Naturt, June 3, 18S6] 



Protective Influence of Black Colour from Light and Heat, 



Hon. Ralph Abercromby, 559 

 Proteid Substances in Latex, J. R. Green, 3S2 

 Protoplasm, Continuity of, 39S 

 Protozoa, Sponges, Ccelenterata, and Worms, Bibliography of, 



D'Arcy W. Thompson, 174 

 Prussia, Amber-Digging in, 18 

 Psychis, Prof. Caporali on, 62 

 Pulkowa Observatory, 185 

 Pumice on the Cornish Coast, H. B. Guppy, 559 ; W. 



Whitaker, 604 

 Putiatin (Prince), Important Archaeological Discovery, 61 1 



Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 18S, 2S4, 547 

 Quartz, on (he Form of the Wave-Surface of, James C. 



McConnel, 213 

 Quartz, Permanent Magnetic Polarity of, Dr. Arthur Schuster, 



F.R.S., 391, 441 

 Quedenfeldt, Lieut., 27S 



Rabies : Pasteur's Method against, Application in St. Peters- 

 burg of, 464 ; Proposed Hospital for Treatment of, 448, 479. 

 See also Hydrophobia 

 Rabot (Chas.), Explorations in Russian Lapland, 280 

 Races of Britain, the, John Beddoe, Chas. Roberts, 217 

 Radiant Light and Heat, Prof. Balfour Stewart, F.R.S., 35, 



251. 369 



Radiation of Heat from the same Surface at Different Tempera- 

 tures, J. T. Bottomley, 85, loi 



"Radical" or "Radicle," H. G. Madan, 533; J. F. Heyes, 



559 

 Radiolaria, W. H. Shrubsole, 154 

 Rae (Dr. John, F. R. S.), Lieut. Greely on Ice, 126, 244; 



Anchor Frosts, 269 

 Railway- Sleepers, Steel, 41 

 Rain at Smyrna, Hyde Clarke, 154 

 Rainbows : Tertiary, W. L. Goodwin, 8 ; White, A. Ra"_isay, 



391 



Rainfall: at Ben Nevis Observatory, 159 ; Tropical, 277 ; of the 

 British Islands, 353 



Rain-Gauges in Berlin, 72 



Ramsay (Alex. ), Rudiments of Mineralogy, 316 



Ramsay (A.), White Rainbows, 391 



Ramsay (Dr. W.) and Dr. Young, on the Vapour-Pressures of 

 Mercury, 165 ; on Thermodynamics, 263 



J^aiia esciiUnta, Development of Larv^ of, Yung, 95 



Ranee (C. E. De), Liverpool International Exhibition, 9 



Randolph (N. A.), Notes on the Physiological Laboratory of 

 the University of Pennsylvania, 126 



Raoult (F. M.), Cryoscopic Method of Determination of Mole- 

 cular Weights, 120 



Rats, Ferocity of, W. August Carter, 533 ; Dr. Geo. J. Romanss, 

 F.R.S.,513 



Rausch (Dr.), on Meteors and Earthquakes in Norway, 424 



Ravenstein (E. G. ), on Bathy-hypsographical Maps, 280 



Ray, the Electric, Prof. Du Bois-Reymond on, 106 



Rayleigh (Lord, F.R. S.), on the Clark Cell as a Standard of 

 Electromotive Force, 357 ; on the Velocity of Light as De- 

 termined by Foucault's Revolving Mirror, 439 



Reale Istituto Lombardo, 381 ; Rendiconti of, 213, 473, 524, 

 597, 620 



Reciprocants, on the Method of, as containing an Exhaustive 

 Theory of the Singularities of Curves, Prof. J. J. Sylvester, 

 F.R.S., 222, 331 



Recorder, Jordan's Photographic Sunshine, 95, 180 



Recoura (.\.), Isomeric States of Chlorides of Chromium, 

 479 



Redding (J. D.), Ravages of Sea- Lions on Fish in California, 

 41 



Rede Lectureship, Sir John Lubbock, F. R. S. , appointed to, 

 449 



Redwood Scholarship, Proposed, 27S 



Refraction, Astronomical, New Method of Determining the 

 Amount of, 303 



Refraction in Astronomy, Use of, Lcewy, 287 



Refraction Goniometer in Chemical Work, Value of the. Dr. 



J. H. Gladstone, F.R.S., 352 

 Refraction, M. Lcewy's Method of determining the Elements of, 



Mr. Gill, 566 

 Refractive Power, Note on some Organic Substances of High, 



H. G. Madan, 335 

 Reinold (Prof A. W., F.R.S.), on the Size of Molecules, 20 

 Relief Fund, Scientific, 433 

 Kenard (M.), the Navigable Balloon, 421 

 Reptiliferous Sandstone of Elgin and the Upper Old Red 



Sandstone, Prof. J. W. Judd,' F.R.S., 310 

 Resal (H.) on the Flexion of Prisms, 552 

 Research, the Private Endowment of, 39 

 Residual Magnetism in Diamagnetic Substances, Prof. J. A. 



Ewing, 512 

 Resistance of the Air to the Motion of Projectiles, Law of the, 



Rev. F. Bashforth, 604 

 Respiration (Aquatic) in Soft- Shelled Turtles, S. H. and S. P. 



Gage, 548 

 Resting Position of Oysters, Arthur R. Hunt, 8, 154 ; Prof. W. 



Turner, F. R. S., 30 ;a Correction, John A. Ryder, 80 ; J. T. 



Cunningham, 129 

 Reusch (Dr.), the Bommelo Gold-Mines, 17 

 Reveillere (Commander), Ascent of Meikong Rapids by, 91 

 Revolution, Linguistic, 4S7 

 Revolving Mirror, Foucault's, Velocity of Light as Determined 



by. Dr. Arthur Schuster, F.R.S., 439; J. Willard Gibbs, 



582 

 Revue d' Anthropologic, 326, 524 

 Reynolds (Prof. Osborne, F. K.S. ), Dilatancy, 429; on the 



Theory of Lubrication, 476 

 Rhatische Pompeii, Dr. S. Tenny on, 303 

 Rheims, Telephonic Communication between Paris and, 18 

 Rhipilia, a New Species of, G. Murray, 478 

 Ricco (Prof. A.), New Star near x Orionis, 269 

 Richardson (Dr. B. W., F.R.S.), John Hunter's House, 233, 



275 

 Riddell's Binocular Microscope, J. Mayall, jun., on, 71 

 Rieger (Dr. C), Fine exacte Methode der Craniographie, Dr. 



J. G. Garson, 314 

 Right-Footed Parrot, C. V. Boys, 8 

 Riley (Dr.), his Collection of Insects, 301 

 Ring, Bishop's, Edward F. Taylor, 533 

 Ring, Saturn's, Density of, 303 



Ripper (William), Practical Chemistry, with Notes and Ques- 

 tions on Theoretical Chemistry, 459 

 Rivista .Scientifico-Industriale, 119, 213, 381, 524, 572 

 Roads, Parallel, in Central Norway, "Seter," " Strandlinjer," 



or, Dr. Andr. M. Hansen, 268, 365 ; Jas. Melvin, 293 ; Hugh 



Miller, 318 ; J. Starkie Gardner, 343 

 Roberts (Chas.), the Races of Britain, John Beddoe, 217 

 Robin (Charles), Death of, 9 

 Robins (Edward Cookworthy), Science Schools at Home and 



Abroad, Prof. T. E. Thorpe, F.R.S., 491 

 Rockland County, N.Y., Earthquake Shocks in, 375 

 Rocky Mountain Region, Botany of the. Dr. John M. Coulter, 



433 

 Roland (Spring and). Measurements of Carbonic Acid in Air, 



•83 

 " Romajie Kai," a Short Statement of the Aim and Method of 



the, 487 

 Roman Alphabet Association of Japan, 487 

 Romanes (Geo. J., F. R. S.), Evolution without Natural Selec- 

 tion, 26, 100, 12S ; Evolution without Natural Selection, 



Chas. Dixon, 26; Can an Animal Count?, So; Charles 



Darwin, Grant Allen, Dr. Ernst Kraus, 147 ; the Springs of 



Conduct, an Essay in Evolution, C. Lloyd Morgan, 436 ; 



Ferocity of Rats, 513 ; Ferocity of Animals, 604 

 Rome, International Sanitary Conference of, 1885, 25 

 Rome in Winter and the Tuscan Hills in Summer, David Young, 



342 

 Roots of Flowering Plants, Symbiosis between Fungi and the, 



Alf W. Bennett, 212 

 Roscoe (Sir Henry, F.R.S., M.P.), Spectrum Analysis, 437 ; 



Lessons in Elementary Chemistry, Inorganic and Organic, 



603 

 Rosse (Earl of, F.R.S.), on the Changes of Radiation of Heat 



from the Moon, 210 



