St. Bride’s Church, London, struck by lightning in 1764 38 ———— Dr. William Watson’s account thereof 39 ———— account of the damage done 183 St. Omer, the first lightning-conductor at 35 St. Paul’s Cathedral, the erection of lightning-conductors upon 39–41 Saussure (Professor Horace de) erects the first lightning-conductor in Geneva 43 ———— the opposition thereto and his manifesto thereon 43, 44 ———— on the height of lightning-clouds 67 ———— on the origin of atmospheric electricity 70 Schleswig-Holstein, thunderstorms in 222 Secchi (Father) on the protection of churches from lightning 203 Ships destroyed by lightning, statistics of 88 Shooter’s Hill, electrical experiments made at 8 Siena, the erection of lightning-conductors on the Cathedral at 45 Smoke, the conductivity of 142 Solokow and Professor Richmann’s experiment in electricity 32 Solomon’s Temple, its immunity from lightning-strokes 63 Staples for lightning-conductors 163 Statistics of deaths, fires, and damage caused by lightning 170 Superstitions in regard to lightning 63 Sweden, statistics of deaths from lightning in 172 Switzerland, statistics of deaths caused by lightning in 175 T Terminal-rods, Newall’s 144 Thomson (Sir William, F.R.S.), his researches on the conductivity of copper 109 Thunderstorms and lightning, the character of 62 ‘Tightening-screw,’ the 162 Tin, the use of, for lightning-conductors 104 Toaldo (Abbé Giuseppe) and lightning-conductors 45 ‘Tomlinson’s Thunderstorm,’ _quoted_ 177 Torpedo fish and electric shocks 1 Trees, their liability to be struck by lightning 228 Tuscany, the erection of lightning-conductors upon powder-magazines in 48 U United States, lightning protection in 133 Units, the law of 68 V Vaccination and lightning-conductors, analogy between the progress of 46 Venice, the erection of lightning-conductors in 48