1874.) 
Ricue, A., researches on_ alloys, 
especially those of copper and tin, 
I2I 
RicHTER, Prof. Tu., ‘* PLATTNER’S 
Manual of Qualitative and Quan- 
titative Analysis with the Blow- 
pipe ” (review), 531 
RICHTHOFEN, Baron von, coal-fields 
in China, 120 
— description of ‘‘ loess,”’ 126 
Rivotite, mineral, 540 
Rock drilling, 414 
RopwELt, G. F., ‘* Birth of Chemis- 
try’ (review). 251 
Rouric, Dr.. and Mr. HaAas, 
ores in Bidasoa, 120 
Roux and Payen, natro-metallurgy, 
iron 
a process for refining impure 
lead, 408 
RUTHERFORD, W., freezing microtome, 
128 
RuTLEY, F., ‘“‘ Mineralogy ”’ (review), 
533 
AELTZER, A., “ Treatise on 
Acoustics in Connection with 
Ventilation, and an Account 
of the Modern and Ancient 
Methods of Heating and Ven- 
tilation ” (review), 118 
Sand blast, 273 
“Sanitary Engineering” 
IIo 
Satpura, or Narbada coal basin, 262 
SCHEELE’S green, unhealthiness of 
rooms prepared with, 281 
ScuHraurF, Dr., monograph of minerals, 
205 
— observations about Brookite, 123 
SCHUNGEL, Dr., on sound, 280 
“Science and Art, Year-Book of 
Facts in” (review), 403 
“Science and Industry, Annual Re- 
cord of” (review), III, 398 
‘‘Science, Light, for Leisure Hours ” 
(review), 105 
Scott, R. H., method of recording 
barometric and thermometric ob- 
servations, I1g 
Sea, loss of life at, 465 
Sections, naphthalin for cutting, 130 
SEELEY, murzousaurus, discovery of, 
AI5 
Sewage, improvement at Rheims, 124 
SHELLEY, C. P. B., ‘Workshop Ap- 
pliances ”’ (review), tog 
Ships, 412 
— designs for, 412 
Siberia, Steppes of, 545 
Signals, 412 
Silicon in pig-iron, 407 
VOL. IV. (N.S.) 
(review), 
INDEX. 
boy 
Siliceous stones and agates, phos- 
phorescent glow shown by, 266 
Simpson, J. B., coal-fields and mining 
industries of Russia, 538 
SINGERLY, B., ‘Fourth Annual Re- 
port of the Board of Com- 
missioners of Public Charities 
of the State of Pennsylvania” 
(review), 532 
Slag for blast-furnace, utilising, 264 
Slide, new syphon, 567 
SmiTH, C., distribution of spathic 
iron ores, 406 
— J., ‘‘ Fruits and Farinacea Proper 
Food of Man” (review), 239 
Smytu, R. B., mineral resources in 
Victoria, 406 
— J., Upper Bann, 541 
SNELUS, G. J., spiegeleisen, 407 
SOKOLNICKI, Count, counterfeit wines, 
280 
Sound, source and velocity of, 280 
Spathic iron ores, distribution of, 406 
Specimen of glass trom the American 
sand-blast, 130 
Spectra, refracted and diffracted, re- 
lation between, 27 
“ Spectroscope and its Applications” 
(review), 102 
Spectrum of the opal, 266 
SPENCE, P., steam economy, 268 
Spiegeleisen, 407 
Spiritualism,notes ofan inquiry into,77 
St. Criarr, G., “Darwinism and De- 
sign; or Creation by Evolu- 
tion” (review), 22 
Statistics in connection with the coal 
produce of England, 119 
— mineral, 263 
Steam economy, 268 
— navigation, 541 
“Steam, Elementary Treatise on” 
(review), 395 
“Steel, Enquiry into the Mechanical 
Properties of” (review), 398 
STELYNER, A., mineralogy, 409 
STEVENS, A. J., application of com- 
pressed air to underground 
haulage, 120 
STEWART, B., “ Conservation of 
Energy ”’ (review), 232 
Stoticzka, F., death of, 546 
Street pavements, 268 
Strength of boilers, 125 
— of iron ships, 412 
StTrovER, G. A., metals and minerals 
of Upper Burmah, 139 
** Students’ Animal Physiology” (re- 
view), 257 
Study of asmanite, 265 
— of corundum, 265 
