RED 
Rattlesnakes, ii, 229. 
, curious facts respecting the 
bones of, J. Green, iii, 85. 
, disarmed by the leaves of the 
white ash, S. Woodruff, xxiii, 
337. 
—, —— ibid, remarks on, xxx, 
208. 
——, cure for bite, iv, 61, 189. 
, Turman’s snake root in North 
Carolina considered an antidote 
for the bite of, xlil, 43. 
, oil cure for the bite of, xliv,95. 
——,, Crotalus durissus, xxiv, 176. 
, habits of, xlvi, 44. 
Rawson, on fires in London, xxxv, 
316. 
Ray, solar, see Light. 
Ray, John, some notice of, C. Fox, 
XXXVI, 223. 
Razors, paste for, iv, 199. 
, method of sharpening, xxi, 
165. 
, effect of cold on, xxvi, 189. 
Record of General Science, R. D. 
Thomson’s, noticed, xxviii, 365; 
XXxib, 212% 
Rectification of the ellipse, xviii, 38.f 
Red color in agates, xxxvi, 207. 
iterranean, xli, 193. 
globules of blood related to 
Protococcus, xxxvi, 206. 
rain, i, 309. 
—— in l'ennessce, xli, 403. 
——, a hoax, xliv, 216. 
snow, x, 192. 
——, an animal production, 
L. Agassiz, xli, 64. 
sulphur spring, Va., xxix, 96.| 
Redfield, W. C., on the storms of; 
the Atlantic coast of the United 
States, xx, 17;—storm of Sep- 
tember 8, 1821, 20; exhibited 
in the form of a great whirlwind, 
21; tornadoes, generally, revolve 
on an axis of rotation and move 
with the main currents, 22; a 
consequent retrograde motion on 
one side of the axis and progres- 
sive on the other side, 238. 
—— 
214 
of marshes in the Med-|| 
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Redfield, W. C., storm of August, 
1830, xx, 84; second storm of 
August, 1830, 39 ; storm of Octo- 
ber 1, 1880, 41; fall in the ba- 
rometer due to the gyration of 
storms, 45. 
, on the hurricane of August, 
1831, illustrating the position that 
storms and hurricanes are gyra- 
tory in action, and move with the 
general current of the region in 
which they occur, xxi, 191. 
, on the hurricanes and storms 
of the West Indies and the coast 
of the United States, xxv, 114 ;— 
uniformity of general character 
of ; originate in tropical latitudes ; 
greatest energy towards their in- 
terior ; drifted by the prevailing 
atmospheric current; velocity of 
progression, 114; lengthof route; 
local duration; direction of the 
winds not the direction of pro- 
gress, 115; local directions and 
change of wind, 115, 116; rota- 
tive motion from right to left in 
the northern hemisphere ; effect 
on the barometer, 117; oscilla- 
tion of the axis of rotation, 118; 
Barbadoes hurricane of August, 
1831, 119; practical deductions 
for navigators, 119,120; storms 
of the China Sea similar to those 
of the West Indies, 121; gyra- 
tion in the southern hemisphere 
opposite to that in the northern, 
121. 
, facts in meteorology, xxv, 
122 ;—general view of the at- 
mosphere and its currents, 123; 
classification of storm-winds, 126; 
whirlwinds and water-spouts iden- 
tical, 127; transport of volcanic 
ashes by upper currents, 128, 
129; barometer, 129, 130; 
circuit currents of the Atlantic 
and Pacific, 180, 1381; cold po- 
Jar currents flowing beneath 
the tropical, and carrying ice- 
bergs into the Gulf Stream, 
131. 
