Rendsburg
a town of Schleswig- Holstein, Prussia, on the North Sea and Baltic Canal, 19 miles W. of Kiel. Pop. about 20,000. Rendsburg was taken by the Imperialists in 1627; by the Swedes in 1643; and by the Prussians and confederate troops in 1848. The first diet of Schleswig and Holstein met there April 3, 1848. It was reoccupied by the Danes in 1852, and taken by the Prussians after a serious conflict July 21, 1864. RENÉ, surnamed THE GOOD, Duke of Anjou, Count of Provence, and King of Sicily; born in Angers, France, Jan. 16, 1409; son of Louis II., Count of Anjou. He married in 1420 Isabella of Lorraine, but was driven from that duchy and kept prisoner by the Duke of Burgundy for several years. He succeeded his brother, Louis III., in 1434, and was chosen successor to the kingdom of Naples by Queen Joanna II.; was liberated in 1436, and was afterward engaged in war for three years with Alfonso of Aragon. Being unsuccessful in this conquest, René retired to Provence. His daughter Margaret was married, in 1445, to Henry VI. of England. On the seizure of Anjou by Louis XI. of France, in 1473, René retired to Aix, in Provence, where he died in 1480. His work on tournaments, and some of his poems and paintings, are still extant.
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Renfrew
a town in Scotland, on the S. bank of the Clyde, 6 miles below Glasgow. Its charter of regality dates from 1396, but it was a burgh at least as early as the reign of David I. (1124- 1153.) A knoll called Castlehill commemorates the site of Renfrew castle, the original seat of the royal house of Stewart. The principal industries are shipbuilding and weaving.
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Reniera
in zoology, the type - genus Sponges, easily crumbled, clump - like masses; canal system like that of Halisarca. Skeleton of four, five, or three sided, or polygonal meshes; spicules acerated, pointed, or rounded off, and connected by horny matter at their ends only. Distribution, probably world-wide.
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Renierine
in zoölogy, a group including all sponges which resemble Reniera in having a skeleton formed of loose network of acerate or cylindrical spicules. Genera: Amorphina, lina, Eumastia, Foliolina, Pel- Tedania, Schmidtia, Plicatella, and Auletta. Distribution, world-wide.
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Rennenkampf
PAUL K. VON, a Russian General; born in the Baltic provinces in 1854; received a military education, was commissioned and, by 1900, had risen to the rank of majorgeneral. In the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) he acquired prominence as the commander of a division of Cossack cavalry. During the early part of the World War he commanded an army in East Prussia, but, being repeatedly defeated, was finally retired.
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Rennes
the former capital of the W. S. W. of Paris. A seven days' fire province of Brittany, France, 234 miles in 1720 destroyed nearly 4,000 houses. Four bridges connect the upper or new town and the lower or old town, and the most noteworthy of the public buildings are the cathedral, finished in 1844, and Italian in style; Notre Dame, with its dome surmounted by a huge image of the Virgin; the a archbishop's palace (1672); the stately cou ely court house (1618-1654); the university buildings (1855), with a picture gallery; the theater (1835); the Hôtel de Ville, with a public library; and the Lycée. As the focus of main and branch lines of railway between Paris and the N. W. of France, and commanding good river and canal navigation, Rennes is favorably situated for commerce. Its manufactures include sail cloth, table linen, etc. The second courtmartial of Captain Dreyfus was held in Rennes during the summer of 1899. Pop. about 80,000.
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Reno
a city of Nevada, the countyregistered 641, with a faculty of 60. seat of Washoe co. It is on the Truckee Palmer C. Ricketts is the president of river, and on the Southern Pacific, the the institute.
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Renoir
(PIERRE) AUGUSTE, a ogous to money lent to a borrower. The born in 1841, at Limoges. He began rent of the land is virtually the interest his artistic career by painting figures on the land viewed as a loan. See SINGLE TAX. ing in Paris he became associated with
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Rensselaer
a city of New York, in Rensselaer co. It is on the Hudson river, directly opposite Albany, and on the New York Central and Hudson River and the Boston and Albany railroads. RENNIE, JOHN, an English civil en- Its industries include the manufacture of ice tools, chains, dyes, medicines, clothing, furniture, lumber products, etc. It has the shops and freight yards of the Boston and Albany railroad. It has several parks and public buildings. Pop. (1910) 10,711; (1920) 10,823. RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC IN- STITUTE, an engineering and scientific school located at T Troy, N. Y. Founded by Stephen Van Rensselaer in 1824, the first engineering school that has had a continued existence to be founded in America. The old buildings were destroyed by fire in 1904, so that the present buildings are new, well arranged, Leith, Liverpool, and and well equipped with modern apparaat Queensferry, tus. There are courses leading to de- Holyhead, Kingstown, grees of Chemical Engineering, Mechanand the government ical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Portsmouth, Chatham, Electrical Engineering. Graduate degrees in these subjects are also given on Sheerness, and Plymouth. He died in the completion of advanced work. In 1919 the number of students enrolled
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Rent
a sum of money, or other valuable consideration, payable periodically also on the Truckee-Carson canal, a government irrigation project extending for the use of lands or tenements; the over 30 miles. It is the chief city of the return made to the owner by the occupier State in industry, and contains railroad or user of any corporeal inheritance. It shops, reduction works, flour mills, and does not necessarily consist in money. Adam Smith considers rent as the meat-packing houses. It is the seat of the Nevada State University, and has the price paid for the use of land. Ricardo and his followers considered that the United States Agricultural Experiment rent of superior soils is equal to the Station, the State Hospital for Mental difference between their produce and Diseases, the Mackay School of Mines, a public library, Y. M. C. A. buildings, etc. that of the worst soils cultivated. There is great doubt as to the accuracy of this view. Land let by a landlord to a tenant for purpose of cultivation is anal-
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