Rainfall, Periodicity of, 263 (Br. A.), 43" 

 " Rainfall of Barbados," by G^vernor Rawson, C.B., 241 

 Kanyard (A. Copper, F.R.A.S.), Coggia's Comet, 184 ; Photo- 

 graphic Irradiation, 85, 205, 223, 245, 522 

 Rawson (Governor, C. B. ), " Rainfall of Barbados," 241 ; Perio- 

 dicity of Rainfall, 263 

 Ray Society, 343 

 Rayleigh (Lord, F.R.S.), Gift to the Mathematical Society, 



132 

 Redfem (Prof. Peter, M.D.), Opening Address, Sec. D, Br. A., 



327 ; Effects of Ozone (Br. A.), 413 

 Rennie (Sir John, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of, 383 

 Repiile House in the Jardin des Plantes, 510 

 Research, Kndowment of {Scv Endowment of Research) 

 Research, Private Aid to, 244, 286 



Reynolds (Prof. Emerson), Sulphur-Urea (Br. A), 390 

 Reynolds (Prof. Osborne), Evaporation and Condensation, 174 

 Reynolds (R.), Yorkshire College of Science, 481 

 Ribct (Th.), "En^li^h Psychology," 82 

 Ridley (Wni.), Aborit;inal " Murri " Race of Australia, 521 

 Riley (Prof. C. V.), Pitcher-Plant Insects, 463 

 Rndier (A.), Vaporising Metals by Electricity, 223 

 Rodriguez : Expedition to, 33 ; its Extinct Fauna, 72 ; Geology 



and Botany, 527 

 Root (C'has. G.), The Germans and Physical Axioms, 123 

 Roman War Implements from Trojan's Column, 273 

 Roman Well, Ashill, Norfolk, 529 

 Romanes (Geo. J.), Disuse as a Reducing Cause in Species, 164; 



Care of Rabbits for their Dead, 264 ; Migration of Birds, 



520 ; Rainbows, 483 

 Roscoe (Prof. H. E., F.R.S.), Absorption-spectra of Potas- 

 sium and Sodium, 136 ; Abnormal Chlorides (Br. A.), 452 

 Rojal Commission on Scientific Instruction, 21, 331, 351 

 Royal Society, 19, 36, 56, 96, 136, 154, 174, 197,258; Report 



of Meteorological Committee, 457 

 Ruchonnet (Charles), Curves and Numbers, 262 

 Rugby School Natural History Society, 2 

 Russia: Meteorology, 54; Exploring Expeditions, 171 

 Russell (Hon. F. A. R.), Governor Rawson's Report on the 



'• Rainfall of Barbados," 241 

 Russell (Lord Arthur), The Edible Frog, 520 

 Riitley (F., F.G.S.), "Mineralogy,'' 161 



St. Andrew's University, 427 



St. Petersburg, Horticultural Garden, 448 



Salem (U.S.), Essex Institute, 153 



Salivary Glands of Cockroach, 439 



Salvin (Osbert, F.R.S.), Strickland Curator at Cambridge, 250 



Samoa, Reported Discovery of Gold, 522 



Samuelson (B., M.P.), Technical Instruction, 492 



Sanderson (Dr. J. Burdon, F.R.S.), Venus's Fly-trap, 105, 127 ; 



Localisation of Functions in the Brain, 245 

 San Francisco Marine Aquarium, 94 

 "Sanitary Arrangements for Dwellings," by W. Eassie, C. E., 



:6i 

 Sardines, Cornish, 407 

 Scammon (CapL C. M.), Marine Mammals of the North Pacific, 



274 

 Schliemann (Dr.), Disroveries in the Ruins of Troy, 384 

 School of Mines, Award of Prizes, 196 

 Schusler (Artt ur), Prot. Bezold's "Science of Painting," 221 ; 



Curious Rainbow, 437 

 Scientific Instruction, Koyal Commission on, 21, 331, 351 

 ScitNTIFIC WoRTllIICS : — III. Charles Robert Darwin, lVi//i 



I'oilrait, 79 ; IV. John Tyndall, Wilh Portrait, 299 

 Sclater (P. £., F.R.S.), Royal Society's Soiree, 3 ; Lectures 

 at Zoological Gardens, 7 ; Distributionof Cassowaries (Br. A.), 

 390 

 Scott (R. H., F.R.S.), Proposed Daily Weather Charts, 146; 

 Austrian Order conferred on, 150; Conference for Maritime 

 Meteorology, 152, 356, 428; Colliery Explosions and the 

 Weather, 157 ; Plaiiimeter lor Meteorological Instruments, 

 197 ; Waterspout at Milfoid Haven, 263 

 Seal Fisheiies, 85, 173, 264, 470 

 Seaweed in Aquariums, 530 



Secchi (Father), his work on the Sun, 3 ; Sun-spots, 534 

 Sedgwick (Dr. Leonard W.), Spontaneous Generation Expert 



ments, 4 

 Sedgwick (The late Prof.), Memorial to, 54 ; Bust of him given 

 to the Geological Museum, 194 



Selection, Laws of ; their Application to Agriculture, 350 

 Selenka (Prof.), his Aquaria at Leyden and Erlangen, 260 

 Selwyn (Alfred R.), Geological Survey of Canada, 144 

 Sensitive Flames, 244, 273, 286 

 Settle : Exploration of the Victoria Cave (Br. A.), 3S7 ; " Flora 



of," by John Windsor, 459 

 Sewage, Utilisation of (Br. A.), 431 

 Sewage and Sewage Farming, 3S1 

 Shark, Skate-toothed, in Manchester Aquarium, 275 

 Sharks, Development of (Br. A.), 413 

 Sharpe (R. Bowdler) "Birds in the British Museum," 37S 

 Sherrard (William), Biographical Notice of, 73 

 Sicily : Sulphur Mines, 271 ; Tea Cultivation, 360 

 Siderostat, The, 358 



Siemens (Messrs.), Telegraphic Cable Works, 15 

 Siemens (C. W., D.C.L., F.R.S. ), The Faraday and her Appli- 

 ances for Cable-laying, 64 

 Siemens' Pyrometer, Report on (Br. A.), 372 

 Silvestri (Prof. Orazio), Eruption of Mount Etna, 522 

 Simpson (Prof. Maxwell, F.R.S. ), Chlor-bromides and Brom- 



iodides of the Olefines (Br. A.), 432 

 Skull, Peruvian, 123, 3155 

 Skull, Vertebrate (^See Hunterian Lectures) 

 Smith (Geo.), his Assyrian Expedition, 134 

 Smith (Hermann), Physical Action at the Mouth of Organ- 

 pipes, 161 ; Tone-making in Organ-pipes, 481 

 Smyth (R. Brough), Geological Survey of Victoria, 200 

 Snakes of Australia, 273 

 Sneezing in Animals, 522 

 Soap-bubbles, Prof. J. Plateau on, 119 

 Social Science Congress, Meeting at Glasgow, 462, 492 

 Society of Arts, 34, 54, 94, 15'. 307 

 Sorby (H. C, F.R.S.), Temporary Fading of Leaves exposed 



to the Sun, 149 

 " Sound and Music," by Sedley Taylor, M.A., 496 

 Sounding and Sensitive Flames, 244, 273, 2S6 

 South Kensington: Natural Flistory Museum, 132; Proposed 



removal of Patent Museum, 232 

 Southwell (Thos., F.Z.S.), Seal Fishery, 85 

 Spalding (Douglas A.), " Problems of Life and Mind," by G. H. 

 Lewes, i ; Ribot's " English Psychology," 82 ; Automatism 

 of Animals, 520 

 Spar Caves of the North Bridge, Edinburgh, 8 

 Spectroscope : De Boisbaudran on " Spectres Lumineu.x," 396 ; 



Optics of the, 467 

 Spectroscopic Observations of the Comet of July 1874, 179 

 Spectrum Analysis, Researches in, by J. Norman Lockyer, 



F.R.S., 258 

 Spectrum Photography, by J. N. Lockyer, F.R.S., 109, 254 

 Spectrum Photography, Early Contributions to, 243 

 •Spectrum of Aurora Borealis, 210 

 Spencer (Herbert), Necessary Truths and a priori Physical 



Axioms, 3, 25, 43, 84, 103, 123, 305, 335 

 Spiders, their Antipathy to Spanish Chestnut Wood, 6, 26 

 Spider, Fossil, 308 

 Spitzbergen, Coal at, 472 



Spontaneous Generation Experiments, 4; (Br. A.), 389 

 Spottiswoode (W., Treas. F.R.S.), Polarisation of Light, 125 

 Squirrels, Habits of, 503 

 Standards, Metric, 130 

 Stanley (II. M. ), Expedition to investigate the African Slave 



Trade, 195 

 State Aid to Science, 22, 132, 286 

 Statistical Society, 195, 472 

 Statistics {See British Association, Sec. F) 

 Stewart (Prof. BaUour, LL.D.), Experiments on a Magnetised 



Copper Wire, 96 

 Stewart (S. A.), Mosses of the North of Ireland (Br. A ), 433 

 Stillman (W. J.), Photographic Irradiation, 63, 85, 205, 3S1 ; ' 



"Amateur's Photographic Guide Book," 284 

 Stockholm, International Congress of Anthropology and Archieo- 



logy, 307. 332 



Stokes (Prof. G. G.), Construction of a perfectly Achromatic 

 Telescope (Br. A.), 431 



Stoliczka (Ferdinand, Ph.D.), Obituary Notice of, 185 ; Memo- 

 rial to, 528 



Stone (Mr., Astronomer Royal of the Cape), Observations of the 

 African Eclipse, 59 



Stone Implements : in Egypt, 138 ; Tasmania, 173 ; Feathering 

 in Flint Weapons, 245 ; Kent's Cavern, 532 



Stone Monuments or Chambered Barrows, 290 



