INDEX. 



605 



Quiucke, 1C4. 

 Qiiiuiue, cheap, 529. 



E. 



Radclifle catalogue of stars, the third, 



45. 

 lladde, Dr., 123. 

 Kadiation, nocturual, 72. 

 of leaves, 76. 

 Kadiometers, observations on, 14G, 147. 

 Radish, new Japanese, 807. 

 Tlafinesque's flshes of the Ohio, 31S. 

 Ragona, 128. 



Railroad, new plan of elevated, 442. 

 Railway signals and blocks, 440. 

 Rainbow-fish, the, 3'21. 

 Rainfall and evaporation in India, 92. 

 in Bohemia, 93. 



wind, and pressure in Italy, 129. 

 Range-finder for artillery practice, 454. 

 Realis, 4. 



Reciprocity of prime numbers, 3. 

 Red, new aniline, 492. 

 Redding, 401, 

 Redfield, 106. 

 Redmond, M., 545. 

 Redteubacher, Dr. Ludwig, 545. 

 Reflectiug-plate for open grate fires, 419. 

 Reflector for moulders, 517. 

 Refraction, terrestrial, 6. 

 Reid, Capt. Mayne, 317. 

 Reimann's Fiirber-Zeitung, 490. 

 Reitz, 117. 



Relief-valve for steam fire-engines, 438. 

 Remains of the Irish elk, 300. 



of the moa, additional, 311. 

 Remseu, Ira, 198. 



and Southworth, 213. 

 Reuou, 93. 



Renshaw, John H., 250. 

 Report of statistics, 3S6. 



of the State Entomologist of Mis- 

 souri, 333. 

 Reproduction in the proteus, 317. 



of the army-worm, 332. 

 Reptiles of Costa Rica, 315. 

 Researches on explosives, 459. 

 Resistance of the air to the movements of 

 projectiles, 81. 

 of the electric arc, 175. 

 Resisting medium in space, 49. 

 Respighi, Prof.,11. 

 Reuschel, Dr. C. G.,3. 

 Reuschel's table of prime numbers, 3. 

 Reuschle, Prof. K. G., 545. 

 Rhizopods, fresh-water, 345. 



habits of American fresh- 

 water 2'^9 

 Richardson, Dr., 270, 308, 531, 538. 

 Riche and Bardv, 483. 

 Rikatchefi", S3, 90. 

 Riley, 326, 330, 332, 333. 

 Rio Observatory, 57. 

 Riotti, C. N., 310. 

 Risbee, 140. 

 River currents as affected by the earth's 



rotation, 119. 

 Rizaux, Prof., 545. 

 Robert, Dr., 292, 412. 

 Roberts, 205. 

 Robin, Dr. Albert, 528. 

 Robinson, Col., 109. 

 Roch, Dr.,171. 

 Rock-salt, elasticity of, 130. 



Rocky Mountains, glacial epoch in the, 228. 



Rodgers' history of agriculture in En- 

 gland, 370. 



Roehrig, Prof. F. L. O., 262. 



Rogers, William A., 53, 207. 



Rohlfs, Dr.,130, 



Romiliy, 144. 



Roscoe, Henry E., 193. 



Roscoelite and psittacinite, new minerals, 

 223. 



Rotation of rifled projectiles, 456. 



Roth, Prof Von, GO. 



Rothnev, 325. 



Rothwell, Dr.,204. 



Rotifer, male, 324. 



Rousseau, Henry, 545. 



Roux and Sarrau, 459. 



Rowland, Prof, 159. 



Rugby School Observatory, 17. 



Ruhlmann,231. 



Rural economy and agriculture, 305. 



Russell, Alexander, 545. 

 H. C, 29. 



Russia leather, 508. 



prohibition of artificial alizarine 



in, 490. 

 Southern, bora of, 129. 



Rutherfurd, L. M., 44, 46. 



Sabine, General, 80, 447. 



Sacc, Dr., 499. 



Sachs, 351. 



Sacramento Bay, climate and trees in, 111. 



Sadler, 17. 



Safford, Prof. T. 11., 49, 264. 



Sagittarii, variable stars, 54. 



St.^Louis bridge, effects of temperature ou 



the, 406. 

 St. Petersburg, new physical ob.servatory 



near, 90. 

 St. Robert, 231, 

 Saint-Venaut, 138. 

 Sales, 125. 



Salicylic acid, antiseptic action of, 423, 425. 

 from Andromeda Lesche- 

 naultii,527, 

 Salmon eggs in South Africa, 408. 



sending to New Zealand, 407. 

 habits of the, 320. 

 in the antipodes, 408. 

 in the Ccmnecticnt River, 409. 

 Salpa, development of, 338. 

 Salpetre against the taste of turnips in 



milk and'bntter, 383. 

 Salt-marsh and bog hay, 377. 

 San Juan mining region, 204. 

 San Miguel River, 247. 

 Sand, musical, 179. 

 Sandahl, Dr., 344. 

 Sandstone, change of texture of, by heat, 



140. 

 Sardine-fishery in France, 385. 

 Sartiaux, 190. 

 Satellites of Jupiter, 21. 

 of Saturn, 21. 

 of Uranus, the inner, 52. 

 Saussure, Dr., 327. 

 Savin, 508. 



Saw-fly, inequality of the sexes in a, 329. 

 Sawiczevosky, Dr., 422. 

 Sawitsch, 6. 

 Scacchi,224. 

 Scheelia regia, 361. 



