INDEX 



[Nalure, June 3, i886 



Sphoerotherium, G. C. Bourne on the Anatomy of, 120 



Spindler, Winds on Shores of Black Sea, 1S4 



Sponges of Australia, 359 



Sponges, Coelenterata, Protozoa, and Worms, Bibliography of, 



D'Arcy W. Thompson, 174 

 Spring and Roland, Measurements of Carbonic Acid in Air, 



183 



Springs of Conduct, an Essay in Evolution, C. Lloyd Morgan, 

 Dr. Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 436 



Square Bamboo, Dr. J. Macgowan, 560 



Standage (H. C), Artist's Manual of Pigments, 530 



Standards of White Light, 236 



Stanforth (Robert), on the Viper, 176 



Stars: Recent Star-Shower, W. F. Denning, 127, 152 ; J. B. 

 Haslam, 128, 220; Wm. F. Petrie, 128; J. F. Main, 128; 

 P.J. Denza, 150 ; John M'Kcague, 150; Robert H. West, 

 152 ; Arthur W. Waters, 152 ; C. A. Young, 152 ; E. J. 

 l.owe, 152; W. n. Lyne, 152; Alf. Carpenter, 221 ; a 

 Shower of Stars seen at Bagamoyo, 424 ; /3 or 6 Cygni?, 184 ; 

 .Suspected "New" Star, 185; New Instrument for Observ- 

 ing the Colours and Magnitudes of, 191 ; New Star in Orion, 

 255 ; New Star near % Orionis, Prof. A. Ricco, 269 ; Cheap 

 Star Maps, 255 ; Shooting-Stars in China, 383 ; New Star in 

 the Great Nebula in Andromeda, Prof. Seeliger, 397 ; Sun and 

 Stars, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 399, 426, 469, 499, 540 ; 

 Binary Star 7 Corona; Australis, 425 ; Binary Star /3 Delphini, 

 518; Variable Stars, Edmund J. Mills, 440, 514; Jno. 

 Castell-Evans, 4B6 ; Star Guide by Latimer Clark and 

 Herbert Sadler, 4S3 ; Stars with Banded Spectra, Miss A. 

 M. Gierke, N. C^ Duner, 583 



Star-Fishes from South Georgia, 399 



Stas (J. S.), Royal Society Davy Med.al awarded to, 87 



•Statics, Elementary Treatise on, by John Greaves, 537 



Statistical Society, Jubilee Volume of the, 161 



Statistics, Dr. Farr's Papers on, 89 



Statistics on Insanity, 182 



Stature, Hereditary, Francis Gallon, F. R.S., 29;, 517 



.Stavanger, Discovery of Apatite, 137 



Steam, Action of, on Carbonic Oxide, H. B. Dixon, 286 



.Steel Railway-Sleepers, 41 



Steel and Iron Bars, Tensile Tests of, Peter D. Bennett, 351 



Steel and Iron, on the Magnetisation of, J. W. Gemmell, 473 



.Stejneger's (Leonard) Expeditions in Behring's Sea, 44, 136 



.Stellar Photography, 376 



Stellar Spectra, Bright Lines in, l6i ; Photogr.aphic .Study of the 

 " Henry Draper Memorial," Edward C. Pickering, 535 



Stephanoff (M.), Religious Beliefs of the Chersonese People, 

 496 



Sterlet in Germany, Proposed Acclimatisation of the, 537 



Stevenson (D. A.), Earthquake Invention, 7, 534 



Stevenson (John), Brilliant Meteor, 176; Iridescent Clouds, 220 



.Stevenson (Thos. ), Design and Construction of Harbours, Major 

 Allan Cunningham, 579 



Stevenson's Thermometer-Screen, and Weather in South Austra- 

 lia, Clement L. Wragge, 533 



Stewart (Prof. Balfour, F.R.S.), Radiant Light and Heat, 35, 

 25*, 369; and the Rev. S. J. Perry, F. R.S., on Magnetic 

 Fluctuations of the Declination at Kew and Stonyhurst, 262 ; 

 and W. L. Carpenter, on Sunspot Areas, 525 ; on the Forces 

 concerned in Producing the Solar Diurnal Inequalities of 

 Terrestrial Magnetism, 613, 620 ; on the Cause of the Solar 

 Diurnal Variations of Terrestrial Magnetism, 620 



Stewart's (Col.) Account of the Herat Valley, 468 



Stockholm : Royal Academy of Sciences, 24, 216, 240, 456, 

 600 ; Sun-Glow at, 61 ; the Telephone in, 425 



Stokes (Prof.) Proposed as President of the Royal Society, l6 



Stokes (Prof. G. G., P.R.S.), Actonian Prize Awarded to, 423 



Stone (E. J., F.R.S.), Solar Halo, 222 



.Stone (G. H.), Variegated Iridescent Halo, 391 



.Stone-Circles iu Cumberland, A. L. Lewis, 334 



Stone Implements and Changes of Level in the Nile Basin, F. 

 Archer, 317 ; S. Archer, 317 



Stoney (Gerald), Dynamics of Bicycling, 455 



Stories, Travellers' Snake, Major Allan Cunningham, 222 



Storm at Partenkirchen, 190 



Story of the Heavens, Robert Stawell B.all, F.R.S., 124 



Straining of Ships caused by Rolling, Notes on the, Prof Francis 

 Elgar, 381 



.Straits Settlements, 302 



Stray Balloon, Gen. Sir J. H. Lefroy, F.R.S, 99 



Strohecker (Dr ), Remarkable Discovery of Rare Metals iu 



Diluvial Clay, 46 1 

 S'roii^yhis axei. Dr. T. S. Cobbold, 334., 478 

 .Structure, Molecular Friction and, Col. C. K. Bushe, 199 

 Structure of the Solar Envelope, 328 

 Studer (Dr.), Skulls found in Pile-Dwellings of Lake of Bienne, 



17 

 .Sugar, Mahwa Flowers as a Source of. Prof A. H. Church, 



343 

 .Suidter (Herr), the Climate of Lucerne, 464 

 Sulphuric Acid, Prof. Mendeleeff on the Dilution of, 591 

 Sun, Eclipse of August 7, 1869, Prof. Coffin's Observations of, 



Sun, the, a Familiar Description of His Phenomena, Rev. 

 Thos. W. Webb, 126 



Sun, Recent Total Eclipse of the, Killingworth Hedges, 6 ; 

 N. A. Graydon, 29 



.Sun and Stars, J. Norman Lockyer, F. R. S., 399, 426, 469, 

 499. 540 



Sun-Glows at Stockholm, 6l 



Sunlight, Action of, on Micro-organisms, Arthur Downes, 

 M.D., 357 



Sunrise-Glows, R. T. Omond, 487 



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

 cromby, 532 



Sunset-Glows, W. Ainslie HoUis, 19S ; the Brown Ring and 

 .Solar Eclipse, Dr. Zenker, 96 



.Sunshine, Photographing the Corona in Full, 42 



Sunshine Recorder, Jordan's Photographic, 95, i8o 



Sunspots : Photographic Evidence as to the Constitution of, 32S ; 

 Present State of the Solar Activity, 398 ; Sunspot Areas, 

 Prof Balfour Stewart and W. L. Carpenter, 525 



Superstition, a Death, in China, 41 



Surnames of the Nobility of Sweden, 349 



Suspected "New" Star, 185 



.Swallowing Noise, Second, Prof. Ewald, 576 



Sweden : Earthquake in, l8, 41, 591 ; Family Names in, de- 

 rived from Natural History, 349 ; Oyster-Culture in, 537 ; 

 Proposed Swedish Congo Expedition, 108 



Switzerland, Earthquakes in, 88 ; Nival Flora of, 206 



Sydney : Australian Museum, 355 ; Linnean Society of New 

 South Wales, 359, 383 ; Royal Society of New South Wales, 

 191, 215, 287 



Sylvester (Prof. J. J., F.R.S. ), Lecture on Algebraical Forms, 

 88 ; on the Method of Reciprocants as Containing an Ex- 

 haustive Theiry of the Singularities of Curves, 222, 331 ; 

 Note on Sonnet to Pritchard, 558 ; Boole Justified and Monge 

 Reinstated in his Rights by Prof. Beman, of the University 

 of Michigan, U.S., 581 



Symbiosis between Fungi and the Roots of Flowering Plants, 

 Alf W. Bennett, 212 



.Symons (G. J., F.R.S.), November Meteors, 104; Testimo- 

 nial to, 277 



Systematic Small Farming, Robert Scott Burn, 266 



Tacchini (P.), Present State of the Solar Activity, 398 ; on the 



Latitudinal Distribution of the Solar Phenomena Observed 



during the Year 1885, 504 

 Tadpole, Nerve-Terminations in the, A. B. Macallum, 285 

 Tail (Prof. P. G. ), on tlie Partition of Energy between Two 



Systems of Colliding Spheres, 270 

 Talmage (Charles George), Death of, 516, 536 

 Tangled Tale, Lewis Carroll, Dr. A. R. Willis, 389 

 Taprobanian, the, 62 

 Tasmania, Salmo salar and 6". ferox in, Francis Day, 8 ; 



Naturalisation of Lobsters and other Fishe-; in, 137 

 Taylor (Edward F.), Bishop's Ring, 533 

 Taylor (G.), Aborigines of Formosa, 612 

 Taylor (J. Scott), Field's Chromatography, 530 

 Tea-Cultivation in Sicily, 279 

 Technical Education in London, 182 ; in New .South Wales, 



462 

 Technical Institute, 514 

 Tegeocraims cepheiformis, Mr. A. D. Michael on the Nymphal 



Stage of, 119 

 Tegetmcier (W. B.), Fancy Pigeon=, J. G. Lyell ; Poultry for 



Prizes and Profit, J. Long ; Book of the Goat, H. Holmes 



Pegler; British Cage-Birds, R. L. Wallace, 412 



