Natui-t; June 3, 1S86] 



39 ; Measurement of Movements of t1\e Earth with Reference 



to Proposed Earthquake Observations on Ben Nevis, Prof. 



J. A. Ewing, 68 ; Seismic Oscillations Observed in Berlin, 



Dr. Borsch on, 72 ; Seismological Society of Tokio, 235, 465 ; 



Seismology in Japan, Prof. Milne, 465 ; New System of 



Earthquake Observations in Japan, Seikei Sekiya, 603 

 Sekiya (Seikei), New System of Earthquake Observations in 



Japan, 603 

 Selenka (Dr. E.), Report on the Gephyrea, 410 

 Sensibility and Movements of Plants, 520 

 Septic Organisms, Life History of, 430 

 " Seter," " Strandlinjer," or Parallel Roads, in Central Norway, 



Dr. Andr. M. Hansen, 268, 365 

 Shadow, Sunrise, of Adam's Peak, Ceylon, Hon. Ralph Aber- 



cromby, 532 

 .Shamanism in Upper Au-^tria, Dr. Zehden, 211 

 Sharpe (Prof. R. Bowdler), Bird-Murder, 553 

 Sheffield Free Library, 517 



Sheffield, Scientific Scho il of Yale College (U.S.), 316 

 Shenstone (W. A ), Practical Introduction to Chemistry, 484 

 Shepard (Jas. H.), Elements of Inorganic Chemi-;try, 98 

 Sherman (O. T. ) on the Spectrum of the Great Nebula in 



Andromeda, 42 

 Shida (Prof.), on the Automatic Record of Earth-Currents, 



235 

 Ship Set on Fire by a Meteor, 516 

 .Ships, the Load-Lines of, 169 

 .Ships, Notes on the Straining of. Caused by Rolling, Prof. 



Francis Elgar, 38 1 

 Ships, on the Use of Models for Instruction in the Magnetism 



of Iron, 587 

 .Ships, War, on the Speed Trials of Recent, W. II. White, 



585 

 ** Shorn Pen," 190 

 .Shooting Stars in China, 3S3 

 Shower-Clouds, the Thickness of, 406 

 Shower, Recent Star, W. F. Denning, 127 ; J. B. Haslam, 12S ; 



Wm. F. Petrie, 128; 1. F. Main, 128 

 Shrubsole (W. H.), R.idi ilaria, 154 

 Shufeldt (R. W.), " Furculum" or"Furcula," 8 

 Siberia: Yadrintseff on Civilisation among the Ural Altayans, 



183 ; from Paris to Pekin over Siberian Snows, Victor 



Meignan, 219 ; Dr. Bunge's Expedition to New Siberian 



Islands, 539 ; Terrific Meteor in .Siberia, 591 

 Sicily, Tea Cultivation in, 279 

 Sidgwick (Adam), on the Development of Cape Peripatus, 



547 

 Siemens (Sir William), Memorial Window, 104, 159 

 Signalling, Military, Mr. E. .S. Bruce's System of, 41 

 Silver, Filiform, the Growth of, Dr. J. H. Gladstone, F.R.S., 



526 

 Simons (F.), Exploration of Goajira Peninsula, 1S5 

 Singapore, Rainfall of, 302 

 Sitzungsberichte der physikalisch-medizinischen Societat zu Er- 



langen, 524 

 Sklarek (Dr. W.), Resignation of the Editorship of Naliir- 



fjrscker, 208 

 Skulls, Dr. Weissbach's Collection of, 160 

 .Skulls, Prehistoric Human, Dr. Studer, 17 

 .Skulls of Various Nations, 302 

 Smaland Amber-Diggings, the, 18 



Smerinthus ocdlattis &ViA its Food Plants, Special Colour-Rela- 

 tions between Larva of, E. B. Poulton, 474 

 .Smieton (James), November Meteors, 104 

 Smith (B. Woodd), Peculiar Ice-Forms, 461 

 Smith (Chas.), Elementary .Mgebra, 413 

 Smith (Edgar A.), Report on the Lamellibranchiata, 4T0 

 Smith (Dr. P. H. Pye-), Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on 



Physiology, 150 

 Smith (Willoughby), Magnetism, 364 

 Smith (W. Robertson), Kinship and Marri.age in Early Arabia, 



Andrew Lang, 539 

 Smithsonian Institution, 106, 301 ; Anthropological Papers 



issued by, 17 ; Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the, 



for the year 1883. 126 ; and the Study of Ethnology, 374 

 Smyrna, Rain at, Hyde Clarke, 154 

 Smyth (Prof. C. Piazzi), Iridescent Clouds, 219 

 Snails Eating Whitening, Edward B. Poulton, 176 

 Snake-Stories, Travellers', Major Allan Cunningham, 222 

 Snakes, a Family of Rare Java, Miss Catherine C. Hopley, 295 



Snakes, Do Young, take Refuge in the Stomach of the Mother ? 

 Prof. John Le Conte, 441 



Snow, the "Binding" Effects of Intense Cold and Wind on, 

 349 



Snovv, Use of Salt in Liquefaction of, 326 



Snow-Covering and the Weather, Dr. Woeikof, 379 



Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Geneve, 88 



Society of Arts, 88 ; Papers to be read at, 39 ; Lectures, 234 



Sohncke (Herr), Polarisation of Light, 497 



Soil, Nitrogen in the, 46 



Solar Activity, Present State of the, M. R. Wolf, M. Tacchini, 

 398 



Solar Diurnal Inequ.ilities of Terrestrial Magnetism, on the 

 Foices concerned in Producing the. Prof. Balfour .Stewart, 

 F.R.S., 613, 620 



Salar Eclipse, Total. 1SS6 August 28-29, 184, 536 



Solar Eclipses, the Brown Ring and, Dr. Zenker, 96 



Solar Envelope, .Strticture of the, 328 



Sol.ar H.alo, E. J. Stone, F.R.S., 222 



Solar Halo with Parhelia, William Ellis, 535 



Solar Heat, Prof. Langley's Researches on, 105 



Solar and Magnetic Phenomena, Connection between, G. M. 

 Whipple, 559 



Solar Parallax, Velocity of Light and the, 518 



Solar Phenomena, Distribution in Latitude of, 498 ; on the 

 Latitudinal Distribution of the, observed during the Year 

 18S5, M. P. Tacchini, 504 



Solar Prominences, Displacement of Lines in, 498 



Solar Spectrum, Effects of, on the Transpiration of Plants, Rev. 

 G. Henslow, 165 



Solar Statistics of 1885, 312 



Solar System in Space, Spectroscopic Determination of the 

 Motion of the, 450 



Sole, the Artificial Reproduction of the, 449 



S3lid, on Determining the Specific Gravity of a Dense Solid, 

 J. Joly, 382 



Solly (Mward, F.R.S.), Death of, 536 



Solomon Group, Observations on the Recent Calcareous For- 

 mations of the, H. B. Guppy, 202 



Sonnet — the Pleiades, 516 



Sonnet to Pritchard, Note on, Prof. J. J. Sylvester, F. R..S., 

 558 



Sorley (W. R.), on the Ethics of Naturalism, 175 



Sound, Heat, and Light, Lectures on, Richard Wormell, 580 



Sound-Producing Apparatus of the Cicadas, on the, Prof. C. 

 Lloyd Morgan, 36S, 582 ; C. S. Middlemiss, 582 



.Source of the Mississippi, Discovery of the, Henry Gannett, 

 221 



.South American Bird-Music, W. H. Hudson, 199 



South Australia, Weather in — Stevenson's Thermometer-Screen, 

 Clement L. Wragge, 533 ; Plan of, 567 



South Foreland Experiments with lUuminants, 39 



South Georgia, .Star-Fishes from, 399 



South Indian Ocean, Upper Wind-Currents in the, and over 

 the North- West Monsoon, Hon. Ralph Abercromby, 460 



South Kensington Aquarium, Proposal to Introduce Herrings, 

 376 



South Seas, New Island in the, 308 



Space, Elliptic, Dr. Robert S. Ball, F.R.S., 86 



Spain, Earthquakes in, 88 



Sparteine, Sulphate of, as a Medicine for Irregular Action of 

 Heart, Germain See, 120 



Spectrum Analysis : Absorption-Spectrum of Oxygen, 89 ; 

 Spectrum of Cobaltous Chloride, 21 ; Dr. H. Schellen, 28 ; 

 Sir Henry E. Roscoe, F.R. S., 437 ; a New Absorption Spec- 

 troscope, Maurice de Thierry, 24; the Spectrum of the Great 

 Nebula in Andromeda, 42 ; Effects of the Solar Spectrum on 

 the Transpiration of Plants, 165 ; on the Spectrum of .\b- 

 sorption of Oxygen, N. Egoroff, 16S ; New Form of Spec- 

 troscope, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 189; .Spectroscopic 

 Determination of the Motions of the Solar .System in Sp.ace, 

 450; on the .Spectra of Erbia, Wm. Crookes, F. R. S., 474; 

 on KadLant Matter : Note on the Earth Yo, William Crookes, 

 F'.R.S., 525; Colour Photoinetry, 525, 526; Stars with 

 Banded Spectra, N. C. Duner, Miss A. M. Cl;rke, 583 ; A. 

 Ricco on some Spectroscopic Phenomena, 599 



Speech, the Photography of, 312 



Speed Trials of Recent War- Ships, W. H. White, 585 



Spermatogenesis, Dr. Biondi on, 360 ; Dr. Benda, 623 ; -Spey 

 Bay, the Salinity of the Water of, 264 



