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Semenoflf(B.). Fauna of Transcaspian Jurassic Deposits, 308 

 Serotherapy : the Serum Treatment of Rinderpest, 57 ; Results 



of Antitoxin Treatment of Diphtheria, 564 

 Serum Treatment of Rinderpest, the, 57 

 Seubert (Prof), Table of Atomic Weights, 182 

 Seurat (L. G.), Formation of Head of llymenoptera, 263 

 Sewage, Manchester, to be "Septically" Treated, 327 

 Seward (A. C, F.R.S.), Fossil Plants for Students of Botany 



and Geology, 146; on Lepidodendron from the Calciferous 



Sandstone of Scotland, 119 ; Matonia Pectinata, 525 

 Sewell (Robert), Eclipses of the Moon in India, 52 

 Sewerage : the Purification of Sewage, Sidney Barwise, 363 ; 



the Designing, Construction, and Maintenance of Sewerage 



Systems. A. I'rescott-Folwell, 363 

 Shag's Meal, a, Prof J. Joly, F.R.S., 125 

 Shaler (Nathaniel Southgate), Outlines of the Earth's History, a 



Popular Study of Physiography, 604 

 Shantung : Schantung unci seine Eingangspforte Kiautschou, 



Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen, 291 ; Schantung und 



Deutsch-China, Ernst von Hesse VVartegg, 291 

 Sharpe (R. Bowdler), Wonders of the Bird World, 438 

 Shields (Dr. J.), Electro-motive Force of Palladium-Hydrogen 



Cell, 107 

 Ship Canals, the Economic Effects of, 160 

 Shore (T. W.), on Traces of Early Kentish Migrations, 165 

 Shortt (John), Internal Remedy against Beech Parasite Ciypto- 



(ocais fagi, 397 ' 



Shrikes, Food of, Dr. S. D. Judd, 61 

 Siberian Arc, the Measurement of the, 258 

 Siddhanta Darpana, a Treatise on Astronomy, Mahdmahopad- 



hyaya Samata .Sri Chandrasckhara Simha, 436 

 .Sierra Nevada, Massive Lava Flows on the, F. Leslie Ransome, 



355 

 Significance of Spines, the Origin and ; a Study in Evolution, 



Dr. C. E. Beecher, 568 

 Signs of Progress in Science Teaching, Dr. J. A. Gladstone, 



F.R.S., 298 

 Sikhim Himalayas, the, 443 

 Silberrad (Chas. A.), Animals Feeding on Poisonous Plants as 



Food, 177 

 Silchester, Report of the Committee on the Excavations at, 



.'65 



Silk, Spider, Manufacture in France of, 81 



Simmersback (O. ), the Chemistry of Coke, 484 



Simmons (A. T.), Science in Elementary Schools, 126; the 

 Northern Polytechnic, Holloway, 449; Local Authorities for 

 Science and Art Instruction, 498 



Simond (P. L.), Plague Virus transmitted by Fleas, 133 



Simple Spectroscope and its Teachings, a. Sir Norman Lockyer, 

 K.C.B.,F.R.S., 371.391 



Siwah, the Oasis of, 266 



Skating, the Phenomena of, and Prof. J. Thomson's Thermo- 

 dynamic Relation, Prof. J. Joly, F. R.S., 485 



Skiagraphic Atlas, John Poland, 100 



Skin, Histology of, L. Ranvier, 287 



Skinner (Prof. A. N.), United States Naval Observatory, 39S 



Skinner (S.), Combustion of Carbon in Electrolysis, 479 



Slater (Charles), an Atlas of Bacteriology, 338 



Slug following a Closed Trail, Vincent Daniel, 177 



Small Accumulators, 245 



Smeaton (Thom. D.), Optical Experiment, 487 



Smell of Earth, the, C. T. Whitmell, 55 



Smith (A. M.), Mica Mining in Bengal, 397 



Smith (D. E.), Higher Arithmetic, 75 



Smith (Dr. Ervvin F.), Bacillus of Sweet Corn Disease, 256 



Smith (Rev. Fredk. J. Jervis, F.R.S.), a Note on Catching 

 Insects, and the Behaviour of the Bulldog-Ant of South 

 Australia, 295 



Smith (G. Y. II.), a Three-Circle Goniometer, 622 



Smith (S. W. J.), Electro-Capillary Phenomena, I., 428 



Smith (Theodora), the Hibernation of Ants, 348 



Smith (William Benjamin), Infinitesimal Analysis, 147 



Smith (Worlhington G.), Palceolithic Implements from the 

 Valley of the Ver, 510 



Smith (W. M.), Practical Experience with Express Locomotive, 

 14 



Smithells (Prof. Arthur), a Manual of Chemical Analysis, 

 i,Hialitative and Quantitative, G. S. Newth, I ; a Laboratory 

 I aiide in Qualitative Chemical Analysis, H. L. Wells, i ; a 

 Short Course in Inorganic (Qualitative Analysis, J. S. C. 



Wells, I ; Electrical Conductivity and Luminosity of Flames 



containing Vaporised Salts, 166 

 .Smolan (Dr. M. Smoluchowski de), Etherion, a New Gas? 223 

 Smyth (II. Warington), on the River Craft in Use among the 



Siamese, 161 

 Snake Venom, the Relation of the Toxin and Antitoxin of. Dr. 



Martin, 186 

 Snakes, the Disgorging of, 16 

 Soakage into Glazed Porcelain, 175 

 Socialism : the Right to the Wliolc Produce of Labour, Dr. 



Anton Menger, 555 

 Soil Temperature, II. Mellish, 623 



Soils for Artificial Cultures, Prof. R. Warington, F.I\..S., 324 

 Solar Disc during 1897, the, 186 

 Solitary Wasps, on the Instincts and Habits of the, George W. 



Peckham and Elizabeth G. Peckham, 466 

 Sollas (Prof. W. J., F. U.S.), Sponge-Spicules in Derbyshire 



Carboniferous Limestones, 622 

 Solpugx, Indian, or P.seudo-Spiders, II. R. P. Carter, 342 

 Solution, Metallic Alloys, and the Theory of, Charles T. Iley- 



cock, F.R.S., 212 

 .Solution, Volume Changes accompanying, T. II. I.iltlewood, 



333 



Sommerfeld (A.), Propagation of Elcclrodynamic Waves along 



Wire, 598 

 Sonstadt (E. ), Action of Light on Platinum, Gold and Silver 



Chlorides, 71 

 Soul, the Five Windows of the, E. II. Aitken, 293 

 Soul, Position in Body of, Dr. C. Clapham, 34S 

 Sound ; L'Audition et ses Organes, Dr. M. E. (jelle, 55O 

 -Sources of Important Minerals, 596 

 South Coast, the Frilled Fringe of the, 457 

 South Kensington, the Science Buildings at, 6ro 

 Southwell (Thomas), Statistics of Seal and Whale Fishery in 



1898, 544 

 Space-Telegraphy, Coast Telegraphs and, Kollo Appleyard, 



248 

 Spain : Probable Weather Conditions in Spain during the 

 Total Solar Eclipse of May 28, 1900, Prof. Augusto 

 Arcimis, 439 

 Specific Characters, the Utility of, Dr. Alfred R. Wallace, 



F.R.S., 246 

 Specific Heals of Metals at Low Temperatures, U. Behn, 94 

 Spectrum Analysis : the Origin of the Aurora Spectrum, Prof. C. 

 Runge, 29;T.W. Backhouse, 127; the Chemistry of the Stars, 

 Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., 32: the Chemistry 

 of the Stars in Relation to Temperature, .Sir Norman Lockyer, 

 K.C.B., F.R.S., 463; the Spectrum of Krypton, Prof. W. Ram- 

 say, F.R.S., 53 ; Photographic Plates and the Spcrtrum, 83 ; 

 Photographic Films in Spectroscopic Photography, Sir Norman 

 Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., 614; Flame Spectrum of Mercury 

 andTheoryof ICnergy-Distributionin Gases, Prof. Liveing, 142 ; 

 Ueber die Beiden Parametergleichungen der Spectral Analyse, 

 Prof. R, von Kovesligcthy, 159; Anomalous Dispersion and 

 Magnetic Rotatory I'ower of certain Incandescent Vapours, 

 Henri Becquerel, 167 ; .•\nomalous Dispersion of Incandescent 

 Sodium Vapour, Henri Becquerel, 311 ; General Law of the 

 Phenomena of Magnetic Perturbations of Spectral Lines, 

 Prof. Thomas Preston, F.R.S., 248; Magnetic Perturba- 

 tions of the Spectral Lines, Further Resolution of the 

 (^)uartet. Prof Thomas Preston, F.R.S., 367 ; the Spectrum 

 of the Corona, Sir Norman Lockyer, F.R.S. , 279; Illusory 

 Resolution of the Lines of a Spectrum, Prof. G. Johnstone 

 Stoney, F.R.S., 294 ; Prof. Thomas Preston, F.R.S., 295 ; 

 Harvard Astrophysical Conference, 330 ; Stars of the Fifth 

 Type in the Magellanic Clouds, Mrs. Fleming, 330 ; Con- 

 version of Prismatic into Normal Spectra, E. S. King, 330 ; 

 Classification of Spectra of Long Period Variables, Mrs. 

 Fleming, 330 ; Spectra of Stars of Secchi's Fourth Type, 

 Prof. G. E. Hale, 330 ; Confirmation of Presence of Bright 

 Lines in Spectra of 152 Schjellerup, Profs. Keeler and 

 Campbell, 330 ; the Origins of the Lines of a Cygni, Sir 

 Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., 342; Absorption of 

 Uranyl Salts, E. Deussen, 357 ; B-Group in Solar Spectrum 

 observed at Summit of Mont Blanc, A. de la Baume- 

 Pluvinel, 359 ; a Simple Spectroscope and its Teachings, Sir 

 Norman Lockyer, K.C. B., F.R.S., 371, 391 ; Variation of 

 Spectrum of Orion Nebula, Prof J. E. Keeler, 379 ; Spectro- 

 scopic Analysis of Non-Conducting Minerals, A. de Gramont, 

 397 ; the Absorption Spectrum of Cyanuric Acid due to Im- 



