376 
GENERAL INDEX. 
physical features of the Pamir and its 
Aryan inhabitants, 213 
Shaw (W. N.) on standards for use in 
electrical measurements , 1886, 145 ; 
1887, 206 ; 1888, 55 ; 1889, 41 ; 1890, 
95 ; on electrolysis in its physical and 
chemical hearings , 1886, 308 ; 1887, 336 ; 
1888 , 339 ; 1889, 223 ; 1890, 138 
-—- on the verification of Faraday's lam 
of electrolysis with reference to silver 
and copper , 1886, 318 
-- on the desirability of introducing a 
uniform nomenclature for the funda¬ 
mental units of mechanics, 1888, 27 
-—— on some accurate charts of Kew 
corrections for mercury thermometers, 
1888, 590 ; on an apparatus for deter¬ 
mining temperature by the variation 
of electrical resistance, ib. 
- - onthe present state of our knowledge 
in electrolysis and electro-chemistry , 
*1889, 510 ; 1890, 185 
- on the theory of solution, 1890, 336 
-on the general theory of ventilation, 
with some applications, 1890, 730 
*—— (William Thomas) on the method 
of interpreting some of the phenomena 
of light, 1861, 33 
Sheep, John Shaw on changes produced 
in South African vegetation by the 
introduction of merino, 1873, 105 
Sheffield, the vital statistics of, T. W. 
Hime on, 1879, 488 
Sheldon (Prof. J. P.), British and Cana¬ 
dian agriculture, 1881, S 47 
Shelfoed (WA 'on the control of rivers, 
1878, 690 
--improvement of the access to the 
Mersey ports, 1887, 867 
—- on the investigation of the action of 
naves and currents on the beds and 
foreshores of estuaries by means of work¬ 
ing models, 1889, 327 ; 1890, 512 
- and A. H. Shield on some points 
for the consideration of English en¬ 
gineers with reference to the design of 
girder bridges, 1886, 472 
Shell mounds and ossuaries of the Chop- 
tank river, Maryland, U.S.A., Chev. R. 
E. Reynolds on the, 1888, 845 
--work, American, and its affinities, 
Miss A. W. Buckland on, 1885, 1214 
Shells, W. Pengelly on an accumulation 
of, with human industrial remains, 
found near the river Teign, in Devon¬ 
shire, 1864, 63 
-C. J. Woodward on a deposit near 
Lilleshall, Salop, containing recent 
marine, 1865. 79 
-fossil, J. Gw^yn Jeffreys on the oc¬ 
currence of certain, in the sea-bed 
adjoining the Channel Islands, 1865, 
62 
-fossil, H. C. Sorby on *.he cause of 
the difference in the state of preserva¬ 
tion of different kinds of, 1862, 95 
Shells, H. G. Seeley on a help to the iden¬ 
tification of fossil bivalve, 1863, 87 
- with heavy bursting charges fired 
obliquely, J. Whitworth on the pene¬ 
tration of armour-plates by, 1869, 222 
Shenstone (W. A.) on the influence of 
the silent discharge of electricity on 
oxygen and other gases, 1886, 213 ; 1887 r 
42 ; 1889, 54 ; 1890, 338 
- on the present methods of teaching 
chemistry, 1888, 73 ; 1889, 228 ; 1890, 
265 
-on some new T vacuum joints and 
taps, 1890, 729 
— and J. T. Cundall on the prepara¬ 
tion a nd storage of oxygen gas in a pure 
state, 1886, 213 
SnEPHEED (Prof.) on anatomical varia¬ 
tions : ( 1 ) par-occipital process occur¬ 
ring in man ; ( 2 ) secondary astragalus ; 
(3) persistence of the left duct of 
Cuvier in man, 1884, 779 
Sheriff courts and relative judicial sta¬ 
tistics, F. Russell on, 1876, 208 
Shetland Isles, Rev. Alfred Merle Nor¬ 
man on the Crustacea, Echinodermata, 
and Zoophytes obtained in 1861 in 
deep-sea dredging off the, 1861, 151 
- seas, Rev. A. J/. Norman's pre¬ 
liminary report onthe Crustacea, Mol- 
luscoida, Echinodermata, and Ccelen- 
terala procured by dredging in the , 
1867, 437 
- J. Cwyn Jeffreys's report on dredg¬ 
ing on the coasts of, 1863, 70 ; 1864, 
32 7 ; 1867, 441 
- final dredging report, J. Grvyn 
Jeffreys on the Mollusca, 1868, 232 ; 
Rev. A. Merle Norman on the Crustacea , 
Arachnida, Tunicata, Polyzoa, Echino¬ 
dermata, Actinozoa, Hydrozoa, and 
Porifera, 247 , 341 ; Dr. TP. C. McIntosh 
on the Annelids, 336 ; Edward Waller 
on the Foraminifera, 1867, 441 ; 1868, 
340 
-notice of dredging by the late 
H. P. C. Moller off Fair Isle between 
Orkney and, 1867, 93 
- C. W. Peach on the fructification 
of Griffithsia coraUina, found in the 
West Voe, Outskerries, 1867, 96 
-Islands, C. W. Peach on traces of 
Glacial Drift in the, 1864, 59 
Shetlands, Dr. J. E. Gray on the new 
corals from the, 1864, 95 
*Shettle (Dr.) on the causes of the 
cattle murrain, 1865, in 
Siiida (R.) on the number of electro¬ 
static units in the electro-magnetic 
unit, 1880, 497 
Shield (A. H.) and W. Shelfoed on 
some points for the consideration of 
