Index. 



349 



Rodents, 52. 

 Roget, M., 329. 

 Rolliston, Prof. George, 133. 

 Romance, books of, issued in 1870, 

 8. 



Rome, 89, 224. 

 Rondout creek, 158. 

 Roscoe, Dr., 145. 

 Rotterdam, 113, 114, 119, 120. 

 Rubicon, the river, 304, 310. 

 Rubidium, discovery of, by spectrum 



analysis, 209. 

 Rudberg, Count, 101. 

 Ruhmkorff. Count, 294. 

 Ruperti, M., 119. 



Rupp's Berks county, 122 ; Lancas- 

 ter, 130. 

 Russia, 88, 91. 



Ruttenber's History of Newburgh, 

 130. 



St. Christopher's island, 119. 

 St. Clare's parish, 112, 113. 

 St. Hiliare, 305. 



St. Paul's convocation, house at, 119. 



Salicornia, 191. 



Sandlake, 191, 192. 



San Francisco, 93, 170. 



Saratoga lake, 225; 



Saturn, the planet, 300. 



Saugerties, township of, 126. 



Sauquoit creek, 524. 



Savoy, 118. 



Schenectady, 128, 224. 



Schleswig-Holstein war, 88. 



Schoharie, 128, 129 ; Brown's Sketch 

 of, 128 ; court house, 128 ; Pala- 

 tines, 129 ; river, 127, 128 ; set- 

 tlers, 130 ; Simms' History of, 



Schonbern, Professor, 90. 



School of Mines, Columbia College, 

 154. 



Schroeder, , 139. 



Schulze, , 139. 



Schunck, Dr., 152. 

 Schurman, Anna Maria, 109. 

 Schuyler, Colonel, 127. 

 Schuyler, Gen. Philip, 11. 



Schwan, , 139. 



Schweinitz, L. D., 194, 196, 204. 

 Schweinitz's Synopsis of N. A. 



Fungi t 194. 

 Science, contributions to, in 1870, 



83, 84. 



Sciences, unity of the, 45. 

 Stilly, island of, 121. 

 Scarification, 61. 

 Scotland, 115. 



Sexes, duality of, not required for 

 producing low forms of animal 

 life, 50, 334. 



Sexuality, necessary origination of, 

 313. 



Shaflher, , 101. 



Shakespeare, William. 23. 

 Sheffield Scientific School, 154. 

 Silica, chemical transformation of, 



noticed, 152. 

 Silicic acid, possibly of organic 



origin, 153. 

 Silliman's Journal, 66. 

 Simms' History of Schoharie, 130. 

 Sisal, 156. 



Skeel, Theron, paper on the Isthmus 

 of Tehuantepec, Mexico, by, 

 156-171. 



Sloane, Sir Hans, 27. 



Smith, 188 ; G., 140 ; Sidney, 77 ; W. 

 G., 37, 38 ; William, 125. 



Smithsonian Institution, 20. 



Smollett, Tobias G., 112. 



Snow-drop (mare), 97,98. 



Sobrero, M., 91, 92. 



Society and Solitude, Emerson's, 83. 



Society for the promotion of agricul- 

 ture, manufactures, and the arts, 

 3, 15. 



Sodium, detection of, in minute 

 quantity, by the spectroscope, 

 209. 



Solomon, King, 74. 



Southampton, 90. 



South wark, 112. 



Sowersby's English Botany, 36. 



Spain, 88, 107. 



Spallanzani, L., 139. 



Spaniards, 162. 



Spanish discoveries, 156 ; language, 



162 ; soldiers, 156. 

 Species, origin of, 52, 53. 

 Spectroscope, analysis by the, 208. 

 Spectrum, relation of the solar, to 



the electric, 210. 

 Spectrum analysis, 149, 208. 

 Sphasria, 189, 198 ; herbarum, 198 ; 



morbosa, 104, 204. 

 Spire, 107. 



Spontaneous generation, 49 ; discus- 

 sion concerning, 139. 



Stahl, G. E„ 172. 



State Library, N. Y., 19. 



Statical classification of the Universe, 

 228. 



Steamship, European, 93. 

 Steel, direct amalgamation of, 

 181. 



