INDEX II. 



163 



*Speuce (Peter) on a new process in the 

 mamifactiire of white lead, 44. 



Sphygmogi-aph, Dr. B. W. Foster on an 

 addition to the, 91. 



Star, variable, J. R. Hind on the, lately 

 discovered in Corona Borealis, 8. 



Steam, Prof. W. J. M. Rankine on the 

 theory of the influence of friction upon 

 the mechanical efficiency of, 147. 



*Steam-boiler explosions, H. Dircks on, 

 141. 



Stereoscope, magnifying, A. Claudet on 

 ii, with a single lens, 23. 



Stewai't (Balfour), letter from Senhor 

 Capello on magnetic distm-bance, 1-3. 



'Stewart (C.) on the structure of the 

 Echinoidea regularia, 79. 



Stigmatics, plane, Alexander J. Ellis 

 on, 1. 



Stone, Dr. T. L. Phipson on an extraor- 

 dinary iron, 43. 



*Stoney (G-. J.) on a nomenclature for 

 multiples and submultiples to render 

 absolute standards convenient in prac- 

 tice, and on the fundamental imit of 

 mass, 6. 



Submarine cables, Fleeniing Jenkin on 

 a new arrangement for picking up, 

 145. 



*Sui-faces of the second order, H. J. S. 

 Smith on a property of, 6. 



Sykes (Colonel), statistics of the chari- 

 table, educational, industrial, and pub- 

 lic institutions founded by the native 

 gentry of India during the la.st five 

 years, 133 ; on modes of banking in 

 America, Manchooria, and China, l34. 



*Talpa Europaja, C. Spence Bate on the 

 dentition of, 69. 



Target, Oapt. Douglas on Chalmers, 14.5. 



Taylor (John E.) on the upper and lower 

 crags in Norfolk, 67. 



•Taylor (J. T.) on a defect in the de- 

 monstrating polariscope, with a sim- 

 ple and effective remedy, 28. 



Tebbutt (Charles) on the violation of the 

 principles of economic science caused 

 by the law of distraint for I'ent, 135. 



Telegraph, N. J. Holmes on the North 

 Atlantic, 27. 



Telegraph Expedition, T. Whymper on 

 the progress of the Russo-American, 

 via Behring's Straits, 117. 



Telegraphy, electric, J. G. Joyce on the 

 practicability'of employing a common 

 notation for, 131. 



Telescopes, John Browning on some re- 

 cent improvements in astronomical, 

 with silvered glass specula, 22. 



Telescopes and photographic lenses, A. 

 Claudet on a variable diaphragm for, 

 23. 



'Temperature, Prof. Hennessy on the 

 diurnal period of, in relation to other 

 physical and meteorological pheno- 

 mena, 21. 



*Temiant (W.) on the traces of an Irish 

 lake dwelling found by Capt. L'Es- 

 trange in the county of Cavan, 79. 



Thomson (J.) on the ruined temples of 

 Cambodia, 116. 



Tomlinson (Prof. C.) on some pheno- 

 mena connected with the melting and 

 solidifying of wax, 44. 



*Topley (W.) on the physical geography 

 oi East Yorkshire, 67. 



Tremenheere (Colonel) on the physical 

 geography of the Lower Indus, 117. 



Tschia-nhausen's method of transforma- 

 tion of algebraic equations, and some 

 of its modern extensions, the Rev. 

 Prof. R. Harley on, 2. 



Tiu'uer (Prof. W.) on a remarkable mode 

 of gestation in an undescribed species 

 of Arius, 79. 



Tylor (Edward B.) on phenomena of the 

 higher civilization traceable to a rudi- 

 mental origin among savage tribes, 

 97. 



Vancouver Island, J. K. Lord on the In- 

 dians of, 75. 



* , E. B. Bogg on fishing Indians of, 



96. 



*Varley (Cornelius) on comets, and 

 especially on the comet of 1811, 12. 



Varley (C. F.) on a new method of test- 

 ing electrical resistance, 14. 



on certain phenomena which pre- 

 sented themselves in connexion with 

 the Atlantic cable, 14. 



'Vegetable matter. Admiral Sir E. Bel- 

 cher on the application of the expan- 

 sive power of moistened, to the rais- 

 ing of weights, 140. 



Voguls, Dr. H. Ronay on the, 115. 



*Wake (C. S.) on the antiquity of man 

 in relation to comparative geology, 97. 



'"Walker (J. F.) on a phosphatic depo- 

 sit in the lower greensand of Bedford- 

 shire, 45 ; on the lower gi-eensaud of 

 Bedfordshire, 67. 



Wallace (A. R.) on reversed sexual cha- 

 racters in a butterfly, 79 ; Address as 

 President of Subsection D, 93. 



Walney, R. A. Peacock on the change 

 of form and position of land on the 

 south end of the isle of, 66. 



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