GENERAL INDEX. 
395 
Tyree, 1870, 64 ; on the retention of 
nitrogen by charcoal, 65 
^Stanford (Edward C. C.) on the reten¬ 
tion of organic nitrogen by charcoal, 
1871, 81 ; *011 the carbon closet-system, 
240 
- on the estimation of potash and 
phosphoric acid , 1875, 24 ; 1877, 9 , 26 
-on the manufacture of iodine, 1876, 
68 
-on algin, a new substance obtained 
from seaweed, 1883, 464 
■f Stanhope ‘ demonstrator ’ or logical 
machine, Rev. R. Harley on the, 1878, 
442 
Stanley (H. M.), discoveries at the 
northern end of Lake Tanganyika, 
1872, 213 
-’s, Mr., stations on the Congo, a 
visit to, H. H. Johnston on, 1883, 593 
-(Right Hon. Lord), Address to the 
Section of Economic Science and 
Statistics, 1865, 131 
-(W. F.) on the improbability of the 
theory that former Glacial Periods in 
the northern hemisphere were due to 
eccentricity of the earth’s orbit, and to 
its winter perihelion in the north, 
1884, 723 
-notes upon the rotational period of 
the earth and revolution period of the 
moon deduced from the nebular hypo¬ 
thesis of Laplace, 1885, 915 ; proposed 
conditions to account for a former 
Glacial Period in Great Britain, exist¬ 
ing under similar meteorological con¬ 
ditions to those that rule at the present 
time, 1020 ; a portable scale of propor¬ 
tions of the human body, 1206 
-on a new spirometer, 1890, 982 
Stansfield (A.) on varieties of Blech - 
num Spicant collected in 1860 and 
1861, 1861, 159 
Staphylopteris, a genus new* to British 
rocks, C. W. Peach on the discovery of, 
1876, 94 . 144 
Star, bright, in the great nebula in Andro¬ 
meda, Dr. R. Copeland on the, 1885, 935 
-chromatoscope, A. Claudet on the, 
1863, 5 
-grouping, the laws of, R. A. Proctor 
on, 1870, 24 
-photography, I. Roberts on, 1886, 
555 
—— 95 Herculis, Prof. Piazzi Smyth on 
the changing of colour of the, 1863, 10 
-variable, J. R. Hind on the, lately 
discovered in Corona Borealis, 1866, 8 
-worship, totem clans and, G. St. 
Clair on, 1888, 848 
Starch, Dr. W. Hinds on the identitj'- of, 
and chlorophyll, 1865, 81 
*-in plants, notes on experiments as 
to the formation of, under the influence 
of the electric light, by II. M. Ward, 
1885, 1086 
Starfish, the discovery of a species of, in 
the Devonian beds of South Devon, A. 
Champernowne on, 1873, 77 ; H. Wood¬ 
ward on, ib. 
-from the Yorkshire Lias, Prof. J. F. 
Blake on a, 1887, 716 
Starkey (W. J. S. B.), secondary cells, 
1890, 958 
Starling (J. PI.) on improved photo¬ 
graphic screens, 1879, 291 
* -exhibited an improved volumetric 
apparatus, 1880, 534 
Stars, British Association Catalogue of, 
Rev. R. Main on the, 1869, 19 
- distances of some of the fixed, H. 
Fox Talbot on a method of estimating 
the, 1871, 34 
t- heat of, William Huggins on the, 
1869, 18 
* -with a measurable annual parallax, 
a systematic research for, and its re¬ 
sults, Prof. R. S. Ball on, 1884, 654 
- shooting-. ( See ‘ Meteors, Lumi¬ 
nous ’) 
- spectra of fixed, IP. Huggins on the, 
1868, 143 ; spectra of variable , 145 ; 
spectra of temporary, 146 ; observations 
to determine whether the, are moving 
towards or from the earth , 152 ; spectro¬ 
scopic observations of fixed , 157 ; (see 
also Sectional Proceedings, 1864, 12 ) 
-temporary, Daniel Yaughan on cases 
of planetary instability indicated by 
the appearance of, 1861, 24 
Startin (A.) on the Drift in the parish 
of Exhall, north of Coventry, 1865, 74 
State guarantee of war risks, J. Cony on, 
1885, 1171 
-socialism, an analysis of the current 
conception of, by Prof. H. Sidgwick, 
1888, 760 
Statical and kinematical analogues, Prof. 
J. D. Everett on, 1874, 11 
Statigrams, Rev. J. F. Heyes on, with 
some suggestions for greater unifor¬ 
mity in comparative graphics, 1888, 
769 
Statistical tables, the errors of the argu¬ 
ment of, J. Kleiber on, 1888, 61 S 
Statistics and Economic Science, Ad¬ 
dresses of the Presidents of the Section 
of :— 
W. Newmarch, Manchester, 1861, 201 
*E. Chadwick, Cambridge, 1862, 
W. Tite, Newcastle upon-Tyne, 1863, 
149 
Dr. W. Farr, Bath, 1864, 151 
Lord Stanley, Birmingham, 1S65, 131 
Prof. J. E. T. Rogers, Nottingham, 
1866, 117 
M. E. Grant-Duff, Dundee, 1867, 132 
S. Brown, Norwich, 1868, 144 
