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Nature, Fune 21, 1883] 
Radiation, Terrestrial, Prof, Tyndall’s Observations, Dr, A, 
Woeikof, 460 
Radiometer, Prof. Ravelli on Educational Uses of, 444 
Rae (Dr. J., F.R.S.): Hovering of Birds, 336 ; Intelligence in 
Animals, 366; the Sea Serpent, 366; British Circumpolar 
Expedition, 508 
Railway Geology—a Hint, 8 
Railways, Electric, 338; Prof. W. E. Ayrton, 255 
Rainfall, British, G. J. Symons, F.R.S., 149 
Rains, Heavy, in France and Algeria, 229 
Rankine (W. J. M.), Useful Rules and Tables Relating to 
Mensuration, 431; W. J. Miller, 483 
Ransome (Arthur), Fertilisation of the Speedwell, 149, 223 
“ Rapid Vessel,” Pictet’s, 398 
Rattlesnake, Scream of Young Burrowing Owl like Warning of, 
S. Garman, 174 
Ratzel (Dr. F.), Anthropo-Geographie, 125 
Ravelli (Prof.), Educational Uses of Radiometer, 444 
Rayleigh (Lord, F,R.S.): the Soaring of Birds, 534; Distri!u- 
tion of Energy in the Spectrum, 559 
Rays, Ultra-Violet, Absorption of, by various Substances, Pro- 
fessors Liveing and Dewar, 521 
Reaction, Electric, Prof. Melde, 183 
Reale Istituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere, 282, 354, 473, 521 
Redman (J. B.), River Thames Abnormal High Tides, 6 
Reeve and Co, (L.), ‘‘ Lepidoptera of Ceylon,” 150 
Reeves (H. A.), Human Morphology, vol. i., 124 
“Réforme” Telegraphic Communication with London, 469 
Refractive Index of Liquids, Arrangement for Measuring, Pilt- 
schikoff, 325 
Regel (Dr. L. E.), Central Asian Exploration, 446 
Rein (Dr. J. J.), Aino Ethnolozy, 365 
Reinhardt (Prof. J. R.), Death of, 41, 61 
Rendiconto dell’ Accademia delle Scienze di Bologna, 189 
Riviera, Unprecedented Cold in the —Absence of Sunspots, C. 
J. B. Williams, 551 
Revue Internationale des Sciences, 426 
Reyue Internationale des Sciences Biologiques, 189 
Reymond (Prof. E. du Bois), Darwin and Copernicus, 557 
Reynaud’s New Projection Praxinoscope, 60 
Rheolyzer, Wartmann’s, E. von Fleische, 127 
Rhone Glacier Studies, Prof. Forel on Recent, 183 
Rhytina Stelleri, Crania of, 347 
Ribot’s Diseases of Memory, Dr. G. J. Romanes, F.R.S,, 169 
Rigidity of the Earth, Numerical Estimate of the, G. H. 
Darwin, F.R.S., 22 
Riley (Dr. C, S.), Hibernations of Aletia xylina in United 
States, 214 
Rip van Winkle, a Modern, Saltburne, 127 
Ristori (E,), Orbit of Comet 1882 2, 388 
River Gravels, Paleolithic, C. Evans, 8 
Rivista Scientifico-Industriale e Giornale del Naturalista, 94, 
282, 521 
Robert’s Tide Tables, 230 
Roberts (Prof. W. Chandler, F.R.S.), Hardening and Temper- 
ing Steel, 594 
Robinson (H.), the Magnetic Storm and Aurora, 85 
Robinson (Dr.), Memorial of, 112 
Robinson (John), Flora of Essex County, Massachusetts, 173 
Robinson (Rev. J. L.), a Treatise on Marine Surveying, 289 
Robinson (W. H.), the Zodiacal Light (?), 605 
Rocks, Recent Researches in Metamorphism of, Dr. A. Geikie, 
F.R.S., 121 
“Rockies, Camps in the,” W. A. Baillie-Grohman, 551 
Rodwell (G. F.): Lavoisier, Priestley, and the Discovery of 
Oxygen, 8, 100; Notes cf Travel in Sardinia, 342 
Rogers (Prof. James E. T.), Ensilage in America, Prof. J. 
Wrightson, 479 
Romanes (C. H.): Magnetic Arrangement of Clouds, 31 ; the 
Magnetic Storm and Aurora, 86 
Romanes (Dr. G. J., F.R.S.), Ribot’s Diseaves of Memory, 
169 ; on Natural Selection and Natural Theology, Prof. Asa 
Gray, 291, 362, 528; ‘‘ Zoological Sketches,” Felix L. Os- 
wald, 333; ‘‘ Zoological Notes on the Structure, Affinities, 
Habits, end Mental Faculties of Wild and Domestic Animals,” 
Arthur Nicols, 333; ‘‘The Vampire Bat,” 412; Incubation 
of the Ostrich, 480 ; Benevolence in Animals, 607 
Roorkee Hydraulic Experiments, Major Allan Cunningham, 1 
Rowan (Vice-Admiral), Elements of the Great Comet 18824, 226 
Rowan (D. J.), the Zodiacal Light(?), 605 
Rowell (G, A.), Experiments on Aurora, 443 
INDEX xiii 
Rowland (Prof.), Concave Gratings for giving a Diffraction 
Spectrum, 95 
Royal Asiatic Society (North China Branch), Journal of, 161 
Royal Commissioners for Technical Education, visit to birming- 
ham, 469 
Royal Geographical Society, 323 
Royal Horticultural Society, 119, 523, 570 
Royal Institution, Lecture Arrangements, 112, 495 
Royal Society, 118, 143, 189, 215, 234, 257, 330, 354, 376, 
426, 450, 473, 499, 521, 568, 618 ; Names Nominated for the 
Council, 40 ; Award of Medals, 61 ; Address of the President, 
134, 162; New Fellows, 615 
“Rules and Tables,”’ Rankine’s, 431; W. J. Millar, 483 
Russell, H. C., the Comet 1882 4, 56 
Russia, Popular Medicine in, Dr. Slunin, 62; Forest Fires in, 
113 ; Russian Chemical and Physical Society, 444; Russian 
Geographical Society, 424; Glacial Formations of, 497 ; 
Physics in, during the last ten years, N. Hesehus, 567 
Russow (E.), on Sieve-Tubes, 366 
Rye, E. C., ‘The Zoological Record” for 1881, 310 
Sabine’s New Wedge and Diaphragm Photometer, 201 
Sachs (Julius), ‘‘Text-Book of Botany, Morphological and 
Physiological,” Prof. E, P. Wright, 263 
Safety Lamp, Prize offered for New, 496 
Sagiura (Shigetaké), on the Isomerism of Albutwinous Bodies, 
103 
‘*Sahara und Sudan,” by Dr. G. Nachtigal, Prof. A. H. 
Keane, 408 
Saharunpur Botanical Gardens, Report, 588 
St. Petersburg Society of Gardening, 19 
Salez, Discovery of Bronze Hatchet at, 540 
Salmon and Herring Fisheries, 442 
Salvadori (Tommaso), ‘‘Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle 
Molluche,” 577 
Sampson (Commander), the Comet 1882 4, 108, 266 
Sandberger (Prof.), Origin of Metalliferous Lodes, 90 
Sanitary Associations, Reports of, 423 
Sanitary Research, Grocers’ Company Scheme, 495, 515 
Sanitary Science, the Scheme of the Grocers’ Company for 
the Encouragement of Original Research in, 574 
Sap-flow, F. M. Burton, 530 
Saporta (Marquis de), Fossil Algze, 514 
Sardinia, Notes of Travelin, G. F. Rodwell, 342 
Sarepta, the Stones of, 231 
Saturn’s Ring, Cassini Division of, 374 
Saxby (Rev. S. H.): the Magnetic Storm and Aurora, 86; the 
Aurora, 100 ; Meteor of November 17, 338 
Scale, Equal Temperament of the, C. B. Clarke, 240 
Scandinavia, Mathematics in, 343 
Schliemann (Dr.), Proposed Excavations at Athens, 276 
Schaeberle (Prof.), Method for Observing Artificial Transits, 67 
Schiaparelli (Prof.), on the Great Comet 1882 6, Francis Porro, 
533 
Schirmwirkung of Iron, Prof. Stephan, 325 
Schmidt’s Cometary Object, 20; Variable Star near Spica, 617 
Schriften der Physicalisch-Okonomischen Ge-ell-chaft zu KGnigs- 
berg, 521 
Schwalbe (Dr.) ‘‘ Lehrbuch der Neurologie,” 196 
Schwarz (Herr), Action of Zinc on Sulphur, 184 
Science and Theology, 337 
Scientific Heresies in China, 342 
Scientific Renown, the Thirst for, 285 
SCIENTIFIC WORTHIES :—William Spottiswoode, P.R.S. (with 
a Portrait), 597 
Sclater (P. L., F.R.S.), the High Springs of 1883, 529 
Scorpions, Suicide of, C. L. Morgan, 313, 530 
Scotch Universities Bill, 565, 573 
Scotland : Completion of Ordnance Survey of, 92; New Ap- 
pointments of Geological Survey, 246 
Scott (R. H., F.R.S.), ‘* Elementary Meteorology,” 575 
Scott (Major-Gen. H. G. D., I7.R.S.), Death of, 587 
Scottish Lake Dwellings, Ancient, by Dr. Munro, Sir John 
Lubbock, F.R.S., 145 
Scottish Review, 399 
Scottish Meteorological Society, Half-yearly General Meeting, 
469 
Scudder (Sam. H.), ‘‘ Nomenclator Zoologicus,” 28 
Scypho-Medusz, Habits of, Surgeon-Major H. B. Guppy, 31 
Sea Lion, the Cape, 415 
Seabroke (Geo. M.), Comet 1882 4, 4, 52 
