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Siam ; Invitation by the King to Royal and Astronomical 

 Societies, 215 



Silk-culture, 456 



" Silkworm Cocoon," by M. Duieigncur-Klcber, 206 



Simon (Euyene), " Spiders of France," 224 



Smith (A. Percy), Chameleon Barometer, 365 



Smith (E. J. A'Court), Flint Celt, 466 ; Discovery of Remains 

 of Plants and Insects, 88 



Smith (George), " Assyrian Discoveries," 441 



Smith (Hermann), "Gamba" Organ-pipe, 325 ; Sounds of tlie 

 String Organ, 425 



Smith (\V. G.), Pollen Grains, 286, 32S 



Smith (Dr. W. R.), Origin of the Jewish Week, 363 



Snakes and Frogs, 167 



Snake Poisoning, 377 



Snow Storms, 334 



Society of Arts, 35, 94, 141, 217, 237, 255 



Social Science Association, 435 



Solar Parallax, M. Puiseux's Calculations, 474 



Solar Physics, M. Becquerel on, 132 



Solar Spectrum, White Lines in, 31S 



Sorby (H. C, F. R.S.), Medal of Royal Society presented to, 

 156 ; DiatomaceEe in Coal Ashes, 475 



Sounding and Sensitive Flames, 6, 45, 88 



South American Travel, 241, 262 



Southport Aquarium, 393 



Southwell (Thos.), Thermometer Scales, 286 



Spain, Science in, 372 



Spalding ( D. A.), Sully's " Sensation and Intuition, " 44 ; Jardine's 

 " Psychology of Cognition," 422 



Species, in relation to Race, 129 



Spectroscopy: Transit of Venus, 171 ; Stars, 236 ; New Map 

 of the Solar Spectrum, 238 ; Spectrum of Coggia's Comet, 

 23S ; Influence of Pigments on the Photographic Image of 

 the Spectrum, 505 ; White Lmes in Solar Spectrum, 318 



Spider, Crane or Windlass, 476 



Spiders, Ingenuity of, 8 



" Spiders of France," by Eugene Simon, 224 



"Spiders, Trap-door," by J. T. Moggridge, F.L.S., 245 



Spitzbergen, Natural History of, 22 



Spooner (W. C, M.R.V.C), "History, Structure, Economy, 

 and Diseases of Sheep," 106 



Spottiswoode {W., F. R.S.), Presentation of Medals at Royal 

 Society, 155 



Standards of Weight and Measure ; Report of the Warden of 

 the Standards, 270 



Stanley (H. M. ), his African Expedition, 77, 153 (.Stv Living- 

 stone's " Last Journals ") 



Starfish, Fossil, 476 



Stars : Anthelm's, 407 ; Binary, Bootis ; New Variable in Orion, 

 348 ; R. Hydra, 349 ; Drayson's " Proper Motion of the 

 Fixed Stars," 66 ; Falling, 154; Red, 446 ; Southern Double, 

 428; Spectroscopic Observations of, 236; "Temporary," of 

 Tycho Brahe and Kepler, 249 ; Variable, 269, 308, 32S, 

 334. 3(>S> 3*>7. 42i5, 473 ; Weight of a Fixed Star, 314 



Statistical Society, 294 



Stebbing (T. R. R.), Natural Phenomena in South America, 

 386 



Stewart (Prof. B., F.R.S.), Dr. Lloyd's "Treatise on Mag- 

 netism," 221 



Stigmaria, Structure of, 136 



Stillman (W. J.), Influence of Pigments on the Photographic 

 Image of the Spectrum, 505 



Stockholm, Science at, 459 



Stone (W. H.), " Wolf" in the Violoncello, 466 



.Stone Implements from the United Stales, 190, 215 



Storms in the Atlantic, 290, 312 



Storm Warnings from the United States, 403 



Strange (Lieut-Col. A., F.R.S.), Transit of Venus, 130 



Stiatford, Lectures at, 254 



Stratification in Electrical Discharges, 518 



String Organ, Hamilton's, 308, 425 



Sub-Wealden Exploration, 236, 267, 284, 3 1 3, 457 



Sugar Cultivation in Porto Rico, 35 



Suicide of Scorpions, 29, 47 



Sully (Jas., M..4.), " Sensation and Intuition," 44 



Sumatra, Phoenician Characters in, 228 



Sun, The ; Preliminary Inquiry into the Existence of the Ele- 

 ments not previously traced, by J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 

 334 ; Sun and Earth as Forces in Chemistry, 324 ; Sun's 

 Parallax, 274, 489 ; Sun-spots, 416 



Surveys, Scientific, 381 



Switzerland, Government Map of, u6 ; Map of the Lake of 

 Geneva, 372 



Sydney Museum, 236 



Symons (W.), Carbon Cellsj and Plates for Galvanic Bat- 

 teries, 8 



Tea, Trade in, 435 



Teeth of the Newt, Lizards, and Ophidia, 157 



Telegraph, Progress of the, 390, 450, 470, 510 



"Telegraph and Travel," by Col. Sir J. F. Goldsmid, C.B., 



347 

 Telegraphy, International Conference on, 457 

 Telescope for Paris Observatory, 272 

 Telescopes, Equatorial, Inventor of Clock Movement applied 



to, 166 

 Temperature of Brussels, 444 

 Temperature of the Ocean, 157 

 Temperature Chart of the Unitel States, 267 

 Texas, .Survey of, 153 

 Thaw, Recent, 193 

 Thernjometer Scales, 286, 427 

 Thermometers, New Notation for, 457 

 Thibet, Exploration in, 293 

 Thomson (]., F.R.G.S.), "Malacca, Indo-China, and China," 



207, 248 

 Thomson (Prof. C. Wyville, F.R.S.), Reports .on the Challenger 



Expedition, 95, 120, 287, 297 

 Thresher. The, and the Whale, 234 

 Tinus, Weather Chart in the, 473, 497 

 Tissandier (Gaston), Aeronautics, 467 ; his Ascent in the Zenilk 



Balloon, 495 

 Tobacco Cultivation in Algeria, 436 ; Indian, 373 

 Tobacco Smoke, 456 



Tock-Tay, or large House Lizard of Bengal, 272 

 Topham (John), Ingenuity of a Spider, S 

 Topley (\V.), Sub-Wealden Exploration, 284 

 Trade Winds, 34S 



Traill (C. ), Improvement of the Zoological Gardens, 68 

 Transit of Venus (.SVr Venus, Tran:,it of) 

 Transit of Venus, A. D. 1631, 507 

 "Trap," Fossils in, 129 

 Tree Aloes of South Africa, 89, 254 

 Tree Ferns, 254 

 Trees, Catalogues of, 1 54 

 Trieste, Scientific Society at, 372 

 Trigonometrical Tables, 424 

 Turmel between France and England, 273 

 Turner (W., M.D.), " Human Anatomy," 464 

 Tuscarara, U.S. Steamer; Deep Sea Soundings, 295 

 Tyndall (Prof.), Acoustic Reversibility, 239 

 Typhoon at Hong Kong, 16S 



Umbellula, or Cluster Polyp, 252 



" Unionida;," by Isaac Lea, LL.D., 246 



University College, 355, 371 



University Reform, Mr. Disraeli on, 292 



Upper Currents over Areas of Frost, 269 



Uranus, Satellites of, 395 



Utah, Birds of, 136; Oyster Cultivation at, 217 



" Valleys, Fissures, Fractures, and Faults," by G. II. Kinahan, 



M.R.I.A., 403 

 Variable Nebula, 489 

 Variable Stars, 269, 30S, 334, 365, 387 

 Vegetation of the Libyan Desert, 137 

 Ventilation, Theory of, 296 

 Venus, Transit of ; Reports of the Expeditions, l6, 36, 93, 102, 



112, 121, 130, 134, 153, 171, 177, 194, 214, 234, 254, 306, 



3«3. 332. 354, 365. 371, 387, 394. 417. 455 



Venus, Transit of : \.D. 163 1, 507 



Victoria: Aborigines, 155; Agriculture, 361 ; Geological Sur- 

 vey, 181 ; Royal Society, 91 



Victoria Philosophical Institute, 76, 120, 199, 360, 418, 459 



Vienna, Imperial Academy of Sciences, 420 



Vine Cultivation, 274, 396 



Vine Disease in the South-east of France, 11, 56 



Violoncello, The " Wolf" in the, 406, 466 



Volcanoes: Sandwich Islands, 386; Iceland, 514,' Moluccas, 



Von HeugUn's Travels in Spitzbergeu and Nova Zembk, 22 



