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Memory, Diseases of, R. Ribot, Dr. G. J. Romanes, 169
Mendeléeff (Prof.), "Principles of Chemistry," 113
Mensuration, Useful Rules and Tables, W. J. M. Rankine,
F.R.S., 431, 483

Mercury, Electric Resistance of, R. Lenz, 182

Mercury, Pressure of Saturating Vapour of, Herr Hertz, 183
Merian (Prof. Peter), Death of, 372

Meridian, Universal, 247, 516

Merrifield (Mary P.), Rabenhorst's "Kryptogamen-Flora von
Deutschland, Oesterreich, und der Schweiz," 385
Metalliferous Lodes, Origin of, Prof. Sandberger, 90
Metals, Magnetisation of, M. Berson, 183

Metamorphic Rocks of Ross and Inverness, Henry Hicks, 474
Metamorphic Origin of Granite-Prehistoric "Giants," Duke
of Argyll, 578

Metamorphism of Rocks, Recent Researches in, Dr. A. Geikie,
F.R.S., 121

Meteorite: Fall of, at Iserlohn, 423; near Brescia, 469; the
Alfianello, 511

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Meteorology: the Observatory on Ben Nevis, 18, 39, 175, 399,
411, 487; Meteorology of the Malay Archipelago, 79; Meteo-
rological Society, 95, 234, 307, 452, 570, 619; Proposed
Exhibition of Meteorological Instruments, 373; Congress of
Meteorologists, 539; Meteorological Observations at Mouth
of Lena, Yurgens, 423; Meteorological Society of France,
497; Elementary Meteorology, R. H. Scott, F.R.S., 575
Meteors the November, 43; W. L. Harnett on a, 103; an
Extraordinary, B. R. Branfill, 149; Meteoric Auroral Pheno-
menon of November 17, 1882, 173; Remarks on and Ob.
servations of the, Dr. H. J. H. Groneman, 296; Rev-
Stephen H. Saxby, 338; H. Dennis Taylor, 365; T. W.
Backhouse, 412; A. Batson, 412; H. D. Taylor, 434; Great
Meteor in Sweden, 423; a Meteor, R. W. S. Griffith, 434 ;
the Large Meteor of March 2, 1883, W. F. Denning, 461;
Meteors, Thos. Masheder, 483; Henry Cecil, 483; Meteor,
E. Brown, 508; in Sweden, 517; a Blue, Consul E. L.
Layard, 531; at Carlsruhe, 540; Instructions for Observing,
615; Number of, observed at Prossnitz, 617
"Mexico to-day," T. U. Brocklehurst, 503

Meyer (Dr. A. B.), Stockholm Ethnographical Exhibition, 371
Micrographic Dictionary," J. W. Griffith and A. Henfrey,
160, 603

Microphone, the, 588

Microscope, a Search for "Atlantis" with the, Dr. Arch. Geikie,
F.R.S., 25

66

'Microscope, the," Rev. W. Houghton, 173

Middlemiss (C. S.), Hovering of Birds, 337

Midland Boulders, Rev. W. Tuckwell on the, 346

Mikluho-Maclay (Baron) on New Guinea, 137, 184, 371
Milan, Intemperance in, Prof. Verga on, 347

Millar (W. J.): the Comet, 29; Rankine's "Rules and Tables,"
483

Milne (Mr.), Proposed Study of Earthquakes in Japan, 463
Mimicry in Moths : Duke of Argyll, 125; Comm. D. Stewart,
314

Mimicry, Difficult Cases of: Alf. R. Wallace, 481; R. Meldola,
481; Dr. P. H. Stokoe, 508; H. J. Morgan, 531
Minchin (Prof. G. M.), Kinematics, 239
Mineralogical Society, 24, 451

Minor Planets, 148

Mint, Japanese, Report for 1882, 323

Mitchell Library, Glasgow, 615

"Mittheilungen der deutschen Gesellschaft," of Yokohama, 41
Mollusks, Edible, Acclimatisation of, Dr. J. G. Jeffreys, F.R.S.,
511

Montgolfier Anniversary, 90, 517

Monuments, Ancient, Worthington G. Smith, 102

Moons, Mock, F. T. Mott, 606

Morgan (Augustus de), Memoir of, R. Tucker, 217

Morgan (C. L.), Suicide of Scorpions, 313, 530
Morgan (H. J.), Mimicry, 531

"Morphologisches Jahrbuch," 94, 473

Morphology Human, vol. i., H. A. Reeves, 124

Morris, New Method of Producing Aluminium, 183

Morris (Chas.), the Matter of Space, 349

Morse, Memorial in Rome, 445

Moseley (Prof. H. N., F.R.S.): Von Graff's Monograph on
the Turbellarians, 227; Incubation of Ostrich, 507
Moths, Mimicry in: Duke of Argyll, 125; Commander Duncan
Stewart, 314

Motion, Optical Illusions of, Dr. Bowditch, 183

Motion, Laws of, Prof. P. G. Tait, 283

Mott (F. T.): the Sea Serpent, 293; Mock Moons, 606
Moule (W. A.) and H. Newell Martin, Handbook of Verte-
brate Dissection, 335

Mouse-Mill Dynamo (Thomson's), J. T. Bottomley, 78

Mudballs, Formation of, Prof. G. H. Darwin, F.R.S., 507
Muirhead (Dr. H.), Aurora of Nov. 17, 1882, 315

Müller (Dr. Fritz): Animal Intelligence, 240; Two Kinds of
Stamens with Different Functions in the same Flower, 364
Müller (Dr. Hermann), Two Kinds of Stamens with Different
Functions in the same Flower, 30

Mundella (A. J., M.P.), on Education, 276

Munro (Dr.), "Ancient Scottish Lake Dwellings," by Sir John
Lubbock, M.P., F.R.S., 145

Munro (J.), Swan Lamp Spectrum and Aurora, 173
Murcia, Earthquake at, 277

Murphy (J. J.): Complementary Colours, 8; Pollution of the
Atmosphere, 241; Aurora, 434

Museum, New Natural History, 54
Museum, Warwick, 539

Muybridge's Zoetrope Pictures of Animals in Motion, 42; New
Work on Motion in Man and Animals, 539
Myxinoids, the Skeleton of, Prof. W. K. Parkes, F.R.S., 330
Nachtigal (Dr. G.), "Sahara und Sudan," A. H. Keane, 408
Naphtha Wells at Ferghana, 445

Naples, Zoological Station in, J. T. Cunningham, 453
Napoli on Electricity as a Motive Power for Balloons, 517
Nasal Bones in Man and the Ape, Projection of, J. Park
Harrison, 266, 294

Natural History Museum, The New, 54; Removal of Collec-
tions, 538

"Natural History, Another Book of Scraps principally relating
to," Chas. Murray Adamson, 480

"Natural" Experiment in Complementary Colours, Chas. T.
Whitmell, 266

Natural Selection and Natural Theology, Prof. Asa Gray, 291,
529; Dr. Geo. J. Romanes, F. R.S., 362, 528; J. B. Hannay,
F.R.S., 364

Natural Science in Civil Service Examinations, 321

Navy, The British, Sir Thomas Brassey, 549

"Nearctic as one of the Primary Zoological Regions, on the
Value of the, Alfred R. Wallace, 482; Prof. Angelo Heil-
prin, 606

Nebula, Meridian Observation of, 324; New, 400, 446
Nervous System, Influence of, on the Regulation of Tempera-
ture in Warm-blooded Animals, 469

"Neurologie, Lehrbuch der," Dr. Schwalbe, 196

Newall (H. Frank), Internal Reflections in the Eye, 376
Newcastle-upon-Tyne Free Library, 615

Newcomb (Prof.), "Popular Astronomy," 373

New Guinea, Dr. Otto Finsch's Expedition to, 43; Baron
Mikluho-Maclay on, 137, 184

New South Wales, Linnean Society of, 215

New Zealand: Earthworm in, 91; Pott's "Out in the Open,"
172; Astronomy in, 276; Catalogues of New Zealand Diptera,
Orthoptera, and Hymenoptera, F. W. Hutton, 399
"Niagara and other Famous Cataracts," G. W. Holley, 146
Niagara Falls, Complementary Colours at, H. G. Madan, 174
Niceville (L. de) and Major Marshall, Butterflies of India,
Burmah, and Ceylon, 50

Nicols (Arthur), Zoological Notes on the Structure, Affinities,
Habits, and Mental Faculties of Wild and Domestic Animals,
Dr. Geo, J. Romanes, F.R.S., 333

Niger W. A. Forbes's Zoological Expedition up the, 14; Col.
Desbordes on Banks of, 424

Nilson, Thorium, 184

"Nomenclator Zoologicus," Sam. H. Scudder, 28

Nordenskjöld (Baron): Discovery of North-East Passage, 422;
his Proposed Greenland Expedition, 446, 496

Nordland, "Naturen" on the Old Silver Mines of, 347

"Normal Element" of Electromotive Force of Galvanic Com-
bination, Kittler, 325

Norske nord-hass-expedition, 1876-78, Herman Friele, Dr. J.
Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., 457

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North-East Passage, Discovery of, Baron Nordenskjöld, 422
Norway Leprosy in, 423; Dust Showers, 496; Norwegian
Geodetical Operations, 224, 341; Norwegian Science Grants,
444

Nouveaux Mémoires de la Société Helvetique des Sciences
Naturelles, 282

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Observatories: Meteorological Observatory on Ben Nevis, 18, 39,
175, 399, 411, 487; Brussels, 445; Melbourne, 497
O'Donovan (Edmond), "Travels and Adventures East of the
Caspian," Prof. A. H. Keane, 359

Olsta, Remarkable Mirage seen at, 616
Ommanney (Admiral), Aurora of Nov. 17, 139
Optical Illusions of Motion, Dr. Bowditch, 183
Optics, Physical, R. T. Glazebrook, F.R.S., 361

Opuntia Ficus-Indica, Abnormal Fruit of, Dr. A. Ernst, 77;
Dr. M. T. Masters, 126

Ordnance Survey of Scotland, Completion of, 92
O'Reilly (Prof.), the Magnetic Storm and Aurora, 87
Orientalists, Congress of, 565

Ormerod (Miss E. A.), Diagrams of Insects injurious to Field
Crops," 146

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Oyster Fisheries of Denmark, Decline of, 346
Oyster Industry of the United States, 39

Paleolithic Implements of North-East London, Worthington
G. Smith, 270

Palæolithic River Gravels: C. Evans, 8; William White, 53;
T. K. Callard, 54; Worthington G. Smith, 102
Paleontology, Carboniferous Vertebrate, Notice of some Dis-
coveries recently made in, T. Stock, 22

Paleozoic Strata, Invertebrate Casts versus Algæ in, 46
Palestine, Physical History of, Prof. Hull, F.K.S., 520
Palmieri (Prof. Marino), Death of, 41

Panama, Earthquake at, 248

Papuan Ornithology, Tommaso Salvadori, 577
Parallax, Stellar, 210

Paris: Academy of Sciences, 24, 48, 72, 95, 119, 144, 168, 192,
229, 235, 260, 283, 308, 332, 356, 380, 404, 428, 475, 548,
572, 596, 620; Annual Meeting of, 538; Disposal of the
Sewage of Paris, 133; Second Inundation at, 247; Compte
Kendus of the Geographical Society, 401; Bulletin of, 424;
Electric Lighting in, 516

Parker (Rev. Dr. G. W.), Umdhlebi Tree of Zululand, 7

Parker (W. K., F.R.S.), The Skeleton of Marsipobranch
Fishes, 330

Parkes Museum, First General Meeting, 19

Parrakeet, The Uvæan, 417

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Photographing with the Electric Light, Priority in, 276
Photography, Astronomical, Edward C. Pickering, 556
Photometer, Wedge and Diaphragm, 201

Photometric Measurements of Sun, Moon, Cloudy Sky, and
Electric and other Artificial Lights, Sir William Thou son, 277
Phylloxera Destruction, Commission of the French Academy, 89
Phylloxera in Chambery, 133

Physical Notes, 324

66

Physical Optics," R. T. Glazebrook, F.R.S., 361
Physical Society, 95, 143, 215, 354, 427, 452, 500

Physical and Chemical Properties of Simple and Compound

66

Bodies, Relation between, De Heen, 422

Physics of the Earth's Crust," Rev. O. Fisher, 76
"Physics in Pictures," &c., 551

Physics in Russia during the last Ten Years, N. Hesehus, 567
Physiological Discovery, McKendrick Lectures on, 496
Pickering (Edward C.), Astronomical Photography, 556
Picou (R. W.), "Manuel d'Electronomie Industrielle," 146
Pictet (Raoul), his "Rapid Vessel," 398

Pidgeon (D.), Intelligence in Animals, 366
Pile-dwellings, Bobenhausen, 160

Piltschikoff, Arrangement for Measuring the Refractive Index
of Liquids, 325

Pitt-Rivers Collection, the, 346, 461.

Planet, Inter-Mercurial, A. F. Goddard, 148
Planets, Minor, 248; No. 228, 518

Planté and Faure Accumulators, Chemistry of the, Dr. J. H.
Gladstone, F.R.S., and Dr. A. Tribe, F.R.S., 583
Plants, Influence of "Environment on, W. T. Thiselton Dyer,
F.R.S., 82; Howard Fox, 315

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Plants, Formic and Acetic Acid in, 91

Plants, Cultivated, Origin of, A. de Candolle, 429; Vilmorin
Andrieux, 429

Pogge (Dr.), German African Expedition, 92
Poggendorff's "Fall Machine," 300

Polakoff's Explorations, 424

Polar Exploration, Swedish and Dutch Expeditions, 299
Pollock (E.), Aurora of Nov. 17, 141

Pollution of Rivers, &c., German Society for Prevention of, 89
Pollution of the Atmosphere, H. A. Phillips, 127
Porritt's Yorkshire List of Lepidoptera, 540

Porro (Francis), Professor Schiaparelli on the Great Comet
1882 6, 533

Port (Dr. Arnold Dodel-), "Atlas der Physiologischen Botanik,"
617

Post-Tertiary, a Possible Cause of the Extinction of the Bones of
the, S. Garman, 313

Potato Disease, A. S. Wilson, 523.

Potts (T. H.), "Out in the Open," 172

Praxinoscope, Reynaud's New Projection, 60

Preece (W. H., F.R.S.), the Progress of Telegraphy, 390;
"Effects of Temperature on Electromotive Force and Resist-
ance of Batteries," 426

Prehistoric Animals, Remains of, discovered at Andernach, 445
Prehistoric “Giants"—Metamorphic Origin of Granite, Duke of
Argyll, 578

Prejevalsky (Colonel), Exploration of Central Asia, 133
Preston (S. Tolver), "Ether and its Functions," 579
Priestley, Lavoisier, and the Discovery of Oxygen, G. F. Rod-
well, 8, 100; C. Tomlinson, F.R.S., 53, 147
Primitive Man, Professor Owen on, Grant Allen, 31
Primogeniture, the Hypothesis of Accelerated Development by,
and its Place in the Theory of Evolution, Prof. A. A. Hubrecht,
279, 301

Prince (E. E.), Threatened Extinction of the Elephant, 509
Princeton School of Science, Longitude of, 248
Princeton Scientific Expedition (No. 3), 323
Pringsheim (Dr. N.), "Jahrbücher

Botanik," Prof. W. R. McNab, 502

Prisms, Direct-vision, 182

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Projection Praxinoscope, Reynaud's New, 60
Prossnitz, Number of Meteors observed at, 617
Putnam (Prof. F. W.), on American Antiquities, 277

Quain's Elements of Anatomy, 196

Quarterly Journal of Microsco pical Science, 47, 353
Quiberon, Discovery of Dolmen at, 540

Rabenho st's "Kryptogamen-Flora von Deutschland, Oester-
reich, und der Schweiz," Mary P. Merrifield, 385

Rabies, New Facts concerning, 192

Radiation, Terrestrial, Prof. Tyndall's Observations, Dr. A.
Woeikof, 460

Radiometer, Prof. Ravelli on Educational Uses of, 444

Rae (Dr. J., F.R.S.): Hovering of Birds, 336; Intelligence in
Animals, 366; the Sea Serpent, 366; British Circumpolar
Expedition, 508

Railway Geology-a Hint, 8

Railways, Electric, 338; Prof. W. E. Ayrton, 255
Rainfall, British, G. J. Symons, F.R.S., 149

Rains, Heavy, in France and Algeria, 229

Rankine (W. J. M.), Useful Rules and Tables Relating to
Mensuration, 431; W. J. Miller, 483

Ransome (Arthur), Fertilisation of the Speedwell, 149, 223
Rapid Vessel," Pictet's, 398

Rattlesnake, Scream of Young Burrowing Owl like Warning of,
S. Garman, 174

Ratzel (Dr. F.), Anthropo-Geographie, 125

Ravelli (Prof.), Educational Uses of Radiometer, 444

Rayleigh (Lord, F, R.S.): the Soaring of Birds, 534; Distribu-
tion of Energy in the Spectrum, 559

Rays, Ultra-Violet, Absorption of, by various Substances, Pro-
fessors Liveing and Dewar, 521

Reaction, Electric, Prof. Melde, 183

Reale Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere, 282, 354, 473, 521
Redman (J. B.), River Thames Abnormal High Tides, 6
Reeve and Co. (L.), "Lepidoptera of Ceylon," 150
Reeves (H. A.), Human Morphology, vol. i., 124

"Réforme" Telegraphic Communication with London, 469

Refractive Index of Liquids, Arrangement for Measuring, Pilt-
schikoff, 325

Regel (Dr. L. E.), Central Asian Exploration, 446
Rein (Dr. J. J.), Aino Ethnology, 365

Reinhardt (Prof. J. R.), Death of, 41, 61

Rendiconto dell' Accademia delle Scienze di Bologna, 189

Riviera, Unprecedented Cold in the-Absence of Sunspots, C.
J. B. Williams, 551

Revue Internationale des Sciences, 426

Revue Internationale des Sciences Biologiques, 189

Reymond (Prof. E. du Bois), Darwin and Copernicus, 557
Reynaud's New Projection Praxinoscope, 60
Rheolyzer, Wartmann's, E. von Fleische, 127
Rhone Glacier Studies, Prof. Forel on Recent, 183
Rhytina Stelleri, Crania of, 347

Ribot's Diseases of Memory, Dr. G. J. Romanes, F.R. S., 169
Rigidity of the Earth, Numerical Estimate of the, G. H.
Darwin, F.R.S., 22

Riley (Dr. C. S.), Hibernations of Aletia xylina in United
States, 214

Rip van Winkle, a Modern, Saltburne, 127

Ristori (E.), Orbit of Comet 1882 b, 388

River Gravels, Palæolithic, C. Evans, 8

Rivista Scientifico-Industriale e Giornale del Naturalista, 94,
282, 521

Robert's Tide Tables, 230

Rowland (Prof.), Concave Gratings for giving a Diffraction
Spectrum, 95

Royal Asiatic Society (North China Branch), Journal of, 161
Royal Commissioners for Technical Education, visit to Birming-
ham, 469

Royal Geographical Society, 323

Royal Horticultural Society, 119, 523, 570

Royal Institution, Lecture Arrangements, 112, 495

Royal Society, 118, 143, 189, 215, 234, 257, 330, 354, 376,
426, 450, 473, 499, 521, 568, 618; Names Nominated for the
Council, 40; Award of Medals, 61; Address of the President,
134, 162; New Fellows, 615

"Rules and Tables," Rankine's, 431; W. J. Millar, 483
Russell, H. C., the Comet 1882 b, 56

Russia, Popular Medicine in, Dr. Slunin, 62; Forest Fires in,
113; Russian Chemical and Physical Society, 444; Russian
Geographical Society, 424; Glacial Formations of, 497;
Physics in, during the last ten years, N. Hesehus, 567
Russow (E.), on Sieve-Tubes, 366

Rye, E. C., "The Zoological Record" for 1881, 310

Sabine's New Wedge and Diaphragm Photometer, 201

Sachs (Julius), "Text-Book of Botany, Morphological and
Physiological," Prof. E. P. Wright, 263

Safety Lamp, Prize offered for New, 496

Sagiura (Shigetaké), on the Isomerism of Albuminous Bodies,
103

"Sahara und Sudan," by Dr. G. Nachtigal, Prof. A. H.
Keane, 408

Saharunpur Botanical Gardens, Report, 588
St. Petersburg Society of Gardening, 19
Salez, Discovery of Bronze Hatchet at, 540
Salmon and Herring Fisheries, 442

Salvadori (Tommas), "Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle
Molluche," 577

Sampson (Commander), the Comet 1882 b, 108, 266
Sandberger (Prof.), Origin of Metalliferous Lodes, 90
Sanitary Associations, Reports of, 423

Sanitary Research, Grocers' Company Scheme, 495, 515
Sanitary Science, the Scheme of the Grocers' Company for
the Encouragement of Original Research in, 574
Sap-flow, F. M. Burton, 530

Saporta (Marquis de), Fossil Algæ, 514

Sardinia, Notes of Travel in, G. F. Rodwell, 342
Sarepta, the Stones of, 231

Saturn's Ring, Cassini Division of, 374

Saxby (Rev. S. H.): the Magnetic Storm and Aurora, 86; the
Aurora, 100; Meteor of November 17, 338

Scale, Equal Temperament of the, C. B. Clarke, 240
Scandinavia, Mathematics in, 343

Schliemann (Dr.), Proposed Excavations at Athens, 276

Schaeberle (Prof.), Method for Observing Artificial Transits, 67
Schiaparelli (Prof.), on the Great Comet 1882 b, Francis Porro,
533

Roberts (Prof. W. Chandler, F.R.S.), Hardening and Temper- Schirmwirkung of Iron, Prof. Stephan, 325
ing Steel, 594

Robinson (H.), the Magnetic Storm and Aurora, 85
Robinson (Dr.), Memorial of, 112

Robinson (John), Flora of Essex County, Massachusetts, 173
Robinson (Rev. J. L.), a Treatise on Marine Surveying, 289
Robinson (W. H.), the Zodiacal Light (?), 605

Rocks, Recent Researches in Metamorphism of, Dr. A. Geikie,
F.R.S, 121

"Rockies, Camps in the," W. A. Baillie-Grohman, 551
Rodwell (G. F.): Lavoisier, Priestley, and the Discovery of
Oxygen, 8, 100; Notes of Travel in Sardinia, 342

Rogers (Prof. James E. T.), Ensilage in America, Prof. J.
Wrightson, 479

Romanes (C. H.): Magnetic Arrangement of Clouds, 31; the
Magnetic Storm and Aurora, 86

Romanes (Dr. G. J., F.R.S.), Ribot's Diseases of Memory,
169; on Natural Selection and Natural Theology, Prof. Asa
Gray, 291, 362, 528; “Zoological Sketches," Felix L. Os-
wald, 333;
Zoological Notes on the Structure, Affinities,
Habits, and Mental Faculties of Wild and Domestic Animals,"
Arthur Nicols, 333; "The Vampire Bat," 412; Incubation
of the Ostrich, 480; Benevolence in Animals, 607
Roorkee Hydraulic Experiments, Major Allan Cunningham, I
Rowan (Vice-Admiral), Elements of the Great Comet 1882 6, 226
Rowan (D. J.), the Zodiacal Light(?), 605
Rowell (G. A.), Experiments on Aurora, 443

Schmidt's Cometary Object, 20; Variable Star near Spica, 617
Schriften der Physicalisch-Ökonomischen Gesell-chaft zu Königs-
berg, 521

Schwalbe (Dr.) "Lehrbuch der Neurologie," 196
Schwarz (Herr), Action of Zinc on Sulphur, 184
Science and Theology, 337

Scientific Heresies in China, 342

Scientific Renown, the Thirst for, 285

SCIENTIFIC WORTHIES:-William Spottiswoode, P.R.S. (with
a Portrait), 597

Sclater (P. L., F.R.S.), the High Springs of 1883, 529
Scorpions, Suicide of, C. L. Morgan, 313, 530
Scotch Universities Bill, 565, 573

Scotland: Completion of Ordnance Survey of, 92; New Ap-
pointments of Geological Survey, 246

Scott (R. H., F.R.S.)," Elementary Meteorology," 575
Scott (Major-Gen. H. G. D., F.R.S.), Death of, 587
Scottish Lake Dwellings, Ancient, by Dr. Munro, Sir John
Lubbock, F. R.S., 145

Scottish Review, 399

Scottish Meteorological Society, Half-yearly General Meeting,
469

Scudder (Sam. H.), "Nomenclator Zoologicus," 28

Scypho Medusa, Habits of, Surgeon-Major H. B. Guppy, 31
Sea Lion, the Cape, 415

Seabroke (Geo. M.), Comet 1882 b, 4, 52

Sea Serpent, the, F. T. Mott, 293; Joseph Sidebotham, 315;
W. Barfoot, 338; Prof. W. Steadman Aldis, 338; Dr. J.
Rae, F.R.S., 366

Seals in the Baltic, 133

Sea-shore, Apparent Bird Tracks by, 91

Secchi (Father), Monument to, 298

Seebohm (Henry), Ornithologist in Siberia, 560

Seismographic Apparatus, Gray and Milne's, 547

Selenka (Prof. E.), Sipunculacea, 133

Serpieri (Prof. A.), "Il Potentiale Elettrico nell' Insegnamento
dell' Elettrostatica," 312

Serravallo, Double Action Mercury Air-pump, 324

Sextants, New Apparatus for Testing, 473

Shadows after Sunset, E. D. Archibald, 77; Prof. Dier, 150;
J. Rand Capron, 182

Sheep, Blanford's, 415

Sheffield Free Libraries Report, 19

Shetland, Severe Weather in, 443

Shulachenko's Experiments with Telephones, 445

Siberia, Proposal for Publication of General Description of, 182
Siberian Aborigines, Yadrintseff, 541

Siberian Flora, 445

Siberia in Europe, Henry Seebohm, 560
Sidebotham (Joseph), the Sea Serpent, 315

Siemens (Sir Charles W.), Electric Lighting, the Transmission of
Force by Electricity, 67; and Dr. Percy, Presented with the
Freedom of the Company of Turners, 276; Electrical Trans-
mission of Force and Storage of Power, 518

Sieve Tubes, E. Russow, 366

Silesia, Earthquake in, 400

Silk Culture in Hungary, 209

Silver, Electric Conductivity of Haloid Salts of, Prof. Kohl-
rausch, 182

Simondsia paradoxa, Dr. Cobbold, 547

Singing, Speaking, and Stammering, W. H. Stone, 509, 531,
558, 580; James Lecky, 580

Sipunculacea, Prof. E. Selenka, 133

Siwalik Carnivora, Richard Lydekker, 293.

"Skin-vision" of Animals, 399

Skobeleff (General), the Weight of his Brain, 347

Slunin (Dr.), Popular Medicine in Russia, 62

Smith (C. S.), Sir G. B. Airy on the Forth Bridge, 99
Smith (F. S.): a Modification of the Gold Leaf Electroscope,

102

Smith (Prof. H. J. S.): Death of, 371; Obituary Notice of, Dr.
W. Spottiswoode, F.R.S., 381; his Mathematical Papers
and Memoirs, 443; and the Representation of a Number as a
Sum of Five Squares, 538, 564, 565, 587

Smith (Leigh), Gift to the Royal Geographical Society, 323
Smith (Robert H.), "Cutting Tools Worked by Hand and
Machine," 577

Smith (Worthington G.), Ancient Monuments, 102; Palæo-
lithic Gravels, 102; Paleolithic Implements of North-East
London, 270

Smoke Abatement, Dr. E. Frankland, F.R.S., 407
Smoke Abatement Institution, National, 443

Smyth (Prof. C. Piazzi), the Magnetic Storm and Aurora, 83;
the Peak of Teneriffe Active again, 315

Snake Bite, Death from, in Bombay, Sir Joseph Fayrer, F. R.S.,
556

Snakes, Destruction of Life in India by Poisonous, Sir J. Fayrer,
F.R.S., 205

Snowballs, Natural, a Remarkable Phenomenon, S. Hart, 483
Snow Rollers, G. J. Symons, F.R.S., 507; F. W. Grey, 507
Soda Flames in Coal Fires, Major J. Herschel, 78
Soda, Heating by Acetate of, 344

Soda Industry, Present Condition of, Walter Weldon, F.R.S.,

401

Sodium as New Element for Electro-positive Plate, Jablochkoff,
114

Solar Corona, on Photographing the, Dr. Wm. Huggins,
F.R.S., 199

Solar Eclipses, Recent and Coming Total, J. Norman Lockyer,
F.R.S., 185

Solar Eclipse on May 6, Total, 248; English Expedition, 398,
567

Solar Radiation and Glacier Motion, Rev. A. Irving, 553
Solomon Islands, Anthropological Notes in the, H. B. Guppy,
607

Sound-vibrations of Solid Bodies (glass cylinders) in Contact
with Liquids, Auerbach, 325

Space, the Matter of, Charles Morris, 349; Prof. A. S. Hers-
chel, 458, 504

Spatzier (Johann), Death of, 422

Speaking, Singing, and Stammering, W. H. Stone, 509, 531,
558, 580; James Lecky, 580

Spectrum Analysis: Work in the Infra-Red of the Spectrum,
Capt. Abney, F.R.S., 15; Prof. Rowland's Concave Gratings
for giving a Diffraction Spectrum, 95; Profs. Liveing and
Dewar on the Origin of the Hydrocarbon Flame Spectrum,
257; Distribution of Energy in the Spectrum, Lord Rayleigh,
F.R.S., 559

Speedwell, Fertilisation of, A. M. Stanley, 127, 174; A.
Ransom, 149, 223-

Speke and Grant's Zebra, Sir J. Fayrer, F.R.S., 604

Spencer's (Herbert) Philosophy, Section founded for Study of,
at Birmingham, 587

Spica, Schmidt's Variable Star near, 617

Spider, New Species of African, 348
Spitzbergen, Swedish Expedition to, 243

Spitzbergen Geological and Palæontological Collections, 588
Sponges, Australian Freshwater, 91

Spörer (Prof.) on the Transit of Venus, 284

Sportsman's Handbook to Practical Collecting, &c., Rowland
Ward, 146

Spottiswoode (Dr. W., P.R.S.): Address to Royal Society,
134, 162; Obituary Notice of Prof. Henry Smith, 381;
Scientific Worthies," 597

Spring in the Jachère, Intermittent, 63
Spring (M. W.), Thunderstorms, 133

Springs, High, of 1883, P. L. Sclater, F. R.S., 529

Squares, Prof. H. J. S. Smith and the Representation of a
Number as a Sum of Five, 538, 564, 565, 587

Stamens, Two Kinds of, with Different Functions in the same
Flower, Dr. Hermann Müller, 30; Dr. Fritz Müller, 364
Stammering, Singing, Speaking and: W. H. Stone, 509,
531, 558, 580; James Lecky, 580

Stanley (A. M.), Fertilisation of Speedwell, 127

Stanley (W. F.), Causes of Elevation and Subsidence of Earth's
Surface, 523

Stapleton (F.): the Magnetic Storm and Aurora, 86; the
Comet, 151

Stapley (A. M.), Fertilisation of Speedwell, 174

Stars Star Maps in Glasgow Evening Times, 89; Measures of
Double, 182; Binary, 518; Cancri, 424; p Eridani, 589;
Variable, 324, 400, 540; S Virginis, 424; U Cephei,
Ceraski's, 424, 445; Supposed Variable μ Doradûs, 498;
Schmidt's Variable near Spica, 617

Steel Plate Manufacture, 405

Steel, Hardening and Tempering, Prof. W. Chandler Roberts,
F.R.S., 594

Stellar Parallax, 210

Stephan (Prof.), Schirmwirkung of Iron, 325

Stevenson (Thos.), Observations of Increase of Velocity of
Wind with Altitude, 432; E. D. Archibald, 506

Stewart (Comm. D.), Mimicry in Moths, 314

Stock (T.), Notice of some Discoveries recently made in
Carboniferous Vertebrate Palæontology, 22

Stockholm Ethnographical Exhibition, Dr. A. B. Meyer, 371
Stokoe (Dr. P. H.), Mimicry, 508

Stone Age in Japan, Weapons and Implements from the, 616
Stone (Prof. E. J.), Transit of Venus, 1882, British Expedi-
tions, 177

Stone (W. H.), Singing, Speaking, and Stammering, 509, 531,
558, 580

Storage Batteries, Chemistry of, Dr. E. Frankland, F.R.S., 568
Strahan (A.), Movements of Air in Fissures and the Barometer
375, 461

Stress, Clerk Maxwell on, 314

Strong (George), Improved Feed-water Heater and Purifier, 90
Suez Canal, Animal Migrations due to, Prof. Keller, 181
Sulphur, Action of Zinc on, Schwarz, 184

Sun: its Planets and their Satellites," Rev. E. Ledger, 309;
Eclipse of the, 346; Ignition by Sunlight, Major Herschel;
E. H. Verney, 531; Shadows after Sunset, E. D. Archi-
bald, 77; J. Rand Capron, 102; Prof. Dier, 150; a Mock
Sunset, 78; Wolf and Faye on Periodicity of Sunspots,
235; Absence of Sunspots - Unprecedented Cold in the
Riviera, C. J. B. Williams, 551

Sunflowers at Night, the Reversion of, C. A. White, 241
Surveying, Marine, a Treatise on, Rev. J. L. Robinson, 289
Svanberg (Dr. Gustav), Death of, 132

Swan Lamp Spectrum and the Aurora, J. Rand Capron, 149;
J. Munro, 173

Sweden, Auroræ in, 113, 496; Darwin Memorial and the
People of, 275; Great Meteor in, 423, 517; Swedish Expe-
dition to Spitzbergen, 1882, 243; New Swedish Arctic
Expedition, 400

Sweden and Norway, Electrical Disturbances in, 89
Switzerland: Swiss Geological Society, 132; Avalanche in
Western, 181; Earthslip in, 209; Heavy Rain in, 209; Fishes
of Switzerland, Dr. Victor Fatio, 220; Electric Lighting in,
497

Sydney Linnean Society of New South Wales, 308, 355, 475,
571, 619

Symons (G. J., F.R.S.), British Rainfall, 149; Snow Rollers,
507

Szechenyi's Travels, A. H. Keane, 170

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Tapir, the Malayan, 151

Transits, Method for Observing Artificial, Prof. Schaeberle, 67
Transmission of Energy on the Marcel-Deprez System, 372
"Travels in India," 21

Tresca (M.), Papers on Electrical Measures, 62

Tribe (Dr. A., F.R.S.), Chemistry of the Planté and Faure
Accumulators, 583

Tricycles propelled by Electricity, 19

Tromholt (Sophus), on the Aurora Borealis, 394

Trotting Horse, Evolution of the American, W. H. Brewer, 609
Trouton (F.), on a Relation existing between the Latent
Heats, Specific Heats, and Relative Volumes of Volatile
Bodies, 292

Trouvé's Batteries, 41, 42

Tubercle, Bacillus of, 492, 563

Tucker (R.), Memoir of Augustus de Morgan, 217

Tuckwell (Rev. W.), on the Midland Boulders, 346

Tunnel, Channel, Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, F. R.S., 338

Turbellarians, Prof. von Graff's Monograph on the, Prof. H.
N. Moseley, F.R.S., 227

Tylor (Dr. E. B., F.R.S.), "The Burman," 6

Tympanic Membrane, Function of Membrana Flaccida of, J
M. Crombie, 129

Taschenberg (Prof.), "Die Insekten nach ihren Schaden und Tyndall (Prof. John, F.R.S.), "Note on Terrestrial Radiation,"
Nutzen," 172

Tashkend, Earthquake at, 617

Tawney (E. B.): Death of, 247; Obituary Notice of, 295
Taylor (Rev. C. J.), the Aurora, 99

Taylor (H. D.): the Magnetic Storm and Aurora, 87; Aurora
of November 17, 140; Meteor of November 17, 365

Taylor (J. E.), Origin of our Vernal Flora, 7

Teaching of Elementary Mechanics, 580

Technical College, the Finsbury, 181, 318, 425, 495
Technical Education Commission, 516

Telegraph Extension in China, 588

Telegraphy, Advance in Use of, for French Newspapers, 372;
the Progress of, W. H. Preece, F.R.S., 390
Telephones, Shulachenko's Experiments with, 445
Telephonic Communication, Novelty in, 515
Temperament, Equal, of the Scale, C. B. Clarke, 240

Teneriffe, the Peak of, active again, Prof. C. Piazzi Smyth, 315
Terrestrial Radiation, Note on, John Tyndall, F.R.S., 377;
Dr. A. Woeikof, 460

Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District, Dr. Arch. Geikie,
F.R.S., 357

Thames, River-Abnormal High Tides, J. B. Redman, 6
Thames, Monthly Means of the Temperature of the Water of,
Sir G. B. Airy, F.R.S., 189

Theology, Natural Selection and Natural, Prof. Asa Gray, 291,
529; Dr. Geo. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 362; J. B. Hannay,
F.R.S., 364

Theology, Science and, 337

Thermometer, an Improved Air, 43

Thermometers, Liquid, Expansion of Bulbs of, Prof. Govi, 209
Thibet, Native Exploration of, Sir H. Rawlinson, 323
Thomson's Mouse-Mill Dynamo, J. T. Bottomley, 78
Thomson (Sir William, F.R.S.): Photometric Measurements of
Sun, Moon, Cloudy Sky, and Electric and other Artificial
Lights, 277; Gyrostatics, 548

Thorium, Nilson, 184

Thunderstorms, M. W. Spring, 133

Thylacoleo, on the Affinities of, Prof. Owen, F.R.S., 354

Ticks, 531; Dr. T. Spencer Cobbold, F.R.S., 552; Rev. L.
Blomefield, 552

Tiddeman (R. H.), the Magnetic Storm and Aurora, 84

Tides, Abnormal High-in the Thames, J. B. Redman, 6
Tides, Great, Prof. R. S. Ball, F.R.S., 201

Tides, Geological Traces of Great, J. G. Grenfell, 222
Timehri, 539

Times, the, on Science, 566

Timor-Laut, H. O. Forbes's Visit to, 159

Tissandier's Electromagnetic Engine for directing Balloons, 343
Tomlinson (C., F.R.S.), Priestley and Lavoisier, 53, 147
Torpedo, Prof. Fritsch on the, 453

Traill (D.), Transit of Venus, 159

377; Dr. A. Woeikof on, 460

Typhoon in Philippine Islands, 181

Ultra-Violet Rays, Absorption of, by various Substances, Pro-
fessors Liveing and Dewar, 521

Umdhlebi Tree of Zululand, W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F. R.S., 7;
Rev. Dr. G. W. Parker, 7, 32

United States, Oyster Industry of the, 39; New Aquarium at
Wood's Hole, 347

Universities Bill, Scotch, 565, 573

University and Educational Intelligence, 47, 71, 93, 117, 142,
167, 214, 233, 281, 306, 330, 353, 402, 449, 472, 498, 547,
594, 618

Ural Mountains, Russian Exploration of, 446; Severe Weather
in, 539

Uric and Hippuric Acid, Dr. A. B. Garrod, F. R.S., 451
Uvæan Parrakeet, 417

Valais, Earthquake in the, 181

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Vampire Bat": Thos. Workman, 411; A. W. Auden, 411;
G. J. Romanes, F.R.S., 412

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Variable Stars, 324, 400, 540; S Virginis, 424; U Cephei,
Ceraski's, 424, 446; Supposed Variable Doradûs-a
Spurious Star, 498; Schmidt's Variable Star near Spica, 617
Varna, Alleged Wreck of the, 114

Vega Expedition, the Fossil Plants collected by, 347
Vega Gold Medal conferred on Mr. Stanley, 422
Vegetable History, Tables of, D. P. Penhallow, 458
Velocity of the Wind, Diurnal Variations in the, E. Douglas
Archibald, 461

Venus, Transit of, 112, 154, 253, 541; Observations in Paris of
the, 113; Prof. Harkness, 114; W. de Fonvielle's "Perio-
dical," 132; Duke of Argyll, Dr. R. S. Ball, F.R.S., Dr. W.
Doberck, J. L. E. Dreyer, C. L. Wragge, W. F. Denning,
D. Traill, H. Cecil, R. Langdon, 154 to 159; British Expe-
dition, E. J. Stone, F.R.S., 177; Prof. Langley, 179; John
Birmingham, 180; Prof. Cacciatore, 180; C. J. B. Williams,
197; German Expedition, 208; French Expedition, 208;
United States Expedition, 246, 539; Prof. Edgar Frisby,
266; Prof. Spörer on the, 284; Samuel Hart, 483
Verhandlungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Basel, 71
Verhandlungen der Naturhistorischen Vereines der Preussischen
Rheinlande und Westfalens, 521

Vernal Flora, Origin of our, J. E. Taylor, 7

Verney (E. H.), Ignition by Sunlight, 531

Vertebrate Dissection, Handbook of, H. Newell Martin and
William A. Moule, 335

Vertebrate Palæontology, Carboniferous, Notice of some Dis-
coveries recently made in, T. Stock, 22

Vicars (G. Rayleigh), the Magnetic Storm and Aurora, 87
Victoria (Philosophical) Institute, 143, 260, 283
Vienna Geographical Society, 229, 401

Tram-car, Electrically moved, Successful Trial of a, 470
Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, 330
Transit of Venus, 112, 154, 253, 540; Prof. Harkness on the,
114; British Expeditions, E. J. Stone, F.R.S., Prof.
Langley, John Birmingham, 177; C. J. B. Williams, F.R.S.,
197; in Algiers, 208; French Expedition, 208; German
Expedition, 208; Prof. Edgar Frisby, 266; Samuel Hart, 483 | Vivisection, Facts and Considerations relating to, 542

Vienna Imperial Academy of Sciences, 72, 95, 120, 260, 284,
524, 572

Vienna International Electrical Exhibition, 373, 444
Vilmorin-Andrieux, "Les Plantes Potagères," 429
Vine Parasite, New, 133

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