378 
GENERAL INDEX. 
Ships, timber-built, Admiral Sir E. Bel¬ 
cher on a mode of rendering, impregn¬ 
able and unsinkable under moderate 
crew-power, as in leaky vessels, 1863, 
171 
- unsinkable, Charles Atherton on, 
1862, 183 
* — vertical motion of, J. I. Thornycroft 
on the, 1875, 252 
-vertical wave-line, John Cory ton on, 
1862, 184 
-of war, George Redford on corru¬ 
gated armour of steel or iron for, 1863, 
182 
-of war, Admiral Sir E. Belcher on 
improvements in the defence of, 1864, 
184 
-of war, Capt. Wheatley on improve¬ 
ments in the defence of, 1864, 190 
* -of war of moderate dimensions, M. 
Scott on, 1870, 228 
* -of war, M. Scott on improved, 1871, 
241 
-wooden and iron, the merits of, with 
regard to cost of repairs and security 
for life, L. Williamson on, 1862, 187 
—— zinc sheathing for, Samuel J. Mackie 
on, 1866, 146 
Shirreff (Miss) on the national union 
for improving the education of women, 
1872, 226 
Shoddy trade, S. Jubb on the, 1873, 194 
Shone (I.) on Southport sewage, 1883, 
656 
Shoolbred (J. N.) on the sewage of 
Liverpool and the neighbourhood, 1870, 
228 
- on instruments for measuring the 
speed of ships, 1874, 255 ; 1878, 219 ; 
1879, 210 
- on tides in the river Mersey, 1875, 
161 
-on tides in the Irish Sea, 1875, 250 
- on the datum level of the Ordnance 
Surveys of Great Britain , 1877, 220 ; 
1878, 219 ; 1879, 219 
- on a more extended use of the 
Ordnance datum of Great Britain, 1877, 
218 
- on the phenomena of the stationary 
tides in the English Channel and the 
North Sea, and the value of tidal obser¬ 
vations in the North Atlantic Ocean, 
1878 , 217 ; 1879, 71 ; 1880 , 390 ; 1881, 
160 
* -on the present state of electric light¬ 
ing, 1878, 706 
-on recent advances in electric light¬ 
ing, 1879, 503 
* -on the transmission of power by 
electricity, 1881, 779 ; on the relative 
value of incandescent electric lights, 
780 
-- on reducing and tabulating the tidal 
observations in the English Channel 
made with the Dover tide-gauge, and 
connecting them with observations made 
on the French coast, 1884, 37 ; 1885, 
60 ; 1886, 151 
Shoolbred (J. N.) on electric lighting 
at the Forth Bridge works, 1885, 879 
Shooting stars. (See ‘ Meteors, luminous ’) 
Shorawak valle} 7 , Major Campbell on the, 
1879, 447 
Shore (T. W.), on traces of ancient sun 
worship in Hampshire and Wiltshire, 
1886, 843 
- beds exposed in the Southampton 
new dock excavation, 1888, 672 ; Celtic 
earthworks in Hampshire, in reference 
to the density of the Celtic population, 
852 
- and E. Westlake on the Southamp¬ 
ton artesian well, 1882, 547 
-(T. W., jun.) on the structure of the 
muscular tissue of the leech, 1882, 577 
*Shoreham, J. P. Colbron on the drainage 
of, 1872, 242 
Shorthand, I. Pitman on brief writing or, 
1864, 169 
*Shortt (Dr. J.) on some rude tribes 
supposed to be the aborigines of S. 
India, 1864, 147 
*-on the habits and manners of the 
Marvar tribes of India, 1866, 97 
*Shot, the friction of, as affected by dif¬ 
ferent kinds of rifling, Prof. 0. Rey¬ 
nolds on, 1873, 216 
Shoulder bones and muscles, the com¬ 
parison of the, with the hip bones 
and muscles, Prof. G. M. Humphry on, 
1870, 140 
Showers (Lieut.-Col.) on the Meenas, a 
wild tribe of Central India, 1864, 147 
Shropshire picrite, W. W. Watts on a, 
1887, 700 
-and South Staffordshire Coal-fields, 
John Randall on the denudation of the, 
1869, 100 
- Western, the mineral district of, C. 
J. Woodward on, 1886, 665 
Shuttlewortli (John), some account of 
the Manchester gas-works, 1861, 240 
*Siam, J. McCarthy on, 1887, 804 
Siberia, did the great rivers of, flow south¬ 
wards and not northwards in the mam¬ 
moth age ? By H. H. Howorth, 1889, 
591 
-the mammoth in, H. H. Howorth on, 
1878, 571 
—— Alex. Micliie's notes on, 1864, 145 
*—-— the resources of, and the practica¬ 
bility of the Northern Sea route, R. 
Sulivan on, 1889, 668 
- via the Amur and the Ussuri, Rev. H. 
Lansdell on a journey through, 1880,656 
-western, Dr. O. Finscli on the Ger¬ 
man expedition to, 1877, 146 
