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INDEX. 



Spectrum, the long, of electric light, 



166. 



Spheroids of incompressible liquid, dy- 

 namical problems regarding, 274. 

 Spinal cord, researches on the develop- 

 ment of the, in man, mammalia, and 

 birds, 141. 

 Spongiadse, anatomy and physiology of 



(Part III.), 146. 



Spottiswoode (W.) on the equations 

 of rotation of a solid body about a 

 fixed point, 523. 



Stanley (E.), obituary notice of, Ixiii. 

 Steam, superheated, law of expansion- of, 



53. 

 Steenstrup (J. J. S.), elected foreign 



member, 611. 



Stenhouse (J.), additional observations 

 on the proximate principles of the 

 lichens, 263, 315. 



on quinidine, and some double 



tartrates of the organic bases, 491. 

 , preliminary notice of an examina- 

 tion of Rubia munjista, the East In- 

 dian madder, or munjeet of com- 

 merce, 633. 



Stewart (B.) on the forces concerned 

 in producing the larger magnetic dis- 

 turbances, 194. 



on the magnetic disturbance which 



took place on the 14th December 1862, 

 663. 



on the change in the elastic force 



of a constant volume of dry atmo- 

 spheric air between 32 P. and 212 R, 

 and on the temperature of the freez- 

 ing-point of mercury, 674. 

 Stokes (Or. G.) on the long spectrum of 



electric light, 166. 



Stomach, dissection of ganglia and nerves 

 of the, 134. 



, on the immunity of the, from being 



digested by its own secretion during 

 life, 386, 559. 

 Striped muscle, distribution of nerves to 



the elementary fibres of, 136. 

 Submarine cables, experimental re- 

 searches on the transmission of sig- 

 nals through, 198. 



, on the relative speed of the 



electric wave through : unit of speed 

 for comparing, 211. 



Sunlight, direct and diffuse, on the mea- 

 surement of the chemical action of, 336. 

 Sun's disc, measurement of the chemical 

 brightness of various portions of, 648. 

 Superheated steam, law of expansion of, 



Surface of the third order, distribution 

 of, into species, 327. 



Surfaces, on certain developable, 279. 



Sutcliffe (T.), notice of remarkable hail- 

 stones which fell at Headingley, near 

 Leeds, on the 7th May 1862, 239, 271. 



Sylvester (J. J.) on a question of com- 

 pound arrangement, 561. 



on a theorem relating to polar 



umbrae, 563. 



on the degree and weight of the 



resultant of a multipartite system of 

 equations, 674. 



Tannin, influence of solutions of, on 

 blood-corpuscles, 481. 



Tate (T.) on the law of expansion of 

 superheated steam, 53. 



Terrestrial magnetism, on the diurnal 

 inequalities of, 529. 



Thallic acid, 154. 



Thallium, preliminary researches on, 150. 



, oxides of, 154 ; chloride and sul- 

 phide of, 155. 



, note on the spectrum of, 407. 



, on, 438. 



Thermo-electric currents of the Bitterian 

 species, 565. 



Thompson (Lieut.-Gen. T. P.) on the 

 theory of parallels, 268, 272. 



Thomson (William) on the rigidity of 

 the earth, 103. 



on the thermal effects of fluids in 



motion' (Part IV.), 202. 



, dynamical problems regarding 



elastic spheroidal shells and sphe- 

 roids of incompressible liquid, 274. 



Thomson (Wyville) on the embryogeny 

 of Comatula rosacea, 426. 



Tides, semidiurnal, of Port Leopold, 278. 



Tiedemann (P.), obituary notice of, 

 xxvii. 



Torell (O.), explorations in Spitzber- 

 gen, undertaken by the Swedish Ex- 

 pedition in 1861, with the view of 

 ascertaining the practicability of the 

 measurement of an arc of the meridian. 

 658. 



Transparency, photographic, 159. 



Tribasic acids, on the synthesis of, 236. 



Tribrom-beta-orcin, 267. 



Tyndall (J.) on the relation of aqueous 

 vapour to radiant heat, 326. 



on the absorption and radiation 



of heat by gaseous and liquid matter 

 (fourth memoir), 679. 



Ulnar nerve, symptoms resulting from 

 refrigeration and compression of the. 

 89. 



Ultra-elliptic functions, new method of 

 approximation applicable to, 57. 



