REGISTRATION 



Registration. Method of pro- 

 tecting money and other property 

 from loss. Thus letters containing 

 money orders and the like can be 

 registered at any post office for 

 a s nail fee, and luggage can be 

 registered with railway companies. 

 In both cases the carrying authori- 

 ties then assume responsibility for 

 loss up to a certain amount. 



Registration. Term employed 

 in artillery for the shoot to ascer- 

 tain or check the gun error of the 

 day. After calculations have been 

 made to discover how the force and 

 direction of wind, effect of atmo- 

 spheric conditions, wear of bore, 

 and quality of propellant, will 

 affect the shooting of each gun in a 

 battery, these corrections are ap- 

 plied, and the gun is laid on a target 

 of which the exact range is known. 

 The shoot is carefully observed, 

 and the difference between the 

 theoretical error of the day and the 

 observed result of the shoot is re- 

 corded in the battery and applied 

 to every subsequent shoot until the 

 next registration. Guns should be 

 registered before important shoots; 

 it is, moreover, important to de- 

 stroy, or, as was sometimes done in 

 the Great War, remove the regis- 

 tration points of the enemy 

 artillery. See Artillery ; Ballistics. 



Registration Card. Identifica- 

 tion card issued in Great Britain 

 under the National Registration 



^[bis is to Certify that 



ha* been Registered. under the 



NATIONAL REGISTRATION 

 ACT, 1915. 



COD SAVfi I UK RISC, 



Registration Card. Reduced fac- 

 simile of identification card issued 

 during the Great War 



Act, 1915, to all males and females 

 between the ages of 15 and 65. 

 They gave the full name, occu- 

 pation, and group number, postal 

 address, and signature of the 

 holder, as well as the stamp of the 

 local authority which issued them. 

 They were in most cases carried on 

 the person for production, if neces- 

 sary, to the police or other au- 

 thority. See National Register. 



Jean Regnard, 

 French dramatist 



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Regium Donum (Lat., royal 

 gift). Name given to the endow- 

 ment granted to the Presbyterian 

 and other dissenting Churches in 

 Ireland by William III in return 

 for their support against James II. 

 Originally 1,200 a year, it was in- 

 creased to 2,000 on the accession 

 of George I, while in 1863 the 

 grant amounted to nearly 40,000. 

 As a consequence of the disestab- 

 lishment of the Irish Church it was 

 abolished in 1871, compensation 

 being given. 



Regnard, JEAN FRANCOIS (1656- 

 1709). French dramatist. Born in 

 Paris, Feb. 7, 1656, he led an ad- 

 venturous life 

 until 1683, 

 when he set- 

 tled down to 

 p lay-writing. 

 H e was the 

 most brilliant 

 of the fol- 

 lowers of Mo- 

 liere, but his 

 comedies, e.g. 

 Le Joueur, Le 

 Legataire Universel, though witty 

 in dialogue and clever in charac- 

 terisation, are wanting in that 

 master's depth and moral earnest- 

 ness. He died Sept. 4, 1709. 



Regnault, ALEX ANDRE GEORGES 

 HENRI (1843-71). French painter. 

 Born in Paris, Oct. 30, 1843, he 

 studied under 

 Lamothe and 

 Cabanel, and 

 won the Prix de 

 Rome in 1866. 

 H e illustrated 

 Wey's Journey 

 to Rome and 

 painted the fine 

 portrait of 

 General Prim, 

 now in the 

 Luxembourg. He was killed in 

 action outside Paris, Jan. 19, 1871. 

 Regnault, HENRI VICTOR (1810- 

 78). French physicist. Born at 

 Aix-la-Chapelle, July 21, 1810, he 

 studied chemistry under Liebig, 

 and in 1840 was appointed pro- 

 fessor of chemistry at the Ecole 

 Poly technique, Paris, becoming 

 professor of physics at the College 

 de France, 1841, chief engineer of 

 mines, 1847, and director of the 

 Sevres porcelain factory, 1854. He 

 died Jan. 19, 1878. 



Regnault made a lasting reputa- 

 tion for his measurements of many 

 physical constants, particularly 

 those concerned with specific heat. 

 He showed that the specific heat 

 of an alloy can be obtained from 

 those of its constituent parts, and 

 that the specific heat of compounds 

 bears a relation to the specific 

 heats of the elements composing 

 them. The famous physicist also 



A. G. H. Regnault, 

 French painter 



Henri de Regnier, 

 French poet 



REGRATING 



carried out a series of experiments 

 on the densities, pressures, and 

 volumes of gases which had an im- 

 portant effect on the kinetic theory 

 of gases, and did valuable work in 

 chemistry Jay his researches on the 

 haloid and other derivatives of 

 unsaturated hydrocarbons. 



Regnier, HENRI FRANCOIS JO- 

 SEPH DE (b. 1864). French poet 

 and novelist. He was born at Hon- 

 fleur, Calvados, 

 Dec. 28, 1864, 

 and educated 

 in Paris. A 

 disciple of 

 Mallarm6 and 

 Verlaine, h e 

 came to occupy 

 a leading 

 position among 

 those so-called 

 Symbolists. His 

 many volumes of poetry included 

 Episodes, 1888 ; Poemes Ancienset 

 Romanesques, in which old-time 

 stories were rendered with new 

 symbolic significance, 1890 ; Tel 

 Qu'on Songe, 1892 ; Arethuse, 

 1895 ; Les Me'dailles d'Argile, 

 1900 ; and La Cite des Eaux, 1903. 

 Among his works in prose fiction 

 are Le Trefle Noir, 1895 ; La Canne 

 de Jaspe, 1897 : Les Vacances d'un 

 Jeune Homme Sage, 1903; Le 

 Passe Vivant, 1905 ; and La Peur 

 de 1'Amour, 1906. 



Regnier ,MATHi7RrN( 1573-1613). 

 French satirist. Born at Chartres, 

 Dec. 21, 1573, he was a poet of 

 real genius, 

 who showed 

 his independ- 

 ence by ridicul- 

 ing the all- 

 powerful Mai- 

 fa e r b e. He 

 wrote some 

 charming 

 poesies diver- 

 ses ; but his 

 fame rests 

 upon his 16 satires, the first master- 

 pieces of their kind in French litera- 

 ture. He died, after a dissipated 

 life, at Rouen, Oct. 22, 1613. See 

 Life, J. Vianey, 1896. 



Regnitz. River of Bavaria. Its 

 two headstreams unite near Fiirth, 

 and the river flows N. past Erlan- 

 gen and Forcheim, and joins the 

 Main near Bamberg. It is 125 m. 

 long, and its chief tributaries are 

 the Aisch, Grundlach, Aurach, and 

 Zenn. It is navigable throughout 

 its lower course. 



Regrating (old Fr. regrater, to 

 huckster). Formerly an offence 

 against public trade. It is de- 

 scribed in a statute of Edward VI 

 as buying of corn or other dead 

 victual in any market and selling 

 it again in the same market or 

 within 4 m. of the same place, and 



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Mathurin Regnier, 

 French satirist 



