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Sinclsir (James), a Second Year's Course in Practical 



Physics, 4S2 ; a Tliird Year's Course in Practical 



Physics, 4S2 

 Singing Sand from New England, S. Skinner, 1S8 

 Singrun (M.), the Audiffren Refrigerator, 215 

 Sippcl (Dr. W.), Structure of the Roof of the jMouth in 



Birds and JVIanimals, 155 

 Sisson (H. A.), Action of Metallic Magnesium on Aliphatic 



Acids and the Detection of Formic Acid, igo 

 Skinner (S.), Singing Sand from New England, iSS ; 



Musical Sands, 248 

 Slade (R. E.), Reducibilitv of Magnesium Oxide by Carbon, 



383 

 Slater (R. C), the Winding of Rivers in Plains, 79 

 Slator (A.), the Mechanism of Alcoholic Fermentation, 335 

 Sleeping Sickness : Connection between Crocodiles and, 



Prof. Koch, 16; the, Cure and Prevention of, 36; Pro- 

 ceedings of the First International Conference on, held 



at London, June, 1907, 440; the Development of Trypano- 



somes in Tsetse-flies and other Diptera, Prof. E. \. 



Minchin, 494 

 Slide-rules, New, Messrs. J. J. Griffin and Sons, 500 

 Slipher (Mr.), Water Vapour in the Martian Atmosphere, 

 . 497 

 Snialian (Prof. Karl), Grundziige der Tierkunde fiir hohere 



Lehranstalten, 76 ; Grundziige der Pflanzenkunde, 481 ; 



Anatomische Physiologie der Pflanzen und der Menschen, 



481 

 Smedley (Miss I.), Refractive Power of Diphenylhexatriene 



and Allied Hydrocarbons, 166 

 Smiles (S.), the Sulphination of Phenolic Ethers and the 



Influence of Substituents, 502 

 Smith (Bruce), an Annotated Copy of Newton's " Prin- 



cipia," 510 

 Smith (Colonel F., C.B., C.M.G.), a Manual of Veterinarv 



Physiology, 219 

 Smith (F. E.), the Silver Voltameter, 165 ; Chemistry of 



the Silver Voltameter, 165 ; the Normal Weston Cadniium 



Cell, 165 

 Smith (G. Le Blanc), Dragonesque Forms on, and beneath. 



Fonts, 156 

 Smith (H. G.), the .Australian Melaleucas and their 



Essential Oil, 480 

 Smith (Mr.), Molasses as Cattle Food, 590-1 

 Smith (Dr. Ramsay), Teeth of Australians, 64 

 Smith (S. W. J.), Contact Potential Differences determined 



by Means of Null Solutions, 477: Thermomagnetic 



Analysis of Meteoric and .Artificial Nickel-iron Alloys, 574 

 Smith (Winifred), Anatomv of some Sapotaceous Seedlings, 



S?8 

 Smith (Worthington), Eolith Stone Implements, 615 

 Smithsonian Expedition of IQ04, Glaciers of the Canadian 



Rockies and Selkirks, Dr. William Hittell Sherzer, Prof. 



T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 463 

 Smithsonian Institution, the, 357 



Snelling (W. O.), the Waste" of Life in .American Coal- 

 mining, 419 

 Society of Chemical Industry, 118, 189, 263, 382, 598 

 Soddy (Frederick), the W'ehnelt Kathode in a High 



Vacuum, 5',, 197 

 Soddy (F.), Electrical Discharge in Monatomic Gases, 310 

 Soil-geology of Ireland, a Description of the, based upon 



Geological Survey Maps and Records, with Notes on 



Climate, J. R. Kilroe, 4 

 Soli (J. Comas), Observation of the Transit of Mercury 



of November u, 167 

 Solar Eclipse of January 3, 1908, the Total, Dr. W. J. S. 



Lockyer, 104, 274 

 Solar Eclipse of .August, 1905, Spanish Observation of the 



Total, 446 

 Solar Prominence, a Large, Dr. .A. A. Rambaut, 66 

 Sol.nr Prominence of May 21, 1907, the Large, Father 



F^nyi, 446 

 Solar Prominences in 1906, Prof. Ricco. 138 

 Solar Spectroscopy, the Objective Prism in. E. Schaer, 401 

 Solar Soectrum : the Helium Line, D.. as a Dark Line in 



the, A. A. Buss, 377 ; the Helium, D,, Line in the Solar 



Spectrum, Captain Daunt, 520 

 Solidifirntion of Helium, the. "Prof. .Alfred W. Porter, 437 

 Sollas (Prof. W. J V on the Cranial and Facial CharacteVs 



of the Neanderthal Race, 262 



Solomon (John J.), Radiography in Pearl Fishing, 331 

 Solomon's Temple : its History and Structure, Rev. W. 



Shaw Caldecott, Supp. to March 5, x 

 Somerville (Prof. W.), Heredity and Forestry, 279 

 Sorby (Dr. H. C, F.R.S.). on the Colouring Matters of 

 Flowers, 260 ; .Application of Quantitative Methods to 

 the Study of the Structure and History of Rocks, 334 ; 

 Best Means of preserving Marine invertebrates for 

 iMuseum Purposes, 375 

 Sorby (Dr. H. C, F.R.S.), Death of, 443; Obituary Notice 



of, 465 

 Sound : the New Matriculation Sound, 482 

 South (Richard), the Moths of the British Isles, 483 

 Southern Hemisphere, a New Expedition to the, 544 

 Southwell (T.), the .Arctic Whaling Voyage of Last Year, 



417 

 Spanish Observation of the Total Solar Eclipse of -August, 



1905, 44O 

 Specific Gravity Balance for Large Rock Specimens, a, 



T. H. D. la Touche, 221 

 Spectroscope, Echelon, H. Stansfield, 198, 222 

 Spectrum .Analysis : Method of Observing the " Subjective 

 Yellow," John H. Shaxby, 32; Ultra-violet Region in 

 Sun-spot Spectra and Spectrum of Comet d 1907, J. Ever- 

 shed, 94 ; Binocular Diffraction Spectroscope, Dr. 

 Marshall Watts, 115; Orbits of Spectroscopic Binaries, 

 Dr. Curtis, 138 ; Presence of Sulphur in some of the 

 Hotter Stars, Sir Norman Lockyer, K.C.B., F.R.S., 141 ; 

 Spectroscopic Determination of the Rotation of the Sun, 

 Prof. -Adams, 158; Newly Discovered Spectroscopic 

 Binaries, A. B. Turner, 158 ; Stars having Peculiar 

 Spectra, Mrs. Fleming, 158; Weakened Lines in Sun- 

 spot Spectra, Nagaraja, 158; Sun-spot Spectra, Prof. 

 W. S. -Adams, 421 ; Charles M. Olmsted, 421 ; .Apparatus 

 designed for Stars composed partly of Gas and partly 

 of Solid Particles, H. Deslandres, 167 ; .Apparatus 

 for the Production of Spark Spectra of Solutions, .A. de 

 Gramont, 168: Provisional Elements for the Spectroscopic 

 Binary a .Andromedje, Dr. H. Ludendorff, 1S2 ; .Absorp- 

 tion Spectra of Collidine and o-Chlorcollidine, J. E. 

 Purvis and W. H. Foster, 190 ; Flame Spectra obtained 

 by the Electrical Method, G. .A. Hemsalech and C. de 

 Watteville, 215; the Spectra of Two Meteors, M. Blakjo, 

 234 ; the Constancy of Wave-lengths of Spectral Lines, 

 Prof. Kayser, 234 ; an Early .Acoustical .Analogue of 

 Michelson's Echelon Grating, Prof. P. Zeeman, 247; 

 Intensity of Spectrum Lines, A. D. Cowper, 248 ; on 

 the Colouring Matters of Flowers, Dr. H. C. Sorby, 

 F.R.S., 260; the -Absorption Spectrum of Protochloro- 

 phyll, N. A. Monteverde, 279 ; the .Absorption of D, 

 (Helium) in the Neighbourhood of Sun-spots, Father 

 Cortie, 281 ; the Helium Line, D,, as a Dark Line in the 

 Solar Spectrum, .A. A. Buss, 377: the Helium, D^, Line 

 in the Solar Spectrum. Captain Daunt, s^o ; the Orbit 

 of the Spectroscopic Binary 6 AquiljE, W. E. Harper, 

 281 ; Cause of the Slight Variability of W;ive-length of 

 Spectral Lines. Prof. F. E.vner and Dr. E. Haschek, 304 ; 

 the Recent Spectrum and Magnitude of Nova Persei No. 

 2, Prof. Hartmann, 377 ; the Objective Prism in Solar 

 Spectroscopy, E. Schaer, 401 ; a Fundamental Contra- 

 diction between the Electrical Theor\' of Dispersion and 

 the Phenomena of .Spectrum Series, Dr. G. .A. Schott, 

 413 ; the Spectrum of the .Aurora Borealis, Dr. W. 

 Marshall Watts, 421 ; the Flame Spectra of Metals, Drs. 

 Hemsalech and de Watteville, 446 ; Spectrum of the 

 Discharge from a Glowing Lime Kathode in Mercury 

 Vapour, F. Hortoi, 4S4 ; the Two-fold Line Spectra of 

 Chemical Elements. E. Goldstein, 460 : Measurements 

 of the Zeeman Effect for the Principal Lines of Helium, 

 Dr. W. Lohmann, 470 ; Two Remarkable Spectroscopic 

 Binaries, Mr. Gore, 520 ; .Absorption Spectra of Crystals 

 of the Rare Earths in a Magnetic Field at the Tem- 

 peratures of the Liquefaction and Solidification of 

 Hydrogen, Jean Becquerel and H. Kanicrlingh Onnes, 

 S27 : Lines presenting a Zeeman Phenomenon abnormal 

 in the Sense of the Magnetic Lines of Force. .A. Dufour, 

 .^27; Presence of Spark Lines in the .Arc Spectrum, Ch. 

 Fabry and H. Buisson, ,76: Satellites of A'ellow and 

 Green Lines of Mercury, Prof. H. Nagaoka, 581 ; Effect 

 of Pressure on the Wave-lengths of the -Absorption Lines 

 of Nitrogen Peroxide and Bromine, .A. Dufour, 589 ; 



