GENERAL INDEX. 
347 
Reade (W. W.)and Goodison (Messrs.) 
on the construction of sewers in 
running sand, 1870, 222 
Readman (Dr. J. B.), the manufacture 
of prussiate of potash, 1889, 535 
Readwin (T. A.) on the gold of North 
Wales, 1861, 129 
- on the gold-bearing strata of Me¬ 
rionethshire, 1862, 87 
-- on the recent discovery of gold 
near Bala lake, Merionethshire, 1863, 
86 
* - on the recent discovery of gold at 
Gwynfynydd, North Wales, I 860 , 73 
- on a Merionethshire gold-quartz 
crystal, and on some stream gold re¬ 
cently found in the river Mawddach, 
1870, 84 
- on the coal- and iron-mines of the 
Arigna district of the Connaught Coal- 
Measures, 1872, 122 
* - on some recent changes of gold 
surfaces, 1877, 53 ; *on some recent 
gold pseudomorphs, ib. 
Real property, Frederick Purdy on the 
pressure of taxation on , 1869, 57 
Reaping-machinery, Rev. P. Bell on, 
1867, 153 
Reaumer’s porcelain, A. Noble on, 1864, 
3 6 
Recalescence in iron, Prof. Barrett on, 
1889, 518 
Receptacle, Dr. A. Dickson on some of 
the principal modifications of the, and 
their relation to the ‘ insertion ’ of the 
leaf-organs of the flower, 1868, 94 
Rechabites, Signor Pierotti on recent 
notices of the, 1862, 147 
Reciprocals of the first thousand inte¬ 
gers, the calculation of the sum of the, 
Prof. J. C. Adams on, and on the 
value of Euler’s constant to 260 places 
of decimals, 1877, 14 
* -of the first 2 p n numbers, a method 
of deducing the sum of the, from the 
sum of the reciprocals of the first n 
numbers, F. G. Landon on, 1877, 30 
Reckenzaun (A.) on electric launches, 
1883, 650 
Reclamation and sanification of the 
Pontine Marshes, Dr. H. MacCormac 
on the, 1874, 209 
'•^Reconnaissance of a new or partially 
known country, Lieut. Warren on, 
1874, 184 
Recruiting, a scale of physical propor¬ 
tions for , by C. Roberts, 1884, 282 
Rectifiable spherical epicycloid, or invo¬ 
lute of a small circle, H. M. Jeffery on 
the, 1882, 453 
Recurring decimals and Fermat’s theorem, 
Prof. R. W. Genese on, 1888, 580 
-- decimals, J. W. L. Glaisher on, 
1878, 471 
*Red clay found by the ‘ Challenger ’ at 
great depths in the ocean, Dr. W. B. 
Carpenter on the origin of the, 1875, 
64 
-Crag, Alfred Bell on some mollus- 
can fauna of the, 1868, 59 
- ray, Dr. Gladstone on the trans¬ 
mission of the, by many coloured 
solutions, 1864, 11 
- River Valley, Manitoba, gleanings 
from outcrops of Silurian strata in, by 
J. H. Panton, 1884, 715 
- Sandstone of Nova Scotia, Rev. A. 
W. McKay on the, 1865, 66 
-Sea, Dr. Beke on the island of St. 
John in the, 1866, 50 
-Sea, Dr. Beke on the possibility of 
turning the waters of the Nile into 
the, 1866, 105 
* - Sea, Dr. C. Beke on a canal to 
unite the Upper Nile and, 1869, 159 
* -- Sea, meteorological conditions of 
the, Lieut.-Gen. Strachey on the, 1888, 
738 
--Sea, between the Nile and the, E. 
A. Floyer on the country, 1887, 801 
f- Sea trade, A. B. Wylde on the, 
1887, 802 
* -soil of India, Dr. Gilchrist on the, 
1876, 90 
*Reddie (J.) on the various theories 
of man’s past and present condition, 
1866, 114 
Redfern (Prof.), Address to the Bio¬ 
logical Section, 1874, 96 ; *011 the in¬ 
fluence of food, and the methods of 
supplying it to plants and animals, 
143 ; *on the effects of ozone on the 
animal economy, ib. 
Bedford (George), description of cor¬ 
rugated armour of steel or iron for 
ships of war, 1863, 182 
Redgrave (A.) on the work of the An¬ 
thropometric Committee, 1878, 152 
Redman (J. B.) on the erosion of the 
sea-coasts of England and Wales, 1884, 
238 ; 1885 , 404 , 407 ; 1886 , 847 ; 1887, 
898 , 907 
Redmen about Roraima, E. F. im Thurn 
on the, 1885, 1215 
Redtenbacher (Dr.) on Baron lenk's 
gun-cotton, 1863, 33 
Reed (E. J.) on the iron-cased ships of 
the British Navy, 1861, 232 
Rees (J. D.), North China and Corea, 
1886, 734 
■- (W. L.), associative economics ap¬ 
plied to colonisation, 1888, 762 
Reflection, the existence of, when the 
relative refractive index is unity, Lord 
Rayleigh on, 1887, 585 
—— extraordinary, Prof. Curtis on, 
1874, 25 
* -intensity of, from glass and other 
