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St. Bernard, Prof. Plantamour on the Temperature of, 330 



St. Andrews, University of, its Want of Funds, 548 



St. Gothard Tunnel, 163, 215, 423; Statistics of, 452 ; Adolphe 



Gautier on the, 581 

 St. Kilts, Floods in, 330 

 Saint Martin, the Canal, Ice on, 307 

 St. Petersburg Geographical Society, 311 

 Sakis, several Settlements of, in the Highlands of - Eastern 



Perak, 190 

 Salses of Mount Etna, 241 



Sandeman (E. F. ), " Eight Months in an Ox Waggon," 346 

 Sandstone, Lower Old Red, Silurian Fossils in, G. H. Kinahan, 



55 

 Sandstone, Old Red, Crustacea? in the, 241 

 Sanitary Institute, Congress and Exhibition at Croydon, iS ; 



Prize Es<ay of, 216 

 San Salvador, Earthquake in, 452 

 Sapphire Mines, Newly Discovered, in Siam, 49, 90 

 Sarasin (E.), the Scu/ies of the Swiss Lakes, 427 

 Sargassum, Does it Vegetate in the Open Sea ? Dr. Otto Kuntze, 



So; Dr. J. J. Wild, 107 

 Satellite, Secular Changes in the Elements of the Orbit of a, 

 Revolving about a Planet Distorted by Tides, G. H. Darwin, 

 F.R.S., 235 

 Saturn, T. \v. Webb, S7 

 Saumur, Ice-Blocks at, 330 

 Saunders (Trelawney \Y.), on the Mountains of the Northern 



and Western Frontier of India, 96, 347 

 " Sauranodon," Discovery of a New Species of, 425 

 Saxony, Geological Survey of, 475 



Sayce (Prof. A. II.), the "Sacred Books of the East," Edited 

 by F. Max Muller, 77; his Health, S9; Chronological Hi-tory 

 of Plants, 104 ; the Hi-tory of Writing, 378, 404 

 Scale of Colours, L. Blornefield (late Jenyns), 201 

 Scheffer (Dr. R. II. C. C), Death of,' 523 

 Schiann.relli's Work on the Planet Mars, a German Translation 



of, 263 

 Schimper (Prof. Wilhelm Philipp), Death of, 523; Obituary 



No f ice of, 573 

 Schimper and Zittel's " Handbuch der Palxontologte," 509 

 Schlemiiller (W.), the Temperature of the Airat Various Levels, 



176 

 Schneider's (Ilerr E.) Measuring Po'ariscope, 242 

 Schomburgk (Dr.), "On the Naturalised Weeds and other 

 Plants in South Australia," 263 ; on the Urari, the Deadly 

 Arrow-Poison of the Macusis, 560 

 School of Mines Quarterly, New American Journal, 164 

 School Statistics of Europe, 432 

 Schiibeler (Prof.), on the Effects of Uninterrupted Sunlight on 



Plants, 311 

 Schuster ( Ur. Arthur, F.R.S.), Recent Experiments on Radia- 

 tion, 1S3 ; Ranyard's Total Solar Eclipse Observations, 48S 

 Schwendler (Louis), a New Standard of Light, 158 

 Science and Literature, Society for the Encouragement of, W. 



S. Da las, 107 ; Prof. .St. George Mivait, F. R.S., 107 

 Science of Statesmanship, 295 

 Science and Politics, 348 

 Scientific American, 72 

 Scientific Jokes, 349, 36S, 396 

 S-.Hter (P. L., F.R.S.), the Exploration of Socotra, 153 ; 



Monkeys in the West Indies, 153 

 Scorpion Suicide? Dr. R. F. Hutchinson, 226; F. Gillman, 



275, 302 ; W. Curran, 325 

 Scotland: the Fossil Fi-hes of, Dr. R. H. Traquair, 42S ; 

 Mammalia of, E. R. Alston, 61-9 ; Scotti.-h Zoological Station, 

 T. Jeffcry Parker, 159 ; Scottish Naturalist, 74 ; Microscopic 

 Structure of Scottish Rocks, 333 

 Screw, Song of the, Prof. J. D. Everett, F.R.S., 349 

 Scudder (Samuel II.), Catalogue of Scientific Serial-, S9 

 Seaside Laboratory, an American, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, 



F.R.S., 497 

 Secchi (Lather), Marble Medallion of, S9 



Secular Changes in the Elements of the Orbit of a Satellite 

 Revolving about a Planet Distorted by Tides, G. II. Darwin, 

 F.R.S., 235 

 Seebach (Karl von), Obituary Notice of, 349 

 Seeing by Electricity, 576 ; John Perry ana W. E. Ayrton, 5S9 ; 



J. E. II. Gordon, 610 

 Seguin (M. C. E. Els), on the Invention of the Phonrgraph, 266 

 St.cAes of the Swiss Lakes, F. Sarasin on the, 427 



Sensation, Alternative Interpretation of, P'red. D. Brown, 177 



Senses, a Speculation regarding the, 323, 348 



Sensitive Nerves, Stimuli in, 454 



Sepulchral Vessels, M. Zaborowski's Discovery of, on the Banks 



of the Lower Vistula, 262 

 Sewage of London, 133 

 Sewage Farming in France, 617 

 Sewail (II.), Pepsin-forming Glands, 169 

 Sexual Colours of Certain Butterflies, Charles Darwin, F.R.S., 



237 

 Shallow, a Spectral, on Mist, 216 

 Shafts in the Kent Chalk, F. C. Spurrell, 66 

 Sharpey (Dr. William, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of, 567 

 Shells. Land, of the Austral Islands, 108 

 Shell-Heaps of the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of North America, 



F. W. Putnam on, 357 

 Shell-Mounds, the Oiuori, Charles Darwin, F.R.S., 561 ; Prof. 



Edward S. Morse, 561 ; F. V. Dickins, 610 

 Ships, a New Telegraphic Arrangement for, 20 

 Shiwotsu and Tsuruga, New Railway between, 190 

 Shrub: ole (W. II.), Diatoms in London Clay, 132, 444, 53S 

 Siam, Newly-Discovered Sapphire Mines in, 49, 90 

 Sibree (Rev. James, jun.), the Great African Island, Madagascar, 



365 

 Sicily and Italy, Notes from, G. T. Rodwell, 457 

 Sicbold (Freiherr von), Monument to, at Wiirzburg, 2S5 

 Siemens (Dr. C. W., F.R.S.), Vegetation under Electric Light, 

 438, 456 ; Epigram on, 473 ; on the Dynamo-Electric Current 

 and on certain Means to improve its Steadiness, 482 

 Sights and Tastes, Recall of, Dr. A. Em-t, 61 1 

 Silesia, Cryptogamic Flora of, W. B. McNab, 391 

 Silone's Form of Electrometer, 427 

 Silurian Fossils in the Curlew Mountains, Prof. E. Hull, F.R.S., 



32 ; G. II. Kinahan, 55 

 Simpson (Sir W. G., Bait.), the races of the Ilore, 55 

 Simpson (George Wharton), Death of, 2S4 

 " Sin," the First, 154 

 Singing Condensers, Researches on, 359 

 Sitzungsberichte der naturwissenschaftlichen Ge ell-chaft L-is 



in Dresden, 290 

 Sizing and Mildew in Cotton Goods, G. E. Davis, C. Dreyfus, 



and P. Holland, 29S 

 Skulls, M. le Bon's Observations on, 2S5 

 Smith (Worihington G.), Carnivorous Wasps, 5°3 

 Smyth (Prof. Piazzi), Sunshine Cycles, 248; Meteorological 

 Report, Scotland, 407; the Aurora at Last, 492; Auroral 

 Response in America, 609 

 Snakes, the Caudal Disk in, E. II. Pringle, 34; how They shed 



their Skins, Samuel Lockwood, 56 

 Snow-Storm in Paris, 140 

 Society of Arts, 47, 89, zC.$ 

 Society of Telegraph Engineers, 196 

 Society Islands, Cyclone in, 574 

 .socotra, the Exploration of, "153, 237, 504, 515, 616 

 Sodium Lines, Re- Reversal of, C. A. Young, 274 

 Sodium and Potassium, on the- S| ectra of, Prof. G. D. Liveing, 



F.R.S., 170; Trof. J. Dewar, F.R.S., 170 

 Soil, Temperature of the, during Winter, 523 

 Solar Eclipses: Re-Discussion of Ancieut, 141; Total, of 

 January II, 2S7 ; Total, in the next Decade, 30S ; Solar 

 Eclipse Observations, Collated by A. C. Ranyard, Dr. Arthur 

 Schuster, F.R.S., 488 

 Solar Spectrum, Capt. Abney on the Photographic Method of 



Mapping, 367 

 Solar System, a possible Mode of detecting a Motion of the, 



through the Luminiferous Ether, J. Clerk Maxwell, 314 

 Solar Parallax, 141 ; from the Velocity of Light, D. P. Todd, 



331 

 Solar Phenomenon, Ralph Copeland, 225 

 Solids, the Solubility of Gases in, Hannay and Hogarth, 499 

 Sollas(VV. J.), a Method of Calculating the Expansion of a 



Substance on Vaporisation, 492 

 Solubility of Gases in Solids, Hannay and Hogarth, 499 

 Somerville (Miss Martha Charters), Death of, 46 

 " Song oi the Screw," Prof. J. D. Everett, F.R.S., 319 

 Song of Bird", 590, 612 

 Sorby (II. C. , F.R.S.), the Structure and Origin of Stratified 



Rocks, 431 

 South Australia, the Naturalised Weeds and other Plants in, 



Dr. Schomburgk on, 263 



