690 



INDEX. 



' Sables de Braclieus,' the equivalents in 

 England of the, Prof. Prestwich on, 

 and on the southern limits of the 

 Thanet sands, 5:?8. 



Sailors, our, for defence and commerce 

 — at home and abroad, by C. Pfoundes, 

 641. 



St. John (Col. Sir O.) on some unexplored 

 or little known parts of Persia, 628. 



Sakurai (Prof.) on metallic compounds 

 containing bivalent hydi'ocarbon radi- 

 cals : Part III., 495. 



Salmon (Rev. Dr.) on the calculation of 

 tables of fiindameutal invariants of 

 binary quantics, 37. 



Salt supply of India, Prof. V. Ball on 

 the, 530. 



Sanderson (Dr. Burdon) on the influence 

 of bodily exercise on the elimination 

 of nitrogen, 269. 



Saunders (H.) on the natural history of 

 Timor-laut, 275. 



*Saxon, the physical characteristics of 

 the, J. Park Harrison on, 6C7. 



Schiifer (Prof. E. A.), an improved 

 method of directly determining the 

 velocity of the contract ion- wave in 

 curarised muscle, 575. 



Schuster (Prof.) on fixing a standard of 

 white light, 38 ; on standards for use 

 in electrical measurements, 70; on 

 meteoric dust, 90 ; on the present 

 state of our knowledge of spectrum 

 anal3'sis, 120 ; on the preparation of a 

 new series of tables of wave lengths of 

 the spectra of the elements, 144 ; on 

 some matters relating to the sun, 

 442. 



and Capt. Abney, preliminary ac- 

 count of results obtained during the 

 late total solar eclipse (May 17, 1882), 

 441. 



Schwedoff (Prof. T.) on the origin of 

 hail, 458. 



Schwedolf's theory of hail, Prof. S. P. 

 Thompson on, 458 



Science in elementary schools, report of 

 the Committee for watching and re- 

 porting on the workings of the joro- 

 posed revised New Code, and of other 

 legislation affecting the teaching of, 

 307. 



Sclater (P. L.) on the natm-al history of 

 Timor-laut, 275 ; on the natural history 

 of Socotra and the adjacent highlands 

 of Arabia and Somali Land, 281 ; on 

 the occupation of a table at the zoo- 

 logical station at Naples, 288. 



Sclater-Booth (Rt. Hon. G.), Address by, 

 to the Section of Economic Science 

 and Statistics, 631. 



Scott (R. H.) on the proposed publication 

 by the Meteorological Society of the 

 Mauritius of daily synoptic cliarts of 



the Indian Ocean from the year 1861, 

 38 ; on meteoric dust, 90. 



Scottish zoological station, report of the 

 Committee appointed to aid in the 

 maintenance of the, 282. 



Screws, the various small, used in tele- 

 graphic and electrical apparatus,- in 

 clockwork, and for other analogous 

 purposes, report of the Committee for 

 determining a gauge for the manufac- 

 ture of, 3U. 



Sea-route to China from Western Asia, 

 notes on the oldest records of the, by 

 Col. Yule, 347. 



*Second toe of the human foot, J. Park 

 Harrison on the length of the, 606. 



Secondary batteries, Dr. J. H. Glatfetone 

 on, with .special reference to local 

 action, 447. 



Sedimentary materials, ordinary, report 

 on the conditions under which they 

 may be converted into metamorphic 

 rocks, 239. 



Seebohm (Mr.) on the natural history of 

 Socotra and the adjacent highlands of 

 Arabia and Somali Land, 281. 



Selenium and tellurium, the occurrence 

 of, in Japan, Prof. E. Divers and M. 

 Shimose on, 487. 



*Senegal, Gambia, and the Gold Coast, 

 Commr. V. L. Cameron on, 623. 



Shaen (W.) on the workings of the pro- 

 posed revised New Code, and of other 

 legislation affecting the teaching of 

 science in elementary schools, 307. 



Shaw (Prof. H. S. H.) on a new electrical 

 contact-maker, 465. 



Shimose (M.) and Prof. E. Divers on the 

 occurrence of tellurium and selenium 

 in Japan, 487. 



Shipi^ing and carrj-ing trade, some in- 

 fluences affecting the progress of our, 

 Hyde Clarke on,' 640. 



Shore (T. W.) and E. Westlake on tlie 

 Southampton artesian well, 547. 



Shore (T. W., jun.) on the structure of 

 the muscular tissue of the leech, 

 577. 



Siemens (Dr. C. W.) on the measure- 

 ment of the lunar disturbance of 

 gravity, 95 ; on patent legislation, 310 ; 

 on the determination of a gauge for 

 the manufacture of various small 

 screws, 311 ; *suggestions regarding 

 the extension of the practical system of 

 units, 464. 



and Prof. A. K. Huntington on the 



electric furnace, 496. 



Sky light and sun light at high altitudes, 

 by Capt. W. de W. Abney, 459. 



Sladen (P.) on the Scottish zoological 

 station, 282 ; on the occupation of a 

 table at the zoological station at 

 Naples, 288. 



