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EEPOKT 1871. 



Seeds, Dr. J. B. Nevina on the changes 

 which occur in plants during the ri- 

 pening of the, 130. 



Selkirk, C. Lapworth and J. Wilson 

 on the Silurian rocks of the counties 

 of Roxburgh and, 103. 



Sepultiu-e in the Orkneys, G. Petrie on 

 ancient modes of, 156. 



Serpent-worship, J. S. Phene on an ex- 

 pedition for the special investigation 

 of the Hebrides and West Highlands 

 in search of evidences of ancient, 158. 



Seton (George) on the illegitimacy of 

 Banffshire, 214 ; on the expediency of 

 recording stiU-births, 216 ; on certain 

 cases of questioned legitimacy under 

 the operation of the Scottish Regis- 

 tration Act, 217. 



Ship-canal between Ceylon and India, 

 Commander A. D. Taylor on the pro- 

 posed, 189. 



*Ships of war, M, Scott on improved, 

 241. 



Siemens (C. William) on the steam- 

 blast, 240. 



Silurian rocks of the counties of Rox- 

 burgh and Selkirk, C. Lapworth and 

 J. Wilson on the, 103. 



rocks of the south of Scotland, D. 



J. Brown on the, 93. 



rocks. Upper, of the Pentland Hills 



and Lesmahago, D. J. Brown on the, 

 93. 

 Silver coinage, British, W. C. Robei-ts 

 on the molecidar arrangement of the 

 alloy of silver and copper employed 

 for the, 80. 

 Silver, J. H. Gladstone on crystals of, 71. 



, nitrate of, J. H. Gladstone and 



A. Tribe on the corrosion of copper 

 plates by, 29. 

 Svvatherium giganteum, Dr. James Murie 



on the systematic position of, 108. 

 *Skulls presenting sagittal synostosis, 



Prof. Struthers on, 160. 

 Sladen (Major) on trade-routes between 



Burmah and China, 189. 

 Slieve Croob, co. Down, Prof Hull and 

 W. A. Traill on the relative ages of 

 the granitic, plutonic, and volcanic 

 rocks of the Mourne Mountains and, 

 101. 

 Smith (Dr. Edward) on the dietaries in 

 the workhouses of England and Wales, 

 141. 

 Smith (Dr. George) on Indian statistics 



and official reports, 220. 

 *Smith (Dr. J. A.), exhibition of the 

 skull of an elk foimd in Berwick- 

 shire, 134. 



Smith (W. R.) and T. M. Lindsay on 



Democritus and Lucretius, a question 



of priority in the kinetical theory of 



matter, 30. 



Smyth (John, jun.), improvements in 



chlorimetry, 81. 

 Somali coast, Capt. Miles on the, 186. 

 Sorbit, Prof. Deliis on, 69. 

 Spain and Portugal, W. S. Kent on the 

 zoological results of the fdredging- 

 expedition of the yacht ' Noma ' off 

 the coast of, 132. 

 Spectra of the hydrocarbons, Prof. W. 

 Swan on the wave-lengths of the, 43. 

 Spectrum, G. J. Stoney on the advan- 

 tage of referring the positions of lines 

 in the, to a scale of wave-numbers, 

 42. 

 Speed of floating water or of ships, A. 

 E. Fletcher on the rhysimeter, an 

 instrument for measuring the, 234. 

 Spherical hamionic of the »*th order. 

 Sir W. Thomson on the general form 

 of a, 25. 

 Spherical harmonics, W. K. Cliiford on 



a canonical form of, 10. 

 Spimnthes Romanzoviana, Cham., A. G. 



More on, 129. 

 Spontaneous generation, F. Crace-Cal- 



vert on, 123. 

 •Stanford (E. C. C.) on the retention 

 of organic nitrogen by charcoal, 81; 

 on the carbon closet-system, 240. 

 Stars, fixed, H. Fox Talbot on a method 

 of estimating the distances of some of 

 the, 34. 

 Statistics and their fallacies, Lord Neaves 



on, 192. 

 Steam-blast, C. W. Siemens on the, 240. 

 Steam-boiler legislation, Lavington E. 



Fletcher on, 234. 

 Steam-gauge, Prof. Zenger on a new, 



45. 

 Stephenson (Dr. WiUiam) on the scien- 

 tific aspects of children's hospitals, 

 221. 

 Stevenson (Thomas) on a paraboloidal 

 reflector for lighthouses, consisting 

 of silver facets of ground glass, and 

 on a difierential holophote, 37 ; on an 

 automatic gauge for the discharge of 

 water over waste weirs, 241 ; on a 

 thermometer of translation for record- 

 ing the daily changes of temperatiire, 

 241. 

 Stewart (Prof. Balfour) on the tempe- 

 rature-equilibrium of an enclosure in 

 which there is a body in visible mo- 

 tion, 45. 

 *Stewart (Neil) on the intimate struc- 



