INDEX II. 



199 



Stewart (B.) on a thermometer for 

 measuring fluctuations of temperature, 

 47. 



Stevelly (Prof.) on a new method of 

 treating the doctrine of parallel lines, 8. 



Stones, on the corrosive action of smoke 

 on building, 58. 



Stonesfield slate, on a fossil mammal 

 (Stereognathus ooliticus) from the, 73. 



Stoney (Prof. G. Johnstone) on a colli- 

 mator for completing the adjustments 

 of reflecting telescopes, 30. 



Strang (John), on the progress, extent, 

 and value of the porcelain, earthen- 

 ware, and glass manufactureof Glasgow, 

 153 ; on the money-rate of wages of 

 labour in Glasgow and the west of 

 Scotland, 155. 



Strata, palseozoic, on the correlation of 

 the North American and British, 1 75 ; 

 palseontological relations of the Ame- 

 rican and European, 182. 



Stromness, notice of the natural printing 

 of sea- weeds on the rocks in the vicinity 

 of, 90. 



Stroud, in Gloucestershire, on a new spe- 

 cies of Pollicipes in the inferior oolite 

 near, 64. 



St. Thomas, on some minerals from the 

 isle of, 66. 



Sturt (Capt. Charles) on recent discoveries 

 in Australia, 119. 



Strychnia, new method of instituting post- 

 mortem researches for, 53 ; on testing 

 for, ib. ; on a new method of extracting, 

 from nux vomica without alcohol, 54 ; 

 experiments on animals with, and pro- 

 bable reasons for the non-detection of, 

 in certain cases, 55. 



Strychnine, on the detection of, 55. 



Submarine circuits — is the law of squares 

 applicable or not to the transmission 

 of signals in ?, 21. 



Sun, on the eclipse of the, mentioned in 

 the first book of Herodotus, 27. 



Symonds (Rev. W. S.) on some phaeno- 

 mena in the Malvern district, 78 ; on 

 the rocks of Dean Forest, ib. 



Symons (J.) on phenomena recently 

 discovered in the moon, 31. 



Symons (W.) on a modification of the 

 Maynooth cast-iron battery, 16. 



Syro- Arabian railway, a new route to 

 India, 114. 



Tannin, on the conversion of, into gallic 



acid, 52. 

 Tartt (W. M.) on some statistics bearing 



upon the relations existing between 



poverty and crime, 159. 



Telegraphy, on the construction and use 

 of an instrument for determining the 

 value of intermittent or alternating elec- 

 tric currents for purposes of practical, 19. 



Teleosauri, on the skin and food of, 69. 



Telescopes, working model of a machine 

 for polishing specula for lenses and re- 

 flecting, 24 ; on a collimator for com- 

 pleting the adjustment of reflecting, 30. 



Temperature, on a thermometer for mea- 

 suring fluctuations of, 47. 



Tennant (Prof. J.) on a series of descrip- 

 tive labels for mineral collections in 

 public institutions, 57. 



Thermometer, on Negretti and Zambra's 

 mercurial minimum, 40 ; observations 

 with the, during a tour through Pales- 

 tine, and along the shores of the Dead 

 sea, 41 ; on a new method of making 

 maximum self-registering, ib.; on a, 

 for measuring fluctuations of tempera- 

 ture, 47 ; instructions for the graduation 

 of boiling-point, intended for the mea- 

 surement of heights, 49. 



Thonipson (Wm.), photographs of objects 

 of natural history, exhibited, 105. 



Thomson (Prof. W.) on DeJlman's method 

 of observing atmospheric electricity, 17. 



Tides of Nova Scotia, on the, 23. 



Torbay, on the Beekites found in the red 

 conglomerates of, 74. 



Torquay, on the climate of, 48. 



Triassic formation, on the south-easterly 

 attenuation of the, 67. 



Twining (H. R.) on a new method of 

 teaching perspective, 9. 



Ugrians, on the torenic system of the, 108. 



United States, on the tendency of Euro- 

 pean races to become extinct in the, 

 136; on the connexion between slavery 

 in the, and the cotton manufacture in 

 the United Kingdom, 137. 



United Kingdom, on the diversity of 

 measures in the corn-markets of the, 

 137; on the connexion between slavery 

 in the United States, and the cotton 

 manufacture in the, 137. 



Vesuvius and its eruptions, on. 111. 



Vivian (E.) on printing photographs, 

 with suggestions for introducing clouds 

 and artistic effects, 18 ; on the climate 

 of Torquay and South Devon, 48 ; re- 

 searches in Kent's Cavern, Torquay, 

 with the original MS. memoirs of its 

 first opening, by the late Rev. J. 

 MacEnery, 78; on the earliest traces 

 of human remains in Kent's Cavern, 

 119. 



