GENERAL INDEX. 
385 
Smith (Dr. R. Angus) on the treatment 
and utilisation of sewage, 1869, 313 
*■ -(R. F.) on the gaseous products of 
the destructive distillation of hydro¬ 
carbons obtained from shales and coals 
at low and high temperatures, 1867, 43 
-(Prof. R. H.) on the development of 
graphic methods in mechanical science, 
1889, 322 
- (V.) on the Canadian Pacific rail¬ 
way, 1884, 885 
-(Watson), methods for coking coal 
and recovering the bye-products, 1883, 
465 
* -on the constituents of the light 
oils of blast furnace coal tar from 
Gartsherrie works, 1887, 640 
- (Dr. Wilberforce), stethographic 
tracings of male and female respiratory 
movements, 1890, 981 ; diagrams for 
reading off indices, 982 
-(William), report on steamship per¬ 
formance, 1861, 190 ; 1862, 282 ; 1863, 
339 
-on portable machinery or apparatus 
for riveting, chipping, &c., 1863, 184 ; 
on a novel arrangement of direct- 
acting steam-engines, 186 ; on a novel 
method of covering boilers, pipes, and 
cylinders of steam-engines for prevent¬ 
ing the radiation of heat, 187 ; on an 
improved valve and apparatus for 
atmospheric railways, 18 S 
- on a uniformity of weights and 
measures , 1868, 484 ; 1869, 308 ; 1870, 
232 ; 1871, 198 
- on agricultural machinery , 1869, 404 
- on an improved vertical annular 
high-pressure steam-boiler, 1869, 219 
- on tidal observations, 1870, 120 
- on instruments for measuring the 
speed of ships, 1874, 255 
-on the prevention of railway acci¬ 
dents and automatically recording the 
movements of the points and signals 
and other apparatus of railways, 1874, 
229 
- on A. S. Hallidie’s wire rope 
traction-railway, 1875, 252 ; *on a 
means of recording the movements of 
points and signals, ib. ; *on a breech¬ 
loading mountain gun, ib ; *on a 
military bidon, ib. 
'* -(W.)on the progress and extermina¬ 
tion of the cattle plague in Norfolk, 
1868, 177 
- (W.) on the lighthouse system of 
Canada, 1884, 891 
* -(W.) on the movement of sand in 
Aberdeen Bay, 1885, 1193 
-- (Worthington) on the ‘ Laughton r 
or 1 Cowper's ’ Camp, 1883, 243 
- (W. R.) and T. M. Lindsay on 
Democritus and Lucretius, a question 
of priority in the kinetical theory of 
matter, 1871 , 30 
Smith (Dr. W. W.) on the early failure of 
pairs of grinding teeth, 1889 , 771 
-’s (Mr. Leigh) voyages to Spitz- 
bergen, Lieut. H. Chermside on, 1874, 
171 
Smithells (Prof. A.), suggested amend¬ 
ment of chemical nomenclature, 1887, 
652 
- on the present methods of teaching 
chemistry, 1888, 73 ; 1889, 228 ; 1890, 
265 
- the teaching of chemistry in public 
elementary schools, 1889, 251 
Smithsonian Institution, P. P. Carpenter 
on the cosmopolitan operations of the, 
1861, 137 
* -in the United States of America, 
the, and its work relating to anthro¬ 
pology, Dr. T. Wilson on, 1889, 7 S 5 
*Smoke in large towns, W. R. E. Coles on 
the abatement of, 1881, 780 
Smyth (Prof. C. Piazzi) on the changing 
colour of the star 95 Herculis, 1863, 10 ; 
on a proof of the dioptric and actinic 
quality of the atmosphere at a high 
elevation, 25 
* -on the Newcastle time gun, 1863,- 
191 
*——- exhibition of photographs of the 
interior of the Great Pyramid, taken 
with the magnesium light by, 1865, 40 
-on Malvern, queen of inland health 
resorts, and on improved hygrometric 
observations, 1885, 922 
--- re-examination of the spectra of 
23 gas-vacuum, end-on tubes, after six 
to ten years of existence and use, 1889, 
490 ; hvgrometry in the ‘ Meteorological 
Journal,’ 508 
- photographs of the invisible, in 
solar spectroscopy, 1890, 750 
- and Prof. A. S. Herschel on the 
use of bisulphide of carbon prisms for 
cases of extreme spectroscopic disper¬ 
sion and their results in gaseous 
spectra, 1885, 942 
-(John, jun.) on an apparatus for the 
determination of the ozone in the 
atmosphere, and experiments made 
therewith by means of the aspirator, 
1865 , 37 
-- improvements in chlorimetry, 1871, 
81 
- on an apparatus for testing the 
water-stopping efficiency of clay soils 
and other substances under various 
pressures, 1872, 250 
- on the industrial uses of the Upper 
Bann river, 1874, 139 
- on the meteorology at Banbridge 
for ten years, and rainfall of Ulster* 
1874, 39 
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