[Nature, J line 3, 1886 



Rotation-Period of Mars, 42 ; Richard A. Proctor, 8i, 245 ; 

 H. G. Van de Sande Bakhuyzen, 153 



Roth (H. Ling), on the Orgin of Agricuhure, 599 



Roumelia, Earthquake in, 255 



Rousdon Meteorological Observatory, Cuthbert E. Peek's, 53S, 

 6io 



Royal Agricultural Society, Journal of the, 21S 



Royal Geographical Society, 160, 468 ; Founder's Medal of tlie. 

 Awarded to Major Greely, 495 



Royal Institution, Lectures at the, 105, 208, 277, 348, 423, 536, 

 589 ; Actonian Prize, 423 



Royal Meteorological Society, 94, 190, 334, 406, 551 ; Exhi- 

 bition of Barometers, 347, 449, 515 



Royal Microscopical Society, 70, 167, 191, 327, 430, 527 



Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, 184, 238, 262, 285, 310, 

 333, 356, 381, 403, 453. 473 



Royal Society, 87, 142, 164, 189, 213, 525, 549, 572, 597, 620; 

 Resignation of the Presidentship by Prof. Huxley, 16 ; 

 the New Council, 39 ; Mode of Admission into, 54 ; Address 

 of the President, Prof. T. H. Huxley, P.R.S., 112; New 

 Fellows, 589 



Royal Society of New South Wales, Sydney, 191, 215 



Royal Society of Tasmania, 61 



Royal Victoria Hall, 302 



Russell (Prof W. J., F.R.S.), on the Molecular Constitution of 

 a Solution of C ubaltous Chloride, 21 



Russia: Cartographical Work in, 1884, 92; Geodetical Survey 

 of Ferghana, 137 ; Russian Chemical Society, 351, 591 ; 

 Obnoxious Insects in, 449 ; Proposed Russian Chinese Expe- 

 dition, 281 ; Russian Geographical Society, 161, 183, 520, 

 61:, 612; Cattle .Plague in Russia, 496; Russian Physical 

 Society, 591 



Rutenberg Fund, Formation of a, at the Bremen Natural 

 History Society, 375 



Ryder (John A.), Resting Position of the Oyster, So 



Sadler (Herbert) and Latimer Clark, the Star Guide, 4S3 



Safranine and Fuchsine in colouring Wines, Cazeneuve and Le- 

 pine, 95 



Saharunpur Botanical Gardens, J. F. Duthie, 539 



St. Austell, Earthquake at, 301 



St. Elazey, Earthquake at, 301 



St. Petersburg Electrical Exhibition, 277 ; Application of 

 Pasteur's Method against Rabies in, 464 ; Discovery of 

 Mineral Water in, 496 



St. Thomas, Botany of, 91 ; J. Y. Buchanan, on the, 495 



Saint- Venant (M. de). Death of, 254 ; Obituary Notice of, Prof 

 Karl Pearson, 319 



Salmon : Saliiw font'malis. Introduction of, into Norwegian 

 Waters, 611 ; Salino salar and .?. ferox in Tasmania, Francis 

 Day, 8 ; Extraordinary Run of, 396 ; Importation of Ova of 

 Land-locked Salmon, 537 ; Spawning Salmonidse, 182 ; Arti- 

 ficial Spawning of, 209 ; Incubation of Eggs of, at the Buck- 

 land Museum, 210; another Consignment of Salmonidze Ova, 

 376 



Salt (Sir Titus), Memorial, 89 



Salt, Use in Liquefaction of Snow of, 326 



Salts, Molecular Weight of, S. U. Pickering, 21 



Salvin and Godman's Biologia Centrali- Americana — Insecta : 

 Coleoptera, Vol. I. Part I, 77 



San Francisco, Earthquakes at, 88 



Sandstone, Reptiliferous, of Elgin and the Upper Old Red 

 Sandstone, Prof J. W. Judd, F.R.S., 310 

 " Sanitary Assurance Association, 182 



Sanitary Conference of Rome, 1885, International, 25 



Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, 89 



Sanitary Protection Association, 450 



" Sanpo," the River, 304 



Saporta (M. ) and M. Marion's I'Evolution des Phanerogames, 

 J. Starkie Gardner, 388 



Sars (G. O.), Norwegian North Atlantic Expedition, 1876-78, 

 Zoology, Crustacea, 148 ; Report on the Schizopoda, 410 



Satellite, the Moon considered as a Planet, a 'CVorld, and a, 

 James Nasmyth, 79 



Satellite, Tidal Friction and the Evolution ot a, Prof. G. H. 

 Darwin, F. R.S., 367 



Saturn's Ring, Density of, 303 



Saxony, Cave- Dwellings in, 303 



Scandinavia: Ice- Floes in. Sir J. D. Hooker, F. R.S., 79 ; Rev. 

 A. Irving, 129 ; After-Glows in, 137 



Schaumberg (Jules), Death of, 516 



Schellen (Dr. H.), Spectrum Analysis, 28 



Schizopoda, Report on the. Prof. G. O. Sars, 410 



Schizophyta, Pleomorphism of the, Prof E. Ray Lankester, 

 F.K..S.,4I3 



Schlagdenhauften, Heckel and, the Gutter-percha of Bassia 

 farkii, 120 



Schleswig-Holstein, the Prehistoric Antiquities of, Fraulein 

 Mestorf, 536 



Schmidt (Dr. Oscar), Death of, 326 ; Obituary Notice of, 392 ; 

 his Work on Mammalia and their Relation to Primaeval 

 Times, 556 



School-Children as Observers, Mrs. Bryant, 94 



Schools, Science, at Home and Abroad, Edward Cookworthy 

 Robins, Prof T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 491 



Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig, 620 



Schriften der Physikalisch-Oekonomischen Gesellschaft zu 

 Konigsberg i. Pr., 23 



Schiibeler (Dr.), Norwegian Toadstools, 213 



Schulze-Berge (Dr.), on the Conduction of Electricity in Di- 

 electric Media, 432 



Sdiumacher (Gottlieb), Across the Jordan, 578 



Schur (Herr W.), Parallax of 1//^ Aurigce, 612 



Schuster (Dr. Arthur, F.R.S.), on Electrolysis, 20; Permanent 

 Magnetic Polarity of Quartz, 391, 441 ; Velocity of Light as 

 Determined by Foucault's Revolving IMirror, 439 ; on the 

 Diurnal Period of Terrestrial Magnetism, 614 



Schiitzenberger's Oxymetric Fluid, on a Photo-Chemical Reac- 

 tion of, Victor Jodin, 552 



Schwalbe (Prof. )," Ice-Cavities, 312, 384 



Schwerin (Baron), Proposed Congo Expedition by, loS 



Science in French Cochin China, 67 



Science, Greville's Respect for, 16 



Science at the Mansion House, 564 



Science Schools at Home and Abroad, Edward Cookworthy 

 Robins, Prof T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 491 



Science Teaching in Birmingham, 182 



Scientific Men in Parliament, 160 



Scientific Relief Fund, 433 



Scientific Work, Science on, 254 



Sclater (Dr. P. L., F.R.S.), on Calliste gouUii, 93 



Scotland, Fishery Board of, 558 



Scott (James George), Burma, as it was, as it is, and as it will 

 be, 531 



Scott (Robert H., F.R.S.), Marine Climatology, 334 ; Climbing 

 Powers of the Hedgehog, 583 



Scott, Transfrontier Surveys of India, 44 



Scottish Geographical Magazine, 468 



Scottish Geographical Society, 424 



Scottish Meteorological Society, 44 



Screw-Pile, the, Leaute, 552 



Sculptures, Ancient, in Guatemala, the Discovery of, Vreeland 

 and Brandsford, 17 



Sea-Fish, Observations on Effect of Certain Influences on, 41 



Sea- Lions, Ravages on Californian Fish of, J. D. Redding, 41 



Sea-Mills at Argostoli, J. Lloyd Thomas, 129 ; L. Frieder- 

 ichsen and Co., 154 



Sea-Trout, Fertility of, 27S 



Sea-Trout, at South Kensington Aquariam, 425 



Seaman (Wm. H.), on the Method of Stating Results of Water 

 Analyses 546 



Search, Telescopic, for the Trans-Neptunian Planet, David P. 

 Todd, 258 



Searle (Prof Arthur), on the Zodiacal Light, 350 



Secular Nutation of the Earth's Axes, 376 



Secular Weather Periods, Universal, E. Douglas Archibald, 



-, ,52 



See (Germain), Sulphate of Sparteine as a Medicine for Irregular 



Action of the Heart, 120 

 Seebohm (Henry), History of British Birds, 463, 519 

 Seeliger (Prof), New Star in the Great Nebula in Andromeda, 



397 

 Seewarte, aus dem Archiv der Deutschen, 411 

 Seiches, Prof Forel on, 184 



Seidlitz (M. ), Population of the Transcaspian Region, 186 

 Seismology : Attempts to obtain Records of Earth-Tremors 



from the Flood Rock Explosion, Profs. Mendenhall and Paul, 



