896 



REPORT 1897. 



Quebec geology, problems in, K. W. 

 Ells on, 640. 



♦Railway rates, the theory of, W. 31. 



Ackworth on, 746. 

 Rainfall in the British Empire, 1877 to 



1896, monthly and annual, J. Hopkin- 



son on the, 564 

 Ramsay (Prof. W.), Address to the Sec- 

 tion of Chemistry by, 593. 



* on helium, 608. 



* Demonstration of the spectra of 



helium and argon by, 611 

 and Morris W. Travehs on the 



refractivity of certain mixtures of 



gases, 587. 

 *Ransfoed (R.) on some experiments 



with chlorine, 627. 

 *Eanuncidus, the life-history of. Prof. 



Coulter on, 862. 

 *Rare earth metals. Contributions to the 



chemistry of the, by Prof. B. Brauner, 



608. 

 Ravenstein (E. G.) on the position of 



geography in the educational system of 



the country, 370. 



011 the climatology of Africa, 409. 



on an ethnographical surrey of the 



United Kingdom, 452. 

 on the Congo and the Cape of Good 



Hope, 1482 to 1488, 717. 

 Rawson (Sir Rawson) on the work of the 



Corresponding Societies Committee, 23. 

 Raylbigh (Lord) on tables of certain 



■mathematical functions, 127. 

 071 practical electrical standards, 



206. 

 Raykbird (Hugh),iunr., ontlu; linguistic 



and anthropoloqical characteristics of 



the North Dravidian and Kolarian 



races, 427. 

 *Recapitulation in development, as il- 

 lustrated by the life history of the 



masked crab {Corystes), W. Garstang 



on, 695. 

 Refractivity of certain mixtures of gases, 



Prof. W. Ramsay ■ and Morris W. 



Travers on, 587. 

 Reid (A. S.) on the collection of photo- 

 graphs of geological inteirst in the 



United Kingdom, 298. 

 (Clement) on the Selanyor ca/ves, 



Singapore, 342. 

 (Prof. E. Waymouth) on the ab- 

 sorption of serum in the intestine, 



817. 

 Rennib (J.) on practical electrical 



standards, 206. 

 Revenues in Lower Canada (1763-1847), 



Crown, J. A. McLean on, 742. 

 Reynolds (Prof. J. Emerson) on the 



electrolytic methods of quantitative 



analysis, 295. 



Rhodesia, economic geography of, F. C. 



Selous on the, 721. 

 Rhythm of smooth muscles, Prof. H. P. ' 



Bowditch on the, 809. 

 Rhythmical variations in the strength of 



the contractions of the mammalian 



heart, A. R. Cushny on, 816. 

 Richards (Prof. T. W.), A. S. Cushman, 



and G. P. Baxter on the atomic 



weights of nickel and cobalt, 609. 

 RiCHET (Prof. Dr. C;.) sur la periode 



refractaire dans les centres nerveux, 



823. 

 *RiCKS (G. W. D.) on some tests on the 



variation of the constants of electricity 



supply meters with temperature and 



currents, 766. 

 Ridley (H. N.) on the Sclangor caves, 



Singapore, 342. 

 Riemann, ttie historical development of 



Ahelian functions up to the time of, 



Ih\ Harris Hancoch on, 246. 

 RiGG (E.) on the B. A. screw gauge, 



426. 

 RiJCKEVORSEL (Dr. Van) on the tempera- 

 ture of Europe, 566. 

 Rivers, the study of, as a branch of 



physical geography, Prof. A. Penck on, 



723. 

 Riviere, I'influence d'un eboulement sur 



le regime d'une, Mgr. J.-C. K. La- 



flamme sur, 658. 

 Roberts (Dr. I.) on seismological investi- 

 gation, 129. 

 *RoBERTS-AusTEX (Prof. W. C.) on 



molecular movements in metals, 623. 

 Robertson (Sir George Scott) on Kafir- 



istan and the Kafirs, 712, *796. 

 *Rock inscription on Great Central Lake, 



Vancouver Island, J. W. McKay on a, 



793. 

 Rocks, the flow of, some experiments on 



the, J. T. Nicolson and F. D. Adams 



on, 642. 

 *Roller bearings, W. B. Marshall on, 76G. 

 Rontgen rays, the permeability of ele- 

 ments of low atomic weights to the, 



J. Waddell on, 611. 



the action of, on plants, G. F. 



Atkinson on, 873. 



Rosa (Prof. E. B.) on an electric curve 

 tracer, 571. 



and Prof. W. O. Atwater on an 



apparatus for verifying the law of 

 conservation of energy in the human 

 body, 583. 



Roscoe (Sir H. E.) on wave-length table? 

 of the spectra of the elements and com- 

 pounds, 75. 



on the teaching of science in ele- 

 mentary schools, 287. 



Rose (Dr. T. K.) on the cause of loss 

 incurred in roasting gold ores contain- 

 ing tellurium, 623. 



