the Patate der von N. M. Przewa.. nach
An internommenen Kelen, 468

Dr. A. r. Majer's Celete Photographa, 471

Theorist Factice of Awos e Mansarements in Electricity

In and Cey.ca, Dr.
བཱར་
CM Woodford.

Revue Geserale in Scenin Fares et Am

In kepe in Bols, on the rule: Mascles of the

Rhibuang, Fed; Sz J. W= Dawson, F.R.S., 10; Alfred
W. Bennett, 154

Ribor Te Pepinology of Attention, 450

Kies. Froć, San-spek of June, July, and Angus, 1889, 115
Richardson Dr. A., Amic if Light te Must Oxygen, 142
Right Prof, New Method of Measuring Diferences of Poten-
tial of Contar, 18

Rings of Saturn, Stability of the, O. Callan dreau, 548
Kipper William, Steam, 341

Kivista Scientifico-in instriale, 380

Road at Sea, Rule of the, Afiniral Colomb. 515

Roberts A. Ernest, the Relation of the Soil to Tropical
Diseases, 31

Roberts Isaac, a Photographic Method for Determining Varia-
Eity in Stars, 332

Roberts-Austen Prof. W. C., F.R.S.: on the Hardening and
Tempering of Steel, 11, 32; the Kelation between Atomic
Voiames of Elements present in Iron and their Influence on
its Molecular Structure, 420

Robinson H. H, Frangulin, 262

P1 6. Bowery, FPS,, 423

GANT, Gen M. Humphrey, 454

kamera of Nitronomy, krok. C. A. Young, 485

Vyvong of wodd y Exercise, Dr. Fernand Lagrange, 485
Woers, Marine and Land, T. W. Trail, 46

Hvory and Padinogy of Vaccination, E. M. Crookshank,
Dr Word Gong, 4/6

Pasta of Norn America, with Remarks on the
Anaiomy of the Brain, atvi Origin of Bund Species, A. S.
Vueurs, 4

A Treatise on Linear Differential Equations, Thomas Craig,

Wabera of Auatic Cholera, Dr. E. Klein, 599
Mane, de l'Anaiyse des Vins, Erney Barilor, 510
British Journal Photographic Almanac, 1890, 519

Four Figure Mathematical Tabira, J. T. Bottomley, F.R.S.,

510

Now Lights from Solar Eclipses, William M. Page, William
Y.. PlantsT, $29

The Krolation of sex, Prof. Patrick Geddes and J. Arthur
Thomson, $3

Geology of the Quicksilver Deposits of the Pacific Slope, G.
F. Becker, $32

Illustrations of some of the Grasses of the Southern Punjab,
being Photo lithographs of some of the Principal Grasses
found at Hasar, William Coldstream, 533

covery of New Pass from Na to Tibet by, 327
Rock-Sepulchre in Morea, Vaphi, S. Reinach, 500
Rock-Specimens Collected in Oceanic Islands, Prof. A. Renard,
353

Rocks, the Bala Volcanic Series of Caernarvonshire and Asso-
ciated, being the Sedgwick Prize Essay for 1888, Alfred
Harker, 414

Rocks, Chemical and Physical Studies in the Metamorphism of,
Rev. A. Irving, 49

"Rollers," the, of Ascension and St. Helena, Prof. Cleveland
Abbe, 585

Romanes (Prof. Geo. J., F. R.S.): Darwinism, 59; Galls, 80,
174, 369; Panmixia, 437, 511, 585; Before and After Darwin,
524; Like to Like, a Fundamental Principle in Bionomics,
535

Rome: Earthquake at, 401; Solar Observations at, Prof.
Tacchini, 595

Rorqual musculus Stranded in Médoc District, 113
Roscoe (Sir Henry, M.P., F.R.S.): the City Guilds and
Technical Education, 160; on the Future of our Technical
Education, 183; Technical Education Bill, 493; a Dictionary
of Applied Chemistry by Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F. R. S., Vol. I.,
387

Rose (T. Kirke), the New Assistant Surveyor at Royal Mint,
493
Rosenberger (Otto), Death of, 324

Royal Irish Academy, 469

Royal Meteorological Society, 93, 212, 301, 358, 406, 503, 598;
Exhibition of the, 491

Royal Microscopical Society, 93, 191, 263, 335, 371, 550
koyal Society, 17, 118, 140, 166, 189, 212, 237, 287, 309, 332,
357, 380, 430, 477, 501, 525, 550, 573. 598; Medals, 41;
Anniversary Meeting. 84, 116, 234; Election of Foreign
Members of, 135: Key to the Royal Society Catalogue,
James McConnel, 342, 391, 418; the Government Grant,
347: the Royal Society Proceedings, 400

Royal Society of New South Wales, 311; Prizes offered by,
349

Royal Society of Tasmania, 43

Roval Victoria Hall and Morley Memorial College, 343
Kubens (Dr.), Use of Bolometer for Observing Electrical Radia-
Fons of Hertz, 504

Rocker Prof. Arthur W., F.R.S.): Physical Properties of
Water, 416; and Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., Magnetic
Sarveys of Special Districts in the British Isles, 598
Kage (W. A.), Specific Inductive Capacity, 10
Remann (Dr. S.), Action of Chloroform and Alcoholic Potash
n Hydrazines, 263

Fule of the Road at Sea, Admiral Colomb, 515

Hassell Hon. F. A. R.), the Causes and Character of Haze, 60
Kassell (H. C.), Meteorology of New South Wales, 113
Kissa: Russian Botanical Appointments, 42; Geography in
Russia, Baron Kaulbars, 208; Russian Geographical Society,
and the Black Sea, 348; Russian Academy of Sciences, 302;
Eighth Congress of Russian Naturalists, 356; a Uniform
System of Russian Transliteration, 396; Chas. E. Groves,
F.R.S., 534; W. F. Kirby, 535; Mammoth Skeleton in
Russia, 448; New Russian Natural Science Review, 469
Kaley (Frank), Composite Spherulites in Obsidian from Hot
Springs Dear Little Lake, California, 551

St Louis Botanic Garden, the Shaw Bequest for the Endow-
Tent of the, 324

. Louis, Earthquake at, 18

S. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, 495

St. Petersburg Problem, the, Sydney Lupton, 165

Saint-Venant (Barré de), the Elastical Researches of, Prof. A.
G Greenhill, F. R.S., 458

Salad-Plants, H. de Vilmorin, 494

Salet (G.), the Blue Flame of Common Salt, 383

Salisbury (the Marquis of: on Electrical Science, 21; on Free
Education, 84

Saron, the Habits of the, Major John P. Traherne, 74
Sala on in Tasmania, Acclimatized, 43

Salt, Common, Experiments upon Simultaneous Production of
Pure Crystals of Sodium Carbonate and Chlorine from, Dr.
Hempel, 19

Salvador (Count), Agguinte alla Ornitologia della Papuasia e
delle Molucche, 85

Sanitary Assurance Association, 136, 401

Sanitary Institute, 302

Saporta (G. de), some Provençal Tree-Hybrids, 23
Sardines in Moray Firth, Prof. Ewart, 282
Satellite of Algol, W. H. S. Monck, 198

Saturn: Mass of, Asaph Hall, 429; Stability of the Rings of,
0. Callandreau, 548

Savelief (R), Actinometric Observations (1888-89) at, 359
Scale: Sir G. Shuckburgh's Unit of Length of a Standard,
General J T. Walker, R.E., F. R.S., 381; Shuckburgh Scale
and Kater Pendulum, O. H. Tittmann, 538

Scenery of the Heavens, J. E. Gore, 391
Schafhäutl (Dr. von), Death and Obituary Notice of, 448
Scheiner (Dr.), some Photographic Star Spectra, 163
Schiaparelli (Signor), on the Rotation of Mercury, 257
Schick (Herr), Troglodytic Remains in Jerusalem, 284
Schleinitz (Admiral von), the North Coast of New Guinea, 21
Schlich (Dr. William): a Manual of Forestry, Sir D. Brandis,
F.R.S., 121; Forestry in India, 470

Schlosing, Fils (Th.): Air in the Soil, 23; the Fermentation of
Stable Manure, 143; Absorption of Atmospheric Ammonia
of Soils, 479

Schneider (Dr.), Iron in the Animal Organism, 24
Schools, Technical Education in Elementary, 356

Schorr (Dr. R.): Comet Swift (f 1889, November 17), 139; on
the Star System & Scorpii, 374

Schuster (Dr., F. R.S.), Total Solar Eclipse of 1886, 327
Science, Australasian Association for the Advancement of, Prof.
Orme Masson, 441

Science Collections at South Kensington, the Housing of the,
399, 409

Science in Dutch East Indies, 547

Science at Eton, Lieut.-General Tennant, F. R.S., 587

Science of Every-day Life, J. A. Bower, 78

Science, Experimental, George M. Hopkins, 102

Science and the Future Indian Civil Service Examinations, 25;
Henry Palin Gurney, 53

Science and Law, 399

Science and the New English and Scotch Codes, 385
Scientific Education in China, the Question of Language, 162
Scientific Literature, Native Indian, 569

Scientific Missions, French, under the Old Monarchy, Dr.
Hamy, 427

Sclater (Dr. P. L., F.R.S.): Argentine Ornithology, R.
Bowdler Sharpe, 7; la Pietra Papale, 31; African Monkeys
in the West Indies, 368

Scorpii, on the Star System &, Dr. Schorr, 374

Scotland Railways of, W. M. Acworth, 434; certain Devonian
Plants from, Sir J. W. Dawson, F. R.S., 537

Scott (R. H., F. R.S.), Variability of Temperature of British
Isles, 1859-83, 550

Scottish Journal of Natural History, 373
Scottish Meteorologieal Society, 518

Scouller (William), Rainbow due to Sunlight reflected from the
Sea, 271

Sea, Rainbow due to Sunlight reflected from the, Sir William
Thomson, F.R.S., 271; William Scouller, 271
Sea, Rule of the Road at, Admira! Colomb, 515
Sea, Toilers in the, M. C. Cooke, 409

Seal (W. P.), the Management of Aquaria, 18
Sedgwick and Murchison, Cambrian and Silurian, Prof. James
D. Dana, 421

Sedgwick Prize Essay for 1888, 414

Seismology: Record of British Earthquakes, Charles Davison,
9; the Earthquake of Tokio, April 18, 1889, Prof. Cargill
G. Knott, 32; Earthquake in Servia, 113; Brassart Brothers'
New Seismoscopes, 137; British Earthquakes, William White,
202, 248; Atmospheric Circulation, A. Buchan, 363; Re-
cherches sur les Tremblements de Terre, Jules Girard, 583
Selenite, Salts of, M. Boutzoureano on, 87

Serviss (Garrett P.), Astronomy with an Opera Glass, 462
Sex, the Evolution of: M. S. Pembrey, 199; Dr. A. B. Meyer,
272; Prof. Patrick Geddes and Arthur Thomson, 531
Shan States, a Thousand Miles on an Elephant in, Holt S.
Hallett, 265

Sharp (Dr. Davis) appointed Curator in Zoology at Cambridge,
324

Sharpe (R. Bowdler): Argentine Ornithology, P. L. Sclater,
F.R.S., and W. H. Hudson, 7; Notes on Sport and Ornitho-
logy, H.I.H. Prince Rudolph of Austria, 169; Matabele
Land and the Victoria Falls, Frank Oates, 169; Index Gene-
rum Avium, F. H. Waterhouse, 169; the Birds of Oxford-

shire, O. V. Aplin, 169; the Birds of Berwickshire, Geo.
Muirhead, 169; the Birds in my Garden, W. T. Greene,
169; Oates's Ornithology of India, Vol. I., 388; Hume's
Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Vol. I., 388

Shaw Bequest for Endowment of St. Louis Botanic Garden, 324
Sheep-farming in Australia, Prof. Wallace, 113

Shell, Deformation of an Elastic, Prof. Horace Lamb, F.R.S.,
549

Sherrington (C. S.), Outlying Nerve-cells in Mammalian Spinal
Cord, 358

Shining Night Clouds, Robert B. White, 369

Ships, Steel, Leak-stopping in, Captain C. C. P. Fitzgerald,
R.N., 516

Ships, the Strength of, Prof. P. Jenkins, 515
Shooting-stars, the Origin of, 92

Shore (T. W.), Characteristic Survivals of Celts in Hampshire,
406

Shot, on certain Approximate Formulæ for Calculating the
Trajectories of, Prof. J. C. Adams, 258

Shrubs, Evergreen, in Manchester, Proposed Planting of, 401
Shuckburgh Scale and Kater Pendulum, O. H. Tittmann, 538
Shufeldt (R. W.), Craniology of Heloderma suspectum, the
Poisonous Lizard of South-West United States, 181
Shufeldt (Dr. R. W.), Work on Avian Anatomy, 594
Siam, Life in, 265

Siberia, Limits of Ever-frozen Soil in, Yatchevsky, 472
Sidgreaves (Rev. W.), Melde's Vibrating Strings, 355
Sieber (Dr. J.), Diethylene Diamine, 428
Simaschko (Prof.), the Méguéia Meteorite, 472

Sinclair (W. E.), Flint Remains in Kolaba District, 114
Singapore, Noxious Grass (Lalang) at, 182

Skin-Colour in Arctic Voyagers, Causes of Change of, Holm-
gren, 546

Skin, Electric Currents from Mental Excitation in, Herr
Tarchenoff, 232

Sluiter (Dr. C. Ph.), the Coral Reefs of the Java Sea and its
Vicinity, Dr. H. B. Guppy, 300

Smith (Prof. C. Michie): the Green Flash at Sunset, 538; a
New Green Vegetable Colouring-Matter, 573; Determination,
by Measurement of Ripples, of Surface Tensions of Liquids,
575

Smith (Prof. W. Robertson), Lectures on the Religion of the
Semites, 337

Smokeless Explosives, Sir Frederic Abel, F. R.S., 328, 352
Smolenski (Dr.), the Suspected Connection between Influenza
and Cholera Epidemics, 282

Smyth (Robert Brough), Death of, 112

Snake and Fish, Herr Fischer-Sigwart, 162

Snake-bite in Ratnagherry District, Mortality from, 【Vidal, 325
Society of Arts, 42

Society for Psychical Research, 17

Sohncke (Prof.), Cause of Blue-Green Flame Phenomenon of
Sunset at Sea, 495

Soil, the Relation of the, to Tropical Diseases, A. Ernest
Roberts, 31

Soils, Sources of Nitrogen in, Prof. John Wrightson, 286
Solar Activity in 1889, 522

Solar Corona, Mathematical Study of the, Prof. F. H. Bigelow,
595

Solar Eclipse of 1886, Total, 88; Dr. Schuster, F.R. S., 327
Solar Eclipse, Total, of December 22, 1889, M. A. De La
Baume Pluvinel, 428

Solar Eclipses, New Light from, William M. Page, William
E. Plummer, 529

Solar Halos and Parhelia, 330; J. Lovell, 560

Solar and the Lunar Spectrum, the, Prof. Langley, 450
Solar Observations at Rome, Prof. Tacchini, 595

Solar Spots and Prominences, Prof. Tacchini, 233

Solar Spectrum, Maximum Light-Intensity of the, Dr. Men-
garini, 374

Solar and Stellar Motions, Prof. J. R. Eastman, 351, 392. See

also Sun

Sollas (Prof., F.R.S.), Mica in Mourne Mountain Geodes, 469
Solomon Islands: Further Explorations of, C. M. Woodford,
403; a Naturalist among the Head-hunters, C. M. Woodford,
582

Sorbite, Vincent and Delachanal, 23

Sorbonne, Mathematical Teaching at, Prof. Ch. Hermite, 597
Sorby (H. C., F.R.S.), on Meteorites, 307

Sormani (Prof. G.), Antidotes and Treatment of Tetanus, 212
Sound, Propagation of, MM. Violle and Vautier, 359

South American Pampas, Mirage in the, W. Larden, 69
South Kensington, Science Collections at, the Housing of the
399, 409

South Sea, Through Atolls and Islands in the, F. J. Moss, 15
Souza (J. A. de), Death of, 135

Specific Inductive Capacity : W. A. Rudge, 10; Prof. Olive
J. Lodge, F. R. S., 30

Spectrum Analysis: Objects for the Spectroscope, 44, 68, 8,
114, 138, 163, 183, 210, 232, 257, 285, 304, 326, 350, 374
402, 428, 449, 472, 496, 521, 548, 571, 595; Photograph
of the Red End of the Spectrum, Colonel J. Waterhouse, 67
some Photographic Star Spectra, Dr. Scheiner, 163; Spec
trum of Algol, Prof. Vogel, 164; Colour Spectrum
Fluorine, H. Moissan, 214; Spectrum of a Metallic Prom
nence, 233; Spectrum of Ursa Majoris, on the, Pr
Pickering, 285; Spectroscopic Observations of Algol, Fro
Vogel, 285; New Fluorescent Materials, Lecoq de Boisban
dran, 287; Maxwell Hall on the Spectrum of the Zodiaca
Light, 351, 402; Spectrum of Borelly's Comet ( 1889), 374
Maximum Light-Intensity of the Solar Spectrum, Dr. Men
garini, 374; Spectra of 8 and μ Centauri, 374; Blue Flam
of Common Salt, G. Salet, 383; Spectroscopic Observation
of the Zodiacal Light, A. Fowler, 402; the Solar and the
Lunar Spectrum, Prof. Langley, 450; Kirchoff's Law and
Gaseous Radiation, Dr. E. Pringsheim, 480; the Spectrum
of Subchloride of Copper, Prof. A. S. Herschel, F.R.S
513; Bright Lines in Stellar Spectra, Rev. J. E. Espin, 549
Fundamental Common Property of two Kinds of Spectra
Lines and Bands, Distinct Characteristics of each of the
Classes, Periodic Variations to Three Parameters, H. Des
landres, 576; Spectrum of Aqueous Vapour, Chas. S. Cook
598

Spencer (Herbert): Inheritance of Acquired Characters, 414
Nebular Hypothesis, 450; Panmixia, 511

Spencer (Perceval), Successful Use of Asbestos Hot-air Balloon
in India, 325

Spitaler (Dr. R.), Temperature "Anomalies," 303

Spitta (E. J.), a New Wedge Photometer, 287
Sponges: Discovery of Sponge-bank near Lampedusa, 284
the Horny Sponges, Robert von Lendenfeld, 146; Sponges
attached to Crabs, Dr. R. von Lendenfeld, 317; Physiology
of Sponges, Dr. Lendenfeld, 570

Spörer (Prof.), Sun-spots in 1889, 383

Spots, Solar, and Prominences, Prof. Tacchini, 233
Stability of the Rings of Saturn, O. Callandreau, 548
Stalactite Cave discovered in Westphalia, 113
Stalybridge Mechanics' Institute, Chemical Laboratory at, 85
Stanley (H. M.), his Explorations in Africa, 20, 73, III
Stapf (Dr. Otto), Die Arten der Gattung Ephedra, 390
Stapley (A. M.), the Composition of the Chemical Elements, 50
Stars: Double, Measurements of S. W. Burnham, E. E. Bat-
nard, 19; New Double Stars, Miss A. M. Clerke, 132; Star
Distances, Miss A. M. Clerke, 81; New Variable Stars in
Hydra, 88; Y Cygni, 88; Period of U Coronæ, S. C.
Chandler, 163; in Cluster G.C. 3636, Prof. Pickering, 183:
Observations of some Suspected Variables, Rev. John G.
Hagen, 233; New Short-period Variable in Ophiuchus, 403:
New Variable in Cælum, 571; the Origin of Shooting-stars,
92; Photographic Star Spectra, 115; Dr. Peters's Catalogue.
210; Star-Land, Sir Robert S. Ball, F.R.S., 315; Star
System Scorpii, Dr. Schorr, 374; the Distance of the Star-
Dr. W. H. S. Monck, 392; Observations of Ursæ Majors
and 8 Auriga, 403; Melbourne Star Catalogue, 522; Dis
covery of Asteroids, Dr. Palisa, 522; M. Charlois, 522
State, the, Elements of Historical and Practical Politics, Wood
row Wilson, 196

Steam, Electrification of, Shelford Bidwell, F.R.S., 213
Steam, William Ripper, 341

Steam-engine Design, Jay M. Whitham, 29

Steam-ships, the Steering of, A. B. Brown, 516

Stearns (R. E. C.): Effect of Music on Animals, 470; on
Canary, 593

Stebbing (Rev. T. R. R.), the Moon in London, 586
Steel on the Hardening and Tempering of, Prof. W. C.
Roberts-Austen, F. R.S., 11, 32; Behaviour of, under Me
chanical Stress, C. H. Carus-Wilson, 213; Physical Proper
ties of Nickel Steel, Dr. J. Hopkinson, F.R.S., 332; the
Rupture by Longitudinal Stress of, C. A. Carus-Wilson, 574
Steel and Iron Manufacture, Arthur H. Hiorns, 150
Stellar Parallax by Means of Photography, Prof. Pritchard, 19
Stellar Spectra, Bright Lines in, Rev. J. E. Espin, 549

Strabismus, H. Parinaud, 72

Straits Settlements, Meteorology of, 114

Strasburger (E.), Hand-book of Practical Botany for the Botanical
Laboratory and Private Student, 223

Stricker (Prof.), New Electrical Lantern, 593

Strickland (Father, S.J.), Last Days of Father Perry, F. R. S., 301
Strings, Vibrating, Melde's, Rev. W. Sidgreaves, 355
Strips, the Behaviour of Twisted, Prof. J. Perry, F.R. S., 47
Stromeyer (C. E.): Self-luminous Clouds, 225; the Evaporative
Efficiency of Boilers, 516; Structure of Jupiter's Belt 3, III.,
Dr. Terby, 45

Struggle for Existence in Plants, Prof. Walter Gardiner, 90
Stuart (Prof.), Proposed Address to, on his Resignation, 426
Students, Foreign, in Paris, 520

Sabchloride of Copper, the Spectrum of, Prof. A. S. Herschel,
F.R.S., 513

Sub oceanic Crust, Physics of the, Rev. Osmond Fisher, A. J.
Jukes-Browne, 53; J. Starkie Gardner, 103
Subsidence at Northwich, 230

Suffolk: Flora of, by Dr. W. M. Hind, 149; Dr. Wheelton
Hind on the Geology of, 149

Sagar losing its Attractions for Lepidoptera, Joseph Anderson,

349

Sagar-Cane: Disease at St. Vincent, 372; Seeding of, D. Morris,
478

Sulphur, Crystalline Allotropic Forms of, Dr. Muthmann, 449
Sumpner (Dr. W. E.), Galvanometers, 310, 381

Sun's Way, Apex of the, Lewis Boss, 548

Sunlight reflected from the Sea, Rainbow due to, Sir William
Thomson, F. R.S., 271; W. Scouller, 271
Sunset, the Green Flash at, C. Michie Smith, 538

Sanset at Sea, Cause of Blue-green Flame Phenomenon of,
Prof. Sohncke, 495

Sun-spots: Minimum Sun-spot Period, M. Bruguière, 68; Sun-
spot of June, July, and August, 1889, Prof. Ricco, 115; Sun-
spots and Prominences, Prof. Tacchini, 233; Sun-spot in
High Latitudes, G. Dierckx, 472; Sun-spots in High
Southern Latitudes, Rev. S. J. Perry, F. R. S., 88; Observa-
tions of Sun-spots made at Lyons Observatory in 1889, Em.
Marchand, 599. See also Solar

Survey, the Indian, 230

Sutherland (Geo.), Earth-Currents and the Occurrence of Gold,

464

Swift (Dr. Lewis): a New Comet discovered by, 69; Comet
Swift (f 1889, November 17), Dr. Zelbr, 115, 233; Dr. R.
Schorr, 139; Dr. Lamp, 233, 429 ; Swift's Comet (V. 1880),
Orbit of, 257; the Cluster G.C. 1420 and the Nebula N.G.C.
2237, 285

Sydney, Royal Society of New South Wales, 96

Symons (G. J., F. R.Ś.), Remarkable Hailstones, 134
Synoptical Tables of Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, Clement
J. Leaper, 510

synthetic Philosophy, an Epitome of the, F. Howard Collins,

340

Systems of Russian Transliteration, Chas. E. Groves, F.R.S.,
534; W. F. Kirby, 535

Table and Formula Book, Rev. Isaac Warren, 558
Tacchini (Prof.): Corona of January 1, 1889, 139; Solar Spots
and Prominences, 233; Solar Observations at Rome, 595
Taczanowski (Dr. L.), Death of, 324

Tait (Prof. P. G.): Portrait Memorial of, 135; Glissette of
Hyperbola, 214 Compressibility of Water, 361; Physical
Properties of Water, 416

Tannin, Nessler's Ammonia Test as a Micro-Chemical Reagent
for, Spencer Moore, 585

Tarchenoff (Herr), Electric Currents in Skin from Mental
Excitation, 232

Tasmania: Change in Character of Acclimatized Salmon in, 43 ;
the Last Living Aboriginal of, James Barnard, 43; Destruc-
tion of Opposum in, 304; a Surviving Tasmanian Aborigine,
Hy. Ling Roth, 105

Taste, Sense of, Dr. Goldscheider's Researches on, 600

Tavernier (Jean Baptiste), Travels in India, 313

Taxine, a New Alkaloid from Leaves, &c., of Yew Tree,
Drs. Hilger and Brande, 496

Teacher's Manual of Geography, J. W. Redway, 78
Technical Education: Conference on, at Manchester, 84;
Dundee Association, 113; on the Future of our Technical
Education, Sir Henry Roscoe, M.P., F.R.S., 183; Technical
Education in Elementary Schools, 356; the New Codes,
English and Scotch, 385, 505; Technical Education in Central
India, 470

Teeth in the Ornithorhynchus, Who Discovered the, C. Hart
Merriam, 11, 151; Prof. W. H. Flower, F.R.S., 30, 151;
Prof. Oswald H. Latter, 30, 174

Telephone, the Pulsion Mechanical, 65

Telephone Transmitter, Carbon Deposit in Blake, F. B. Hawes,
477

Telescope, the Maintaining and Working of the Great Newall,
357

Temperature "Anomalies," Dr. R. Spitaler, 303

Tempering of Steel, on the Hardening and, Prof. W. C. Roberts-
Austen, F. R.S., 11, 32

Ten and Tenth Notation, B. A. Muirhead, 344

Tench, the Striated Muscles of, Dr. René du Bois-Reymond on,
95

Tennant (Lieut.-General, F. R.S.), Science at Eton, 587
Tension of Recently Formed Liquid Surfaces, Lord Rayleigh,
566

Terby (Dr.), the Structure of Jupiter's Belt 3, III., 45
Terminology, the Revised, in Cryptogamic Botany, Alfred W.
Bennett, 225

Tetanus, Antidote and Treatment of, Prof. G. Sormani, 212
Tetranychus, on a Mite of the Genus, found Infesting Lime
Trees in the Leicester Museum Grounds, F. R. Rowley, 31.
Texas, Great Find of Rare Minerals of Yttrium and Thorium
Groups in, 162

Textiles, Prehistoric, Herr Buschan, 182

Textural Elements, the Longevity of, particularly in Dentine
and Bone, John Cleland, 392

Thames Estuary, the, Captain Tizard, R.N., 539

Theory of Least Squares, a Formula in the, D. Wetterhan, 394
Thermal Conductivity in Flints, a Natural Evidence of High,
Prof. A. S. Herschel, F. R.S., 175

Thermometer, Electric, Herr Siegefeld, 43
Thermometers, Aspiration, Dr. Assmann's, 239
Thermometry, Exact: Dr. Sydney Young, 152, 271, 488; Her-
bert Tomlinson, F. R. S., 198; Dr. Edmund J. Mills, F.R.S.,
227, 538

Thermometry: Traité pratique de la Thermométrie de Pré-
cision, Ch. Ed. Guillaume, Dr. Edmund J. Mills, F. R.S.,

100

Thomas (Oldfield), a Milk Dentition in Orycteropus, 309
Thomas (R. Haig), Panmixia, 585

Thompson (Prof. Silvanus P.): Geometrical Optics, II., 213;
Electric Splashes, 309; Bertrand's Refractometer, 526;
Bertrand's Idiocyclophanous Prism, 574

Thomson (Dr. Arthur): the Veddahs of Ceylon, 303; Prof.
Patrick Geddes and, Evolution of Sex, 531

Thomson (Sir William, F.R.S.): Rainbow due to Sunlight
reflected from the Sea, 271; Eight Rainbows seen at the
same time, 316; Electrostatic Stress, 358
Thoroddsen's Explorations in Iceland, 165

Thorpe (Prof. T. E., F. R.S.): Photometric Intensity of Coronal
Light, 139; Frangulin, 262; a Dictionary of Applied Che-
mistry, Vol. I., Sir H. E. Roscoe, M.P., F.R.S., 387; the
Glow of Phosphorus, 523; and Prof. A. W. Rücker, F. R.S.,
on Magnetic Surveys of Special Districts in the British Isles,
598
Thought and Breathing: R. Barrett Pope, 297; Prof. F. Max
Müller, 317; Rev. W. Clement Ley, 317; Mrs. J. C.
Murray-Aynsley, 441

Thresh (Dr.), New Method of Estimating Oxygen dissolved in
Water, 335

Thuillier and Waterhouse's Conversion Tables for Metric
System, 66

Thunderstorms in England and Wales, 93

Thury (Prof.), Changes in Lunar Craters, 183

Tibet, Discovery by Colonel Pevtsoff and M. Roborovsky of New
Pass from Nia to, 327

Tidal and Levelling Operations in India, 140
Tiddemann (R. H.), Brilliant Meteors, 105
Tidy (Chas. M.), the Story of a Tinder-box, 30

Tietkens's Explorations in Central Australia, 286 Tilden (Prof. W. A., F.R.S.), Crystalline Substances obtained from Fruits of various Species of Citrus, 527

Time and Tide, a Romance of the Moon, Sir Robert S. Ball, F.R.S., 30

Timehri, Journal of Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana, 549

Tinder-box, the Story of a, Chas. M. Tidy, 30

Ti-serand (F.): Nuclei of Great Comet II. of 1882, 358; the Great Comet of 1882, 522; the Movement of Planets, 406 Titanotherium in the British Museum, 346

Titchener (E. B.): Protective Coloration of Eggs, 129; the Cape Weasel, 394

Tittmann (O. H.), Shuckburgh Scale and Kater Pendulum, 538

Tizard (Captain, R.N.), the Thames Estuary, 539

Todd (Prof. David P.), Total Eclipse, 379

Togoland, German, Climate of, Dr. von Danckelman, 545
Toilers in the Sea, M. C. Cooke, 409

Tokio the Earthquake of, April 18, 1889, Prof. Cargill G.
Knott, 32; Redetermination of Latitude in, Watanabe,
427
Tomlinson (Herbert, F. R.S.): Effect of Repeated Heating and
Cooling on Electrical Coefficient of Annealed Iron, 166;
Exact Thermometry, 198; the Villari Critical Points in
Nickel and Iron, 574

Topinard (Dr.), Charlotte Corday's Skull, 500
Topographical Survey of India, 140

Toronto University, Burning of, 371

Torpedo, Cranial Nerves.of, J. C. Ewart, 477

Total Eclipse of January 1, 1889, Prof. Holden, 305

Total Eclipse of December 22, 1889, 229; M. A. De La Baume Pluvinel, 428

Total Eclipse, Prof. David P. Todd, 379

Touraco, the Pigment of the, and the Tree Porcupine, Frank E.
Beddard, 152

Traherne (Major John P.), the Habits of the Salmon, 74
Traill (T. W.), Boilers, Marine and Land, 486
Trains, Earth-Tremors from, H. H. Turner, 344
Trajectories of Shot, on Certain Approximate Formulæ for
Calculating the, Prof. J. C. Adams, 258

Transliteration, a Uniform System of Russian, 396; Chas. E.
Groves, F.R.S., 534; W. F. Kirby, 535
Trautweiler (Herr), Proposed Jungfrau Railway, 303
Travels in France, Arthur Young, 294

Travels in India of Jean Baptiste Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne, translated by Dr. V. Ball, F.R.S., 313

Tree Porcupine, the Pigment of the, Frank E. Beddard, 152 Trees growing in an Inverted Position, Herr Kny, 86 Trichosanthes palmata, a New Green Vegetable Colouring Matter, C. Michie Smith, 573

Trieste, Earthquake at, 519

Trivier (Captain), Arrival at Mozambique of, 165
Troglodytic Remains in Jerusalem, Herr Schick, 284

Tropical Diseases, the Relation of the Soil to, A. Ernest
Roberts, 31

Trotter (A. B.): Geometrical Construction of Direct-Reading Scales for Reflecting Galvanometers, 478; Parallel Motion suitable for Recording Instruments, 478

Trouton (Fred. T.), Multiple Resonance obtained in Hertz's
Vibrators, 295

Tschermak (G.), Die mikroskopische Beschaffenheit der Meteor-
iten erläutert durch photographische Abbildungen, 127
Tuning-Forks: a Method of Driving, Electrically, W. G.
Gregory, 47; the Testing of, Dr. Lehmann, 383
Tunzelmann (G. W. de), Electricity in Modern Life, 561
Turacin, Solubility of, in Pure Water, Frank E. Beddard, 152
Turkestan, Earthquakes in, 230

Turkeys, Brush-, on the smaller Islands North of Celebes, Dr.
A. B. Meyer, 514

Turnbull (Robert), Index of British Plants, 196

Turner (A. E.), Compounds of Phenanthraquinones with Metallic Salts, 191

Turner (H. H.): Total Solar Eclipse of 1886, 88; Earth Tremors from Trains, 344

Twenty Years, Progress of NATURE during, I

Tylor (Dr. E. B., F.R.S.), Explanation of Assyrian Sculptured Group, 283

Typhus and Ground-water Variations, the Hamburg Epidemic, 570

Tyrol, Earthquakes in the, 569

Ungulates, the Titanotherium in the British Museum, 346
Unio, Tasmanian, Variability of, R. M. Johnston, 303
United States: Fishery Industries of the, George Brown Goole
178; Meteorology in, 231; Land Grants to Educational is-
stitutions in, 448; Earthquakes in, 569

University, Burning of Toronto, 371
University Extension Journal, 325
University, Helsingfors, 400

University Intelligence, 23, 92, 140, 166, 212, 332, 357
University, Johns Hopkins, 448

University, Montpellier, Proposed Commemoration of Founding of, 447

University, the Proposed Reconstitution of London, 282, 348 University of St. Andrews, £100,000 Bequest to, 41

Upham (Wm.), the late Prof. H. C. Lewis, 255

Urea, on Animal Heat and the Combustion of, Berthelot and P. Petit, 94

Ursa Majoris, on the Spectrum of $, Prof. Pickering, 285

Vaccination, History and Pathology of, E. M. Crookshank,
Dr. Robert Cory, 486

Vade Mecum, J. Č. Houzeau, 69
Vandalism in Egypt, 447

Variable Stars: Y Cygni, 88; New, in Hydra, 88; Period of U Coronæ, S. C. Chandler, 163; Variable Star in Cluster G.C. 3636, Prof. Pickering, 183; Observations of some Suspected, Rev. John G. Hagen, 233; Variability of R Vulpeculæ, 257; New Variable Star in Cælum, 571; Prof. Pickering, 571

Variation, Causes of, E. D. Cope on the, Prof. E. Ray Lan. kester, F.R. S., 128

Vatican Observatory, 472

Vautier (M.), Propagation of Sound, 359

Vegetable Colouring-matter, a New Green, C. Michie Smith, 573

Velocity of the Propagation of Gravitation, J. Van Hepperger, 472

Venn (Dr. John, F. R. S.), Cambridge Anthropometry, 450
Venus (Dr. K. E.), Death of, 207

Verescz's Discovery as to Photographing in Natural Colours, 469

Vertebrate Animals of Leicestershire and Rutland, Montagu Browne, 220

Vesuvius in 1889, Prof. Palmieri, 18

Vesuvius, Mount, J. Logan Lobley, 195

Vezes (M.): Double Nitrites of Ruthenium and Potassium, 23; a Nitrosoplatinichloride, 576

Vibrating Strings, Melde's, Rev. W. Sidgreaves, 355
Vibration, Microseismic, of the Earth's Crust, Prof. G. H
Darwin, F. R.S., 248

Vico (1884), Identity of Comet, with Brooks's (1889), 233
Victoria Falls, Matabele Land and the, Frank Oates, R. Bowdler
Sharpe, 169

Victoria Hall and Morley Memorial College, 343
Victoria, Minor Planet (12), Dr. Gill, 139
Victoria, Report of Bendigo School of Mines, 209

Vidal (Mr.), Mortality from Snake-bite in Ratnagherry District, 325

Vidal (M. Sebastien), Death of, 348

Viking Age, the, Paul B. Du Chailiu, 173

Villari Critical Points in Nickel and Iron, the, Herbert Tomlinson, F.R.S., 574

Vilmorin (H. de), Salad Plants, 494
Vincent and Delachanal, Sorbite, 23

Vines (Dr. Sydney H., F. R.S.), and Prof. A. Weismann's
Theory of Heredity, 317, 373, 439

Vins, Manuel de l'Analyse des, Ernest Barillot, 510
Violle (M.), Propagation of Sound, 359

Virchow (Dr.), the Spiracle Gill of Selachians, 119
Vision, Electrical Radiation from Conducting Spheres, an
Electric Eye, and a Suggestion Regarding, Prof. Oliver J.
Lodge, F. R. S., 462

Vision, Testing for Practical Purposes, Brudenell Carter, 302
Visualized Irages Produced by Music, Geo. E. Newton, 417
Viticulture, Congress for, at Rome, 426

Vogel (Prof.), Spectroscopic Observations of Algol, 285 Voice Figures, Mrs. Watts Hughes, 42

Volcanoes: Great Eruption in Japan, 400; Notes on a Recent Volcanic Island in the Pacific, Captain W. J. L. Wharton, F.R.S., 276; Volcanic Rocks of Caernarvonshire, Alfred