INDEX 



' [Nature, June 5, 1884 



Signal- Service and Standard Time, the, 389 



Simotes, G. A. Boulenger, 149 



Simpson (W. G.), Unconscious Bias in Walking, 356 



Single-Electrolyte Batteries, E. Reynier, 227 



Sington (T. ) Weather on Ben Nevis and Snowdon, 261 



Siwalik Carnivora, 599 



Skeleton, Human, found at Tilbury, Geological Position of, T. 

 V. Holmes, 440 



Skull, Human, discovered near Prague, 557 



Slavonia, Earthquakes in, 583 



Smith (Prof. C. Michie), the Green Sun, 28, 54 ; Electricity in 

 India, 54 ; the Remarkable Sunsets, 381 



Smith (J. Hamblin), Mental Evolution in Animals, 333 



Smith (Lawrence), Death of, 63 



Smith (Percy), Earthquake in England, 602 



Smith (W. F. ), Electric Shadows, 260 



Smith (Worthington G.), Palseolithic Man : his Bead Orna- 

 ments, 83 



Smithsonian Institution, the, 135 



Smyrna, Cold in, 345 ; Earthquakes at, 15 



Smyth (Prof. Piazzi), the Remarkable Sunsets, 149 ; Rain-band 

 Spectroscopy Attacked Again, 525 



Snake-Bite, f. S. Gardiner, 6 



Snake, the Ringhals, M. G. R. O'Reilly, 278 



Snakes, Black, "Suicide" of, E. F. Hardman, 452 



Snow covered with Gray and Black Dust in Norway, 135 



Snow, Volcanic Glassy Dust in Fresh, 367 



Snowballs, Natural, Prof. Samuel Hart, 428 



Snowdon, Weather on, T. Sington, 261 



Soap-making, Alex. Watt, 425 



Socotra, 575 



Society of Arts, 43, 245 



Societe des Electriciens, 226 



Sociology, Proposed Index to Study of, 437 



Sohncke (Prof. L.), Probable Nature of the Internal Symmetry 

 of Crystals, 383 



Solanums, Review of Tuber-bearing, J. G. Baker, 328 



Solar EcHpse Expedition (U.S.), Report of, 582 



Solar Eclipse of 1806, December 10, 415 



Solar Heat, Measurements of. Dr. Frolich, 48 



Solar Motion in Space, W. E. Plummer, 246 



Solid Chemical Compounds, Refracting Power of, KanonnikofT, 

 391 



Solokofi's Researches on Water of Neva, 345 ; Traces of Glacia- 

 tion in Siberia, 461 



Solomon Islands, Anthropological Notes in, Surgeon Guppy, 

 429 



Solutions, Alexeyeff's Theory of, 391 



Sorghum Culture, in 



Sound, Velocity of, in Air, D. J. Blaikley, 148 



Sound-Mills, Dvorak's, Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, 363 



Soundings, Atlantic, 158 



Southern Comets, 606 



Southern States, Education in, 200 



.Space, Solar Motion in, W. E. Plummer, 246 



Spaces, Dust-Free, I'r. Oliver J. Lodge, 610 



Spanish Coast, Establishment of System of Weather Warnii gs 

 on, 365 



Spark Spectra, Researches, Prof. W. N. Hnrtley, 89 



Spectroscopes (DilTraction), Prof. W. N. Hartley, 470 



Spectroscopy, Rain-band, Attacked Again, Prof. C. Yaid 

 Smyth, 52s 



Spectrum Analysis : Spectra, Spark, Researches on, Prof. W. 

 N. Hartley, 89 ; Spectrum of Beryllium, 90, 391 : Experi- 

 ments on Neutral Points in Spectrum of Colour-Blind, Dr. 

 Konig, 168 ; Wave-lengths of A, a, and Lines in Infra-red 

 of Visible Spectrum, Capt. Abney, F.R.S., 190 ; Researches 

 on Infra-red Rays of the Spectrum, H. Becquerel, 227 



Spiders, African, 408 



Spinoza (Benedict de). Ethic, R. B. Haldane, 354 



Spitzbergen, Winter Life at, 263 



Splenic F'ever in the Argentine Republic, Dr. Roy, 91 



Spongilla fluviatilis. Contamination of Boston (U.S.A.) Water 

 Supply by, 391 



Spontaneous Generation, Prize for Essay on, 413 



Spottiswoode Memorial, 134, 158, 271 



Sprengel (C. C), Dr. H. A. Hagen, 29, 572 ; Dr. F. Miiller, 

 334; Prof. K. Mobius, 406; on Fertilisation of Flowers, 

 Prof. W. W. Bailey, 171 



Stability of Ships, Prof. Elgar, 559 



Stalactite Cave in Ain (France), 583 



Standards, Electrical, 465 



Stanley's Congo Expedition, 15 



Starch in Leaves, on the Formation of, Prof. H. Marshall Ward, 

 _ 552 



St.ars : a New Star Catalogue, Hoek and Kam, 45 ; Variable, 

 '35. SS'' ; Clo»e Double-Stars, Pemtin, 1S5 ; Mr. Curnham's 

 Double-Star Measures, 409 ; the Double-Star a Herculis, 

 536 ; Gill's Parallaxes of Southern Star-, 273 ; Vari- 

 able Star U Geminorum, 368 ; Glasgow Catalogue of Stars, 

 368 



Starling at Christmas at Trondhjem, 184 



Statistical Society, 44; Howard Medal of, in 



Steam Condensation a Cause of Electrification, Is, S. Kalischer, 

 227 



Stecker's (Dr.), Travels in Abyssinia, 347 



Steel and Iron, W. A. Greenwood, 425 



Steineger (Dr. L.), Rhytina stelleri, 226 : Kamchatka Expedi- 

 tion, 416 ; Return of, 87 ; on Ostrof Mednij, 605 



Stevens (Joseph), Deafness in White Cats, 237 



Stevenson (Dr. Thos.), Bhth's Poisons, 451 



Stewart (J.ames, C.E.), Death of, 87 



Stew art (J. H.), on the Transmission of Organic Germs through 

 Cosmical Space by Meteoric Stones, 595 



Stoddard (Prof. O. N.). Remarkable Sunsets, 355 



Stokes' (Prof. G. G., F.R.S.) Mathematical and Physical Papers, 

 Prof. ;P. G. Tait, 145 ; on Light, Prof. P. G. Tail, 

 545 



Stone (Prof. G. H.), the Remarkable Sunsets, 404 



Stone (Dr. W. H.), Electrical Resistance of the Human Body, 21 ; 

 Music and Science, 198 ; the Ear a Barometer, 356 ; Third 

 Note on the Electrical Resistance of the Human Body, 528 ; 

 Voice, .Song, and Speech, Lennox Browne, 570 



Stoney (G. J., F.R.S.), More Convenient Equivalents for Con- 

 vening British into Metrical Measures, 278 



Storm of January 26, 1884, 316; David Cunningham, 336; 

 G. Henry Kinahan, 358 ; Dr. R. Dixon, 384 



Story-Maskelyne (T.), the Remarkable Sunsets, 285 



Strachey (Gen., F.R.S. ), the Krakatoa Air-Wave, 181 ; 

 Earthquakes and Air- Waves, 427 



Strawberries, Natural History of, A. N. Duchesne, 215 



Strongylus in Hares, Prof. Heiberg, 184 



Styria, Earthquakes in, 159 



Subsidence of Naiba Mountain near Bona, 15 "^ 



Subsidence, Elevation and. Prof. Joseph LeConte, 212 



Sudan, the Egyptian, Prof. A. H. Keane, 291 



" Suicide " of Black Snakes, E. F. Hardman, 452 



Sully (James), Romanes' Mental Evolution in Anim.als, 

 333 



Sun : the Green, 7 ; C. Michie Smith, 28 ; Warren De la Rue, 

 28; W. B. Beardmore, 28 ; C. Michie Smith, 54 ; in China, 

 436 ; Pale Sun in Brazil, 87 ; a Blue Sun, E. Metzger, 252 ; 

 .Sun-Glows and Volcanic Eruptif ns in Iceland, Dr. Sophus 

 Tromholt, 420 ; Green Sunlight, Prof, W. Swan, 76 ; Dr. Hyde 

 Clarke, 76 ; Ericsson's Sun Motor, 317 ; Unusual Sunsets and 

 Sunrises in 18S3, Rev. S. Haughton, F.R.S., 470; the 

 Remarkable Sunsets, 130, 174, 195, 222, 250, 259, 308, 366, 

 603, 604; Edward Whymper, 200 j Prof. O. N. Stoddard, 

 355 ; Prof. C. Michie Smith, 381 ; Prof. John LeConte, 

 403; Prof. G. H. Stone, 404; E. L. Layard, 461 ; Prof. J. 

 W. ludd, F.R.S., 52s; George F. Burder, 525: Robt. J. 

 EUery, 549; S. E. Bishop, 549; Prof. J. P. O'Reilly, 549; 

 S. E. Bishop, 573 ; Hon. F. A. R. Russ'ell, 55 ; Remarkable 

 Sunset at Perpignan, 295 ; Sunshine (Registered) at New York 

 and Greenwich, in 



Sunda Straits Volcanic Eruption, Capt. H<in. F. C. V. Vereker, 

 375 



Sunday -Society, the, 366, 536 



Survey, the Indian, 360 



.Sussex, Agriculture in, 575 



Swan, (Prof. W.), Green Sunlight, 76 



S\\eden : Meteor and Whirlwinds in, 15 ; Proposed Botanico- 

 Physiological Station in North, 225 ; Entomologist retained by 

 Swedish Government, 44 ; Meteors in, 344, 414 ; Meteorite 

 in, 437 ; Meteorological Fxpedition of, 263 ; Meteorology in, 

 365 ; Green Moon in. 366 ; Swedish Vanadis Expedition, 

 i8s 



Swine, Urine of. Dr. Salmon, 2S0 



