XXVI 



INDEX 



[Nature, Nov. 22, li 



Refrigerant Mixtures, Researches by MM. Cailletet and E. 



Colardeau, 191 

 Religious Thought, Evolution and its Relation to, Joseph Le 



Conte, 100 

 Reminiscences of Foreign Travel, Robert Crawford, 126 

 Rendiconti del Reale Istituto Lombardo, 21, 91, 164, 284, 512 

 Rennet, Vegetable, Prof. T. R. Green, 274 

 Resemblance, a Curious, W. J. Lockyer, 270 

 Resistance of Square Bars to Torsion, T. J. Dewar, 126 

 Respiration, Method of Measuring Gaseous Interchange during, 



Prof. Zuntz, 312 

 Reusch (Dr. Hans) : on the Bommel and Karm Islands, 194 ; 



Report on Earthquakes in Norway, 326 

 Revue d'Anthropologie, 211, 357, 431 

 Rey-Pailhade (J. de), Philothion, 264 

 Reyer (Dr. E.), Theoretische Geologie, 409 

 Reynolds (Prof. Emerson, F. R.S.), Silicotetraphenyiamide, 575 

 Rhinoceros tichorrhinus at Rixdorf, Skull found, 304 

 Rhodium, on the Sesquisulphide of, 143 ; Salts of, M. E. 



Leidie, 360 

 Rhys (Prof. J.), the Origin and Growth of Religion as illustrated 



by Celtic Heathendom, 361 

 Ribot (M. ), on Contemporary Psychology, 160 

 Ricco, Reflected Image of Sun on Marine Horizon, 608 

 Richardson (Dr. B. W., F.R.S.): the Storage of Life as a 

 Sanitary Study, 276 ; Report of the British Association Com- 

 mittee on the Action of Light on the Hydracids in Presence 

 of Oxygen, 595 ; the Action of Light on Water- Colours, 



596 

 Rigollot and Gouy, Electro-chemical Actinometer, 119 

 Ring Nebula in Lyra, Prof. Holden, 626 



Rings of Saturn, M. Perrotin, 216; Dom M. Lamey, 191, 231 

 Rivista Scientifico-Industriale, 91,165, 431 

 Robertson (J. McGregor), an Elementary Text-book of 



Physiology, 99 

 Robinson (H. P.), Landscape Photography, 230 

 Rock, the Avocet, 222 

 Rocks, Primitive Crystalline, on the Origin of, A. Michel-Levy, 



525 

 Rodger (J. W.) and Prof. Thorpe, Thiophosphorylfluoride, 348 

 Rohlfs (Herr Gerhard), the German Plans for Rescuing Emin 



Pasha, 486 

 Rolleston (George, F.R. S.), Forms of Animal Life, second 



edition, 25 

 Rollin (G.), Synoptic Charts, 575 



Roman Numerals, Natural History of the, Edw. Tregear, 565 

 Romance of Mathematics, P. Hampson, 28 

 Romanes (Dr. G. J., F.R.S.) Article in the Contemporary Review 

 for June, Edward B. Poulton, 295, 364; Lamarckism versus 

 Darwinism, 413, 490; Definition of the Theory of Natural 

 Selection, 616 

 Root Crops, the Growth of, Dr. J. H. Gilbert, F.R.S., 605 

 Root Pressure, C. B. Clarke on, 94 



Roscoe's (Sir Henry, M.P., F.R.S.), Technical Education Bill, 

 121 ; Address on Technical Instruction, 186 ; Astronomical 

 Instruments for International Photographic Survey of the 

 Heavens, 325 ; Retiring Address as President of the British 

 Association, 439 

 Rosenbusch's (Prof.) Work on Petrology, 30 

 Rotating Spheres, Whirlwinds, Waterspouts, &c, C. L. Weyher, 



E. Douglas Archibald, 104 

 Rotation Period ®f the Sun from Faculse, Dr. J. Wilsing, 206 

 Rothamsted Experiments on the Growth of Wheat, Barley, and 



the Mixed Her!>age of Grass Land, William Fream, 465 

 Rousseau (M. G. ) and M. J. Bernheim, on the Decomposition 



of the Ferrate of Baryta, 216 

 Rousselet (M. L.), the Afghans, 431 



Roux and Louise, Freezing- Points of Solution of Organic Com- 

 pounds of Aluminium, 608 

 Royal Academy, a Meteorologist at the, Hon. Ralph Aber- 



cromby, 225 

 Royal Exhibitions, National Scholarships, and Free Student- 

 ships, Successful Candidates, 430 

 Royal Geographical Society, 161 ; Anniversary Meeting of the, 



116 

 Royal Institution, 41 

 Royal Meteorological Society, 118, 191 

 Royal Microscopical Society, 167 

 Royal Observatory, Report of Astronomer- Royal, 153 

 Royal Society, 21, 46, 70, 92, 112, 117, 140, 165, 190, 212, 



238, 262, 284, 310, 331, 357, 407 ; Selected Candidates for 

 Election, 11 ; Conversazione, 16, 60; Election of Foreign 

 Members, 132 ; Election of Fellows, 158 ; Report of the 

 Krakatao Committee of the, 540, 566 



Royal Society of Canada, 576 



Royal Society of New South Wales, 463 



Royal Society of Tasmania, 599 



Riicker (Prof. A. W., F.R.S.) : on some Additions to the Kew 

 Magnetometer, 214 ; Micromillimetre, 244 ; on an Optical 

 Model, 287 



Riicker and Boys's Dielectric, 161 



Runic Inscriptions in Sweden, 87, 527 



Russell (H. C, F.R.S.), the March Storms, 491 



Russell (Prof.), Chinese Astronomy, 134 



Russia : Statistics of Blindness in, 279 ; Teaching of Geography 

 in Universities of, 280 ; Prof. Egoroff's Report on the Ob- 

 servations made in Russia and Siberia during the Eclipse of 

 the Sun of August 19, 1887, 625 ; Projected Exploration of 

 Russian Lakes, 529 



Rust (Rev. John Cyprian), Milk v. Lightning, 103 



Ruthenium, Researches on, H. Debray and A. Joly, 134 



Rutley (Frank), on Perlitic Felsites, 239 



St. Helena, Meteorology of, 486 



St. Thomas's Hospital, 255 



Salicylic Acid, Prof. Hartley, F.R.S., on, 141 



Salisbury (the Marquess of), on Industrial Training, 155 



Salmonida; and Tasmania, P. S. Seager, 528 



Salomons (Sir David), the Photographers' Note-book, 269 



Salt District, Durham, E. Wilson, 214 



Salt Industry in the United States, Thomas Ward, 29 ; F. 



Tuckerman, 148 

 Salt Water, Mercury, and Glass, Compressibility of Water, 



Prof. P. G. Tait, 581 

 Salts of Rhodium, Researches on some, M. E. Leidie, 360 

 San Francisco, Earthquake Intensity in, Edward S. Holden, 



189 

 Sand Grouse, Pallas's {Syrrhaptes paradoxus) : in Europe, on 



the Reappearance of, 103, 112, 295 ; Dr. A. B. Meyer, 53, 77, 



342 ; F. M. Campbell, 77 ; in Denmark, 158 ; W. B. Teget- 



meier, 230 ; Presented to the Zoological Gardens, 132 

 Sand, Sonorous : in Dorsetshire, Cecil Carus Wilson, 415 ; A. 



R. Hunt, 540 ; H. Carrington Bolton and Alexis A. Julien, 



515 ; D. Pidgeon, 590 

 Sander on Runic Inscriptions in Sweden, 87 

 Sanders (Alfred), Anatomy of the Central Nervous System of 



Vertebrate Animals, 92 

 Sanderson (J. Burdon, F.R.S.): on the Electromotive Properties 



of the Leaf of Dionsea in the Excited and Unexcited States, 



140 ; Functionless Organs, 387 

 Sands, the Cornish Blown, R. II. Curtis, 55 

 Sandys (Dr.), Speeches at Cambridge, 163 

 Sanitary Inspection Association, North-Eastern, Report, 327 

 Sanitary Inspectors, Lectures for Instruction of, 485 

 Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, 255, 276, 574 

 Satellites of Mars, 432, 553 

 Saturated Solutions, Effect of Electric Current on, C. Chree, 



215 

 Saturn, the Rings of, M. Perrotin, 216 ; Dom M. Lamey, 191, 



231 

 Saunders (Howard), Illustrated Manual of British Birds, Prof. 



Alfred Newton, F.R.S., 145 

 Sawerthal, Comet 1888 a, 168, 186, 258, 328 

 Sawyer's (C. J.) Bibliography of Meteorology, 574 

 Sayan Expedition, Geological Results of the Last, L. A. Jac- 



zewski, 577 

 Sayce (Prof. A. H.) : the Old Babylonian Characters and their 



Chinese Derivatives, Prof. Terrien de I.acouperie, 122 ; the 



White Race of Palestine, 321 ; the Origin and Growth of 



Religion as illustrated by Celtic Heathendom, J. Rhys, 361 

 Scandinavia, Geology of, Dr. A. E. Torrtebohin, Dr. Archibald 



Geikie, F.R.S., 127 

 Scandinavian Colonization of North America, 17 

 Scavengers, Natural, of French Beaches, Hallez, 598 

 Schafer (Prof. E. A., F.R.S.), on the Coagulation of the Blood, 



331 



Schiaparelli (Prof.), Milan Double- Star Observations, 423 

 Schistostega osmundacea, Prof. Gad on, 144 



