SECTIONS. INDEX OF AUTHORS. 



183 



Short (Mrs.) on the natives of Timor and 



Macassar, 1846, 115. 

 * on the inhabitants of Port Essington, 



1846, 117. 

 SiiORTREDE (Colonel) on the force of vapour, 



1846, 16. 



on a chart of the dew-point, 1847, 42. 



on calculating lunars, 1859, 4. 



on an improvement in the propor- 

 tional compass, 1859, 63. 



* on decimal coinage, 1859, 223. 



Shuttlewortii (Mr.) on the vital statistics 

 of the spinners and piecers employed in 

 the fine cotton rniUs of Manchester, 1842, 



93- 



SiBBALD (Dr.) on a new plan for a ship 

 communicator, 1856, 164. 



SiBsoN (Mr.) on an apparatus for delineating 

 correctly the relative position and size of 

 the viscera, either in the healthy condition 

 or changed by disease, 1845, 85. 



^Siegfried (Dr.) on an inscription in the 

 language of ancient Gaul, and on the 

 recent researches of Zeuss and others into 

 that language, 1857, 154. 



Siemens (C. W.) and M. Werner, outline of 

 the principles and practice involved in 

 dealing with the electric conditions of 

 submarine electric telegraphs, 1860, 32. 



SiLBERMANN (T. J.) ou a method for the 

 spherical printing of globes, 1858, 154. 



on a universal printing-press, 1858, 



220. 



* on a universal cock, 1858, 221. 



SiLjESTROM (Dr.) on those variations of the 

 force and the direction of the terrestrial 

 magnetism which seem to depend on the 

 aurora borealis, 1848, 4. 



on the conditions of equilibrium in a 



rotating spheroid, 1858, 5. 



on the distribution of heat in the inte- 

 rior of the earth, 1858, 23. 



on the magnetic dip at Stockholm, 



1858, 27. 



on the constitution of comets, 1858, 



so- 



on observations of temperature, 1858, 



39- 



Silver (S. W.) on gutta percha and india 

 rubber as insulators for subaqueous tele- 

 graphic wires, 1860, 212. 



*SiLVER (T.) on the importance of regu- 

 lating the speed of marine engines, 1857, 

 198. 



Sim (W.) on the blasting and quarrying of 

 rocks, 1855, 209. 



SiMMONDS (P. L.) on rain-falls for a series 

 of years at home and in foreign countries, 

 1855, 45. 



on the growth and commercial pro- 

 gress of the two Pacific states of Cali- 

 fornia and Australia, 1855, 188. 



, statistics of newspapers of various 



countries, 1855, 188. 



Simons (W.) on improvements in iron ship- 

 bmlding, 1860, 212. 



Simpson (Dr. J.) on the temperature of the 



air at Point Barrow, 1857, 37. 

 Simpson (J. G.) on the contagiousness of 



cholera, 1837, 108. 

 Sims (Mr.) on some specimens of borate of 



lime, 1854, 75. 

 Slaney (Mr.) on wages in manufacturing 



districts, 1837, 138. 

 Sleigh (Capt. A. W.) on the buoyant float- 

 water, 1843, 102. 

 ^^Slimon (R.) on new forms of Crustacea 



from the district of Lesmahago, 1855, 



96. 

 Sloper (G. B.) on the filtration of water for 



the supply of towns, 1844, 102. 

 *Smith (Mr.) on the drainage of railway 



embankments and slopes, 1840, 209. 

 * on timber bridges, 1840, 209. 



on propelling boats on canals, 1840, 



209. 



* on propelling boats, 1844, 98. 



*Smith (A.) on a graphic method of cor- 

 recting the deviations of a ship's compass, 

 1854, 13. 



on the origin of wire rope, its qualities 



and economy, 1854, 162. 



Smith (C. Roach) on a Roman sepulchral 

 inscription on an Anglo-Saxon urn in the 

 Faussett collection, 1855, 145. 



Smith (Dr.) on the action of nitric acid on 

 naphtha, 1844, 33. 



*Smith (Dr. E.) on a new method of deter- 

 mining the quantity of carbonic acid 

 contained in the air, 1858, 66. 



on the results obtained from an ex- 

 tended inquiry into the quantity of car- 

 bonic acid evolved from the lungs under 

 the influence of various agents, 1858, 

 142. 



on the methods hitherto adopted for 



the determination of the carbonic acid 

 contained in the expired air, with the 

 description of a new method, 1858, 

 142. 



* on the sequence in the phenomena 



observed in man under the influence of 

 alcohol, 1859, 265. 



on the action of tea and alcohols, 1860, 



145- 



Smith (Rev. G. N.) on three un described 

 bone-caves near Tenby, 1860, 10 1. 



Smith (Col. Hamilton) on the colossal Se- 

 piadse, 1841, 73. 



Smith (Prof. H. J. S.) on systems of inde- 

 terminate linear equations, 1860, 6. 



*Smith (J.) on a new steam-boiler, 1842, 



*Smitii (J.) on the relations of a circle in- 

 scribed in a square, 1859, 10. 



Smith (James, of Deanston) on a new canal 

 lock, 1840, 210. 



on a salmon stair, 1840, 136. 



Smith (James, of Jordan Hill) on some fossil 

 trees, 1835, 63. 



on the changes which have taken place 



in the levels of Scotland, 1837, 87. 



