INDEX II. 219 
*Read (C.S.) on the recent improve- 
ments in Norfolk farming, 177. hy 
Receptacle, Dr, A. Dickson on some of 
the principal modifications of the, and 
their relation to the “insertion” of 
the leaf-organs of the flower, 94. 
Rectangular vibrations, W. Fletcher 
Barrett on a simple method of exhi- 
biting the combination of, 15. 
Red Crag, Alfred Bell on some mollus- 
can fauna of the, 59. 
*Refraction, double, A. R. Catton on 
koe facts bearing on the theory of, 
Vi ' 
equivalents and chemical theories, 
Dr. J. H. Gladstone on, 37. 
*Reptiles, H. G. Seeley on the relations 
between extinct and living, and the 
present state of our knowledge of Pte- 
rodactyle, 78. 
Reptilian remains, James Thomson on 
certain, found in the carboniferous 
strata of Lanarkshire, 79. 
Richards (Captain), Address as President 
of the Geographical and Ethnological 
Section, 121. 
Richardson (Dr.) on the transmission of 
light through animal bodies, 118; on 
effects of cold on organic functions, 
119. 
Richter (Otto) general outline of an 
original system of chemical philosophy 
comprising the determination of the 
volume-equivalents, as also a new 
theory of the specific volume of liquid 
and solid substances, 42. 
Rigidity, résumé of experiments on, by 
Prof. J. D. Everett, 8. 
*Rio de la Plata, Consul T. J. Hutchin- 
son on the rivers and territories of the, 
137. 
Rivers, intermittent, R. Brown on the 
formation of, 134. 
Rocking-stones, artificial, an experiment 
by W. R. Grove, 65. 
*Rolleston (Prof. George) on pectorales 
muscles, 120; on the physiology of 
on 120; on sixteen Eskimo crania, 
120. 
Rome, Padre Secchi on some meteoro- 
logical results obtained at the obser- 
vatory at, 30. 
Rose (C. B.) on the Crag at Aldeby, 77. 
: on the thickness of the chalk in 
Norfolk, 77; on the conchoidal frac- 
ture of flint as seen on flint-faced 
buildings in Norwich, Yarmouth, &c., 
his 
Russell (W. H. L.) on the division of 
elliptic functions, 10. 
Russell (Dr. W. J.) and Dr. Matthiessen 
on the vesicular structure of copper, 
38. 
Russia, European, H. H. Howorth on 
the nomade races of, 136, 
Salicylic series, W. H. Perkins on the 
preparation of some anhydrous sodium 
derivatives of the, 41. 
Salter (J. W.) on a new Pterygotus from 
the lower Old Red Sandstone, 78. 
Sandstone, ferruginous, Charles Jecks on 
the, in the neighbourhood of North- 
ampton, 69, 
Sapindaceous plants, Prof. Radlkofer on 
the structural peculiarities of certain, 
109. 
*Schools, T. B. Grierson on education in 
natural science in, 97. 
Science, W. Brown on arboriculture as 
a, 90, 
, Prof. Leone Levi on the progress 
of learned societies, illustrative of the 
advancement of, in the United King- 
dom during the past thirty years, 169, 
196. 
, physical, Lieut.-Colonel A. Strange 
on the necessity for State intervention 
to secure the progress of, 6. 
Scurpus parvulus, A. G. More on the 
discovery of, in Ireland, 106. 
Scottish flora, Prof. Balfour on some 
additions to the, 89. 
Sea-water, Prof. J. A. Wanklyn on, 46. 
Secchi (Padre) on some meteorological 
results obtained in the observatory at 
Rome, 30. 
*Secondary strata of England, H. G. 
Seeley on the classification of, 78. 
Seely’s (Mr..C., M.P.) and F. P. Fel- 
lows’s new scheme for Admiralty esti- 
mates, 159. 
*Seeley (I. G.) on the relations between 
extinct and living reptiles, and the 
present state of our knowledge of 
Pterodactyle, 78 ; on the classification 
of the secondary strata of England, 78. 
Sellarkshire, Prof. Balfour on the occur- 
rence of Mieracium collinum (Fries) 
in, 89. 
*Sels d’argent, Prof. Morren sur une 
action particuliére de la lumiére sur 
les, 19. 
Sepulchral remains of Southern India, 
Sir Walter Elliot on the, 134. 
*Sessile-eyed crustacea, C. Spence Bate 
and Prof. Westwood on the geogra- 
phical distribution of the British 
genera of the, 89, 
*Seychelle group of islands, Prof. E, P. 
