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the Statistical Section, 200 ; on the 

 past, present, and prospective financial 

 condition of British India, 223. 



Symonds (G. J.) on thunder-storms, 54. 



Symonds (Rev. W. S.) on some fishes 

 and tracks from the passage rocks and 

 from the old red sandstone of Here- 

 fordshire, 124; on the fish-rain at 

 Aherdare in Glamorganshire, 158; on 

 drift pebbles found in the stomach of a 

 cow, ib. 



Synge (Major) on rapid communication 

 between the Atlantic and the Pacific, 

 via. British North America, 200. 



Syria, on the eastern desert of, 180. 



Syrrhaptes paradoxus, on, 265. 



Tannin, quantitative estimation of, in 

 some tanning materials, 75. 



Tarai, on the inhabitants of the, 177. 



Tate (Thomas), experimental researches 

 to determine the density of steam at 

 various temperatures, 233. 



Taxation, on some questions relating to 

 the incidence of, 216. 



Tayler (A.) on the true action of what are 

 called heat-diffusers, 244. 



Tayler (James) on the Arctic flora, 140; 

 on Falco Islandicus and F. Grcenlandi- 

 cus, 158. 



Telegraphic cables, on the submergence 

 of, 11. 



Telegraphic conductors, on some of the 

 methods adopted for ascertaining the 

 locality and nature of defects in, 252. 



Temperature, on the reduction of periodi- 

 cal variations of underground, 54. 



Temperatures, on a method of reducing 

 observations of underground, 245. 



Tendons, on the repair of, after their 

 subcutaneous division, 160. 



Tennant (Prof. J.), notes on a gold nugget 

 from Australia, 85. 



Thames nuisance, on an application of 

 the moving power arising from tides, to 

 obviate the, 237. 



Thames water, on the composition of, 75. 



Thermometric stations on Mont Blanc, 

 on the establishment of, 56. 



Thomson (Prof. J.) on recent theories and 

 experiments on ice at its melting- 

 point, 23. 



Thomson (Prof. W.) on electrical fre- 

 quency, 26 ; on the discharge of a coiled 

 electric cable, ib. ; on the necessity for 

 incessant recording, and for simultane- 

 ous observations in different localities, 

 to investigate atmospheric electricity, 

 27; on the reduction of periodical varia- 

 tions of underground temperature, with 



applications to the Edinburgh obser- 

 vations, 54. 



Thost (C. G.) on the rocks and minerals 

 in the property of the Marquis of 

 Breadalbane, 125. 



Thunder-storms, on, 54. 



Tides, on an application of the moving- 

 power arising from, 237. 



Topp (Adam) on models of fire-escapes, 

 boat-lowering apparatus, &c, 244. 



Towler (G. V.) on the cause of magnet- 

 ism, 28. 



Towson (John T.) on changes of deviation 

 of the compass on board iron ships by 

 heeling, with experiments on board 

 the City of Baltimore, Aphrodite, 

 Simla, and Slieve Donard, 28. 



Trees, on the aversion of certain, to the 

 neighbourhood of each other, 133; on 

 the growth of, in continental and in- 

 sular climates, 140. 



Tubulariadse, new genus and species of, 

 142. 



Tunicata, on the homologies of the coats 

 of, 170. 



Twining (H. R.) on the angular measure- 

 ment of the picture in painting, 64. 



Tyndall (Prof.) on the establishment of 

 thermometric stations on Mont Blanc, 

 56. 



United Kingdom, statistics of small-pox 



and vaccination in the, 223. 

 Urquhart, on fossil remains found at, 



263. 



Vaccination and small-pox, statistics of, 

 in the United Kingdom, 223. 



Valentine (James) on illegitimacy in 

 Aberdeen and the other large towns of 

 Scotland, 224 ; on the statistics, chiefly 

 vital and economic, of Aberdeen, 226. 



Valpy (R.) on the British trade with 

 India, 227. 



Vapour of the atmosphere, on the aque- 

 ous, 50. 



Variations, on the calculus of, 5. 



Varley (Cromwell F.) on some of the 

 methods adopted for ascertaining the 

 locality and nature of defects in tele- 

 graphic conductors, 252. 



Vaughan (Daniel) on the effects of the 

 earth's rotation on atmospheric move- 

 ments, 41 ; on the growth of trees in 

 continental and insular climates, 140. 



Versmann (F.) on the comparative value 

 of certain salts for rendering fibrous 

 substances non-inflammable, 86. 



Victoria, on the statistics of the trade and 

 progress of the colony of, 218. 



