Réaumur (Rene Antoine de) Musschenbroek’s letter to, on the Leyden Jar 5
Richmann (Professor G. W.), his experiments on electricity 31 ———— his death thereby 32
Robespierre and lightning-conductors 36, 43
Roman Catholicism and lightning-conductors 42, 44
Rosenburg, Austria, church repeatedly struck by lightning at 64
Rosstall, Bavaria, church struck by lightning at 105 ———— Professor Kastner’s report thereon 106
Royal Navy, vessels of the, destroyed by lightning 88
Russia, statistics of deaths from lightning in 171
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
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
Solokow and Professor Richmann’s experiment in electricity 32
Solomon’s Temple, its immunity from lightning-strokes 63
Statistics of deaths, fires, and damage caused by lightning 170
Sweden, statistics of deaths from lightning in 172
Switzerland, statistics of deaths caused by lightning in 175
Thomson (Sir William, F.R.S.), his researches on the conductivity of copper 109
Thunderstorms and lightning, the character of 62
Tin, the use of, for lightning-conductors 104
Toaldo (Abbé Giuseppe) and lightning-conductors 45
Trees, their liability to be struck by lightning 228
Tuscany, the erection of lightning-conductors upon powder-magazines in 48
United States, lightning protection in 133
Vaccination and lightning-conductors, analogy between the progress of 46
Venice, the erection of lightning-conductors in 48
Victoria Colliery, Burntcliffe, destruction of the magazine by lightning 146 ———— Major Majendie’s report thereon 147
Voltaire, his _bon mot_ concerning lightning 158
Wall (Dr.), on electricity and lightning 3