INDEX. 719 



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Page 



Races of men, exhibit illustrating 615 



Railway, development of 631 



first in the world 631 



Ralph, William L., birds' skins from 29 



Ramsay, William, cited 144 



Hodgkins prize to xii, 11 



on argon 9 



quoted 139 



Rankine, W. B., on utilization of Niagara 224 



Rathke on embryology 344 



Rations for workingmen, analysis of 301 



Ratzel, Professor, of Leipzig 549 



Ray, census of animals and plants by 458 



Rayle, Mr., attorney 646 



Rayleigh, Lord, and Professor Ramsay, Hodgkins prize to xii, 11 



cited 148 



on argon 9 



on titanium 504 



Receipts of the Institution in 1896 xx 



Recent advances in science, Michael Foster on 339 



Red Star Line, courtesies from 50 



Rees, J. K., on variation of latitude 76 



Refrigerating apparatus, forms of 135 



Regents, biographies of, by W. J. Rhees 13 



of the Institution, list of x 



journal of meeting of xi 



reappointments of 2 



Secretary's report to 1 



Reid, Clement 661 



Reid on cranial nerves 346 



Religion of ancient Egypt 671 



Religious ceremonials, exhibit of 629 



Reptile exhibit at Atlanta Exposition 617 



Researches by Smithsonian Institution 5 



expenditures for xx 



Resolutions in memory of Henry Coppee 2 



Respiration, physiology of 346 



Revolution, medical men of the 638 



Rhees, William J., biography of regents by 13 



W. B. Taylor by 645 



Rhind, A. Henry, on Egyptian papyri 669 



Rice, William N., on Smithsonian work in geology and mineralogy 13 



Richardson, A. R., mentioned 272 



Riemann, Professor, on colors 98 



Riley, C. V., death of 29 



census of insects by 459 



directions for collecting insects, by 30 



insect exhibit by 620 



Rindfleisch, Professor, cited 377 



Ripple, schooner, Arctic explorations in 291 



Rivers of Australia, description of 257 



Roadways in Zoological Park 23, 24 



Roberts-Austen, W. Chandler, on the rarer metals and their alloys 497 



