to

Sclater (W. L.), Catalogue of Mammalia in the Indian Museum,
Calcutta, 50

Scotland, the Ninth Annual Report of the Fishery Board for,
49

Scotland, Technical Education in, 377

Scott (Ernest), Electricity in Relation to Mining, 184

Scott (Robt. H., F.R.S.): Supernumerary Rainbows observed in
the Orkneys, 223; Atlantic Weather and its connection with
British Weather, 496

Scottish Meteorological Society, 470

Scottish Zoology, Prof. Cossar Ewart on, 17.

Scripture (E. W.), the Study of Psychology as a Science in the
United States, 568

Scudder (F.), Action of Water Gas on Iron, 92

Sea, Cloud-Observations at, Prof. C. Abbe, 70

Sea-borne Sediment, the Precipitation and Deposition of, R. G.
Mackley Browne, 598

Sea-Fish, Destruction of Immature, Alfred O. Walker, 176;
Ernest W. L. Holt, 240

Sea-Serpent, Dr. A. C. Oudemans on the, 614

Sea-shore, Wood, and Moorland, By, Edward Step, 28
Seabroke (Geo. M.), Aurora, 605

Search Light, Working of the, W. B. Lefroy Hamilton, 587
Searle (G. F. C.), an Experiment of Sir Humphry Davy's, 47
Seaside Plants, Biology of, W. Botting Hemsley, F. R.S., 3
Secular Acceleration of the Moon and the Length of the Sidereal
Day, 137

Secular Variation of Latitudes, 210

Seebohm (H.), White's Thrush (Turdus varius), 479
Seemann (Herr), a Weather Lexicon, 208

Segers (M.), Mussel-Poisoning in Tierra del Fuego, 134
Seismometry and Engineering in Relation to the Recent Earth-
quake in Japan, Prof. John Milne, F. R. S., 127
Seismology: Earthquake at Nipon, Japan, 19; Earthquake in
Japan, 86, 199; Seismology in Japan, 471; Seismological
Phenomena in Australasia, 423; Earthquake at Nicaragua,
471; at Portland, Oregon, 586; Earthquake in California,
471, 614 (see also Earthquakes)

Selection, Topical, and Mimicry, David Syme, 30; Dr. Alfred
R. Wallace, 30

Selective and Metallic Reflection, A. B. Basset, F. R. S., 119
Self-registering Weathercock, J. Lawrence Hamilton, 559
Sellers (Coleman), American Superiority in Mechanics, 157
Sendall's (Sir W. J.) Apparatus for making Accurate Measure-
ments with Camera Lucida, 46

Sensitive Water Jets, W. B. Croft, 606

Shaler (Prof. N. S.), Nature and Man in North America, 220
Shark, Large Greenland, Stranded at Lynn, T. Southwell, 546
Sharp (Dr.), on the Phyllium, 623

Shaw (Jas.), Peculiar Eyes, 104

Sheep, Origin of the, in China, Dr. Macgowan, 285

Sherman (Ö. T.), Zodiacal Light, 381

Silk Insects of India, the Wild, E. C. Cotes, 520
Silk-producing Moths, Col. Swinhoe, 38

Simla, Capt. Bower's Journey from China to, 615
Sinclair (F. G.), a New Mode of Respiration in the Myriapoda,
164

Singer (Dr.), Cloud Pictures, 518

Sirius System, the, Dr. A. Auwers, 617

Sisley (R.), a Study of Influenza and the Laws of England con-
cerning Infectious Diseases, 556

Skate, the Electric Organ of the, Prof. J. G. Ewart, 451
Skinner (S.), Some Notes on Clark's Cells, 47; Properties of
Alcoholic and other Solutions of Mercuric and other
Chlorides, 430

Skua in Shetland, the Great, W. E. Clarke, 545

Slater (Chas.), the Differentiation of Leprosy and Tubercle
Bacilli, 450

Slater's (Prof. J. S.) Improved Armillary Sphere, 134

Slavonians of the First Centuries of our Era, the, Prof.
Samokvasoff, 547

Sleep: Causation of, James Cappie, M. D., 26; Peculiar Case
of Prolonged, 323, 349

Smart (William), an Introduction to the Theory of Value, 268
Smith (Charles), Arithmetic for Schools, 247

Smith (Fred. J.), a Simple Heat-Engine, 294, 464
Smith (W. W.), Hellebore as an Insecticide, 546
Smithells (A.): Structure and Chemistry of Flames, 214; Struc-
ture of Luminous Flames, 214

Smithells (Prof.), Origin of Flame Coloration, 305
Smithsonian Institution: Gift by Mr. Thomas Hodgkins to, 37;
Prof. S. P. Langley's Report for the Year, 261
Smithsonian Standards for Physical Apparatus, Prof. S. P.
Langley, 197

Snakes in the Indian Museum, List of the, W. L. Sclater, 317
Snow-Sweeper, Electric, 39

Snowstorms, Severe, in the Channel Islands and South of
England, 586

Société de Biologie, Prof. A. Chauveau elected President of the,
612

Society of Arts, Lecture Arrangements, 19

Solar Activity, State of, Prof. Tacchini, 137
Solar Activity in 1891, Rodolf Wolf, 307

Solar Disturbances of 1891, June 17, H. H. Turner, 404
Solar Heat, Dr. Joseph Morrison, 589
Solar Investigation, Prof. Hale, 473

Solar Observations, Prof. Tacchini, M. Marchand, 352
Solar Parallax, Determination of the, A. Auwers, 89

Solar Prominences: Measurement of, M. Fizeau, 422; Photo-
graphy of, Prof. G. E. Hale, 326; M. Deslandres, 404,
522

Sollas (Prof., F. R.S.), the Basal Conglomerate of Howth, 455
Solomon Islands, Collection of Dried Plants from the, 586
Solutions: Prof. W. Ostwald, 193, 293, 415, 606; J. W. Rod-
ger, 487, 342

Somaliland, Skin of Grevy's Zebra brought from, 598

Shields, Ancient Mexican, Zelia Nuttall, 520

Shipbuilding the Steadying of Vessels at Sea, J. T. Thorny-

croft, 570; the Influence of Shallow Water upon the Trial
Trip Speeds of Modern Vessels, W. H. White, F. R. S., 571;
on Balancing Marine Engines and the Vibration of Vessels,
A. F. Yarrow, 571

Ships, Rolling of, 559

Shipley (A. E.), Onchnesoma Steenstrupii, 450

Shore (Dr.), Action of Lymph in Producing Intravascular
Clotting, 455

Shufeldt (Dr.): Prints of Havesu-pai Indians, 235; Weaving as
Practised by the Navajo Indians, 260

Sidereal Day, the Secular Acceleration of the Moon and the
Length of the, 137

Sidgreaves (Rev. Walter), Stonyhurst Drawings of Sun-spots and
Faculæ, 261

Siemens and Halske, Experiments on the Production of Ozone
by Electric Silent Discharge, 39

Sierra Leone Anglo-French Frontier Delimitation Commission,
the, 64; Government Mission to Investigate Botany of, 64
Sight, Motion of Stars in the Line of, Prof. H. C. Vogel, 280
Sight-singing from the Established Musical Notation, a System
of, based on the Principle of Tonic Relation, Sedley Taylor,
437

Pure Science, 38

Sound, a Lecture Experiment on, Reginald G. Durrant, 415
South America: Adventures amidst the Equatorial Forests and
Rivers of, Villiers Stuart, 317; Sporting Sketches in,
Admiral Kennedy, 390; Aberrant Fossil Ungulates of, 608
South Kensington, the Science Museum and Gallery of British
Art at, 348

South-West, Grasses of the, Dr. George Vasey, 390
Southwell (T.), Large Greenland Shark Stranded at Lynn, 546
Sowerby (William), Intermediate Forms of Azaleas, 519
Spanish Quatercentenary Exhibition of Discovery of America,
Projected, 64

Sparrows and Crocuses, B. McLachlan, F. R. S., 441
Spectrum Analysis: Dr. Müller on the Telluric Spectrum, 21;
Note on the Chromosphere Spectrum, Prof. C. A. Young, 28;
the Chromosphere Line Ängström 6676'9, 103; the Chromo-
sphere Line à 6676'9, Prof. C. A. Young, 198; New Method
of Determining Dispersion and Refraction in Ultra-Violet
Rays, Dr. Rubens, 48; Spectra of the Sun and Metals, F.
McClean, 159; Analysis of Spectrum of Sodium, Dr. G. J.
Stoney, F.R.S., 166; Stars having Peculiar Spectra, Prof.
Pickering, 210; a New Spectrometer, C. Féry, 239; Spec-
trum of Iron and the Periodic Law, John Parry, 253; Colour
and Spectrum of Free Gaseous Fluorine, M. Moissan, 260;
Observations of the Spectrum of Nova Aurigæ, 345; Dr.

Henry Crew, 569; J. Norman Lockyer, F. R.S., 429; E. W.
Maunder, 619; the Curves of Luminosity under very Feeble
Illumination, Prof. König, 432; the Lick Spectroscope, 473;
Researches on Samarium, Lecoq de Boisbaudran, 504;
Periodic Heat Maxima observed in Spectra from Flint and
Crown Glass and Rock-salt, M. Aymonnet, 504; the Aurora
Spectrum, Prof. Hale, 522; the Spark Spectra of Gallium,
Lecoq de Boisbaudran, 575; on the Line-Spectra of the
Elements, Prof. C. Runge, 607

Spence (M.), Supernumerary Rainbows observed in the Orkneys,
223

Spencer (J.), Physiography, Elementary Stage, 27
Spencer (Prof. W. Baldwin): on the Habits of Ceratodus, the
Lung Fish of Queensland, 425; on the Fresh-water and
Terrestrial Fauna of Tasmania, 425

Spermatozoa, the Behaviour of, towards Electric Currents, Dr.
Schweizer, 599

Sphere, Prof. J. S. Slater's Improved Armillary, 134
Spitta (Dr. E. J.), Law of Limiting Apertures, 186
Sponge Trade of the Bahama Islands, 20

Sponges, Fresh-water in the Buffalo Bay and Niagara Region,
Dr. Kellicott, 305

Sporting Sketches in South America, Admiral Kennedy, 390
Spot, the Red, on Jupiter, W. F. Denning, 272

Spring (Prof.), the Late Prof. Stas's "Silver" (the Results of
further Stöchiometrical Investigations), 497
Sprung (Dr.), Atmospheric Rings, 599
Squirrels in Winter, C. Fitzgerald, 136
Stage, Electricity on the, 259

Standards of Measure and Weight immured in the Houses of
Parliament, Examination of the, 543

Stanton (T. W.), the Stratigraphic Position of the Bear River
Formation, 450

Starling (Dr. E. H.): an Introduction to Human Physiology,
Augustus D. Waller, 340; a Text-book of Chemical Physio-
logy and Pathology, W. D. Halliburton, 51

Stars: Proper Motions of the Stars, W. H. S. Monck, 8; the
Motion of Stars in the Line of Sight, Prof. J. Norman
Lockyer, F.R.S., 117; Prof. H. C. Vogel, 280; Star
Groups, J. Ellard Gore, 52; on the Observation of North
Polar Stars in the Vertical of Polaris, Truman Saffard, 159;
Stars having Peculiar Spectra, Prof. Pickering, 210; New
Star in the Milky Way, Ralph Copeland, 325; Observations
of Nebula and Star-Clusters, M. Bigourdan, 352; the New
Star in Auriga, 344, 366; Thos. D. Anderson, 365; G. Rayet,
408; J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 429, 473; Herren Eugen
and Gothard, 473; S. W. Burnham, 473; H. C. Vogel, 498;
Astronomer-Royal of Scotland, 454, 527; Photographic
Magnitudes of Stars, 380; the Grouping of Stars in the
Southern Part of the Milky Way, H. C. Russell, F.R.S.,
423; Fuzziness of some Variable, Cuthbert G. Peek, 497;
the Relative Motion of 61 Cygni, Prof. A. Hall, 547
Stas (Prof.), Death of, 154

Stas's (the late Prof.) "Silver" (the Results of further Stöchio-
metrical Investigations), Prof. Spring, 497

Statesman's Year-book for the year 1892, J. Scott Keltie, 437
Statistics of Population of the Five Continents, E. Levasseur,
552

Statistics of the Production and Consumption of Milk in Great
Britain, R. Henry Rew, 614

Statistics of Surface and Population of European States, Émile
Levasseur, 528

Steam, Superheated, Lord Rayleigh, Sec. R. S., 375; J. Mac-
farlane Gray, 413, 486; Prof. James A. Cotterill, F.R.S.,
414; G. H. Bailey, 414; John Gamgee, 438
Steam-Engine, Thermodynamics of the, and other Heat-
Engines, Cecil H. Peabody, Prof. A. G. Greenhill,
F.R.S.. 172

June 2, 1892.

Stirling (James), Hydrology of the Mitta Mitta, 40
Stirling (Dr.), New Australian Animal (Notoryctes typhlops),
J. D. Ogilby, 135

Stockholm Natural History Museum, Prof. Svén Lovén's
Resignation of his Position as Senior Keeper in the, 613

Stokes (Sir G. G., F.R.S.): the Interactions occurring in
Flames, 430; on an Optical Proof of the Existence of Sus-
pended Matter in Flames, 133

Stokvis (Prof.) on Mutual Antagonism, 72

Stones for Building and Decoration, Geo. P. Merrill, 222
Stones, Precious, and Gems, their History, Sources, and
Characteristics, Edwin W. Streeter, 531

Stoney (Dr. G. Johnstone, F.R.S.): Analysis of Sodium
Spectrum, 166; proposed Standard Gauge, 598

Stonyhurst Drawings of Sun-spots and Faculæ, Rev. Walter
Sidgreaves, 261

Storm, Magnetic, of February 13-14, 1892, 493

Storms, Magnetic, Dr. M. A. Veeder, 557

Storms, Winter, of Northern India, Henry F. Blanford,
F.R.S., 490

Story of the Hills, Rev. H. N. Hutchinson, 364

Streeter (Edwin W.), Precious Stones and Gems, their History,
Sources, and Characteristics, 531

Strength, the Limpet's, J. Lawrence Hamilton, 487

Striated Surface under the Cromer Drift, William Sherwood,
511

Struthious Birds of Australasia, on the Origin of the, Prof.
Hutton, 425

Struts and Tie-rods laterally loaded, Prof. J. Perry, F.R.S., 192
Struve (H.), Two New Laws of Celestial Mechanics, 70
Stuart (Prof. T. P. Anderson): the Mechanism of the Closure of
the Larynx, 357; Exchange of Professorial Duties, Prof. E.
Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 557

Stuart (Villiers), Adventures amidst the Equatorial Forests and
Rivers of South America, 317

Submarine Eruption North-west of Pantelleria, October 1891,
on the Matter thrown up during the, General W. Butler,
Geo. H. Perry, 251; Abstract of Mr. A. Ricco's Account of
the, G. W. Butler, 584

Suffling (E. R.), How to Organize a Cruise on the Broads, 52
Sugar in Blood, Note on the Behaviour of, Dr. Vaughan Harley,
407

Sulphur, Decomposition of, Tested Electrolytically, Dr. Gross,
599

Sulphuric Acid, the Manufacture of, George Lunge, Ph.D., Prof.
T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 121
Sumatra, Java, &c., Fresh-water Fauna of, Prof. Max Weber,
408

Sumpitan and Bow in Indonesia, Use of the, C. M. Pleyte, 235
Sun the Temperature of the, M. H. Le Chatelier, 547; Sun
Pillar, Annie Ley, 484; Spectra of the Sun and Metals, F.
McClean, 159; Sun-spots and Air Temperature, 271; Stony-
hurst Drawings of Sun-spots and Faculæ, Rev. Walter Sid-
greaves, 261; Sun-spots of February, 446; Red Light after
Sunset, Dr. M. A. Veeder, 30

Sunday Lecture Society, 116

Sunflower Cultivation in Southern Russia, 568
Sunflower, Biology of the, A. Gordyaghin, 597
Superheated Steam, Lord Rayleigh, Sec. R.S., 375; J. Mac-
farlane Gray, 413, 486; Prof. James A. Cotterill, F.R.S., 414,
G. H. Bailey, 414; John Gamgee, 438
Supernumerary Rainbows observed in the Orkneys, Robt. H.
Scott, F.R.S., 223; M. Spence, 223

Surface Tension, a Lecture Experiment in, E. D. Fridlander,
463

Surgery: on the implanting of Large Pieces of Decalcified Bone
to fill up Losses of Substance of Skeleton, Le Dentu, 95
Surrey Hills, on, by a "Son of the Marshes," 5

Steel, Microscopic Structure of Hard, Behrens, 48

Steen (Herr), Influence of Total Solar Eclipse on Air-Pressure,
444

Stejneger (L.), Enormous American Lizard, 40
Stellar Aberration, Lord Rayleigh, Sec. R. S., 499
Stellar Photography, a Shutter for use in, J. Joly, 167

Stellar Spectra, Distribution of Energy in, Prof. Pickering, 159
Stellar Spectra, the Draper Catalogue of, A. Fowler, 426
Step (Edward), By Sea-shore, Wood, and Moorland, Peeps at
Nature, 28

Existence of, Sir G. G. Stokes, F. R.S., 133
Swan's Secret, a, Mrs. Jessie Godwin-Austen, 416
Swift (Dr. Lewis): some Apparently Variable Nebulæ, 261;
Variability of Nebulæ, 522; a New Comet Discovered by,
446; Swift's Comet, March 6, 548; Comet Swift, 1892, 569
Swinhoe (Colonel), Silk-producing Moths, 38

Sydney: Discoloration of Water in Port Jackson by Minute
Marine Organisms, 184

Sydney Ethnological Purchases for the Australian Museum,
E. P. Ramsay, 325; Fruit-growers' Conference at, 420
Sydney, Royal Society of New South Wales, 311

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1892

Sydney University, the Demonstrator of Chemistry at, 19
Syme (David), Topical Selection and Mimicry, 30

Symons (G. A.), Phenomenal Barometrical Depression
(November 11, 1891), 65

Tacchini (Prof.), State of Solar Activity, 137; Solar Observa-
tions, 352

Tait (Prof. P. G.): on the Virial Equation for Gases and
Vapours, 199; the Isothermals of Mixtures of Gases, 431;
the Relation between Kinetic Energy and Temperature in
Liquids, 455

Tannin, the Mangrove as a Source of, Dr. J. T. Rothrock, 546
Tarr (R. S.), the Permian of Texas, 310

Tasmania, on the Freshwater and Terrestrial Fauna of, Prof.
W. Baldwin Spencer, 425

Tate Gallery, the Science Museum and the, 385, 433

Taurus, the Eastern, and the Anti-Taurus, D. G. Hogarth, 138
Taylor (A. J.), the Ouse, 102

Taylor (J. Traill), Optics of Photography and Photographic
Lenses, 364

Taylor (Sedley), a System of Sight-singing from the Established
Musical Notation, based on the Principle of Tonic Relation,
437

Tea-Culture in New South Wales, W. T. Robertson, 260
Teaching, the Optical Lantern as an Aid in, C. H. Bothamley,
437

Teall (J. J. H., F.R.S.), the Plutonic Rocks of Garabal Hill
and Meall Breac, 360

Technical Education: the Speaker of the House of Commons
on, 19; Technical Education in Essex, 243, 613; in Scotland,
377; in London, 403; the New London County Council and,
566; Technical Education for Novelists, 487

Technology, Photography as a Branch of, Prof. R. Meldola,
F.R.S., 331

Tegetmeier (W. B.), Utilization of Homing Pigeons, 320
Telegraph, Heroes of the, J. Munro, 5

Telegraphic Connection with the Bahama Islands, 114
Telephone Installation at Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool, 184

Telescopic Objectives, A. Fowler, 204

Telluric Spectrum, Dr. Müller on the, 21
Tempel-Swift's Periodic Comet, 21
Tempel,-Swift Comet, 159

Temperature, Changefulness of, as an Element of Climate, 610
Temperature in Europe, Research on Extremes of, Dr.
Lachmann, 576

Temperature, Metals at High, Prof. W. C. Roberts-Austen,
F.R.S., 534

Temperature of the Sun, the, M. H. Le Chatelier, 547
Tenasserim River, Discovery of Coal on, 496

Tension, a Lecture Experiment in Surface, E. D. Fridlander,
463

Terne (Dr. B.), the Utilization of the By-products of the Coke
Industry, 157

Tertiary Silicified Woods of Eastern Arkansas, R. Ellsworth
Call, 119

Tesla (Nikola), Lectures on Alternate Currents of High Potential
and Frequency, 345

Theobald (F. V.), an Account of British Flies (Diptera), 173
Theory of Solutions, Prof. W. Ostwald, 293, 415; J. W.
Rodger, 342, 487

Thermodynamics: Thermodynamics of the Steam Engine and
other Heat Engines, Cecil H. Peabody, Prof. A. G. Green-
hill, F.R.S., 172; a Simple Heat Engine, Fred. J. Smith,
294; Elementary Thermodynamics, J. Parker, 314; the
Thermal Conductivities of Crystals and other Bad Conductors,
C. H. Lees, 382; Poincaré's Thermodynamics, Prof. H.
Poincaré, 245, 414, 439, 485, 532; Thermodynamical View
of Action of Light on Silver Chloride, H. W. Elder, 524
Thermometer, a Compensated Air-, H. L. Callendar, 212
Thermometers, the Change of Zero of, C. T. Heycock, 526
Thiselton-Dyer (W. T., F. R.S.): University of London, 329;
Award by Royal Society of New South Wales of Clarke
Memorial Medal to, 495

Thomas (R. Haig), a Plague of Small Frogs, 8
Thompson (Elizabeth), Science Fund, 91

Thompson (E. E.), the Prairie Larks and Cranes of Manitoba,
135

Thompson (J. O.), the Law of Elastic Lengthening, 311

Thompson (Prof. S. P., F.R.S.): Electro-Magnetism, Prof. A.
Gray, 73; Supplementary Colours, 452; Modes of Repre-
senting Electromotive Forces and Currents in Diagrams, 478

Thomson (D.), the Prolongation of the Gooseberry Season, 157
Thomson (Prof.), some Experiments on Electric Discharge, 526
Thomson (Prof. J. J., F. R.S.), Collection de Mémoires Relatifs
à la Physique, 361

Thomson (Principal J. L.), Olive-culture in Australia, 135
Thomson (J. P.), on Recent Explorations and Discoveries in
British New Guinea, 425

Thomson (Sir William, F.R.S.): Portrait of, 113; Peerage
conferred on, 233

Thorne (R. Thorne, F. R.S.), Diphtheria, its Natural History
and Prevention, 123

Thornycroft (J. I.), the Steadying of Vessels at Sea, 570
Thorpe (Prof. T. E., F.R.S.): Dr. George Lunge on the
Manufacture of Sulphuric Acid, 121; the Alkali Maker's
Handbook, by Dr. George Lunge and Dr. F. Hurter, 121;
Phosphorous Oxide, ii., 213; Frangulin, ii., 214; Obituary
Notice of Hermann Kopp, 441; Lecture Experiment to
illustrate Phenomena in Coal-Dust Explosion, 551

Thraen (Herr Dr.), Wolf's Comet, 1891 II., 548
Throwing-Sticks, Eskimo, Prof. O. T. Mason, 66; Agnes
Crane, 103

Thurston (Edward), on the Fall of Meteorites in Madras, 20
Thibet, Across, Gabriel Bonvalot, 269

Tibet Expedition, General Pevtsoff, 45

Tides of St. Malo Bay, the, M. Heurtault, 143

Tierra del Fuego, Mussel Poisoning in, M. Segers, 134
Tilden (W. A.), Limettin, 453

Tin Mining in Mergui, 496

Titchener (E. B.): Comparative Palatability, 53; Peculiar
Eyes, 177

Tittmann (O. H.), C. G. S. System of Units, 581

Tobacco, the Insect &c. Enemies of, Prof. Tozzetti, 325
Tokyo Botanical Magazine, 46

Tomb, Prehistoric, in Ohio, Discovery of Remarkable, 157

Tombs, Ancient, and Burial Mounds of Japan, Prof. Hitchcock,
381

Tomlinson (Herbert, F.R.S.), the Aneroid in Hypsometry, 440
Tonganoxie Meteorite, E. H. S. Bailey, 119

Topical Selection and Mimicry, David Syme, 30; Dr. Alfred
R. Wallace, 30

Topinard (Paul), the Transformation of the Animal Skull into
a Human Skull, 260

Topinard (Paul), L'Homme dans la Nature, 457

Topley (W.), Obituary Notice of Dr. T. Sterry Hunt, 400
Tornado in N. W. States of North America, 545

Torpid Cuckoo, A. Holte Macpherson, 416
Tortoise Enclosed in Ice, a, Frank Finn, 320

Tower of Babel and the Confusion of Tongues, the, Thos. G.
Pinches, 210

Town Fogs and their Effects, 53; Dr. W. J. Russell, F. R. S.,

Tozzetti (Prof. A. T.), the Insects &c. that Injure Tobacco,
325

Trajectories of Elongated Projectiles, Calculation of, Rev. F.
Bashforth, 473

Transcaucasie et la Péninsule d'Apchéron, la, Calouste S.
Gulbenkian, 52

Transit Circles, N. P. D.'s Observed with Greenwich and Wash-
ington, Prof. Newcomb, 548

Transit Observations, Personal Equations in, 617
Transvaal, Southern, Geology of the Gold-bearing Rocks of
the, Walcot Gibson, 598

Travaux de la Société des Naturalistes de St. Pétersbourg, 141
Travels of a Painter of Flowers, 602

Trees, Our, John Robinson, 603

Trigonometry, Elementary, Rev. R. H. Whitcombe and J. M.
Dyer, 174

Trigonometry: Levels, J. A. C. Oudemans, 240

Trigonometry, the Elements of Plane, R. Levett and C. Davison,
509

Trinity College, Dublin, Tercentenary Celebration of, 378
Tropical Sea-side Plants, W. Botting Hemsley, F. R.S., 3
Trouton (Fred. T.), some Experiments made with the View of
Ascertaining the Rate of Propagation of Induced Magnetism
in Iron, 42

Trow (A. H.), a Difficulty in Weismannism, 102, 175
Trowbridge (John), a Phasemeter, 622

True (F. W.), the Puma, 445

Tuberculosis, the Vaccination of the Dog against, Héricourt
and Richet, 576

Tudor Specimen of Eozoon, J. W. Gregory, 486

Turner (F.), the Acclimatization of the Avocado Pear in New
South Wales, 66

Turner (H. H.), Solar Disturbances of 1891, June 17, 404
Turner (Sir W.), the Lesser Rorqual Whale, 454

Tutton (A. E.): Iron Carbonyl from Water Gas, 36; Further
Researches upon Azoimide, NH, 127; Phosphorous Oxide,
ii., 214; Phosphorous Oxide, 446; the Properties of Amor-
phous Boron, 522

Tylor (Dr. E. B.): the Limits of Savage Religion, 71; the
Bow as Origin of Stringed Instruments, 184
Tyndall (John, F. R.S.), New Fragments, 508
Typological Museums, General Pitt-Rivers, 184
Tyrell (J. B.), Geology of Lake Winnipeg, 115

Ungulates of South America, Aberrant Fossil, 608
Umney (J. C.), the Aconite Alkaloids, ii., 525
United States: Weather Bureau of the, 86; Education in,
156; Production of Pig-Iron in, John Birkinbine, 208;
the Paper-making Industry in the, J. F. Hobart, 279; U.S.
Naval Observatory, Report of, 352; the Mountain Meteoro-
logical Stations of the United States, A. L. Rotch, 403;
the Study of Psychology as a Science in the United States,
E. W. Scripture, 568

Units, C.G.S. System of, O. H. Tittmann, 581; Prof. J. D.
Everett, F.R.S., 581

Universal Atlas, the, 52

Universities in Australia, Prof. Morris on, 426

Universities, Functions of, Prof. Geo. Fras. Fitzgerald, F.R.S.,
513

University College, London, Proposed Extension of Physical
and Engineering Departments, 348

University Colleges in Great Britain, Report of Committee on
Grants to, 544

University Extension Movement, Lord Cranbrook and the,
155

University, the Function of a, Prof. W. E. Ayrton, F.R.S.,
430

University Intelligence, 23, 45, 70, 92, 118, 139, 162, 286,
334, 356, 381, 428, 449, 549, 622,

University of London, W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.R. S., 392;
Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 413; Prof. W. F. R.
Weldon, F.R.S., 440

University, the Proposed Gresham, 323, 443, 517

University, Teaching, for London, Royal Commission to inves-
tigate the Question of a, 612

Upham (Warren), Fossils recently Discovered near Boston,
622

Uraninite, New Analyses of, W. F. Hillebrand, 119

Uranium in Swedish Anthracitic Minerals, Discovery of, Baron
Nordenskiöld, 209

Urinary Secretion of Nitrogen, Dr. Gumlich on the, 599
Urine in some Infectious Maladies, Ptomaines extracted from,
A. B. Griffiths, 72

Useless Studies, Value of, Prof. Geo. Fras. Fitzgerald, F. R.S.,
392

Utilization of Homing Pigeons, W. B. Tegetmeier, 320

Vacuum Tubes and Electric Oscillations, Prof.
Lodge, F.R.S., 366

Oliver J.

Valence of a Coloured Radiation, Hering, 115

Value of Useless Studies, Prof. Geo. Fras. Fitzgerald, F. R.S.,
392

Value, an Introduction to the Theory of, William Smart,
268

Varet (Raoul), Action of Metals on Salts Dissolved in Organic
Liquids, 360

Variability of Nebulæ, Dr. Lewis Swift, 522
Variable Nebulæ, Some Apparently, Lewis Swift, 261
Variable Stars, Fuzziness of Some, Cuthbert G. Peek, 497
Variables, Two New, in Cepheus, Paul S. Yendall, 570
Variation of Latitude, Dr. S. C. Chandler, 404, 589; Robert

June 2, 1892

B. Hayward, F.R.S., 465; Dr. B. A. Gould, 521; on the,
M. Faye, 570

Vasey (Dr. George), Grasses of the South-West, 390
Vaussenat (C. X.), Death and Obituary Notice of, 207
Vedalia cardinalis successfully Colonized at the Cape of Good
Hope, 615

Vedel (Lieut.), on the Polynesians, 615

Veeder (Dr. M. A.): Auroras at Lyons, N. Y., 7; Red Light
after Sunset, 30; Plan for Observations to Determine Local
Distribution and Altitude of, 234; Magnetic Storms, 557
Velocity, Molecular, Relation of Voltaic Electromotive Force to,
Dr. G. Gore, F. RS., 596

Venus, Rotation of, Herr Loschardt, 210

Verbeek (Dr. R. D. M.), Relics of the Hindu Period in Java,
88

Vereker (Hon. J. G. P.), the Resolution of Podura, 239
Verner (W.), Threatened Extermination of the Kentish Plover,
236

Vesuvius, Eruption of, 259

Vibrations, on Earth, Dr. Emil Oddone, 510

Victoria: Victoria Agricultural Department, Results of the
Travelling Dairy, A. Crawford, 39; Hand-book of the De-
structive Insects of Victoria, C. French, 246; Experimental
Perfume Farming in, 305; Viticulture for Victoria, F. de
Castella, 324

Vienna, Annales of the University Observatory in, 138
Vienna, a New Epidemic in, 349

Vilmorin (Philippe L. de), Les Fleurs à Paris; Culture et
Commerce, 510

Vincent (M.), Thermometer-Temperature and Skin-Tempe-
rature, 304

Violle (J.), Radiation of Incandescent Bodies and Optical
Measure of High Temperatures, 552

Virial Equation for Gases and Vapours, on the, Prof. P. G.
Tait, 199

Virial of a System of Hard Colliding Bodies, on the, Lord
Rayleigh, F.R.S., 80

Vision, Peculiar Eyes, James Shaw, 104

Viticulture: the Wines of the Medoc District, 279
Viticulture for Victoria, F. de Castella, 324

Vogel (Dr. E.), Praktisches Taschenbuch der Photographie, 51
Vogel (Prof. H. C.): Motion of Stars in the Line of Sight,
280; the New Star in Auriga, 498

Volcanoes: Projected Abandonment of Villages near Colima
(Mexico), in Consequence of Activity of Neighbouring Vol-
cano, 158; Volcanic Action in the British Isles, Sir Archi-
bald Geikie, F.R.S., 398; Volcanic Action in Eastern
Australia and Tasmania, T. W. E. David, 424; Eruption of
Vesuvius, 259; Discovery of Saltpetre and Soda in Kilima-
Njaro District, 379

Voltaic Electromotive Force, Relation of, to Molecular Velo-
city, Dr. G. Gore, F.R.S., 596

Vonberg (Prof. Ignace), 518

Waals's (Van der) Generalizations regarding "Corresponding
Temperatures, Pressures and Volumes, Prof. Sydney Young,
Waals's (Van der) Isothermal Equation, Prof. D. T. Korteweg
on, 152, 277

93

Wagner (Rudolf von), Manual of Chemical Technology,
386
Walker (Alfred O.), Destruction of Immature Sea-fish, 176
Walker (G. T.), Repulsion and Rotation produced by Alternat
ing Electric Currents, 213

Walker (J. J.), Ants' Nest Beetles, 351
Wallace (Dr. Alfred R.): Topical Selection and Mimicry, 30;
the Naturalist in La Plata, W. H. Hudson, 553

Waller (Augustus D.), an Introduction to Human Physiology,
Dr. E. H. Starling, 340

Ward (Prof. H. Marshall, F.R.S.): the Ginger-beer Plant, 190;
The Oak, a Popular Introduction to Forest Botany, 509
Warner Observatory, 422

Warning Colours, Frank E. Beddard, 78; Edward B. Poulton,
F.R.S., 174; W. L. Distant, 174

Washington Observations, 1886, 237
Washington Observations, 1887, 548

Washington Weather Bureau, Atlas issued by, 587

Washington, Wind-rush at, Prof. H. A. Hazen, 597

to Nature

1892

Weber (Prof. Max), Freshwater Fauna of Sumatra, Java, &c.,
408

Webster (Prof. Arthur G.), "W = Mg," 29

Weight, Examination of the Standards of Measure and, im-
mured in the Houses of Parliament, 543
Weinschenk (E.), Meteoric Iron, 69

Weismannism, a Difficulty in, Edward B. Poulton, F. R. S.,
52; Prof. Marcus Hartog, 102; A. H. Trow, 102, 175
Weiss (F. E.), Caoutchouc-containing Cells of Eucommia
ulmoides, 335

Weldon (W. F. R.), the Renal Organs of certain Decapod
Crustacea, 140

Weldon (Prof. W. F. R., F.R.S.), the University of London,

440

Wells (H. L.), a Series of Casium Trihalides, 310

Wells and Penfield (Messrs.), Remarkable Series of Compounds
of Halogen Salts of Caesium with Two or more Atoms of
Chlorine, Bromine, or Iodine, 325

Werigo's (Dr.) Experiments respecting Influence of Oxygen on
Elimination of Carbon Dioxide of Lungs, Prof. Zuntz, 576
Wernadsky (W.), the Sillimanite Group and the Part played by
Aluminium in the Silicates, 141

Wesendonck (Prof.), Gaseous Carbonic Acid not capable of
Generating Electricity by Mechanical Friction on Metal, 306
West India Islands, Zoology and Botany of the, 139

West Indies, Dr. J. T. Rothrock on the Flora &c. of the
Bahamas and Jamaica, 596

Westgate-on-Sea, Aurora Visible from, 613

Wethered (Edward), on the Microscopic Structure and Residues
Insoluble in Hydrochloric Acid in the Devonian Limestone of
South Devon, 597

Weyl (Dr. Th.), Animals rendered Immune to Anthrax, 312
Whale, a Steamer's Encounter with a, 88

Whale, the Lesser Rorqual, Sir W. Turner, 454
Wheat, Rust Fungus in, 615

Wheat in Ohio, the Average Yield of, geologically considered,

420

Whipple (G. M.). Magnetic Disturbance, 364

Whitaker's Almanack for 1892, 156

Whitcombe (Rev. R. H.), Elementary Trigonometry, 174

White (W. H., F.R.S.), the Influence of Shallow Water upon

the Trial Trip Speeds of Modern Vessels, 571

White (William), Darwinian Theory, 53
Whiteley (R. Lloyd), Chemical Calculations, 604
Whitney (W. Dwight), the Century Dictionary, 316

Whymper (Edward): how to Use the Aneroid Barometer, 339;

Travels among the Great Andes of the Equator, Prof. T. G.
Bonney, F.R.S., 561

Wiborgh's (Prof.) Air-Pyrometer, John Crum, 304

Wild (H.), the Magnetic Storms of February 13-14, 1892, 480
Wilkins (A.), Intelligence in Birds, 151

Wilks (W.), the Place of Horticulture in Technical Education,
38

Willey (Arthur), a new Genus of Synascidians from Japan, 450
Williams (Dr. C. Theodore), Value of Meteorological Instru-
ments in Selection of Health Resorts, 551

Williams (F. N.), the Genus Dianthus, 383

Williams (Prof. G. H.): a Geological Excursion in Maryland,
235; the part played in Growth of Geological Opinion by
Regions near great Universities, 519

Williams (J. Francon) and William Hughes, the Advanced
Class-Book of Modern Geography, 460

Willis (J. C.), the Method of Fertilization in Ixora, 455

Wilson (F. R. L.), Action of Dry Hydrochloric Acid Gas on
Dry Carbonates, 503

Wilson (Prof.), Experiment Illustrating Power of Palladium of
Occluding Hydrogen, 380

Winchester, Macro-Lepidoptera and Birds of, 115

Wines of the Medoc District, the, 279

Wing in Dinernis, Evidence of a, Henry O. Forbes, 257
Wind Direction, 149

Wind-rush at Washington, Prof. H. A. Hazen, 594
Winnecke's Comet, Dr. G. F. Haerdtl, 617

Winnipeg, Lake, Geology of, J. B. Tyrell, 115

Winter Storms of Northern India, Henry F. Blanford, F. R. S.,

490

Wislicenus (Herr Dr. Walter), on the Influence of Ring and
Disk Blinds in Micrometic Measurements, 137

Wissmann (Hermann von), My Second Journey through
Equatorial Africa, 507

Within an Hour of London Town, 557
Woeikof (Dr. A.), Cold Waves, 357

Wolf (Rodolf), Solar Activity in, 1891, 307
Wolf's Periodic Comet, 42; Dr. Berberich, 237
Wolf's Comet, 1891, 11; Herr Dr. Thraen, 548
Wolf's Numbers for 1891, 307

Wolstenholme (Prof. Joseph), Death of, 85
Wood (Sir H. Trueman), Light, 269
Woods, Furniture, D. Deeming, 459

Woodward (Mr. A. S.), Appointed Assistant Keeper of Depart-
ment of Geology at British Museum, 566

Woodward (M. F.), the Milk Dentition of Procavia (Hyrax)
capensis, 287; Teeth Development in the Marsupialia, 333
Worship, Dwarfs and Dwarf, Harold Crichton-Browne, 269
Worthington (A. M.), the Mechanical Stretching of Liquids,
358

Wray (Leonard, Jun.), the Ipoh Poison of the Malay Penin-
sula, 278

Wright (C. R. Alder, F.R.S.), on Certain Ternary Alloys, v.,
381

Wright (Prof. G. Frederick): the Theory of an Interglacial Sub-
mergence in England, 310; Cirques, 317
Wrightson (J.), Farm Crops, 247

Yahgan, the, P. Hyades and J. Deniker, 577

Yarrow (A. S.), on Balancing Marine Engines and the Vibration
of Vessels, 571

Year, the Origin of the, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 487
Year-book of Science, 1891, Prof. T. G. Bonney, F. R. S., 604
Yeast, Milk Ferment Identical with Kefyr, in use in Canada and
United States, C. L. Mix, 471

Yellow Butterflies, Pigment in, F. Gowland Hopkins, 197
Yendall (Paul S.), Two New Variables in Cepheus, 570
Yezo, the Fauna of, Dr. Adolf Fritz, 89

Young (Prof. C. A.): Note on the Chromosphere Spectrum, 28;
the Chromosphere Line à 6676'9, 198

Young (Prof. Sydney), Van der Waals's Generalizations regard-
ing "Corresponding " Temperatures, Pressures, and Volumes,

93

Younghusband (Capt.), Journeys in the Pamirs and Adjacent
Countries, 353

Zebra, on the Attitudes of the, during Sleep, and their Influence
on the Protective Value of its Stripes, 248
Zebra, Skin of Grevy's, brought from Somaliland, 598
Zebras, Notes on, S. B. Carlill, 526
Zeitschrift für Anorganische Chemie, 421
Zeitschrift für Pflanzenkrankheiten, 20
Zimbabwe Ruins, Finds at the Great, Theodore Bent, 551
Zodiacal Light, O. T. Sherman, 381

Zoology: Zoological Gardens, Additions to, 21, 41, 67, 89,
116, 137, 159, 186, 210, 236, 260, 280, 307, 325, 351, 380,
404, 422, 445, 472, 497, 521, 547, 569, 589, 616; the Death
of the Giraffe, 518; Zoological Society, 70, 164, 287,
383, 430, 503, 526, 597; Enormous American Lizard,
L. Stejneger, 40; Herr Lehmann on the Camel, 87;
Prof. Cossar Ewart on Scottish Zoology, 87; Zoological
Regions, G. A. Boulenger, 104; Dr. Stirling's New Aus-
tralian Animal (Notoryctes typhlops), J. D. Ogilby, 135;
Squirrels in Winter, C. Fitzgerald, 136; Zoology and Botany
of the West India Islands, 139; Text-book of Comparative