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Malan (E. de M.), Cats on the District Railway, 573
Malay Peninsula, Geography of, 460

Malta, Meteorological Observations at, 225
Mammalia, Prof. Flower (Encyc. Brit.), 53

Mammalia, Extinct, Evidence for Evolution in History of, Prof.
E. D. Cope, 227, 248

Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, 143, 191, 592;
Report of Free Libraries, 159

Mangrove as a Destructive Agent, Capt. W. J. L. Wharton,
R. N., 76

Mansion (P.), Determinants, 378
Marine Zoological Laboratories, 16

Marine Insects, A. W. Pearson, 184

Marine Engineering, Carl Busley, 426

Marine Station at Granton, Scottish Meteorological Society's,
460

Marine Station, Edinburgh, 483

Marshall's Anatomy for Artists, 30, 56

Marshall (Prof. H. D.), the Remarkable Sunsets, 310

Marshall (Stephen A.), Unconscious Bias in Walking, 311
Martin's (Joseph) Siberian Explorations, 319
Mascart and Joubert, Electricity and Magnetism, 74.
Massenat (Lieut.), Discovery of Roman City in Tunis by, 15
Masters (Dr. Maxwell), Obituary Notice of Dr. Engelmann, 599
Mathematical Society, 71, 190, 278, 399, 495, 566
Mathematical Tables, Galbraith and Haughton's Manual of, 282
Mathematical Zoology, a Problem in, Protection by Mimicry,
Capt. T. Blakiston and Thomas Alexander, 405
Mathematics, Annals of, 135

Mathematical and Physical Papers, Prof. Stokes', Prof. P. G.
Tait, 145

Maynard (T. R.), Circular Rainbow seen from a Hill-top, 357
Measurement of Time, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 65
Measures, Weights and, Report of Board of Trade, III
Measures, Metrical, More Convenient Equivalents for Converting
British into, G. J. Stoney, F.R.S., 278

Measuring the Aurora Borealis, Dr. Sophus Tromholt, 409
Measuring Heights, 526

Mechanical Engineers, Institution of, 38

Mechanics, Prof. Tait (Encyc. Brit.), 52

Mechanics, Applied, by Prof. Bovey, A. R. Willis, 122

Medicine, the History of, Dr. Payne (Encyc. Brit.), 51

Mediterranean and Atlantic, Relative Level of, Tillo and Bour-
dalou, 185

Meldola (R.), the Remarkable Sunsets, 224
Meldrum (R.), on the Java Eruption, 32

Memoria della Società Geografica Italiana, 159

Memoirs, Diffusion of Scientific, 261, 311; Prof. Silvanus P.
Thompson, 171; W. M. Hicks, 197; Prof. P. G. Tait, 197;
R. T. Glazebrook, 287, 335

Meudon Observatory, the, 64

Mental Evolution in Animals, F. J. Faraday, 335, 381; Geo. J.
Romanes, F. R.S., 404

Meridian, First French, that of Ferro, 44; Universal, 183
Meridian, Prime, Conference, International, 367, 413
Merrifield (Dr.), a Treatise on Navigation, 169, 237

Merrifield (C. W., F.R.S.), Death of, 244; Obituary Notice of,
270

Merrifield (Mary P.), Drs. Agardh and Rabenhorst on Alga,
340

Merv Oasis, Alikhanoff on, 585

Messina, Earthquake at, 272

Metallic Solutions, Reduction by means of Gases of, Dr. G.
Gore, F.R.S., 255

Metallic Surfaces, Reflection of Light from, Sir John Conroy,
398

Metals in Electrolytes, Relations of Heat to Voltaic and Thermo-
Electric Action of, Dr. Gore, F.R.S., 300
Metamorphism among the Devonian Rocks, 315
Metcalfe (A. T.) Vertebrate Remains in Triassic Strata, 303
Meteorology: Distribution of Rain-Guages, 64; an Indian
Weather Forecast, 77; Meteorology in Japan, 112; the Remark-
able Sunsets, 130; Ben Nevis Observatory, 134, 342; Danish
Meteorological Expedition, 134; Danish Godthaab Meteoro-
logical Expedition, 134; Hamburg Meteorological Society,
159; Meteorological Observations at Malta, 225; Swedish
Meteorological Expedition, 263; Chinese Meteorology, Dr.
Doberck, 271; the Recent Storm, 316; Lena Polar Meteoro-
logical Station, Dr. Bunge, 318, 389; Relation of Meteorology

to Health, 344; Meteorology in Sweden, 365; Establishment
of Weather Warnings on Spanish Coast, 365; Sentis Meteoro-
logical Observatory, 413; Extraordinary High Tide, 413;
Composite Portraiture adapted to the Reduction of Meteoro-
logical and other Similar Observations, G. M. Whipple, 420;
Pic du Midi, Pyrenees, Observatory, 431; Marine Station at
Granton, 460; German Meteorology, G. Hellmann, 523;
Meteorological Bibliography, G. J. Symons, F.R.S., 559;
Meteorological Observatory at Carpineto-Romano, 556;
Meteorological Society, see Royal

Meteors the Observation of, W. F. Denning, 6, 56; and
Whirlwind in Sweden, 15; J. M. Hayward on, 30; at
Hernösand, Sweden, 44 ; Donald Cameron, 56, 123, 287; Rev.
W. Besant Lowe, 56; T. W. Backhouse, 104; F. J. Mott, 104;
Wm. Wickham, 123; J. B. Oldham, 123; H. H. Higgins,
123; G. M. Whipple, 148; and Aurora at Alfta, 159; at
Frankfort-on-Maine, 226; seen at Fort William and Berwick-
on-Tweed, 272; E. Howarth, 336; Unusually Bright, in
Western Germany, 366; in Sweden, 414

Meteorite in Sweden, 437

Meteoric Dust, L. P. Muirhead, 494

Meteoric Stones, on the Transmission of Organic Germs through
Cosmical Space by, J. H. Stewart, 595

Metrical Measures, More Convenient Equivalents for Convert-
ing British into, G. J. Stoney, F.R.S., 278

Metzger (E.), the Krakatoa Eruption, 240; a Blue Sun, 252;
Cosmic Du t, 261; on Mining in Japan, 6c5

Mexico (New), Geological Survey of, H. M. Wilson, 272
Meyer, Dr., Jadeite, 15

Meyer (Prof. V.), Thiophen, 391

Micrococcus in Cropous Pneumonia, Dr. Friedländer, 144
Miers (H. A.), Barytes from Chirbury, 29, 124
Mildness of the Season, the, 236

Milne (Prof. John), Earthquakes and Buildings, 290; Catach-
thonic Observatory in Japan, 413; Earth Tremors, 456
Milne-Edwards (Prof. A.), the Talisman Expedition, 197
Mimicry, Protection by-a Problem in Mathematical Zoology,
Capt. T. Blakiston and Thomas Alexander, 405
Mineral Resources of the United States, 598
Mineralogical Society, 24, 191, 400

Minéralogie, Cours de, A. De Lapparent, 403
Mist, Circling to the Left in a, W. Larden, 262

Modern Languages of Africa, Sketch of, Robert Needham Cust,
Prof. A. H. Keane, 377

Möbius (Prof. K.), Christian Conrad Sprengel, 406

Moncel (Count Du), Death of, 387; Obituary Notice of,
412

Monk Fish, the, 348

Moncreiff (Lord), Past Hundred Years' History of Edinburgh
Royal Society, 368

Monte Video, Earthquakes in, 437

Montsouris Observatory, 437

Moon, a Green, 604; in Sweden, 366

Morgan, (C. Lloyd), Instinct, 370, 405; Geo. J. Romanes,
F.R.S., 379

Moritzburg Collection of Deers' Horns, the, 307
Morocco, Captain Crema's Journey to, 462

Morton (Mr.), Ceratodus forsteri, 16

Moseley (Prof. H. N., F.R.S.), Prof. Aug. Weismann on
Sexual Cells of Hydromedusæ, 114; Peripatus, 196
Motion of Projectiles, E. Ristori, 572

Mott (F. T.), Meteor, 120; Water in Australia, 311
Mouchez (Admiral), Proposed Removal of Paris Observatory,
374

Mountain Rainbows, Ice Volcanoes, A. P. Colman, 550
Movements of the Earth, the, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 65,

201

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Murray (J.) and A. Renard, Volcanic Ashes and Cosmic Dust,
585

Muscles (Voluntary) of Larynx and Jaws, Experimental Proof of
Prof. Munk's Theory of Cortical Area of, Dr. H. Krause,
168

Museum for Chester, Proposed, 88

Museums (Dresden), Reports of, 226

Music and Science, Dr. W. H. Stone, 198

Musica e una Scienza, La, Dr. Primo Crotti, 198

Mygale, Protopterus, and Scorpions, Prof. E. Ray Lankester,
54

Nachrichten of the Royal Society of Sciences and of the Uni-
versity of Göttingen, 277, 300, 375

Nagasaki, Catachthonic Observatory near, 413
Naïba Mountain near Bona, Subsidence of, 15

National Academy of Sciences (America), November Meeting of,
161

Natural History, Prof. Bickmore's Lectures to School Teachers
on, 184

Natural History for Working Men, Rev. W. Tuckwell, 344
Natural History Museum, South Kensington, 556
Natural Science at Cambridge Local Examinations, 63

Nature, Unity of, Duke of Argyll, 474, 524; Geo. J. Romanes,
F.R.S., 474, 548

Nautical Almanac, the, 89

Naval Architects, Institute of, 535, 563

Navigation, a Treatise on, Dr. Merrifield, 169, 237
Nebuchadnezzar, New Inscription of, E. Budge, 375
Nehring (Prof.), Cannibalism among Cave-Dwellers, 366
Nepenthes, Prof. Alex. Dickson, 254

Neva, M. Solokoff's Researches on Water of, 345

Neva Water, Bacterioscopic Measurements of, Dr. Pehl, 557
New Guinea, Mr. Wilfrid Powell's Expedition to, 318
New York, Sunshine Registered at, 111

New Zealand Botanic Garden Board, Report of, 200; Ravages
of Coccidae in, 200; Hop Culture in, 201; the Alps of, W. S.
Green, Prof. Bonney, F.R.S., 281

Nice Universal Exhibition, 44

Niger Expedition (Contemplated) by Dr. E. Riebeck, 161
Nilsson (Prof. Sven), Death of, 134; Obituary Notice of, Dr.
J. G. Jeffreys, F.R.S., 172

Noblemen during last Three Generations, Weight of British,
Fras. Galton, F. R.S., 266

Noe's Thermo-Electric Generators, Prof. von
Experiments with, 227

Waltenhofen's

Nordenskjöld's Greenland Expedition, 10, 39, 79; Theories in
connection with, Prof. Börgen on, 14; Nordenskjöld's Theory
as to Navigability of Kara Sea, 14; the Scientific Work of
the Vega Expedition, 455; Catalogue de la Bibliothèque
Japonaise de Nordenskjöld, Léon de Rosny, 594
North Pole, Proposed Italian Expedition to the, 462
Norway, Gray and Black Dust on Snow, 135

Norway Herring Fisheries, 344

Norwegian North Atlantic Expedition: Zoology, 25

Notiosaurus Dentatus, Sir Richard Owen, F.R.S., 327

Nottingham Free Library, Catalogue of Scientific Books in,
317

Novaya Zemlya, Grinevetsky's Explorations in. 346
Nuclein in Animal Body, Prof. Kossel, 352
Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano, 613

Ob in Pennatulida, the, J. T. Cunningham, 46
Observatories: Ben Nevis, 14; a Christmas Visit to, Prof. G.
Chrystal, 219; the Meudon, 64; the New Equatorial
at the Paris, 36; Proposed Removal of the Paris, 64. 185,
343, 374, 413, 436, 487: Endowment of the Paris,
226; Chicago, 69; International Polar Observatories, Prof.
Wild, 201; Ornithological, in Austro-Hungary, 246; the
Torrens, 345; Australian, 390; Sentis Meteorological, 413;
Pic du Midi, Pyrenees, 431; Montsouris, 437; Cincinnati,
558; Hong Kong, Dr. W. Doberck, 596; Palermo, 606
Oceanic Linguistic Affinities, Semitico, Prof. A. H. Keane, 172
Ojcow Bone Caves, Prof. Dr. F. Röler, 449
Oldham (J. B.), Meteors, 123

Omond (R. T.), the Remarkable Sunsets, 259
O'Neill's African Explorations, 346
Oosh, Earthquake at, 317

Ophidian Genus Simotes, G. A. Boulenger, 149

Optical Phenomena, J. L. Bozward, 102; Dr. H. Airy, A.
Tarn, Annie Ley, M. Carey-Hobson, 103

O'Reilly (Prof. J. P.), the Remarkable Sunsets, 180, 549;
Dust Atmosphere of China, 260

O'Reilly (M. G. K.), the Ringhals, 278

Ores of Leadville, and their Mode of Occurrence, Louis D.
Ricketts, 571

Organic Germs, on the Transmission of, through Cosmical
Space by Meteoric Stones, J. H. Stewart, 595
Orholm, the "Jættegryder" of, Herr Geelmuyden, 414
Ormerod (Eleanor A.), Guide to Methods of Insect Life, 308
Ornithological Congress at Vienna, 556, 582, 390
Ornithological Observatories in Austro-Hungary, 246
O'Sullivan (C.), Gums of the Arabin Group, 253
Ostrof Mednij, Exploration of, 605

Oswald's Studies of Chemical Affinity, 391

Otago University Museum, Notes from, Prof. T. J. Parker, 46,
189

"Otto" Gas Engine, Addition of Self-starting Apparatus to,
414

Oudh, Field and Garden Crops of the North-Western Provinces
and, J. F. Duthie, 547

Orambo Land, Exploration of, 585

Owen (Sir Richard, F.R.S.), Resignation of, 157; Sceparnodon
ramsayi, 165; Skull and Dentition of Trityiodon longævus,
165; an Extinct Australian Lizard (Notiosaurus dentatus),
327; Presentation of Address to, 487

Owen (Sara S.), Unconscious Bias in Walking, 336
Oxford Convocation, Vivisection in, 343

Oxford, Physiology in, E. Chapman, M. A., 76

Oxygen, &c., Liquefaction of, Wroblewski and Olszewski, 95
Ozone at Sea, C. L. Wragge, 336

Pacific, Anthropological Results of Dr. Finsch's Journey to the,
462

Paleolithic Implement found in Clerkenwell Road, 15

Palaeolithic Man-His Bead Ornaments, Worthington G. Smith,
83

| Palæontology, Chinese, Prof. R. K. Douglas, 551
Palermo, Observatory of, 606

Palestine Geological Expedition, Prof. Hull's, 245, 318; Return
of Prof. Hull's, 389; H. Chichester Hart, 384
Palinurus, Prof. T. J. Parker, 189

Pamir Expeditions, Russian, 319

Parallaxes of Southern Stars, Gil's, 273

Parcels, Scheme for discovering Clockwork in, W. de Fonvielle,

437

Paris: the Academy of Sciences, 24, 48, 72, 96, 120, 143, 167,
191, 231, 255, 279, 304, 351, 376, 423, 447, 470, 495, 543,
567, 592; Observatory, the New Equatorial at, 36; Proposed
Removal of the Observatory, 64, 185, 343, 374, 413, 436,
487; the Endowment of, 226; Edison Incandescent Lights
in Hôtel Dieu, 366; Exhibition of Objects collected by
Romanche Expedition, 366; Anthropological Society of,
414; Lectures at Geographical Society of, 436; Lighting of
Opera House by Electricity, 584

Parker (Prof. T. J.), on some Embryos of Callorhynchus
antarcticus, 46; Palinurus, 189

Partials, W. C. Jones, 6; C. O. Varley, 57
Patagonia, Gen. Roca's Expedition to, 451

Paul (H. M.), the Remarkable Sunsets, 284

Paulsen (Adam), on the Height of the Aurora Borealis, 337
Payer (Julius), Contradiction of Report of Death of, 135;
Pictures Illustrating Franklin Expedition, 317

Payne (Dr.), the History of Medici e (Encyc. Brit.), 51
Pearson (A. W.), Marine Insects, 184

Pehl (Dr.), Bacterioscopic Measurements of Neva Water, 557
Pennatulida, the Oban, J. T. Cunningham, 46
Pennington (Rooke), Cats at Victoria Station, 596
Penny Science Lectures at Victoria Coffee Hall, 389
Peripatus, on the Development of, Dr. von Kennel, 62; Prof.
H. N. Moseley, F. R.S., and A. Sedgwick, 196
Perpignan, Remarkable Sunset at, 295

Perrier's Map of Tunisia, 488

Perrotin, Close Double-Stars, 185

Perth Natural History Society, 225

Perulta (Raphael), Detonations of Java Eruptions heard at
Philippine Islands, 44

Petermann's Mittheilungen, 160, 584, 585

Petit (M.), Return of, from the Congo Region, 158

Petrological Notes on some North England Dykes, J. J. H.
Teall, 254

Pettersen (Dr. Karl), Sagvandite (a New Rock), 196
Phenomena Exhibited by Dusty Air in the Neighbourhood of
Strongly Illuminated Bodies, Profs. Oliver J. Lodge and J.
W. Clark, 417

Philippine Islands, Java Eruption Detonations heard in, 44
Phonograph to be used in African Exploration, 460
Photography of Colours, Greenwood Pim, 470

Phylloxera, C. S. Riley, 87; in Victoria, 245; French Com-
mission on, 389

Physical Notes, 489, 558

Physical Papers, Prof. Stokes' Mathematical and, Prof. P. G.
Tait, 145

Physical Society, 71, 142, 231, 350, 399, 446, 495, 541
Physiological Society, 472, 568

Physiology in Oxford, E. Chapman, M.A., 76

Pic du Midi, Studies made on Summit of, with a View to the
Establishment of a Permanent Astronomical Station, MM.
Thollon and Trépied, 7; Meteorological Observatory, 431
Pidgeon (D.), the Remarkable Sunsets, 195

Pim (Greenwood), Photography of Light and Dark Colours,
470

Pitman (Elizabeth M.), the Remarkable Sunsets, 153

Planet of Heterogeneous Density, on the Figure of Equilibrium
of a, Prof. G. H. Darwin, F.R.S., 230

Planets, Minor, 273

Plants (Useful), Christy's Notes on, 488
Plateau, Posthumous Memoirs by, 489

Plummer (W. E.), Solar Motion in Space, 246

Pneumonia (Croupous), Micrococcus in, Dr. Friedländer,
144

Pogge (Dr. Paul), Death of, 584

Poisons, Uterine Transmission of, Dr. Falk, 280
Poisons, A. W. Blyth, 451

Polar Observations, International, Prof. Wild, 201

Polar (Austrian) Expedition, Results of, Lieut. Wohlgemuth,
246

Polar Expedition in A.D. 1266, Icelandic, 416
Polar Congress at Sienna, 416

Polarisation, Galvanic, Explained according to Thermodynamic
Principles, Prof. von Helmholtz, 192

Polarisation of Light, Dr. Lecher's Experiments on, 559

Polarity and Neutrality, Magnetic, Prof. D. E. Hughes, F.R.S.,
468

Polish Bone Caves, Prof. Dr. F. Römer, 449

Pons' Comet, 45, 104, 112, 185, 273, 296, 367; T. W. Back-
house, 7, 104: Drawings of, 460

Porpitida and Velellidæ, the, Prof. Alex. Agassiz, 262
Porto Rico, Baron Eggers on, 129

Portraiture, Composite, Adapted to the Reduction of Meteoro-
logical and other Similar Observations, G. M. Whipple,

420

Portuguese Expedition to West Africa, 64, 245

Poulton (E. B.), Heredity in Cats, 20

Powell's (Mr. Wilfrid) Expedition to New Guinea, 318

Poynting (Prof. J. H.), Seismology, 489

Prague, Human Skull Discovered near, 557

Prairies of the Canadian North-West, on the Absence of Earth-

worms from the, Timothy E. Wilcox, 406

Prehistoric Remains of Britain, the Minor, Local Science
Societies and, 19

Prehistoric Burial Ground near Buhla, 460

Pringsheim's Jahrbücher für wissenschaftliche Botanik, 349

Prjevalsky's (Col.) Thibet Expedition, 416; Travels in Central

Asia, 593

Proceedings of Isis Natural History Society, Dresden, 23
Proceedings of Linnean Society of New South Wales, 47
Projectiles, on the Motion of, E. Ristori, 572

Protopterus, Mygale, and Scorpions, Prof. E. Ray Lankester,
54

Protozoa, Dr. H. G. Brown on, 5

Prussia, Geological Survey of, 270

Pulborough, Canoe unearthed at, 15
Pumice, Sea covered with, Capt. Barlow, 488

Quadrantids, the, Thos. W. Backhouse, 104
Quaritch's General Catalogue, 212
Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 141

Rabenhorst (Dr.), on Alge, Mary P. Merrifield, 340
Radiolaria, the, Prof. E. Haeckel, 274, 296
Radford (W.), Waking Impressions, 77

Rae (Dr. John, F.R.S.), Recent Low Temperatures in America,
287; Unconscious Bias in Walking, 311; Wind Sand Ripples,
357; Common Domestic Duck diving for Food, 428; Right-
sidedness, 477; Thread-Twisting, 550

Railroad Time, Standard, C. A. Schott, 70

Railway, Cats on the District, E. de M. Malan, 573
Rain and Dew, Salt, H. N. Draper, 77; F. Gillman, 172
Rain-band Spectroscopy Attacked Again, Prof. C. Piazzi Smyth,

525

Rainbow, Circular, J. A. Fleming, 310: J. M. White, 357
T. R. Maynard, 357; Dr. W. H. White, 428; G. K. Gilbert,
451
Rainbow, a Lunar, J. C. Kernahan, 105; C. H. Romanes,
172; M. F. Dunlop, 172; J. A. Fleming, 310; A. P.
Colman, 550

Rain-Guages, Distribution of, 64

Ravens in United States, 336; Ira Sayles, W. W. Bailey, 478
Rayleigh (Lord, F.R.S.), Suggestions for Facilitating the Use of
a Delicate Balance, 91; on the Measurement of Electric
Currents, 465; on the Electro-Chemical Equivalent of Silver,
565

Records, Prizes offered by Mr. Fras. Galton for Family, 244,
257; Dr. G. J. Romanes, F. R.S., 257

Red-Deer Horns, Sir J. Fayrer, F.R.S., James Inglis,
213

Redeterminations of Atomic Weights, 391

Redman (J. B.), Abnormal High Tides in Thames, 237
Reefs, the Origin of Coral, Surgeon Guppy, 214
Reflection of Light, W. J. Trentler, 104

Reflection of Light from Metallic Surfaces, Sir John Conroy,
398

Refracting Power of Solid Chemical Compounds, Kanonnikoff,
391

Refractive and Dispersive Power, a Fluid of Extraordinarily
High, Carl Rohrbach, 63

Regal's (Dr.) Explorations in Central Asia, 416
Reichardt's (Paul) African Explorations, 272

Reis (Philipp), Anniversary of Birth of, 295
Remarkable Sunsets, the, 132, 174, 195, 222, 251, 259, 308;
Edward Whymper, 200; Prof. O. N. Stoddard, 355; Prof.
C. Michie Smith, 381; Robt. J. Ellery, 549; Prof. J. P.
O'Reilly, 549; S. E. Bishop, 549, 573

Remsen's (Ira), Principles of Theoretical Chemistry, 283
Renard's Analysis of Krakatoa Volcanic Ashes, 134

Renard (A.) and J. Murray, Volcanic Ashes and Cosmic Dust,
585

Rendiconti del Real Istituto Lombardo, 300, 375, 443, 467,
495, 565, 613

Rendiconti dell' Accademia di Bologna, 349

Rendiconti of the Sessions of the Accademia delle Scienze di
Bologna, 422

Retina, Histogeny of the, Koganei, 235

Reusch (Dr.), Analysis of Krakatoa Volcanic Ash, 388

Revue d'Anthropologie, 22, 397, 467

Revue Internationale des Sciences Biologiques, 47, 375
Revue Positive, Stoppage of, 159

Reynier (E.), Maximum Cell as Standard of Electromotive
Force, 227; Single Electrolyte Batteries, 227

Reynolds (Prof. O., F.R.S.), General Theory of Thermo-

Dynamics, 112; Thomson's Motion of Vortex Rings, 193

Rhyncopetalus montanum, F. O. Bower, 230

Rhytina stelleri, Herr Steineger, 226: Alban Doran, 230
Richardson (Clifford), American Wheat, Prof. J. Wrightson,

173

Ricketts (Lewis D.), Ores of Leadville and their Mode of
Occurrence, 571

Riebeck (Dr. E.), Niger Expedition, 161, 417

Riess (Prof. P. J.), Death of, 44

Right-sidedness, Prof. J. LeConte, 452; H. T. Wharton, Dr.
John Rae, F.R.S., 477

Riley (C. V.), Phylloxera, 87

Ringhals, the, M. G. R. O'Reilly, 278

Rings, Fairy, Henry Evershed, 384

Rink (Dr. H.), Cosmic Dust, 148

Ripple Marks, Prof. G. H. Darwin, F.R.S., 162

Ripples, Wind Sand, Dr. John Rae, F.R.S., 357
Rio Negro, Zoology of the, 451

Ristori (E.), Motion of Projectiles, 572

Rivers, Russian, Tillo's Measurements of, 184

Rivista Scientifico Industriale, 95, 467, 165, 300, 443, 565, 614
Roca's (Gen.) Expedition to Patagonia, 451

Rogosinski Expedition to West Africa, 296

Rohrbach (Carl), on Method of Procuring a Fluid of Extraor-
dinarily High Refractive and Dispersive Power, 63
Roiti's Elementi di Fisica, vol. iv., 5

Romanche, Arrival of the, 64; Expedition, Exhibition of
objects collected by, 366

Romanes (C. H.), Lunar Rainbow, 172

Romanes (Dr. G. J., F.R.S.), Family Records, Francis Galton,
F.R.S., 257; Mental Evolution in Animals, 330, 336, 404,
428; Instinct, 428, 477; Lloyd Morgan on Instinct, 379;
the Remarkable Sunsets, 477; Unity of Nature, 548; the
Duke of Argyll's Unity of Nature, 474

Rome, Science in, Prof. A. H. Keane, 433
Römer (Prof. Dr. F.), Bone Caves of Ojcow, 449

Rook's Nest, Wild Duck laying in, J. H. Willmore, 573; J.
Cordeaux, 596

Root-Hairs of Flowering Plants, F. Schwarz, 488
Rorqual, Rudolphi's, Prof Flower, F.R.S., 104

Rosny (Léon de), Catalogue de la Bibliothèque Japonaise de
Nordenskjöld, 594

Rotation of the Earth, J. Norman Lockyer, F.R.S., 201
Rothamsted Grass Experiments, Prof. W. Fream, 81; an
American Rothamsted, Prof. W. Fream, 238; Analyses of
Ash of Grain grown at, Lawes and Gilbert, 445
Roumania, Earthquakes in, 244

Rowell (G. A.), the Remarkable Sunsets, 251
Rowland's Experiment demonstrating the Magnetic Action of
Electric Convection, Dr. E. Lecher, 558

Roy (Dr. C. S.), Splenic Fever in the Argentine Republic, 91
Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal, 387
Royal Institution, Lectures, 88, 183, 390, 582
Royal Meteorological Society, 142, 208, 302, 446, 541
Royal Microscopical Society, 541

Royal Society, 165, 190, 230, 277, 300, 325, 349, 375, 398,
422, 444, 467; Officers of, 43; Adjudication of Medals for
1883, 62; Prof. Huxley's Anniversary Address, 136; Com-
mittee on the Krakatoa Eruption, 365

Royal Society of New South Wales, 24

Royal Military Academy and Natural Science, 535

Royer (Mme. Clémence), Attraction et Gravitation d'après
Newton, 235

Rudolphi's Rorqual, Prof. Flower, F.R.S., 104
Ruskin's (Mr.) Bogies, Rev. Clement Ley, 353

Russell (Hon. F. A. R.), Unusual Cloud-Glow after Sunset,
55, 151, 196, 286

Russia: Science in, 273; Interesting Feature of the Geological
Structure of, Prof. Karpinsky, 461; Russian Academy of
Science, 88; Russian Expedition to West Africa, 296,
Russian Explorers on the Old Bed of the Amu Daria, 416;
Russian Pamir Expeditions, 319; Measurements of Russian
Rivers, Tillo, 184

Saccopharyngoid Fishes, Theo. Gill, 236

Sachs' (Dr.) Theory of the Relations between the Increase and
Segmentation of Cells in the Embryonal Parts of Plants,
Prof. Beketoff on, 461

Sagvandite (a New Rock), Dr. Karl Pettersen, 196

St. Barbe (C.), on the Green Moon, 604

St. David's, Volcanic Group of, Prof. J. G. Blake, 303
Salerno, Earthquake at, 88

Salomon (Dr.), Urine of Swine, 280

Salt Rain and Dew, H. N. Draper, 77; F. Gillman, 172
Salt Lake City, Probability of Destructive Earthquakes at, G.
K. Gilbert, 45

Salts, Hydrated, Electrolysis of, Gladstone and Tribe, 422
Salt-Water Fish-Types in Fresh Water, Prof. Theo. Gill, 573
Samaria, the Earth, Prof. Cleeve, 391

Samoa, Geo. Turner, LL.D., J. A. Farrer, 569
Sampson (W. G.), Brooks' Comet, 335

Sand Ripples, Wind, Dr. John Rae, F.R.S., 357

San Francisco, Earthquake Waves, 437; Earthquake at, 536
Saturn, the Mass of, Prof. Asaph Hall, 185

Saunders (Sir Sidney Smith), Death of, 581
Sayles (Ira), Ravens in United States, 478

Scenery of the British Islands, Origin of the, Arch. Geikie,
F.R.S., 347, 396, 419, 442

Sceparnodon ramsayi, Prof. Owen, 165
Schiffsmaschine, Die, Carl Busley, 426
Schlegel (Prof. Dr. H.), Death of, 343
Schmidt (Prof. Fr.), Hemiaspidæ, 461

Schopenhauer (Arthur), the World as Will and Idea, Prof.
Andrew Seth, 402

Schott (C. A.), Standard Railroad Time, 70

Schunck (E., F.R.S.), Note on the Constitution of Chlorophyll,
277

Schwalbe (Prof.), on Glacial Cavities, 168; Peculiar Ice-Forma-
tion in the Harz, 472

Schwarz (F.), Root-Hairs of Flowering Plants, 488
Schweinfurth (Dr.), the Flora of Ancient Egypt, 312

Schuver (Mr.), Murder of, 319

Science Societies and the Minor Prehistoric Remains of Britain,
19

Science and Engineering, Walter R. Browne, 57

Science, Natural, at Cambridge Local Examinations, 63
Science, Music and, Dr. W. H. Stone, 198

Science in Russia, 273

Science Teaching in Elementary Schools, W. L. Carpenter, 317
Science and the Public Service, 596

Scientific Memoirs, Diffusion of, 261, 311; Prof. Silvanus P.
Thompson, 171; Wm. Hicks, Prof. P. G. Tait, 196; R. T.
Glazebrook, 287, 335; Prof. P. G. Tait, 357

SCIENTIFIC WORTHIES: Sir Charles William Siemens, F.R.S.,
Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., 97

Scorpions, Mygale, and Protopterus, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, 54
Scotch Trawling-Grounds, Inspection by Prof. McIntosh of,

200

Scotch Coast, Torpedo taken off, 295

Scotch Scientific Societies, Proposed Federation of, 295, 367
Scotch Meteorological Society's Marine Station at Granton,
460

Sea, Ozone at, C. L. Wragge, 336

Sea-Fish, Habits of, Prof. McIntosh, 271
Season, the Mildness of the, 236

Sedgwick (A.), Peripatus, 196

Seely (Col. F. A.), an Inquiry into the Origin of Invention, 226
Seismological Society of Japan, 413, 584

Seismology, Prof. J. H. Poynting, 489

Semitico-Oceanic Linguistic Affinities, Prof. A. H. Keane, 172
Sennis Country, Junker's Travels in, 462
Sentis Meteorological Observatory, 413

Seth (Prof. Andrew), the World as Will and Idea, Arthur
Schopenhauer, 402

Severn (Arthur), the Remarkable Sunsets, 177
Sexes, Co-Education of the, in America, 158
Sexton (Samuel), Deafness in White Cats, 312

Shadow-Beams in the East after Sunset, Rev. Gerard Hopkins,
S.J., 55

Shadows, Electric, Prof. S. P. Thompson, 156; W. F. Smith,
260

Shaft-Sinking in Watery Ground, New Method of, William
Galloway, 9

Sheffield Free Libraries, 344

Ships, Stability of, Prof. Elgar, 559

Shot, Elongated, when Fired from Large Guns, on a Method of
Estimating the Steadiness of, Rev. F. Bashforth, 527

Siam, Carl Bock's, Prof. A. H. Keane, 258

Siberia: Earthquakes in, 272; Martin's Explorations, 319;
Traces of Glaciation in, Solokoff, 461

Siemens (Sir Charles William, F.R.S.), Death of, 87; Obituary
Notice of, Sir William Thomson, F.R.S., 97

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Skeleton, Human, found at Tilbury, Geological Position of, T.
V. Holmes, 440

Skull, Human, discovered near Prague, 557

Slavonia, Earthquakes in, 583

Smith (Prof. C. Michie), the Green Sun, 28, 54; Electricity in
India, 54; the Remarkable Sunsets, 381

Smith (J. Hamblin), Mental Evolution in Animals, 333

Smith (Lawrence), Death of, 63

Smith (Percy), Earthquake in England, 602

Smith (W. F.), Electric Shadows, 260

Smith (Worthington G.), Palæolithic Man: his Bead Orna-
ments, 83

Smithsonian Institution, the, 135

Smyrna, Cold in, 345; Earthquakes at, 15

Smyth (Prof. Piazzi), the Remarkable Sunsets, 149; Rain-band
Spectroscopy Attacked Again, 525

Snake-Bite, J. S. Gardiner, 6

Snake, the Ringhals, M. G. R. O'Reilly, 278

66

Snakes, Black, Suicide" of, E. F. Hardman, 452

Snow covered with Gray and Black Dust in Norway, 135
Snow, Volcanic Glassy Dust in Fresh, 367
Snowballs, Natural, Prof. Samuel Hart, 428

Snowdon, Weather on, T. Sington, 261

Soap-making, Alex. Watt, 425

Socotra, 575

Society of Arts, 43, 245

Société des Electriciens, 226

Sociology, Proposed Index to Study of, 437

Sohncke (Prof. L.), Probable Nature of the Internal Symmetry
of Crystals, 383

Solanums, Review of Tuber-bearing, J. G. Baker, 328

Solar Eclipse Expedition (U.S.), Report of, 582

Solar Eclipse of 1806, December 10, 415

Solar Heat, Measurements of, Dr. Frölich, 48

Solar Motion in Space, W. E. Plummer, 246

Solid Chemical Compounds, Refracting Power of, Kanonnikoff,
391

Solokoff's Researches on Water of Neva, 345; Traces of Glacia-
tion in Siberia, 461

Solomon Islands, Anthropological Notes in, Surgeon Guppy,

429

Solutions, Alexeyeff's Theory of, 391

Sorghum Culture, III

Sound, Velocity of, in Air, D. J. Blaikley, 148

Sound-Mills, Dvorak's, Prof. Silvanus P. Thompson, 363
Scundings, Atlantic, 158

Southern Comets, 606

Southern States, Education in, 200

Space, Solar Motion in, W. E. Plummer, 246

Spaces, Dust-Free, Dr. Oliver J. Lodge, 610

Spanish Coast, Establishment of System of Weather Warnings
on, 365

Spark Spectra, Researches, Prof. W. N. Hartley, 89
Spectroscopes (Diffraction), Prof. W. N. Hartley, 470
Spectroscopy, Rain-band, Attacked Again, Prof. C. Piazzi
Smyth, 525

Spectrum Analysis: Spectra, Spark, Researches on, Prof. W.
N. Hartley, 89; Spectrum of Beryllium, 90, 391: Experi-
ments on Neutral Points in Spectrum of Colour-Blind, Dr.
König, 168; Wave-lengths of A, a, and Lines in Infra-red
of Visible Spectrum, Capt. Abney, F.R.S., 190; Researches
on Infra-red Rays of the Spectrum, H. Becquerel, 227
Spiders, African, 408

Spinoza (Benedict de), Ethic, R. B. Haldane, 354
Spitzbergen, Winter Life at, 263

Splenic Fever in the Argentine Republic, Dr. Roy, 91

Spongilla fluviatilis, Contamination of Boston (U.S.A.) Water
Supply by, 391

Spontaneous Generation, Prize for Essay on, 413
Spottiswoode Memorial, 134, 158, 271

Sprengel (C. C.), Dr. H. A. Hagen, 29, 572; Dr. F. Müller,
334; Prof. K. Möbius, 406; on Fertilisation of Flowers,
Prof. W. W. Bailey, 171

Stability of Ships, Prof. Elgar, 559
Stalactite Cave in Ain (France), 583
Standards, Electrical, 465

Stanley's Congo Expedition, 15

Starch in Leaves, on the Formation of, Prof. H. Marshall Ward,
552

Stars: a New Star Catalogue, Hoek and Kam, 45; Variable,
135. 536; Close Double-Stars, Perrotin, 185; Mr. Burnham's
Double-Star Measures, 409; the Double-Star a Herculis,
536; Gill's Parallaxes of Southern Stars, 273; Vari-
able Star U Geminorum, 368; Glasgow Catalogue of Stars,
368

Starling at Christmas at Trondhjem, 184

Statistical Society, 44; Howard Medal of, III

Steam Condensation a Cause of Electrification, Is, S. Kalischer,
227

Stecker's (Dr.), Travels in Abyssinia, 347

Steel and Iron, W. A. Greenwood, 425

Steineger (Dr. L.), Rhytina stelleri, 226; Kamchatka Expedi-
tion, 416; Return of, 87; on Ostrof Mednij, 605
Stevens (Joseph), Deafness in White Cats, 237
Stevenson (Dr. Thos.), Blyth's Poisons, 451
Stewart (James, C.E.), Death of, 87

Stewart (J. H.), on the Transmission of Organic Germs through
Cosmical Space by Meteoric Stones, 595

Stoddard (Prof. O. Ñ.), Remarkable Sunsets, 355

Stokes' (Prof. G. G., F.R.S.) Mathematical and Physical Papers,
Prof. P. G. Tait, 145; on Light, Prof. P. G. Tait,
545

Stone (Prof. G. H.), the Remarkable Sunsets, 404

Stone (Dr. W. H.), Electrical Resistance of the Human Body, 21;
Music and Science, 198; the Ear a Barometer, 356; Third
Note on the Electrical Resistance of the Human Body, 528;
Voice, Song, and Speech, Lennox Browne, 570
Stoney (G. J., F. R.S.), More Convenient Equivalents for Con-
verting British into Metrical Measures, 278

Storm of January 26, 1884, 316; David Cunningham, 336;
G. Henry Kinahan, 358; Dr. R. Dixon, 384
Story-Maskelyne (T.), the Remarkable Sunsets, 285

Strachey (Gen., F.R.S.), the Krakatoa Air-Wave, 181;
Earthquakes and Air-Waves, 427

Strawberries, Natural History of, A. N. Duchesne, 215
Strongylus in Hares, Prof. Heiberg, 184

Styria, Earthquakes in, 159

Subsidence of Naiba Mountain near Bona, 15

Subsidence, Elevation and, Prof. Joseph LeConte, 212

Sudan, the Egyptian, Prof. A. H. Keane, 291

"Suicide" of Black Snakes, E. F. Hardman, 452

Sully (James), Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals,
333

Sun: the Green, 7; C. Michie Smith, 28; Warren De la Rue,
28; W. B. Beardmore, 28; C. Michie Smith, 54; in China,
436; Pale Sun in Brazil, 87; a Blue Sun, E. Metzger, 252;
Sun-Glows and Volcanic Eruptions in Iceland, Dr. Sophus
Tromholt, 420; Green Sunlight, Prof. W. Swan, 76; Dr. Hyde
Clarke, 76; Ericsson's Sun Motor, 217; Unusual Sunsets and
Sunrises in 1883, Rev. S. Haughton, F. R.S., 470; the
Remarkable Sunsets, 130, 174, 195, 222, 250, 259, 308, 366,
603, 604; Edward Whymper, 200; Prof. O. N. Stoddard,
355; Prof. C. Michie Smith, 381; Prof. John LeConte,
403; Prof. G. H. Stone, 404; E. L. Layard, 461; Prof. J.
W. Judd, F.R.S., 525; George F. Burder, 525; Robt. J.
Ellery, 549; S. E. Bishop, 549; Prof. J. P. O'Reilly, 549;
S. E. Bishop, 573; Hon. F. A. R. Russell, 55; Remarkable
Sunset at Perpignan, 295; Sunshine (Registered) at New York
and Greenwich, III

Sunda Straits Volcanic Eruption, Capt. Hon. F. C. P. Vereker,
375

Sunday Society, the, 366, 536

Survey, the Indian, 360

Sussex, Agriculture in, 575

Swan, (Prof. W.), Green Sunlight, 76

Sweden Meteor and Whirlwinds in, 15; Proposed Botanico-
Physiological Station in North, 225; Entomologist retained by
Swedish Government, 44; Meteors in, 344, 414; Meteorite
in, 437; Meteorological Expedition of, 263; Meteorology in,
365; Green Moon in, 366; Swedish Vanadis Expedition,
185

Swine, Urine of, Dr. Salmon, 280

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