450 INDEX. 



Sabine, (Captain Edward) Sir Godfrey Copley's prize medal 

 awarded to, 300 — Sir Humphry Davy's address on the occa- 

 sion, 302-304 — account of his experiments for determining the 

 acceleration of the pendulum in different latitudes, 363-367 



Salifiable base, account of anew one, 177, 178 



Salt, on the contamination of, for manufactories, 169 



Scarlet Fever, preservative against, 428 



Scrofula, on the use of iodine in, 243-245 



Sea Water, curious effect of on cast iron, 407 



Secret Writing, remarks on, by means of ciphers 21-29 — easy 

 and secure method of, 292, 293 



Sementini, (II Cavalier) observations of, on the use of nitrate of 

 silver in medicine, 189, 190 



Shaw, (John Esq.) observations of, on the difference of the 

 functions in certain nerves of the face, illustrated by their 

 anatomy in the inferior animals, and by a comparison of 

 their uses in man and brutes, 231-240 — comparative anatomy 

 of the fifth pair of nerves, 240-243 



Shetland (Isles), remarks on the chart of, 206-229 



Ships, account of a new adhesive lining for the sheathing of, 

 168, 169 



Silver, on the use of nitrate of, in epilepsy, 189, 190 — experi- 

 ments and observations on the atomic weight of, 286-288 



Skull of a deer, found in a tree, notice of, 193 



Smoke, pernicious effects of, to the inhabitants of London, in the 

 seventeenth century, 343, 344 — in the eighteenth century, 

 345 — and at the present time, 346 — remedy suggested for, 

 347 — account of various expedients for consuming smoke, 

 348-354 



Societies (Scientific) proceedings of. The Royal Society of 

 London, 119 — 300-305 — remarks on the inconveniencies re- 

 sulting from the division and subdivision of the scientific es- 

 tablishments of London, 120-124 



South (James, Esq.) the clock's daily rate and error at one time of 

 the day being known, a table to find its corresponding rate 

 and error throughout the day, 155-166 



Spain, statistics of, 431, 432 



Spar (brown) of Mexico, analysis of, 272-274 — and of bitter 

 spar, from the Tyrol, 276 



Sphinx, ancient, discovered at Colchester, 1 — its dimensions, 2 — 

 reasons for thinking it to be of Roman wokmanship, in 

 Britain, 3-5 — description of a bronze sphinx, 5 — the Colches- 

 ter sphinx not older than the time of the first Claudius, 6 — 

 though the respect for the sphinx may be traced to the time of 

 Augustus, 6-8 — this sphinx probably placed in the pro-naos, 

 or vestibule of the temple of Claudius, 10 — instances, from an- 

 tiquity, of sphinxes represented as having completed the de- 

 struction of their victims, 11-13 — probable circumstances that 



