INDEX II, 
—— of, employed in building, 
Stone, Prof. James Thomson on the dis- 
integration of, exposed in buildings 
and otherwise to atmospheric influ- 
ence, 35. 
ae artificial, Prof. D. T, Ansted on, 
De 
Storms, 8. A. Rowell on objections to 
the cyclone theory of, 34 
Sun, Rey. Prof. Selwyn on autographs 
of the, 17. 
Sun’s surface, J. Nasmyth on some pe- 
culiar features in the structure of the, 
16. 
Sunshine, Prof. Hennessy on the rela- 
tive amount of, falling on the torrid 
zone of the earth, 31. 
Surfaces, Prof.T, A, Hirst on the volumes 
of pedal, 5. 
Sutton (T.), description of a rapid dry- 
collodion process, 54. 
Sylvester (Prof.) on the solution of the 
linear equation of finite differences in 
its most general form, 188. 
Symbols, W. H. L. Russell on recent 
discoveries made in the calculus of, 7. 
Symonds (Rev. W. 8.) on scutes of the 
Labyrinthodon, from the Keuper 
bone-breccia of Pendock, Worcester- 
shire, 96; on the occurrence of Asple- 
nium viride on an isolated travertine 
rock among the Black Mountains of 
Monmouthshire, 100. 
Symons (G. J.) on the performance, 
under trying circumstances, of a very 
small aneroid barometer, 35. 
Syncope, Dr. Charles Kidd on, as a co- 
incident in chloroform accidents, 130. 
Taxation, local, Frederick Purdy on, 
162. 
Telegraph, Dr. Ernest Esselbach on 
electric cables, with reference to ob- 
servations on the Malta-Alexandra, 
26. 
“The Oyle,” near Tenby, South Wales, 
Rey. Gilbert N. Smith on flint imple- 
ments found in a cave called, 95. 
Thomson (Prof. James) on the disinte- 
gration of stones exposed in buildings 
and otherwise te atmospheric influ- 
ence, 35. 
Thomson (Prof. W.), the influence of 
cohesion in relation to the experi- 
ments of, on the thermal effects of 
elastic fluids in motion, 21. 
oo (W. T.) on the income-tax, 
75. 
Thorold (W.) on the failure of the 
1862. 
209 
sluice in fens, and on the means of 
securing such sluices against a similar 
contingency, 186. 
Tobacco-smoking—its effects upon pul- 
sation, Dr. Edward Smith on, 185. 
Tomlinson (Charles) on the motion of 
camphor, &c. towards the light, 23. 
Toot-poison of New Zealand, Dr. W, 
Lauder Lindsay on the, 98, 
Tubularide, Dr. Allman on some new 
British, 101. 
Unemployed, on the training and in- 
struction of the, in the manufacturing 
districts during the present crisis, by 
the Rey. W. N. Molesworth, 162. 
University education, the Rev. W. 
Emery on the expenses and social 
condition of, 193. 
Upper Indus, Capt. Godwin-Austen on 
the glacier phenomena of the valley 
of the, 67. 
Vesuvius, Dr, Daubeny on the last erup- 
tion of, 71. 
Victoria, J. W. Osborne on the essential 
oils and resins from the indigenous 
vegetation of, 48. 
, J. W. Osborne on a photolitho- 
graphic ‘process as adopted by the 
Government of, for the publication 
of maps, 49. 
*Villa (Chevalier Ignazio) on some im- 
proved celestial planispheres, 18; on 
terrestrial planispheres, 148. 
Vital actions, an attempt to show that 
every living structure consists of mat- 
ter which is the seat of, by Prof. Beale, 
122. 
Volcanic temperature, Robert Mallet on 
the determination of, 33. 
Volcano, W. T. Blanford on an extinct, 
in Upper Burmah, 69, 
Wallace (Alfred R.) on the trade of the 
Eastern Archipelago with New Guinea 
and its islands, 148. 
Waves, W. J. M. Rankine on the exact 
form and motion of, at and near the 
surface of deep water, 5. 
Weather-charts, European, F, Galton 
on, for December 1861, 30. 
Wells, artesian, at Norwich, Rev. J. 
Crompton on, 70. 
Williamson (L.) on the merits of wooden 
and iron ships, with regard to cost of 
repairs and security for life, 187. 
Willich (C. M.) on some models of sec- 
tions of cubes, 8; on expectation of 
life, 178. 
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