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Reliquse Aquitanicse 186 
Reptiles 73 
„ Mosasauroid, New 313 
Respirators, Cotton, Researches on 445 
Reversion Spectroscope 105 
Reviews of Books ... 65, 178, 291, 407 
Rhine Wine 151 
Richardson, B. W., on Chloroform 15 
Rifled Gun 432 
River-mussel, Anatomy of the 240 
Robertson, Rev. C. H., on the Use- 
fulness of the Fifth in Music ... 231 
Robinson’s (W.), “ Gardens” 415 
Rock Boring 432 
„ Crystals, Fluids in 99 
,, Masses, Structure of 113 
Rocks, Structure of 204 
Ross Model of Microscope 324 
Rotation of a Rigid Body about a 
Fixed Point 107 
Royston-Pigott (Dr.), On a Simple 
Decimal System for England 257 
„ „ Researches by... 146 
Ruskin, Mr., on Agates 204 
Russian Minerals 322 
Rustic Ornamentation 300 
St. Victor, M. Niepce de, Death of 327 
Salt-water Galvanic Pile 329 
Salting Agent for Paper, New 327 
Salts, Electric Phenomena of the 
Solution of 108 
Sand, A Rain of 21 9 
Sands, Cheshire -. 314 
Sars, Prof., the late Ill 
Saturn 305 
Scale for the Microspectroscope ... 215 
Scarlatina Fungus 82 
Schistose Rocks, Plants in the 203 
School Chemistry 71 
Schweinfurt Green, Homologues of 309 
Science for the People 301 
Scientific Summary... 75, 188, 302, 417 
Scoop- wheels 316 
Scorpions (pseudo-) Ill 
Scrofularia 51 
Scrope, Mr., on Sea-breaches 91 
,, Mr. Poulett, Criticism by 429 
Sea-air, Sodium Chloride in 85 
„ -breaches 91 
,, -urchin 366 
„ -waves, Force of, Utilised 108 
Seafield (F.) on Dreams 69 
Secondary Fossils at Cambridge ... 185 
Seeley’s “ Index to Fossil Remains” 185 
„ “ Ornithosauria ” 293 
Senegal, Po’ypterus of the Ill 
Sewing-machine, Influence of, on 
Health 318 
Shellac, Action of, on Aniline 
Colours 199 
PA GE 
Shell- fish, Shower of 223 
Shells, Growth of 447 
Sherry 154 
Ships, Armour-plated 205 
,, Longitudinal Framing of ... 206 
„ Resistance of 316 
Shot, Velocity of. 93 
,, Whitworth and Palliser 206 
Silica, to remove, from Iron 99 
Silver and Copper Nitrates, rapid 
Separation of 87 
,, Mine, Discovery of a 212 
„ Stains, Removal of 104 
Simpson, late Sir J. Y 319 
Skull, Accessory Articular Condyles 
of the 94 
Skulls, Greek, Collection of 208 
,, and Phrenology 207 
Sky at Midnight, the 71 
Slates 204 
Smithsonian Report 411 
Snails, Land, of New England 222 
Snake, Fossil 430 
Soda, Strontia and Ammonia in the 
Manufacture of 200 
Sodium Chloride in Sea-air 85 
Solar Eclipse 302 
„ Prominence, Spectrum of a... 419 
„ Prominences 77 
„ Temperature, Source of 218 
Sound, R. Wormell on 413 
Sowerby, Mr., Death of 196 
Species, Variation of 422 
Spectroscope, Automatic 302 
„ for Invisible Rays ... 328 
,, Reversion 105 
Spectrum of the Aurora 105 
Sphserosira Volvox of Ehrenberg, 
on the 225 
Spicules of Gorgonacse 221 
Spiders, to Mount, for Cabinets ... 334 
Spirits, What may be obtained 
from, by Distillation 86 
Spon’s Engineer’s Tables 414 
Star Atlas, New 301, 412 
,, -depths, What fills them? 271 
,, -discs, Measuring 78 
„ -drift 191 
„ -groups a Test of Distance 420 
Stars, Proper Motion of the 190 
„ What are they ? 184 
Steam Brake 93 
„ Engine, Farey and Donkin’s 205 
„ Paviour 432 
Stems of the Arborescent Lycopo- 
diacese 81 
Stentor, New 221, 332 
Stephenson's Erecting Binocular ... 323 
Stone, Artificial 93 
,, -bed, Norfolk 315 
„ Victoria 317 
Strontia in the Manufacture of Soda 200 
