INDEX. 447 



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Quebec, Winds at 213 



Queen Eleanor, Wife of Edward I., Historical allusion to 132 



Querechos, Manners and Customs of 310 



Queries and Strictures, by Dr. Hare 203 



Quincy's Visit to Southern Colonies 169 



Eacine, Wisconsin 87 



Radiation 194 



Rafar Palm 43 



Railroad from El Paso to Guaymas 278 



Railroad to Pacific 37,80,96,281,300 



Railroad to Pacific, Line traced by Nature 231 



Railroads, Invention and Introduction of 148 



Rain, Amount of, from air over one spot 198 



Rain, Annual Quantity on Atlantic and Pacific 244 



Rain at Sacramento, California 268 



Rain, Fall of, during 1854, in California 258 



Rain, Quantity of, to Produce Floods 248 



Riiin, Qantity of Water to make an Inch of 246 



Rain, Storms, Clouds, and Mists, at San Francisco 243, 248 



Rain, Usual quantity of in Atlantic States 245 



Rainy Seasons in California 246 



Rainy Winter of 1849-'59, at San Francisco 245, 246 



Raleigh, Sir Walter 127, 164, 166 



Randall, Doctor A., of California, Liberality of 16 



Rattle of Rattlesnake Carved on Temples in Central America 124 



Rattlesnake, Description of 124 



Rattlesnake, Dr. Brainard's Experiments with 132 



Rattlesnake Weeds or Roots 1 33 



Rattlesnakes Presented to Museum 33 



Ray's teeth 42 



Reading, a Rare Accomplishment with the French Canadians 174 



Reading-room, Character of 22 



Receipt of Books by Exchange 33 



Receipts during 1854 57 



Reed, Joseph, Visit to Boston of. 169 



Reed, Professor Henry, Lectures by 156 



Re-election of Regents 72 



Redfield Theory 228,229 



Red River 86 94 



Red Shale 44 



Reduction of Meteorological Observations 19 20 



Regents of the Institution 5 



Regents, Re-election of Rufus Choate and Gideon Hawley as 72 



Register used in Fire-Alarm Telegraph 151 



Remarkable Brown Coal-beds of Vermont 39 



Remarkable Fact in History of Mankind 171 



Remarks contributingto the Physical Geography ofN.AmericanContinent.byJ.Froebel 272 



Remedies for Poisoning 124 



Removal of Mr. Jevvett 7r^ 



