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Index. 



Red stars, double stars, nebulse, Linne 



and Aristoteles, occupation, 275. 

 Eeflectors, 177. 

 Reflectors for lamps, 326. 

 Reindeer horn and bones found at 



Wirtemberg, 450. 

 Reliability of electric light, 333. 

 Relics found at Thebes, 2. 

 Relics of Queen Aah-hept, 3. 

 Reliquary, 155. 

 Researches into the diffusion of gases, 



452. 

 Researches on solar physics, 157. 

 Restoration of ancient ecclesiastical 



frescoes, 413. 

 Results of meteorological observations 



made at Kew Observatory, 44, 294. 

 Retention of ecclesiastical frescoes, 413. 

 Retiolites, 366. 

 Revolving lights, 327. 

 Rhaeticus, true form of, 267. 

 Rhinoceros, 70. 

 Rhinosterbosch, 252. 

 Rhizophora (mangrove), 65. 

 Rhynchonella, 26. 

 Rings, ancient, 6. 

 Rings first worn, 402. 

 Rings sent to Carthage, 403. 

 Ring of Midas, 403. 

 Ring of Polycrates, 402. 

 Riot, laws against, 105. 

 Rock, sculptured, 75. 

 Roll of exchequer, 98. 

 Roll of the mint, 10. 

 Roman antiquities, exhibition of, 472. 

 Roman building, Gurnard Bay, 154. 

 Roman candle found near Shelve, 355. 

 Roman candlestick, 355. 

 Roman leaden coffins, 310. 

 Roman lead mines, 354. 

 Roman remains, Cirencester, 226. 

 Roman sepulchral remains, 308. 

 Roman spade, 355. 

 Roman town of Derventio, 77. 

 Roman villa, 224. . 

 Roman villa at Linley, 355. 

 Roman Uriconium, 309. 

 Rostellaria ampla, 20. 

 Rooks' nests, 416. 



Rutherford's celestial photography, 79. 

 Rumination in fish, the scarus of the 



ancients, 190. 

 Royal Academy, 357. 

 Royal Microscopical Society, 239, 399, 



476. 

 Royal Society, 397. 



Sails as a means of propulsion, 421. 



Scalaria pretiosa, 20. 



Scalariform graptolites, 366. 



Scallops, 162. 



Scansons or climbers, 321. 



Scarus of the ancients, 190. 



Scarus cretensis, 194. 



Schmidt, notes on crater Linne, 216. 



Schmidt on Linne, 152. 



Schroter's investigations, 53. 



Schroter's meteors — the lunar Cassini— 



crimson star — occupations, 144. 

 Schuylkill coal district, 36. 

 Science, pleasant ways in, 136. 

 Screw propeller, 422. 

 Sculptured rocks, 75. 

 Sea-hare, 166. 

 Sea-oysters, 162. 

 Sea-snails, 19. 

 Secchi on Linne, 222. 

 Sensitive litmus paper, 315. 

 Serpentis, 466. 

 Self-registering electric thermometer, 



228. 

 Separating power of telescopes, 400. 

 Separation of gases, 452. 

 Sepia ink, 166. 



Shadows during the solar eclipse, 237. 

 Shafting, step for, 227. 

 Shell cameos, 168. 

 Shells, construction, growth, and form, 



18. 

 Shell-fish as an article of food, 161. 

 Shell-mounds of Denmark, 162. 

 Shells as ornaments, 167. 

 Shells used as bait, 169. 

 Shells used as lime, 171. 

 Shells used in medicine, 165. 

 Shells used as receptacles, 169. 

 Shell trumpets, 168. 

 Shih-keue-ming, shells of Haliotis 



funebris, 165. 

 Shih-yen, fossil shells, 165. 

 Shooting-stars connected with comets, 



390. 

 Shropshire rambles in the west, 185. 

 Signs and symbols of telegraphy, 40. 

 Silex in wheat, 315. 

 Silicious coil, 88. 

 Silicious spicules, 83. 

 Siliquaria, 25. 

 Silk crops, 212. ■ 



Silk, different qualities produced by dif- 

 ferent silk- worms, 242. 

 Silk-moth eggs, slow incubating, 320. 

 Silkworm cocoon, 243. 

 Silkworm grubs, 243. 

 Silkworm, oak-feeding, 241. 

 Silurian life, 240. 

 Silvered mirror telescopes; their merits 



and disadvantages, 176. 

 Silver, inlaid, 183. 

 Simultaneous concealment of Jupiter's 



satellites,' 79. 

 Sir David Brewster's improvement in 



lighthouses, 327. 

 Size used in distemper painting, 409. 



