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INDEX. 



Roux, Wilhelm, ' Entwickelungsmech- 

 anik des embryo,' ii. 401; 'Struggle 

 of the Parts in the Organism,' 436 ; 

 quoted, 444 ; " organicisme," 455. 



Rowland, spectroscopic observations, 

 ii. 361. 



Royal Institution founded, i. 89, 264, 

 ii. 139. 



Royal Society of Edinburgh, i. 269. 



Royal Society Catalogue of Scientific 

 Papers, i. 40 ; ' Transactions ' of, 41 ; 

 founded, 89 ; 227, 228 ; unfavourably 

 criticised by Babbage, 233 ; favour- 

 ably criticised by Cuvier, 235 ; by 

 Prof. Moll of Utrecht, 236 ; ii. 69 ; 

 Kaspar Neumann's statistical tables, 

 565. 



Rubidium found by Kirchhoff and Bun- 

 sen, ii. 49. 



Riickert, imitation of oriental poetry, 

 i. 213 ; " Chidher " quoted, ii. 289. 



Rudolf II., Emperor, and Tycho, k 

 157. 



Rudolph, ' Grundriss der Physiologic, ' 

 ii. 499. 



Rudolphi, ii. 230, 261. 



Ruffini, Paolo, and theory of groups, ii. 

 688. 



Riihlmann influenced by Poncelet, ii. 

 101. 



Rumford, Count (Benjamin Thompson), 

 mechanical theory of heat, i. 83 ; 

 155 ; experiments of, 229 ; not mem- 

 ber of any university, 238 ; 246 ; 

 founded Royal Institution^ 248, 264 ; 

 the steam-engine, 331 ; the kinetic 

 view of nature, ii. 8 ; investigations 

 of the nature of heat, 102 ; " Inquiry 

 concerning the Source of the Heat 

 which is excited by Friction," 103 ; 

 Davy's speculations on light and 

 heat, 104; experiments utilised by 

 Helm in his ' Energetik,' 109. 



Runge, C., spectroscopic observations, 

 ii. 361, 362. 



Russell, Hon. Bertrand, his writings, ii. 

 653 ; 718, 720, 734, 737. 



Russell, Lord John, Royal Commission 

 of Inquiry into University Reform, i. 

 254. 



Rutherford, spectroscopic observations, 

 ii. 361. 



Rydberg, ii. 362. 



Sabine, magnetic experiments, i. 230. 



Sachs, Julius, the effect on biological 

 science of the discovery of the cell, i. 

 195; 'Geschichte der Botanik,' 209, 

 ii. 212, 223, 227, 230, 231, 246, 260, 



265, 269 ; importance of the spiral 

 theory, 224 ; cellular theory, 262 ; 

 of Hofmeister, 321 ; quoted, 338 ; 

 ' Lectures on Plant Physiology,' 408. 



Sacro Bosco, Joannes, ii. 287. 



Saint-Hilaire, Auguste de, " Morphologic 

 vegetale," ii. 224. 



Saint-Hilaire, Etienne Geoffrey, germ 

 of Darwinian theory, i. 137 ; 200 ; 

 and the " Origin of Species," 201 ; 

 and Cuvier, ii. 239 ; appreciation of 

 Goethe's work, 244 ; controversy with 

 Cuvier, 246 ; morphological analogies, 

 251 ; labours of, 253 ; quoted, 258 ; 

 unity of organisation, 267 ; 301 ; and 

 Buffon, 309 ; 321, 322 ; natural selec- 

 tion, 330 ; 364. 



Saint-Hilaire, Isidore Geoffroy, ii. 322. 



Saint Pierre, ,Bernardin de, taught 

 morals at theEcole normale, i. 112. 



Saint Simon, co-operation, ii. 566. 



Saint - Veuant, Barre de, quoted on 

 Boscovich's theory, i. 359 ; properties 

 of ether, ii. 33; "elastic solid" 

 theory of ether, 54 ; synthetic method, 

 100. 



Salisbury, Lord, Oxford Address, ii. 

 347. 



Salmon, George, text-books on geometry 

 translated by Fiedler, i. 44 ; scientific 

 work of, and Pllicker, 242 ; Dublin 

 mathematical school, 275 ; German 

 edition of his works, ii. 669, 685 ; 

 introduces Chasles's work, 673 ; great 

 merit of his text-books, 685 ; Meyer 

 on, ib. ; Italian edition of his works 

 by Brioschi, ib. 



Sameness and variation, ii. 607. 



Sampson, R. A., ' Proceedings of the 

 Society of Antiquaries,' ii. 282. 



Sanderson, Sir J. Burdon, quoted, ii. 

 428, 429, 439 ; " Elementary Problems 

 of Physiology " quoted, 442 ; 565. 



Sanskrit, discovery of, ii. 538. 



Santi-Linari, animal magnetism, ii. 475. 



Sarcode, ii. 264. 



Sartorius von Waltershausen on Gauss, 

 i. 181, 183, ii. 631. 



Saussure. de, ii. 247 ; experiments, 391. 



Sauveur, referred to by Voltaire, i. 105. 



Savage tribes, history of, i. 3. 



' Savants, Journal des,' i. 41. 



Savart, theory of elasticity, ii. 31 ; 193. 



Savigny, i. 162 ; indebtedness of, to 

 Gibbon, 169. 



Sayce, ' Introduction to the Science of 

 Language' quoted, ii. 539, 510. 



Scaliger, Joseph J., influence of, on 

 German thought and literature, i. 



