INDEX II. 



229. 



Ramsay (J. N.), account of the ascent of 

 Mont Blanc by a new route from the 

 side of Italy, 150. 



Rankine (W. J. Macquorn), opening re- 

 marks on the objects of the Mechanical 

 Section, 201 ; concluding address to 

 the Mechanical Section, 211 ; on prac- 

 tical tables of the latent heat of vapours, 

 208 ; on the operation of the patent 

 laws, ib. 



Ransom (Dr. W. H.) on the structure of 

 the ova of fishes, with especial refer- 

 ence to the micropyle, and the phseno- 

 mena of their fecundation, 131. 



Rathbone (Theodore W.) on decimal ac- 

 counts and coinage, 184. 



Redfern (Dr.), exhibition of photographs 

 on glass by, of histological and natural- 

 history objects, 118. 



Reid (John) on the progressive rates of 

 mortality, as occurring in all ages, 

 and on certain deviations, 186. 



Remak (Prof.) on the mode of action of 

 galvanic stimuli directly applied to the 

 muscles, 131. 



Rennie (G.) on the effects of screw pro- 

 pellers when moved at different velo- 

 cities and depths, 209. 



Retzins (Prof.) on the Antrum pylori in 

 man and animals, 132 ; on the peculiar 

 development of the Vermis cerebelli in 

 the albatros, 133 ; on the Fornix ce- 

 rebri in man, mammals and other ver- 

 tebrataj ib. ; on the pelvis of a Lapland 

 giantess, 134; on an episcaphoid bone 

 in both hands of aGuarani man, ib. ; on 

 Celtic, Sclavic and Aztec crania, 145. 



Rifle-shells and balls, new kind of, 206. 



River channels in Scotland, on the exca- 

 vation of certain, 83. 



Robertson (Capt.), ascent of the mountain 

 Sunieru Parbut, 150. 



Rocks, on an indirect method of ascer- 

 taining the presence of phosphoric acid 

 in, 55 ; on the lowest sedimentary, of 

 Scotland, 82 ; on the relations of the 

 Silurian and metamorphic, of the south 

 of Norway, ib. ; on the relations of the 

 crystalline, of the North Highlands, to 

 the old red sandstone of that region, 

 85 ; striated, observed in the north of 

 Scotland, 88 ; on the subdivisions of 

 the palaeozoic and metamorphic, of 

 Scotland, 92 ; on the structure and 

 mutual relationships of the older, of 

 the Highland border, 96 ; on the blast- 

 ing and quarrying of, 209. 



Rogers (Prof. H. D.) on some reptilian 

 footprints from the carboniferous strata 

 of Pennsylvania, 95 ; on tiie geology 



of the United States, ib. ; on some of 

 the geological functions of the winds, 

 illustrating the origin of salt, &c., ib. 



Romans, on the forms of the crania of 

 the ancient, 142. 



Roscoe (Dr. Henry), photochemical re- 

 searches with reference to the laws of 

 the chemical action of light, 48. 



Ross (Rear- Admiral Sir John) on the 

 aurora borealis, 42. 



Roth (Dr.) on the application of physio- 

 logical principles to gymnastic educa- 

 tion, 134. 



Rowney (T. H.) on the composition of 

 two mineral substances employed as 

 pigments, 70; on the composition of 

 vandyke-brown, ib. 



Russell (R.) on the meteorology of the 

 United States and Canada, 42. 



Russian produce, the effect of the war in 

 Russia and England upon the principal 

 articles of, 195. 



Salter (J . W.) on the geology of the arctic 

 regions, 211; on some fossils from 

 the Cambrian rocks of the Longmynd, 

 Shropshire, 95. 



Sand-hills, on the cultivation of, 118. 



Sandland (J. D.) on sea Medusae, 117. 



Sandstone, red, of the North Highlands, 

 on the relations of the crystalline rocks 

 of that region to the, 85. 



Schlagintweit (Adolphe and Robert), no- 

 tices of journeys in the Himalayas of 

 Kemaon, 152. 



Schlossberger (Prof.) on the chemistry of 

 foetal life, 135. 



Sclavic crania, on, 145. 



Scoresby (Dr. William) on the magnetisnv 

 of iron ships and its changes, 12. 



Scotland, on climatological elements in 

 the western district of, 42; on the lowest 

 sedimentary rocks of, 82; on the less 

 known fossil floras of, 83 ; on the exca- 

 vation of certain river channels in, ib.; 

 on striated rocks and other evidences 

 of ice-action observed in the north of, 

 88 ; on the subdivisions of the palaeo- 

 zoic rocks of, 92 ; on the fauna of the 

 lower Silurians of the south of, 99 ; on 

 the commencement and progress of the 

 geological survey in, 95 ; remarks on the 

 flora of, 100; on the Coregoni of. 111 ; 

 on the laws of the currency in, 166; 

 on the progress, extent and value of the 

 coal and iron trade of the west of, 193. 



Screw propellers, effects of, when moved 

 at different velocities and depths, 209. 



Screw-vent for turning spiked guns into 

 use, on a, 208. 



