jValure, June 9, 1881] 



INDEX 



Vibration of Telegraph Wires during Fro.st, 314 ; Ice Intru- 

 sive in Peat, 339 



Reale Istituto LomTardo di Scienze e Lettere, 211, 235, 306, 

 425, 474, 499. 594 ; f "2es of, 231 



Reality, Criterion uf, 144 



Red Colour of Salt Cod, 543 



Reed (Sir Charles), Death of, 516 



Reed (Sir E. J., F.R.S.), "Japan; its History, &c.,_ 12 



Reflecting Instruments, Improved Arrangement of Stale for, 

 F. Jacob, 527 



Refraction, M. Glasenap on, 373 



Regelation, Rev. George Henslow, 11 



Reiss (W.) and A. Siui'el, Peruvian Antiquities, 75 



Research, Endowment of, in Birmingham, 304 



Revista of the Society of In6truction of Oporto, 298 



Revue d'Antbropologie, S3 



Revue des Science; Naturelles, 47, 2S3 



Revue des Sciences, 515 



Revue Internationale des Science^, 594 



Revue Internationale des Sciences biologiques, 95, 161, 306, 449 



Reynolds (Prof. O.-borne, F.R.S.), Macquorn Rankine's Scientific 

 Papers, 477 



Rhenish Fishery Society, Foundation of a, at Cologne, 158 



Rhine, Electric Light and Navigation on the, 132 



Rhinoceros, Colossal, Discovery of in Siberia, 275 



Rhinoceios Merckii in Siberia, Recent Discovery of the Body of, 

 466 



Ricarde-Seaver (Major F. J.), Bi-Cenlenary of Calderon, 457 



Richmond (Geo. B.), H^t Ice, 504 



Rivers, German, the Quantity of Water in, 94 



Rivista Scientifico-Industriale, 47, 115, 211, 402. 42S. 474> 



594 

 Roberts (Dr. William), Temperature of the Breath, 55; "On 



the Digestive Ferment^, and on the Preparation and Use of 



Artificially Digested Food," 169 

 Roberts (Prof. W. Chandler, F.R.S ), Introductory Lecture to 



the Course of Metallurgy at the Royal School of Mines, 65 

 Roberts (Edward), Tide Predicter, 467, 555 

 Rodnell (G. F. ), French Association for the Advancement of 



Science at Algiers, 582, 606 

 Rogers (J. Banting), New Game, "A Voyage Round the 



World," 134 

 Rogers (J. Innes), Colours of British Butterflies, 43S 

 Rolleston (Prof.), His Lecture on the Modifications of the 



External Aspects of Organic Nature Produced by Man's 



Interference, 19 

 Romanes (George J., F.R.S. ), Butler's " Unconscious Memory," 



285, 335 ; Aberration of In-tinct, 433 ; Mind in Animals, 



501 ; the Locomotive System of Echinodermata, 345 ; Conscious 



Matter, 553 

 Roicoe (Prof. H. E., F.R.S.), Prof. Lunge's " Sulphuric Acid 



and Alkali," 73, 99, 215; ''Scientific Worthies," Robert 



Wilhelm Bunsen, 597 

 Roth (Herr), Compre-sibility of Gases, 43 

 Roumania, Earthquake Shock in, 232 

 Rousdorf, Shock of Earthquake felt at, 253 

 Rouse (M. L.) : Movements of Leaves, 195 ; Tacitus on the 



Aurora, 459 ; Sound of the Aurora, 556 

 Routledge (Robert), " Popular History of Science," 52 

 Royal School of Mine's, Introductory Lecture to the Course of 



Metallurgy at the. Prof. W. Chandler Roberts, F.R.S., 65 

 Royal Society, 283, 330, 355, 378, 402, 425, 474, 499, 545, 569, 



594; Officers and Council, 41; Medals awarded, 62, 138; 



Address of the President, Dr. William Spottiswoodp, III, 



135 ; the Times on Dr. Spottiswoode's Address at, 130 ; pro- 

 posed New Fellows, 563 

 Royal Society of Literature, 163 

 Royal Asiatic Scciety, 162, 332 



Royal A-tionomical Society, Anniversary Meeting, 394 

 Royal College of Science, Dublin, 297 

 Royal Geographical Society, 21, 398, 420, 443, 495, 518, 544, 



565 ; Medals, 565 ; Sir Bartle Frere at, 87 

 Royal Institution, Lecture Anangements of, 19, 254 ; Friday 



Evening Lecture, 130 ; Prof. Dewar on At^ms at the, 181 

 Royal Microscopical Society, 140, 162, 427, 500 

 Ruchonnet's (Charles), " Exposition Geometrique des Proprietes 



generales des Courbes ' " Elements de Calcul approximatif," 



481 

 Russell (Hon. Rollo), Colliery Explosions and Coal-Dust, 193 ; 



Dust and Fogs, 267 



Russia : Account of Communes, &c., 45 ; Exploration of the 



Remains of Prehistoric Man in, I07 

 Ru sian Geographical Society, 44, 255, 443 ; and Universal 



Time, 255 ; Prof. Nordenskjold ami, 299 

 Russian Imperial Yacht Livadia, 27, 63 

 Russo- Byzantine Amiquitie- found near Kiew, 321 

 Ryde, Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association at, 131 



Sachs (E. T.), Natural History Notes from Batavin, 275 



St. Ivan-Zelina, Earthquake at, 439 



St. Michael's in the Az .res. Earthquake at, 419 



St. Peter-burg Geological i;ociety. Meeting of, I07 



St. Petersburg, Earthquake at, 370 



St. Petersburg Dynamite Mine, 531 



Salts of Zinc, S. W. Bott, 78 



Salvadori's Ornithology of New Guinea, 240 



San Cristobal, Earthquake at, 564 



Sands', Moving, and Dunes, 569 



Sandstones, Cambrian, near Loch Maree, Cm-ious Impressions 



in, 93 

 Sanitary Assurance Association, 50 

 Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, 320 

 Santarem and Citania, 297 

 Sargassum, Dr. Otto Knntze, 70, 146 

 Sargent (Howard), Mode of Flight uf the Albatross, 362 

 Saturn, Leverrier's Theory of, 298 

 Schipka Cave, 296 ; Animal Keinains in the, 446 

 Schlo-s Trako tyan, Earthquake Ht, 2u5 

 Schmeltz (J. D. E.) und Dr. n.ed. R. Krauze, "Die ethno- 



graphisch-anthropol gische Abiheilun,; des Museum Godeffioy 



in Hamliurg. Ein Beitrasf zur Kunde der SUd-ee-V61ker," 168 

 Schnften dcr physikalisch okonomischenGescllschaftzu-Konigs- 



bcrg, 306, 402 

 Schuster (Dr. Arthur), on the Thermic and Optic Behaviour of 



Gases under the Influence of the Electric f'i charge, 258 

 "Science, a Popular Hisio y of," Koliert Routledge, 52 

 Scientific Education, Lord Giffbrd on, 64; Mr. Mundella on, 



134 

 Science, Natural, for Women, Alfred W. Bennett, 195 

 Science at Alijiers, French Association for the Advancement of, 



G. F. Rodwell, 582, 606 

 Sciences, Songs of the — I. Zoolntry, 14S 

 Scientific Societies of Dublin, 316 

 Scientific Worthies, XVU. — Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, Prof. 



H. E. Koscoe, F.R.S., 597 

 Scotch fisheries Improvement Association, 232 

 " Scotland, Free Lihrarie- of," 64 

 Scotland, Slight Shocks of Earthquake in, 106, 591 

 ■Sccjtt-Moncrieff (W. D.), Smokeless L->iidoii, 193 

 Sea, Phosphorescence of the, Thomas B. Groves, 411 

 Seabrooke (George M.), Aurora and Electric Storm of January 



3'. 34S 

 Sea-Lion, Death of, at the Brighton Aquarium, 253 

 Seeing by Electricity, 423 

 Selenium, 218, 412 

 Semelle (Count de). Death of, 45 

 Semper (Prof. Karl), "Natural Conditions of Existence and 



Animal Life," 405 

 Shadows cast by Venus, Ch:irlt-s T. Whitmell, 579 

 Sharp (Dr.), " Avis prelimina'ie d'une Nouvelle Classification 



de la Famille des Dytiscidcc," 98 

 Shaw (J.), Explosive Gas in a Lake, 435 ; Sound of the Aurora, 



484 

 Shaw-Lefevre's Collecti -ns, 369 

 Sheep, Black, Charles Darwin, F.R.S., I93 

 Sheppey, Geologising at, J. StarUs Gardner, 293 

 Shining Slave-Maker (/f/jS'i'Ui- /««■(/«), 543 

 Siberia, Recent Discovery of the Body of Rhinoceros Merckii'm, 



466 

 Siberian Meteorology, Dr. A. Woeikof, 437 

 Siemens' (Dr. C. William, F.R.S ) New Cure for Smoke, 25, 



366; D. A. Stevens' n, Cosmo Innes, Thomas Fletcher, Dr. 



C. W. Siemens, F. R S , 91; Gas-Grate, Dr. R. D.mglas 



Hale, US ; Gas and Electricity as heatinf Agents, 326, 351 

 Siemens (Herr F.), on his " Regenerative Gas- Burner," 131 

 Signs of Death, 494 

 Sitka in Alaska, Cyclone accompanied by Earthquake Shocks 



at, 83 

 Sitzungsberichte der Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Isis 



in Dresden, 594 



