354 
GENERAL INDEX. 
♦Rivers, diverting, and stoppage of the 
breaches in embankments, C. Vignoles 
on the practice and principles of, 1862, 
196 
- and estuaries, certain laws relating 
to the regime of \ Prof. 0. Reynolds on, 
and on the possibility of experiments on 
a small scale, 1887, 555 
- and estuaries, report on the action of 
waves and currents on the beds and 
foreshores of 1889, 327 ; 1890, 512 
-intermittent, R. Brown on the for¬ 
mation of, 1868, 134 
* - pollution of, General Sir J. E. 
Alexander on the, 1866, 89 ; 1872, 220 
♦ -pollution of, Rev. R. Thomson on 
the prevention of the, 1876, 210 
-a supposed connection between the 
heights of, and the number of spots on 
the sun, Prof. Balfour Stewart on, 
1882, 462 
- windings of, in alluvial planes, 
experimental illustration of the origin 
of, by Prof. J. Thomson, 1876, 31 
Riveting, W. Smith on portable ma¬ 
chinery for, invented by J. M‘Farlane 
Gray, 1863, 184 
♦Rivett-Carnac (H.) on Indian archaic 
remains and their resemblance to 
European types, 1877, 120 
Road engine, the employment of the, in 
construction and maintenance of roads, 
Col. Innes on, 1885, 1194 
- steamer, W. Thomson on a, 1871, 
241 
♦Roads, W. J. Cooper on an improvement 
in watering, 1868, 189 
♦Robb (Dr. D. C.) on the oxidation of 
colophony, 1877, 53 
Roberts (Dr.) on the best means of pro¬ 
viding for a uniformity of weights and 
measures, with reference to the interests 
of science, 1874, 359 
- (C.) on the work of the Anthro¬ 
pometric Committee, 1879, 175 ; 1880, 
120 ; 1881 , 225 ; 1882 , 278 ; 1883 , 253 ; 
1884, 279 
-a classification of the physical con¬ 
ditions of life, 1879, 381 
- on obtaining photographs of the 
typical races in the British Isles, 1882, 
270 
-- observations on eyesight, 1884, 279 ; 
a scale of physical proportions for life 
insurance and recruiting, 282 
- on the effects of different occupations 
and employments on the physical de¬ 
velopment of the humanbody, 1888, 100 ; 
1889, 186 
-and G. W. Bloxam on the physical 
characters and proportions of the 
Zulus, 1881, 702 
-(E.). supplementary report on tidal 
observations, 1868, 505 
Roberts (E.) on the extension, improve¬ 
ment, and harmonic analysis of tidal 
observations , 1871, 201 ; 1872, 355 
- on the datum-level of the Ordnance 
Survey of Great Britain, and the tabu¬ 
lation and comparison of other datum- 
marks, 1877, 220 ; 1878 , 219 ; 1879,219 
-(G. E.) on some remains of Both- 
riolepis, 1863, 87 ; on the discovery of 
elephant and other mammalian re¬ 
mains in Oxfordshire, ib.; on the 
opening of a cist of the Stone Age near 
the coast of the Moray Firth, 146 
♦-on the theory of repulsion as illus¬ 
trative of physical geology propounded 
by Dr. Winslow of Boston, 1865, 73 
-(Henry) on the increased circu¬ 
lation of a pure and instructive litera¬ 
ture adapted to the capacities and the 
means of the labouring population, 
1862, 172 
-(I.) on the filtration of sea-water 
through Triassic sandstone, 1878, 397 , 
* 532 ," *697 
- on the circulation of underground 
waters, 1879, 155 ; 1880, 87 ; 1881, 309 ; 
1882 , 213 ; 1883, 147 ; 1884, 96 ; 1885, 
380 ; 1886, 235 ; 1887, 358 ; 1888, 145 ; 
1889, 71 ; 1890, 352 
-the pressure of wheat stored in 
elongated cells or bins, 1882, 678 
-on the attractive influence of the 
sun and moon causing tides, and the 
variations in atmospheric pressure and 
rainfall causing oscillations in the 
underground water in porous strata, 
1883, 405 
-on star photography, 1886, 555 
-- on arranging an investigation of the 
seasonal variations of temperature in 
lakes, rivers, and estuaries , 1888, 326 ; 
1889, 44 ; 1890, 92 ; on the advisability 
and possibility of establishing in other 
parts of the country observations upon 
the prevalence of earth tremors similar 
to those now being made in Durham, 
1888, 522 
-(R.), report of the Committee on 
steamship performance, 1861, 190 ; 1862. 
282 ; 1863,339 
-(William) on the solvent power of 
strong and weak solutions of the alka¬ 
line carbonates on uric acid calculi, 
1861, 90 
--(W. Chandler) on a specimen of 
obsidian from Java, 1869, 74 
- on the absorption of hydrogen by 
electro-deposited iron, 1870, 62 
-on the molecular arrangement of 
the alloy of silver and copper employed 
for the British silver coinage, 1871, 80 
- on the chemical constitution and 
optical properties of essential oils, 1872, 
311 ; 1873, 214 ; 1874, 17 
