GENERAL INDEX. 
383 
Marhie Biological Association Labora¬ 
tory at Plymouth, 1887, 59 ; 1888, 94 
Slag, Dr. B. H. Paul on useful applica¬ 
tions of, from iron-smelting, 1864, 37 
-- Frederick George Finch on the 
utilisation of blast-furnace, 1866, 29 
Slate, models illustrating contortions in 
mica-schist and, H. C. Sorby on, 1863, 
88 
-quarries, A. W. Darbishire on the 
working of, 1883, 658 
* -veins of Festiniog, S. Jenkins on 
the noted, 1868, 70 
Slates and limestones of Devon and 
Cornwall, W. Pengelly on the correla¬ 
tion of the, with the Old Red Sand¬ 
stones of Scotland, &c., 1862, 85 
*Slatter (Rev. J.) on the dietary of the 
agricultural poor, 1864, 191 
Slaty cleavage and allied rock-structures , 
Alfred Harker on, with special refer¬ 
ence to the mechanical theories of their 
origin, 1885, 813 
Slavery and the slave trade, Rev. A. 
Busacott on the present extent of, 1876, 
196 
Slavonian, Celt, and German, the words, 
their misinterpretation, and its results, 
Dr. R. G. Latham on, 1883, 567 
^Slavonic countries of Austria and Tur¬ 
key in Europe, Miss Muir Mackenzie 
on her journeys in the south, 1864, 145 
Sleep, Dr. Kidd on the physiology of, 
and of chloroform anaesthesia, 1869, 125 
*Slickensides, W. Carruthers on, 1869, 86 
* - or rubbed, polished, or striated 
rocks, Dr. Ogier Ward on, 1872, 123 
Slide-rule. J. D. Everett on a new pro¬ 
portion-table, equivalent to a sliding- 
rule 13 ft. 4 in. long, 1866, 2 
.-or calculating apparatus, cylindrical, 
E. Thacher on a, 1884, 656 
Slide-valves, J. R. Napier and Prof. W. J. 
M. Rankine on the use of movable 
seats for, 1867, 156 
Sliding coefficient for a fluid in contact 
rvith a solid, the existence of a, Prof. 
H. Lamb on, 1887, 495 
-—— scales in the coal industry. Prof. J. 
E. C. Munro on, 1885, 1173 
■- the regulation of mages by 
means of, report on, 1886, 282 
—-and hours of labour in the 
Northumberland coal industry, R. 
Young on, 1886, 775 
- and economic theory, the rela¬ 
tions between, L. L. Price on, 1888, 523 
Slieve Croob, co. Down, Prof. Hull and 
W. A. Traill on the relative ages of the 
granitic, plutonic, and volcanic rocks 
of the Mourne Mountains and, 1871, 
101 
-Gullion, the ancient volcanic dis¬ 
trict of, J. Nolan on, 1878, 527 
Sligo, A. B. Wynne on the geology of a 
part of, 1862, 96 
*Slimon (Dr. R.) on the Upper Silurian 
rocks of Lesmahagow, 1876, 96 
* - exhibition of his collection of 
Crustacea, 1867, 72 
Sloan (A. D.) on the occupation of the 
table at the zoological station at Naples, 
1888, 153 
Sluice, W. Thorold on the failure of the, 
in fens, 1862, 186 
Sluices for rivers, &c., the construction 
of, F. G. M. Stone } 7 on, 1890, 954 
Small (W.), anomalies in the condition 
of Scotch miners in contrast with other 
unskilled labourers, 1885, 1174 
Smart (Bath C.) on the English gipsies 
and their dialect, 1861, 199 
*Smell, the brain mechanism of, Dr. A. 
Hill on, 1881, 754 
* - the sense of, Prof. Haycraft on, 
1886, 711 
*Smith (Anderson) on sodium, 1876, 68 
-(Archibald) on the effect produced 
on the deviation of the compass by the 
length and arrangement of the com¬ 
pass needles, and on a new mode of 
correcting the quadrantal deviation, 
1861, 45 
- report on the three reports of the 
Liverpool compass committee and other 
recent publications on the same subject, 
1862, 87 ; report on the adequacy of ex¬ 
isting data for carrying into effect the 
suggestion of Gauss, to apply his general 
theory of terrestrial magnetism to the 
magnetic variations, 170 
-(Dr. A. L.) on the ventilation of 
ocean steamships, 1884, 895 
* - (B.) on warming, lighting, and 
ventilating the Birmingham Town Hall, 
1865, 190 
* -(C.), exhibition of an Orthopterous 
insect, 1870, 86 
-(Prof. C. M.) on atmospheric elec¬ 
tricity, *1882, 476 ; 1885, 899 
-notes on atmospheric electricity and 
the use of Sir William Thomson’s port¬ 
able electrometer in the tropics, 1889, 
507 ; on the Bandaisan eruption, Japan, 
July 1888, 564 
-(D.) on the meteorology of Birming¬ 
ham, 1865, 19 
-(Dr. Edward), report on the action of 
prison diet and discipline on the bodily 
functions of prisoners, Part 1, 1861, 44 
- on the influence of the season of 
the year on the human system, 1861, 
175 
-- on tobacco-smoking: its effects 
upon pulsation, 1862, 135 ; on the pre¬ 
valence of numerous conditions affect¬ 
ing the constitution in 1,000 consump¬ 
tive persons, 174 
