{NMure, June ^, 1887 



sidual Glow, W. Crookes, F.R.S., 425, 447; Sunlight Colours, 



Capt. \V. de W. Abney, F.R.S., 49S 

 Speech by Telephone, on the Limiting Distance of, W. H. 



Preece, F.R. S., 501 

 Spencer (Herbert): Factors of Organic Evolution, Dr. Geo. J. 



Romanes, F.R.S., 362 ; Definition of Life, F..Howard CoUins, 



487 

 Sphene, Preparation of a Silicostannate of Lime corresponding 



to, M. L. Bourgeois, 335 

 Spheres, Revolving, Aerial Vortices and Experiments on, Ch. 



Weyher, 514 

 Spiders, IJritish Stalk-eye 1 Crustacea and, F. A. A. Skuse, 



532 

 Spitaler (Dr. R.), Comet 1887 b (Brooks, January 22), 352, 424, 



496 

 Spitzer (Prof. Simon), Death of, 518 

 Spolia Atlantica, 603 

 Sporer (Prof. ) : Stormy Movements in the Atmosphere of the 



Sun, 71 ; on Sunspots, 72 

 Sporophore in Mosses, Morphology of the, J. R. Vaizey, 358 

 Sport, Letters on, in Eastern Bengal, Frank B. Simson, 388 

 Sprang (Dr.) : Hadley's Principle, 384 ; Barograph, 456 

 Spun Glass, Tenacity of, E. Gibson and R. E. Gregory, 406 

 Stalk-eyed Crustacea, British, and Spiders, F. A. A. Skuse, 



532 

 Stanley (H. M.) : Honorary Freedom of the City of London 



conferred on, 280 ; Relief Expedition to Emin Pasha, 283 ; 



Letter from, 353 ; Expedition to Emin Pasha, 475 ; and the 



Relief of Emin Pasha, 446 ; Congo Expedition, 615 

 Stars : Binary, 7 Corona; Australis, H. C. Wilson, 17 ; Binary, 



3 Equulei, 401 ; Brightness and Mass of Binary, W. H. S. 



Monck, 402 ; Binary Star, 14 {i) Ononis Orbit of the, J. E. 



Gore, 569; Argentine General Catalogue of Stars, 113; 



Second Armagh Catalogue of 3300, 159 ; Spectroscopic 



Method of determining the Distance of a Double Star, 



A. A. Rambaut, 206 ; Reduction of the Position of Close 



Polar Stars from one Epoch to another. Prof. W. A. Rogers 



and Miss Anna Winlock, 231 ; Variable, Observations of, in 



1885, Edward Sawyer, 378 ; New Red Star, 546 

 State, the, and Higher Education, 457 

 Statesman's Year-book for 1887, 461 

 Statistical Institute, International, 255 

 Steam Navigation, Progre-s in, 538 

 Steel, Manganese, Physical Properties of. Prof. W. F. Barrett, 



3" 

 Steel, Viscosity of, C. Barus and V. Strouhal, 380 

 Steel and Ingot Iron, Quantity made in a Year, 231 

 Stellar Parallax : Prof. Asaph Hall, 258; Application of Photo- 

 graphy to the Determination of. Prof. Pritchard, 377 

 Stellar Photography at Harvard College, Prof. Pickering, 37 

 Stellar Spectra, Bright Lines in, O. T. Sherman, 378 

 Steno-Telegra[ hy, G. A. Cassagnes, 192 

 Stevens Indicator, on the Prosperity of the Stevens Institute, 



568 

 Stevenson (T. and D.), Lighthouse lUuminants, 63 

 Stevenson (David), Canal and River Engineering, Major Allan 



Cunningham, 169 

 Stimuli on Vegetable Tissues, on the Effect of certain, Anna 



Bateson and Prof. Francis Darwin, F.R.S., 429 

 Stirling (James), on some Further Evidence of Glaciation in the 



Australian Alps, 182 

 Stockholm Academy of Sciences, 48, 144, 312, 528 

 Stokes (Prof. G. G., P.R.S.), Address at the Royal Society 



Anniversary, 113 

 Stone (G. H.), Iridescent Clouds, 581 ; Disappearance of 



Bishop's Ring in Colorado, 58 1 

 Stone Circles, A. L. Lewis on, 503 

 Storm, Recent Severe Storm, 157 

 Storms in the Eastern Seas, Law of, W. Doberck, 135 

 Strachan (R. ), Disinfection by Heat, 7 

 Straight Line, to prove that only one Parallel can be drawn 



from a given Point to a given. Dr. E. Budden, 92 

 Strain- Indicator, StromeyeVs, 540 

 Stra- burger (Prof E.), Hand-book of Practical Botany for the 



Botanical Laboratory and Private Student, 556 

 Streeter (Edwin W.), Pearls and Pearling Life, 339 

 Stromeyer (C. E.}, Lecture Experiment on the Expansion of 



Solids by Heat, 126 

 Stromeyer's Strain-Indicator, 540 



Struve (Hermann) Diffraction of Light, 423 

 Struve's (Prof Otto) Jubilee, 422 ; the Parallax of 2, 1516, 546 

 Stuart-Wortley (Col. H.), Instantaneous Shutters, 366 

 Students, Number of, at the University of Berlin, 444 

 Studentships, Industrial, Colonel J. F. D. Donnelly, 413 

 Studies in Ancient History, comprising a Reprint of " Primitive 



Marriage," J. Ferguson McLennan, Dr, \V. Robertson 



Smith, 3 

 Study of Literature, John Morley, 422 

 Subject-Index, Two Hours with a, 123 

 Submerged Valleys in the Gulf of Genoa, on the Existence of, 



336 

 Suffolk, Birds of, Dr. Churchill Babington, 193 

 Sugar, Sorghum, 184 ; Experiments in the Manufacture of, 



472 

 Sugar, Beetroot, Production of, in the United States, 351 

 Sugar, Action of Nitric Acid on, 432 

 Sugar, on the Treatment of New Wines with, 432 

 Suicide of the Cobra, Supposed, R. D. Oldham, 560 

 Suicide, Do Scorpions Commit ? 590 

 Sulphuret of Calcium, Phosphorescence of the, 431, 455 

 Sulphuric Acid, Action of, on the Solubility of the Sulphates, 



432 

 Sulphuric Anhydride, Experiments on, 384 

 Sumatra, Volcanoes in, Verbeek, 60 

 Sun, Stormy Movements in the Atmosphere of the. Prof. 



Sporer, 71 

 Sun, Eclipse of the, at Grenada, Preliminary Account of the 



Observations of the, Capt. Darwin, 2S7 

 Sun Symbol, the Cross as a. Dr. Chas. R. Dryer, 345 ; Dr. 



Hyde Clarke, 366 ; Mrs. J. C. Murray-Aynsley, 558 

 Sun, New Method of determining the Parallax of the, 455 

 Sun, Researches on the Diameter of the, Herr Auwers, 496 

 Sun's Diameter, Researches on the. Prof. Di Legge, 595 

 Sun's Heat, Sir William Thomson, F. R. S. , 297 

 Sunlight Colours, Capt. W. de W. Abney, F.R.S., 498 

 Sunrise Shadows of Adam's Peak, on the Peculiar, Hon. R. 



Abercromby, 94 

 Sunrise and Sunset, Green Light at, Prof. A. Ricco, 584 

 Sunset Phenomenon, Dr. Wentworth Erck, 391 

 Sunsets : Red, and New Zealand Eruptions, Lieut. -Col. A. T. 



Fraser, 224 ; Green Light at, B. T. Omond, 391 ; Prof. A. 



Ricco, 584 

 Sunspots : Observations in Hungary, Carl Braun, A. M. Gierke, 



227 ; Prof Sporer, 72 ; Dr. M. A. Veeder, 584 

 Supernormal Psychology, Phantasms of the Living, Edmund 



Gurney, Fred. W. H. Myers, and Frank Podmore, Prof. C. 



Lloyd Morgan, 290 

 Supersaturation of Salt-Solutions, Dr. W. W. J. Nicol, 527 

 Surgeons, Royal College of, proposed Extension of Museum and 



Library, 229 

 Sutton (J. B. ), an Introduction to General Pathology, 26 

 Svastika : Cross and Sun, Dr. Hyde Clarke, 366 ; as both Sun 



and Fire Symbol, Mrs. J. C. Murray-Aynsley, 558 

 Svedstrap (Dr. Aug.), Comet Barnard (1SS6/), 134 

 Swamp Fever and Bacillus, 405 

 Swarming of Aphides, Notes on the Recent, G. H. Buckton, 



F.R.S., 15 

 Sweden : Station at Landsort for Measurement of Shore-Eleva- 

 tion, 159 ; Aurora Borealis in Northern, 443 

 Sweetness, a Plant which destroys the Taste of, W. T. Thisel- 



tonDyer, F.R.S., 557 

 Swift (Lewis), Warner Observatory, 446 

 Switzerland, Earthquake in, 84, 205 ; Prof Forel, 442 

 Sydney : Discoveiy of Rare Fossils at, 159 ; Discovery of a 



Mastodonsaurus on Juckatoo Island, 445 

 Symbol, the Svastika as both Sun and Fire, Mrs. J. C. Murray- 

 Aynsley, 558 

 Symbolism, Asiatic, Study of, H. G. M. Murray-Aynsley, 



327 

 Symonds (G. J., F.R.S.), Influence of Wind on Barometric 



Readings, 53 

 .Sympathetic Nervous System, Dr. Walter H. Gaskell, F.R.S., 



l8s 



Tabasheer : W. T. Thiselton Dyei, F.R.S.,396; Henry Cecil, 

 437; Tokutaro Ito, 462 ; Thos. Rowney, 512; the Relation 

 of, to Mineral Substances, Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S., 4^8 



