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INDEX. 



Report of the Connecticut Commissioners 

 of Fisheries, 406. 

 of the Massachusetts Commission- 

 ers of Fisheries, 406. 

 of the Michigan Commissioner of 



Fisheries, 407. 

 of the Minnesota Commissioners 



of Fisheries, 408. 

 of the New Hampshire Commis- 

 sioners of Fisheries, 410. 

 of the Pennsylvania Commission- 

 ers of Fisheries, 409. 

 of the Rhode Island Commission- 

 ers of Fisheries, 408. 

 of the Vermont Commissioners of 



Fisheries, 411. 

 of the Wisconsin Commissioners 



of Fisheries, 411. 

 of the Librarian of Congress, 5S6. 

 of the Massachusetts Inspector of 



Fertilizers, 3S1. 

 of the occurrence of large cod-fish 



offMazatlan, 314. 

 of a reconnoissance of north - 



western Wyoming, 249. 

 on the reclamation of the alluvial 

 basin of the Mississippi, 416. 

 Representation of animals on bone and 

 horn by men of the reindeer period, 335. 

 Reproductive season of the cod on the 



Faroe Islands, 347. 

 Reptilian affinities of birds, ccii. 

 Repulsion due to heat, 155. 

 Researches on the secretion of honey, 316. 

 Resin in the agaric, 371. 

 Reslhuber, Prof., 595. 

 Resonators, theory of, 132. 

 Respiration of leaves in the dark, 369. 



of the loach, 345. 

 Restore old writing, to, 516. 

 Reyman, Mr., lxxvii. 

 Reynolds, Mr., lx., 119, 126, 155. 

 Rhoda, Mr. Franklin, 263. 

 Rhode Island Commissioners of Fisheries' 



Report, 408. 

 Riban, Mr., lxxxiii. 

 Rice plant, wild, for paper, 542. 

 Richardson, Dr. Joseph G., cxli., 319. 

 Riche and Bardy, Messrs., lxx., eclxxxviii. 

 Ridgway, Mr. R., ccvi. 

 Riess, Mr., 196. 

 Rikatcheff, Mr.,105. 

 Robert, Mr. St., 2. 

 Roberteau, Dr., 315. 

 Roberts, Dr., cxli., cxlv., 319. 



Mr. Edward, 595. 

 Robertson, Dr. W. B., 435. 

 Robinson's anemometer, 109. 

 Rockwell, Prof., xxxvi. 

 Rodriguez, extinct animals in, 353. 



physical character of, 256. 

 Roemer, Mr., 244. 

 Roepper, Prof., xcviii. 

 Rogers, Mr. H. D., cii. 



& Burchtield, Messrs., eclxvii. 

 Rohlfs, Dr. Gerhard, clxvii., 363. 

 Rohrs, Mr., xxxiii. 

 Rolleston, Prof., clvi., clxx. 

 Roman Campagna, the, ecli. 



pharos in Dover Castle, 150. 

 Romanes, Mr. George J., 348. 

 Ronzgen, Dr., 545. 

 Rood, Mr., xliii., 174. 

 Roome, James II., 595. 



Roosevelt, Hon. Robert B., 412. 

 Roots of vegetables, influence upon putre- 

 faction of, 307. 

 Rosa, Father, xxv., 13, 41. 

 Roscoe, Mr., 14S. 

 Rosetti, Mr., lxxii. 

 Rosny, Mr. Leon de, cliv. 

 Ross, Mr., 73. 



Sir John, cxx. 

 Rosse, Lord, 50. 

 Rossetti, Mr., 161. 

 Rostafinsky, Dr. Joseph, ccxii. 

 Roudaire, Capt., 509. 

 Rongemont, Mr., 345. 

 Rousselet, Mr. Louis, clxvii i. 

 Route between Australia and China, new, 



254. 

 Roux, Mr., 542. 

 Rowland, Mr., lxx., lxxi., 167. 

 Royal Astronomical Society, 7. 



Commission of Scientific Instruc- 

 tion, 582. 



Institute in Venice, 65. 



Society's Catalogue of Learned So- 

 cieties, 5S4. 

 Rufach, agricultural station of, cexx. 

 Riihlmanu, Mr., 107, 254. 

 Ruins, important, 2S1, 2S6. 

 Rupert Jones, Prof. T., clviii. 

 Rural economy, 379. 

 Russell, Mr. J. B., cxvii. 

 Russia, coal-mines in, 240. 



periodicity of the moisture of, 108. 

 Russian Geographical Society, exxvii. 

 Ruthenium, oxidation of, 205. 

 Rutherford and Draper, Messrs., 11. 

 Rntimeyer, Prof., clxi., clxii. 

 Ryan, Lieut.-Commander George P., 56. 

 Rysselbergh's meteorograph, xxxvii. 



Sabine, General, 73. 



Sacc, Prof., 456. 



Sacca-coffee, 453. 



Sachs, Mr., cexvii. 



Sacramento River, salmon in the, 432. 



Sacred fires of the Pueblo Indians, 32S. 



Sadtler, Prof., 231. 



Safarik, Prof., 19. 



Safety-lamps, miners', 469. 



Sahara, desert of, eclii. 



proposed flooding of, 509. 

 St. Gothard Tunnel, eclvii. 

 Sainte-Marie, Mr., 546. 

 Salamanders, hybridization of, 342. 

 Salamandrella petroli, 343. 

 Salensky, Mr., clxxxi. 

 Salicylic acid, xc, eclxxvii., 568, 569. 



antiseptic effects of, 530. 

 Salmann, Mr., 102. 

 Salmon, Mr. Philip, clvii. 

 Salmon and trout, failure of introducing, 

 439. 



experiments with young Maine, 

 41S. 



hatching establishment, United 

 States, 434. 



in the Sacramento River, 432. 



in the San Joaquin, 430. 



marked, 432. 



trade of the Columbia River, 431. 

 Salt water, freezing of, 194. 

 Salter, Mr., 5S5. 

 Salvadori, Mr., exxxiii. 



