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SCYTALOPUS, genus of birds, XXIII.

49.

SCYTHE, reaping implement, XXI. 574.
SCYTHIA, ancient region, Europe and
Asia, XXI. 575; expedition of Darius
I. against, XVIII. 570.
SCYTHIAN LANGUAGE, XVIII. 779.
SCYTHIANS, ancient people, Europe and
Asia, XXI. 575; in India, XII. 788; in-
vasion of Palestine by, XIII. 415; their
inroads into Persian empire, XVIII.
563, 570, 594, 599, 603; in Russia,
XXI. 78.
SEA, XXI. 578; X. 221, 283; colour of,
XIV. 600; depths of, III. 17; XII. 821;
XVIII. 121; distribution of animals
in, VII. 276; phosphorescence of,
XVIII. 814; appliances for sounding,
XXII. 280; temperature, VI. 4; XVI.
116, 132; XVIII. 119; XXIII. 291;
tides, XXIII. 353; water, XXI. 611;
VII. 263; X. 221; waves, XXIV. 419.
See also Atlantic, Pacific, etc.
SEA-ANEMONES, group of Actinozoa,
I. 129; VI. 369.

SEA-BEAR, carnivorous mammal, xv.
443.

SEA-BREAM, fish, XII. 688.

SEAMEN, Laws relating to, XXI. 605.
SEAMEN'S TERMS, Glossary of, XXI. 603.
SEAN, or Seine, fishing net, IX. 253.
SEANCE, Spiritualistic, XXII. 405.
SEANG-TANG, town, China, v. 637.
SEA-OTTER, carnivorous mammal,
XVIII. 69.

SEA-PARROT, bird, XX. 101.

XXI. 616.

SEBEZH, town, Russia, XXIV. 262.
SEBKHA, lake, Algeria, 1. 563.

TIGHRI, lake, Morocco, XVI. 832. SEBOKHT, Severus, Syriac writer, XXII. 839.

SEBORRHOEA, skin disease, XXII. 120.
SEBU, river, Morocco, XVI. 832.
SECALE, genus of plants, XXI. 117.

SECCHI, Angelo, Italian astronomer,
XXI. 616.
SECENTISMO,

SEA-PENS, group of Actinozoa, I. 129; SECANT, in trigonometry, XXIII. 563.
phosphorescence of, XVIII. 814.
SEA-PIE, bird, XVIII. III.
SEAPORTS, Law of, XI. 471.
SEARCH, Right of, Maritime, XXI. 608.
WARRANT, XXIV. 371.

SEARS, Edmund H., American hymn-
writer, XII. 596.

SEA BRIGHT, town, New Jersey, U.S.A., SEA SALT, XXI. 228.

XVII. 397.

SEA-CAT, fish, XXI. 614.

SEA-COW, cetacean mammal, XV. 390.
SEA-CUCUMBER, echinoderm, III. 477;
VII. 639; XX. 411.

SEA-DEVIL, fish, VII. 138; IX. 269; XII.
686; XX. 300.

SEADYAH, Jewish rabbi and scholar,

XXI. 120.

SEA-EAGLE, bird, VII. 589.

SEA-ELEPHANT, carnivorous mammal,

XV. 444.

SEA FISHERIES, IX. 243.

SEAFORD, town, Sussex, England, XXII.
724.

SEA-HARE, mollusc, xvI. 656.
SEA-HEDGEHOG, fish, X. 685; XII.
694.

SEA-HORSE, fish, XXI. 579.
SEA-ISLANDS, Georgia, U.S.A., X. 434.
SEA-KALE, vegetable, XII. 287.
SEAL, carnivorous mammal, XXI. 580;
XV. 443; oil, XVII. 744, 747; exter-
mination of seals, XIX. 126; consump-
tion of the flesh by Eskimos, VIII. 545; |
fishery, XXI. 581; Newfoundland
fishery, XVII. 384; skins of, IX. 839;
XIV. 388; XXI. 583.

, Engraved, XXI. 586; gems, X. 136; in heraldry, XI. 683, 707.

SEA LAWS, XXI. 583.

SEASALTER, town, England, XXIV. 555.
SEA-SERPENT, XXI. 608.
SEA-SICKNESS, XXI. 610.
SEASIDE AND THE FIRESIDE, The,
poems by Longfellow, XIV. 861.
SEA-SLATER, crustacean, vi. 658.
SEA-SLUGS, group of Echinodermata,
VII. 639.

SEA-SNAKES, XXII. 197.
SEASONS, of the year, II. 773-

The, Haydn's oratorio, XI. 539.
The, Thomson's poem, XXIII. 311.
SEA-SWALLOW, bird, XXIII. 189.
SEA TERMS, Glossary of, XXI. 603.
SEATHWAITE FELLS, mountain, Eng-
land, XIV. 252.

SEA-TROUT, fish, XXI. 222.
SEATS, furniture, IX. 848.
SEATTLE, town, Washington Territory,
U.S.A., XXI. 610.

SEA-UNICORN, cetacean mammal, xv.
398; XVII. 235.

SECENTISTI, The, in

Italian literature, XIII. 511. SECESSION, in United States (1860), XXIII. 772.

CHURCH, Scotland, VIII. 528; XV. 132; XIX. 685; XXIII. 727. SECKENDORF, German noble family, XXI. 616.

Veit Ludwig von, German jurist, XXI. 616.

SECOND, unit of time, xv. 668.

ADVENTISTS, American religious sect, XVI. 320.

SECONDARY ROCKS, in geology, X. 352.
SECOND-SIGHT, II. 204.

conjuring trick, XV. 208.
SECRETARIES OF STATE, British, XVI.
473; VIII. 638; of United States, XXIII.
750.
SECRETARIUS, genus of birds, XXI. 617.
SECRETARY-BIRD, XXI. 617; I. 259.
SECRETIONS, Alimentary, XVII. 671.
Diseases of the, XVIII. 377.
SECRETIVENESS, in phrenology, XVIII.
845.

SECRET MARRIAGE, opera by Cimarosa,

V. 779.

SECULAR GAMES, Roman, XXI. 618.

SEA-URCHINS, group of Echinodermata, SECUNDERABAD, Indian cantonment,

VII. 629; XX. 411.

SEA-WATER, XXI. 611; X. 221; distilla-
tion of, VII. 263; highest temperature
of, XVIII. 119.

XXI. 618.

SECUNDUS, Valentinian theologian,
XXIV. 38.

Johannes, Dutch poet, XXI. 618.

SEA-WEED, as manure, 1. 350; drying SEDAINE, Michel Jean, French drama

of, I. 508.

SEA-WOLF, fish, XXI. 614.
SEB, Egyptian divinity, VII. 716.

SEA-LEOPARD, carnivorous mammal, SEBALD, St, Shrine of, at Nuremberg,

XV. 443.

SEA-LETTER, passport, XVIII. 344.

SEA-LEVEL, XXII. 708.

SEALING WAX, XXI. 586; XXIV. 459.

SEA-LION, carnivorous mammal, xv.

443.

Bavaria, XVII. 663.

SEBASTEIA, or Sebaste (Sivas), ancient
town, Asia Minor, XXII. 103.
SEBASTIAN, St, Roman martyr, XXI.
614.

-, Dom, king of Portugal, XIX. 546.

SELBY, town, England, XXI. 630.

Prideaux John, his illustrations of birds, XVIII. 13, 18.

SELDEN, John, English jurist, XXI. 630;
Table Talk of, 1. 785.

Manuel, Peruvian poet, XVIII. 676. SELECTION, Natural, XXIV. 77.

SEGUSIO, town, Italy, XXII. 722.

SEDGWICK, Adam, English geologist, SEHARUNPOOR (Saharanpur), district,
XXI. 619.

SEDILIA, in architecture, II. 472.

SEDITION, in law, XXI. 619; in United States law, XXIII. 756. SEDLEY, Sir Charles, English poet and wit, XXI. 620; XVIII. 347. SE-DOм, river, Cambodia, Asia, xv. 832.

India, XXI. 151; town, XXI. 152. SEICHES, periodic changes in lake-levels,

XIV. 220.

SEIDEL, Philipp Ludwig, his work in celestial photometry, XVIII. 841. SEIDLITZ POWDERS, I. 184; XXIII. 69. SEIFHENNERSDORF, town, Saxony, XI.

655.

SEDOMIERZ (Sandomir), town, Russian SEIGNIORAGE, charge on coining, XVI.
Poland, XXI. 259.

SEDUCTION, in law, XXI. 620.
SEDULIUS, Cœlius, early Christian poet,
XXI. 621; XII. 582; language and
style of, XIV. 339.

SEDUM, genus of plants, XXI. 621.
SEE, Bishop's, III. 787.

SEEBECK, Ludwig F. W. A., his syren,

I. 109.

Thomas Johann, on photography,

XVIII. 822. SEEBSAUGOR, town, India, XXII. 13. SEED, SEEDS, of plants, IV. 153; formation of, XX. 430; plants raised from, 1. 86; transportation of, X. 266; agricultural, 1. 383; adulterations of, I. 175.

· CORN, I. 354.

SEER, of Scripture, XIX. 814.
SEEROEE (Sirohi), state and town,
India, XXII. 98.

SEELAND, or Zealand, province, Hol-
land, XXIV. 771.
SÉES, town, France, XXI. 621.
SEETZEN, Ulrich Jasper, German Orien-
tal traveller, XXI. 621.

SEFID RUD, river, Persia, XIII. 213. SEFTENBERG, Baron von, his observatory, Bohemia, XVII. 713.

SE-GAN FOO, town, China, XXI. 621; V. 637.

SEGARELLI, Gerhard, of Parma, founder of a sect of Apostolici, II. 198. SEGESTA, ancient town, Sicily, XXI. 622; I. 458.

725.

SEIGNORIAL DOMAINS, I. 414. SEIGNORY, lordship of manor, XXI. 623. SEILUN (Shiloh), town, Palestine, XXI. 803.

SEINE, department, France, XXI. 624. river, France, XXI. 623; IX. 506; XVIII. 275, 285; improvement works, XX. 579.

fishing net, IX. 253. SEINE-ET-MARNE, department, France, XXI. 624.

SEINE-ET-OISE, department, France, XXI. 625.

Subjective, in psychology, XX. 73. SELENGA, plateau, Siberia, XXII. 2; river, XXII. 5; XXIII. 510. SELENGHINSK, town, Siberia, XXIII. 511.

SELENIC ACID, V. 506.

SELENITE, mineral, XVI. 396, 401; its colours, XXIV. 450.

SELENIUM, chemical element, XXI. 631; V. 498; XVI. 380; alcohols and ethers of, V. 553.

SELENODERA, genus of birds, XXIII. 477.

SELENODONTA, division of ungulate Mammalia, XV. 430.

SELENOGNATHUS, genus of fishes, XXI. 580.

SELENSULPHUR, mineral, XVI. 380. SELENTER SEE, lake, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, XXI. 414. SELEUCIA, town, Mesopotamia, XXI. 632; XVI. 51; xvIII. 587, 601, 604. town, Cilicia, Asia Minor, XXI.

632. SELEUCIDE, Era of the, V. 715.

SEINE INFÉRIEURE, department, France, SELEUCID DYNASTY, of Macedonian

SEISTAN, or Sistan, district, Persia, SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS, in psychology,

XVIII. 627; XXII. 100.

SEJANUS, minister of Tiberius, XXIII. 337.

SE-KEANG, river, China, v. 632. SEKHET, Egyptian divinity, VII. 718. SEKLUCYAN, John, Polish writer, XIX. 301.

SEKWATI, river, North Borneo, XXI. 123. SELA, of Scripture, XVIII. 706.

SEGESVAR, town, Transylvania, Hun- SELACHE, genus of sharks, XXI. 608,

gary, XXI. 387.

Segment Shell, Armstrong, ammunition, I. 744.

SEGNER, Johann Andreas von, on surface-tension of liquids, v. 56.

777.

SELACHOIDEI, group of fishes, XII. 685;

XXI. 774.

SELAGINELLA, genus of club-mosses, IX. 107; XV. 94.

SEGNERI, Paolo, Jesuit, opponent of SELAMA, Abulkhair, Druse saint, VII.
Molinos, XVI. 631.

SEGO, town, Central Africa, I. 271; XXII.

279.

SEGODUNUM (Rodez), ancient town,
France, xx. 617.
SEGOVIA, province, Spain, XXI. 622.

town, Spain, XXI. 623; aqueduct at, II. 221; church of St Millan, II. 432.

484.

SELANGOR, district, Malay Peninsula, XV. 322; XXII. 587.

river, Malay Peninsula, XV. 321. SELARU, island, Timor Laut group, Indian Archipelago, XXIII. 398. SELBORNE, Natural History of, White's, XXIV. 549.

XVI. 92; XX. 39, 70, 83; Locke on,
XIV. 758.

SELF-ESTEEM, in phrenology, XVIII. 845.

SELIGER, Lake, Russia, XXIII. 672. SELIM I., Turkish sultan, XXIII. 642, 656; his war with Persia, XVIII. 635. II., Turkish sultan, XXIII. 644; conquest of Tunis by, XXIII. 621.

III., Turkish sultan, XXIII. 648. CHISTI, Tomb of, India, IX. 51. SELIMNIA, town, Turkey in Europe,

XXII. 160. SELINUS, Greek town, Sicily, XXI. 633; XXII. 18; metopes of the acropolis of, II. 349; terra-cotta remains at, XXIII. 193.

SELJUKS, Turkish dynasties of, XXI. 634; XXIII. 656, 660; occupation of Asia Minor by, II. 713; invasion of the Greek empire by, XI. 118; fall of the empire of, XXIII. 640. SELKIRK, county and town, Scotland, XXI. 638.

SELKIRK, Earl of, his colony in Canada, | SE-MUN, river, Cambodia, Asia, xv.

XX. 315.

Alexander, prototype of Robinson Crusoe, XXI. 639; XIII. 758. SELLASIA, Greece, Battle of (221), XVIII.

790.

SELLER, in law, XXI. 205, 206.
SELLING, William, early English scholar,

VIII. 414.

SELMA, town, Alabama, U.S.A., XXI. 639.

SELTERS, spa, Germany, XVI. 436.
SEM, river, Montenegro, XVI. 780.
SEMANG, race of people, Malacca, XV.
323.

SEMAPHORE, for signals, XXII. 49. SEMBERA, Alois, Bohemian historical writer, XXII. 153.

SEMECHONITIS, or Merom, lake, Pales

tine, XIII. 746.

SEMEISKIYE, Nonconformists in Eastern
Siberia, XXIII. 510.
SEMENDER, ancient Khazar town,
Russia, XIV. 59.

SEMENDRIA, town, Servia, XXI. 688.
SEMIGALLIA, tribe, Lithuania, XIV. 702.
SEMINOLES, American-Indian tribe,
XII. 831, 835; war against, in Florida,
IX. 341.
SEMIPALATINSK, province and town,
Russian Central Asia, XXI. 639.
SEMIPELAGIANISM, theological doctrine,
XVIII. 472.

SEMIRAMIDE, Gluck's opera, X. 694.
SEMIRAMIS, Legend of, XXI. 639.
SEMIRYETCHENSK, province, Russian
Turkestan, XXI. 640.

SEMITES, ethnological group, II. 697, 698; XXI. 641, 643. SEMITIC ALPHABETS, I. 608. SEMITIC INSCRIPTIONS, XIII. 116. SEMITIC LANGUAGES, XXI. 641; XVIII. 778; XXIV. 740; dictionaries of, VII. 189.

SEMITONES, in music, XVII. 78. SEMLER, Johann Salomo, German

Biblical critic, XXI. 656; XX. 290; on the canon, V. 15.

SEMLIN, town, Austria-Hungary, XXI. 657.

832.

SENAAR, country, East Central Africa, XXI. 657.

SÉNAC, Jean Baptiste, French physician,

XV. 815.

SENNAR (Senaar), country, East Central Africa, XXI. 657.

SENOFERU, king of Egypt, VII. 732. SENORA, province, Mexico, XVI. 214. SENS, town, France, XXI. 665; council of (1140), I. 35; III. 602.

SENACULUM, meeting place, ancient SENSATION, in physiology, XIX. 27; Rome, xx. 816.

SENA GALLICA (Sinigaglia), ancient town, Italy, XXII. 94. SÉNANCOUR, Étienne Pivert de, French man of letters, xxI. 658. SENARMONTITE, mineral, XVI. 388. SENATE, Roman, XX. 733, 738, 755, 772, 784, 793, 795.

of the United States, XXIII.

749. SENCHUS MOR, ancient Irish code, IV. 252. SENEBIER, Jean, Swiss vegetable-physiologist, XXI. 658.

SENECA, Lake, New York, U.S.A., XVII. 451.

Lucius Annæus, Roman rhetorician and philosopher, XXI. 658; VII. 410; XX. 725; XXII. 572; his economic teaching, XIX. 350; his influence on Nero, XVII. 348; his death, XVII. 350; language and style of, XIV. 337

FALLS, town, New York, U.S.A., XXI. 659.

SENECIO, genus of plants, XI. 221.
SENEFELDER, Alois, discoverer of the
art of lithography, XIV. 697.
SENEGAL, French colony, West Africa,
XXI. 660; Adanson's exploration of,

I. 144.

253.

river, West Africa, XXI. 660; I.

XXIII. 478; in psychology, XX. 40, 50, 67; in psycho-physics, XXIV. 469; XXIII. 481; in philosophy of Condillac, VI. 251; of Democritus, VII. 60; of Hartley, XI. 498; of Locke, XIV. 758; of the Stoics, XXII. 565. SENSE, distinguished from understanding, XX. 75; in Eleatic philosophy, VIII. I; in Cudworth's, VI. 691; in Descartes's, v. 147; in Locke's, XIV. 758.

Moral, or Conscience (q.v.), VIII.
600.
SENSE-ORGANS, in man, I. 884; in
Amphibia, I. 766; in birds, III. 725;
in fishes, XII. 652; in mammals, XV.
366; in reptiles, XX. 461; III. 725.
SENSITIVE PLANT, XVI. 345; XIX. 62.
SENSORY NERVES, XIX. 27; how affected
by the hypnotic condition, XV. 279.
SENTENCES OF ALI, collection of Arabian
proverbs, I. 572.

SENTENTIARUM MAGISTER (Peter Lom-
bard, q.v.), XIV. 813.
SENTIMENTS, Phrenological organs of,
XVIII. 845.

SENTINUM, Italy, Battle of (295 B.C.),
XX. 743.

SENUSI, Mohammed el, Moslem mahdi,
North Africa, XXI. 151; XXIII. 575.
SEONI, or Seonee, district and town,
India, XXI. 665.

SENEGAMBIA, Country, West Africa, SEOUL, town, Corea, VI. 391.
XXI. 661; I. 268.

SENESCHAL, Royal, England, XXI. 36.
SENEX, J., his map of London (1720),
XIV. 849.

SENGEL, or Senguer, river, Patagonia,
XVIII. 353.

SEPALS, of plants, IV. 131.

SEPHARADIC RITUAL, of the Jews, XV. 293.

SEPHARDIM, division of the Jews, XIII. 683.

SEPHER YEZIRAH, Midrash, XVI. 286.

SENIGALLIA (Sinigaglia), town, Italy, XXII. 94.

SEMNÆ, or Furies, Altar of, at Athens,
III. 2. See also IX. 840; VIII. 524.
SEMNOPITHECUS, genus of apes, II. 151. | SENIOR, Nassau William, English econo-

SEMOLINA, article of food, XV. 125. SEMONIDES (Simonides) of Amorgos, Greek poet, XXII. 83; XXI. 318.

mist, XXI. 663; XIX. 377. SENKERAH, Tablets of, Babylonia, Numerals in, XVII. 626.

SEMPACH, Switzerland, Battle of (1386), | SENLAC, or Hastings, England, Battle XV. 40; XXII. 784.

Lake, Switzerland, XXII. 777. SEMPER, Gottfried, German architect, XXI. 657.

SEMPERVIVUM, genus of plants, XII. 317.

SEMPLE, Robert, early Scottish poet,
XXI. 542.
SEMPRINGHAM, St Gilbert of, English
monk, X. 593.

of (1066), VIII. 291; XI. 486; XXII. 725; XXIV. 575.

SENLIS, town, France, xxi. 664; xvii. 749.

SENNA, drug, XXI. 664; II. 237.

town on Zambesi river, Africa, XXIV. 765.

SENNACHERIB, king of Assyria, III. 187; XIII. 414; palaces of, at Nineveh, XVII. 512.

pigment, XXI. 666; xIx. 88; from the cuttlefish, VI. 737. SEPIOLITE, mineral, xv. 825. SEPOLCRI, Ugo Foscolo's poem, IX. 472;

XIII. 513.

SEPOY, native Indian soldier, XXI. 666;

II. 590; sepoy mutiny (1857), II. 591;
XII. 809.

SEPT, tribal division, V. 799.
SEPTATA, order of Protozoa, XIX. 853.
SEPTEMBER, month, XXI. 666.
SEPTEM MARIA, lagoons, North-Eastern
Italy, XIII. 436.

SEPTICEMIA, disease, XXI. 666; xvIII.
401; XXII. 678.
SEPTIMANIA, ancient province, France,
XIV. 287.

SEPTUAGINT, Greek version of the Old

SEQUENCES, in mediæval hymnology,
XII. 583.

SEQUESTRATION, in Scots law, III. 344.
SEQUOIA, genus of trees, XXI. 673; IX.
405; XXIII. 809.

82, 100; XXII. 143; abolition of, in | SERRICORNES, group of beetles, VI. 132.
Russia, XXI. 102.
SERTORIUS, Quintus, Roman general
and statesman, XXI. 684; XIX. 451;
XX. 762; in Spain, XXII. 306.
SERTULARIA, genus of Hydrozoa, XII.

SERGARDI, Ludovico, Sienese satirist,
XXII. 43.

SERGEANT-AT-ARMS, in royal house-
hold, England, XXI. 37.
SERGELL, Tobias, Swedish sculptor,
XXI. 570.

SERGHIEVSK, spa, Russia, XXI. 243.
SERGHIEVSKIY POSAD, town, Russia,
XXI. 675.

SERGIUS, St, Syrian martyr, XXI. 676.
I.-IV., popes, XXI. 676.
patriarch of Constantinople, XVI.

758.

Paulician teacher, XVIII. 434.

Russian monk, XXI. 676.

833.

of Rasain, Syriac writer, XXII.

SERA, capital of China in Ptolemy's SERICE, ancient name for China, V. geography, XX. 93.

convent at Lhasa, Tibet, XIV. 501. SERAFI, Pere, Catalan poet, XXII. 364. SERAGLIO, or Harem, XI. 478.

627.

SERICIN, silk albumen, XXII. 61.
SERICULTURE, art of rearing silkworms,
XXII. 58.

SERAIEVO, or Bosna Serai, town, Bosnia, SERIEMA, bird, XXI. 676.

IV. 68.

SERAING, town, Belgium, XXI. 674.
SERAJGUNJ (Sirajganj), town, India,

XXII. 95.

SERAMPUR, town, India, XXI. 674.
SERANG, town, Java, XIII. 605.

SERAPEUM, temple, near Memphis,

Egypt, XXI. 674; II. 387.

SERIES, Mathematical, XXI. 677; XXIV.
71; in algebra, I. 561; in trigono-
metry, XXIII. 569; tables of, XXIII. 14.
SERIGRAPH, indicator of grades of silk,
XXII. 62.

SERIN, bird, IX. 192.

IIO.

faubourg of Lyons, France, xv.

LIBRARY, at Alexandria, Egypt, SERINGAPATAM, town, India, XXI. 682;

XIV. 510.

SERAPHIM, of Scripture, XXI. 674.
SERAPION, Alexandrian physician, XV.

801.

SERAPIS (Apis), of Egyptian mythology,
XXI. 674; II. 173; VII. 717.
SERBAL (Mount Sinai), Arabia, XXII.
88.

SERBAN, Cantacuzene, voivode of Wal-
achia, XXI. 17.

SERBONIS, Lake, Egypt, VII. 709.
SERBS, race of people, XXI. 688; xxII.
147, 154.

XVII. 124.

SERINGHAM, town, India, XXII. 438.
SERIOLA, genus of fishes, XXIV. 738.
SERIPHUS, of Greek legend, XVIII. 560.
SERJEANT-AT-LAW, XXI. 682; III. 394.
SERJEANTS' INN, legal society, London,
XIII. 87.

SERJEANTY, Grand, tenure of land, xx.
305, 307.

SERMON ON The Mount, XIII. 664.
SERNIN, St, French martyr, XXIII. 485.
SEROUS MEMBRANES, Anatomy of, 1.
848.

SERCAMBI, Giovanni, Italian writer, SERPENT, SERPENTS, XXII. 189. See
XIII. 505.

SERCIAL, variety of Madeira wine, xv.
178; XXIV. 609.
SERDOBOL, monastery, Finland, XXIV.

209.

SERDOBSK, town, Russia, XXI. 305.
SERENA, town, Chili, XXI. 674.
SERENDIB, or Ceylon (q.v.), v. 364.
SERENUS of Antissa, Greek geometer,
XXI. 675.

SERERE, people of Senegambia, XXI.
662.

SERES, ancient name for the Chinese, v. 627; XVIII. 590.

-, town, Turkey in Europe, XXI. 675. SERETH, river, Roumania, XXI. 14. SERFDOM, XXII. 134; economic aspects of, XIX. 352; in relation to labour, XIV. 165; in Russia, XIV. 262; XXI.

547.

SERUG (Seruj), town, Mesopotamia, XVI.
48.

SERVAL, carnivorous mammal, XV. 435.
SERVANT, Master and, Legal relations of,
XV. 620; XIV. 165; in Roman law,
XX. 688, 704.

OF JEHOVAH, in Isaiah, XIII. 382. SERVETUS, Michael, or Miguel Serveto, Spanish physician and polemic, XXI. 684; on the circulation of the blood, 1. 810; on the pulmonary circulation, XXIV. 95; his relations with Calvin, IV. 718.

SERVIA, kingdom, Eastern Europe, XXI.

686; Greek Church of, XI. 157; language, XXII. 147, 150; newspapers, XVII. 432; periodical literature, XVIII. 544; under Czerny George, VI. 754. SERVIAN ALPHABET, 1. 614. SERVIAN LANGUAGE, XXII. 147, 150; dictionaries of, VII. 188.

SERVIAN LITERATURE, XXI. 689; xvIII. 544.

SERVIAN WALL, at Rome, XX. 731, 734,
813.

SERVICE, tree and fruit, XII. 276.
SERVIODURUM (Straubing), Roman sta-
tion, Germany, XXII. 591.
SERVITES, monastic order, XXI. 692.
SERVITUDE, in law, XIX. 560.
SERVIUS, commentator on Virgil, XXI.
692; his place in Roman literature,
XX. 726.

TULLIUS, king of Rome, XXI. 692; XX. 734; his reforms in Roman law, xx. 676.

SERVO-CROATS, race of Slav people,
XXII. 145, 147.

SERVOIS, his anticipation of quater-
nions, XX. 161.

SESAME, plant, XXI. 693; oil from, XVII.
745.

Snakes.
CAKE, XVII. 739.
musical instrument, XVII. 778; SESIA, river, Italy, XIII. 435.

XXIV. 788.

in Genesis, I. 135; VII. 136; in
Gnosticism, X. 703; in Physiologus,
XIX. 7. See also articles Mythology
and Totemism.
SERPENTARIUS, genus of birds, XXI.
617.

SERPENTINE, mineral, XXI. 682; X.
228, 232; XV. 217; XVI. 414.
SERPUKHOFF, town, Russia, XXI. 683.
SERRA, Antonio, Italian economist, XIX.
357.

SERRADO, Monte, Spain, XVI. 797.
SERRANO, Francisco, Spanish minister,
XXII. 346.

SERRES, town, Turkey in Europe, XXI.
675.

SESOSTRIS, legendary Egyptian king,
XXI. 693; his armies, II. 559.
SESSA, town, Italy, XXI. 693.
SESSE, lake island, Africa, XVII. 504.
SESSION, Court of, supreme court of
law, Scotland, xxI. 535.
SESSIONS OF THE PEACE, English law
court, XX. 159.

SESTERTIUS, Roman coin, XVII. 652.
SETEE, king of Egypt, VII. 738.
SETH, or Set, Egyptian divinity, VII.
715, 717.

SETHEUM, temple, Egypt, VII. 779.
SETHIANI, Gnostic sect, X. 703.
SETTER, dog, VII. 328.
SETTLE, Elkanah, English poet and
playwright, XXI. 693.

SETTLED LAND ACT (1882), England, | SEVO, Pizzo di, mountain, Italy, XIII. 437. | SFORZA, Caterina, wife of Giovanni dei

XXI. 695.

SETTLEMENT, in law, XXI. 693; its influence on agriculture, 1. 409.

Act of, of English crown (1701), XXI. 696.

OF THE POOR, XIX. 467, 478. SETTONS, Lac des, lake, France, XVII. 495.

SÉTUBAL, town, Portugal, XXI. 697..
SEU-CHOW (Su-Chow), town, China,
XXII. 617.

SEURUGA, fish, XXII. 612.

SEVRI-HISSAR, town, Asiatic Turkey, SGRAFFIATO WARE, pottery, XIX. 620,
XVIII. 691.

SEWAGE, XXI. 711; ammonia of, XVII.
516; as manure, I. 344; irrigation of
meadows with, I. 374.

SEWAN, town, India, XXI. 304.
SEWARD, William Henry, American
statesman, XXI. 710.

SEVASTOPOL, or Sebastopol (q.v.), town, SEWEN, fish, XXI. 222.
Crimea, Russia, XXI. 616.

SEVELLAN, mountain, Persia, III. 168.
SEVEN CAPES, North Africa, XVII.
627.

SEWER, SEWERS, Construction of, XXI.
713; for houses, IV. 467.
SEWERAGE, XXI. 711; of London, XIV.
826; of Paris, XVIII. 280.

624.

SGRAFFITO, form of wall decoration,
IV. 508; XVII. 37.

's GRAVENHAGE (The Hague, q.v.,
town, Holland, XI. 371.
SHABBY GENTEEL STORY, Thackeray's,

XXIII. 214.

SHABIN KARA-HISSAR, town, Asiatic
Turkey, XIV. 2.

SHAD, fish, XXI. 726; XII. 694; arti
ficial propagation of, XIX. 128.
SHADDOCK, tree and fruit, XXI. 727.

SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM, SEWING MACHINES, XXI. 718; for shoe- SHADID, Phoenician deity, XVIII. 803. romance, XX. 659. making, XXI. 831.

SEVEN CHURCHES, Glendalough, Ire- SEX, XXI. 720; XX. 407; in relation to land, XXIV. 558.

SEVEN CITIES, Island of, fabulous island,
IV. 241.

SEVEN DEADLY SINS, The, in mediæval
ecclesiastical ethics, VIII. 592.
SEVENOAKS, town, England, xxI. 697.
SEVEN SEAS, lagoons, North-East Italy,
XIII. 436.

SEVEN SLEEPERS OF EPHESUS, The,
legend, XXI. 697.
SEVENTH-DAY BAPTISTS, American
sect, VII. 543.

SEVEN WEEKS' WAR (1866), between

Austria and Prussia, III. 140; X. 511. SEVEN YEARS' WAR (1756–63), III. 127; VIII. 356; IX. 588; X. 503; XX. 10; XXI. 355.

SEVERN, river, England and Wales, XXI. 698; VIII. 216; XVI. 788; XXI. 847; tunnel under, XXIII. 623.

Joseph, English painter, XXI. 698. SEVERUS, of Alexandria, Greek romancist, XX. 636.

natural selection, XXIV. 82; in relation❘
to suicide, XXII. 631; sex totems,
XXIII. 471; in animals, XX. 407; in
plants, 1. 619; IV. 81, 135; XX. 424.
See also Sexes.

SHADOOF, irrigation apparatus, Egypt,
VII. 707.

SHADOWS, Optical theory of, XIV. 580;
XXIV. 428; in perspective, XIX. 806.
SHADRINSK, town, Russia, XVIII. 550.
SHAD-SALMON, fish, XXI. 224.
SHADWELL, Thomas, English play-
wright and versifier, XXI. 727; VII.
436.

SEXAGESIMAL NUMBERS, Tables of,
XXIII. 9.
SEXCENTENARY NUMBERS, Tables of, SHAFIITES, Moslemn sect, XXII. 661;
XXIII. 9.

XVI. 593, 595.

SEXES, Proportion of, in population, SHAFT, SHAFTS, in tunnelling, XXIII.
XIX. 514.

622; in coal-mines, VI. 62; sinking of in mines, XVI. 448. SHAFTESBURY, First Earl of, English statesman, XXI. 727; his relations with Locke, XIV. 752; his support of Monmouth, XVI. 755.

-, Third Earl of, English moralist, XXI. 731; VIII. 427; on beauty, 1. 221; on deism, VII. 34; ethics of, VIII. 599.

Seventh Earl of, English philanthropist, XXI. 734. SHAG, bird, VI. 408.

SÉVIGNÉ, Charles de, son of Madame de SEYNE, La, town, France, XXI. 726.

Sévigné, XXI. 704.

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SEYOOL (Seoul), town, Corea, VI. 391.
SFAX, town, Tunis, XXI. 726.
SFONDRATO, Niccolo (Pope Gregory
XIV.), XI. 178.
SFORNO, Obadiah, tutor of Reuchlin,
XX. 489.

SFORZA, House of, Milan, XIII. 479;

XVI. 293.

Attendolo, Italian condottiere, vi. 256; XX. 805.

734.

town, Oudh, India, XVIII. 72.
SHAHAT, district, North Africa, VI. 75I.
SHAHEBGUNGE, town, India, XXI. 297.
SHAHID, Abul-Hasan, Persian poet,
XVIII. 656.
SHAHINSHAHNAMA,
XVIII. 657.

Persian book,

SHAH JAHAN, Mogul emperor, XII. 795;

XX. III.

SHAH JAHAN KUH, mountain, Persia,

XIV. 66.
SHAHJAHANPUR, district and town,
India, XXI. 735.
SHAHNAMA, or Shahnamah, Firdousi's
epic, XVIII. 656; IX. 225.
SHAHPUHR, SHAPUR, or Sapor, kings of
Persia, XVIII. 608; XVII. 514.

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