408 
GENERAL INDEX. 
^'Surfaces, anallagmatic, W. K. Clifford 
on the umbilici of, 1869, 9 
_C. W. Merrifield on certain families 
of, 1871, 18 ; note by Prof. Arthur 
Cayley, 19 
-of the second degree, F. W. New¬ 
man on the curvature of, 1869, 13 
* _of the second order, Prof. Clifford 
on the contact of, with other surfaces, 
1872, 13 
* -of the second order, H. J. S. Smith 
on a property of, 1866, 6 
- pedal, Prof. T. A. Hirst on the 
volumes of, 1862, 5 
Surgery and superstition in Neolithic 
times, Miss A. W. Buckland on, 1880, 
630 
Surinam, E. B. Tylor on the Negro- 
European dialects of, 1865, 130 
Surnames, the Anglicising and Gaelici- 
sing of, H. MacLean on, 1876, 167 
StJRTEES (Capt. C.) on the desert from 
Dahshur to Ain Raian, 1887, 801 
-- on a mission to El-Wed j, 1888, 747 
* — (F. R.) on South African swifts and 
swallows, 1864, 191 
Survey of Galilee, Lieut. H. H. Kitchener 
on the, 1878, 622 
-of Palestine, Lieut. E. Conder on 
the, 1874, 178 
^Surveying instrument, G. W. Hope on 
Eckhold’s omnimeter, a new, 1873, 47 
Surveys, Dominion, T. Saunders on, 1884, 
807 
- of the Dominion lands, North¬ 
western territories of Canada, L. Rus¬ 
sell on, 1884, 811 
-in Ireland, a communication from 
the Ordnance Department on, 1874 ,184 
^Suspensory ligament of the fetlock of 
the horse, ass, ox, sheep, and camel, 
the structure and homologies of the, 
Dr. D. J. Cunningham on, 1881, 726 
Sussex, Rev. E. B. Ellmar on the earth¬ 
quake and storm in, August 21, 1864, 
1864, 16 
-Dr. Charnock on certain geographi¬ 
cal names in the county of, 1872, 177 
-river names, Dr. Charnock on, 1872, 
176 
- F. E. Sawyer on the rainfall of, 
1872, 58 
- summary analysis of the flora of, 
by W. B. Hemsley, 1872, 128 
Sutcliffe (R.) on the economical gene¬ 
ration of steam, 1873, 216 ; 011 the 
ec nominal utilisation of steam, 217 
Sutherland (Duke of), report on steam¬ 
ship performance, 1861, 190 ; 1862 , 282 ; 
1864, 339 
- (H.), a nevv trade route between 
America and Europe, 1886, 727 
Sutherland, C. W. Peach on fossil fishes of 
the Old Red Sandstone of, 1867, 72 
*Sutton (R.) on a new photographic 
dry process, 1871, 44 
- (Thomas) on the panoramic lens, 
1861, 33 
--description of a rapid dry collodion 
process, 1862, 54 
^Swallows and swifts, South African, F. 
R. Surtees on, 1864, 191 
SWAMY (Mutu Coomara) on the ethno¬ 
logy of Ceylon, referring especially to 
its Singhalese and Tamil inhabitants, 
1863, 146 
Swan (A. P.) aod Prof. M. M. Hartog 
on the culture of usually aerobic Bac¬ 
teria under anaerobic conditions, 1886, 
706 
*——- (D.) on zinc, 1876, 69 
- (H.) ° n a new kind of miniature 
possessing apparent solidity by means 
of a combination of prisms, 1863, 17 
- (J. W.) on a mercurial air-pump, 
1863, 26 
* -- on the Swan incandescent lamp, 
1881, 778 
-- on an electric safety lamp for 
miners, 1885, 1196 
- on improvements in electric safety 
lamps , 1886, 496 
* -a fire-damp indicator, 1887, 884 
-on an automatic fire-damp detector, 
1888, 817 
- on the employment of chromic 
acid instead of nitric acid in the Bun¬ 
sen cell, 1889, 512 
* -- and C. H. Stearn on a new form 
of Sprengel’s air-pump, 1877, 43 
- (R.), the island of Paros, in the 
Cyclades, and its marble quarries, 1889, 
570 
—— (Prof. W.) on the wave-lengths of 
the spectra of the hydrocarbons, 1871, 
43 
—- on constructing and printing cata¬ 
logues of spectral rays arranged upon a 
scale of wave-numbers, 1872, 53 ; 1873, 
249 
Swansea harbour, the deep sea channel 
into, R. Capper on, 1885, 1202 
- usages and customs, remarks and 
statistics relating to, as they affect the 
sellers of foreign or colonial copper 
ores, by W. Henderson, 1880, 681 
Sweden, Professor Otto Torell on some 
new fossils from the Longmvnd rocks 
of, 1868, 80 
*Swifts and swallows, South African, F. 
R. Surtees on, 1864, 191 
Swinbourne (R. W.) on glass, 1863, 55 
Swinburne (Sir J.) on the South African 
goldfields, 1870, 176 
- *(J.), compensation of electrical 
measuring instruments for tempera¬ 
ture errors, 1887, 621 ; a musical slide 
rule, ib. 
