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INDEX 



xni 



rue, Meteor at, 326 



ratt's Grammar of the Samoan Language," 335 

 i eece (W. H.), Magnetic Storms, 173, 432; the Electric 

 Light, 242 ; Experiments with the Phonograph, 374 ; and 

 Aug. Stroh, Syndietic Examination of Vowel Sounds, 426 

 Prehistoric Flint-Implement Workshop, Discovery of, 351 

 Prescott (G. B.), the Telephone and Phonograph, 12, 56 

 Preston (S. Tolver), a Question raised by the Observed Absence 

 of an Atmosphere in the Moon, 3 ; the Motion of a Luminous 

 S ource as a Test of the Undulatory Theory of Light, 1 78 ; 

 n the Possibility of Explaining the Continuance of Life in the 

 L'niverse Consistent with the Tendency to Temperature 

 Equilibrium, 460 ; Temperature Eqailibriam in the Universe 

 in Relation to the Kinetic Theory, 555 

 Princetown Review, 85 

 Priiigle (E. H.), Parhelia, 410; Bees' Stings, 410; Intellect in 



Brutes, 459 

 Prior (R. C. A.), was Homer Colour-blind? 119 

 Prison Bread, Prof. A. H. Church, 387 



Pritchard (H. Baden), Science and War — Signalling by Sun- 

 shine, 508 

 Pritchard (Dr. Urban), Ear Affection, 364 

 Prjvalsky (Col.), Exploration of Central Asia, 323 

 Procter (R, A.), "Pleasant Ways in Science," 71 ; Explana- 

 tory, 121 

 Pterygotus Angluus, Discovery of a Specimen of, 85 

 Pulkova Observatory, 447, 448 ; New Telescope for, 473 

 Pumice Stone, finding of, near EUice Islands, 108 

 Punch and Unscientific Art, 384, 460, 484, 508 

 l*uy-de-D6me Observatory, 207 

 Python, Feeding a, 267 ; Arthur Nicols, 291 



Quarantine in Italy (the Phylloxera), Prof. T. Camel, 408 



Radford (W.), Bees' Stings, 340 



Radiation, on Repulsion from, Wm, Crookes, F.R.S., 88, 511, 



533 

 Kae (Dr. John), Intellect in Brutes, 409, 459 

 Rag- Bushes, 595 



Railway Guide, Macfarlane's American Geological, 287 

 Railways, Parsloe's Work on, 313 

 Rainfall of the World, E. D. Archibald, 305 

 Ramsay (Prof. A. C, F.R.S.), Manual of British Geography, 



69 

 Ramsay's Hints on Taxidermy, 61 

 Kanson (Arthur), the Formation of Mountains, 121 

 Rapplesdorf, Rising of the Todten Lake, 423 

 RareDed Gases, Thermal Phenomena produced by the Passage 



of Electricity Through, Naccari and Bellati, 21 

 Rats : Intelligence in, 365, 409, 458, 481 ; Distribution of the 



Black Rat, E. Morton Middleton, 460; E. W. Claypole, 



581 ; Rats and Water Casks, Chas. Darwin, F.R.S., 481 ; 



E. J. A'Court Smith, 529 

 Rayleigh (Lord, F.R.S.), "Theory of Sound," Vol. IL, Prof. 



H. Helmholtz, F.R.S., 117; on the Determination of 



Absolute Pitch by the Harmonium, 275 ; Electricity and 



W^ater Drops, 4S6 

 Rayons da Crepuscule, Annie Ley, 54 ; Consid E. L. Layard, 



527 

 Reale Istituto Lombardo, 354, 475, 570; Prizes of thg, 232; 



Rendiconti, 235 

 Reflector, the Great Paris, 108 

 Refracting Telescope, Leverrier's Great, 1 09, 159 

 Reichenbach (Ludwig), Death of, 544 



Reichenow (Dr. Ant.), " Vogelbilder aus fernen Zonen," 232 

 Reid (Clement), the Range of the Mammoth, 122 

 Repertorium fiir Meteorologie of Russia, 375 

 Repulsion arising from Radiation, W. Crookes, F.R.S., 511, 



533 

 Research under Difficulties, Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., 

 ^342 



Respiration of Amia, 246 



Retina, the Visual Purple of the. Experiments on, 350 

 Revue Internationale des Sciences, 594 

 Revue Mycologique, 301 

 Reynolds (Prof. Osborne, F.R.S.), the Dimensional Properties 



of Matter in the Gaseous State, 435 

 Rhabdopleura, on the Relations of, 246 

 Rhine and the Maas, Canal between, 326 



Riley (Dr. C. V.), Entomological Papers, 518 

 Rio de Janeiro, Determination of the Longitude of, 43 

 Ripley and Dana's American Cyclopaedia, 264 

 Rivista Scientifico-Industriale, 570 



Roberts (Charles), "A Manual of Anthropometry," 29 ; Anthro- 

 pometry, 73 

 Roberts (\V. C, F.R.S.), on Molecular Mobility, 291 

 Rocher (E.), Statistics of the Plague in China, 61 

 Rock Car\'ings near Sydney, N.S.W., 547 



Rodwell (G. F.), on the Lavas of Hekla and on the Sublima- 

 tions produced during the Eruption of February 27, 1878, 280 ; 

 Gore's Art of Scientific Discovery, 285; Fowler's "Bacon's 

 No\Tim Organum," 262 ; the Recent Eruption and Present 

 Condition of Vesuvius, 343 ; the Effects of Heat on Di-iodide 

 of Mercury, 354 ; Etna, 480 ; Etna Observatory, 557 

 Rofe (H.), Water-Level Indicators, 554 

 Rohlffs (Dr. Gerhard), African Expedition, 124, 471, 491 

 Roman Antiquities, Discovery of, at Vienna, 446 ; at Teplitz 



Stadtbad, 446 

 Romanes (G. J.), the Locomotor System of Medusae, 282 

 Rome : Discovery of a Statue in, 18 ; the Health of, 419 

 Roscoe (Prof. H. E., F.R.S.), on a New Chemical Industry 



Established by M. Camille Vincent, 398 

 Roscoe and Schorlemmer's Chemistry, 169 

 Ross (Lieut.-Col. W. A.), Blowpipe Experiment, 220 

 Rotenburg, Prussia, Subterranean Oak Forest near, 302 

 Rowley (G. Dawson), Obituary Notice of, 84 

 Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, 453 

 Royal Agricultural Society, Journal of, 312 

 Royal Astronomical Society, Resignation of Sir Geo. B. Air/, 

 • 543 



Royal Geographical Society: 15, 76, 123, 348, 394, 438; Lec- 

 tures, 43 ; Legacies to, 43, 583 ; Proceedings of, 99, 323 ; 

 Memorial for Geographical Professorships at the Universities, 

 421 ; Jom-nal, 515 

 Royal Institution : Lectures, 107 ; Actonian Prize, 256 

 Royal Microscopical Society, 188, 210, 307, 428, 446, 499 

 Royal Society: 88, 115, 137, 161, 186, 210, 235, 259, 282, 330, 

 354^ 378, 401, 426, 450, 498, 521, S46 ; Medals of the, 39 ; 

 Appointment of Officers, &c., 44 ; the President's Anniversary 

 Address, 109, 132 ; and Leibnitz, Dr. C. M. Ingleby, 364 ; 

 Fellowships of the, 445, 543 

 Russia : Bulletin de I'Academie Imperiale de St. Petersburg, 23, 

 449; the Stone Period in, 132; Education in, 137; Native 

 Work on, 156 ; Russian Geogra hical Society, 156, 233, 566; 

 Physical and Chemical Society of St. Petersburg, 210, 233, 

 397 ; Russian Geographical Society, Isvestia of, 247, 270 ; 

 Russian Academy of Sciences, Annual Meeting, 278 ; the 

 Proposed Anthropological Exhibition at Moscow, 280, 300, 

 375 ; Education in, 281 ; Iron Mines in, 375 ; the Ornithology 

 of Northern, 446 ; the Russian Plague, 446 ; Science in, 447 ; 

 Russian Expedition to Central Asia, 515 ; Myopia in, 561 



Sachs's Venezuela, 456 



Safranine, the Spectrum of, 560 



Sagittarius, a New Variable Star in, 437 



Sahara : Dr. J. Chavanne's Work on the, 100 ; Flooding the, 



509 

 St. John (Charies), " Sketches of Wild Sport and Natural His- 



tory of the Highlands," 193 

 St. Louis, U.S., Transactions of the Academy of Science, 18 

 St. Petersburg Physical and Chemical Society, 210, 233, 397 

 Salamanders, Natural Selection among Larval, 155 

 Sal-Ammoniac, the Dissociation of. Dr. W. A. lilden, 314 

 Salmo salar and Salmo quinnat, 460 



Salmon in Rivers of the Pacific Slope, George M. Dawson, 528 

 Salt, Common, Blue Flame from, A. Percy Smith, 483 ; Dr." J. 



H. Gladstone, F.R.S., 582 

 Samoan Language, Pratt's Grammar of, 335 

 San Francisco, Electric Lighting at, 35 1 

 "Sanitary Engineering," Baldwin Latham, i, 53 

 Sappora, Japan, Agricultural College at, 425 

 Sargassutn bacciferum, 363 

 Saturn and Mars, the Conjunction of, 154 

 Satumian Satellite, Mimas, 42 

 Saunders (Wm. Wilson), Hornets, 147 

 Sawitsch (Dr. A.), Work on Geographical Astronomy, 94 

 Scheiner, a Variable Star Observed by, in i6i2, 245 

 Schliemann (Dr.), Excavations at Troy, 85, 131 



