1870.] 



Index. 



591 



Proctor, R. A., Other Worlds than 



Ours, 367. 



on Star-drift, 251. 



on the Sun's Motion in Space, and 



on the Relative Distances of the Fixed 



Stars of various Magnitudes, 252. 



Transit of Venus, 97, 253. 



Prominences, Eclipse, Spectroscopic 



Notes on the, 34, 39. 

 Protoplasm, Development of Gas in, 140. 

 Pseudomorphs, on, 127. 

 Pyrometer, Novel, 428. 



Q. 



Quartz, Artificially Crystallized, 125. 



R. 



Rabdionite, New Mineral, 551. 



Railway Accidents and Means of Pre- 

 venting, 113. 



Expenditure and Income, 267. 



Festiniog, 265. 



San Paulo, 404. 



Railways, Light, 265. 



Rainfall in England, 467. 



of Greenwich, 416. 



of South of Scotland, 416. 



Ram3ielsberg, Dr., on Axinite, 127. 



M., on Gadolinite, 282. 



Rankine, W. J. M., Inaugural Address 

 before the Institution of Engineers in 

 Scotland, 268. 



Reade, J. B., on Diatom Markings and 

 Podura-scale Markings, 144. 



Red Rain, Falls of, 547. 



Redruthite, 117. 



Reed, E. J., Our Iron- clad Ships : their 

 Qualities, Performances, and Cost, 269. 



Refraction, Recent Phenomena of, and 

 Atmospheric Electricity, 229. 



Reed, H., ' A Practical Treatise on Con- 

 crete, and how to make it ; with Ob- 

 servations on the Uses of Cements, 

 Limes, and Mortars,' 113. 



Reimann, Dr., on Albolith, 399. 



Religion, Psychical Elements of, 247. 



' Reliquse Aquitanicse,' 381. 



Repertorium fiir Meteorologie, 278. 



Reptilia and Batrachia, Extinct, of 

 North America, 116. 



Resolvability of Star Groups, 521. 



Respiration, Waste of Food during, 377. 



Reviews or Recent Scientific Works. 

 ' Wrought-iron Bridges and Roofs.' 



By W. C. Unwin, 72. 

 'Habit and Intelligence, in their 

 Connection with the Laws of 

 Matter and Force.' A Series of 

 Scientific Essays. By J. J. 

 Murphy, 75. 



Reviews of Recent Scientific Works 

 — continued. 



1 British Conchology.' By J. G. 



Jeffreys, 79. 

 Schrauf s ' Handbook of Precious 



Stones,' 81. 

 Senft's 'Mineralogy and Lithology,' 



82. 

 'Vegetable Teratology; an Ac- 

 count of the Principal Deviations 

 from the usual Construction of 

 Plants.' By Maxwell T. Masters, 

 84. 

 'Cyclopedic Science Simplified.' 



By J. H. Pepper, 85. 

 'Faraday, his Life and Letters.' 



By Dr. H. Bence Jones, 232. 

 ' Geology and Revelations ; or, the 

 Ancient History of the Earth 

 considered in the Light of Geo- 

 logical Facts and Revealed Re- 

 ligion.' By Rev. G. Molloy, 238. 

 Rolleston's ' Forms of Animal Life,' 



363. 

 Proctor's ' Other Worlds than Ours,' 



367. 

 Lankester's ' Comparative Lon- 

 gevity,' 373. 

 Tyndall's ' Diamagnetism and 



Magne-crystallic Action,' 501. 

 Sir John Lubbock ' On Savages,' 



505. 

 ' The Science of Building.' By 

 E. W. Tarn, 508. 

 Richards, Capt., F.R.S., on the Suez 



Canal, 405. 

 Rikatcheff, Lieut., on the Diurnal 



March of Temperature, 278. 

 Rinet, M. G., Alternation of Generation 



in Fungi, 257. 

 Road Roller, Steam, 405. 

 Robinson, Dr., on Imitating the Transit 



of a Planet over the Sun, 252. 

 " Rochage," H. Caron on, 567. 

 Rocks of Auvergne, 128. 

 Rolleston, G., F.R.S., on Trophic 

 Nerves, 200. 



Forms of Animal Life, 363. 



Ancient Cemetery at Frilford, 



386. 

 Roman London, 516. 

 Roof, Renewal of, at King's Cross 

 Station, 268. 



Wrought-iron Bridges and, 72. 



Rotatory Storms, 121. 



Rouault, M., Award of Wollaston 



Donation Fund to, 275. 

 Round Island, Mauritius, Flora of, 



256. ■ 

 Rousselle, M., Freezing of Wine, 428. 

 Royer, E., Synthesis of Formic Acid, 

 400. 



