SECTIONS. INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 



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Societies, scientific and literary, A. Eyland 

 on the income, &c. of, 1841, 95. 



Society of Arts' Examinations, on some of 

 the results of the, by J. P. Hennessy, 

 1858, 180; 1859, 214. 



Soda, Prof. T. Andrews on the discovery of 

 minute quantities of, by the action of po- 

 larized light, 1852, 33. 



, caustic, and iodine. Prof. F. Penny on 



• a new salt obtained from, 1840, 80. 



, chloride of. Dr. Graves on its use in 



fever, 1835, 104. 



, phosphate of, H. H. Watson on the 



results of experiments on, 1836, 48. 



, phosphate and pyrophosphate of, 



H. H. Watson on the, 1836, 48. 



or potash, hypochlorite of, on a method 



for determining the amount of available 

 chlorine in, by Dr. A. P. Price, 1853, 48. 



Soil, surface. Dr. Daubeny on the import- 

 ance of ascertaining the minute portions 

 of matter derived from organic sources 

 that may be preserved in the, 1842, 37. 



Soils, Prof. J. F. W. Johnston on the causes, 

 physical and chemical, of the diversities of, 

 1853, 43. 



Solanum tuberosum. Dr. Schiede on,1836,77. 



Solar eclipse (1851), Prof. C. P. Smyth on the 

 red prominences seen during the, 1852, 13. 



eyepiece, H. Lawson on the arrange- 

 ment of a, 1846, 9. 



light. Prof. Daubeny on an apparatus 



for obtaining an estimate of the intensity 

 of, 1839, 6. 



radiation, A. Claudet on different pro- 

 perties of the, in producing or preventing 

 a deposit of mercury on silver plates 

 coated with iodine or its compounds, with 

 chlorine and bromine, modified by co- 

 loured glass media and the vapours of 

 the atmosphere, 1847, 35. 



radiation. Prof. C. P. Smyth on the 



constancy of, 1856, 28. 



rays. Sir J. F. W. Herschel on an in- 

 strument for measuring their heating 

 power, 1833, 379. 



rays, on the diminution of their in- 

 tensity in traversing the atmosphere, by 

 Prof. J. D. Forbes, 1833, 380. 



rays, Eev. J. Gumming on an instru- 

 ment for measuring the heating efiect of 

 the, 1833, 418. 



rays, Sir J. F. W. Herschel on the 



chemical action of the, 1839, 9. 



rays, E. Hunt on the chemical changes 



produced by the, 1845, 29. 



refraction, Prof. C. P. Smyth on, 1855, 



29. 



spectrum. Sir D. Brewster on some ex- 

 periments with the, 1837, 12. 



spectrum. Sir D. Brewster on the 



structure of a part of the, hitherto unex- 

 amined, 1842, 15. 



spectrum, on the law of the wave- 

 lengths corresponding to certain points in 

 the, by M. Ponton, 1859, 20, 



Solar spots, Prof. Henry on the heat of the, 



1845, 6. 

 spots and fseculae, M. Chacornac on, 



1854, 19. 

 -. time, on a means of determining the 



apparent, by the diurnal changes of the 



plane of polarization at the north pole of 



the sky, by Prof. Wheatstone, 1848, 10. 

 Solid of least resistance, J. S. Eussell on the, 



1835, 107. 

 Solidification of bodies under great pressure, 



W. Fairbairn on the, 1854, 149. 

 Solids, Prof. W. J. M. Eankine on the laws 



of the elasticity of, 2. 

 , expansion of, by heat, R. Eoberts on 



the, 1850, i6. 

 Solutions, dichromatic. Dr. J, H. G-ladstone 



on some, 1856, 10. 

 , saccharine, and other liquids, on a 



pan for evaporating, by E. Davis, 1859, 



230. 

 Solvent power of acetates, J. Mercer, jun. 



on the, 1844, 32. 

 Sorex, Eev. L. Jenyns on certain species of, 



1838, 104. 

 Sorodiscus rivularis (Alga), Prof. Allman on, 



1846,89. 

 Soukaneeah dialect of the Berber, Prof. W. 



F. Newman on the, 1850, 142. 

 Sound, on the mathematical theory of, by 



Eev. S. Earnshaw, 1858, 34. 

 , J. Herapath on the velocity of, 1831- 



32,559. 

 — — , on the velocity of, in liquid and solid 



bodies of limited dimensions, especially 



along prismatic masses of liquid, by Prof. 



W. J. M. Eankine, 1851, 4. 

 , Mr. Shand on the agency of, 1840, 



, Dr. B. Kane on the interference of, 



1835, 13. 



, J. S. Eussell on certain effects pro- - 



duced on, by the rapid motion of the ob- 

 server, 1848, 37. 



— — , on the efiect of wind on the intensity 

 of, by Prof. Stokes, 1857, 22. 



, Dr. D. B. Eeid on the construction 



of public buildings in reference to, 1835, 



, application of our knowledge of the 



laws of, to the construction of buildings, 



by J. S. Eussell, 1843, 96. 

 , Eev. S. Earnshaw on the triplicity of," 



1860, 58. 

 of thunder, Eev. S. Earnshaw on the 



velocity of the, 1860, 58. 

 Sounds, simple and compound. Abbe Moigno 



on an instrument for registering, 1859, 62. 

 produced in respiration. Dr. Blakiston 



on the, 1839, 99. 

 Sounding, on an instrument for, by E. 



Barklay, 1855, 205. 

 in deep seas, J. P. Joule on a method 



of, 1851, 22. 

 Soundings, deep-sea, and errors therein 



from strata currents, with suggestions for ' 



