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SKIN DISEASES, xxn. 120; due to

parasites, xvm. 269 ; as result of

vaccination, xxiv. 26. SKINK, lizard, xiv. 735. SKINNER, John, Scottish clergyman

and song- writer, xxn. 124. SKINS, furs, ix. 836, 837; for tanning,

xiv. 380, 384.

SKIP, mining box, xvi. 456. SKIPETARS, or Albanians, people of

Greece, XL 83.

SKIPTON, town, England, xxn. 124. SKIRRET, vegetable, xn. 288. SKITTLES, game, xxn. 125. SKIVERS, variety of leather, xiv. 388. SKJ^ERGAARD, or Skiirgard, island belt,

Norway and Sweden, xvn. 576; xxn.

737- SKODA, Joseph, German physician, xv.

817.

SKOGSO, island, Norway, xiv. 769.

SKOPIN, town, Eussia, xxi. 116.

SKOPLIE, town, Turkey, xxiv. 17.

SKOPZI, Russian sect, vni. 667.

SKUA, bird, xxn. 125.

SKULL, or Cranial Skeleton, xxn. 113; XXIV. 181; Oken s vertebral theory of, XVII. 751; anatomy of, in man, I. 822; its shape as indication of race, ii. in; of Amphibia, i. 753; of apes, II. 157; of birds, ill. 700; of fishes, XII. 641 ; of mammals, xv. 355; of reptiles, XX. 449.

SKUNK, carnivorous mammal, xxn. 125; xv. 439; skins of, ix. 839.

SKUPSHTINA, Servian legislature, xxi. 687.

SKUTTERUDITE, mineral, xvi. 391.

SKVIRA, town, Eussia, xxn. 126; xiv. 69.

SKY, Worship of the, XVII. 138, 153; xxiv. 782.

SKYE, island, Scotland, xxn. 127.

SKYLARK, bird, xiv. 314.

SKY-ROCKET, in pyrotechny, XX. 136.

SLADEK, Joseph V., Bohemian poet, xxn. 152.

SLAG, of ores, XVI. 62; of iron, XIII. 292,

307-

SLAGELSE, town, Denmark, xxiv. 771.

SLANDER, in law, xiv. 505.

SLATE, argillaceous rock, xxn. 127; x. 238; strength of, xxn. 603; quar ries, xvi. 454; xxn. 128.

SLATER-WORK, in building, iv. 500.

SLATE-SPAR, mineral, xvi. 397.

SLAVANSK, town, Eussia, xiv. 57.

SLAVE COAST, West Africa, i. 269.

SLAVERY, xxn. 129; in relation to labour, xiv. 165; of Negroes, xvn. 319; ancient, XIX. 348; in Barbados, in. 361; in Ireland and Scotland, v. 800; in Siam, XXI. 852; in United States, xxni. 747, 752, 757, 763, 769, 781, 821; Jefferson s opposition to, xin. 615.

, Abolition of, by European and

American states, xxn. 141; by Eng

land, vni. 365; in Jamaica, xin. 551;

Clarkson on, v. 813; Garrison s advo cacy of, x. 85; AVilberforce s part in,

xxiv. 565. SLAVES, xxn. 129; torture of, xxni.

462; emancipation of, in Jamaica, xin.

551; colony of freed, in Sierra Leone,

West Africa, xxn. 45. SLAVE TRADE, xxn. 137; American, as

affected by treaty of Utrecht, xxni.

734; Clarkson on, v. 813. SLAVONIA, with Croatia, crown-land,

Hungary, VI. 591. SLAVONIANS, race of people, Europe,

XXII. 145; in Eussia, xxi. 78. SLAVONIC LANGUAGES, xvin. 785 ;

xxn. 147; dictionaries of, vn. iSS. SLAVONIC LITERATURE, xxn. 149. SLAVS, European peoples, xxn. 145;

xix. 285; in Germany, x. 480. SLAVYANSK, town, Eussia, xxn. 154. SLEDGE, Eskimo, vni. 545.

HAMMER, XL 425; xvi. 445.

SLEDGE-TRAVELLING, in Arctic ex plorations, xix. 322.

SLEEP, xxn. 154; dreaming in, vn. 452; hypnotic, xv. 278; of Endymion, in Greek mythology, vni. 205.

SLEEPERS, Railway, xx. 242.

SLEEPLESSNESS, xxn. 157.

SLEIDANUS, John, German annalist of the Reformation, xxn. 158.

SLEIGHT OF HAND, xiv. 414; xv. 207.

SLESVIG (Schleswig, q.v.}, xxi. 413.

, town, Prussia, xxi. 413.

SLIDE MOUNTAIN, Catskills, U.S.A., xxni. 793.

SLIDE-REST, machine, xv. 153.

SLIDING CONTACT, in applied mech anics, xv. 756.

S LI EM A, suburb of Valetta, Malta, xv. 340.

SLIEVEBAWN MOUNTAINS, Ireland, xx. 850.

SLIEVE BLOOM MOUNTAINS, Ireland, xx. 170.

SLIEVE DONARD, mountain, Ireland, xin. 215.

SLIGO, county and town, Ireland, xxn. 159.

SLIM MOUNTAINS, Malay Peninsula, xv. 321.

SLINGSBY PAPERS, Willis s, xxiv. 588.

SLIP, Harbour, XL 470.

, in pottery, XIX. 60 1.

SLIPPERS, xxi. 830.

SLIVEN, town, East Eoumelia, Turkey, xxn. 1 60.

SLIVNO (Sliven), town, East Eoumelia, Turkey, xxn. 160; department, xxi. 22.

SLIVOVITZA, spirituous liquor, xvin. 692; xxi. 687.

SLOAN-DUPLOYAN SYSTEM, of short hand, xxi. 840.

SLOANE, Sir Hans, Irish physician and

naturalist, xxn. 160; his bequest to British Museum, xiv. 515.

SLOBODSKOI, town, Eussia, xxiv. 303.

SLODTZ, Eene Michel, French sculptor, xxn. 1 60.

SLOE, tree and fruit, xix. 230.

SLONIM, town, Eussia, xxn. 161.

SLOPPESBURY (Shrewsbury), Saxon town, England, xxi. 845.

SLOTH, edentate mammal, xxn. 161; xv. 384; its relation to the megather ium, xv. 829. BEAR, carnivorous mammal, xv.

442.

SLOTTING MACHINE, xv. 156.

SLOUGH, town, England, xxn. 162.

SLOVAK LANGUAGE, xxn. 153; dic tionaries of, vn. 1 88.

SLOVAKS, Slav people, Moravia, xvi. 811; xxn. 145.

SLOVENES, Slav people, Eoumania, xxi. 16; xxn. 145, 147.

SLOVENISH LANGUAGE, xxn. 150; dictionaries of, vn. iSS.

SLOWACKI, Julius, Polish poet, xix.

304-

SLOW-WORM, lizard, xiv. 735. SLUBBING FRAME, cotton machine, vi.

494-

SLUDGE, sewage product, xxi. 712.

SLUG, mollusc, xvi. 646, 660; xxn. 187.

SLUTER, Claux, Netherlands sculptor, xxi. 563.

SLUTSK, town, Eussia, xxn. 162.

SLUYS, Holland, Battle of (1340), IX. 546; xvn. 279.

SMALKALD (Schmalkalden), town, Prus sia, XXI. 416; articles of (1536), vi. 564.

- LEAGUE (1531), v. 415; x. 498; xv. 83; xx. 333.

SMALLAGE, wild celery, v. 290.

SMALLPOX, disease, xxn. 162; xvin. 404; in relation to vaccination, xxiv. 28; XIII. 623; quarantine for, xx. 156.

SMALTINE, mineral, vi. Si; xvi. 390.

SMALTS, mineral, vi. 82.

SMARAGDUS MEDICUS, of Pliny, mineral, xv. 315.

SMART, Christopher, English poet, xxn. 164.

, John, his valuation tables, n. 74.

SMEATON, John, English civil engineer, xxn. 165; xiv. 616; his diving-bell, vn. 295.

SMECTYMNUUS, Puritan pamphlet, xvi. 328; iv. 652.

SMELL, xxn. 165; in relation to taste, xxni. 80; nerve of, I. 885; in bees, in. 488; organs of, in Amphibia, I. 768; in birds, III. 725; in Crustacea, vi. 639; in fishes, xn. 652; in mam mals, xv. 367; in reptiles, xx. 462.

SMELLIE, William, editor of ist edition