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current, and active and extinct glaciers 

 in South Greenland, 198. 



Shaw (William Thomas) on the method 

 of interpreting some of the phenomena 

 of light, 33. 



Shetland Isles, Rev. Alfred Merle Nor- 

 man on the Crustacea, echinodermata, 

 and zoophytes obtained in deep-sea 

 dredging off the, in 1861, 151. 



Shields (F. W.) on iron construction, 

 with remarks on the strength of iron 

 columns and arches, 265. 



Ship canal, John Ramsay on the proposal 

 to form a, between East and West Loch 

 Tarbert, 197. 



Ships, armour-plated. Dr. Eddy on a 

 class of gun-boats capable of engaging, 

 257. 



, iron-cased, of the British navy, 



E. J. Reed on the, 232. 



, W. J. M. Rankine on the resist- 

 ance of, 263 ; appendix, 264. 



Shuttlewovth (John), some account of the 

 Manchester gas-works, 240. 



Siemens (C. W.)on an electric resistance 

 thermometer for observing tempera- 

 tures at inaccessible situations, 44 ; on 

 a bathometer, or instrument to indicate 

 the depth of the sea on board ship 

 without submerging a line, 73 ; on a 

 system of telegraphic communication 

 adopted in Berlin in case of fires, 264. 



Sigillarise, J. W. Salter on the nature of, 

 131. 



Silver (Messrs.) on telegraphic wires,269. 



Skull, human. Dr. John Cleland on the 

 varieties of form of the, 164. 



Smart (Bath C.) on the English gipsies 

 and their dialect, 199. 



Smith (Archibald) on the effect produced 

 on the deviation of the compass by the 

 length and arrangement of the com- 

 pass needles, and on a new mode of 

 correcting the quadrantal deviation, 

 45. 



Smith (Dr.) on certain difficulties in the 

 way of separating gold from quartz, 

 92. 



Smith (Dr. Edward) on the influence of 

 the season of the year on the human 

 system, 175. 



Smith (John) on the chromascope, and 

 what it reveals, 33 ; on the prism and 

 the chromascope, 33. 



Smithsonian Institution, Philip P. Car- 

 penter on the cosmopolitan operations 

 of the, 137. 



Snow (Capt. W. P.) on the geographical 

 science of arctic explorations, and the 

 advantage of continuing it, 201. 



Soils, J. B. Lawes and Dr. J. H. Gilbert 

 on some points in connexion with the 

 exhaustion of, 84. 



Species, H. Fawcett on the method of 

 Mr. Darwin in his treatise of the origin 

 of, 141. 



Spence (W.) on patent tribunals, 265. 



Spiders, Tuffen West on some points of 

 interest in the structure and habits of, 

 162. 



Spitzbergen current, Colonel Shaffner on 

 the, 198. 



Spottiswoode (William) on Petzval's 

 asymptotic method of solving differen- 

 tial equations, 10; on the reduction of 

 the decadic binary quantic to its cano- 

 nical form, 11. 



Stainton (H. T.) on a new mining larva 

 recently discovered, 159. 



Stansfield (A.) on varieties of Blechnum 

 Spicant collected in 1860 and 1861, 

 159. 



Stars, Daniel Vaughan on cases of pla- 

 netary instability indicated by the ap- 

 pearance of temporary, 24. 



Steam-engines and other machinery, J. 

 Robinson on the application of work- 

 shop tools to the construction of, 264. 



St. Elias, on the glacial movements in the 

 vicinity of, on the N.W. coast of 

 America, by Admiral Sir E. Belcher, 

 186. 



Steel-pipe arrangements for extinguish- 

 ing fires, J. F. Bateman on, 255. 



Stewart (Balfour) on the photographic 

 records given at the Kew observarory 

 of the great magnetic storm of the end 

 of August and beginning of September 

 1859,47; on a new minimum mer- 

 curial thermometer proposed by Mr. 

 Casella, 74. 



Stone (Daniel) on the Rochdale co- 

 operative societies, 269. 



Stoney (B. B.) on the deflection of iron 

 girders, 265. 



Stoney (G. Johnstone) on the amount of 

 the direct magnetic effect of the sun or 

 moon on instruments at the earth's 

 surface, 47. 



Storms, Professor Hennessy on the con- 

 nexion between, and vertical disturb- 

 ances of the atmosphere, 61. 



, universal, William Danson on the 



law of, 52. 



Strang (John) on the comparative pro- 

 gress of the English and Scottish popu- 

 lation as shown by the census of 1861, 

 243; on the altered condition of the em- 

 broidery manufacture of Scotland and 

 Ireland since 1857, 243. 



