480 



INDEX. 



Sedgwick (Prof.) on tlie rocks of the 



Cumbrian mountains, 2SJ9. 

 Sevastopol, on the mean temperature 



of, 259. 

 Sewers, on the health of the workmen 



employed in cleansing, 354. 

 Sharpe (D.) on the geology of Lisbon 



and Oporto, 227. 

 Sitka, mean temperature of, 427. 

 Smith (Mr. T. ) on certain phrenomena 



of vision traced to functional actions 



of the brain, 249. 

 Societies, learned : — Royal Society, 60, 



378 ; liinnaean Society, 70, 465; 



Royal Institution of Great Britain, 



72; Cambridge Philosophical So- 

 ciety, 75, 400; British Association, 



77; Geological Society, 220; Royal 



Astronomical Society, 234,390,457; 



Zoological Society, 392, 460. 

 Solids, linear expansion of, by heat, 



266. 

 Somerville's (Mrs.) mechanism of the 



heavens, 242. 

 Sphinx ligustri, on the nervous system 



of the, 382. 

 Spiders, their power to escape from an 



isolated situation, 424. 

 Springs, variations in the quantity of 



water of, 287. 

 Steam, new facts on the production of, 



378. 

 Steel, effect of rust in improving, 472. 

 Sturgeon (W.) on the distribution of 



magnetic polarity in metallic bodies, 



31. 

 Subterranean sounds, on the cause of, 



221. 

 Suspension-bridges, Hodgkinson on, 



207. 



Tartaric acid, isomeric modification of, 

 83. 



Telescope, on the invention of, 9 ;. the 

 interior of the eye reflected on the 

 eye-glass of the, 3 J 8. 



Temperature, mean, of Nicolaieff, 132; 

 of Sevastapol, 259 ; of Sitka, 427 ; 

 of Jloulouk, 429. 



Thames, difference of its level and the 

 sea, 187. 



Timber, on the strength of, 116. 



Tod (D. ) on the anatomy and physio- 

 logy of the ear, 375. 



Torpedo, electricity of the, 67. 



Turner (Dr. E.) on some atomic 

 weights, 109. 



Venus, on the rotation of, 391. 



Vesuvius, on the lava of, 228. 



Vision, on certain phaenomena of, 249. 



Volcano in the Mediterranean, notice 

 of, 60. 



Warrington (R.) on chemical symbols, 

 181. 



Wax, experiments on bees' and vege- 

 table, 166. 



Werner's merits as a geologist, 274. 



Westwood (J. O.) on several new 

 British forms amongst the parasitic 

 hymenopterous insects, 127. 



Whewell's (Prof.) paper on chemical 

 symbols, remarks on, 181. 



Wilton (Rev. C. P. N.) on the geo- 

 logy of the south-east line of coast 

 of Newcastle in Australia, 92. 



York, city of, specification of trades 

 in, 218. 



Yorkshire, on the lower coal series of, 

 349. 



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