INDEX. 



799 



" Simplex sigillum veri," i. 401. 



Simpson, Sir J. Y., introduced chlor- 

 oform, i. 93. 



Sinison, Robert, Scotch university pro- 

 fessor, i. 272 ; and Stewart, ii. 658. 



Skoda, i. 198, 208. 



Sloman on the invention of the calculus, 

 i. 101. 



Smellie, William, ' Edinburgh Magazine 

 and Review,' i. 273. 



Smiles, 'Life of Thomas Edwards,' i. 

 287. 



Smith, Adam, imported ideas from 

 France, i. 16 ; intercourse with French 

 thought, 268 ; 272 ; influence of, 273 ; 

 ii. 415 ; human culture, 529. 



Smith, H., translation of Schwann's 

 principal work, ii. 263 ; on con- 

 gruence, 723 ; his report, ib. 



Smith, Sydney, lectured at Royal In- 

 stitution, i. 249, 264 ; ' Edinburgh 

 Review,' 273. 



Smith, William, on ' Strata,' i. 230 ; 

 father of English geology, 291 ; study 

 of fossil remains, ii. 225 ; tabular 

 view of the British strata, 293. 



Snell, deflection of rays of light, i. 

 356. 



Societe Philomatique, bulletin of, i. 

 41. 



Society, Royal, i. 227. 



Socrates, ethical philosophy of, ii. 4. 



Soemmering, ii. 247 ; influences Herder. 

 532. 



Sohuke, L., ' Entwickelung der Theorie 

 der Krystallstructur,' i. 443. 



Sommer, edition of Herschel ' On the 

 Construction of the Heavens,' ii. 

 283. 



Sophocles, i. 261. 



Sound and colour, analogy between, ii. 

 489. 



Sound and light, mechanical difference 

 between, ii. 30. 



South, not member of any university, i. 

 239 



Southey, ' Thalaba,' i. 84. 



Spanheim, recognition of Bentley, i. 

 169. 



Species, changes of, services of Lamarck 

 and Saint Hilaire to the study of, 

 debatable, i. 201. 



Spectrum analysis, i. 277, ii. 45 et seq.; 

 clue to, 47 ; 359. 



Speculation, meaning and scope of the 

 term, i. 64. 



Speeding, James, i. 282. 



Spencer, Herbert, first English system 

 of philosophy, i. 48 ; on the " Un- 



knowable," 53, ii. 326 ; constructive 

 ideas of, i. 81 ; system of, ii. '205 : 

 works of, 210 ; vocabulary and ideas 

 of evolution, 214 ; conceptions of, 

 246 ; ' Principles of Biology ' quoted, 

 270 ; "physiological units," 272, 424, 

 610 ; philosophy of, 279, 346 ; quoted, 

 288 ; ' Biology,' 322, 323, 406, 438 ; 

 351; "survival of the fittest," ib.; 

 " Factors of Organic Evolution," 353 ; 

 dynamical aspect of science, 355 ; 

 " On the Nebular Hypothesis," 358 ; 

 " direct equilibration," 436; law of 

 limit of growth, 445 ; theory of evolu- 

 tion, 455 ; and Weismann, 460 ; 

 anthropological work, 497 ; 511 : 

 study of sociology, 530 ; 607, 60S, 

 749. 



Spinoza, influence of, on German 

 thought and literature, i. 212; on 

 German philosophy, ii. 205 : 251 ; 

 animation of all matter, 369 ; psycho- 

 physical parallelism, 519 ; 535. 

 Spix, morphological analogies, ii. 251. 

 Spon, Jacob, archaeologist, i. 295. 

 Sprengel, Chr. C., ii. 230, 261 ; fer- 

 tilisation of plants, 338; investiga- 

 tions of, 415. 



Spurzheim, Joh. Chr., i. 136; phren- 

 ology, ii. 477, 479. 

 Squares, method of least, ii. 576. 

 Stae'l, Mme. de, at>d German literature, 

 i. 17 ; 225 ; writings of Herder, ii. 

 531. 



Stagemann, i. 45. 



Stahl, animist (medicine), i. 126 ; 

 elaborated the phlogistic theory, 387 ; 

 " Anima,"ii. 388, 503. 

 Stair, Earl of, first agricultural or- 

 ganisation in Scotland, i. 284. 

 Stas, J. S. , measurements of, i. 403. 

 Statics, ii. 5 ; and dynamics, 144. 

 Statistical, methods, used largely by 

 Napoleon, i. 153 ; view of nature, 

 i. 438, ii. 546, 548 ; application in 

 physics, 589 ; knowledge of nature, 

 600. 



Statistics, beginning of science of, i. 

 121 ; ii. 548 et seq.; in France, 

 Germany, and England, 562 ; social, 

 583 ; pretensions of, 586. 

 Sta'idt, C. G. C. von, his geometry, i. 

 44, 181, 275 ; and Gauss, ii. 652; on 

 imaginary elements, 661 ; 669 ; his 

 work expounded by Reye, Ltiroth. 

 and Fiedler, ib. ; and Cayley, 718 ; 

 Klein on, ib. 



Stebbiug, Thomas R. R., "Naturalist 

 of Cumbrae," i. 289. 



