GENERAL INDEX. 
409 
Swinburne (J.), the design of trans¬ 
formers, 1889, 741 
-notes on high vacua, 1890, 727 ; the 
compensation of alternating-current 
voltmeters, 753 ; the effect of direct 
and alternating electrical pressures on 
the human body, 758 
-and W. F. Bourne on testing iron, 
1890, 753 
*Swinhoe (R.)> ethnology of the island 
of Formosa, 1863, 192 
-on the aborigines of Formosa, 1865, 
129 
-on the natural history of Hainan, 
1870, 128 ; on the island of Hainan, 
176 
Swiss, the physique of the, as influenced 
by race and by media, Dr. J. Beddoe on, 
1888, 837 
Switzerland, the Germanic and Rheetian 
elements in, Dr. J. Beddoe on, 1883, 
574 
Sworn (S. A.), the constitution of the 
aromatic nucleus, 1889, 545 ; on the 
reaction of benzoquinone with potas¬ 
sium cyanide, 546 
Sykes (Col. W. H.), report from the 
Balloon Committee , 1861, 249 ; 1862, 
376 ; 1863 , 426 ; 1864, 493 ; 1865, 145 ; 
1866, 367 
-on the progress and prospects of the 
trade of England with China since 
1833, 1861, 246 
-comparison of the organisation and 
cost in detail of the English and French 
armies for 1863-1864, 1863, 163 
-—— report on the uniformity of weights 
and measures , 1864, 102 ; 1865, 375 ; 
1866, 352 ; 1867, 468 ; 1868, 484 ; 1869, 
308 ; 1870, 232 ; 1871, 198 
-statistics of the charitable, educa¬ 
tional, industrial, and public institu¬ 
tions founded by the native gentry of 
India during the last five years, 1866, 
133 ; on modes of banking in America, 
Manchooria, and China, 134 
-on storm-warnings, their importance 
and practicability, 1867, 27 ; on the 
report upon the state of the empire of 
France, presented to the Senate and 
Legislative Body, February 1867, 145 
Syllidian Annelids, budding in the, chiefly 
with reference to a branched form pro¬ 
cured during the voyage of H.M.S. 
‘ Challenger,’ Dr. W. C. McIntosh on, 
1879, 372 
Sylvester (Prof. J. J.) on the involution 
of axes of rotation, 1861, 12 
-on the solution of the linear equa¬ 
tion of finite differences in its most 
general form, 1862, 188 
.- on the quantity and centre of 
gravity of figures given in perspective, 
or homography, 1863, 2 
Sylvester (Prof. J. J.) on a special class 
of questions on the theory of probabili¬ 
ties, 1865, 8 
555 - on Prof. Price’s modification of 
Arbogast’s method, 1865, 9 
-on the successive involutes to a 
circle, 1868, 10 
- on the rainfall of the British Isles , 
1869 , 383 ; 1870, 170 ; 1871 , 98 ; 1872, 
1 76; 1873, 257 
-Address to the Section of Mathe¬ 
matics and Physical Science, 1869, 1 
-on Professor Christian Wiener’s 
stereoscopic representation of the cubic 
Eikosi-heptagram, 1869, 15 ; on the 
successive involutes to a circle, ib. 
-on the theory of a point in partitions, 
1871, 23 
- oninstructionin elementary geometry , 
1873, 459 ; 1876, 8 
- on the calculation of tables of the 
fundamental invariants of algebraic 
forms, 1879, 66 ; 1880, 38 ; 1881, 55 ; 
‘I 882 , 37 
-on the involution of two matrices of 
the second order, 1883, 430 
* -Prof. Clifford on a message from, 
1874, 10 
Symbol, cyclical, Rev. R. Harley on a 
certain, 1867, 4 
-pillars abounding in central Aber¬ 
deenshire, Rev. Dr. J. Davidson on 
the, 1885, 1227 
S} 7 mbolical expansions, W. II. L. Russell 
on, 1864, 4 
Symbols, calculus of, W. PI. L. Russell on 
recent discoveries made in the, 1862, 7 
• -mathematical, W. H. L. Russell on 
a certain class of, 1863, 1 
*Symes (R. S.) on rubbings from St. 
Patrick’s Chair, co. Mayo, 1872, 197 
"'Symington (Dr. J.) on the curvature of 
the spine in the foetus and the child, 
1885, 1101 
-observations on the myology of the 
Gorilla and Chimpanzee, 1889, 629 
Symmetric functions, Capt. P. A. Mac- 
Mahon on, and in particular on certain 
inverse operators in connection there¬ 
with, 1883, 409 
^Symmetry of crystalline forms, laws of, 
A. R. Catton on the, 1867, 10 
Symonds (Dr. J. A.) on the sanitary sta¬ 
tistics of Clifton, 1864, 176 
- (Rev. W. S.) on some phenomena 
connected with the Drifts of the Severn, 
Avon, Wye, and Usk, 1861, 133 
- on scutes of the Labyrinthodon, 
from the Keuper bone-breccia of Pen- 
dock, Worcestershire, 1862, 96 ; on the 
occurrence of Asplenium viride on an 
isolated travertine rock among the 
Black Mountains of Monmouthshire, 
100 
