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INDEX. 



Kain-fall and solar spots, 123. 



and sugar crop of Barbadoes, 



108. 

 influence of, 70. 

 in Jerusalem, 6T. 

 in the United States, GT. 

 of Switzerland, 67. 



Rain-guage at sea, 73. 



Rames, Mr., 198. 



Ramsay, Mr., 1. 



Ramsden plate-machine, 151. 

 telescope, 152. 



Ranke, Mr., 423. 



Rankine, Prof. J. W. Macquorn, C85. 



Ransome, Mr. Francis, cxxv. 



Ravitsch, Mr.,645. 



Rawson, Governor, xxxiii., 108. 



Ray, Lieut. P. H., 261. 



Rayet, Mr.,40. 



Ray leigh, Lord, xxxvi., 103. 



Raymond, Prof. R. W., 203. 



Read, Mr. M. C, 207. 



Rearing of ostriches, 388. 



Red beer in Germany, 482. 



flames of the sun seeu, 49. 



indelible ink, 545. 



new aniline, 580. 



wine by Pasteur's method, 482. 



Red-blood corpuscles, number of, 308. 



Redfield, Mr.,75. 



Reed, Mr. H. W., 2C2. 



Reeder, Mr. H. J., 441. 



Refuse from washing wool, 50t). 



Regions of the world, unexplored, 213. 



Reich, Mr., 114, 121. 



Reiche & Brother, Messrs., 338. 



Reimann, Dr., 552, 5S1. 



Reiusch, Prof., 194. 



Remedies, preservation of unstable, 620. 



Remedy for colic in horses, 391. 



Renault, Mr., 601. 



Report of Dr. Hayden, final, 236. 



of the German north polar expe- 

 dition, 220. 

 on scientific instruction in En- 

 gland, G72. 

 on the Yellowstone Park, 222. 



Repsold Brothers, 57.' 



Researches in hydraulics, 145. 

 of Paul Bert, 675. 



Respiration of fishes, 304. 



Resuscitating the drowned, 029. 



Retzius, Dr. Gustav, Ixxv. 



Reye, Dr., 107. 



Reynolds, Commodore Wm. A., 239. 

 Dr. Emerson, xli., 185. 



Rhabdolithus, 216. 



Rheumatism, propylamine against, 636. 



Rhizophoreae, growth of, 214. 



Rhoda, Mr. Franklin, 251. 



Rhode Island Fish Commissioners' Report 

 for 1S72, 437. 

 mollusca, 339. 



Rice, roots of wild, 362. 



Rich, Mr., 338. 



Richardson, Dr., 619. 

 Mr., 236. 



Richter, Prof., 624. 



Ricot, Mr., 468. 



Riddle, Prof. J, H., 205. 



Ridgway, Mr. Robert, 307. 



Riess, Mr., 134. 



Rifles, improvement in, 510. 



Riley, Prof. C, Ixxxviii., 362. 



Rings of Saturn, nature of the, CI. 



Ripening of fruit, hasteniug the, 415. 



Risler, Mr. E., 355, 356. 



Ritthausen, Prof., 486. 



River temperatures, 63. 



Rivers and canals, flow of water in, 167. 



Riviere, Mr. E., Ixxviii., 280. 



Robb, Mr. Charles, Ixvii. 



Robert, Dr., 277. 



Roberts, Mr., xxxix. 



Robin and Laboulbene, Messrs., c. 



Rochard, Mr.,369. 



Rock wood, Mr. A. P., 434, 464. 



Rocky Mountain fossils, 199. 



Roessler, Mr., xxxviii., 188. 



Rogers, Prof.W. B., Iv., 202, 231. 



Rohlfs, Dr. Gerhard, Ixxiv. 



Rolleston, Prof., 670. 



Ronalds, Sir Francis, xxxvi., 685. 



Rood, Prof., 127, 128, 136. 



Roosevelt, Mr., 438. 



Roots of the wild rice, 362. 



Rosa, Mr., xxi., 41. 



Roscoe, Mr., 186. 



Rose, Gustave, 685. 



Rosenthal, Prof., 272, 615. 



Rosse, Earl of, 54. 



Rosser, Gen. Thomas L., 261. 



Rotation of the earth on its axis, 28. 



of the plane of polarization un- 

 der magnetic influences, 148. 

 Rothrock, Dr. J. T., cvi., 254. 

 Rout, Mr., 535. 

 Rowland, Mr., cxxx. 

 Royal Society, medals of the, 671. 

 Rubber tubes, eff'ect of, on illuminating 

 gas, 472. 



utilizing waste, 5.56. 

 Rubber-graphite paint, 556. 

 Ruck, Mr,, 490. 



Ruhmkorflf induction coil, the, 151. 

 Rupert's drops, new explanation of, 168. 

 Rural Economy and Agriculture, 381. 

 Russell, Dr., xlii. 



Lieut. Andrew H., 253. 



Mr. Scott, 31,69,119, 145. 



Prof. John Lewis, 6S5. 

 Russia, meteorology of, 77. 

 Russian mineral phosphates, 211. 

 Rutherford, Mr., 154, 175, 674. 



Sabine, Gen., xxvii. 



Sacc, Dr., 498, 502. 



Saccharomyces, 184. 



Sachs, Dr. Julius, cviii., 361, 373. 



Sacramento River, shad in the, 449. 



Saff'ord, Prof., 252. 



Saint-Hilaire, Mr. Geoff"roy, 339. 



-Mansuy, bishop of Toul, 314. 

 St. Claire Deville, Mr., 26. 



George's Bank, fauna of, 218. 

 Lawrence, explorations in the Gulf of, 



216. 

 Paul, flora of the island of, 355. 

 Sale, Lieut., xxxv. 

 Saline solutions on feldspar, 383. 

 Salmo fontinalis, 299. 

 salar, 64. 

 spectabilis, 305. 

 Salmon and trout hybrids, 442. 

 California, 464. 



eggs to New Zealand, transport- 

 ing, 445. 402. 



