bituminous, XVIII. 240; alum from, I. 646; naphtha from, XVII. 174. SHALLOT, vegetable, XII. 288. SHALMANESER I., king of Assyria, III. 186. 412. II., of Assyria, III. 186; XIII. 406. IV., of Assyria, III. 187; XIII. SHAMANISM, form of religion, XXI. 771; of Assyria, III. 192; of Pelew Islands, XVIII. 474; in Russia, XXI. 81; in Tibet, XXIII. 344. SHAMLI, town, India, XVII. 114. SHAIRP, John Campbell, Scottish poeti- SHAMMAI, Jewish rabbi, XXI. 771. SHAKERLY WITH TYLDESLEY, town, SHAKERS, religious sect, XXI. 736; VI. Edmund, brother of the dramatist, XXI. 755, 765. Hamnet, only son of the dramatist, XXI. 755, 765. John, the dramatist's father, XXI. 745. Judith, daughter of the dramatist, XXI. 755, 765. Mary Arden, the dramatist's mother, XXI. 747, 765. SHAMMAR, Arab tribe, Mesopotamia, XVI. 49. SHAMO, district, Central Asia, X. 713. SHAMOKIN, town, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., XXI. 771. SHAMOY (or CHAMOIS) LEATHER, XIV. 390. SHAMS, Sabæan goddess, XXIV. 741. Manchuria, SHANG DYNASTY, of China, v. 643. SHANGHAI, town, China, XXI. 771; V. 635; temple of Confucius at, II. 448. SHANKLIN, town, Isle of Wight, England, XXIV. 562. Richard, the dramatist's grand- SHAN LANGUAGE, Asia, XXI. 774. father, XXI. 744. SHANNON, river, Ireland, XIII. 216. Susanna, daughter of the dramatist, SHANS, people of Burmah and Siam, XXI. 755, 756, 765. William, English dramatist, XXI. 737; VII. 430; Madden on the spelling of the name, XV. 176; his position in English literature, VIII. 418; his connexion with Edward Alleyn, I. 584; his influence on Beaumont and Fletcher, III. 470; in favour with Queen Elizabeth, VIII. 142; his use of Geoffrey of Monmouth's legends, X. 173; his connexion with the Globe Theatre, London, XXIII. 224; his borrowing plots from Greene, XI. 164; his influence on German literature, X. 532; the London of, XIV. 848; in relation to the Renaissance, XX. 393; his sonnets, XXII. 262; the forgeries of Ireland, XIII. 272; epitaph on, by Milton, VIII. 495; monument of, at Stratford, XXII. 590; bibliography, XXI. 768; Boydell's illustrations of, IV. 182; French renderings by Ducis, VII. 505; Johnson's edition of, XIII. 725; Milton on, XVI. 326. SHAKHDARA, river, Central Asia, XVIII. 103. XXI. 773, 854; IV. 553. SHAN-SE, province, China, v. 634. SHAN STATES, Burmah, XXI. 773. SHANTOW (Swatow), town, China, XXII. 733. SHAN-TUNG, province, China, v. 633. SHAP, town, England, XXIV. 516. SHAPING MACHINES, machine tools, XV. 156. SHAPINSHAY, island, Orkney, Scotland, XVII. 846. SHAPUR I., king of Persia, XVIII. 608; XVII. 514. 514. II., of Persia, XVIII. 609; XVII. III., of Persia, XVIII. 610. 35. SHARI, valley, Soudan, XXII. 277. SHARJAH, district, Arabia, II. 254. SHARK, fish, XXI. 774; basking, XXI. 608; Beaumaris, XIX. 518; classification of the group, XII. 685. OIL, XVII. 747. SHARKS BAY, Western Australia, XXIV. 507. SHAKI-SHAKI, town, Zanzibar, Africa, SHARON, town, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., XXIV. 768. SHAKUDO, Japanese amalgam-work, XIII. 591. SHAL, fish, XXII. 68. SHALE, mineral, XVI. 424; X. 238; SHARP, James, archbishop of St Andrews, SHARPE, Mrs, on archery, II. 377. SHASTA, Mount, Sierra Nevada, U.S.A., SHATRANJ, Oriental game, v. 598. SHAWL, article of dress, XXI. 781; Cash- | SHAWM, musical instrument, XVII. 707. SHAWMUT, peninsula, Massachusetts, U.S.A., IV. 72. SHAWNEES, American-Indian tribe, XII. SHEA BUTTER, vegetable fat, XVII. 744, MACHINE, for iron plates, XV. 157. SHEARS, cutting tool, XI. 439; in iron manufacture, XIII. 330; XV. 157. in seamanship, XXI. 593, 604. SHEARWATER, bird, XXI. 781; XX. 102; XXII. 120. SHEATHBILL, bird, xxI. 782. SHEBOYGAN, town, Wisconsin, U.S.A., SHEELIN, Lough, Ireland, XXIV. 512. SPRINGS, spa, New York, U.S.A., SHEEPSHEAD, fish, XXI. 785. XXI. 779. XVI. 436. XIV. 779. SHARP, Abraham, English logarithmist, SHEERNESS, town, England, XXI. 785; SHEFFIELD, town, England, XXI. 785. , John, duke of Buckinghamshire, IV. 419. SHEIKHIS, Mohammedan sect, XXII. SHEIKU 'L-ISLAM, head of the ulema, or Moslem clergy, XXII. 661, 664; XXIII. 654. SHEOL, in eschatology, VIII. 536; XX. 114. SHEPHERD KINGS, of Egypt, VII. 735. SHEPPEY, Isle of, Kent, England, XIV. SHEIL, Richard Lalor, Irish politician, SHEPTON MALLET, town, England, XXI. SHEKEL, ancient coin and weight, XXI. 279. SHELBURNE, Earl of, English statesman, SHELDONIAN THEATRE, Oxford, XVIII. SHELDRAKE, bird, XXI. 788. 795. SHEPWAY, Cinque Port, England, Parlia- SHER ALI KHAN, ruler of Afghanistan, SHERBORNE, town, England, XXI. 795; SHERERO (Sherboro), island, Sierra SHEYKHI, of Kermiyan, Ottoman poet, SHEREEF (Sherif), Mohammedan officer, projectile, XI. 304; for rifled guns, SHERIBON (Cheribon), town, Java, V. I. 744. SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft, English woman of letters, XXI. 789; X. 717. Percy Bysshe, English poet, xxI. SHELOMOH IBN GEBIROL (Avicebron), SHEM, of Scripture, XVII. 511, 523; XXI. , 585. SHERIDAN, Caroline Elizabeth (Mrs Frances, novelist and dramatist, SHIAHS, Moslem sect, XI. 509. See SHIAN, shah of Persia, XVIII. 636. SHIELD, Ancient forms of, II. 554 OF SCIPIO, ancient plate, XIX. 181. -, Philip Henry, American general, SHIELDS, North, town, England, XXIII. XXIII. 780. Richard Brinsley Butler, Irish Thomas (1684-1738), Irish school- Israel Baal, or Besht, founder of SHERIFF, law officer, XXI. 800; VI. 513. modern Jewish sect, XIII. 681. SHEMAHA, or Shemakha, town, Trans caucasia, Russia, XXI. 794; XXIII. 515. SHEMARYAH, rabbi, Talmudist, XXIII. 39. SHEMUEL, Talmudic writer, XXIII. 35. U.S.A., XXI. 794. Laurence, founder of Rugby School, SHERIFF-CLERK, Scottish law officer, SHERIFF-DEPUTE, Scottish law officer, 675. South, town, England, XXI. 802. SHIFTING PIECES, in mechanics, XV. 755. SHIGATZE, town, Tibet, XXIII. 340. SHIITES, Moslem sect, XXII. 663; XVI. SHI KING, Chinese poems, VI. 263. SHILOH, town, Palestine, XXI. 803. VALLEY, U.S.A., Campaigns of, SHERIFFMUIR, Scotland, Battle of (1715), SHIN, Loch, Scotland, XXII. 726. SHING-YANG (Moukden), town, Man- | SHOA, district, Abyssinia, I. 64. churia, XV. 466. SHOADING, in mines, XVI. 442. SHINTO, Japanese religion, XIII. 581; SHOCK, or Collapse, physical condition, SHREVEPORT, town, Louisiana, U.S.A., XXI. 843. SHREW, insectivorous mammal, XXI. 843; XV. 403. SHIP, Ancient and mediæval, XXI. 804; SHOCKS, Effects of, on magnetization, SHREWSBURY, town, England, XXI. 845; Phoenician, XVIII. 804. SHIPS, Modern, XXI. 809, 589; chains and anchors for, II. 4; derelict, XXIV. 686; log for ascertaining speed of, XIV. 769; XVII. 264; management of, XXI. 589; quarantine of, XX. 153; registration of, XX. 343; resistance of water to, XII. 518; sails, XXI. 153; salvage, XXI. 237; steam-engines for, XXII. 517; unseaworthy, in law, XXI. 606; whaling vessels, XXIV. 526; wreck of, in law, XXIV. 686; yachts, XXIV. 723. SHIPBUILDING, XXI. 809. SHIP CANALS, IV. 787. XV. 268. SHODDY, variety of cloth, I. 176; XXIV. battle of (1403), XI. 660; XVIII. 523. Earls and Duke of, XXIII. 25. SHRIKE, bird, XXI. 845. SHRIMP, crustacean, XXI. 846; fisheries, -, Opossum, crustacean, VI. 658. SHRINE, in architecture, II. 473. SHOEMAKER'S HOLIDAY, Dekker's play, SHROPSHIRE, county, England, XXI. SHIP HARBOUR, lake, Nova Scotia, SHOGUN, Japanese ruler, XIII. 582. SHIPLEY, town, England, XXI. 826. William Davies, Erskine's defence of, VIII. 530. SHOLAPUR, district and town, India, SHOMER, Mountains of, Arabia, II. SHIP-MONEY, tax, IX. 177; Hampden's SHO01 (Skua), bird, XXII. 125. resistance to, VIII. 346. SHIP OF FOOLES, Barclay's satire, III. SHIP OF FOOLS, Brandt's satirical poem, SHIPPING, British, XXI. 826; European, SHOOTING, for sporting purposes, XXI. 847. SHEEP, I. 392. SHROVE TUESDAY, XXI. 648. SHRUBS, Garden, XII. 260; culture of, SHU, Egyptian divinity, VII. 716. SHUI, town, Lew-Chew Islands, North SHUISKI, Basil, Russian revolutionist, SHUJA, shah of Afghanistan, XX. 111; SHULUH, race of people, Africa, 1. 261. SHORE, Jane, mistress of Edward IV., SHUMADIA, district, Servia, XXI. 687. 160. John, inventor of tuning-fork, SHUMSHU, island, Kuriles, Asia, XIV. SHORTEST WAY WITH DISSENTERS, SHORTHAND, XXI. 836; for the blind, SHIRE, or County, English administra- SHOSHONE, Lake, Yellowstone Park, tive division, VIII. 273. U.S.A., XXIV. 737. SHUN-CHE, emperor of China, v. 650. SHUSH, or Shushan (Susa), ancient town, Persia, XXII. 722; XXI. 849; II. 400. SHUSHA, town, Caucasus, Russia, XXI. SHUSHAN (Susa), ancient town, Persia, 393. SHUTTLE, for weaving, XXIV. 464; early FALLS, Snake River, U.S.A., XXII. SHUWAS, people, Bornu, Central Africa, 798. IV. 61. SHUYA, town, Russia, XXI. 849. SHOSHONG, town, Bechuanaland, South SHWE-GYENG, district and town, Bur- SHOT, military projectiles, 1. 745; XI. mah, XXI. 849. SIAH-POSH, tribes, Kafiristan, Asia, SIAK, residency, Sumatra, XXII. 639. SIALIDÆ, group of insects, XIII. 151. SHOULDER-BLADE, Anatomy of the, I. SIALKOT, district and town, India, XXI. XVIII. 93. 826. SHOULDER-GIRDLE, of mammals, XV. 358. SHOULDER-JOINT, Anatomy of the, I. 850. SIAM, kingdom, Eastern Asia, XXI. 850; forests of, IX. 405; Pali language in, XVIII. 183; Shan language of, XXI. 774; weights and measures, XXIV. 490. Sir Cloudesley, English SIAMANG, ape, II. 150. SHOVELER, bird, XXI. 842. SHRAPNEL SHELL, in gunnery, I. 744; SIBBALD, Sir Robert, Scottish scientist, | SICYON, town, Achaia, Greece, XXII. 31; | SIEGE, Operations in a, IX. 455; artillery for, 11. 663; XI. 314. XXII. I. SIBENIK, town, Dalmatia, Austria, XXI. 616. SIBERIA, region, Asia, XXII. 1; II. 687; acquisition of, by Russia, XXI. 93; Russian explorations in, X. 191; Friar William's travels in, XXI. 47; birds of, III. 756; forests, IX. 405; penal institutions, XIX. 762; Tartar population, XXIII. 70. school of sculpture at, II. 349. SIBOGA, town, Sumatra, XXII. 639. SIBSAGAR, district and town, India, XXII. 13. SIBSIB, ground squirrel, Morocco, XVI. 833. SIBUYAN, island, Philippines, XVIII. 752. SIBYL, of Greek and Roman legend, XXII. 13. SIBYLLINE BOOKS, of ancient Rome, XXII. 13. SIBYLLINE ORACLES, Greek poems, XI. 144. SIBYLLINES, The, apocalyptic books, II. 177, 179. SICCA VENERIA (Keff), ancient town, SICILIAN OIL, XVIII. 713. 478; XVII. 191; conquest of, by the Normans, XIII. 470; XVII. 191. SICILY, island, Mediterranean, XXII. 14; XIII. 440; XV. 820; part of kingdom of the Two Sicilies, XIII. 471; XVII. 191; under the Athenians, XI. 104; invaded by the Carthaginians, V. 161; historical connexion of Malta with, XV. 342; its connexion with Naples, XVII. 191; Norman settlement in, XIII. 470; XVII. 548; its connexion with Phoenicia, XVIII. 806; conquest of, by Rome, XX. 747, 750; Spanish connexion, XXII. 322, 324, 327; ancient, coins of, XVII. 638; modern, coins of, XVII. 657; dialect of, XIII. 494; plague in, XIX. 166; sulphur mines, XXII. 634; wine industry, XXIV. 610. SICK HEADACHE, XVII. 364. SICKINGEN, Franz von, German baron, XXII. 31; XV. 78. reaping SICKLE, 574. reaping implement, XXI. SIDEROSILICITE, mineral, XVI. 425. SIDEROSTATIC TELESCOPE, XXIII. 152. SIDE-WALKS, of streets, XX. 588. SIDGWICK, Henry, on political economy, XIX. 399. SIDI-BEL-ABBÈS, town, Algeria, XXII. 33. -, Ludwig, inventor of mezzotint engraving, VIII. 445. SIEGENITE, mineral, XVI. 391. in SIEGFRIED, hero of the Nibelungenlied, XVII. 475; X. 522, 524; XX. 657. SIEMENS, Ernst Werner, inventor of electric railway, XXIII. electrical experiments, VIII. 37. 495; his Sir William, inventor and natural philosopher, XXII. 37; his gas-engine, XXII. 526; his gas-producer, IX. 845; XXII. 182; his differential governor, XXII. 508; his heat-regenerator, IX. 846; on iron and steel, XIII. 282. SIDI IBN ISA, Shrine of, Kairwan, Tunis, SIEMENS-MARTIN PROCESS, of steelXIII. 824. RABBA, book of the Mandæans, SIGHING, abnormal form of respiration, XV. 468. SIDYMA, town, Asia Minor, XV. 94. SIEBENBÜRGEN, or Transylvania (q.v.), Austria-Hungary, XXIII. 521. SIEBOLD, Carl Theodor Ernst von, German physiologist and zoologist, XXII. 36. Philipp Franz von, German ex- SICULUS, Diodorus, Greek historian, SIEG, river, Rhenish Prussia, XX. 20, 519. SIGHT, Organ and sense of, VIII. 816; I. 885; defective, XVII. 784; loss of, III. 826; short and long, VIII. 820; XVII. 785; organs of, in Amphibia, 1. 768; in birds, III. 725; in Crustacea, VI. 637; in fishes, XII. 652; in mammals, XV. 367; in reptiles, XX. 461; III. 725. SIGHTS, Gun, XXII. 46. SIGISMUND, emperor, XXII. 48; XII. 368; X. 495. SIGISMUND III., of Poland, XIX. 294. king of Sweden, XXII. 748. SIGLUS, ancient Persian coin, XVII. 659. SIGMARINGEN, town, Prussia, XXII. 48. Hohenzollern-, German princely house, XII. 52. SILICA, Oxide of silicon, XXII. 53; V. 522. | SILVER, metal, XXII. 69; XVI. 382; 61. SILICEOUS SPRINGS, X. 271. SILICISPONGIÆ, class of sponges, XXII. 421. SIGMODON, genus of rodent mammals, SILICON, chemical element, V. 521; its SIGNAKH, town, Transcaucasia, Russia, SIGNALLING, XXIII. 112; heliographic, SILICON-MANGANEISEN, metal, XIII. XI. 632. SIGNALS, as used in navy, XXII. 49; XVII. 277; flag, IX. 279; railway, XX. 238; in surveying, XXII. 698; time determined by, XXIII. 395. 352. SILICO-SKELETA, subclass of Protozoa, SILIQUA, form of fruit, IV. 152. SIGNATURES, Book, XXIII. 700; quire SILIUS ITALICUS, Latin epic poet, XXII. SIGNET, Writers to the, legal society, LIBRARY, Edinburgh, XIV. 522. SIGNORELLI, Luca, Italian painter, XXII. SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC, XXIV. 791. SIGOURNEY, Lydia Huntley, American poetess, 1. 731. SIGTUNA, ancient town, Sweden, XXII. 558. SIGURD, mythical hero, in Nibelungen lied, XVII. 474; XX. 657. as chemical element, v. 529; cyanide of, XX. 23; adulteration of, I. 176; assay of, II. 727; extraction of, from alloy with lead, XIV. 376; mines in Austria, III. 120; in Bolivia, IV. 13; in Chili, v. 622; of Laureium, Greece, III. 59; in Mexico, XVI. 216; Xxiv. 761; in New South Wales, XVII. 409; of Nertchinsk, Siberia, XVII. 352; in United States, XXIII. 814; in Colorado, U.S.A., VI. 161; in Nevada, U.S.A., XVII. 368; ores, XVI. 58; dressing of ores, XVI. 465; production, IV. 518; XVI. 467, 728; production in England, VIII. 229; in Peru, XVIII. 675; spectrum of, XXII. 376; wire, XXIV. 615. COINAGE, XVI. 482, 723; XXII. 71; in relation to exchange, VIII. 790; comparative value of silver and gold, XVI. 731, 735; XXII. 73. SILK, XXII. 56; ancient fabrics of, HATS, XI. 519. SILVER-FISH, insect, XIII. 154. SILVERIUS, pope, XXII. 74; XIX. 493. SILVER MINING, XVI. 470. the Stout, earl of Orkney and SILKWORM, IV. 596; XXII. 57; moth SILVER PITS, depressions in North Sea, Caithness, XIII. 254; XVII. 848. son of Hakon, Norse earl, XVII. 585. JORSALAFARI, Norwegian king, XVII. 588, 848. SI-HAMED, Algerine chief, 1. 569. river, Asia Minor, II. 708; V. 777. SIKANDAR, ruler of Kashmir, XIV. 13. SIKANS, or Sicani, people, South Italy and Sicily, XXII. 15. of, XIII. 151. SILL, in architecture, II. 473. SILLA, Pico de la, mountain, Venezuela, SILLEDA, town, Spain, XIX. 455. XVII. 563. SILVER PLATE, XXII. 71; Roman, II. Silver Reef DISTRICT, Utah, U.S.A., SILLERY, Marquis of, husband of SILVERSMITHS, Roman, II. 366. II., pope, XXII. 74; XIX. 497; as scholastic philosopher, XXI. 421. SIKELS, or Siculi, people, South Italy SILLUSTANI, Peru, Stone circles at, II. and Sicily, XXII. 15. SIKHS, people of India, XI. 844; XII. SIKH WAR (1846), XIV. 371. 451. SILO, pit for ensilage, XXII. 67. III., pope, XXII. 76; XIX. 498. SILVIIDE, family of birds, XXIV. 366, 553 SIMANCAS, town, Spain, XXII. 76. SIMBIRSK, government, Russia, XXII. SILOW, his experiments in magnetism, SIMEON, son of Jacob, XXII. 77. SIKKIM, or Sikim, state, India, XXII. 51; SILURES, ancient British people, XVI. XI. 822; birds of, III. 761. SIKUHA, town, Persia, XVIII. 627. -, Gottfried, his improvements on the SILBURY HILL, artificial mound, Wilts, SILENUS, in Greek mythology, XXII. 51. SILIAN LAW, Roman, XX. 681. |