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Science, the Claims of, 61 
Science at School Boards, by Dr. Lankester, 161, 208 
Science and Art Department, South Kensington, 232, 293, 408 
Science College at Newcastle, 485 
“Science, Dictionary of,” by G. F. Rodwell, F.R.A.S., 325 
** Science, Use and Limit of Imagination in,” by Prof. Tyndall, 
F.R.S., 183, 395 
Science in Government Workshops, 410 
- Science Teaching in Private Schools, 149, 241, 305, 387, 404, 
497, 495 . 
Science and the Working Classes, 21, 369 
Scientific Instruction and Advancement of Science, Royal Com- 
mission on, 92, 273, 371; First Report, 421 
Scientific Nomenclature, 268 
Scientific Serials, 20, 39, 57, 116, 137, 156, 216, 236, 258, 299, 
339, 356, 396, 417, 457, 476, 497, 517 
“Scientific Year Books,” 63 
Sclater, (Dr. P. L., F.R.S.), on Eared Seals, 148 ; on New Zea- 
land Animals at the Zoological Gardens, 1yo 
Scott (Robert H.), on Glass Floats, 108 ; Meteorology in Asia, 
509 
Scottish Meteorological Society, 414 
**Scottish Naturalist,” 517 
Scudder (S. H.), on Mimicry, 147; on Mount Washington, 
497 
Sea Bed, Geography of the, by Captain Sherard Osborn, R.N., 
133 
Seals, Eared, and their Habits, 148 
Sedgwick (Prof., F.R.S.), his exertions as Professor of Geology at 
Cambridge, 511 
Settle Cave Exploration, 491 
Sewage, Prof. W. H. Corfield, on its Utilisation, 204, 384 
Sexual Selection, George Fraser, on, 489, 508 
Sharks announcing their own Capture, 208 
Sharp (Dr. D.), Natural Selection, 67 ; on Reality of Species, 426 
eee (R. B., F.L.S.), his ‘* Monograph of the Alcedinidz,”’ 
4 
Sharpe (R.B., F.L.S.) and H. E. Dresser, F.Z.S., on the 
‘* Birds of Europe,” 505 
Shaw (Dr. John), on the Geology of the Diamond Fields of 
South Africa, 2 
Sheffield, Proposed Free Public Museum at, 254 
Sierra Nevada and Yosemite Valley of California, 44 
Silliman’s American Journal of Science, 156, 172, 476 
Silver, Method of Assaying it in the Indian Mint, 276 
Simpson (Sir James Y.), Memorial to, 53 
Singing of Swans, 29 
Slade (J.), an the North London Naturalists’ Club, 126 
Small-pox Epidemic, Dr. Lankester on the, 341 
Smith (A. M.), on the Aurora Borealis, 7 
Smith (Edwin), on a Meteor seen at Nottingham, 425 
Smith (Prof. H. G. S., F.R.S.), om ‘‘ Lumiére Cendrée,” 167 
Smith (W. G., F.L.S.), on Darlingtonia Californica, 167 
Smyth (Prof. C. Piazzi, F.R.S.), on Zodiacal Light, 289 ; on 
Solar Science and Secret Referees, 468 ; on Spectra of Aurora, 
Corona, and Zodiacal Light, 509 
Snakes and Snake-bites in India, 153, 308, 313 
Society of Arts, 92 
Solar Science and Secret Referees, Prof. C. Piazzi Smyth on, 468 
eee ure Archeological and Natural History Society, 198, 
313, 31 
Southampton, Hartley Institution, 114 , 
South London Microscopical and Natural History Club, 512 
Spain, Spectroscopic Observations of the Eclipse in, 261 
Spectra of Aurora Borealis, Corona, and Zodiacal Light, 346, 
360, 509 ; 
Spectroscope (Browning’s), 53, 126, 248 
Spectroscopic Notes, by C. A. Young, 110 
Spectroscopic Observations of the Sun, 34; by the American 
Eclipse Party in Spain, 261 
Spontaneous Generation, 225, 247 
Spontaneous Generation, Prof. Ernst Haeckel on, 354 
Spottiswoode (W., F.R.S.), on Musical Intervals, 75 
Stanford (E. C. C.), Retention of Organic Nitrogen by Charcoa 
(Br. A.), 17 
State Aid to Science, 29 
Steam and Gunpowder, Comparative Forces of, 35 
Stebbing (Thomas R. R.), on Natural Selection, 65; his “Essays 
on Darwinism,” 444; 0n the Zimes Review of Darwin’s 
** Descent of Man,” 488 


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Steel and Iron, Papers on, 94, 211 374, 388, 410 
Steel and Iron, Influence of Intense Cold on, 256 
Stenhouse (Dr., F.R.S.), Pension granted to, 273 
Stereoscope, its Introduction in France, 154 
Stewart (Prof. Balfour, F.R.S.), on the Quarterly Weather Re- 
port for 1869, 3; his opening Lecture at Owen’s College, 
Manchester, 5; on State Aid to Science, 29; Accident to, 
92, 113, 132; his ‘‘ Lessons on Elementary Physics,” 163 ; 
on Heat Spectra, 276 
Stone Age, the (Sze Polished Stone Age) 
Strange (Colonel), on Dr. Stewart’s Lecture at Manchester, 5 ; 
on the Loss of the Captain, 45 
Stralsund, Natural History Society, 356 
Strasburg, Natural History Museum, 352 
ae Manufacture in Santander, Colombia. 36 ; (Sze Chip 
ats) 
Strecker’s ‘‘Jahresbericht uber die Fortschritte der Chemie,” 485 
Stricker (S.), on Medical Schools in Germany and England, 81 
Strutt (Hon. J. W.), on Experiments on Colour, 234, 265 
Subterranean Electrical Disturbances (Sze Earth Currents) 
Successive Polarisation of Light, by Sir C. Wheatstone, F.R.S., 
514 
Sugar, its Produce and Supply, 150, 230 
Suicide, Statistics of, 255 
Sun, Spectroscopic Observations of the, 34 
Sun Spots, M. Zollner on, 393 ; their Connection with Tempe- 
rature, 434, 468, 469 
Sun Stroke, 168 
Sun, Total Fclipse of, December 22, 1870 (See Eclipse, Corona). 
Surf-swimming in the Sandwich Islands, 10 
Tails of Comets, 207, 228, 247, 265 
Tait (Prof. P. G., F.R.S.), his Address on Energy and Prof. 
Bain’s ‘‘ Logic of Physics,” 89, 125 ; on Prof. Balfour Stew- 
art’s Elementary Physics, 163 
Taylor (Sedley), on “ Helmholtz’s Tonempfindungen,” 465 
Telegraphy, Russian-American Telegraph, 74 (See Earthquakes) 
Temperature, its Connection with Sun-spot Phenomena, 434, 468 
Temple Memorial, Rugby, 361 
Terrestrial Magnetism, M. Petersen on, 249 
Texas University, 15 
Thistles in New Zealand, 193 
Thompson (W. G.), on Aurora by Daylight, 348 
Thompson (W. J. B.), on Aurora Borealis, April 9, 1871, 487 
Thomson (Prof. Sir William, F.R.S.), a Hint to Electricians, 
248 ; on a constant form of Daniell’s Battery, 350 
Thomson (Prof. Wyville, F.R.S.), on the Continuity of the 
Chalk, 225, 286, 308 
Thorpe (Dr. T. E.), on Galloway’s “ Qualitative Analysis,” 122 
Thunderstorm at Preston, 509 
Tigers at Bay, 275, 348 
“Tin,” Derivation of the Word, 388 
Tobacco and Prof, Huxley, 255 
Tobacco, Colonial, 93, 153 
Tobacco, Early Mention of, 194. 
Tobacco, Post-mortem Appearances of a Smoker, 114 
“¢Tonempfindungen,” Helmholtz’s, 468 
Transfusion of Blood, 467 
Transits of Venus in 2004 and 2012, by J. R. Hind, F.R.S., 513 
“ Travel and Adventures, Descriptive,” by Catherine Morell, 404 
Tree Worship, 74, 114, 194 
Trichiurus lepturus, taken at Seaton, 107 
Trinity College, Dublin (.See Dublin) 
Truffle Cultivation, 54 
Tubular Postage Service, 450; R. Sabine, C.E., on Pneumatic 
Tubes, 476 
Tuckwell (Rev. W.), on Prior’s ‘‘ Popular Names of British 
Plants, 262 
Tunnel through the Hoosac Mountains, 254 
Tyndall (Prof. F.R.S.,), ‘‘ Use and Limit of Imagination in 
Science,” 183, 395 
Ullyett (Henry) on “ Science Teaching for the People,” 305, 369 
Van Beneden (Prof.), on Parasites, 392 
Varley, (S. A.), on a Magnetic Paradox (Br. A.) 17 
Vegetable Palzeontology, Schimper’s Treatise on, 42 ; 
Venus, Proposed Observations of the Planet, 348 ; Transits of, 
in 2004 and 2012, by J. R. Hind, F.R.S., 513 
