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SECTIONS. INDEX OF AUTHORS. 



Stephens (J.), a return from Oct. 2, 1837, 

 to Aug. 2, 1838, of prisoners coming 

 under the cognizance of the police in 

 Newcastle, 1838, i66. 



^Stephenson (R.) on the accident to the 

 Britannia Bridge, 1849, iii. 



Stevelly (Prof.), attempt to connect the best- 

 known phenomena of meteorology with 

 established physical principles, 1834, 564. 



on the application of a vernier to a 



scale, not of equal but of variable parts, 

 1834, 596. 



, description of a self -registering baro- 

 meter, 1835, 109. 



on the doubtful algebraic sign in 



certain formulse of algebraic geometry, 

 1836, 5. 



on the mathematical rules for con- 

 structing compensating pendulums, 1836, 



on filling a barometer without an air- 

 pump, and procuring an invariable sur- 

 face in the cistern, 1839, 21. 



on the projection of a star on the dark 



limb of the moon, 1845, 5. 



on the occasional distinct vision of 



rapidly revolving coloured sectors, 1850, 

 21. 



on the limit of weight which may 



safely be laid on a pile driven into the 

 ground, 1854, 163. 



on a method of treating the doctrine 



of parallel lines, 1856, 8. 



Stevenson (R), his reasons for postponing 

 the report on the waste and extension of 

 the land of the east coast of Britain, and 

 the permanency of the relative level of the 

 sea and land, 1831-32, 582. 



Stevenson (T.) on the force of the waves, 

 1850, 189. 



Stewart (Balfour) on certain laws ob- 

 served in the mutual action of sulphuric 

 acid and water, 1855, 70. 



on a thermometer for measuring fluc- 

 tuations of temperature, 1856, 47. 



, experiments on radiant heat, invol- 

 ving an extension of Prevost's theory of 

 exchanges, 1858, 23. 



on radiant heat, 1859, 23. 



* on some recent extensions of Pro- 

 vost's theory of exchanges, 1860, 19. 



Stokes (Prof. G-. G.) on the aberration of 

 light, 1845, 9. 



on the resistance of a fluid to two 



oscillating spheres, 1847, 6. 



on a difficulty in the theory of light, 



1848, 5. 



on the refraction of light beyond the 



critical angle, 1848, 5. 



on the perfect blackness of the centre 



of Newton's rings, 1848, 7. 



on the resistance of the air to pendu- 

 lums, 1848, 7. 



on a mode of measuring the astigma- 

 tism of a defective eye, 1849, 10. 



on the determination of the wave- 



length corresponding with any point of 

 the spectrum, 1849, 11. 



Stokes (Prof. G. G.) on the mode of dis- 

 appearance of Newton's rings in passing 

 the angle of total internal reflexion, 1850, 

 19. 



on metallic reflexion, 1850, 19. 



on a fictitious displacement of fringes 



of interference, 1850, 20. 



on Haidinger's brushes, 1850, 20. 



on a new elliptic analyser, 1851, 14. 



on the optical properties of a recently 



discovered salt of quinine, 1852, 15. 



* on the application of certain optical 



phenomena to chemistry, 1852, 39. 



on the achromatism of a double object- 

 glass, 1855, 14. 



on the effect of wind on the intensity 



of sound, 1857, 22. 



*Stokes (Major J.) on the Lower Danube, 

 1859,197. 



Stokes (Capt. J. L.), survey of the southern 

 part of the middle island of New Zealand, 

 1851, 97. 



Stokes (Dr. W.) on the efiects of accumu- 

 lations of liquids or of air within the 

 cavity of the thorax, 1835, 98. 



Stoney (B. B.) on the formation of the en- 

 trances to tidal basins, 1857, 198. 



Stoney (Prof, G. Johnstone) on a collimator 

 for completing the adjustments of reflect- 

 ing telescopes, 1856, 30. 



, description of an arrangement of 



Grove's battery, 1857, 20. 



on the propagation of waves, 1859, 9. 



on the nomenclature of metrical mea- 

 sures of length, 1859, 243. 



on rings seen in viewing a luminous 



point through fibrous specimens of calc- 

 spar, 1860, 19. 



Stotherd (Lieut.) on a patch of granite in 

 Cavan, 1835, 58. 



Stow (D.) on moral training for large towns, 

 1855, 191. 



*Strachey (Capt.) on hourly meteorolo- 

 gical observations made in Thibet, 1850, 



43- 



on the geology of a part of the Hima- 

 laya and Thibet, 1851, 69. 



on the botanical geography of a part 



of the Himalaya and Thibet, 1851, 72. 



on the geography of Kumaon and 



Garhwal in the Himalaya, 1851, 92. 



on the inhabitants of Kumdon and 



Garhwal in the Himalaya, 1851, 94. 



on the formula for the wet-bulb ther- 

 mometer, 1852, 31. 



Strang (Dr. J.) on the progress of Glasgow, 

 in population, wealth, manufactures, &c., 

 1850, 162. 



on the progress and extent of steam- 

 boat building in the Clyde, 1852, 120. 



on the progress, extent, and value of 



the coal and iron trade of the west of 

 Scotland, 1856, 193. 



— — on the progress, extent, and value of 



