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INDEX 



XXIX 



Reading Habit in America, Decay of the, W. C. Wilkinson, 



548 

 Reale Istituto Lombardo, 21, 92, 282, 635 

 Rebeur-Paschwitz (Dr. E. von), the Earthquake of Tokio, 



April 18, 1889, 294 

 Recognition, a Cordial, W. J. Stillmann, 245 

 Reefs, Coral, the Structure and Distribution of : Dr. H. B. 



Guppy, 53, 102, 222; W. Usborne Moore, 203,271; Dr. 

 ■ John Murray, 222, 294; Prof. T. G. Bonney, F.R.S., 222; 



P. W. Bassett-Smith, 223 

 Rees (Dr. G. O., F.R.S.), Death of, 133 

 Regenerative Gas Lamp, a Nevir Form of, 82 

 Reichel (Dr.), Experiment with Water- Hammer, 72 

 Reichenbach (Prof. Heinrich Gustav) : Obituary Notice of, 83 ; 



his Collection of Orchids, 253 

 Reid (E. Weymouth), Inclusion of the Foot in the Abdominal 



Cavity of a Duckling, 54 

 Reid (Thos.), Intermittent Sensations, 318 

 Reinach (Salomon), the Writings and Opinions of Samuel 



Zarza, 68 

 Reischek (A.), the Wandering Albatross, 306 

 Reiset (J.), Ravages of Cockchafer and its Larva, 23 

 Remsen (Ira), Inorganic Chemistry, 339 



Renard (A. F. ), A. de Lapparent's Cours de Mineralogie, 460 

 Rendiconti del R. Accademia dei Lincei, 108 

 Rendiconti del Real Istituto Lombardo, 21, 92, 282, 635 

 Reptilian Orders, G. A. Boulenger, 5 



Research, Endowment of, the Framjee Dinshaw Petit Labora- 

 tory at Bombay, 44 

 Research, Scientific, Danish Academy Prizes offered for, 372 

 Research, Scientific, the Elizabeth Thompson Science Fund, 



209 

 Residuals of Mercury, O. T. Sherman, 63 

 Resin, Spinifex, J. H. Maiden, 595 

 Reunion, the Extinct Starling of {Fregilupus varius), R. 



Bowdler Sharpe, 177 

 Revue d'AnthropoIogie, 68, 285, 362, 659 

 Rhodium, New .'!',eries of Double Oxalates of, M. Leidie on a, 



254 



Rib, on the Occasional Eighth True, in Man, Prof. D. J. Cun- 

 ningham, 632 



Richardson (Dr.) : on the Action of Light on the Hydracids, 

 587 ; on a New Self- Registering Actinometer, 587 



Ricketts (Dr. Chas. ), a Cause of Contortions of Strata, 67 



Riley (C. V.), the Fruit Pest Curculio in America, 373 



Riley (James), Alloys of Nickel and Steel, 58 



Rimelin (Dom B.), the Probable Cause of Frondal Bifurcations 

 in Ferns, 563 



Ring Formulae containing Nitrogen, 370 



Rink (Dr.), Recent Danish Researches in Greenland, 64 



Rio Janeiro, the Pasteur Institute at, 208 



Risley (H. H.), on the Study of Ethnology in India, 633 



Rittaikikagaku (iii.). Prof. Kikuchi, 627 



River-Eel, the Natural History of the, !]fe(ni!e Blanchard, 383 



Rivers, Process of Transformation into Marshes of, M. Tanfilieff, 



Rivers, on the Transporting Power of Water in the Deepening 



of, W. H. Wheeler, 631 

 Rivista Scientifico-Industriale, 286 



Roberts (Thos.), the Upper Jurassic Clays of Lincolnshire, 167 

 Roberts- Austen (Prof. W. C, F.R.S.), Obituary Notice of 



Dr. John Percy, F.R.S., 206 

 Robinson (Edward E.), Note on some Hailstones that fell at 



Liverpool on Sunday, June 2, 1889, 151 

 Robinson (Admiral Sir Spencer), Death of, 326 

 Rock Cod, Turtle-headed, 77 

 Rock Ferry, Unusually Large Hailstones at, 133 

 Rocky Mountain Goat, Dr. Grinnell, 62 

 Rodger (W. J.), Thiophosphoryl Fluoride, 94 

 Rogers (W. A.), Mercurial Thermometers, 559 

 Roll (Dr. Julius), Ascent of Mount Rigi in Cascade Mountains, 



598 

 Rollet (Etienne), the Large Bones of the Anthropoid Apes, 287 

 Roman Wall, Erimts hispanicus (?), on the. Dr. Sydney H. 



Vines, 544 

 Romanes (Prof. Geo. J., F.R.S.): on the Mental Faculties of 



Anthropopithecus calvus, 160 ; Psychology of Protozoa, 541 ; 



on Specific Characters as Useful and Indifferent, 609 ; 



Darwinism, 645 



Romanes (Dr. Robert), Death of, 60 



Rome, Proposed Pasteur Institute at, 326 



Roosen and Behrend (Drs.), Synthesizalion of Uric Acid, 62 



Roosevelt (G. W.), Treatment of Vine-diseases in France, 446 



Rosa (D.), the Private Laboratory of Marine Zoology at Rapallo, 



302 

 Roscoe (Sir H. E., M.P., F.R.S.): and C. Schorlemmer, a 

 Treatise on Chemistry, Vol. iii. Part v., 31 ; on the Relations 

 between Science and Art, 44 ; the New Technical Education 

 Bill, 73, 91 ; Aluminium, 182 ; the Life Work of a Chemist, 

 578 ; Watts's Dictionary of Chemistry, 640 



Rosenbusch (Prof. H.), Petrographical Tables, an Aid to the 

 Microscopical Determination of Rock-forming Minerals, i'rof. 

 John W. Judd, F.R.S., 313 



Rosenthal (Prof.), on making Flames non-Luminous, 72 



Ross (Janet), the Land of Manfred, 413 



Ross {W. Gordon), a Manual of Practical Solid Geometry, 125 



Rosse (the Earl of, F.R.S.), Black Rain, 202 



Rosset's Explorations of Indo-Chino, 599 



Rotation Period of the Sun, Henry Crew, 550 



Rotch (A. L.) : the Meteorological Services in Europe, 117 ; the 

 Meteorological Service in Belgium, 311 ; on the Meteoro- 

 logical Service in Holland, 383 



Rousdon Meteorological Observatory, 163 



Rousseau (M.), a New Dioxide of Cobalt, 307 



Rowan (D. J.), Luminous Night Clouds, 151 



Royal Academy Banquet, Sir Henry Roscoe on the Relations 

 between Science and Art, 44 



Royal Botanic Society, 327 



Royal Botanic Society, the Founder of the, 304 



Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, Reports from Ihe 

 Laboratory of the, 411 



Royal Commission on a University for London, I2I, 149 



Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, 372 



Royal Geographical Society, 210, 353 



Royal Horticultural Society, 162, 577 



Royal Meteorological Institution at Utrecht, 447 



Royal Meteorological Society, 94, 238 



Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, 306 



Royal Society, 21, 68, 92, 117, 189, 212, 405, 653 ; Conversa- 

 zione, 65 ; New Fellows of, 162 ; the Ladies' Conversazione of 

 the, 210 



Royal Society of Edinburgh, 304, 655 



Royal Society of New South Wales, 336, 351, 432, 563 



Royal Society of Queensland, 327 



Ruapehu (Mount), Volcanic Activity in, 179 



RUcker(Prof. A. W., F.R.S.): the Magnetic Disturbing Forces of 

 British Isles, 66 ; on Cometic Nebulae, 583 ; on the Instruments 

 used in the Recent Magnetic Survey of France, 584 ; and Prof. 

 T. E. Thorpe, F.R.b., on the Relation between the Geo- 

 logical Constitution and the Magnetic State of the United 

 Kingdom, 585, 609 



Russia: Expeditions Projected by the Russian Geographical 

 Society, 65, 165, 230 ; Naphtha as Fuel in Middle Russia, 163 ; 

 Russian Academy of Science', 178: Intensity of Heat in 

 Russia, 253 ; Russian Chemical and Physical Society, 326 ; 

 Geology in, 403 



Rustic Walking Tours in the London Vicinity, 254 



Ruthenium, Atomic Weight of, A. Joly, 72 



Rutherfurd's Photographs of the Pleiades and Prsesepe, Reduc- 

 tion of, 448 



Safford (Prof. T. H.), Right Ascensions of North Circumpolar 



Stars, 63 

 Sage (H. W.), and Cornell University, 179 

 Sailing Flight of the Albatross, A. C. Baines, 9 ; Lord Rayleigh, 



F.R.S., 34 

 Sailing Flight of Large Birds over Land, S. E. Peal, 518 ; Dr. 



R. Courtenay, 573 

 St. Andrews University, 547 



St. Elmo's Fire on Ben Nevis, Angus Rankin, 439 

 Salamander, Experiments on Poison of Terrestrial, C. Phisalix, 



484 

 Salmon, Acclimatization of, 282 

 Salmon Smolts, Illegal Sale of, 45 

 Salvadori (Tommaso), Hibernation of Martins in the Argentine 



Republic, 223 

 Samos, Dr. C. Forsyth Major's Discoveries in the Isle of, 400^ 



