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Restaurant

Virginia is intended, however, purely for
flood control. It has a capacity of 106,600
million gallons.

By far the largest project is the Boulder
Dam, completed in 1936 at a co.st of $70,600,-
ooo. It has a capacity of 10,000,000 million
gallons and a height of 727 feet. It is intended
to supply irrigation and power as well as
flood control to the states in the southwest.
Lake Mead, the reservoir formed by Boulder
Dam, is the largest artificial lake in the world.

Other large projects for flood control arc
the Fort Peck Dam on the Missouri River and
the Grand Coulee on the Columbia River.
The cost of the latter is $113,675,000.

Resht, town, Persia, capital of the prov-
ince of Gilan. Enzeli, its port, is 14 m. n.w.
on the Caspian Sea. Resht is the center of
the silk industry and exports large quantities
of that product and also of rice, cotton, fruits,
and tobacco; p. about 35,000.

Resiczabanya, town, Roumania. It is the
center of a mining district, and has iron
works and railway shops; p. 12,578.

Residence. See Domicile.

Residuary Legatee, the person to whom
a testator gives the residue of his property—
that is to say, all that remains after debts and
specified legacies have been paid.

Resina, town, Italy, in the province of
Naples, on the western slope of Vesuvius. It
is on the site of ancient Hcrculaneum. Since
1903 the ascent of Mount Vesuvius can be
made from here by means of an electric rail-
way, 4^2 miles in length; p. 20,152.

Resins, compounds of carbon, hydrogen,
and oxygen that occur as natural or induced
(through incisions) exudations from plants.
True resins are amorphous solids with a
vitreous fracture, soften on heating, burn
with sooty flame, are soluble in alcohol, ether,
chloroform, carbon disulphide, fixed oils, and
volatile oils. Examples arc Common Rosin
(Colophony), Benzoin. Oleo-resins and
balsams are mixtures of resins and volatile
oils; among the former class are the turpen-
tines, gummy exudations of various species
of the pine family, as American, Russian,
Strassburg and French turpentines. The bal-
sams are liquid or soft products, as Canada
Balsam. Gum resins are milky exudations
from plants containing gum, wholly or partly
soluble in water, resin soluble in alcohol, and
some volatile oil. Among these are Asafoetida,
Ammoniac, Myrrh, Gamboge, and Scam-
mony, all of which are used in medicine,

Res Judicata (Lat. 'matter has been de-

law to the effect that after a cause of action
has once been finally determined upon its
merits by the courts, either in a court of last
resort, or hi an inferior court without appeal,
it cannot be again litigated by any of the
parties thereto in any other court.

Resolution, in music, a term applied to
the process of change from a dissonant chord
to one which is consonant.

Resonance. See Sound.

Resorcin, meta-dihydroxy-benzene, CoHi
(OH) 2, is obtained by the fusion of different
gum resins with caustic potash, but is best
prepared by melting benzene metadisulphonic
acid with caustic soda. Resorcin is used as an
antiseptic in the treatment of skin diseases
and as a hair wash, and its amido-derivativc
as a photographic developer.

Resources, Natural, Conservation of.
Sec Conservation Movement.

Respiration. Sec Lungs.

Respirator, an instrument worn over the
mouth and nose to prevent dust or cold from
penetrating to the lungs. Respirators are also
employed in entering mines filled with gas,
and are useful to workmen dealing with fly-
ing dust or iron filings.

Respite, in the civil law, a composition
with creditors upon obtaining additional time
for payment. In criminal law the term de-
notes a reprieve or temporary postponement
of the execution of sentence.

Respondent, a party in an equity action
corresponding to a defendant in a suit at law;
the party who answers a bill in equity,

Respondentia, a term employed in mari-
time law to denote a contract under which
money is loaned on goods constituting the
whole or a portion of the cargo of a ship,
upon condition that if the goods are lost
through any of the perils set forth in the
contract, the borrower shall be discharged
from payment. See BOTTOMRY.

Restaurant, a public eating place. Restau-
rants, probably originated in France, and
Paris still remains the city in which the res-
taurant, as a separate institution, rather than
as an annex to a hotel, is to be seen at its
greatest excellence. In London, restaurant?
were established gradually during the latter
half of the iQth century, and by 1900 every
hotel of the first order had attached to it a
restaurant open to the public. New York is
well supplied with restaurants of all kinds,
from the high-priced establishments of Fifth
and Park Avenues to the 'automats/ where
wholesome food can be obtained for a nickel

cided'), a term denoting a prevailing ,rule ot I and its multiples. All of the large hotels have