838 index. [December, 
Schnetzler, B., observations on Arum 
crinitum, 702 
Schorlemmer, C., normal paraffins, 818 
— and R. S. Dale, on aurin, 200 
Schuchardt, T., silicium strontium. 
205 
Schuster, Dr., spectroscope with two 
prisms, 322 
Schwendler, L., suitability of the elec- 
tric light for India, 205 
“ Science, Fragments of” (review), 
642 
“ Science made Easy ” (review), 190 
“ Science of Industry for 1878, Record 
of’ (review), 649 
“Science, Modern, The Realistic As- 
sumptions of” (review), 253 
“ Science, Rhymes of” (review), 367 
Science, sanitary, in the United States, 
49 
Scientific appointments, national, 723 
— materialism and ultimate concep- 
tions, 661 
— novelties at the Royal Society 
Soiree, 516 
“ Scientific Discovery, Art of” (re- 
view), 1 12 
“ Scientific Ledtures ” (review), 565 
“ Scientific Terms, Illustrated Dic- 
tionary of” (review), 189 
“ Scottish Naturalist” (review), 141 
Sharks’ mouths, peculiar position of, 
452 
Sheep experiments on, 701 
Shettle, Dr., influence of heat upon 
induction coils, 815 
Sheet anchor, pirates’, 622 
Shoolbred, J., eledtric lighting, 260 
Siderodadtylus, new species, 203 
Siemens, C. W., measuring and regu- 
lating eledtric currents, 255 
Siemens’s eledtric light, 773 
Silicium strontium, 205 
Silk, preparation of raw, 709 
Silkworms, adtion of quinine upon, 
765 
“ Silurian Fossils of the Girvan Dis- 
tridt, Monograph of the” (review), 
3 i 4 
Simon, C., “ Solar Illumination of 
the Solar System ” (review), 643 
Siren, improved, with eledtro-mag- 
netic regulator, 456 
Skulls, examination of, 585 
Skunk, bite of, 822 
Slater, J. W., anti-vivisedlionist in- 
consistency, 700 
Slouginoff, M., experiments with two 
eledtrodes of a battery, 264 
Smith, A. P., poisoning by wall 
papers, 389 
Smith, J. L., new meteoric mineral, 
Daubreehte, 270 
“ Smithsonian Institution, Annual 
Report of the Board of Regents” 
(review), 192 
Smyth, R. B., “The Aborigines of 
Vidtoria ” (review), 569 
“ Sedtion Cutting ” (review), 135 
Sodium, spedtrum of, 503 
Soil and crops by waste waters, drain- 
age to, 768 
Solar radiation, and the temperature 
indicated by the Black-bulk ther- 
mometer in vacuo , relation be- 
tween duration of sunshine, and 
the amount of, 384 
“ Solar Illumination of the Solar Sys- 
tem” (review), 643 
Sound as a nuisance, 442 
“ Sound, Elementary Lessons on” 
(review), 754 
“ Sound, Theory of” (review), no 
Spanish fly, metamorphoses of, 764 
Species, transformation of, 254 
Spedtra by light, produdtion of colour- 
ed, 507 
Spedtroscope, examination of the mix- 
ture of earths from Sarnarskite 
with the, 394 
— with two prisms, 322 
— new stellar, 821 
Spedtroscopic papers, 575 
Spedtrum, distribution of heat in the, 
582 
Sphygmophone, 502 
Spiders’ web for micrometers, 245,315 
Spiritual in animals, 333! 
Spon’s “ Encyclopaedia of the Indus- 
trial Arts, &c.” (review), 752 
Spottiswoode, W., testimonial to, 332 
— and F. S. Moulton, sensitive state 
of eledtrical discharges through 
rarefied gases, 443 
Stainer, J., “ Music of the Bible” (re- 
view, 757 
Stannaries, old, of the West of Eng- 
land, 282 
Stannic ethide, 200 
“Stars, Double, a Handbook of” 
(review), 810 
“ Static Eledtric Indudtion ” (review), 
646 
Steam maker, petroleum as a, 612 
Steels, chemical composition and 
mechanical properties, 331 
Stewart, B., comparisons of the varia- 
tions of the diurnal range of mag- 
netic declination, 256 
— existence of short periods common 
to solar and terrestrial pheno- 
mena, 817 
