556 INDEX. 
Rogerts, W. C., certain alloys of 
silver and copper, 549 
Rocks of the mining district of Corn- 
wall, 401 
RopwELL, G. F., the Arctic expedi- 
tion of 1875, 504 
Rolling of ships, 397 
Roselite, monograph, I15 
Rotary puddling furnace, 272 
“Royal Society of Victoria ” (re- 
view), 106 
were J., “Botany” (review), 
378 
SaDEBECK, A., crystallisation of gale- 
na, 396 
“Sanitary Report on Slaughtering 
Animals in New York” (review), 
367 
** Science Absolue ” (review), 368 
“Science, Fragmentary Papers on” 
(review), 371 
— her claims, position, and duties, 75 
Selenography, 202 
Sewage—its use and abuse, 396 
— of Northampton, 396 
Ships, rolling of, 397 
Sipewick, H., ‘* Method of Ethics ”’ 
(review), 258 
Silicon in platinum causing brittle- 
ness, I14 
Silver from cupreous iron pyrites, 
extraction of, 394 
Skey, W., torbanite, 274 
«Skull and Brain; their Indications 
of Chara@er and Anatomical 
Relations ”’ (review), 531 
Smelting by natives, methods for, 393 
SmiTH, J. L., Warwickite, 274 
—R.A., ‘‘ Peculiar Fog seen in Ice- 
land” (review), 373 
SmyTH, W. W., ores of iron, 394 
Spar torpedo warfare, 398 
Spectroscope in its application to 
mint assaying, 79 
Spiritualism, 266 
— ‘Modern, Identity of Primitive 
Christianity (review), 357 
Statistics, mineral, 112 
“Steam, Safe Use of”’ (review), 367 
Steel tempering, 273 
Steel and iron, improvements in, 273 
Sub-plutonic and marine tossil de- 
posits, 121 
Sub-Wealden exploration, abandon- 
ment of, 403 
** Sulphur in Iceland” (review), 102 
— mines of Sicily, 394 
Sweden coal, 116 
SwIFT, convenient lamp fcr micro- 
scopists, 405 
[October, 
BP EMESEING steel, 273 
“ Terre la Vegetale”’ (review), 364 
Thermo-electric battery, report on, 
406 
Thermometers, freezing-point of, 122 
Thinker, the rights of, 297 
Tuomson, J., “Science Absolue” 
(review), 368 
Torvedo spar warfare, 397 
TopLrey, ammonites found in Oxford 
clay, 118 
Torbanite, 274 
‘Tone, Sensations of as a Physio- 
logical Basis for the Theory of 
Music ” (review), 524 
Toughened glass, 408 
Transit of Venus, 169, 259, 264, 379 
TSCHERMAK, meteoric masses _ at 
Ovifak, 115 
Tuberculosis and consumption, 376 
Tunnel, the Channel, 486 
TYNDALL, J., science, her claims, 
position, and duties, 75 
— ‘‘ Six Le@ures on Light ” (review), 
2 
— ‘* Sound ”’ (review), 527 
Uvricu, G. F., report on the gold 
districts of provinceof Otago, 549 
Ure’s “ Dictionary of Arts, Manu- 
factures, and Mines” (review), 
529 
Vo and quantities of the 
metals of Great Britain, 113 
“‘ Vegetale, la Terre”’ (review), 364 
Venus, transit of, 169, 259, 264, 379 
ViepT, C. H., aniline inks, 407 
Violet and blue stains, 121 
ARD, J. C., metamorphism in 
Cambrian ash rocks, 117 
Warwickite, 274 
Water supply, constant systems of, 
and prevention of waste, 396 
WENHAM, oblique vision of surface 
structure under the _ highest 
powers of the microscope, 404 
WEINHOLD, A. F., ‘‘ Physics, ‘Theore- 
tical and Practical” (review), 255 
WILLANS, iron and steel, improve- 
ments in, 273 
Wire rope street tramways, 398 
Woop, C., improved form of hearth 
for blast-furnaces, 548 
Woopwarb, H.B., origin of Cheddar 
cliffs, 118 
Dy Ceobeca aes and Monayite, 274 
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