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INDEX. 



Pressure and isobars, 76. 

 Preatel, 79. 

 Prickly pear, the, 342. 

 Primates, 298. 

 Prime, Prof., 280. 



Princeton College Observatory, Prince- 

 ton, N. J., 40. 

 Pringsheim's Jahrbueb, 327, 329. 

 Pritchett, Prof. C. \\\, 44. 

 Protobathybius, 247. 

 Protozoans, 300. 

 Protuberances observed, 14. 

 Provenzali at Rome, 70. 

 Prunier, 141. 

 Przewalski, Col., SO, 198. 

 Psychrometer, a new, IOC. 

 Publications, botanical, 333. 



of observatories, 32. 



ou mineralogy, 151. 

 Pulitz, G9. 



Pullen, Lieutenant, ISO. 

 Pumpkius, squashes, etc., 373. 

 Purkyne, Dr. E.,78. 

 Putnam, F.W., 234, 256. 



J.D.,317. 

 Pycuidia, 330. 

 Pylzof, 86. 



Q. 



Quartz, rotary power of, 120. 

 Quatrefages, De, 255. 

 Quebec Observatory, 48. 

 Queen, J. W., and Co., 239. 

 Quercite, researches on, 141. 



R. 



Radiometer and sound vibrations, 102. 



experiments, 108. 

 Radziszewski, 145. 

 Rae, Dr. J.,205. 

 Ragona, Prof., 60, 71. 

 Rail production in 1S76, 409. 

 Railroad chart, 196. 

 Railroads, 3S1. 

 Raimundi, Senor, 194. 

 Rainfall of Germany, 7S. 

 Ralph, T. S., 241. 

 Rammelsberg, 159. 

 Ramsay, E. Pierson, 290. 

 Rathke, 323. 



Rates charged by railroads, 381. 

 Rayleigh, Lord, 57, 99. 

 Reclus, Elisee, 197. 

 Red River valley, 232. 



Sea, 180. 

 Redfield, 72. 

 Redier, 27. 



Rediscovery of Maia, 22. 

 Reed, Dr. Stephen, 420. 

 Reflection of light, 111. 

 Refraction of light, 112. 

 Refractor by Steinheil, 32. 

 for Lisbon, 2S. 

 Strasburir, 30. 

 Regel's Gartenflora, 339. 

 Regnault's observations, 69. 

 Re i che, 319. 

 Reichenbach, 323. 

 Re i nke, 332. 

 Reiss, Dr., 193. 

 Reissig, Dr., 404. 

 Religion, 272. 



Removal of Washington Observatory, 

 32. 



Renard, A., 252. 



Reno, Major, 219. 



Report on Canadian meteorology, 6i. 



Reports of observatories, 32, 35. 



Reslhuber, 10. 



Respiration, influence of, 145. 



Reusch, 103. 



Reynier, 12S. 



Reynolds, Prof. II. S., 293. 



J. Emerson, 158. 

 Osborne, 57, 78. 

 Rhamnus frangula, 344. 

 Rhizopods, fresh-water, 301. 

 Rhynchophora of North America, 318. 

 Ricco, 70. 



Richardson, J. G., 240. 

 Richmond and Potts, 410. 

 Richthofen, Baron Von, 89, 200. 

 Ridout, 101. 

 Rikatcheff, 76. 



Riley, Prof. C. V., 224, 310, 322. 

 Ringwood, A., 71. 

 Rink, Dr., 196. 

 Ripon College Observatory, Wisconsin, 



48. 

 Rivera, Major D. A., 194. 

 Roberts, Prof., 244. 

 Rochester Observatory, N. Y., 49. 

 Rogers Brothers, 230. 



H. D., 179, 237. 



Prof. William B., 161. 



William A., 39. 

 Rohlf's expedition, 63. 

 Rolander, 315. 

 Rolled iron in 1S76,409. 

 Rolleston, Prof., 263. 

 Romanes, G. J., 302. 

 Rood, 110, 110. 

 Root, anatomy of, 327. 



development, 366. 

 Rose and Marignac, 139. 

 Rosenbusch's second volume, 151. 

 Ross, 239. 

 Rosse, Lord, 2. 

 Rostafinsky, 332. 



myxomycetes of, 329. 

 Rothamstead, experiments at, 358,360. 

 Rothrock, Prof., 336. 

 Roudaire, 392. 

 Rontremont, Ph. de, 307. 

 Rovfda, Prof., 420. 

 Rowland, 121. 

 Royal Geographical Society, 193, 202, 205. 



Society, 242, 243, 247, 249. 

 Royston-Piirott, Dr., 238. 

 Rnbenseu, 7S, 79. 

 Rucker, lis. 



Ruffner, Lieutenant, 220. 

 Ruhlmann, 88. 

 Rural economy, 349. 

 Russell at Sydney, 60. 

 Russian Geographical Society, 19S, 199. 

 Rust prevented in iron, 403. 

 Rutherford, Lewis M., 17. 

 Ryan, Commander, 1S3. 

 Rygersma, Dr. V., 420. 



Sabatier, A., 305. 

 Sabine, 123. 

 Sachs, Dr., 277. 



Prof., 320. 

 Sadtlcr, Prof.. 147. ' 

 Safford, Prof. T. II., 11, 51, 173. 



