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INDEX 
[Nature, Dec. 10, 1885 - 
and Art Museum, Edinburgh, 10; Sir John Lubbock on 
“Science, 11 ; the National Academy of Sciences, 35 ; Robert 
browning as a Scientific Poet, Edward Berdoe, 36; the Com- 
mon Sense of the Exact Sciences, W. K. Clifford, Prof. P. 
G. Tait, 124; Science in Jamaica, Morris, 182 ; Report on 
the Scientific Results of the Voyage of the Challenger, 203, 
249; Manual of Health Science, Andrew Wilson, 221 ; Year- 
Book of Scientific Societies, 231; Science and Art Depart- 
ment, 237; Manchester and District Association of Science 
and Art Teachers, 300; Science in Bohemia, 308; a Possible 
Windfall for Science, 313; Dr. Hyde Clarke, 3425; Co- 
ordination of the Scientific Bureaus of the U.S. Government, 
317; the School of Science at South Kensington, 327 ; 
Science in Colorado, 330; Science at Marlborough College, 
401; ‘* Scientific Culture,” Dr. J. P. Cooke, 426; Sir Lyon 
Playfair on Science and the State, 438; Sir Lyon Playfair on 
Science and Secondary Education, 439; Sir Lyon Playfair on 
Science and the Universities, 441; Sir Lyon Playfair on 
Science and Industry, 442 ; Public Opinion and State Aid to 
Science, 497; American Association for the Advancement of 
“ Science, 510; Science in Russia, 590; the Present State of 
Science in Italy, 609 ; Three Martyrs of Science of the Nine- 
teenth Century, 624 ; Century of Science in Bengal, 638 
Sclater (Dr. P. L.), ‘* Torresia,” a Proposed Name for British 
New Guinea, 357; ‘‘ Furculum” or ‘‘ Furcula,” 466 
Scoiland: Union of Scotch Naturalists’ Societies, 85 ; Rise and 
Progress of the Scotch Steel Trade, James Riley, 429; the 
Tron Trade of Scotland, F. J. Rowan, 429; Annual Report 
of the Fishery Board for Scotland for 1884, 281 ; Pisciculture 
in Scotland, 298; Geography of Scotland, What has been 
done for the, and’ What Remains to be done, H. A. Webster, 
-565; Scottish Marine Station, J. T. Cunningham, 176; 
Scottish Meteorological Society, 300, 636 
Scratching, Spectra Produced in Glass by, 
270 
Sea, on the Depth to which the Sun’s Light will Penetrate into 
the, Fol and Sarasin, 132 
Sea, Ozone at, Dr. W. J. Black, 416 
Sea and Air, Observations of the Temperature of the, made 
during a Voyage from England to the River Plate in the 
s.s. Lithnitz, J. Y. Buchanan, 126 
Sea-Fisheries, Value of a Marine Laboratory to the Develop- 
meu and Regulation of our, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 
5 
Sea-Coasts, Erosion, 530 
et off Nordland Coast, Rumoured Appearance of the, 
462 
Seabroke (Geo. M.), New Star in Andromeda, 523 
Seashore, Fauna of the, W. R. Hughes, 294; Arthur R. Hunt, 
243, 390; Frof. H. N. Moseley, F.R.S., 212, 417 
Sebaceous Glands, the Functions of the, Prof. 
544 
Secondary Generators of Messrs. 
Inventions Exhibition, 225 
Sée (Germain), ‘‘ Bacillary Phthisis of the Lungs,” 
Seismological Society of Japan, 299 
Seismology, Fouque’s Electrical 
Propagation of Earthquakes, 254 
Seismology, Recent Progress in, Prof. Rockwood, 609 
Selenium, the Action of Light in Diminishing the Electrical 
Resistance of, Shelford Bidwell, 167, 215 
Self-Induction in Relation to Certain Experiments of Mr. 
Willoughby Smith and to the Determination of the Ohm, 
Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., 7 
Selwyn (Alfred R. C., F.R.S.), Geological and Natural History 
Survey of Canada, 242 
Senex, “‘ Speed” and ‘‘ Velocity,” 78 
Sense, Common, of the Exact Sciences, W. 
BG. Lait, 124 
Sense of Colour, Margaret Heaton, 626 
Severn Tunnel, Completion of, 460 
Sewers, Disinfection of, Dr. Italo Giglioli, 415 
Sexton (Samuel), Value of the Testi. ony to the Aurora-Sound, 
625 
Shad-Rearing in United States, 112 
Shallow Seas, Influence of Wave-Currents on the Fauna of, 
Arthur R. Hunt, 547 
Shaw (Prof. H. S. Hele): a Self-Recording Stress and Strain 
Indicator, 70; appointed Professor of Engin-e: ing at, Uni- 
versity Collége, Liverpool, 279 
E, Pz aomove; 
Fritsch, 
Gaulard and Gibbs at the 
34t 
Apparatus for Registering 
IX. Clifford, Prof. 
Shell-Work: Miss A. W. Buckland on American Shell-Work 
and its Affinities, 587 
Shot-Firing in Mines : W. Galloway, 596 ; Prof. C. G. Kreischer, 
F . 
59 
Shrubsole (W. H.), Foul Water, 223 
Siam, Silk-Culture in, Archer, 611 
Siberia, Eastern, Trilobites in, 208 
Siemens’s (Frederick) Gas Lamps, 247 : 
Siewers (Carl), Photographing the Aurora Borealis, 29; Trans- - 
lation of Tromholt’s Aurora Borealis, 274 
Sight, Long, A. Shaw Page, 103 
Signs, Language of, used by Oriental Traders, J. Menges on, 
231 
Silesian Freshwater Fauna, Dr. O. Zacharias, 160 
Silk, the Analysis of, Dr. H. A. Bayne, 258 
Silk-Culture i in Siena: Archer, 611 : 
Silver-Lead Deposits of Eureka, Nevada, J. S. Curtis, 
fe) 
Sitzungsberichte der Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Isis, 
214 
Skin, the, Dr. Blaschko, 544: Dr. Lassar’s Microscopic Pre- - 
parations of Skin of Lichen Ruber Patient, 544 
Sky-Glows, 147; Dr. F. A. Forel, 173; Robt. C. Leslie, 
245 
Sleep: Do Fish Sleep?, W. A. Carter, 580 
Sleepers (Metal), the Question of, 4o1 
Slide Rule, C. V. Boys, 627 
Smell, Physiolcgy of the Sense of, Herr Aronsohn, 520 Bean, 
Smith (J. Lawrence), ‘‘ Original Researches in Mineralogy and : 
Chemistry,” 3 
Smith (Col. Murdoch), appointed Director of the Edinburgh - 
Science and Art Museum, fo 2 
Smith (Percy), Causes of Liability of Certain Trees to be Struck _ 
by Lightning, 494 - 
Smith (Willoughby), Self-Induction in Relation to Certain 
Experiments of, and to the Determination of the Ohm, Lord 
Rayleigh, F.R.S., 7 
Smith (Worthington G.), Hut Circles, 29 
Smithsonian Institution, 374 
‘*Smokeless Houses and 
134 
Smyrna, Earthquake in, 85 . 
Smyth (Prof. C. Piazzi), an Earthquake Invention, 213, 
625 
Saawe Milne and, Notes on the Kurile Islands, ¥35 
Snow-Storm in Austria, Terrible, 62 
Society of Arts, 110; Medals of, 181 
Sohncke (Prof. L.), on the Origin of Thunderstorm Electricity, 
406 
Solar Corona, P. Tacchini’s Observations on, 359 
Solar Eclipses, Central, in New Zealand, 86 
Solar Maculz, &c., Distribution in Latitude of, Signor Tacchini, 
120 
Solar Radiation, 
502 
Solar Spectrum, New Map of the, L. Thollon, 519 
Solar Spots, on the Cyclonic Character of the, Faye, 495 
Sole, Male, is not Unknown, Francis Day, 78 
Solid Electrolytes, Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, 366, Shelford 
Bidwell, 391 
Solomon ‘Tslands, 
216] 
Solothurn, Enormous Swarms of Ants at, 515 
Solubility of Salt Mixtures, F. Rudorff, 519 
Solution, B. A. Report on, 529 
Sorbonne, the New, 328 - 
Sorby (H. C., F.R.S.), on the Structure of Iron and Steel, 
Manufactories,” Thos. Fletcher, — 
the Recording of the Direct Intensity of, 
Anthropological Notes on the Natives of, 
39 
Sorensen’s (Capt.) Visit to Spitzbergen, 113 
Soret (J. L.), ‘‘ Sur le Diapason,” 9 
Soroloff’s Analyses of Water of Neva, 13 
Sound, Fallacy of the Present Theory of, Henry A. Mott, Jun., 
Dr. W. H. Stone, 75; Transmission of, Prof. W. E. Ayrton, 
EER-S., 575 
South Kensington, the School of Science at, 327 
Southern Stars, Catalogue of 1000, 636 
Sowerby’s Whale, on Some Points in the Anatomy of, Prof. 
Turner, 560 
Spaltpilze, die, Dr. W. Zopf, 364 - 
Spectra, Researches on the Relation between the Molecular 
