332 



I3s"DEX. 



PAGE. 



a 



Queen Charlotte Islands 17 



R 



Rainfall, British 154 



Rainfall, Australian •. ... 156, 157 



Rainfall, African 166 



Rainfall in the Neilgherries 207, 208 



Remarkable errors shown by ther- 

 mometers 35 



Rhone River, floods of 195 



Ringbarking 180, 211, 213, 215, 231 



River Orange, basin of 199 



Ross, Lord, on equatorial belt of 



Jupiter 91 



Royal Astronomical Society — Cir- 

 cular from 85 



Ruins in Central America 53 



RusseU, H. C, B.A., F.R.A.S., on 

 remarkable errors shown by ther- 

 mometers (diagrams) 35-42 



Russell, H. C, on Jupiter... 87, 92, 94, 97 

 RusseU, H. C., B. A., F.R.A.S.— 

 Meteorological Periodicity {three 



diagrams) 151, 177 



RusseU, H. C, B.A., F.R.A.S.— 

 Appendix — Abstract of the 

 Meteorological Observations taken 

 at the Sydney Observatory . . . 315-328 



" Sandfly," H.M.S., attack on 27 



Sanitary Organization and Prevent- 

 able Disease, by Dr. Belgrave 312 



Sanitary Science, Report from Section 



for 311 



Santa Cruz 15, 16, 18, 23, 26 



Saturn, drawing of 287 



Scientific lectures, courses of 253 



Scientific Notes in America and 



Europe 31 



Section, Astronomy and Physics . . . 285 

 Section, Chemistry, Mineralogy, and 



Geology 289 



Section, Geography and Ethnology 304 

 Section, Literature and Fine Arts ... 305 



Section, Medical Science 310 



Section, Microscopical Science 291 



Section, Sanitary Science 311 



Section, Zoology and Botany 291 



Sections, formation of 247 



Sections, meetings of 254, 258 



Sections, Reports from (in abstract) 285 



Sections, Rules for xx 



Silver, formation of 125 



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Silver, Moss 128 



Slate, contorted, chemical composi- 

 tion of 242 



Smyth, Piazzi, on Jupiter 88 



Snow, protection of, by lava 134 



Soundings from Fiji to Australia ... 75 

 Soundings from .Fiji to Australia, 



Tableof ^. 77 



Standard thermometer, curve of 



(diagram) 42 



Stanniferous deposits in Tasmania ... 30 

 Starch of JSIacrozamia spiraUs (wood- 

 cut) 292, 295 



St. Vincent, destruction of woods in 197 

 St. Vincent, t'^ 3rature and rainfaU 217 



Subscriptions xiii 



Sulphuric acid process for extraction 



of copper 136 



Sunspot periods 156 



Sydney Water Supply 31 



T 



Telescope, Mr. J. U. C. Colyer's 10^ 



inch reflector, Jupiter in 85 



Telescope, Mr. LasceUe's 20-feet 



equatorial do 88 



Telescope, Mr. De la Rue's 13-inch 



aperture 88 



Telescope, Sir WUliam Keith Mur- 

 ray's 9-inch reflector 88 



Telescope, Sir WiUiam HerscheU's 



40-feetdo 90 



Telescope, Mr. Alfred Fairfax's 41- 

 inch refractor 92 



Telescope, Sydney Observatory's 



11-inch reflector 92 



Tertiary Australian Polyzoa {two 

 folates), by the Rev. J. E. Tenison 



Woods, F.C.LS 147-150 



Tertiary Eschara Buskii 149 



,, cavernosa 147 



„ Clarkei 142 



,, elevata 148 



,, Liversidgei 149 



,, oculata 149 



,, porrecta 147 



,, rustica 148 



„ Tatei 149 



,, verrucosa 148 



Pustulipora ungulata 150 



,, corrugata 150 



Tubulipora Gambiesensis . . . 150 



Testing telescope lenses 287 



Thermometers, remarkable errors 



shown by 35 



Thermo-electric battery 262 



