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Index. 



Radiant point, the, 192. 



Railway safety switch, 314. 



Rain, 321. 



Rainbow phosphorescence, 137. 



Rainfall, amount of, diminishes as rain- 

 guage rises above the level of the 

 ground, 340. 



Rain falling from a clear sky, 341. 



Rain-produeing powers of wind, 336. 



Rampart- works of Gruithuisen, 216. 



Red fox, 355. 



Regions of the body and appendages, 

 267. 



Reindeer, 202. 



Reliquiae Aquitanicse, 386. 



Remains of man and animals found in 

 Bedford, 201. 



Remarks of Elie de Beaumont, 41. 



Remodelling the coinage under Sir 

 Isaac Newton, 351. 



Renovation of polished surface of glass, 

 151. 



Reproductive apparatus af annelids, 

 366. 



Reptiles scales, 246. 



Resonance, 47. 



Respighi, estimation of crater Linne, 



38. 

 Respiratory apparatus of annelids, 365. 

 Restennet priory, 27. 

 Revolutions of Jupiter's satellites, 145. 

 Rhseticus, 216. 

 Rhododendrons and magnolias of the 



Himalayas, 132. 

 Rhombus hirtus, 250. 

 River salmon, 107. 

 Roman antiquities, 311. 

 Roman city of Uriconium, 149. 

 Roman lead mining work on Mendip 



Hills, 234. 

 Roman pottery, 348. 

 Roman pottery at Thruxton, 149. 

 Roman road, 311. 

 Roman roads in Derbyshire, 342. 

 Roman Salopian ware, 350. 

 Roman station of Vindomis, 310. 

 Roman town in France, 235. 

 Ross's new four-inch objective, 398. 

 Rotifers, characteristics of, 281. 

 Royal Geographical Society, 396. 

 Royal Microscopical Society, 398, 478. 



Sabre-toothed animal, 202. 

 Sacrificing human beings, 265. 

 Safety-valve improvement, 77. 

 Salmon, food of, 104. 

 Salmo trutta, 253. 

 Sulpina, a rotifer, 288. 

 Salisbury inammuiia, 201. 

 Santorin, eruptions at, 142. 

 Satellites, Jupiter's, 222. 

 Satellites, Jupiter without, 144. 



Saxon glass beads, 312. 



Scad, 250. 



Scales of fishes, their structure and 

 manner of growth, 246. 



Scales of reptiles, 246. 



Scaraboeida?, 323. 



Scientific meetings, 237. 



Scicenae scales, 249. 



Sclerochilus, 126. 



Scomber esiox, 250. 



Screes at Cheddar, 32. 



Sea bream, 249. 



Sea marks in Cheddar ravine, 36. 



Section of galactic nebula, 4. 



Selenites, 217. 



Sensitive naked flames, 48. 



Sepulchral deposits of Roman period, 



236. 

 Sepulchral interments, 236. 

 Sepulchral urns, 185, 261, 344. 

 Serrannus cabrilla, 250. 

 Shadows in terrestrial sunshine, 275. 

 Silex in bai'k, 50. 

 Silkworms' eggs, 322. 

 Silkworm moth, 329. 

 Silver armillae, 345. 

 Singing and sensitive flames, 48. 

 Sinus JEstuum, 374. 

 Skeletons, 258. 

 Skeletons discovered in Derbyshire 



barrows, 184. 

 Skeletons found in Yorkshire, 310. 

 Slate quarries, 29. 

 Snow flakes, 332. 

 Solea vulgaris, 249. 

 Sole scales, 249. 

 Sound, curiosities of, 42. 

 Sound, waves, 43. 

 Sounds we cannot hear, 45. 

 South American foxes, 356. 

 Sponges, 161. 

 Spicules, 164. 

 St. Abb's head, 26. 

 Stag, 202. 

 Standards of weights, measures, and 



coinage, 297. 

 Starch manufacture, 314. 

 Stars, colours of, 315 ; new, 479 

 Star showers, 320. 

 Star streams, 1. 



Steam applied to railway breaks, 316. 

 Steam-boiler incrustations, 473. 

 Steel, improvement in the manufacture 



of, 74. 

 Stephanoceros, 286. 

 Stippling of the field of light, 12. 

 Stirling Custle, 26. 



Stomachs and intestines of rotifers, 293. 

 Stone avalanches of the Alps, 332. 

 Stone cists in Derbyshire, 186. 

 Stone implements, 256. 

 Stones of Stenness, 235. 



