INDEX 



a grinding or triturating organ, 

 settled by, iv. 88; his ex- 

 periments with gastric juice, 

 iv. 89. 



Red corpuscles of the human 

 blood, shape of, settled by Lis- 

 ter, iv. 114; functions of, iv. 135. 



Refrigerator machines, use of 

 liquefied gases in, v. 61-63. 



Renucci, P., and the itch mite, 

 iv. 206. 



Respiration, the function of, iv. 

 92; experiments in the mys- 

 teries of, iv. 93, 94; Erasmus 

 Darwin and vegetable, iv. 94. 



Restoration of Assyrian sculpt- 

 ure, iv. 293. 



Retrospect and prospect, v. 230- 

 242 ; scientific attitude of mind, 

 v. 230-232; natural versus 

 supernatural, v. 233, 234; in- 

 ductive versus deductive rea- 

 soning, v. 235 238; logical 

 induction versus hasty gen- 

 eralization, v. 239-242. 



Retrospective glance, the span 

 from Thales to Galen com- 

 passed about eight hundred 

 years, i. 286; the true hypoth- 

 esis concerning the sun and 

 the planetary system, i. 287; 

 the beginnings of great things 

 in the sciences, i. 288; the 

 homes of the great scientists 

 were scattered over a wide 

 territory, i. 289; Plato the only 

 great scientist who was born in 

 Greece, ibid.; racial mingling, 

 i. 290; early development of 

 thought and Oriental science, 

 i. 291; the entire school of 

 Alexandrians free from super- 

 stition, i. 292; the attitude of 

 the Roman mind towards 

 science, ibid.; beliefs based 

 upon pseudo-scientific induc- 

 tions, i. 294; miracle workers, 

 i. 295; "The Thundering 

 Legion," i. 296; Xiphilinus's 

 account of the battle between 

 the Romans and the hostile 

 Quadi, i. 297. 



Rey, Jean, experiments with air, 

 iv. 6. 



Rhazes, Arabian physician, ii. 

 24. 



"Riddle of the Sphinx," how 

 read, iv. 287. 



Robinet and the idea of the 

 transmutation of species, iv. 

 149. 



Rocks, the origin of stratified, 

 iii. 143; the "transition" and 

 "secondary" systems, iii. 156; 

 the Silurian and Devonian 

 systems, iii. 157; the Lauren- 

 tian system, ibid.; the forma- 

 tion of the Adirondack and 

 Storm King range are patri- 

 archs of the kind, iii. 158; dif- 

 ferent in character, iii. 159; 

 the backbone of the future 

 continent, iii. 161; the strata 

 of the Paleozoic period, iii. 

 162 ; the Rocky range, iii. 

 163. 



Roentgen, Professor Wilhelm 

 Conrad, the discoverer of the 

 "X-ray," iii. 248; its ex- 

 traordinary results on the 

 photographic film, ibid.; the 

 apparatus for producing the 

 rays, iii. 251; the composition 

 of the rays not fully deter- 

 mined, iii. 252. 



Rolando's method of cutting 

 pieces of brain tissue for 

 microscopical examination, iv. 

 277. 



Rosellini extended the knowl- 

 edge of the phonetic value of 

 inscriptions on the Rosetta 

 Stone, i. 27. 



Rosetta Stone, its hieroglyphics 

 deciphered by Dr. Thomas 

 Young, i. 27; the, iv. 287; 

 biography of, iv. 288; de- 

 cipherment of, iv. 289, 290; in 

 British Museum, v. 8. 



Rosicrucians, ii. 136. 



Roux, Dr., his paper on anti- 

 toxine, iv. 242. 



Royal Academy of Sciences, at 

 Paris, ii. 202; at Berlin, ibid. 



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