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INDEX 



\_Nature, May 30, 1878 



Pringsheim (Dr. A.), Jahrbucher fur wissenschaftliche Botanik, 



158 

 Prjwalsky's Journey to Lob-Nor and Tibet, 153, 434 

 Proctor (R, A.), "Myths and Marvels of Astronomy," 180; 



" The Spectroscope and its Work," 360 

 Protection of Animals, Vienna Society for the, 293 

 Prussia, the Universities of, 55, 294 

 Ptolemy's Geography of English Coast, 193 

 Punjab, the Upper, the Geology of, 395 . 



Purple Dyes of Antiquity, 133 

 Pyramid, the Great, J. G. Jackson, 243 



Quaritch (Bernard), Faraday's "Experimental Researches," 342 

 Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 37, 214, 254 



Radcliffe Observatory, 363 



Radiant Heat, the Thermo-electric Pile and the Radiometer, 310 



Radiometer : and its Lessons, 5, 7, 26, 27, 43, 44, 61, 79, 121, 



142, 143, 181, 199, 220, 261 ; Prof. G. G. Stokes, F.R.S., 



on Certain Movements of Radiometers, 1 72, 234 ; and the 



Thermo-electric Pile, 310 

 Rae (Dr. J.), Tuckey, and Stanley, the Yallala Rapids on the 



Congo, 62 ; No Butterflies in Iceland, 243, 260 

 Railway Brakes, 410, 507 

 Railway Collisions and Electricity, 371 

 Railway Working and Electricity, W. E. Langdon, 461 

 Railways, Underground, in Paris, 492 

 Rainbow, a Double, Thos. Noye, 262 

 Raindrops, Hailstones, and Snowflakes, the Formation of. Prof, 



Osborne Reynolds, F.R.S., 207 

 Rainfall in the Temperate Zone in Connection with the Sun-spot 



Cycle, Dr. W. W. Hunter, 59 

 Rainfall, Contribution to the Sun-spot Theory of Rainfall, Dr. 



E. Bonavia, 61 

 Rainfall of India, 273, 505 

 Rainfall and Sun-spots, 443 ; C. Meldrum, F.R.S., 448 ; Alex. 



Buchan, 505 

 Rain-tree of Moyobamba, Prof. T. Thiselton Dyer, 349 

 Ralton (Dr.), " Handbook of Common Salt," 302 

 Ramsay (E. P.), Australian Monotremata, 401 

 Ramsay (Prof., F.R.S.), and James Geikie, F.R.S., on the 



Geology of Gibraltar, 518 

 Raspail (M. F. V.), Death of, 212 

 Ratti (Aurel de), the Telephone, 380 

 Rayleigh (Lord, F.R.S.), Absolute Pitch, 12; "Theory of 



Sound," Vol. I., Prof. H. Helmholtz, F.R.S., 237 

 Reade (T. Mellard), the Challenger Estimates of the Volume of 



the Gulf Stream, 144 

 Reale Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere, 294, 374, 478, 498 

 Reed (E. J., C.B., F.R.S.), International Polar Expeditions, 



29 ; an Organ Piano, 453 

 Reflection Grating, the Use of, in Eclipse Photography, J. Nor- 

 man Lockyer, F.R.S., 354 

 Reflectors, Glass for, Henry Bessemer, 241 

 Regnault (M. Victor), Death of, 250 ; Obituary Notice of, 263 

 Reichenbach's Odyle and Mr. Wallace, 8 ; Wm. B. Carpenter, 



F.R.S., 8, 44 

 Reilly (P. W.), a Meteor, 221 

 Research Fund, the Government, 403 

 Research in Libraries, Robert L, Jack, 486 

 Respiration, Aquatic, 290 

 Revue Internationale des Sciences, 152, 212 

 Reynolds (Prof. J. Emerson), Frankland's Researches in Che- 

 mistry, 218, 318 ; Discovery of a New Explosive, 436 

 Reynolds (Prof. Osborne, F.R.S.), the Radiometer and its 



Lessons, 27, 61, 121, 220; on the Formation of Hailstones, 



Raindrops, and Snowflakes, 207 

 Rheostatic Machine, 40 

 Rhine, the Fisheries of the, 212 ; Method for Determining the 



Impurities of, 131 

 Rhinoderma darwinii, 222 

 Rhizopods in an Apple Tree, 434 

 "Rider," the, in Egyptian Balances, 455 

 Riley (Charles V.), the Locust Plague in America, 377 

 Rink (Dr. Henry), Danish Greenland, 57 

 Roads, Machine for Levelling, 392 

 Roberts (Edward), Expected High Tides, 58 

 Rocky Mountains, Geology of the, 39 

 Rohlfs (Herr G.), Expedition to the Libyan Desert, 290 



Romanes (G. J.), Singing Mice, 29; Smell and Hearing in 

 Moths, 82; Fetichism in Animals, 168; Prof. Eimer on the 

 Nervous System of Medusae, 200 



Romanis (James M.), on a New Form of Telephone, 20I 



Romer (Ole), Dr. Doberck, 105 



Rontgen (Dr. W. C), a Telephonic Alarum, 164 



Rosthorn (Francis von). Obituary Notice of, 1 1 



Rotifers or Wheel -Animalcules of Hungary, 128 



Royal Astronomical Society, 76, 195, 27.5, 309, 459 



Royal Dublin Society, 46, 183 



Royal Geographical Society : and the Public, 38 1 ; Medals of 

 the, 467 ; School Prize Medals, 497 



Royal Institution, 170, 291, 371 



Royal Microscopical Society, 56, 156, 236, 336, 416 



Royal Society : 37, 134, 214, 235, 314, 335, 354, 415, 479, 498, 

 518 ; Council of, 37 ; Medals of the, 69 ; the Times on the, 

 108 ; Election of Foreign Members, 151 ; New Fellows, 513 



Royal Society of Edinburgh, 153 



Rubies, the Artificial Production of, 152 



Rugby, the Temple Observatory, 324 



Ruhmkorff (Henry David), Obituary Notice of, 169; Sale of 

 his Workshop, 351 



Russell (Mr., Astronomer-Royal at Sydney), Attempt on his 

 Life, 152 



Russell (Hon. Rollo), Telephonic Experiments, 292 



Russia : Meteorology in, 16 ; Exploration of, 38 ; Russian 

 Geographical Society, 53, 153, 171, 194, 213, 324; Primary 

 Education in, 53 ; Gems from, 72 ; Magnetical Measure 

 ments in, 153 ; St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists, 194 ; 

 University of Charkow, 195 ; Nemirovich-Danchenko's "The 

 Land of Cold," 211 ; Russian Chemical Society's Journal, 

 251; Russian Anthropology at the Paris Exhibition, 350; 

 Ethnology of, 468. See also St. Petersburg, Moscow, &c. 



Rutland and Leicestershire, Harrison's Geology of, 58 



Ryder (John A.), the Laws of Digital Reduction, 128 



Rye (E. C), Wollaston's " Coleoptera Sanctse-HelleucX," 338 



Sabine, (Robert), the Telephone, 379 ; Action of Light on a 

 Selenium (Galvanic) Element, 512 



Sachs (Prof.), called to Berlin, 75 



St, Andrews, University Intelligence, 95 



St. Elmo's Fire, 436 



St. Helena, Wollaston's "Coleoptera SanctDS Hellense," 338 



St. Paul and Amsterdam, the Islands of. Prof. E. Perceval 

 Wright, 326 



St. Petersburg, University Intelligence, 55 ; Society of Natural- 

 ists, 194 ; New High School for Ladies, 195 ; Education of 

 Women at, 195, 334 ; New Archaeological Institution, 329 ; 

 the Central Physical Observatory, 330; New Hygienic 

 Society, 330 ; University Statistics, 374 



St. Stefano, Earthquake at, 514 



Salmon in Germany, 392 



Salt, Ratton's Handbook of Common, 302 



"Salzkammergut," Snow in the, 292 



Sanderson (Prof. J. Burdon, F.R.S.), Bacteria, 84 



Sanitary Institute, 38 



Satellites, the, 129 



Saunier's ".Modern Horology," 484 



Saxony, Educational Statistics, 394 



Schhemann (Dr. H.), Trojan Treasures, 132 ; "Mycenje," 397 ; 

 " Troy and its Remains," 397 ; " Antiquities from Hissarlik," 



397 

 Schmidt's Lunar Chart, 408 

 Schoolmasters, Congress of, in Paris, 314 

 Schuster (Dr. Arthur, F.R.S. ), VogeFs "Spectrum Analysis," 



99 ; the Radiometer and its Lessons, 143 ; the Presence of 



Oxygen in the Sun, 148 

 Schwann (Theodore), Festival in Honour of, 436 

 Schweinfurth (Dr.), Proposed Return to Africa, 90 

 Science : Prof. Rudolf Virchow. on the Liberty of Science in the 



Modern State, 72, 92, ill; Science and Art Department 



Examinations, 134; Science in Training Colleges, 262; the 



Head-Masters on Science Teaching, Rev. W. Tuckwell, 317; 



Science at the Paris Exhibition, 357 

 Scientific Research, Grants of the British Medical Association, 90 

 Scientific Serials, a New Catalogue of, 272 

 Scientific Worthies, XII. — William Harvey ( With Portrait), 



417 

 Scotland, Prof. J. W. Judd, F.R.S., on the Strata of the 



Western Coast and Islands of, 335 



