SIMIA, genus of apes, II. 149. SIMMS, William, his dividing engine for graduation, XI. 30. William Gilmore, American poet, novelist, and historian, XXII. 78; 1. tion from malaria, XV. 319; Raffles's library at, XIV. 534. SINGBHUM, or Singboom, district, India, XXII. 94. SINGEING, of cloth, III. 814. SINGER, Isaac Merritt, improver of sewing machine, XXI. 719. SINGHALESE LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, V. 366; dictionaries of language, VII. 191. SINGHARA, horned water-nut of Kashmir, XIV. II. SINGING, XX. 273. See also article Music. SINGLETON, Captain, Defoe's book, VII. 28. SIN, St Paul's doctrine of, XVIII. 424; SINGO, province, Uganda, Africa, XXIII. Liguorian doctrine, XIV. 637; Pelagian doctrine, XVIII. 472; original, XIX. 669. 717. SINGPHOS, hill tribe, Assam, India, II. 721. SINÆ (China), in Ptolemy's geography, SINHALESE LANGUAGE AND LITERAv. 626; XX. 95. SINAI, peninsula, Arabia, XXII. 88; 11. 236; Stanley's work on, XXII. 451. SINAITICUS CODEX, MS. of the Scriptures, XVIII. 147; discovery of, XXIII. 409. SINALOA, state, Mexico, XVI. 214. SINAMRU, fabulous bird, XX. 611. SINAN PASHA, Ottoman writer, XXIII. 656. TURE, V. 366; dictionaries of language, VII. 191. SINIBULDI, Guittoncino de' (Cino da Pistoia), Italian jurist and poet, v. 786. SINIGAGLIA, town, Italy, XXII. 94. SINIGRIN, principle in mustard, XVII. 112. SINIM, of Scripture, v. 626. MACCABÆUS, Jewish high priest, SINCLAIR, Catherine, Scottish novelist, SINJAR, Seljuk ruler, XXI. 635. XIII. 423. MAGUS, XXII. 78; X. 702. PETER, the apostle, XVIII. 693. See Peter. SIMONDE, Jean Charles L. de (Sismondi), SIMONE DA PESARO (Simone Cantarini), SIMONICH, Count, Russian envoy to SIMONIDES of Amorgos, Greek poet, XXII. 83; XXI. 318. of Ceos, Greek poet, XXII. 84; XI. 139. SIMONS, Menno, founder of the Mennonites, XVI. II. SIMONY, in church law, XXII. 84. SIMOOM, or Simoon, wind of Arabia, II. 239; VII. 703. SIMPLICIUS, Pope, XXII. 86; XIX. 492. of Cilicia, Neoplatonist, XXII. 86. SIMPLON, French department of the (1810), XXIV. 32. SIMPSON, Sir James Young, Scottish physician, XXII. 86; on acupressure, 1. 133; his use of anaesthetics in midwifery, I. 789; on the origin of discasespecies, XVIII. 406. XXII. 90. D., his automatic telephonic exchanges, XXIII. 134. Sir George, Scottish writer and politician, XXII. 90. SINJIBU, Tartar prince, XXIII. 659. Oliver, favourite of James V. of SINS, The Seven Deadly, VIII. 592. SINUB (Sinope), town, Asiatic Turkey, SIND, province, India, XXII. 90; conquest of, by Britain, XII. 808; XVII. 176; policy of Ellenborough towards, SINUESSA, Italy, Synod of (303), XV. 532. VIII. 147. SINUS ABRAHE, limbus patrum, XIV. 646. FRONTIER, Upper, district, India, SINUPALLIA, suborder of Mollusca, XVI. XXIII. 859. 685. SINDHIA, or Scindhia, maharaja of Gwalior, India, XI. 345; XII. 804; Wellington's war with, XXIV. 494. SINDHI LANGUAGE, XI. 840; dictionaries of, VII. 191. SINDIS, people, India, XXII. 91. SION, town, Switzerland, XXIV. 31; CITY, town, Iowa, U.S.A., XXII. 95. SIPAHI (Sepoy), native Indian soldier, XXI. 666; 11. 590, 591; XII. 809. SINE, in trigonometry, XXIII. 563. XV. 602. SINEUS, Russian chief, XXI. 87. SINFONIA, in music, XVII. 87. SINGAPORE, British dependency, Malacca Straits, XXII. 92, 586; its exemp 53. SIPHANTO, Sipheno, or Siphno, island, Greek Archipelago, XXII. 95. SIPHERE, piece of Mishnic literature, XVI. 507. SIPHNEUS, genus of rodent mammals, | SIRSA, district and town, India, xXII. XV. 419. SIPHON, hydraulic apparatus, XXII. 95. -, genus of Myriapoda, XVII. 118. GRANARIA, wheat pest, XXIV. 535. SIPHONOPODA, branch of Mollusca, XVI. 666. 98. SIRUMALAIS, hills, India, XV. 192. SIXTUS IV., pope, XXII. 103; XIX. 503; xx. 806. V., pope, XXII. 104; XIX. 504. SIZEBOLI (Apollonia), town, Turkey in Europe, II. 186. SISCIA (Sziszek), ancient town, Upper SJÆLLAND, island, Denmark, XXIV. Pannonia, XVIII. 213. SISMONDI, Jean Charles Léonard de, SIPHON RECORDER, in telegraphy, SISSERSKITE, mineral, XVI. 383. XXIII. 124. SIPHRO, piece of Mishnic literature, SIPONTUM (Manfredonia), ancient town, SISTAN, province, Persia, XXII. 100; MISSION, to Persia, XVIII. 653. SIPPADE, Pierre de la, French romancist, SISTRUM, Egyptian rattle, used in XX. 658. SIPUNCULOIDEA, class of Polyzoa, XIX. 430. SIR, title, XXIII. 417. SIRACHIDES (Jesus, son of Sirach), XIII. 672. worship, XXII. 102. SISYPHUS, of Greek mythology, XXII. 102. 771. SJÖBERG, Erik, Swedish poet, XXII. 757. SKADAR (Scutari), town, Albania, XXI. 573. SKAGEN, or Scaw, cape, Denmark, vII. SKAGERACK, or Skagerrack, channel, SKANDAMALIA, sacred hill, India, xv. 192. SKÅNE, district, Sweden, XXII. 737. SITABALDI, suburb of Nagpur, India, SKARDO, town, Tibet, XIV. 198. SITALCES, Thracian king, XXIII. 318. SIRAJGANJ, town, India, XXII. 95. SIRANG (Ceram), island, Indian Archi- SITOUNG (Tsit-toung), river, Burmah, SIRANI, people of Bachian, Indian SITTA, genus of birds, XVII. 665. Archipelago, III. 197. SIR DARIA, or Syr-Daria (q.v.), river, SIRE-AA, river, Norway, XVII. 575. SITTANG (Tsit-toung), river, Burmah, SITTEN (Sion), town, Switzerland, XXIV. 31. SITTING BOURNE, town, England, XXII. 102. SIREN, amphibian, XXII. 97; skull of, SIUT, or Asioot, town, Upper Egypt, SIRGUJA, state, India, v. 768. Pannonia, XVIII. 213. SIRMUR, state, Punjab, India, XXII. 98. SIROCCO DUST, in the atmosphere, X. 266. SIWA, Oasis, Africa, XVII. 695. SKARGA, Peter, Polish writer, XIX. 301. SKÄRGÅRD, Skärgaard, or Skjærgaard, island belt, Norway and Sweden, XVII. 576; XXII. 737. SKATE, fish, XX. 299. SKATING, on ice, XXII. 104. Great of Russia, XVIII. 697; XXI. 97. SKEAT, Walter William, on alliterative verse, I. 586. SKELETON, XXII. 105; of man, I. 820; of Amphibia, I. 751; of apes, II. 157; of birds, III. 700; of fishes, XII. 640; of mammals, XV. 355; of reptiles, XX. 446; of sponges, XXII. 416. SKELLINGS, islands, Ireland, XIII. 216. SKELTON, John, English scholar and poet, XXII. 119; VIII. 415. SKENE, Loch, Scotland, XXI. 526. William Forbes, on Welsh literature, v. 316. SKERRYVORE LIGHTHOUSE, Scotland, SKETCH DRAWING, VII. 451. SKETCHES BY Boz, Dickens's work, VII. SKEW ARCH, in bridges, II. 330. 797. SKIDDAW, mountain, England, VI. 697. SKIEN ELV, river, Norway, XVII. 575. SIWARD, the Strong, Northumbrian SKIMMER, bird, XXII. 120. SIROHI, state, India, XXII. 98; XX. 260; SIWAS, town, Turkey in Asia, XXII. 103. SIROS (Seres), town, Turkey in Europe, SIRRHÆ (Seres), ancient town, Turkey, SIXTINE CHAPEL, Rome, Michelangelo's works in, XVI. 231. SIXTUS I-III., popes, XXII. 103. SKIN, Anatomy of the, 1. 897; effect of bathing on, III. 439; cancer of, XVIII. 382; colour of, as indication of race, II. 111; ingrafting of, XXIII. 21; formation of, on scars, XVIII. 366; sense of touch in, XXIII. 480. BOTTLES, IV. 167. SKIN DISEASES, XXII. 120; due to SKINNER, John, Scottish clergyman SKINS, furs, IX. 836, 837; for tanning, SKIP, mining box, XVI. 456. SKIPTON, town, England, XXII. 124. land, VIII. 365; in Jamaica, XIII. 551; SLAVES, XXII. 129; torture of, XXIII. SLAVE TRADE, XXII. 137; American, as SLAVONIANS, race of people, Europe, SKODA, Joseph, German physician, XV. SLAVS, European peoples, XXII. 145; 817. SKOGSÖ, island, Norway, XIV. 769. SKUTTERUDITE, mineral, XVI. 391. SKYE, island, Scotland, XXII. 127. SLAG, of ores, XVI. 62; of iron, XIII. 292, SLAGELSE, town, Denmark, XXIV. 771. SLATE, argillaceous rock, XXII. 127; Abolition of, by European and XIX. 285; in Germany, X. 480. HAMMER, XI. 425; XVI. 445. SLEEP, XXII. 154; dreaming in, vII. SLEIDANUS, John, German annalist of SLUG, mollusc, XVI. 646, 660; XXII. the Reformation, XXII. 158. SLEIGHT OF HAND, XIV. 414; XV. 207. SLESVIG (Schleswig, q.v.), XXI. 413. SLIDE-REST, machine, XV. 153. SLIEMA, suburb of Valetta, Malta, xv. SLIEVEBAWN MOUNTAINS, Ireland, XX. SLIEVE BLOOM MOUNTAINS, Ireland, 187. SLUTER, Claux, Netherlands sculptor, XXI. 563. SLUTSK, town, Russia, XXII. 162. SMALKALD (Schmalkalden), town, Prus- LEAGUE (1531), V. 415; X. 498; XV. 83; XX. 333. SMALLAGE, wild celery, v. 290. SMALLPOX, disease, XXII. 162; XVIII. 404; in relation to vaccination, XXIV. 28; XIII. 623; quarantine for, XX. 156. SLIEVE DONARD, mountain, Ireland, SMALTINE, mineral, vI. 81; XVI. 390. SLIGO, county and town, Ireland, XXII. of Pliny, SLIM MOUNTAINS, Malay Peninsula, SMART, Christopher, English poet, XXII. John, his valuation tables, II. 74. SMEATON, John, English civil engineer, XXII. 165; XIV. 616; his diving-bell, VII. 295. SLIVEN, town, East Roumelia, Turkey, SMECTYMNUUS, Puritan pamphlet, XVI. SLIVNO (Sliven), town, East Roumelia, 22. SLIVOVITZA, spirituous liquor, XVIII. SLOAN-DUPLOYAN SYSTEM, of short- 328; IV. 652. SMELL, XXII. 165; in relation to taste, XXIII. 80; nerve of, 1. 885; in bees, III. 488; organs of, in Amphibia, 1. 768; in birds, III. 725; in Crustacea, VI. 639; in fishes, XII. 652; in mammals, xv. 367; in reptiles, XX. 462. SMELLIE, William, editor of 1st edition of Encyclopædia Britannica, VIII. 200. SMELT, fish, XXI. 221, 223, 225. XIII. 291. SMERDIS, son of Cyrus, XVIII. 567. The False, Persian king, XVIII. 568. SMETHWICK, town, England, XXII. 168. SMEW, bird, XVI. 35. SMIKITE, mineral, XVI. 401. SMITHFIELD MARKET, London, XIV. | SNIADECKI, John, Polish philosopher, Miss, Irish actress, III. 598. SMIL of Pardubitz, Bohemian writer, SMITH-WORK, in building, IV. 510. SMILAX, genus of plants, XXI. 313. SMOKE, of London, XIV. 827. ABATEMENT, XXII. 179. SMOKY MOUNTAINS, North Carolina, SMÖLEN, island, Norway, XVII. 576. SMITH, Adam, Scottish political econo- 171. Alexander, Scottish poet, XXII. 172 Barnabas, stepfather of Sir Isaac Newton, XVII. 438. -, Bernard, English organ-builder, XVII. 837. SMOLT, young salmon, XVIII. 320; XXI. 224. SMUGGLING, XXII. 185; in relation to SMYRNA, town, Asia Minor, xxII. 185; 834. SNOB PAPERS, Thackeray's, XXIII. 214. SNORING, abnormal form of respiration, SNORRO STURLUSON, Icelandic histo- SNOTINGAHAM (Nottingham), ancient TREE, II. 320. SNOW-GAUGE, Glaisher's, XX. 257. SNYDERS, Franz, Flemish painter, XXII. 202. SOAP, XXII. 202; action of water on, Epistle of the Church at, on Poly- SOAP-BARK, XXII. 204. SOAP-BUBBLE, Surface-tension of, v. 65. SMYTH'S OBSERVATORY, Bedford, Eng- | SOAP NUT, XVII. 665. SNAEFELL, mountain, Isle of Man, xv. SOAP POWDER, XXII. 204. SNAIL, mollusc, XXII. 187; XVI. 646, SOBA, town, ancient Palestine, XIII. 405. Horace, joint-author of Rejected SNAKE-BIRD, XXII. 188. Addresses, XXII. 173. James, joint-author of Rejected Addresses, XXII. 173. SOBAT, affluent of Nile, Africa, XVII. 507, 508. SNAKE-BITE, Number of deaths from, SOBBING, abnormal form of respiration, XXII. 191. SNAKE-FLY, XIII. 151. XX. 479. SOBIESKI, John III., king of Poland, XIII. 714; XIX. 295; defeat of the SOBRANIYE, provincial assembly, Russia, SOBRAON, India, Battle of (1846), XX. 112. SOCAGE, land tenure, XXII. 204; XX. 305. SOC AND SAC, Cinque Port right, V. 786. SOCCINI (Socinus, q.v.), XXII. 228. SOCHACZEW, town, Russian Poland, SOCHAN, river, Central Asia, XVIII. 103. promotion of, XVIII. 87; Proudhon's | SODOMA, or Sodona, Il (Giannantonio ideas, XIX. 867; Rodbertus's system, xx. 616; Saint-Simon's teachings, XXI. 197; Saint-Simonism in France, VIII. 211; Stoic doctrine of, XXII. 569. SOCIALISTIC FEELINGS, in psychology, XX. 70. SOCIETAS, in Roman law, XVIII. 329. SOCIETIES, Scientific, archæological, and literary, XXII. 221; Bible, III. 649; missionary, XVI. 515; tract, XXIII. 494. See also Guild. SOCIETY, Robertson's drama, XX. 598. Royal, of London, XXI. 38. ISLANDS, Pacific Ocean, XXIII. 22. OF JESUS, or Jesuits (q.v.), XIII. 645. SOCINIANISM, theological doctrine, XIII. 671. SOCINUS, or Sozini, Fausto Paolo, Italian theologian, XXII. 229; in Poland, XXIII. 725. Lelio Francesco Maria, Italian theologian, XXII. 228. SOCIOLOGY, Science of the development of society, VIII. 619; XVIII. 796; XIX. 347; Comte's conceptions of, VI. 235; in relation to statistics, XXII. 464; societies, XXII. 226. Bazzi), Italian painter, XXII. 245. SODOR AND MAN, Bishopric of, XIV. 694; XV. 453; origin of the title, XI. 607. SOEST, town, Westphalia, Prussia, XXII. 245. SŒUR, Hubert le, French sculptor, XXI. 560. SOFALA, town, East Africa, XXII. 246; I. 270; XVII. 7. SOFFIONI, mineral water jets, Italy, XXIV. 399. SOFIA, town, Bulgaria, XXII. 246. SOFIS, or Sufis, Mohammedan sect, VII. 113; XXII. 662. See also Sufism. SOFIYSK, town, Eastern Siberia, XV. 549. SOFT SOAP, XXII. 204. SOGDIANA, province, ancient Persia, SOGNE FJORD, Norway, XVII. 576. IV. 172. SOCORRO, town, New Mexico, U.S.A., SOIL, in agriculture, 1. 306; drainage of, SOCOTRA, island, Indian Ocean, XXII. 231; I. 272. SOCRATES, Greek philosopher, XXII. 231; his views of the beautiful, 1. 215; his ethical teaching, VIII. 577; his logic, XIV. 784; his philosophy, XVI. 81; in relation to Plato, XIX. 194, 198; his relation to scepticism, XXI. 379; to the sophists, XXII. 263; Xenophon's Memorabilia of, XXIV. 721. Byzantine church historian, XXII. 238; compared with Sozomen, XXII. 292. 1. 328; for gardens, XII. 217, 232; in relation to manure, XV. 506; production of, X. 265; chemistry of soils, XIV. 567. SOIL-PIPES, for sewage, XXI. 715. SOILS, Chemistry of, XIV. 567. SOISSONS, town, France, XXII. 247; congress of (1727), VI. 270. SOKEMAN, Free, Law of inheritance from, XIX. 734. SOKNA, town, Fezzan, Africa, IX. 130. SOKOLNIKI, forest, Russia, XVI. 859. SOKOTO, kingdom and town, Central Africa, XXII. 248, 279. SOCRATICS, school of Greek philosophy, SOKOTOFF, town, Russian Poland, XXII. 37. SOLAIMAN, Omayyad caliph, XVI. 574. SOLAN Goose, bird, X. 70. SOLANIA, vegetable alkaloid, XVII. 499. SOLANI RIVER, India, Aqueduct across, II. 222. SOLANO, missionary to Paraguay, XVIII. 245. Herschel on its motion in space, XI. Solar Tides, XXIII. 354, 365, 368. SOLDAN, Mariano Felipe Paz, Peruvian geographer, XVIII. 675. SOLDER, metallic cement, XXII. 249. SOLE, in architecture, II. 473. SOLECISM, in speech, XXII. 251. SOLEMN LEAGUE AND COVENANT SOLEURE (Solothurn), canton, Switzerland, XXII. 250, 788; town, XXII 250. SOLFERINO, Italy, Battle of (1859), III. 139; IX. 624; XIII. 490. SOLI, ancient town, Asia Minor, XXII. 250. SOLICITOR, legal practitioner, XXII. 251; legal officer, XXII. 251; III. 63. SOLID, SOLIDS, distinguished from fluids, XIX. 240; VI. 310; XII. 439; rigid, statics of a, XV. 728, 732. SOLIDS, in mathematics, Cubature of, 379. SOLIKAMSK, town, Russia, XVIII. 550. SOLIMAN, or Sulaiman, shah of Persia, XVIII. 639. or Suleyman, I., Turkish sultan, XXII. 251; XXIII. 643; his dealings with Persia, XVIII. 636. II., Turkish sultan, XXIII. 645. SOLIMOENS, or Amazon, river, South America, I. 654, 674; IV. 221. SOLANUM, genus of plants, XVII. 499; SOLINGEN, town, Rhenish Prussia, XIX. 593, 595. Julius von, German economist, SOLAR CYCLE, IV. 669. SOLAR DAY, II. 771. XIX. 387. SODERINI, Piero, gonfalonier, Florence, SOLARIO, Andrea, Italian painter, XXI. |