INDEX 



469 



Silliman, Benjamin, Jr., 115 note 



Silliman, Gold Selleck, 91 



Silliman's Journal, see American 

 Journal of Science 



Sillimari's Travels, 90, 113 



Silurian time, 262 



Sioux Indians, 294 



Siredon, Metamorphosis of, into 

 Amblystoma, by O. C. Marsh, 292 



Sloane Physical Laboratory, Yale 

 University, 345, 350 



Smith, Dr. Nathan, 107 



Smith, Sydney, Biography by Rus- 

 sell, quoted, 98 



Smith, Dr. Theobald, 194 note 



Smithson, James, 130, 138, 271; see 

 also Smithsonian Institution. 



Smithsonian Institution, story of 

 its founding, 130; first Secretary, 

 130, 132, 133; Board of Regents, 

 132; divergent views respecting 

 its direction, 134; partially burned, 

 137; its real function, 139; publi- 

 cation of Contributions to Knowl- 

 edge, 139; meteorological observa- 

 tions, 140; system of exchanges, 

 271, 276; administration of Sec. 

 Baird, 271-275; appropriations by 

 Congress, 276; also 9, 109, 272, 

 275, 3i7 5 367, 368, 392, 393, 395, 

 397, 398, 402 



Snake-bird, On a threadworm infest- 

 ing the brain of a, by Jeffries Wy- 

 man, 198 



Snow, Dr. Frank H. 163 



Solar eclipse, of 1860, 369; 1869, 

 1870, 377 



Solar radiation, researches upon, 128 



Sound, phenomena of, 141 



South America, expedition to, by 

 J. B. Von Spix, 152 



Spencer, Herbert, 260 



Spix, Johann Baptist Von, 152 



Spontaneous generation, 194 



Sprague, Isaac, 83 



Squires, Lewis, 83 



Stamp Act, repeal of, n 



Stassfurt salt deposits, 355 



Stein, John, 78 



Sterling, Dr. Theodore, 430 



Sternberg, C. H., 235 and note, 326 



Stewart, Dugald, 98 



Stiles, Dr. Ezra, 92, 106 



Stokes, Prof. G. G., 142 



Stowell, Prof., 163 



Straight, Prof. H. H., 163 



Striped bass, 274; see also Food-fishes 



Structural Botany, by Asa Gray, 223 



Struve, Otto, 379 



Stutchbury, Samuel, 189 



Subsidence, Theory of, in formation 



of coral reefs, 259-261 

 Sully, Thomas, 80 

 Sumner, Charles, 387 

 Surface tension, 49 

 Surinam toad, gestation of, 198 

 Swainson, William, 85 

 Swordfishes, monograph on the, by 



G. B. Goode, 399 

 Sylvester, James Joseph, 379 

 Sylvester prize, 380 

 Synclines, 255, 256 

 Synclinorium, type of mountain 



range, 256 

 Synoptical Flora of North America, 



by Asa Gray, 219 

 System of Mineralogy, by J. D. 



Dana, 236, 240, 243-245, 251, 264, 



265 



Taconic Question, 262 

 Talisman, The, 401 

 Teignmouth, John Shore, Lord, 97 

 Telegraph, octoplex printing, 425 

 Telegraphic message, first, 126; 



see also, Henry, Joseph 

 Telescope at Washington, 378 

 Tenney, Sanborn, 432 

 Text-book of Geology, by J. D. Dana, 



242, 243, 250 

 Theoretische Astronomie, by Klinker- 



fues, 356 

 Theory of Heat, by Clerk Maxwell, 



349 

 Thermodynamics, Science of, 347- 



349 



Thermoscope, 34 

 Thomas, Dr. Joseph, 316 

 Thornton, Samuel, 97 

 Threadworm Infesting the Brain of a 



Snake-bird, On a, by Jeffries Wy- 



man, 198 



Tiedemann, Friedrich, 150 

 Tokio, Imperial University of, 385 

 Tompkins, Daniel D., 62 

 Toothed birds, 300 

 Torrey, Dr. John, 214-216 

 Torricellian vacuum, 37 



