368 
GENERAL INDEX. 
Science lectures and organisation, report 
of the committee on, 1873, 495 , 507 
-natural, in the Board schools of 
London, Dr. J. H. Gladstone on ele¬ 
mentary, 1879, 475 
—— natural, the system of instruction 
in elementary, introduced by the 
Liverpool School Board into their 
schools, some account of, E. M. Hance 
on, 1879, 477 
.—— natural, the introduction of, into 
higher and middle-class schools, D. 
Mackintosh on, 1883, 622 
—— physical, Rev. W. Tuckwell on the 
method of teaching, 1867, 119 
-Lieut.-Col. A. Strange on the 
necessity for State intervention to 
secure the progress of, 1868, 6 
-—- school of applied, Prof. A. W. Wil¬ 
liamson on the proposed establishment 
by the Government of a, 1870, 68 
- teaching of, in elementary schools, 
report of the Committee for matching 
andreporting on the workings of the pro¬ 
posed revised New Code, and of other 
legislation affecting the, 1881, 148 ; 
1882, 307 ; 1883, 309 
- teaching of, in elementary schools, 
report on the, 1884, 283 ; 1885, 692 ; 
1886, 278 ; 1887, 163 ; 1888, 164 ; 1889, 
131 ; 1890, 489 
-teaching of, at public schools, Rev. 
F. W. Farrar on the, 1866, 72 
-teaching in connection with ele¬ 
mentary schools, J. F. Moss on, 1879, 
476 
--- teaching in schools, the Rev. W. 
Tuckwell on the obstacles to, 1871, 57 
* -teaching, recent legislation as faci¬ 
litating, Sir H. E. Roscoe on, 1890, 772 
Scientific evidence in Courts of Law, 
report on, 1862, 373 ; 1866, 456 
-journals, inconveniences of the pre¬ 
sent mode of quoting. Dr. H. Borns on 
the, 1884, 656 
* -Museum, a permanent, J. Heywmod 
on the memorial of eminent scientific 
gentlemen in favour of, 1876, 199 
- questions, Lieut.-Col. Strange on 
Government action on, 1871, 56 
—— societies, the, in relation to the 
advancement of science in the United 
Kingdom, Prof. L. Levi on, 1879, 458 
{see 1868, 169 , 196 ) 
- terms, the evils arising from the 
use of historical national names as, A. 
L. Lewis on, 1878, 583 
SCilly Islands, the recent occurrence of 
Lavatera sylvestris , Brot., in the, H. 
Trimen on, 1877, 106 
* -Isles, flint flakes from Cornwall 
and the, Dr. Barham on, 1877, 114 
Scinde, Western, exploration of, and 
Belooch'stan, with a view to examining 
the subterranean supply of water, J. 
W. Barnes on the, 1867, 113 
Scirpus parvulus, A. G. More on the dis¬ 
covery of, in Ireland, 1868, 106 
Sclater (Philip Lutley), report on the 
present state of our knowledge of the 
birds of the genus Apteryx living in 
New Zealand, 1861, 176 
-on the late increase of our know¬ 
ledge of the struthious birds, 1861, 158 
-on the birth of a young hippopota¬ 
mus in the Zoological Society's Gar¬ 
dens at Amsterdam, 1865, 93 
- on extinct birds of the Mascarene 
Islands, 1866, 401 
- on the systematic position of the 
Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana'), 
1866, 77 
-on certain principles to be observed 
in the establishment of a National 
Museum of natural history, 1870, 123 
——- on the foundation of zoological sta¬ 
tions in different parts of the world , 
1871, 192 ; 1872, 47 ; 1873, 408 
- on a favourable occasion for the 
establishment of Zoological Observa¬ 
tories, 1871, 134 
-on a new rhinoceros, with remarks 
on the recent species of this genus 
and their distribution, 1872, 140 ; 
notice of an apparently new marine 
animal from the Northern Pacific, 
ib. 
-on the distribution of the species 
of cassowaries, 1874, 138 
-- on the zoological station at Naples , 
1875, 18 ; 1877 , 228 ; 1878 , 149 ; 1879, 
165 ; 1880, 161 ; 1881 , 178 ; 1882 , 2 88; 
1883, 234 ; 1884, 252 ; 1885, 466 ; 1886, 
254 ; 1887, 77 ; 1888, 150 ; 1889, 95 ; 
1890, 449 
-- on the steps taken for investigating 
the natural history of Socotra, 1879, 
210; 1880,212; 1881,194; 1882,28 i ; 
1883, 227 
-exhibition of some of the zoological 
reports of the ‘ Challenger ’ expedition, 
1880, 606 ; on the classification of 
birds, ib. 
- on the natural history of Timor-laut, 
1881, 197 ; 1882, 275 ; 1883, 224 ; 1884, 
263 
•-on the insect house in the gardens 
of the Zoological Society of London, 
1881, 668 
- on the exploration of Kiliman¬ 
jaro and the adjoining mountains of 
Eastern Equatorial Africa, 18S3, 228 ; 
1884, 271 ; 1885, 681 * 
- on the aid given by the Dominion 
Government and the Government of the 
United States to the encouragement of 
fisheries, and to the investigation of the 
various forms of marine life on the 
