INDEX 



285 



Religion, as a panacea, 16 

 Renaissance, 146 

 Reptiles, evolution of, 110 f. 

 Respiratory diseases, eflfect of venti- 

 lation on, 101 ff. 

 Revival of learning, 146 

 Rhine, floods of, 133 

 Rhinoplax, asymmetry among, 163 

 Rhode Island, seasonal variations in 



deathrate, 62 f. 

 Richards, Mrs. Ellen, cited, 105 

 Robert College, 218 

 Rogers, J. E. Thorwald, cited, 134 

 Roman Law, 102 f . 

 Romans, complexion of, 170 f. 

 Rome (see Italy) ; 



example of, 186 ff. ; 



historic changes of climate, 186 ff. ; 



rainfall of, 189; 



variability of climate, 190 

 Ross, A. L., cited, 200 

 Roumania, strength in Great War, 231 

 Ruden, effect of storms on, 133 

 Rugen, effect of storms on, 133 

 Russia, character and climate in, 232; 



effect of winter, 234; 



strength in Great War, 231 



San Diego, rainfall of, 189 

 San Francisco, rainfall of, 189 

 School, attendance, 37 

 School children (see Children) ; 



mental optimum of, 75; 



variability among, 167; 



ventilation experiments among, 99 ff. 

 Schuchert, Charles, cited. 111 

 Science, as a panacea, 17 

 Scipio, 195 

 Scotch, effect of New York upon, 



175, 179, 182 

 Secular Trend, elimination of, 29, 



245 ff. 

 Sensible temperature, 266 

 Sephardim, described, 169 ff. 



Sequoias (see Big Trees) 



Serbia, strength in Great War, 229 ff. 



Severus, 204 



Sex-comb, of drosophila, 153 



Shakespeare, a variant, 164 f. 



Shanghai, experiments at, 267 f . 



Sheep, in ancient Italy, 201 



Sicilians, effect of New York upon, 



175 ff. 

 Sicily, Slave Revolt in, 196, 198 

 Sickness, cost of, 52 

 Simkhovitch, V. G., cited, 192, 197 

 Slave Revolt, in Sicily, 196, 198 

 Slaves, effect on Rome, 170 f ., 196 

 Slavs, character of, 232; 



variability among, 168 

 Slovaks, effect of New York upon, 



175 ff. 

 Social War, 202 f . 

 Soil, depletion of, in Italy, 197 

 Solar variations, effect on climate, 



128 ff., 138, 140, 143 

 SoUas, cited, 256 f . 

 Spanish War, of Rome, 196 

 Species, origin of human, 164 ff. ; 



origin of, 148 ff. 

 Spring fever, 92 

 Springfield Training School, 269 

 Spurius Thorius, 199 

 Standfuss, M., cited, 150 f . 

 Stature of Jews, 170, 172; 



effect of New York upon, 176 ff. 

 Stevenson, ill health of, 232 

 Storm belts, 130 ff. 

 Storms, effect on evolution, 142 ff. ; 



in mediaeval Europe, 132 f . 

 Students, curve of activity, 156 

 Sulla, 202 



Sumner, F. B., cited, 159 

 Sun (see Solar variations) ; 



relation to cyclonic storms, 129 

 Sunspots, in 14th century, 133 

 Swaddling, effect on head-form, 178, 

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