GENERAL INDEX. 
403 
scientific geography, illustrated by re¬ 
marks on the climate of India, 1872, 
214 
Strachey (General R.) on the best means 
of providing for a uniformity of weights 
and measures, with reference to the in¬ 
terests of science, 1874, 359 
--Address to the Geographical Section, 
1875, 180 
- on the datum-level of the Ordnance 
Survey of Great Britain, and the tabu¬ 
lation and comparison of other datum- 
marks, 1877, 220 ; 1878, 219 ; 1879, 219 
• - on a differential gravity meter, 1886, 
141 ; 1887, 41 ; 1888, 72 
• - on the desirability of further re¬ 
search in the Antarctic regions, 1888, 
316 
* - meteorological conditions of the 
Red Sea, 1888, 738 ; fsea temperatures 
in the neighbourhood of Cape Guarda- 
fui, ib. 
• - on the geography and geology of the 
Atlas ranges in the Empire of Morocco, 
1889, 165 
Strahan (A.) on underground tempera¬ 
ture, 1881, 90 ; 1882, 72 ; 1883, 45 ; 
1885, 93 ; 1889, 35 
--on the discovery of Coal-Measures 
under New Red Sandstone, and on the 
so-called Permian rocks of St. Helen's, 
Lancashire, 1881, 632 ; on the Lower 
Keuper Sandstone of Cheshire, 635 
-on the rocks surrounding the War¬ 
wickshire coal-field, and on the base of 
the Coal-measures, 1886, 624 
Strain, F. J. Brammell on the influence 
of form considered in relation, to the 
strength of railway axles and other 
portions of machinery subjected to 
rapid alternations of, 1869, 422 
Strains in the interior of beams, G. B. 
Airy on the, 1862, 82 
* -the measurement of, A. Mallock on, 
1890, 962 
*Strandlouper from South Africa, exhibi¬ 
tion of a skeleton of a, by Prof. A. 
Macalister, 1885, 1228 
Strang (John) on the comparative pro¬ 
gress of the English and Scottish popu¬ 
lation as shown by the census of 1861. 
1861, 243 ; on the altered condition of 
the embroidery manufacture of Scot¬ 
land and Ireland since 1857, ib. 
Strange (Lieut.-Col. A.) on the necessity 
for State intervention to secure the 
progress of physical science, 1868, 6 
- on mapping the surface of the moon, 
1869, 76 ; on the provision existing in 
the United’ Kingdom for the vigorous 
prosecution of physical research, 213 
* - on the best forms of numerical 
figures for scientific instruments, and a 
proposed mode of engraving them, 
1869, 53 ; *ona small altazimuth instru¬ 
ment for the use of explorers, 168 
Strange (Lieut.-Col. A.) on Govern¬ 
ment action on scientitic questions, 
1871, 56 
-on the duty of the British Associ - 
ation with respect to the distribution 
of its funds, 1872, 63 
-on the necessity for placing physical 
meteorology on a rational basis, 1871, 
40 
Strangway t s (C. Fox) on the circulation 
of underground waters, 1882, 213 ; 1884, 
96 ; 1885, 380 ; 1886,235 
Strata, the Rev. J. Gunn on the alter¬ 
nate elevations and subsidences of the 
land, and the order of the succession 
of, in Norfolk and Suffolk, 1868, 66 
- between Huyton and St. Helens, 
Dr. C. Ricketts on sections of, 1870, 85 
Strath, Isle of Skye, some points in the 
geology of, Profs. King and Rowney on, 
1870, 78 
Strath-Errick, Lough Ness, Dr. J. Bryce 
on the granite of, 1876, 87 
Stratified rocks of Islay, J. Thomson on 
the, 1871, 113 
Strawberry, some substances obtained 
from the root of the, Dr. T. L. Phipson 
on, 1878, 514 
Stream-lines, a problem in, Prof. A. W. 
Rucker on, 1881, 554 
- Prof. W. J. M. Rankine on the 
properties of certain, 1864, 20 
Streams, combined, the mathematical 
theory of, Prof. J. W. M. Rankine on. 
1870/i8 
--- convexity of surface of, Major A. 
Cunningham on the, 1882, 665 
-depression of maximum velocity in< 
Major A. Cunningham on the, 1882, 
665 
-the thermodynamic acceleration and 
retardation of, Prof. J. W. M. Rankine 
on, 1870, 18 
^Street management, F. Wilson on, 1870, 
229 
-pipe arrangements for extinguishing 
fires, J. F. Bateman on, 1861, 255 
■{'Streeter (J. S.), the ruby mines of 
Burma, 1887, 803 
^Streets, Joseph Mitchell on a new mode 
of constructing the surface of, 1867< 
156 
^Stress, transverse, the effect of, on the 
magnetic susceptibility of iron, Sir W. 
Thomson on, 1877, 37 
Stresses produced in an elastic solid by 
inequalities of temperature, Dr. 3. 
Hopkinson on the, 1872, 51 
Stretching of liquids, Prof. A. M. Worth¬ 
ington on the, 1888, 583 
Striated stone from the Trias of Portia- 
head, Prof. W. J. Sollas on a, 1880, 586 
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