GENERAL INDEX. 
411 
Syncope, Dr. Charles Kicld on, as a co¬ 
incident in chloroform accidents, 18G2, 
130 
Synge (Major-Gen. M.) on purity and 
impurity in the use and abuse of water, 
1873, 200 
Synoptic charts, daily, of the Indian 
Ocean from the year 1861, report of the 
Committee for co-operating with the 
Meteorological Society of the Mauritius 
in their proposed publication of', 1882, 
38 ; 1883, 118 ; 1884, 32 ; 1885, 60 ; 
1887, 40 
Synthetical researches on organic acids, 
report of, by A. R. Cation, 1868, 475 
Syria, the surface rocks of, Jas. Perry on, 
f 1879, 348 
Syrrhaptes paradoxus , the irruption of, 
Prof. A. Newton on, 1863, 105 ; 1888, 
703 
•-as a native of Britain, Prof. A. 
Newton on, 1889, 616 
Systemes de points materiels, V. Cerruti 
sur les mouvements aperiodiques des, 
1876, 12 
-de spheres et les systemes de droites, 
Prof. L. Cremona sur les, 1876, 12 
Szczepanowski (S. Prus) on the chemi¬ 
cal nature of cast iron, 1868, 342 
-- on the preparation of pure iron, 1869, 
82 
Tables, mathematical. ( See ‘ Mathema¬ 
tical) 
laconic range (Western New England), 
the southward ending of a great syn¬ 
clinal in the, Prof. J. D. Dana on, 1884, 
729 
Tactinvariant of a conical section and 
a cubic curve, Prof. F. Lindemann 
on the, 1884, 647 
Tailless trout of Islay, C. W. Peach on 
the so-called, 1871, 133 
Tait (Dr. L.) on hospital mortality, 1877, 
181 
-on the occurrence of a sacral dimple 
and its possible significance, 1878, 606 
* -(Prof. P. G.) on the application of 
quaternions to the rotation of a solid, 
1868, 11 
• - on the thermal conductivity of iron 
and other metals, 1869, 175 ; i871, 97 
--- on comets, 1869, 21 
--Address to the Section of Mathe¬ 
matics and Physical Science, 1871, 1 ; 
on thermo-electricity, 48 
* -on sympathy of pendulums, 1872, 
24 ; *011 double neutral points in 
thermo-electric currents, 52 
• - on the determination of high tem¬ 
peratures by refracted rays, 1873, 461 ; 
on science-lectures and organisation, 
495> 507 
Tait (Prof. P. G.) report on the mechani¬ 
cal equivalent of heat, 1876, 275 ; 1878, 
102 ; 1879, 36 
--general theorems relating to closed 
curves, 1876, 29 
•- on the elasticity of mires, 1878, 103 ; 
1879, 33 ; 1880, 61 ; on the progress of 
the chief branches of Mathematics and, 
Physics, 1879, 37 
- on the measurement of the lunar dis- 
twibance of gravity, 1880, 25 ; 1881, 93 ; 
1882, 95 
--on a method of investigating experi¬ 
mentally the absorption of radiant heat 
by gases, 1882, 475 
-(P. M.) on the population and mor¬ 
tality of Calcutta, 1867, 145 
-on the population and mortality of 
Bombay, 1869, 199 
-on the theory and practice of acci¬ 
dent insurance by sea and land, 1876, 
208 
— vital and other statistics applicable 
to musicians, 1880, 666 
Talbot (H. Fox) on a method of esti¬ 
mating the distances of some of the 
fixed stars, 1871, 34 
*Talpa Furopcea, C. Spence Bate on the 
dentition of, 1866, 69 
- Prof. Owen on the cervical and 
lumbar vertebras of the, 1869, 152 
Tanakadate (A.) on the intensity of 
magnetisation of soft iron bars of 
various lengths in a uniform magnetic 
field, 1888, 566 
Tanganyika, H. M. StanK } 7 on discoveries 
at the northern end of Lake, 1872, 213 
—— Basin, the geographical evolution 
of the, Joseph Thomson on, 1882, 622 
t-Capt. E. C. Hore on Lake, 1889, 663 
’“'Tangent planes, triple, W. Spottiswoode 
on, 1873, 24 
^Tangential balance, Prof. Zenger on the, 
and a new saccharometer, 1872, 53 
——- equation, a new form of, Prof. John 
Casey on, 1878, 457 
Tangye gas hammer, D. Clerk on the, 
1887, 883 
"Tanner (Lieut.-Col. H. C. B.) on the 
Dara Nur, Northern Afghanistan and 
its inhabitants, 1880, 665 
--on Himalayan snow peaks, 1885, 
1126 
--(R. R.), the suitability of small 
towns for factory industries, 1888, 767 
Tannic acid, Muntz and Ramspacher’s 
apparatus for the estimation of, J. 
Watts on, 1875, 46 
*-pyrocatechin as a derivative of 
certain varieties of, Dr. J. Watts on, 
1877, 53 
Tanning trade of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 
T. C. Angus on the statistics of the, 
1863, 161 
