1046 
BEID (Clement) on the marine zoology, 
botany, and geology of the Irish Sea, 
417. 
RENNIE (J.) on practical electrical 
standards, 150. 
*Resins, excrescent, Prof. M. Bamberger 
on, 750. 
Resistance alloy, rheostene, a new, J. A. 
Harker and A. Davidson on, 714. 
Respiration in man, the different forms 
of the, Dr. W. Marcet on, 974. 
*Retzius, commemoration of the cen- 
tenary of the birth of, 925. 
REYNOLDS (Prof. J. Emerson) on the 
electrolytic methods of quantitative 
analysis, 244. 
Rhetic geology, Montagu Browne on, 
804. 
Rheostene, a new resistance alloy, J. A. 
Harker and A. Davidson on, 714. 
RICHARDSON (Ralph) on the various 
boundary lines between British Guiana 
and Venezuela attributed to Sir R. H. 
Schomburgk, 861. 
RIDGEWAY (Prof. W.) on Hallstatt and 
the starting-point of the Iron Age in 
Europe, 930. 
—— on ‘Who produced the object 
called the Mykenzan 2’ 932. 
RiIDuEY (E. P.) on the relation of Palao- 
lithic man to the Glacial epoch, 400. 
——(H M.) onthe Selangor caves, 399. 
— on the relation of Paleolithic man 
to the Glacial epoch, 400. 
Rie@ (H.) on the B.A. screw gauge, 
527. 
RinTOUL (Charles) on the decay of 
British agriculture: its causes and 
cure, 879. 
Rippling of sand, Vaughan Cornish on 
the, 794. 
ROBERTS (Dr. I.) on seismological investi- 
gation, 180. 
—— on the evolution of stellar systems, 
707. 
ROBERTS-AUSTEN (Prof. W. C.) on the 
bibliography of spectroscopy, 243. 
ROBERTSON (David) on the character of 
the high-level shell-bearing deposits at 
Kintyre, 378, 389. 
*RORINSON (Rev. J. C.) on the land of 
the Hausa, 850. 
*Romans, the cultivation of the oyster 
by the, R. T. Giinther on, 828. 
Romney Marsh, coast-forms of, Dr. F. G. 
Gulliver on, 854. 
Rontgen rays, the action of metals and 
their salts on ordinary and on, Dr. J. H. 
Gladstone and W. Hibbert on, 746. 
—— cathode rays and their probable 
connection with, Prof. P. Lenard on, 
709. 
+—— the law 
of electricity 
of the conduction 
through gases ex- 
REPORT—1896. 
posed to the, Prof. J. J. Thomson and 
EK. Rutherford on, 710. 
—— the transparency of glass and por- 
celain to the, Prof. A. W. Riicker and 
W. Watson on, 710. 
——. the duration of x-radiation at each 
spark, ¥. T. Trouton on, 711. 
——. the relation between kathode rays, 
x-rays, and Becquerel rays, Prof. 8. P. 
Thompson on, 712, 713. 
*_____ the x-rays, H. H. F. Hyndman 
on, 713. 
——. photo-electric sensitisation of 
salts by cathode rays, Prof. Elster and 
Prof. Geitel on, 731. 
Roscoxk (Sir H. HE.) on the establishment 
of a National Physical Laboratory, 
82. 
—— onthe best methods of recording the 
direct intensity of solar radiation, 241. 
on the teaching of science in ele- 
mentary schools, 268. 
on wave-length tables of the spectra 
of the elements and compounds, 273. 
* on chemical education in England 
and Germany, 761. 
Rotifera, the relation of the, to the tro- 
chophore, Prof. Marcus Hartog on, 836. 
RUCKER (Prof. A. W.) on the establish- 
ment of a National Physical Labora- 
tory, 82. 
on the uniformity of size of pages of 
Scientific Societies’ publications, 86. 
on the comparison of magnetic instru- 
ments, 87. 
on practical electrical standards, 
150. 
on the comparison and reduction of 
magnetic observations, 231. 
and W. WATSON on the trans- 
parency of glass and porcelain to the | 
Roéntgen rays, 710. 
Rugby and Aylesbury, sections along the 
new railway between, H. B. Wood- 
ward on, 798. 
RUSSELL (Dr. W. J.) on the action of 
light upon dyed colours, 347. 
RUTHERFORD (H.) on a magnetic detec- 
tor of electrical waves, 722. 
+—— and Prof. J. J. THomson on the 
laws of conduction of electricity 
through gases exposed to the Rontgen 
rays, 710. 
SALVIN (0O.) on the zoology of the Sand- 
nich Islands, 492. 
Sand, the rippling of, Vaughan Cornish 
on, 794. 
Sand-dunes, Vaughan Cornish on, 857. 
Sandwich Islands, the zoology of the, Fifth 
report on, 492. 
SARGANT (Ethel) on the heterotype 
divisions of Liliwm Martagon, 1021. 
