, 215, 234, 254, 300, 320, 339, 359; 379, 400, 419, 440, 
479, 498, 519 420 h 
Society of Antiquaries, Exhibition of Stone Implements, 50 
Society of Arts, 32, 374; Award of Albert Gold Medal, 107 
Solar Aurora, Prof. C. A. Young on, 345 
Solar Eclipse (.Sve Eclipse) 
Solar Parallax, Prof. S. Newcomb on, 160; R. A. Proctor, 
F.R.A.S., on, 183, 424 
Solar Radiation Temperatures, 393 
Solar Spectrum, Prof. C. A. Young on the, 445 
Solly (Samuel, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of, 436 ; 
Sorby (H. C., F.R.S.) on the Various Tints of Foliage, 341 ; 
on Blood Spectrum, 505; Compound Prisms for Spectrum 
Microscopes, 511 
Sound, its Velocity in Coal, 487, 506 


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Sowerby (J. De Carle), his Death, 374 
Spain and Portugal, Results of Dredging Expedition (Br. A.), 456 
Sparrows, Exportation of, 245, 280 
Spectra of Stars, 99 
Spectroscope, Sir W. Thomson, F.R.S., on the (Br. A. ), 267 
Spectrum of the Aurora ; 280; at Aberdeen 347, 366; T. W. 
Backhouse on the, 66 
- Spectrum of Comet, 95; of Uranus, 88 
Spectrum Microscope, Compound Prism for, 511 
Sponges in the British Museum, 50 
Sponges, their Affinities, by H. J. Carter and W. Saville 
Kent (F.Z.S.) on, 184, 201, 224; from the Coast of Spain 
and Portugal, 456 
Spontaneous Generation, 125; Dr. Bastian on, 178; Sir Wm. 
Thomson, )Br. A), on, 269 ; Papers at the Brit. Ass., 377 
Sprung (A.) ona Rare Atmospheric Phenomenon, 346 
Squaring the Circle, by J. Harris, Montreal, 25 
Squier (E. G.), on the Ruined Cities of Central America, 466 
State Aid to Science, 301, 461 
State Scientific Questions, proposed Commission on, 130 
State Medicine, Examinations for Diplomas at Dublin Univer- 
sity, 137 
Statistical Society, Proceedings of, 154, 168 
Staveley (E. F.), on “British Insects,” 22 
Steam Life Boats, John Fellowes on, 181 
Steam Boiler Legislation (Br. A.), 397 
Stellar Scintillation, Pref. Respighi on, 99 
Stephan (M.), his Observations of Encke’s Comet, 492, 499 
Stephanurus, discovered in America and Australia, 508 
Stevenson (T., C E.), on Towers of Cement Rubble for Beacons 
and Lighthouses, 366 ; New Reflector for Lighthouses, 396 
Stewart (Prof. B., F.R.S.), Mohn’s Storm Atlas for Norway, 
63; ‘‘Psychic Force,” 237, 279; Temperative Equilibrium 
with a Body in Motion (Br. A.), 331 
Stokes’s Dynamical Theory, Sir Wm. Thomson, F.R.S., on 
(Br. A.), 267 
Stonyhurst, Meteorological Observatory at, 247, 248 
Storm and Danger Signal Light, Inextinguishable, 49 
Storm-Atlas for Norway, 63 
Storm of August 12, 1871, 326 
Storm Signal Observations, 52 
Storms, Magnetic, in Higher Latitudes, 441 
Stowmarket, Gun-Cotton Explosion, 309, 518 
Strange (Lt.-Col., F.R.S.), “ Permanent Commission on State 
Science Questions,” 130 
Striated Muscular Fibre in Gasteropoda, 114 
Strontian, Argyleshire, Mineralogy of, 37 
Strutt (Hon. J. W.) on Colour, 142 
Stuart (J.) on Prof. Tyndall’s “‘ Fragments of Science,” 237 
Stuart (D. J.) on Thermometer Observation, 467 
Submarine Telegraphs, 8 ; Injuries to, 436 
Sun: Prof. Newcomb on, 41, 160, 183, 204,322, 423; R. A. 
Proctor, F.R.A.S., on, 41, 183, 322, 346, 424, 465, 487; 
Pere Secchi on, 41, 82, 204, 384; E. J. Stone on, 322 
San, its Temperature, 42, $2, 204 ; Sir Wm. Thomson, F.R.S., 
on, (Br. A.), 268, 384, 449, 487 
Sun’s Parallax, John Flamsteed’s Ghost, on, 503 
Sun-Spots, J. Birmingham on, 102, 133 ; New Theory on, 163, 
172, 175, 224, 359 
Switzerland, Biology in, 171; “ Bibliothéque Universelle et Revue 
Suisse,” 234 ; Waterspout in, 375 
Sylvester (Prof. F.R.S.) and the Government, 324, 326 
Symons (G, J.) on Solar Radiation Temperatures, 393 
Tait (Lawson), on the New View of Darwinism, 201 
Tait (Prof. P. G., M.A.) on Mathematical and Physical Science 
(Br. A.), 270; on Thermal Conductivity of Metals (Br. A.), 
352; on Thermo-Electricity (Br. A.), 396 
Talbot (Fox) on a Method of Estimating the Distances of Fixed 
Stars (Br. A.), 396 
Tapeworm (7exia mediocancllata), 500, 506 
Tapir, New, from Panama, 417 
Tate (George), of Alnwick, his Death, 210 
Taunton School of Science and Art, 12 
Technical Education, Wm. Rushton on, 142, 166; W. Mattieu 
Williams on, 180 
‘Telegraph Earth,” Quantitative Method of Testing, 399 
Telegraphs, Submarine, 8, 436 
Teleosaurus from Kimmeridge Bay, 153 
Telescope for the Washington Observatory, 493 
Telescope, the Melbourne, 109 
Temperature, its Distribution in the North Atlantic, 251 
