﻿INDEX. 
  

  

  G03 
  

  

  Qualities, 
  correction 
  to 
  Prof. 
  Cayley's 
  

  

  eighth 
  memoir 
  on, 
  496. 
  

   Quetelet 
  (L. 
  A. 
  J.), 
  obituary 
  notice 
  of, 
  xi. 
  

  

  Radiation, 
  on 
  attraction 
  and 
  repulsion 
  re- 
  

   sulting 
  from, 
  373. 
  

  

  Rectilinear 
  motion, 
  on 
  a 
  general 
  method 
  

   of 
  producing 
  exact, 
  by 
  linkwork, 
  565. 
  

  

  Reflecting 
  telescopes, 
  on 
  polishing 
  the 
  spe- 
  

   cula 
  of, 
  121. 
  

  

  Refuge 
  Core 
  in 
  Wellington 
  Channel, 
  on 
  

   the 
  tides 
  of, 
  2. 
  

  

  Relations, 
  on 
  a 
  class 
  of 
  identical, 
  in 
  the 
  

   theory 
  of 
  elliptic 
  functions, 
  ] 
  66. 
  

  

  Rennie 
  (Sir 
  J.), 
  obituary 
  notice 
  of, 
  x. 
  

  

  Report 
  of 
  Auditors, 
  49. 
  

  

  of 
  the 
  Kew 
  Committee, 
  81. 
  

  

  on 
  the 
  exploration 
  of 
  Erixham 
  Care, 
  

  

  note 
  to 
  the, 
  I. 
  

  

  Reversed 
  tracings, 
  note 
  on, 
  436. 
  

  

  Reversibility, 
  on 
  acoustic, 
  159. 
  

  

  Reynolds 
  (O.) 
  on 
  rolling-friction, 
  506. 
  

  

  Roberts 
  (W. 
  C), 
  admitted, 
  447. 
  

  

  on 
  the 
  liquation, 
  fusibility, 
  and 
  den- 
  

   sity 
  of 
  certain 
  alloys 
  of 
  silver 
  and 
  cop- 
  

   per, 
  349, 
  481. 
  

  

  and 
  Lockyer 
  (J. 
  N.) 
  on 
  the 
  absorp- 
  

   tion-spectra 
  of 
  metals 
  volatilized 
  by 
  the 
  

   oxyhydrogen 
  flame, 
  344. 
  

  

  Robinson 
  (T. 
  R.), 
  reduction 
  of 
  anemo- 
  

   grams 
  taken 
  at 
  Armagh 
  observatory 
  in 
  

   the 
  years 
  1857 
  to 
  1863, 
  511. 
  

  

  Rodriguez, 
  letters 
  received 
  from 
  the 
  natu- 
  

   ralists 
  attached 
  to 
  the 
  transit-of- 
  Venus 
  

   expedition 
  at, 
  132. 
  

  

  Rodwell 
  (Gr. 
  F.) 
  on 
  the 
  coefficient 
  of 
  ex- 
  

   pansion 
  of 
  a 
  paraffine 
  of 
  high 
  boiling- 
  

   point, 
  108. 
  

  

  on 
  the 
  effects 
  of 
  heat 
  on 
  iodide 
  of 
  

  

  silver, 
  97. 
  

  

  Rolling-friction, 
  on, 
  506. 
  

  

  Roscoe 
  (H. 
  E.) 
  and 
  Stewart 
  (B.) 
  on 
  the 
  

   heat 
  of 
  sunshine 
  at 
  London 
  during 
  the 
  

   twenty-four 
  years 
  1855 
  to 
  1874, 
  as 
  re- 
  

   gistered 
  by 
  Campbell's 
  method, 
  578. 
  

  

  Royal 
  medal 
  awarded 
  to 
  H. 
  C. 
  Sorby 
  and 
  

   W. 
  C. 
  Williamson, 
  71, 
  72. 
  

  

  Rumford 
  medal 
  awarded 
  to 
  J. 
  IS". 
  Lockyer, 
  

   70. 
  

  

  Rumsey 
  (H. 
  W.), 
  admitted, 
  1. 
  

  

  Russell 
  (W. 
  H. 
  L.) 
  on 
  the 
  integration 
  of 
  

   algebraical 
  functions, 
  with 
  illustrations 
  

   in 
  mechanics, 
  279. 
  

  

  on 
  the 
  multiplication 
  of 
  definite 
  in- 
  

   tegrals, 
  120. 
  

  

  Saline 
  solutions, 
  on 
  the 
  action 
  of 
  heat 
  on 
  

   the 
  absorption-spectra 
  and 
  chemical 
  

   constitution 
  of, 
  372. 
  

  

  Scott 
  (H. 
  Y. 
  D.), 
  admitted, 
  447. 
  

  

  Sea-bottom, 
  on 
  the 
  nature 
  of 
  the, 
  procured 
  

   by 
  the 
  soundings 
  of 
  H.M.S. 
  ' 
  Challen- 
  

   ger 
  ' 
  during 
  her 
  cruise 
  in 
  the 
  Southern 
  

   Sea, 
  32, 
  234. 
  

  

  Sea-water, 
  on 
  the 
  determination 
  of 
  the 
  

   specific 
  gravity 
  of, 
  301. 
  

  

  Selenium, 
  on 
  the 
  action 
  of 
  light 
  on, 
  535. 
  

  

  Self-registering 
  thermometer, 
  on 
  a 
  con- 
  

   tinuous, 
  384. 
  

  

  Shanks 
  (W.) 
  on 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  figures 
  in 
  

   the 
  reciprocal 
  of 
  each 
  prime 
  number 
  

   between 
  30,000 
  and 
  40,000, 
  260. 
  

  

  Shettle 
  (R. 
  C), 
  experiments 
  showing 
  the 
  

   paramagnetic 
  condition 
  of 
  arterial 
  blood 
  

   as 
  compared 
  with 
  the 
  diamagnetic 
  con- 
  

   dition 
  of 
  venous 
  blood, 
  116. 
  

  

  Silver, 
  iodide 
  of, 
  on 
  the 
  effects 
  of 
  heat 
  on, 
  

   97. 
  

  

  and 
  copper, 
  on 
  the 
  liquation, 
  fusibility, 
  

  

  and 
  density 
  of 
  certain 
  alloys 
  of, 
  349, 
  

   433, 
  481. 
  

  

  Skull 
  and 
  brain, 
  on 
  the, 
  of 
  Amphioxus 
  lan- 
  

  

  ceolatus, 
  127. 
  

   Slater 
  (H. 
  H.) 
  on 
  the 
  natural 
  history 
  of 
  

  

  Rodriguez, 
  132. 
  

   Slowworm, 
  newt, 
  frog, 
  and 
  green 
  lizards, 
  

  

  on 
  the 
  development 
  of 
  the 
  teeth 
  of 
  the, 
  

  

  93. 
  

  

  Smith 
  (J. 
  T.), 
  on 
  the 
  liquation 
  of 
  alloys 
  

  

  of 
  silver 
  and 
  copper, 
  433. 
  

   Snakes, 
  Indian 
  venomous, 
  on 
  the 
  poison 
  

  

  of, 
  261. 
  

  

  Solar 
  spectrum, 
  on 
  a 
  new 
  map 
  of 
  the, 
  

   152. 
  

  

  , 
  on 
  the 
  atmospheric 
  lines 
  of 
  

  

  the, 
  illustrated 
  by 
  a 
  map 
  drawn 
  on 
  the 
  

   same 
  scale 
  as 
  that 
  adopted 
  by 
  Kirch- 
  

   hoff, 
  201. 
  

  

  , 
  on 
  white 
  lines 
  in 
  the, 
  259. 
  

  

  Solids, 
  on 
  electrolytic 
  conduction 
  in 
  : 
  first 
  

  

  example, 
  hot 
  glass, 
  463. 
  

   Sorby 
  (H. 
  C), 
  royal 
  medal 
  awarded 
  to, 
  

  

  71. 
  

  

  Specific 
  volumes 
  of 
  liquids, 
  researches 
  

   upon 
  the, 
  364. 
  

  

  Spectrum 
  of 
  Coggia's 
  comet, 
  on 
  the, 
  154. 
  

  

  Specula 
  of 
  reflecting 
  telescopes, 
  on 
  polish- 
  

   ing 
  the, 
  121. 
  

  

  Sphygmograph-trace, 
  on 
  some 
  points 
  con- 
  

   nected 
  with 
  the 
  circulation 
  of 
  the 
  blood, 
  

   arrived 
  at 
  from 
  a 
  study 
  of 
  the, 
  140. 
  

  

  Spottiswoode 
  (W.), 
  experiments 
  on 
  strati- 
  

   fication 
  in 
  electrical 
  discharges 
  through 
  

   rarefied 
  gases, 
  455. 
  

  

  on 
  multiple 
  contact 
  of 
  surfaces, 
  509. 
  

  

  , 
  De 
  La 
  Rue 
  (W.), 
  and 
  Mliller 
  (H. 
  

  

  W.), 
  experiments 
  to 
  ascertain 
  the 
  cause 
  

   of 
  stratification 
  in 
  electi'ical 
  discharges 
  

   in 
  vacuo, 
  356. 
  

  

  Stature, 
  on 
  the 
  influence 
  of, 
  on 
  the 
  weight 
  

   of 
  the 
  encephalon 
  and 
  its 
  parts 
  in 
  man, 
  

   564. 
  

  

  Steel 
  and 
  iron, 
  on 
  some 
  remarkable 
  

   changes 
  produced 
  in, 
  by 
  the 
  action 
  of 
  

   hydrogen 
  and 
  acids, 
  168. 
  

  

  and 
  iron, 
  on 
  the 
  change 
  produced 
  

  

  bv 
  magnetization 
  in 
  the 
  electrical 
  resis- 
  

   tance 
  of, 
  533. 
  

  

  