Plants, Relations of, 233. 

 Pneumatic Despatch Company, 92. 

 Portable Builiings, New, 117. 

 Printing Machine, New, 101. 

 Printing Machinery, Applegath's 



Improved, 103. 

 Projectiles, Improved, 57. 

 Pseudo-Diascope, the, 144. 

 Purple Dye-colour, New, 189. 

 Pyramid of Nature, the, 153. 

 Railway Break, Electro-magnetic, 71. 

 Railway Permanent Way, 71. 

 Railway Risk, Preventable, 73. 

 Railways, Street, Train's, 75. 

 Railway Tunnel Enlarged, 72. 

 Rankine, Macquorn, on Railway 



Trains, 76. 

 Red Dye, New, 190. 

 Refrigerating and Condensing Ap- 

 paratus, 18. 

 Remedy, New, 201. 

 Ritle, AVhitworth, the, 51. 

 Rifles, Breech-loading, 56. 

 Ho al Observatory Annual Report, 



■ > 0. 

 Roval Society — 200th Anniversary, 



12S. 

 Russell, Mr. Scott, on Iron Ships, 44. 

 Safety Saddle Rails, Seaton's, 72. 

 St. Paul's Cathedral, Warming of, 



106. 

 Salmon Fisheries of Devon and York, 



220. 

 BalmoAin the Thames, 219. 

 Scheutz's Calculating Machine, 125. 

 Screw-propeller, Griffith's, 46. 

 Sedative, New, 187. 

 Seismometer, New, 255. 

 Sewage Question, Dr. Daubeny on, 



94. 

 Sewing Machine, the, 107. 

 Ship St. Louis, Struck by Lightning, 



268. 

 Ships, Armour for, 32. 

 Ships, Iron, Strength of, 41. 

 Ships of War, Iron-cased, 30. 

 SfaipvrormB, or Xerediue3, Economy 



of, 224—227. 

 Shot and Shell, Smith's Patent, 57. 

 Shower of Ice, 269. 

 Shrimps, Well, British, 223. 

 Silk, Apparatus for Testing, 109. 

 " Siiver Spring" in Florida, 25 1. 

 Solar Eclipse, Total, July 18, 1860, 



261—266. 

 Solar Eclipse, Total, July 18, I860, 



Photographic Observation of, 199. 

 Solar Spots and Aurora Boreahs, 132. 

 Sound ligures, New, 151. 

 ' South Kensington Museum, 14. 

 Species, Origin of, 202 to 212; by 



Brodie, Sir B.,206 ; Cresswell, Rev. 



Mr., 205; Darwin's Theory, 203 — 



206; Daubeny, 202; Draper, Prof., 



X. 287 



204 ; Gray, Prof. Asa, 208 ; 



Hooker, Dr., 807 ; Huxley, Prof., 



2)3, 206, 210; Lubbock, Mr., 207; 



Owen, Prof. 203; Oxford, Bp. of, 208. 

 Species, Races, and their Origin, 



Prof. Huxley on, 210. 

 Spencer's Subways, 80. 

 Spirometer, New, 156. 

 Spur-box, Gullick's Improved, 126. 

 Steam Boilers, Incrustations in, 20. 

 Steam Boilers, Water-blast for, 22. 

 Steam Carriage, Lord Caithness', 23. 

 Steam, Combined, 17. 

 Steam Engine, Marine, Humphrys', 



19. 

 Steam Frigate, Gloire, 36. 

 Steam Hammer, Nasmyth's, 61. 

 Steam Plough, Progress and Profit of, 



26. 

 Steam Rams, Admiral Sartorius, on 



33. 

 Steam-ship, Ichthyon, 40. 

 Steam, Superheated, Condensing, 19. 

 Steam Traffic on Canals, 22. 

 Steel, New Zealand, 64. 

 Stereoscope, Antiquity of, 146. 

 Stereoscope, Claudet's Improvement 



of, 146. 

 Stone, Durability of, 97, 99. 

 Stonework of the Houses of Parlia- 

 ment, Induration of, 95 — 103. 

 Storms, British, Adml. Fitzroy on, 135. 

 Storms, Great, of 1859, 271. 

 Stove, New, or Cooking Apparatus, 



100. 

 Stoves, Hot-blast, Regenerative, 82. 

 Strychnine and Curare, 178. 

 Subway in London, 81. 

 Subways for Gas and Water Mains, 80. 

 Sun, Eclipse of, see Solar Eclipse. 

 Sun, Physical Constitution of the, 131. 

 Sunlight, Effects of, on Amylaceous 



Substances, 190. 

 Sun-spots and Magnetism, 130. 

 Szerelmey's Induratiou Process, 100. 

 Teaching, Machinery for, 123. 

 Telegraph Cables, Heating and Test- 

 ing, 165. 

 Teredines, or Shipworms, Economy 



of, 224. 

 Textile Materials made Fire-proof, 



115. 

 Thames Miasma, Dr. M'William on, 



90. 

 Thomas, Lvnall, on Iron-cased Ships 



of War, 31. 

 Thomas, Lynall, his Rifled Canon, 50. 

 Thunder Sound, Velocity of, 151. 

 Train's Street Railways, 75. 

 Tramways and Gaa-pipes, Greaves's, 



79. 

 Triassic Drift, Examination of, 248. 

 Triethylphosphine, 169. 

 Trocheidoacope, the, 123. 



