355 
GENERAL INDEX. 
the progress of co-operation at, 1861, 
225 
*Rochfof.t (J.), the middle island of New 
Zealand, 1862, 196 
* Rock-crystal, A. Claudet on photogra¬ 
phic portraits obtained by single lenses 
of, 1867, 10 
* _drill, the Burleigh, J. Plant on, 
1873, 216 
__salt in the New Red Sandstone at 
Middlesborough, John Marley on the, 
1863, 82 
_snake, the Indian, Sir W. Elliot on 
the habits of, 1870, 115 
_specimens from the islands of the 
Fernando Noronha group, Prof. A. 
Renard on some, 1885, 1031 
Rocking-stones, artificial, an experiment 
by W. R. Grove, 1868, 65 
Hocks of Anglesey , report on the micro¬ 
scopical examination of the older , 1887, 
230 ; 1888, 367 
-—- between the thick coal and the Trias 
north of Birmingham and the old South 
Staffordshire coalfield, F. G. Meachem 
and H. Insley on the, 1886, 626 
- Cambrian , influence of the felspa- 
tide solution on the structure of some, 
Alphonse Gages on the, 1863, 207 
-- of Charnwood Forest, Prof. D. T. 
Ansted on the metamorphic origin of 
the porphyritic, 1863, 64 
.—- the conducting power for heat of 
certain, Prof. Herschel and G. A. Lebour 
on some experiments on, 1873, 40 , 
223 
- conducting power for heat, report on, 
sue ‘ Conduction * 
-—— contortion of, L. C. Miall on the, 
1871, 106 
-and fossils, H. G. Seeley on the signi¬ 
ficance of the sequence of, 1864, 69 
-igneous, H. C. Sorby on the com¬ 
parative structure of artificial and 
natural, 1862, 96 
-of St. Kilda, notes on the, by A. 
Ross, 1885, 1040 
--Silurian, of the county of Tyrone, 
Prof. Harkness on the hornblendic 
greenstones, and their relations to the 
Metamorphic and, 1863, 70 
* -Triassic of Devonshire, W. Pengelly 
on the chronological value of the, 1863, 
8 5 
Rocky Mountains, Dr. G. M. Dawson on 
the, with special reference to that part 
of the range between the 49th parallel 
and the headwaters of the Red Deer 
River, 1886, 638 
-Prof. Nicholson on a silicified forest 
in the, with an account of a supposed 
fossil chip, 1872, 192 
*Rodents, the classification of, Prof. G. 
Itolleston on, 1880, 604 
Rodents, the early development of cer¬ 
tain, Dr. A. Fraser on, 1882, 574 
Rodriguez, Edward Newton on a remark¬ 
able discovery of bones of Dldus in the 
island of, 1865, 92 
Rogers (Prof. H. D.) on the ‘ liquid¬ 
steering compass ’ and ‘ monitor com¬ 
pass,’ 1864, 14 
-(Dr. James) on the action of mercury 
onthe secretion of bile, 1868, 187 
--- (Prof. J. E. T.), Can patents be de¬ 
fended on economical grounds? 1861, 
240 ; on the definition and incidence 
of taxation, ib. ; *on prices in Eng¬ 
land, 1582-1620, and the effect of the 
American discoveries upon them during 
that period, 269 
* -on patents and copyrights, 1865, T 55 
--- Address to the Section of Economic 
Science and Statistics, 1866, 117 
* -on the funds available for develop¬ 
ing the machinery of education, 1867, 
145 
- on the economic effects of combina¬ 
tions of labourers and capitalists, 1874, 
266 ; 1875, 146 
-(Prof. W. B.) on apparatus and pro¬ 
cesses for the chemical and photome- 
trical testing of illuminating gas, 1864, 
39 ; on an invention by Mr. Cornelius 
for lighting gas by electricity, 40 ; on 
a peculiar fossil form in the Mesozoic 
sandstone of the Connecticut valley, dis¬ 
covered by, 66 
-(Major) on surveys round Kandahar, 
1879, 448 
*Rokeby (Capt.) on the survey for a 
telegraph-line between Eerber and Sou- 
akira, 1873, 173 
Rolleston (Prof. G.) *on the anatomy of 
Pteropus, 1861, 173 ; on some points in 
the anatomy of Insectivora, ib. ; on the 
homologies of the lobes of the liver in 
Mammalia, 174 
-- on certain modifications in the struc¬ 
tures of diving animals, 1862, 118 ; on 
the difference of behaviour exhibited 
by inuline and ordinary starch when 
treated with salivary diastase and other 
converting agents, 135 
-Address to the Sub-section of Physio¬ 
logy, 1863, 109 ; on the condition of 
the uterus afrer delivery in certain 
of theMammalia, 122 
* -- on the renal organ of the Aplysia , 
1863, 191 
-*on certain points in the anatomy of 
Lumbricus terrestris, 1865, no; *on 
certain points in the anatomy of two 
animals from the Mammoth Cave, Ken¬ 
tucky, ib. 
- *on the pectorales muscles, 1868, 
120 ; *on the physiology of pain, ib .; 
*on sixteen Eskimo crania, ib. 
