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REPORT — 1860. 



Semitic inscriptions, Dr. Hincks on, 156. 



Senior (N. W.), address as President of 

 Section F., 182. 



Serrin (M.), regulateur automaiique de 

 lumiere electrique, 19. 



Shaffner (Colonel Tal. P.), on the geo- 

 graphy of the North Atlantic telegraph, 

 178. 



Shells, pathological collection of, Rev. H. 

 H. Higgins on a, 116. 



Ship, atmotic, Hon. W. Bland on an, 60. 



Ship-building, iron, W. Simons on im- 

 provements in, 212. 



Ship-worms, J. G. Jeffreys on the British, 

 117. 



Shire river and valley, and inhabitants, in 

 South-Central Africa, Dr. Livingstone 

 on the, 164. 



Sicily, Baron Anca> on two newly dis- 

 covered ossiferous caves in, 73. 



Siemens (C. W.) and M. Werner, outline 

 of the principles and practice involved 

 in dealing with the electric conditions 

 of submarine electric telegraphs, 32. 



Silurian formation in the district of 

 Wilsdruff, Saxony, Dr. Geinitz on the, 

 79. 



schists, Lower, A. Gages on the 



transformation of iron pyrites connected 

 •with fossil graptolitesfromTinnaglough, 

 Co. Wexford, 79. 



Silver (S. W.) on gutta percha and india- 

 rubber as insulators for subaqueous tele- 

 graphic wires, 212. 



Simons (W.) on improvements in iron 

 ship-building, 212. 



Smith (Dr. Edward) on the action of tea 

 and alcohols, 145. 



Smith (Prof. H. J. S.) on systems of in- 

 determinate linear equations, 6. 



Smith (John) on the chromoscope, 65. 



Smith (Rev. G. N.) on three undescribed 

 bone-caves near Tenby, 101. 



Smithsonian Institution, P. P. Carpenter 

 on the principles and working of the, 

 109. 



Snow (Capt. W. Parker) on the lost Polar 

 expedition and the possible recovery of 

 its scientific documents, 180. 



Sound, Rev. S. Earnshaw on the triplicity 

 of, 58. 



Sound of thunder, Rev. S. Earnshaw on 

 the velocity of the, 58. 



Species, Prof. Draper on the intellectual 

 development of Europe, considered with 

 reference to the views of Mr. Darwin 

 and others on, 115. 



Spectrum, colours of the, Prof. Maxwell 

 on an instrument for exhibiting any 

 mixture of the, 16. 



Spiders (British), notice of Mr. Black- 

 wall's work on, 120. 



Spirals, on an improved instrument for 

 describing, 60. 



Sprengel (Dr. Hermann) on a new form 

 of blowpipe for laboratory use, 72. 



Staffordshire (North) coal fields, W. Mo- 

 lyneux on fossil fish from the, 88. 



Stainton (H. T.) on some peculiar forms 

 amongst the micro-lepidopterous larvae, 

 122. 



Stars, variable, prospectus of the Hartwell 

 atlas of, 36. 



Statistics, address bv N. W. Senior at 

 Oxford, 182. 



Steam, saturated, W. Fairbaim on the 

 density of, 210. 



Steam-ships, cylindrical spiral boiler 

 adapted to, by John Elder, 204. 



Steam, superheated, W. Fairbaim on the 

 law of expansion of, 210. 



Stenops Potto, Prof. Van der Hoeven on 

 the anatomy of, 134. 



Stereoscopes, A.Claudet on the means of 

 ' increasing the angle of, to obtain an 

 effect in proportion to their magnifying 

 power, 61. 



Stewart (Balfour) on some recent exten- 

 sions of Prevost's theory of exchanges,l 9. 



Stonesfield, Oxfordshire, E. Hull on the 

 thickness of the formations below the 

 great oolite at, 81. 



Stonesfield slate, J. F. Whiteaves on the 

 fossils of the, 104. 



Stone hatchets, Sir E. Belcher on their 

 manufacture by the Esquimaux, 154. 



Stoney (G. J.) on rings seen in viewing 

 a light through fibrous specimens of 

 calc-spar, 19. 



Stonyhurst, results of ten years' meteo- 

 rological observations at, 56. 



Storms, British, Admiral FitzRoy on, 39. 



, arrangements for communicating 



warning of, from one part of the country 

 to the other, 42. 



Storms, Captain W. Parker Snow on 

 practical experience of Admiral Fitz- 

 Roy 's law of storms in each quarter of 

 the globe, 52. 



Strata, Rev. J. Dingle on the corruga- 

 tion of, in the vicinity of mountain 

 ranges, 77. 



Substitutions, Rev. T. P. Kirkman on the 

 roots of, 4. 



Sugar and amyloid substances. Dr. R. 

 M c Doimell on the formation of, in the 

 animal economy, 129. 



Sullivan (Mr.) on the tribes of Indians 

 inhabiting the country explored by the 

 British N. American expedition, 173. 



