INDEX 



helium gas, 116; and life, 234; Rutherford, Professor Ernest, the 



its effect on the blood, 237. foremost investigator of radio- 



Radium Institute, established in active phenomena, 113; how he 



London, 234. counts the atoms, 116, 118. 



Ramsay, Sir William, protagonist Salvarsan, discovered by Ehrlich 



of the new alchemy, 122 ; thinks in 1910, 223 ; a specific for 



the transmutation of lead into syphilis, 230. 



gold a possibility, 125. Satellites, as a rule have less than 



one-thousandth the mass of 

 their primaries, 68; their dis- 

 tance and speed of revolution 

 used to test the mass of their 

 primaries, 81; if the nearest 

 star had them, they could not 



Rat, the, as a disseminator of the 

 plague or "black death," 249. 



Recessive characters as interpreted 

 by Mendel, 193. 



Relationship, between different 

 tribes of animals, traced by 

 Professor Nuttall, 157. 



be seen from the earth, 91. 



Restoring lost members, sponta- Saturn, its liquid or gaseous state, 



10 ; its retrograde moon, Phoebe, 

 11; its density only 0.72 that 

 of water, 84; its thermal effect 

 measured by Professor Nichols, 

 111. 



neous with lower organisms, 

 154; achieved with dogs by 

 Dr. Alexis Carrel, 155. 

 Reynolds, Professor Osborne, his 

 theory of the composition of the 

 ether, 136; his explanation of Saubermann, Dr., experiments 

 gravitation and of electricity with radium as cure for hard- 

 and magnetism, 139. ened arteries, 235. 



Richardson, Professor B. W., Schandinn, with Hoffmann, the 

 shows that electrons flow along discoverer of the germ of Syphi- 

 a conductor, 131. lis, 234. 



Ritchey, Professor G. W., makes Schiaparelli, G. V., first observed 

 wonderful photographs with the canals of Mars, 89; thinks 

 the 5-foot reflector at Mt. Wil- that Venus presents the same 

 son, 38. face always to the sun, 90. 



Roche, estimates that stellar bod- Schlick, Dr. Otto, uses gyroscope 

 ies will explode if they approach to stabilize a ship, 266. 

 each other within 2,y 2 radii, 18; Scorpions, their relation to the 

 "Roche's limit" as applied to probable ancestor of man, 176. 



Sea Urchin, its eggs developed 

 without fertilization by Profes- 

 sor Loeb, 144; its embryo bi- 

 sected, and two individuals 

 produced, 147. 



See, Professor T. J. J., his cap- 

 ture theory of satellites, 15. 



'n~<T match Tor""modern "instru"- Selandia, a steamless steamship, 

 ments, 33. 279 '> operated by Diesel engines, 



280; its equipment and opera- 

 tion, 283. 



Selection, the key to all experi- 

 ment in plant breeding, accord- 

 ing to Mr. Burbank, 187. 



Beta Lyrae, 100. 



Rosanoff, Dr. A. J., studies of in- 

 sane families (with Dr. Can- 

 non,) 206. 



Ross, Dr. Ronald, demonstrates 

 that the mosquito transmits ma- 

 laria, 244. 



Rosse, Lord, his six foot reflector, 



Rous, Dr. Peyton, his experiments 

 in transplanting cancer in ani- 

 mals, 232. 



Russ, Dr. S., tests the effect of 

 radium on the blood, 237. 



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